• Jan. 1, 2009
2008 In Review Part One

Well I guess we can tell I am an avid blogger from my overflowing posts in 2008 can't we? I nearly passed out when I decided to update my blog and got here and noticed it's only been a bit over a year since I've done anything with this blog! A whole year! I can't let that happen again. Anyway I'll try to recap ALL that has happened to us as a family for a year in our lives in two posts.

We started the year 2008 with high hopes and expectations. The end of January our woodstove was delivered and installed that our middle ds had gifted us with for chirstmas. What a gift it was too and we love it. It's the kind of gift that keeps on giving and giving, plus we stay in shape from cutting all that wood!

The sad point of that day was that I accidentally ran over our middle dd's dog she had had for years and killed her. It was so horrible and I felt awful. It was like a member of the family had been killed. The very next week our youngest dd's pet goat got sick. We rushed Tinkerbell to the vet and he gave her some medicine, but she was already in shock and it didn't look good. The vet sent her home with us and we no more than pulled out onto the highway drove about two  or three miles and she died.

Our dd was so heartbroken as we all were. She had waited for Tinkerbell for over a year because she was insistant of having a white goat. Not any other color, not a white with spots or a caramel color or anything resembling white, but ONLY white. Well pure white goats are hard to find, but we finally did and Tinkerbell came home with us. She was our dd's shadow and followed her everywhere. Our dd would bring her into the house many times to visit! She'd always say, "Mom I brought someone for you to see!"
We miss Tinkerbell something awful. A good thing for this month was our oldest dgs turned twelve!

February was without incident. We celebrated a dgdd's fifth b-day on the fifth and then Valentine's Day and moved on to March.
March came and went without a disaster. We celebrated my oldest ds's b-day and his youngest dd's b-day  which is two days apart and later that month we had Easter at our house. It was pretty chilly and all the dgk's had to wear their coats that day, but they hunted eggs and then hunted them some more.

April came and for a change we had no b-days to celebrate. We did get a new dog and named her Boss. Our youngest ds suddenly one day or so it seemed told us he was going that day to take his asvab for the military. He had thought about this the previous November, but had decided not to pursue this route at the time back then. So with our blessing off he went for the test that evening. He PASSED! He joined the National Guard.

May came and he went to his first drill and later to his second. When he went for his physical and to be inducted into the armed forces I drove down to the MEPS center that day in OKC. I got there early just in case so I wouldn't miss his swearing in. It turned out to be a very long day as he ended up being one of the last ones done. He would have gotten done earlier but they lost his papers, partly because he was put into a new unit. A unit that didn't technically exist yet at the time, so there was a problem until they finally figured it out. Finally at  a little after 4 pm he was sworn in. Family is not allowed in the actual ceremony to take pictures because of privacy issues, but they staged a reenactment for each person who's family wanted to take pictures. Boy did I!

June came our ds left for basic training in Ft Benning home for the infantry. He is so proud that he went to Ft Benning. He told us  afterward the moment he experienced shark attack he wondered what he had gotten himself into! This is where the new trainees have been through processing and arrive at their dorm. The drill sergeants meet the bus and order everyone OFF. We witnessed a shark attach the the best way to describe a drill sergeant meeting the bus is to say they come on board...no...no  that's not it eaxactly. They........EXPLODE onto the bus! That is the word. It's all part of the process of remaking these young men into soldiers though and they do umm help the young men off the bus, but don't let your head cover become crooked or you get to experience a drill sergeant in your face barking at you like a bull dog.

