Showers of Blessings, that is what we have been having here in the Mid-West.

A dear Sweet Friend of mine started me on this wonderful adventure of sewing seeds. I was not going to do it this season (gardning) because of where we had recently moved to. Also , the mid west is loaded with Table Rock and is extremely hard to move and dig through. Well, my darling dear friend sent me a package of sweet peas from her own garden and now my sewing the seeds have begun. I have a wonderful assortment of Sweet Peas, pumpkin, different kinds of squash, melons, carrots, tomotoes, grapes, corn ... white and yellow, lettuce, kale, ummm.... I am not sure what else. So I have my fruits and veggies on my deck in containers and planters using plastic wrap and what other clear plastic thing I can get my hands on to make myself mini-green houses. It is working wonderfully. With all the rain and humidity, they are shooting up like a standing ovation to me for doing such a supurb job of planting. Ok, well I guess not really. The good Lord just brought forth His Showers of Blessings ................ and here they come to bloom. If I can ever figure out how to put pics on, I will show them all off and I will show everyone my wonderfull little sweet peas that started the whole thing.

Blessings

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Age 8

Chocolate Cake

2 EGGS 

2 glasses of water

1  dump out of chocolate pudding

13,000  chopped up cookies

7 cups of milk

600 nuts

1 doughnut

In big bowl, mix doughnut and everything else for 35 minutes. bake in 36 degree oven for 1 week. Take out of oven and eat after dinner.

Should be tasty.

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Mom ? Why are girls afraid of being girls ? I think I know why. I think it is because they  feel if they act "girly" then they are week. I think some girls are ashamed of being girls, like it is a shamefull thing to act like a young lady wearing dresses, having long hair and having tea parties and baking. Learning to be a mommy and a wife is turned into a shamefull thing. Why is that mom? Why are women not proud to be mothers and wives? Why is being a wife and mother being used as something ugly? Why can't I be proud to be a wife and mommy and help my husband as my choice ? Why is that hard to believe ? Why are some girls the way they are ? Why can't they be happy being who God made them to be ? That is beuty, that is grace. I am not ashamed.

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Well, here I am again. I am still doing better. The glyclonutrients have done wonders. I went back to my homeopathic Dr and she says my body levels are close to where they need to be.  I still have some time to go to completely remove all the toxins from my body and to bring my kidneys, liver adn thyroid to where they should be. I am also working on making my heart stronger.

Are you aware of the fact that America leads in most areas in the world as far as medicines, new technology for computers, video games, sodas, ect. And are you also aware the fact that America is in the dark ages when it comes to God's way of natural healing. We are so brainwashed to feel that we have to have meds. We have to our shots and our antibiotics. And I am wondering . Do we read about the dangers of these things, find out for ourselves or we just some sort of Robot that is programmed to do what we are told to do. I was once. Oh, if me or my children needed a drug or shots, I was more then willing. Then after my children were getting sick, my daughter developed Polio from the Polio vaccine. I have 2 children that have developed ADD that did not have it before their shots.  Those 2 children had their shots twice because they (Dr's) had lost their shot record and ours were lost in a house fire. I really began to do some investigating. I found that Vaccines, especially in the past 20 years or so have become much stronger then before and they also carry the live virus instead of the dead virus. This has become the leading cause of ADD and ADHD in America. But, hey, we are not supposed to worry about such things. It is better for our country and the lives of others around us. Is that so. I can understand something like the smallpx epidemic, but we are not in one and they also used the dead virus. They are using the live virus that is much more harmfull. Although the dead virus has 1 in 200,000 people will develope brain cancer for smallpox alone. That seems to be the price one has to pay to protect the world from this terrible virus. Why have they gone to the live virus ? My Dr. once told me he did not know. Is not that his job to know ?   Please do not take my word for anything. Please look it up your self. Please visit a homeopthic Dr. More and more MD"s are turning to Homeopathic ways. Also , visit a chiropractor, you will feel much better and they usually have a ton of advice and ways to get you better without drugs. Now I am not bashing MD DR's. There many, many  good Dr's out there. You break a leg, you need to have that set. We have Dr's out here that are not doing so much medicine, more natural healing. Somehow some Dr's can't get together with this. There are times when a surgery is needed. Ya know when I was a child, I never saw drug comercials.  I guess my point is , eduacating ourselves is so very important. We all as parents want what is best for our children, and it is just so sad that we have just accepted the fact that we can only go certain ways, and there are much better ways of doing things for ourselves and our children then just running and jumping to the dr for some meds. I was one them for many years. We need to eat better, drink better and more often. And just educate ourselves. Well everyone..... Have a blessed day. Once again, thanks for all your prayers.

