We have a home............Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, it arrived today and it is beautiful. We are so excited. They should start putting it together tomorrow. Should take about a week to finish it and then just have to wait for all the inspections and then we can move in. Thanks for everyones prayers, they worked. Life is finally looking up for us.Was wondering if it was ever going to happen. Homeschooling is pretty much at  stand still right now, have had alot going on and now the house is here which means we need to start packing up this apt. so we can just walk out when they give us the okay to move in. My oldest sister is moving here to our town into the apt. we are living in. It is just here husband and herself and they are both disabled so they are free to move whenever and wherever they want, they don't own a home so nothing holds them back once they make up their minds. It will be nice to have them around. Really lonely around here with my mom and dad gone. The only thing is that my sister has lived in the town she is in now forever and I am not so sure if she will stick around or not.

I will post a picture of our home tomorrow. Can't wait for all of you to see it. It is so beautiful.

Hope everyone has a good week.

Lots of love and thankfullness for everyone's prayers.

Okay, as I have posted several times, we are awaiting our home. Well  we were suppose to have it sitting on our land as of Monday. Guess what, got the call today, it aint happening. The guy or company or whatever, that was suppose to bring it and finish it backed out, how is that? How do you make a committment to a company and then just say never mind. So now we are 4 months since closing(closed on Aug 21, 2004) and still no house. We have been renting this 2bdr. apt. paying over $500 a month to keep our stuff in storage and suffering the side effects of small space living, just to find out that now there is no telling when we will be able to move into our house. My hubby was lipid, he is now talking about getting a lawyer. This whole process began in May and has gone no where. Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want my home, it is beautiful and I have been waiting so long, what is going to happen, are we going toend  up in this apt. forever? Is my hubby going to get a lawyer and we are going to end up telling this company to shove it, which I know would be the right thing to do, but what about my home, the house I designed, the house I love, the home of my dreams, the one I have invisioned for over 7 months now. How does one just get over that and move on, forget about it, go somewhere else, buy something else, etc. I don't really want to, I want all of this to be solved and work out, I want my home. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please Pray for us, me especially. I know God has a plan.

Thanks ahead of time, I need all the support and prayers I can get.

Okay so I am a day or so late. Just wanted to wish all bloggers a Happy New Year. So far so good but it just started right.

I can say that our home (redi-built) should arrive by the end of this week or beginning of next week. Thank you Lord. This has been a terribly long wait. We have been living and homeschooling in this 2 bdr. apt. for 7 months now and I am about to lose it. I need space. We need space. Pray for me that I can make it through these next few weeks. After the house arrives it will still be about 2 or 3 weeks before we can move in. Ugh........

Haven't started school yet. Was planning on getting back on schedule starting today but 2 of the 4 kids were invited over to friends for a sleepover, so guess we will have to vacation for one more day. Noone is complaining ofcourse.

Okay I have taken up a new hobby besides my beading and sewing. I am now makeing hair bows. Bought some ribbon yesterday and made a couple lastnight, FUN.....It all begin with the ribbon that my mothere-n-law put on our Christmas gifts, they were all so pretty, so I decided to keep them and went on the internet and found some really great websites about makeing bows, so off I went and they have all turned out really cute. Going to make some for my girls and some for the Arts and Craft Festival next year. Along with some sewing and jewlery I have made. Hope I can stay on top of all these craft projects of mine. Would love to get a booth at the festival and see what I can sell, think it would be loads of fun and the extra money would be ok also.

Anyone else got any good craft hobbies? Would love to hear all about them, pictures would be great too. I will try to get my camera charged and take some pictures to post.

Until Later

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Ours was nice, spent it with some friends of ours. And just kicked back the rest of the day. DH is off till after the New Year which means daily naps for me, I love it..........

We are taking a break from homeschooling this week. Will start back up strong after the 1st. The kids seem to be fine with doing nothing or I should say doing only what they want when they want without following mom's schedule of things that need to be finished by sun down, lol. Hope they don't like it too much, cause next week it is back to the combat boots and 6 am bugle, okay NOT, but we will atleast pretend we are organized and know what we are doing on a daily basis.

