Blessings from the Little Farm

Show & Tell Friday's with Canadagirl May 2,2008

Hello Friends and guests! It's time for Show and Tell. If you'd like to join the "gang" just hop on over to Mary aka Canadagirl for rules and regs. She's a peach and godly woman; one of the best!

My Dad

The past 8 weeks have been a challenge mentally, physically and especially spiritually (See all about Dad post if you don't know the story), but they have also focused my attention to learning all I can about my mom and dad before they are called home. I've been scanning old photos into my new CM software (I love it!) and I'd like to share some photos that are my faves of dad.

my dad on his uncle's farm 1937

Dad loved dogs and still does

Dad in Korean War

Please keep praying for my dad...we have a long way to go before he can come home.

hugs rom the farm,

Jenny

S&T Friday April 25th

Happy Birthday Lou!

Today is my baby's 10th birthday. The slideshow above is in honor of him!

If you'd like to see more S&T's just contact Canadagirl, our hostess with the mostess!

Blessings everyone!

Show & Tell Friday April18th a bit early

Hello friends,

It's been a long time since I've been around and frankly I've missed all of you!  I hope you are well and feel blessed today.

My show today is a current picture of my side of the family...

L to R: my niece, mom, dad, me and younger sister in back

Please excuse the blurriness its from my phone.

My Tell this week is that my dad is healing very slowly but things are looking up. My mom is not so good; we fear the Alzheimer's is progressing and some major adjustments and decisions need to be made quickly.

Please, please pray for my family. There are days that I look at my life and say how do I do this and keep standing? Iknow that the only reason we are standing is that my Savior loves us and people are praying! It can't be more simplier than that...

Please take advantage of every moment with your loved ones! Now that we don't have much time with mom we cherish every good second.

If you'd like to see more show and tells, hop on over to my favorite Canadian Mary. She's our hostess with the mostess.

Blessings on you and yours, take care!

Jenny

S&T March 28, 2008

Hello Friends,

I hope no one minds that I keep chatting about my Dad but right now he and my mom are on my heart constantly.

Here's the latest picture of them taken a 10 days ago. Dad doesn't remember this picture, he still has short term memory loss. This is the first time he smiled when asked and I'm so blessed I caught it on a photo.

please keep praying for him and my mom who has stage three Alzeimers. Thanks friends! take care

Show & Tell Friday March 13 - My dear Dad

Show & Tell is a great way to meet new bloggy friends. Check out Canadagirl's blog . To see how to join in.

My show & tell is my dad.....

Just in case you didn't know; my dad had the flesh eating bacteria we've all heard about sometime in the news.

He had most of his left arm taken and his left side of all its muscle. We've been at the hospital most days for the last three weeks. Dad is still in critical condition but can now respond to us and recognize us.

Last night Dad asked me many questions about what happened and I was the first person to tell him about loosing his arm. My heart broke watching dad process the information. He didn't want me to cry so I sent my hubby and kids in to cheer Grandpa up, then I broke down outside the room. A daughter shouldn't have to tell her father he's lost his arm...

I've set up a Caring Bridge site if anyone is interested in seeing it. Caring Bridge site for Jen's dad

Thank you for all your prayers friends, they mean the world.

Take care everyonem

Jenny

Show n' Tell Fridays with Canadagirl! Feb 22

Hello friends!

Today's Show n' Tell is about my boys Bub & Lou. They are best buds, and are pretty much inseprarable. Here they are enjoying a movie...

and here is Lou ready to go skating but finishing up his school work with cowboy hat on, skates on, sharktooth necklace on, thinking hard! I just about died when I saw him...soooo cute!

Come join in the Show n' Tell fun by visiting our wonderful host Mary for all the details and other friends who you can see their S&T!

Monday meanderings

I thought I'd give this a try...no promises

Bible Study - The Search for Significance

Home Keeping - get back to the chore chart!

Train them up - taking responsibility for choices

Must Do - Laundry (towels & undies), homework for class, valentines day cards, send cuz flowers.

Menu:

Monday - Marinaded chicken packets (30 day gourmet in freezer)

Tuesday - Salsberry Patties (30 day gourmet in freezer)

Wednesday - Fish Nuggets with Mac & Cheese

Thursday - Chicken Divan (30 day gourmet in freezer)

Friday - pizza

taadaa all done!

Blessings on your day...