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Sure has been a long time since I have bloged. One Reason is that I was able to get it to work . My blog I mean.

I will first start off with my health. Thanks for your prayers and concerns. I am doing much better now. This cell rebuilder that I am on, has really made a change in me. I am not in as much pain as I once was. I am also loosing weight. I have much more energy. Not as much as I should, but better. And for me that is wonderful. Looking forward to blogin again soon. Blessings.

Pam

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Boy oh boy....I have had a time with this. actually , I have not been well for about 2 years, but this past month has done a number on me.

I am wanting to share with all of you my journey. I have learend so much and I am still learning , I think vital information. I feel the need to share.

In late Spring 1991, I had a 21 month old son and a 3 month old son. I am 21 years old. I am begining toe feel tired. Very tired. Like I can't keep up tired. I go in for my check up and I tell the dr how I am feeling. Both my family dr and my ob/gyn say that it is to be expected...normal. I say Ok...do my best to mommie both my little boys.

One year later we buy our first place, I am too tired to get too excited. I have still not lost any of my baby weight. I am also loosing hair. sometimes I feel like I am loosing my mind. I begin to develope tonsil problems, skin problems, and minor kidney problems...and I keep getting more and more tired. I am also pregnant with number 3. Another boy. Through the entire pregnany I only gain 6 pounds. He weighs in at 7 1/2 pounds. I still have baby fat from baby 1 and baby 2. I can't loose it. I have tried dieting, chaging my diet. I went off all sodas. I use very little salt. I lay low on the caffeine, I lay low on the dairy. I try to stay away from sugars. Did not know however, how much of our foods carry sugar. I really cut back on how much I eat...which was stupid, I was down to 1000 calorie a day diet...dr's idea . Yes, I am still nursing. I gain 5 pounds !

My cousin tells me, "Pam this sounds like your thyroid. Your thyroid helps to control and stabilize most of you oragans." she goes on to tell me just how serious and potentially dangerous an untreated thyroid can be. So right away, I make an oppointment with my dr. They run all kinds of lab work. But....my thyroid is on the low end of normal. "So you are fine Pam, you have active kiddos that make you tired." I thought to myself, "sure, they are active, and just that can make a person tired". Kidney problems, hair falling out still continue.

By 1995 I am still having kidney problems, exptreme tiredness, now I am having joint problems, can't stand or walk for more then 30 min., heart palpitations, now lung problems.. asthma still loosing hair. I am 25 years young.

Now I have never smoked in my life, never drank alcoholic beverages, never did drugs. I was on the tennis team and swim team at school. I also enjoyed jogging. My husband and I would hike on a weekly bases and would run on the beach. I was fit and healthy just a couple of years prior. What in the world has happened to me.

One year latter, I have a new baby girl. Four kiddos....so very tired. I can't seem to do laundry and sweep the floor without hurting and wanting to fall asleep. I am weaker, heavier, and balder. Now I am getting depressed. My husband does not know how to help. Dr's still say, I need to cut back (cut back on what ! ?) I have Fibromyalgi     (what ever that means), I have cronic fatigue syndrom and my throid is still on a low normal. They want to give 4 different narcotic drugs. They also wanted to give me a mild dose of speed and gave the perscription to my husband! I did not take any of them.