Found out today that our foundation will be poured tomorrow which means our house should be delivered late next week, then it will take a week to finish it on sight and about a week for inspections and hook up, so looks like if everything goes right we should be able to move in about the 3rd week of Jan.  I am so ready for our own spaces.

Well want to know what new idea I had for the week?  A home based business. Ironing....Now it is just a thought, but really need to make some extra cash for a deck and yard and such this summer, a new house needs a new yard and deck and flowers and grill and swimming pool and garden and fence and horse and driveway and trampoline and...........Ok, I went a little over board, all in due time, but the extra money has to come from somewhere and that would be Moi. I know there are no ironing services in our town, so thought about giving it a go. So if any of you ladies out there know anything about ironing business from home, I am all ears.

Okay there is my bright idea. Anyone else got any home businesses happening in your home?

Oh my what a day........

Well here is what happened. I was sitting in my room just visiting with my hubby and all of a sudden we hear screaming, I look out our window and there is a lady standing outside of her house(across the street) with a baby in her arms, shakeing the baby up and down and screaming then she runs back into the house, well I told my hubby, I think something is wrong, nah, he said she was prob. just playing with the baby, then here she comes again, screaming and shaking the baby up and down, then I notice that the baby is like limp, her arms and head was dangling as her mom was shakeing her. I then knew something was wrong, so out the door I went and just as I was walking up to her the baby began breathing and the cops pulled up and seconds later the ambulance. As a mom of 4 the first thing I did was grab the baby from the frantic mom and see if she was okay, (now mind you I do not know these people who don't speak a lick of English) she was fine, I was amazed, she was moving and smileing and very alert. I stayed there holding the baby(9mos. old) for about 30 minutes while the cops and Paramedics questioned the mom.

The story was that the baby was lying in her baby bed while the mom bathed the other child of hers (a son about 2) when the neice went in to check on the baby she found her shakeing all over uncontrollably, then she stopped breathing and went limp. The scary thing for me was that the mom did not let the ambulance take the baby to the hospital for evaluation. Said she would wait for her husband since the baby was okay. Not sure what happened, think the baby may have had some sort of seizure. The mom said it had never happened before. I felt so bad for the mother, she was young and scared to death. I just wish she would have sent the baby to the hospital to be checked out. When I left the baby was fine, smileing and moving around and starting to fuss. Please keep this family in your prayers, don't know their names but I know what happened today was very frightening. I also know that the Lord had his hands on that baby and brought her back, cause the baby was not breathing and was unconcious and not responding and then just as quickly she was laughing and looking around, that can only come from God's healing hand.

I am still shaken from the experience, but I am glad I was there for the mom and baby until help arrived.

Makes you think about your own family and how special they are and how quickly things can go wrong and change your life forever. Thank God for my children and Husband and for their good health and happiness.  

Ahhh..........Ugh.................Monday................................................

Okay, today was a Monday without a doubt. My DS who is still in public schools is really pushing my patience. Got a call from the school today and was told that he refused to do his end of the semester reviews, can you believe that he refused, whatever, since when do you have the choice at this age to refuse anything. Anyway, not to happy with him this eve.(haven't been to happy with him all weekend)

Happy to announce though that our foundation is coming along nicely. So not all was bad today.

Have been teaching my 4yr. old DD the word obedient and what it means to be obedient, this was something I decided to teach after her sudden lack of obedience. So lets see how she does with this new revolution, Pray for us, or for her should I say, this could get ugly.........lol.

Lots of prayers for my 10yr. old DD as well, she is struggling with school work, is just showing no interest, would rather play all day with her sister. I am not sure how to spark her interest in learning. So any ideas or miracles are needed.

Ending this blog to be off and running for the kitchen to begin dinner.