June also was a disaster month for us. I accidentaly ran over Boss and killed her when she ran right across in front of the truck as I was pulling out of the drive one day. I just wanted to cry. I felt like the dog killer or something. I vowed to not get another dog to replace her either. It was just too hard. How could we go years and years and never have an animal get run over and then suddenly two within months of each other?
Later that month we had another disaster or two. There was hail damage to the house in town that our oldest ds lives in with his family and I woke up one morning early and walked into the living room and stepped on a wet patch of carpet. I thought at first someone forgot to let out the dogs and one of them peed on the floor, but another step and I found myself slogging through water. We ripped back carpet only to find water seeping through a crack in our cement slab. Yikes! We turned off the water and tried to break out the cement with a sledge hammer. Ha! Fat chance of that. We had to go rent a cement saw. Once we got an area chipped out with the saw though my dh and middle ds were able to get through with the sledge hammer. We decided to break out the slab instead of going under the slab to fix the leak because going under it was going to end up being very expensive. Thousands and thousands of dollars instead of hundreds. It didn't take us long to figure out which way to go.
We found the leak alright, but not where they started it was over a ways from where the water came up. The water just found the weakest area to escape. We ended up with about a five foot hole in the middle of the living room floor. Our youngest dd thought it a grand place to play with toy cars though. I on the other hand got very tired of having a hole in the middle of the floor and a Big mess in the house. The adjuster finally came and we got the insurance part squared away fairly. We decided we were not putting carpet back down. We were going with tile. Well I am going to tell you that was the easy part. Picking tile out is a pain in the you know where. It took forever. Then when we finally did pick out just what we wanted the dealer wasn't sure he could get enough in. He finally did though. By now we were into July and July was not looking to be an exciting month other than for trouble.

So Tomorrow stay tuned for part two of 2008 in review and find out what happened during the second half of last year for us. Can you imagine homeschooling through all this? We did. We even had some really exciting things happen that we got to experience, but alas I have few pictures. Now wonder why I was so preoccupied I didn't think very often to grab the camera? Hmmmmm.

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• Dec. 21, 2007
The New Technology is Amazing!

I'm sure this post will not be exactly about what you might have thought when you read the title, but I wanted to share a little about my favorite people. MY family, namely my extended family and most of the time they are some of my favorite people!  Anyhoo awhile back my kids got out some old home videos to watch. My seven year old daughter loves to watch them and she's not even in many of them!

The one video we watch over and over is one when my first husband was still alive and we lived in Kansas. We had come home to Oklahoma for the holidays and we brought our new toy with us. A new video camera. You know the old style that was as big as a house! My mother and sister and I took the kids over to my great aunt's house to visit with my great aunt, my grandmother, another great aunt, my great-grandmother, an uncle and various other extended family.

I decided to video all the family present since some were getting older and we didn't know how long they would be here. As I was filming my grandmother asked how it worked. I explained that everything was recorded on a tape that I could then take out and put into a vcr and watch on the tv.

Well apparently everyone was very amazed at this revelation and it was as if a lightbulb  went off over all their heads at the same time, because in perfect unison they all said, "AHHHHHHH!". 

 ROFLOL!  

We have laughed and laughed and laughed over that small partof the video and rewound it so many times just to watch that part that I'm sure the tape is getting thin. I'm definately going to have to convert it to dvd! Can you just imagine the ooh's and ahhh's I'll get from doing that!?

Isn't the new technology amazing?!!!

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• Dec. 3, 2007
Sewing Crafts Galore!

If you want to have the best of both worlds a blog and website then check this out. She even has tutorials. This is great for someone like me who needs a crafting for dummies how-to. Enjoy!

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• Dec. 3, 2007
A book for all you non-sewing machine owners

Last-Minute Fabric Gifts: 30 Hand-Sew, Machine-sew, and no-sew Projects... by Cynthia Treen

Found this book on amazon and thought of all you gals who don't own a sewing machine and thought you might be interested in it. Now you won't have to wonder whether you can sew something by hand or not!  I cannot believe some people wouldn't brave those idiotic crowds the day after Thanks Giving when wallie world had plain jane sewing machines on special for $54.00!

Heck then ya all could have got off the porch and ran with the big dogs aka the sewing machine owners! A seamstress I'm not, but a crafter I am.

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• Dec. 3, 2007
HOGS! Funnies to share.

