PrayingIGo
Beautiful Music To Praise The Lord!
A beautiful song to listen to.
http://hayovel.net/2008/06/27/new-song.aspx-
Bless all who pass this way!
Amanda <><
Matthew 6:33
A Winter Birthday
It's early here on our farm and still quite dark and still. My feet were warm until they hit the cool wood floor, so instead of just staying under the covers (as I considered) I put on a thick pair of wool socks and loaded the stove with wood. The house will be toasty when the boys wake. I pulled back the curtains and peeked out the windows. We're expecting some very nasty weather today and from what I can see, it's already starting. Ice and snow are on the agenda. I'm not surprised; today is my middle son's birthday and he almost never has nice weather for it.
Bless his heart, he was born in a blizzard thirteen years ago! Getting to the hospital during a Level 3 Snow Emergency (and being pulled over and quickly let go by a police officer) makes for a very interesting birth story, don't you think? That being said, he was my easiest delivery. I barely felt a pain or broke a sweat. In the words of my great-aunt, "It was so easy I wondered if I deserved him." :-) That tiny baby with thick black hair and huge dark eyes now towers over me and is still growing!
Because of the weather, our celebration with family and friends will have to wait, but I'm still baking the cake he requested, a Raspberry Lemon Cake. (Yes, much more suited for an Easter dinner, but it's his favorite nonetheless.) Let's just pray that the power stays on so it can bake! Our newest teen wants/needs a new pair of insulated Carhartt overalls for his birthday, so we'll go shopping later this week when the road clears. We'll just spend the day where it's warm and plan a BIG birthday celebration for him... in July!
Already Nearly A Week Into The New Year
Where does the time go - Christmas flew by and now we're heading towards a week of 2009.
What have I achieved - Quite honestly not a lot really.
Why is it on New Years Eve I seem to feel that a completely new me will emerge the following morning - my energy levels and enthusaism will magically transform and I will be this butterfly that will emerge. Needless to say this doesn't normally happen but this year especially I am feeling it more than most.
I dont know why because I am very lucky in being a SAHM mum, I have Karl who is truly wonderful, four healthy children and a special one in heaven, a roof over my head, food and water and everything that I really need but something is missing. I am feeling empty somehow, non-motivational, unfulfilled, lethargic with my life and I just dont know why.
I am feeling that I am in shallow waters as far as my spiritual side of life goes and I am sure if I could work on that area of my life perhaps I could start to be the butterfly that i want to be but I just dont know how or where to start. I really hate feeling like this - I have such dreams of how I want to improve my way of living and how I want to work on bettering myself but I just cant seem to get started. Its like being at the start of a race and having my trainers stuck in the mud.
I dont suppose this makes a lot of sense really but I just needed to put it down, if only to release it from my mind .
I hope you are all well and your New Year has started on a positive note.
Blessings To You All
Janette
A Simple Woman's Daybook
I am hoping...that the storm that's coming tomorrow won't bring much ice
Please stop by to visit Peggy to peek into the lives of other "Simple Women," and to read the guidelines for creating your own Daybook!
Aprons
Like I told you... I have been excitedly sewing again. I am so happy. :)I decided the other night to make myself a new apron. I like the smock type of aprons so I went for that. This one is modified a bit from my original purple smock that I love. This fabric was my Grandmothers/Nannie Red's. I only had a smallish remnant and sadly the smock is a bit too short for me. I am considering what I want to do with it now... try and sell it in my Etsy or possibly wait and see if I can refashion it to make it work somehow.
I LOVE how it turned out... the colors are wonderful and vibrant and I adore the fabrics.
I finished the edges with bias tape and made 2 pockets on the front... perfect for clothes pins on wash day or running out to the garden to pick a few peppers. The rick rack was a tribute to a dear friend of mine and I just love it. :)
I hope to find the time to get back in the sewing room again soon... to make one equally as cute that I can wear. I LOVE my aprons, I love wearing them... I actually do wear them. Putting one on helps me feel ready to get to work. :)Here is a little something a friend sent me about aprons, I was reminded of it when I saw it on a message board that I frequent...
Grandma's Apron
The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she only had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.
REMEMBER:
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron. I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron !
Have a wonderful day.
My Cup Runneth Over...
For those dying to know...
Bobby decided on a name for the baby today. Finally! Her name is Little Brook Williams. Now you know and we can all rest. =)Thanks for tuning in,
~K~
Words That Are on My Mind Today
What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear.What a priviledge to carry, everything to God in prayer.
Oh what peace we often forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear.
All because we do not carry everthing to God in prayer
The Simple Woman's Daybook ~ #16 ~ 1/5/09
FOR TODAY...
