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Hubby Found a JobIt has been very hard on us the past 2 months. DH lost he job of almost 20 years. He is not a young man and a job has been hard to find. He has one starting Monday. The pay is not much, no insurance to speak of, it is hundreds of miles from home ( I miss him already!) But it is a job. It will do until God sends something better!Update on Us: Oct 9th 2008Well here I am going on my second week in AL, I never even thought I would get here to visit my daughter, much less be here this long.Mark is in NY getting out stuff and bringing it back to Linden this week coming up and then coming down to get the children and I and take us home so to say to Linden. We are staying out on Old Hwy 13 in our RV while we wait for the house we want to rent for the winter to become available. Mr. Sam and his wife Daine are nice christian folks and rent us the space next to his matianance mans place and I can keep my goats there with me too. They homeschool and just are the sweetest folks to us. The Lord was good to lead us to meet them and them let us stay there till we get a real home for the winter. ( Lady who is to be our landlord had to evict the lady who lives there out for non payment, so we had to wait a month or so longer to get the home. Should be Nov 2nd or 12th , time will tell.) Lordwilling we will be living in Lobelville in a nice Doublewide with a wood burning fireplace in the Livingroom, Screen Porch on the one end and porches front and back, very private area also. Living in the RV for 9 weeks, wasnt what we had planned but the Lord provided it and so we are using it as our home till he gives us another one. Being down here without Mark arround is not an exsperience I enjoy. Things with my own daughter are far different then the way we live or what we desire for our own children. My granddaughters go to Head Start Daily and other things just sorta get to me, but I am biding my time till we go home. My own children miss having a home to live in, the adventure at times has been fun, but at times very trying on us. The goats are living in the stock trailer and I have no fence for them and of all things were in Town. The trains at night are too many and too noisey that is for sure, traffic is alot here too near 78. If I had a way to get back to Linden, I would go now. Small town living in the country is more my speed that is for sure. The goats are doing well. Magnolia kidded with triplet purebred 6th gen mini nubian babies, 2 bucks and 1 doe. I only have their dam and a non related buck now. My buck won 1st place in intermediate bucks on MDGAs Virtual show online, so I am pleased with him and my new kids too. Only thing is Mark would rather I sold them and that we didnt have animals till we have our own land. I am a bit heartbroken over that but I am not arguing. They should be in a barn and on pasture and not in town ! I did sell two to a lady in TN up in Cunningham, she is so pleased with them and I am so happy to have her have them on her farm. Please pray for Marks traveling mercies and safe return with out things in the RV and in a trailer he is hauling. Pray it ,keeps running and brings him safely home. Also pray for us , we need a vechile that our family can drive to the store and such after we get settled or before, have not found one yet. Truck or mini van or reg van would do, with towing capabilites. So we dont need to drive the RV everywhere we go. I cannot wait to settle, get back to "normal life" baking , cooking , sewing, and spending time with my best friend and sweetheart. Faith 6 and Hope 5 are so wanting a home. Daniel is 8 months old growing like a well fed calf and he just seems to be a happy baby. He wasnt too happy cutting teeth this week. He now has 4 , 2 top and 2 bottom. Would you believe he just fits into 18 months clothing. He is tall and heavy. Well I am tired and needing to get to bed. I hope all is well in your homes and I can't wait to meet those of you nearby home when I get there. Debi, its near your not far away and thank you for letting me know what is up with in the neighbourhood. Love and blessings to all Linda A New Blog for a New Purpose...I started a new blog called Health and Healing. In this blog, I hope to encourage myself towards better health by writing about health topics. Putting down into words these things I have read about or learned along the way. I am a registered nurse, however, I put my license to inactive status to homeschool and be a stay at home mom. I have always loved the aspect of preventive health, yet my day job when I worked focused on healing, usually by means of drugs or surgical methods. That did not always have the best of results.Doctors and nurses both on the field are so busy that they have little time to teach their patients about true health. They become specialists in drugs or surgical procedures. Working on many floors, I knew the routines for post surgical heart surgeries, for hip and knee replacements, for same-day surgeries, for medical problems such as COPD, pneumonia, and strokes. I also knew nursing treatments for many mental disorders as directed by our