Okay maybe no one will think these are funny, but they had all of us here rolling yesterday. Of all the subjects to laugh about we picked HOGS!

Yesterday started it when my middle ds shared something he overheard at a restuarant. He said a guy came in to eat and was with a rig moving company. He told the waitress there were several other guys that were going to eat with him. She asked him what they were going to drink....coffee? because she'd go ahead and get it ready.

He says to her, "Heck I'm not waitin on em! That'd be as foolish as one HOG waitin on another!"

Then one of my ds's brought up something my dad used to always say........What's time to a HOG!?


And one of the trustee's at our church apparently has never heard the term HOGWASH because he says he's going to ask our pastor who used that term what it means!

Then my middle ds remembered again where he used to work after they fed the pigs one time they walked back by the troughs a little later and all the food was gone. One of the guys he worked with said, "Boy these Hogs are eatin like.......HOGS!"

Then there are the terms Hog on ice and Hog in a poke. Well actually it is pig in a poke, but hog sounds so funny to me.

And where in the world did the word Hog come from? Why do we call an animal by two names?

I heard someone say when they butchered at "Hog killin" time they used everything but the squeal. Of course that was meant to convey they didn't waste anything.

Then there's the saying You can't make a silk purse out of a hog's/pig's ear.

We even have HOG/PIG movies like Gordy and Charlotte's Web. Oh and I know there was another one but I can't think of it. Not to mention there was the pot bellied pig craze in this country a few years ago. Even we had a pot bellied pig named Pigger. I copied the name from somewhere and this pig ate candy corn and was SMART! KInda scarey a pig being smart. I mean they do roll around in mud, stink and are sloppy when they eat. Heck they even EAT slop!

We also have food we eat from HOGS! Some I will never eat like the tails, pigs feet and their ears, but bacon, sausage, ham and porkchops yummo! I can't figure out why I couldn't talk my sister into naming her show pig porkchop when she was in FFA.

Now that makes me wonder where the saying, He's such a ham, came from. I also remember once when my oldest dd was in highschool her class had to name a list of animals and what their offspring were called. She got the offspring of a pig wrong. She called it a Hoglet!

Okay I'm gonna finish with this. I've gotta quit Hogging space here!

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• Nov. 28, 2007
Turning Over A New Leaf

I hope this ministers to someone today. This poem says what I am feeling today and how I've felt for a long time I need to be perfect for my family and others on the outside, but all the while on the inside feeling differant. Well I want to have integrity and be the person I would like myself to be.  I want my yey to be yey and my nay to be nay. I don't want to give in or agree because I feel I have to. I want to be liberated to be able to give an answer without  feeling guilty.

Jesus has known my heart all along. Nothing is secret from him. I thought I was extending grace but I've come to realize I was way off the mark.

I hope you enjoy the poem and it speaks something to you as it does to me.

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• Nov. 21, 2007
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• Nov. 17, 2007
Yummo recipe for Thanks Giving!

I just have to share this yummy recipe for a dip in time for Thanks Giving. It's great with apples or gingersnaps. Plus it's not quite as sweet as the usual cream cheese dip for fruit. 

 I made it for my women's homemakers group that met at my house recently and I didn't know if I'd like it much, but I was so surprised and so was everyone else.  Everyone raved over it, so I decided to share it here. Oh and my kids loved it also, so that's a big thumb's up for this dip!

Pumpkin Dip

1 small can of Libby's pumpkin

2 cups powdered sugar

2  8oz packages cream cheese

1tsp ginger

1 tsp cinnamon

Mix pumpkin and cream cheese, add powdered sugar then spices. Serve chilled with fruit. Goes especially well with gingersnaps and apples.

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• Nov. 16, 2007
Noah's Ark

This book was recently recommended on a message board I belong to. Noah's Ark by Rien Poortvliet.  Well anytime a book is recommended I HAVE to buy it.  I found a copy on amazon and paid less than $10.00 with shipping and everything. I had no idea how wonderful this book really is until it came the other day. I will never think of Noah and his family and all those animals on the ark in the same way ever again.