Through the years I was beginning to accept that this was my fate. I was angry. I was too young to feel this way. I was too young to look this way. So I did my best to deal with it and be the best mom I could be even though I knew that if I was better, what  a greater mom I could be. 10 years later, I have developed more things, I was tired, angry and now fed up. God did not intend for me to be this way.

I develop pneumonia, with more anitibiotics I think I am getting better. I develop a yeast infection in the mouth, throat, esophagus. The pneumonia comes back. This time time we go directly to a homeopathic place. I am not sure on the proper name of it. She is a RN and works part time at the hospital. She does a screening and finds out that my throid is wroking at best 50%. My pancreas, liver, stomach are not working properly and my kidneys and uterus are stressed.

So I am taking a thyroid complex, and adrenak complex, and female support, Maka le tanahan, ambrotose which is made up of glyconutients. Our pastor and his family, not to mention the local Christian collage have been going there for years.

You can look up thses amazing things on line. Also You can look up     Dr. Ben Carson MD., Marcia Angell Md., Dr. H. Reg McDaniel MD.  I came home last night feeling so much better. I slept through the night. I was able to do a few chores today. I kept telling my husband , "this feels to good to be true." I will keep all of you updated with my progress. This was a big step for me, to trust something anything rather then drugs and doctors who promote them. I would appreciate all your continue prayers and support. It has been amazing with all of your emails with prayer and support.  Thanks again.

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Well, hello everyone. I have not bloged for some time. I had pneumonia. Still not completley over it, but thank goodness it is sooo much better.

I would like to thank everyone so much for their prayers, thoughtfulness, emails and concerns. It has been a huge help and I have learned so much. I found out that I am allergic  to cranberries, grapeseeds, peaches, lemons, limes, and slightly to plumbs. I was taking some of these things to make me feel better and be better, only to learn that it was making me worse. I was drinking cranberry juice and it was causing so much chest and throat discomfort. I am also allergic to water in plastic bottles. It causes my throat to close. So now I have changed to glass . Now I am able to sleep at night ! Yea! My husband was so good and sweet with me keeping him up all night with my coughing. He was so worried about me sleeping, that he would stay up and watch me to make sure I was breathing ok. The plastic water bottles and cranberries did such a number on me and my breathing, that they had to give me oxygen. I am also slightly allergic to honey. So now I am keeping a diary of what I am drinking and eatting and watch for allergic reations.

Time for me to head off to bed. I just wanted to let everyone know how blessed I am to have people like you thinking and praying for me. Thanks and God Bless each and everyone of you.

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This has been a bad year for me with getting sick.  So I have been doing everything I know, have researched, advice given to me, and to no avail, I am sick. So here I sit talking to this computer while I type wishing I were back in bed. The older I get, the harder sickness seems to affect me. So apparently, because I had Scarlet Fever twice, it has caused some heart damage. So now every time I get sick, I can feel it in my heart. Now I am looking at alternitive ways to help heal my heart with out drugs.

Thankfully our children are all well. They are very busy with home schooling and music school. March 9th is their big performance. They will also be judged by musicians. Kinda scary for them, and they are working ver hard.

Next week we are having some out of town guests staying with us. They are coming to see if they will like to live in the Mid-West. The week after that I am planning on learning how to crochet. I thought it would be fun for mom and the girls. I also have a quilt to finish, dresses to finish, and boy am I behind in my scrap booking. Hopefully, I will be well soon and get back to work. I would appreciate everyone's prayers. Take care adn God Bless.

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I stand her amazed. I was watching the Fox News Channel and I was amazed at the stupidity of people. I mean , I could candy coat it, but in actuality and quite simply...people for the most part are stupid. Plain and simple. When I was young, I use to dream about being older and having a family and getting kinda excited about being around mature people. I was under this weird assumption, that when you grew up, you were mature. You behaved in a mature way. You thought mature thoughts. You were grown up. Makes me think of a verse in 1 Corinthians. 13:11  When I was a child , I spake as a child, I understood as a child, but when I became as man, I put away childish things.