Menu:

Baked Chicken

Mashed Potatoes

Corn

Cresent Rolls

and Sweet tea.

Yummy.............................................................................

Enjoy your eve bloggers.

Happy Monday all, just wanted to share a link to an awesome sight that is haveing a contest. Check it out and bless as you are being blessed.

Until next time.

http://familyblueprint.blogspot.com/

Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well trying to get these blinkies on my blog and don't know what I am doing.

As you can tell from this blinkie, I love to sew. Haven't been able to since we have been in this little apartment. Have no room to pull all my stuff out. But rest assured our new house has a hobby room off of the laundry room just for me. Soooooooooooo a sewing I will go.

Lord.....you there?

Okay, I know you are and I know you are listening, so I really need to talk.

Today has been, well, one of those days. I sure do miss mama and daddy and I know Lord that they are there with you and you needed them there in heaven and yes Lord I know how special they were and how only they could do the job you needed. But did you have to take them both, so soon. You know last year in May when you took daddy it took me quiet a while to understand that he was precious to you and it you were ready to bring him home where he belonged. But then you took mama only a couple of months ago on Oct. 14th. and yes I am angry and hurt and lonely. I guess I just miss them so, I am not blameing you Father. I am very happy that you chose them to bring home with you. And I know you seen them suffering and was not going to let that go on. But now what Lord, what about me and my family? We miss them so and things are just not the same around here with them gone.

Help us Lord, help us to find the joy that we once had. Help us to heal and move on the way my parents would want us too. I know that this can only be done through you and your love and grace. I know that I will see my parents again some day in heaven, but until then can you tell them hello and that we love them and miss them. When you get time, if I know daddy he is probably fixin something up for you and mama is probably telling other all the stories she use to tell us. So when you see them please give them a hug from all of us.

Thank you Father for hearing my prayer and for understanding the hole in my heart. Please fill that hole with your joy and love so that I may heal and be the daughter, mother, wife and friend that you made me to be.

With all my love

Your little girl

Kathy.

Do you ever feel alone, like the world is falling apart at your feet? I do almost everyday it seems lately. I lost my dad May 20,2006 and lost my mom Oct 14,2007. We have moved to this town, which I can say I love but are still awaiting our home, have been since forever. And to top it all of my husbands father passed away today. What else???????????

Please keep my family in your prayers. We need it always to be exact.

I know God does not put more on us than we can handle, so Lord I think this is all I can handle. I am just ready for some peace and joy.

Hope everyone has a good week. Would love to make some friends on here. Stop by anytime.

Kathy

Well today was our dd b-day, she turned 10. The sad thing is it was not much of a birthday, in my last blog I mentioned that we are living in a 2 bdr. apt. thus not having room for  any other bodies than our own, which if I don't lose some weight, soon, I am not going to fit in here much longer. LoL. Anyway, we took her to McDonalds for supper, and played then came home and ate cake which she made and decorated herself(with the help of her 13 yr. old sister).

Have to say the night has ended well though, we had some fun being gooffy taking some pictures of us all making funny faces or changing our hair or of us just being plain weird(which is not to hard for us to do).

So now everyone is off to bed with silly thoughts in their heads and the idea that maybe mom isn't normal after all.

Good night to all, happy blogging, till tomorrow.

Signed

One Weird Mom

Its Friday.............................

This week has been a long one. Told everyone a little about us in an earlier entry, but thought I would write a little more.

Again, we are a homeschooling family of 6, 4 being kids ages 15, 13, 10 and 4.

We are currently living in a small 2bdr. apt. while our lovely 5 bdr. home is awaiting our arrival. We had a modular built and have purchased 5 acres of land to place it on. Well everything is done, including the house, but.......

Our foundation has been the problem, something to do with the permit. We have been waiting for over a month for this to get straightened out. Ugghhh...

Our adventure with this whole house thing started back in April. We closed on it all Aug. 21st and still have no home.