Show & Tell Fridays Feb. 8th, 2008

Today's show and tell is about our anniversary trip to Flordia...being from Minnesota anything warmer is better than what we have currently so...off we went! If you'd like to see more Show n' Tell visit our wonderful hostess Mary at her blog Raising 4 Godly Men!

Last year was our 15th wedding anniversary and we had hoped to take a small trip together but since my Beloved started a new job so we had no vacation, no trip. This year Beloved starting asking me what we should do for our get-a-way; since our anniversary isn't until April I was a bit stumped. Beloved thought that I needed to get away (he was very right) so I relented after days of saying no. He planned everything in one week and we were off Monday on a plane to Clearwater/St. Pete! We had a wonderful 6 days of waves, beach and time...just what we needed. Here's some pics of our restful anniversary trip.

I loved all the birds on the beach!

Me sketching on Seista Key beach

Our "private" sunset sail...no one else showed so we had the whole boat!

The trip was wonderfully peaceful and I wish we could go every year...

Blessings from the beach!

Jenny

Thank you Secret Sis!

Show n' Tell Fridays with Canada Girl Jan 25th

It's Shown' Tell time! If you'd like to join in click Here and our lovely host aka The knitting queen aka Mary/canadagirl will show you the way!

I struggle in late autumn & wintertime with light deprivation that can for me lead to depression. I wanted to "show & tell" some of the solutions that help me.

The coolest thing we've found is the Soliel Sun alarm clock. You set the alarm and 30 minutes before you want to get up the alarm starts to light up gradually. At your appointed time the clock light is fully on.  I've found that this gently wakes me up & my hubby too. Now I have to warn you that this clock isn't cheap but for me it was worth the price.

The next you probably know about: Vitamin D and calcium suppliment (helps body absorb vit.D.

Along with this season comes anxiety for me. The holidays along with trying to keep up when I don't feel like it and to deal with the usual stress can be very hard for me. My solutions for this include:

• having coffee with friends
• crocheting, right now my challenge is following a pattern mittens
• scrapbooking with my Girlygirls (four of us who regularly get togeher)
• take a mini vacation with my Beloved or with kids
• blogging with you my blogging friends
• crafts
• good book

These things relax me and i love them. The key seems to be for me is to be able to set aside the stress/anxiety and take time for me or I'm useless to my family. My Beloved is so supportive in this, I am truly blessed.

Thank you for blessing me blogging friends, you help more than you know.

Blessings from the cold little farm,

Jenny

You know it's going to be another exciting day on the frozen little farm when...

Holy Smokes, When it rains it pours here !

Last night at 11 PM our youngest son Lou came in our room saying his ear hurt. Now for Lou to complain about anything is unusual and rare.  He broke his hand and didn't tell us until later in the afternoon! We stayed up pretty much the whole night and I promised Lou we'd call the doctor. Morning came and Lou was miserable and I was the walking dead... I called, got an appointment (PTL) and then Lou started getting sick....and more sick. Grabbed a bucket and he did his thing. We went to the clinic and waited....then saw the doc and she said that he had the worst ear infection he could get and because of the pain he was vomiting. Then she said most people are in the hospital because of the pain.

I think this is where Lou gets to be an honorary Marine! He was a trooper through the 40 minute wait at the pharmisist. I'm ready for a break and bed. The Lord has blessed me with enough wakefulness that I'm actually pretty good but will welcome my bed tonight.

Blessings from the little sick farm,

Jenny

Making the dog throw up...

You know it's going to be a good day when...

• the dog swallows your pill
• you can't get a hold of the Beloved to help
• Beloved calls you and talks to vet
• I have to put down hydrogen peroxide down adorable dogs throat
• dog starts to throw up all food she has had that morning (kids really fed her because she had swallowed
• kids sort through stomach contents and find pill
• kids clean up stomach contents and learn the lesson of not over feeding adorable dog!
• wash floor many, many times!

Can you say exciting morning!! I can! LOL

Blessings from the exciting dog filled and filled out little farm,

Jenny

Show n' Tell Jan 18th

Wow do the weeks fly by! It's time again for Show n' Tell with Canadagirl. Come join the fun and meet new friends by clicking on Canadagirl.