This book is very thought provoking and I love the illustrations. The drawings and paints draw the observer in.  It brings out the fact that we recognize animals as they are because that is how we have always known them.  But what if a cow really did have a trunk or was long bodied like a snake?  And what of the beauty of animals? The peacocks plummage, the woodpeckers markings or the species where male and female are noticably differant. What about the ones where the male and female are very similar and hard to tell apart.

There is a drawing of God forming the horns on some sort of sheep that is amazing. Or have you ever thought about God choosing which ears each animal was to have? What about him choosing the fur or skin? How did he decide to put a spotted fur skin on the lepard and the baggy, rough skin on the elephant. And what of the giraffe, how in the world did God design the giraffe's neck and horns, legs and spots? Everything working together in the giraffe even down to how it walks so it's legs don't tangle up!

Anyway this is an amazing book and if you don't have a copy I highly suggest you find and purchase one.

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• Nov. 15, 2007
Cloth Napkin Tidbit of a Story of Promise

Last night at our church we had our Thanks Giving get together. After the meal our pastor got up and asked if anyone had a testimony to share. Several members shared their testimony and then it was my turn. I told everyone what I had to say wasn't neccessarily a testimony, but more of a life observation and yet I felt compelled to share it.

I told about our family using cloth napkins and what I had learned from doing that. Well, that story turned out to be what led to the next story that was shared. My pastor's wife told everyone that she had heard or read that it was Jewish custom in older days to fold a napkin a certain way to let the servants know if you were finished or not and so they could clear your place setting.

If you were coming back you folded it over and laid it beside your plate. But if you  were done you crumpled it up and threw it on your plate. The story was related to Jesus in the tomb and how after he arose and took off his shroud he folded it and left it there. By this act he let us know HE IS COMING BACK!

Isn't that story amazing? I loved it and you know, it is true. He is coming back. How exciting and wonderful to be given this promise. I'm sure everytime we use our cloth napkins at mealtimes now we will always think of this shared story. I know I will and I'm so glad my pastor's wife shared it with everyone last night.

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• Nov. 14, 2007
All about my middle daughter, cloth napkins and hospitality.

I have a daughter, a middle daughter who is precious and special and beautiful. She has gorgeous auburn red hair and greenish blue eyes. She isn't very tall. Only 5' 4" or so. When I was expecting her I picked her name because it was romantic and beautiful and meant, "Woman of God."  Her middle name is a combination of both grandmothers middle names. Her name is Gabrielle.

Why am I writing about her you ask? Well because the last few years have not been perfect between us. In fact at times things have been very strained. I sat watching old home movies last week and watching my daughter as a baby and a toddler. So innocent and perfect. I was still her hero and she trusted me to protect her. Right now the protection I give her is a prayer covering. Oh, but how I wish she were back home and safe. I was thinking how I wished things were differant and wondering how I could change how things are now at home for the rest of my children.

How I sometimes wish I could turn back the years and do things differantly and realize some of the things I thought mattered so much really don't mean a lot in the scheme of life. I was always trying to hurry and get chores done, the laundry finished, meals fixed etc. Just hurry and get it done so it was finished and out of my hair.Then I got to thinking about hospitality and what it is. This is an area my mother did not teach me well in. I can cook and clean house and take care of a family, but I am not the best hostess. It's a real lacking on my part and it makes me uncomfortable.

Because of my beautiful middle daughter, Gabrielle, I have realized something and it started because of  me wishing things were differant for her and because ofa topic that was mentioned on a message board about using cloth napkins recently. I was shocked at how many mothers use cloth napkins. The subject piqued my interest and I started scrounging around the house for napkins I had picked up at auctions I've attended over the years.

I found almost 1 1/2 dozen. I washed them, air dried them and then starched and ironed them. I stood ironing them as my beautiful youngest daughter handed each one to me and I realized I liked what I was doing. Later that evening when we ate supper we used the cloth napkins and my youngest daughter loved it.