psychiatric ward. But when it came to teaching someone the way to better health using means of nutrients and natural remedies and water treatments... I had little to offer. I knew a few, but that wasn't a priority in the school where I was taught, nor is it a priority in many nursing schools or even medical schools. I have done alot of reading. I have attended alot of health seminars. I am intrigued by how wonderful God has created our bodies and how within the Bible many health topics are touched on. It is interesting to read in Genesis how he created our bodies for work, for rest, and even the foods we should eat. Oh, how we have strayed from those instructions the Lord has given us. Granted there aren't too many specific do's and don'ts in the Bible to where one can say without a doubt we shouldn't use tobacco, but there are principles that can apply to many health questions today. My focus on my continuing education has been on preventive health and on the natural processes that we were created with. Now, having said all that, I have to admit that I am human. I may have read all this good stuff and I may understand that it is good to follow, but to actually change my life so that I am living within these principles has not always been easy. I need reminders. I need encouragment. I need continuing education. I imagine that many have those same desires... to be healthy, but how? ...to not have to depend on doctors or drugs for simple health ailments, but how? ...to raise up healthy kids, but how? I won't have all the answers, but I hope to share some things as I recall, as they are pertinent to my life, and as I am planning programs at my church. Maybe the bits that I share will be the encouragement that others need to face their day or a struggle they have. May God use this blog to encourage others. For it is not my wisdom, it is God's. Warmly, ~Melissa Tasty TurnipsI am crazy about turnips. My kids think I am odd! Tasty Turnips Anyone know where Christine Duncan is ?Deanna anyone ? Where has she gone to ? Did they move to TN to stay yet ?Christine you out there ? Its Me Linda Will be back in Linden in a week or so , visiting my daughter in AL right now. Blessings to ya Linda Funny Stuff My Kids Have SaidI am going to try to remember as many as possible, but my kids have said some really funny stuff over the years. One time we were in Altoona, and we got behind a car with one of those Penn State paw print magnets on the back. Cameron was about 2 at the time, and he yelled, "Look! A clue!" One Sunday, Dave was getting ready to take the kids to Sunday School and he put Emily in his truck and buckled her in. When he shut the door, the window on the side of his cap shattered. Cameron looked down at all the glass and then looked and Dave and said, "That sucks." Here is a conversation I overheard toward the end of last month: Emily said, "Cameron, when is my birthday?" Cameron said, "I think it's in Secember. Hey, TODAY is Secember!" She said, "Is TODAY my birthday or is it on the 26th like yours?" He answered, "I'm not sure, but I think it's on a weekend." By the way, her birthday is in December... One night, Dave was trying to do something and I overheard him saying, "Damn!" Cameron said, "D-A-M" The other day, I packed Cameron's lunch and I gave him an apple, a pudding cup and a sandwich. Dave asked him if he ate his lunch and he said, "I forgot to eat my sandwich and my apple."
Ok, apparently, I need to think about this some more. I can't remember any more. I'm sure more will come to me later, so I'll do another post... Update on my thumbYesterday I had posted how I had cut my thumb - today I had a shower and the band-aid needed changing because of it. So, I had Charlotte do the First Aid work for me (which she was quite willing to do, lol).First we took the band-aid off, all of us were quite surprised that it didn't look worse, lol. I think it actually looks more like a bruise than a cut - however, I do know that it was cut because I saw it bleeding:  After I had taken the picture she put some medicated ointment on my thumb and then put on a fresh band-aid. Thankfully it isn't throbbing today but if it gets bumped it sure lets me know that it's there, lol.
This weekend....I am still in the midst of canning season. I will be making Apple pie filling. I just received this from my MIL. I guess this was one of my SIL recipes. So I am going to give it a whirl. It seems to be basically easy and I have all of the ingredients, which helps. I also have more tomatoes to can. So I am not sure if I will can those or just freeze them for chile and soups. I may do those with onions, I am out of peppers. My husband talked to a friend of his from work and may press some of our apples into cider. YUMMY! If he can I may have him press it with pears. Oh, yes more pears, I was blessed with a gift of pears. I am so grateful for that. They aren't quit ripe yet so till they ripen I will have to wait for that. When they are ready I will dehydrate them, can and make sauce out of it. I may make a pear or apple cobbler this weekend too. MMMM! I just love this season. It is supposed to be unseasonable warm so lots to do.