Funny, that does not sound like the world today. We have grown people, people that as younger folks we should be able to to look up to, go to for words of wisdom and encouragement. But no, we rarely have such folks around. We stand amazed when we meet such people. And then, I feel robbed. I feel robbed that I can not enjoy the things of life that God had created for us. I feel robbed for my children, I feel robbed as a parent and future grandparent. Here in America of all places. You could see this coming though. I was up late last night. Was not feeling well, so I got up and turned on the tv. Oh good, and old Andy Griffith Show. Hem, well, sure beats all the garbage that is on now a days. Here we are back in 1963, funny stuff, but then, you hear subtle things, like maybe it is wrong to give your little stinker a swat on the toosh for acting ugly, lieing to police officers and ridding your bike on the side walk after being told a few times in one day. Nope, Sheriff Andy Taylor tells the boys paw there is an old fashioned wood shed out back. Wow, that is taking care of things. Done and done. Good show, oh, here comes another Andy Griffith Show. Now this one is in color. Hem...well, that is weird. It is ok to act badly, must of been the parents fault. Oh really? Now it is bad to spank a child. Hem..Oh, and mini skirts ? A pastor does not like the idea, it leads to more and more nakedness. Oh how silly and "old fashion". Children saying yes mam and no mam? Well, apparently 7 years latter it is degrading for a child to say that. Well, show is over, and I am a little disturbed to say the least. So , here we are some 40 years later and girls go beyond wearing a skirt a little above the knee. And how do children talk to adults today ? ! What about boys and grown men wearing there pants off their rear end and showing their boxers.  They got  dressed that way meaning to do that! Oh, and putting medal and ink in and on their body. Sounds kinda sick and cruel. Men.....poor men do not know what roll to play as adults ( yes, what roll to play, not men are men and ladies are ladies) So over the years, we have seen a slow subtle decline, and slowly we have accepted it and now we are faced with, "don't judge me" so now we can't say anything at anyone because we might affend. How very , very sad.

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During our ice storm, our son Chris had a birthday. We were unable to celebrate it in the way we would have liked and I was not able to post him because we had no power. So today I am going to Write about Chris................

Fourteen wonderfull things about Chris

1.)  Chris was given to us.

2.) His smile....always smiling

3.) He is a comedian

4.) He loves animals

5.) He loves people

6.) He loves to sing

7.) He loves old fashioned gospel music

8.) He makes stop motion movies that has a Chirst like story

9.) He is very forgiving.....never holds a grudge

10.) Has no problem being a nerd!

11.) Loves to play the viloin and the sax

12.) Fourteen and still loves to snuggle

13.) Not ashamed of being a Christian

14.) Loves the Lord

I love being a mom to my children. I am blessed.

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Well the ordeal is over!  Praise the Lord!   It looked like a war zone out here. Huge hundred year old trees where twisted, breaking and falling to the ground.

Things I have learned from the storm.........well.........I sure do appreciate power! Things I have taken for granted...power...I don't want to take it for granted anymore.  I want to appreciate things more. I  never was so excited to do laundry in my life. Coming around the corner and seeing our lampost lit was the most wonderful feeling. 

Mathew 6:30 - 34

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we drink? or What shall we eat? or where shall we be clothed?

For after all these things do the Gentiles seek, for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of  all these things

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness ; and all these things shall be added onto you

Take ye therefore not thought of the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.       KJV

This can also be applied to being stuck in an ice storm........and he surley did take care of us...Blessings,