Well that started me to thinking how I could show my family I love them. By doing little things like starching and ironing and using cloth napkins. By planning and making good use of the food in our pantry. By fixing each family members favorite foods or meal.

I could also show how much they mean to me by mending clothing and putting fresh sheets on the beds. Or putting fresh flowers on the table. I recently started buying a cheap small bouquet of flowers when we shop at Aldi's thanks to my youngest daughter. It's a small thing,but it does brighten up the table and means something to at least several members of this family.

Now most of the things I have mentioned I've done for years, a few I recently started doing, so what's the big deal you ask? Well attitude for one. I use to dread mealtime and cooking or doing laundry and especially mending clothing. Now because I've changed how I approach my daily chores and how I see what I do as being valuable for my family I enjoy what I used to almost despise.

Now who would have thought cleaning toilets could be enjoyable?! Another thing is I desire to do these things for my family. Not just do them and get them done, but to put my best effort forth. I think all that rushing and pushing and hurrying took a tole on my family for years and I didn't even see it.

Maybe it sounds odd, but I feel like I am becoming closer to God by serving my family in this way. Oh and it extends out from the home too. Now I desire to do my best for my church family and others outside my home. Now when I go to a function I plan what I can take and how I can make it special. Boy that never happened before! Oh I always loved getting compliments on my cooking, but the reason for it was differant.

I was seeking attention and now I'm seeking to serve how ever I can. Another thing that was borught to mind recently is that Eve was God's gift to Adam. WOW! A gift, how awesome is that?! I never thought of myself as a gift to my husband before.

Anyway I feel I have been changed and had a life changing  moment all because of deciding to use cloth napkins! And Gabrielle if you happen to stumble upon this entry thank you for always helping me so willingly do the laundry, fix the meals, clean house, do dishes and whatever else needed done at home. You are precious to me and I love you.

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• Oct. 11, 2007
Butterfly Kisses

Okay so we didn't really get a kiss from the butterfly we hatched, but we did have fun watching it grow. One day this summer I had went on a walk with McKenna and decided to show her what a butterfly weed looked like. Well low and behold I saw a catepillar crawling over the leaves of the first butterfly weed we came to! It was a Monarch cattepillar too! So I broke off a branch of the weed with the caterpillar on it and hurried to the house, explaining as we went that this would eventually turn into a beautiful butterfly.

We got out our butterfly nursery house thingy and placed our caterpillar inside with the butterfly weed. Then we watched, thinking we would have to wait several weeks before we would see a chrysalis.Not so! Within a couple of day there was a chrysalis. Sad to say though we didn't get to see it hatch. We got up one morning and McKenna noticed there was a butterfly in the nursery.

She was so excited. Later that afternoon we let our butterfly go in front of our house. Now everytime we see a Monarch butterfly in our yard we wonder if that is our butterfly.

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• Oct. 10, 2007
Just the ladies and one little gent.

I came across some pictures from Easter this year. The first time we celebrated easter without my Dad. He died a week or two before Easter this year, so the holiday was a bittersweet one. My family has always had a wiener roast on Easter! We rush home from church, cahnge clothes and pack all the goodies and head for eighty acres of land my mom and dad bought years ago when my second child was just a baby. We've celebrated Easter there almost every year since then, except for a few years after my first husband died and mom and dad couldn't bring themselves to celebrated there for a few years.

The only females in our family not pictured are my two oldest daughters and my oldest daughters little girls and my youngest granddaughter. Oh and my youngest niece who was about three months at the time. Don't look too closely. I'm the one weighing the limb down next to the end on the left! lol My daughter-in-law is next to me on the end. My favorite neice, Morgan, is smack dab in the middle hugging my youngest daughter, who loves her to pieces. That big old fallen limb just seemed the perfect place for a large family photo shoot.