We moved to this town in July because husband was transferred here, which we were very excited about. My dad died a year ago in May so we were all ready for a change, sort of a new beginning. We moved my mom here in May. Found her an apt. at a senior living complex. She loved it.

Well more bad news, we found out in Aug. that she only had 10% of her heart functioning. She went down hill from there, in and out of the hospital and sick all of the time. She passed on Oct. 14th. only 1 yr and 5 months after my dad.

So life for us has been very stressful and painful.

Thank goodness we love each other and have hope for a new tomorrow, which is only because of our relationship with the Lord.

Okay. Now that I got that off my shoulders.

I am really haveing a hard time with this blogging. I see so many other blogs that are beautiful and interesting and I have no idea how to make that happen. I have added a few cute pictures and such but that is all and it took me hours to figure that out and if you ask me to go back and do it again, I would not be able to.

So if anyone is a pro at this or atleast knows more than I do could you please let me know.

Thank you, when I get this all figured out maybe you will be able to visit my blog and get some helpful information or at least have a laugh or two.

Have a Great Friday..........

Ah..........the joys of homeshcooling.

Art Class was so much fun yesterday. The kids made clay ornaments for Christmas. It was messy, gooy and just plain fun.

All of the kids did such a wonderful job. My kids are new to this group and are adjusting well. My 13 yr old daughter is a little shy, but she is coming around.

Following Art we went over to the gym at a local church and played soccer, volleyball, and what ever else the kids came up with. And to think people outside of the homeschooling world worry about our kids socialization, well this was around 2pm or so and while other kids were in public schools being told every few seconds to be quiet and focus on what the teacher demanded they had to do within the allowed time or they would get a 0 for the assingment, our kids were socializing, playing, laughing, learning, making friends, growing, feeling accepted, feeling special, feeling, liked and loved, full of joy and excitement and had accomplished several things that day with no time limit on any of them, and for those who were not finished with and assignments for the day were able to finish later at home or could carry them over to the next day and still get the grade they desevered according to their work, not how long it took them to do it. And...........if they had problems with any of it there is always someone available to help.

Hmmmm........funny isn't it, sounds like they all socialized quite alot, actually more than the kids in public schools.  Plus how luck are we homeschoolers to be able to make the decision if we want to participate in something or not and to make the decision if this is of interest to us or should we save it for another time when it may be interesting and just read a good book while snuggled up together before its time to play a learning game, or visit a museum, or take a walk and talk about what we see anad hear and write about it or draw a picture of it.

Well guess that is all for now, have to run, litterally, the bell rang and we are off to play outside. Learning about the heart and what better way to do that than to get your heart rate up and count and log it, so we can see the difference in it when we are resting, oh and don't forget it creates more oxygen which pumps more blood to your heart, thus giving you a healthy heart. Anyway, there I homeschooled you today, now go play, have some hot cocoa, or I know how about a nap. HEHEHE!!!!

I love my life...........

Here is a little about Us. We are a family of six.  Dean, Kathy, James(15), Justice(13), Tajenai(10) and Bryanna(4).  We live in a small town in need of a WalMart, lol.

Our 3 youngest children are homeschooled and doing great, our oldest is still in public school awaiting his turn to come home. ( He needs extra Structure so have decided for now that this is right for him)

Use Switched on School house  as our primary curriculum and love it. We add unit studies to our schooling as well to keep things interesting and to add some hands on.

The girls (13 and 10) also take piano and dance (only the 10 yr old is in dance at this time). They (we) are very involved in the local homeschooling group(just became members, because we are new to this area).

Homeschooling for us is tons of fun, still trying to get organized and in the swing of things due to the fact that we just starting homeschooling(for this school year) about a month ago. The girls were enrolled into public schools upon our move here which proved to be distructful, so now we are homeschooling and lovin it.

Have come a long way and have a long way to go. But with lots of prayer, the grace of God and our love for each other we are well on our way.

In great hopes that we will make lots of friends, learn lots and be a good friend.

Welcome to our Blogg.