Pam

Ya know, when you don't have any power, you have a lot of time to think and to ponder on the things you have to be thankful  for. This was a very scary ordeal, we ran out of fire wood. The warmest we could get the home was 29 degrees. 0 degrees outside. With worry of the children getting hypothermia, we called our church to see if they had power...they did! So we climbed all 6 children, 2 dogs in a kennel, all of our sleeping bags and 1 air mattress, totebags and some food in our suburban and headed a liitle more west. We were able to stay upstairs of the church, and we were truely thankful. We had use of the kitchen, and the gym showers......how blessed we were. We stayed there for 2 nights after being home for 3 nights. All the stores ran out of generators, which did not seem to matter, because the 5 surrounding cities had totaly ran out of gas! So if you wanted fuel, you had to go through a check point with a police officer when going else where. There were a lot people that did come together and help out fellow neighbors. There were some that acted out in the most ugly ways. Mad because they had no power trying to run the utillity trucks off the road, threatening the uttilitiy workers lives. Just horrible. We saw the Amish and Menonites buying and giving away food and balnkets to shleters. I ran into one Amish man just watching all of us at walmart scamering around looking for what ever we could find to help out the situation. He stands there shaking his head, "Oh, the simple English.....and they have the nerve to call us simple" I laughed. It was probably not so far from the truth. He gave me lessons on staying warm.

# 1.) do not depend on fireplaces to keep you warm or to cook out of. It can be dangerous and you have a chance of getting carbondioxide poisoning from the smoke.

#2.) Using a pellett stove or woodworning stove burns cleaner, wood burns slower, and can heat so much, you will need to drees down. You can also very easily cook off the stove.

I knew he was right, we had one in the last home that we had. It was in our walk out basement and when we got that thing burning, it would get so hot, we would have to come upstairs to cool off.

Please keep praying for all us folks out here in the Mid-West. We are bracing for another Icy situation this Monday, and according to the Farmers Almanac, we are headed for an ice storm February 15 and another one in the middle of March. Take Care and God Bless.

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Happy New Year Every One

We had a fun New Year. We did not have a watch night service at our church, so many people under the weather. So we stayed home and watched old movies and ate grinders and finger foods. Then we drove around and looked at some Christmas Lights, got a Star Bucks and then At New Years, Andrew blew his trumpet, some folks let off fire works..........then.....we went to bed. Oh yea, we are real party animals. Got up at nine the next morning and got in on some good sales, went home made some chillie and corn bread and watched some more movies.......then today...we took down our decorations........I don't know if we could have had much more excitement.....could done me old ticker in.

Take Care and God Bless!

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We were playing the game of "life" tonight and my almost 14 year old says, "Mom, life is just too hard, I am gona stay a kid forever." Well, if he finds out how to do that, let me know and I'll bottle it!

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Heavn's To Betsy that's good.

Those are the words we heard today when we brought our crew of 6 lil kiddlets to an all you can eat rib place. (Good Food by the way). All 8 of us sitting around the table talking and discussing the fundementals of napkins, when all of a sudden we hear silence. Now that is unusual......the kiddos get a free desert for behaving so beautifully at the table. The sweet older lady says, "Heaven's to Betsy, those are the best behaved kiddos I have ever seen!"  So we said our thankyous and the children all said thank you and then here it comes.......our little Travis makes the biggest burp.....on the rictor scale of I think... 10!  Holly Cow......He did say excuse me.....talk about being embarrassed. They did get to keep their desert as well.

Oh boy.

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I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We had a very blessed day. We had lots of food and a wonderfull Christmas service.

Have you ever thought of the "Christmas Spirit" I used to think it was a dorky saying. But what I have noticed is that, we have lost it, well at least part of it. It seems each year we loose more and more of it. How sad. In little things too. Do any of you remember the store windows at Christmas time. The little animated toys and animals. They would even have music playing. Such sweet memories. Everyone it seems is afraid of saying the sinful word...."Merry Christmas" for heaven sakes, we might affend someone. I do hope we can some how rekindle the "Christmas Spirit" again we seem to have lost.