Outside my window...grey, dreary, COLD day. But it IS a day that the Lord has made, so I will rejoice & be glad in it!
I am thinking...that this is a week of 'back to normal' and life will take on it's regular pace.
I am thankful for...the safe and blessed delivery of my friend's sweet baby boy on Saturday morning! This is my dear friend whose husband was killed in a motorcyle accident back in July. This baby is SUCH a miracle - it had TWO tight knots in it's umbilical cord and is perfectly normal!! One of the nurses told her that certainly the Lord let her husband watch over that baby to make sure it got here. Please keep her - and their (now) 4 children in your prayers.
From the learning room...Back to school today! On the plate are: Bible, American Gov't, Composition, Life Skills, Marine Biology and Nature Journaling/Art; gym will resume on Thursday.
From the kitchen...simple soup and sandwiches...or maybe salad for lunch; chicken breasts, snap beans w/almonds and garlic/rosemary roasted potatoes for supper.
I am wearing...jeans, burgandy shirt, blue 'house socks'.
I am creating...by tearing down. We will be taking down our Christmas tree and other decorations today. Boohoo! 
I am going...to the grocery and the bulk food store this afternoon.
I am reading...Bible; reading through DD#2's schoolbooks and doing some extended planning...that I DIDN'T get done while on Christmas Break!
I am hoping...that an important appointment for DD#1 goes VERY well for her tomorrow.
I am hearing...Glenn Beck on the radio and the girls walking around up-stairs.
Around the house...putting things back in order after the Christmas decorations come down, laundry, homeschool...
One of my favorite things...newborn baby fingers and toes.
A few plans for the rest of the week: homeschool, gym, THURSDAY IS DD#1's 21st B-DAY!!! Practicing the 4 songs that DH & I will be singing at my mom's church on Sunday.
Here is a picture thought I'm sharing...
In light of DD#1's 21st b-day...wasn't this just yesterday?!?!
Read and enjoy other Daybooks by clicking on:http://thesimplewomansdaybook.blogspot.com/
Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><
Monday on the Homestead
We have been focusing lots of our time with my son. His visit home has been wonderful. He said it has been just what he needed. The girls and I have been keeping the meals and baking going almost non-stop since he came home. I am glad to see him enjoying home cooking so much. He still has a couple more weeks with us.
Today some of life needs to go back to normal.
On my to-do list today is laundry and housework. I need to get some floors mopped and some dusting done. Wood heat seems to create a lot of dust! I also need to get the kids back to my daily house cleaning chore list today. With all the fun times and off schedules my house is showing a bit of neglect. So that much of a normal schedule will start today!
Tobin and I will be having our weekly date so I need to get a pot of bean soup cooking before we leave. I was thinking Italian Pintos were sounding pretty good. Maybe I will find the time to get some French bread made before I leave too.. we will see how the days goes.
I will be back soon to more blogging and sharing but for now life seems very focused on my kids and family.
I wanted to leave with a pic of my grandbaby
Hope you all have a great Monday on your Homestead! 
The Sewing Bug...
I have been bit by the sewing bug again, finally. I haven't been in my sewing room since the craft festival. I have thought about it, only to say, "No way". I don't know, it must have been all those nights of being in there until 3 am that helped me to shun my love of sewing for all this time.So I had been thinking of making my children some colored pencil rolls. I thought they would be a nice thing to have to take along to church, on field trips, to have on hand when they want to sketch something... I also thought I would make them a bag to hold their pencil roll, their Bible, and a sketch pad... I still have to make those. :)
So Saturday afternoon, I seized my opportunity to go into my sewing nook.
And here is the outcome.
The one above is Cameo's. She loves the fabric. I made 14 slots in hers... 12 is because colored pencils come in a 12 pack at the dollar store and then I wanted her to have a place for a pen and a pencil. 
It was a strange thing when I went to the sewing nook to pick out the fabric... I pulled most of the fabric off the shelf, sorted, folded some neatly and came to realize that the deer/elk fabric was the only boyish fabric that I own! NO JOKE! How sad is that! I know that there is some really cute boyish fabric around but I own only the half a yard or so I used to make these roll ups. So I had to make two different colored ties for Eli and Abrams so they could tell them apart. I ended up making myself an apron after I finished the pencil rolls and I will show you pictures of that later on.
And if that didn't tickle me enough, I taught myself how to knit a little. Oh, am I awkward and silly looking right now... but I figure in time it will become easy to me. I know how to cast on, and how to do the knit stitch. I am so tickled. I have been practicing over and over and am so slow. haha. Next I will learn the purl and hopefully try and make something... hooray! :)
Have a great week friends.
My Cup Runneth Over...
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