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• Oct. 5, 2007
Houston, we have a problem! Well maybe not.

The crazy things teenage boys find to do. Little sister tags along for the ride too! My youngest son Levi and his friend Caleb brought this home from our pastor's house to build who knows what out of it! They thought it was hilarious to get inside this old cab while it was still in the back of Levi's truck  and have their picture taken. Of course little sister had to be in the big middle of everything as usual. Sorry boys, but I don't think this thing will ever get off the ground!

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• Oct. 5, 2007
What color are you?

I thought this was fun and we all need something fun to do from time to time. Try it out yourself. Just for fun of course!
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
   
 

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• Sep. 19, 2007
Let's go Fishing! and how a little sister missed her brother while he was gone.

My youngest son will be home late today or very early Tomorrow morning from his fishing trip. Where did he go fishing you ask? Canada of course! When we mentioned something about him going with our pastor and another man from our church he jumped at the chance. He didn't even hesitate when we told him he would have to pay for this trip himself.

Well he's been gone ten days! We do miss him and in fact his little sister probably missed him the most. One of her older brothers found her in bed the other night crying. He said he thought she might have gotten in trouble at first. He poked his head through her doorway and asked what was wrong.

I miss Levi she boohooed! Well why wouldn't she?! She's his shadow and follows him all over. He's taught her all about Nascar, the Dukes of Hazzard (the old tv version), football and their team OU, how to ride a horse and he's even let her drive ( well sort of guide it) his truck up and down our lease road. Yikes she's only recently turned seven.

In fact she turned seven while Levi has been gone. It's the first birthday they have not celebrated together and they always celebrate together. You see they both share the same date of birth only ten years apart. He has always said she was his birthday present! For one day every year we have more cake than we can hardly stand.

As much as we've missed Levi, we know he has had a wonderful experience. The area they went to in Canada is a poor community and from things he's said I think it made a huge impression on him to see first hand people who have very little and how it can effect them.

Anyway I think he was refreshed by his trip and we can't wait until he gets home tonight or early tomorrow! I know one little girl who can't wait to see her big brother too!  Now to prepare for all those fish stories I just know we're going to hear for some time to come.

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• May. 19, 2007
Showtime!

We recently went to the Heartland goat show in Norman, OK. This was our very first goat show and we took my niece Morgan with us. Okay, I admit it, she is my favorite neice. She's just the best kid and so easy going. Anyway Morgan and Levi both showed and placed. Morgan won two fifth place ribbons and Levi won one fourth place.

McKenna wanted to show so bad, so we told her the next show she will definatley  get to show.  We raise Nigerian Dwarf goats and they are so much fun. Many people use them as dairy goats, but we plan to raise them and sell them as show goats. Mckenna watched the milk tests at the show, so when she got home she was determined to milk one of our does. She couldn't get any of us to help her so one day and a bunch of scratches later she got the job done all by herself!

My mother happened to stop by that day and as she was leaving McKenna asked her if she wanted to see our goats. Mom walked out to the pens with us and McKenna said she wanted to show us something. We nearly died laughing when she brought over a bucket and when we looked inside their was milk in the bottom! I asked her if she had milked one of the goats and she shook her head yes and told me she did it all by herself. lol

All the kids agreed they had so much fun they want to do this again and they are even hoping to go out of state. We'll have to see about that. Morgan told me she probably got her whole wardrobe over that weekend. I love to spoil that kid because she is so appreciative. It's just so much fun to buy things for her. She was thrilled with her new stuff and she thinks she made out like a pirate with all the loot!

I'm just so proud of the kids for doing this. They were real troupers and doing a show is a LOT of work. Congratulations you two, you deserve those ribbons you won and thanks for all the hard work.

Morgan is in the first picture on the end with Lollypop. McKenna is in the next one in the showpen with General Lee, one of our bucks. Levi is in the third picture. He's the one in the middle (as if you couldn't guess), showing our buck General Lee.

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• May. 18, 2007
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