Today is my neice's birthday! Each year this an extra special event because our gracious God allowed her to remain with us. Her parents (my older brother & my sil) were driving to sil's high school reunion and 5 miles from their destination they were hit head on by a drunk driver. My brother died at the local hospital taking the brunt of the crash. My sil and neice were flown to Mpls where my sil died the next day and my neice continued to fight for her life. Each time the doctors had to turn down the oxygen for fear of brain damage my neices little lungs (she was 18 months) kicked in and she slowly recovered with much physical/occupational therapy. My parents raised her and now this year she turned 20.

Here's a pic of my folks and neice.

Due to the accident she has some brain injury and her lungs are weak. She is a very sweet girl and will need all of us in the future to look after her. My Beloved has always been open to this bless his heart. Please pray for her to keep trying her best and for us who will be watching over her in the future.

Blessings from the very chilly little farm,

Jenny

Thank you Secret Sis!

Thank you to my Secret Sister who blessed me with a beautiful organizer (which is helping a ton), cool pencils and very cute, very soft scarf to keep me warm! Of course prayer with a nice note. Thank you for being so sweet. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to get actual mail...LOL I'm just a goose.

Take care Secret Sis and many thanks again!

Jenny

The Reason for Spring Countdown lol

Christmas was over and the countdown began again for Christmas...I became really sad and discouraged. I hadn't come close to the goals I wanted to achieve this past holiday and it all looked insurmountable.

Time to countdown to something else! Here in snowy, cold Minnesota the winter starts to get long in Feburary so Spring is a very welcome sight. The bonus is that my birthday is the first day of spring! So I've been sneaky and reminded the world when my b-day is.

I also have a prayer request. My mom is currently going through testing to see if she has the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. We were in the doctor's office and even with a prompt she couldn't remember my birthday, my sister's birthday and my sister's name. Please pray God's will in this situation and for peace for my family. If this does come to fruition I will be bearing the brunt of the support and work (we live 50-60 minutes away). Pray especially for my mom; this is overwhelming her.

Blessings from the snowy little farm,

Jenny

Show & Tell Jan 12th

Here it is another Friday! Join us for our SSiC Canada Girl for all the fun and info how to partcipate.

This week I'm gonna show n'tell my DD Possum's writing...

The Field in the Backyard

I was very happy to see her actually writing. This is a rarity and I hope it becomes a regular activity!

Blessings from our snowy little farm...

Show n' Tell Fridays with Canadagirl Jan 4 - Winter Wonderland

It's time again for Canadagirl's show & Tell! If you'd like to join in the fun; check out our hostess and SSiC's blog Raising 4 Godly Men. 

Way up here in the semi "Great White North" we've had an unusually white December. This is my favorite view: a farm that some dear friends owned right next to us. They welcomed us with open arms and loved our children like their own grandchildren. Here is the Hasselquist farm.

...and a few other pretty pictures

Anyone need snow?

Take care friends!

Show n' Tell with Canadagilr! Dec 28

Hello Blogger Friends! Here we are again with Show n' Tell Friday with Canadagirl our dear SSiC.

I wanted to share our Christmas with you. Christmas Eve we celebrate by attending candlelight service then coming home to appetizers while watching It's a Wonderful Life (B&W a must). Christmas morning we start coffee (another must! hehe) then open stockings and gifts. This year we only gave 3 gifts to the kids. Something you need, something you want and a book or audio. Then the kids made gifts for each other.

Possum (dd age 13) made no sew blankets and pillows for the boys. I just showed her briefly what to do and away she went. Lou (9)made boxes for treasures with Papa and Bub(11) made a hunting jacket for sissy and wood burning pic for Lou. They had a ball!

Greetings and many blessings from our family to yours! If you would like to join in the fun of Show n Tell just click HERE.

Our family pic...dd is as tall as I am! Yikes

Grandkids with my folks!

Thank you Secret Sis!

Thank you for your letter. I can't tell you how much fun it is to recieve "real" mail!

You are already an encouragement to me with your prayers, God's word, and recipes I can't wait to try!

Bless you these days before our Savior's birth, may it bring much peace and joy to your family.

Show n' Tell Friday Dec 14 Brrrrrrr...

Hello Ladies!

It's extremely cold here -6 degrees F and we have 8+ inches of snow! We'll be using our woodburner to suppliment our furnace. This poor old farmhouse is chilly. I also have a hard time letting our Annie stay outside so here she is doing spelling with Bub!

If you would like to join Canadagirl's Show n' Tell just click on her name and away you go!

Blessing on all of you lovly ladies!