Blessings, Sherry giving up...Have you ever had one of those days/ months/years, where you just want to throw in the towel and say I quit? Well, I'm there. First, I lost my job. I know I'm not unique. It was just on the news that over 500 state workers (who thought they had job security) are losing their job, and businesses are closing. It sucks for everyone. But it really sucks for me. I have NO money coming in. I can't count on child support, again, because Joe quit his job. So I don't even have that little bit of security. So how am I paying for gas to get the girls to school... funny you should ask. I am now selling my plasma for gas money. I pray I"ll be able to continue doing this, because it pays $60 a week for 2 visits. That fills up my gas tank. Unfortunately my body is not responding to well to it. I had a severe reaction to the anti-coagulant. I don't know if my reaction was so severe because I needed to eat and drink more, and I'm hoping to not have the same reaction tomorrow. I still feel weak, and it's been 2 days. I'm depressed. I'm lonely. I want to be loved. but the state of virginia has decided that I have to be seperated for 6 months before I can file for divorce. I've only KNOWN him for 6 months. 4.5 months to go before I can file. Counting down... I'm leading worship at my dad's church now. I thought it would be easy sailing, but the piano player says she can't play it in the keys I've picked. I've got some stubborn personalities to work with, and it's not gonna be easy... I'm still interning at 9-1-1. I absolutely love it there, and wish they could hire me right now. But they don't have any openings. Kalena is a huge challenge. Let me know if you want more details... Beth is getting back to her sweet self. JL hurt her emotionally and physically and it's taken a while to get my little girl back. I've been volunteering in her classroom this week, and I can see why she has a hard time. She sits with 3 girls that are huge distractions. So not fair...
***I now feel I need to say something****I need to ask that readers leaving comments on my blog re: Candy at Keeping The Home, need to stop as I will not tolerate this any further. Everyone has a free will and a right to express their opinions on the internet as long as both blogs and comments do not offend anyone else. Tell me, what is the purpose to putting anti blogs against a fellow blogger on the internet? What are you trying to achieve? Don't you also realise that posting/putting up "anti"blogs or anything similar for this matter is upsetting Jesus - has this crossed your mind? By posting statements/blogs against someone is not only upsetting for that person but upsetting for friends, family and more importantly Our Father............... If you have something to say then you need to tell the person directly to do other than this is not only very offensive but also childish and it is about time frankly that you guys out there grew up and fast and to think about what you are doing........ I will also add here that I enjoy Candy's blogs and besides which she speaks as she sees fit - not only that this woman speaks her mind and she makes it clear that she is not offending anyone but she is trying her best to reach out to the lost out there and those that do not know the Lord. Candy like all of us is not perfect but she has a lot to offer all of us and I certainly am learning a lot from her. Candy also does not spend "all her time" on the computer but posts once maybe twice a day. Candy moderates all her comments of which I am not surprised and quite frankly don't blame her for doing so considering the anti Candy blogs out there. This very Godly woman is very much within her rights to post the kind of posts she does and has experience. Ok, this lady may only be in her early 30's but she is a lady who can reach out to younger women and teach them. Give her a break and get a life. I will finally say here that I also may not agree with everything that Candy writes but on the whole I do agree with her posts and this lady follows the bible through and through and does her utmost to live a very Godly life (and yes this lady makes mistakes like all of us). She does her utmost to serve her husband and to teach her children the correct way to live - good for her but everything she does is is for the Lord and if you have a problem and/or fail to see that then go to your maker our Father. I am not going to apologise for the harshness of this post but quite frankly I can not and will not deal with childishness especially in Adults. Oh and for my comment from my last post you also have no right whatsoever to put up a blog in the manner you are doing and if you fail to see the hurt etc you are causing then perhaps you need to go back to the Word of God and to back off completely. If any more childish or anti comments are left against Candy or anyone else then these will be deleted straight away without fail. For goodness sake get a life and grow up. I also pray that the Lord will bring your destructive ways to your attention and that you pray for forgiveness and move forward from what you are doing - I have said my piece and that is that! { Last Page } { Page 2 of 5 } { Next Page } |