Well in spite of that we had a wonderful Christmas.We did have a problem though................We had bought our little Travis a wooden train set last Christmas. This Christmas we bought him another wooden train set to add to his wooden train set we bought him last year............well......we lost it. Yes, we lost it! Can't find it anywhere. We looked till 4:30 Christmas morning trying to find where we put it. We still have not found it. I can't believe it. So I had to find one of his stocking stuffers to "fill in" for one of his gifts. I had put  salt water taffy in it's place. We give our children 3 gifts each in repensentaion of the 3 gifts that Christ got at his birth. So that missing train was a noticable missing. So I had to really ooohh and ahh over this 95 cent little yellow car . He was thrilled and so was I . So we had the older boys search the house over and we never found it. Well, that's the way it goes. Maybe when he goes off to college I will find it. Take care eveyone and God bless......And..............A Very Merry Christnas Indeed!!

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I seem to be having trouble here with my blog....I am going to give this another go.  After I wirte another entry, it does not show up on the blog. So I am giving this a try. Hope this works.

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Yes, I have been gone a while and I am sorry. I have been very busy, tired, pooped out and busy. (did I mention that I was busy?) We have some bad weather, flooding in our basement again...this time through our fireplace. I mean coming through the break and the mortar. Looked like a water fall....well...it was a waterfall. Snow.....snow....snow.Sickeness....not to mention, home school and every thing in between. I am looking forward to a big break. 

I am hoping everyone had a wnonderful and Thankful Thanks Giving. We sure do have so much to be thatnkful for. Our Families, Friends, homes, jobs, health, all the modern conveniences and most importantly the Lord. We had a lovely Thansgiving with all the trimings and the next day we got our tree and decorated our home . What a very special time we had.

I am hoping to get all my Christmas shopping done this wee. I usualy start in January so that I am done by Thanks Giving....not this year.  I hope to be back here tomorow to talk about another day with the Cruz Clan.

Only By Grace...........Pam 

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I am tired.  I am not tired because of physical exersise.............although I get a lot of that running around after chillens all day. I have been sitting with kiddos doing flash cards......which have worked great, especially with my dyslexic child. Making sure all of my 6 children are getting all their seat work done and done correctly. Some of my children do not like to ask for help....just go on as if they know and make mistakes and then get irritated when they have to go over it again. Lunch time, Dinner time, chore, bath, shower, and I am pooped. I think it is more emotionally pooped then anything else. I am wondering if any other moms out there get pooped out for pooped out sake or is there more to it. Anyway,...............break is over...gotta get back to work.

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Everyone that home schools knows the many blessings of home schooling. I seem to keep finding more and more reasons.  So many people that are against home schooling always come up with " They children need to interact with other children" I agree with that statement to a point. Children still need supervision....even the older ones....the older ones need as much supervision as the little ones do. In a different way ofcourse. I had a dear sweet mom friend of mine for about 18 years. We had our kids growing up together. She has five children, 4 boys 1 girl. Her 16 year old son has been kinda daiting a girl for about 3 months now. My friend has been on my heart for about 3 weeks now. Now I know why. Her 16 year old boy they thought...had gotten a 16 year old girl pregnant. He would walk her home from school to her grandmother's house and he would stay for a bit and well...ya know the rest. This is a good Christian family, who goes to church when ever the doors are opened. This family had a few boys that had some learning disablities, so in their elementry years she placed them in public schools. They stayed in public schools. In public high school the supervision is not very good if at all.  This mom had all kinds of regrets in her children's education. That is what is so sad....It came too late. That boys innocents is gone now. She wishes now that she would have home schooled and paid more attention to details that she never paid attention to. I am not saying that if you do not home school, that your kids will all end up as parents by the age os 16. However...home schooling can be a huge help with parents in keeping certain tempations under control. You can have rules for dating and swear that your children know the rules and that they had better abide by those rules, but if the parents are not there to help inforce those rules then how will they be enforced and how do you know that temptations have not taken over? People press so hard  to say that kids need to have their freedom....to make their own choices. Teens are still children and their own choices should still be monitored. It just sickens me to see so many children and young adults make such terrible mistakes because they were givin too much free choice. 

Well, it is time fore me to climb down from my soap box and get super on the table.  Take care everyone and God Bless.

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