Amazing Country gurl
Purity Balls...I recently read through an article about Purity Balls. Have you ever heard of them? I hadn't, but I like the idea! There is a beautiful ball at a nice hotel or somewhere - men dress up and take their daughters at suited up in beautiful gowns! Everything is very elegant and the fathers also make commitment to their daughters to be their protectors and protect their own purity as well as their daughters! I think it's beautiful - have any of you any experience with such an event?
ws Tomatoes, canning & musings!Not all of these red beauties came from my garden (in fact {sheepish grin} most did NOT). My kind MIL made my spaguetti sauce for me and brought it to me all ready to can! I did my own pizza sauce and I tried something new today.... sausage! My DH loves sausage (in fact - everyone in my family except me does!) I have a bushel of pears I picked up today, green peppers that need chopped and frozen in the fridge - more tomatoes that need picked and 3 more bushel on order next week that I'll pick up at an Amish place nearby! Plus I have more sausage in the fridge that needs canned!! DH is painting trim in the kitchen/dining room. We purchased this place 3 yrs ago and the whole place was plain beige. I had color in our old house, and I have missed color on the wall! You can tell - because the first color of choice is yellow for my kitchen! A nice cheery color! yeah!! What fun! Anyway - I better not stay on here long while DH is working away -have a blessed evening!!
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You would think we came out to the country to enjoy the peace and quiet and not be bothered with people and social obligations. You would think that people would just keep to themselves out here since everyone lives farther away then on the same block. But no everywhere we go almost everyone is friendly and polite. If one person doesn't acknowledge you then you can be sure the next person will be friendly for sure. Our neighbors down the road constantly stop by to bring us corn or their peaches and stop awhile to talk and just be plain neighborly. In the city we all ignored each other politely or maybe it was just our particular neighborhood for those of you who have had a better experience. Or maybe these country people or the country just brings people out of their shells. Now a friend of our neighbor called us this am after this neighbor also called us. A get-together is planned plus we can buy produce from the friends garden as this is what they do. The church and their smiling faces and hand shaking every five feet is kind of nice too. My d and sil also have a wonderful couple for friends that love to come out here to enjoy the country. They were such a big help with the packing and unpacking too. Then my uncle and his friend stopped by to deliver a gift my uncle and mom obtained on a recent trip. ( I will tell you about this on tomorrows blog entry.) My uncle was on his way to his camper about an hour south of here and we are just a short clip off the highway. It was his first view of the farm and actually he never visits. Well my d and sil don't invite him either but that's neither here nor there. He only came to their other house to bring a bed one time. So that was two phone calls and a visit in one day followed by our neighbor's visit yesterday. Last night we also went into town for water and a friendly visit to the Dairy Queen just to be neighborly to the townsfolk. We want to do our part here in the friendliness area. We have had visits by the water softener man just checking to see if we need his service, the school bus driver introducing himself, and also the mailman. Blessings and of course a wave and a friendly hey to you too. Picture of my daughter and her family...My daughter stopped by a little while ago and dropped off a picture she got yesterday of her family, well I forgot to take a picture of it to post before I put it on the wall so I went ahead and still took a picture of it, it's just not as good. So here is The Crawford family~ Dylan and Katie (my grandchildren) and Jennifer and Chris my daughter and son-in-law.~
Just wanted to pop on here and post this while I was thinking about it.. Home Education & Me
Good Afternoon Friends & Family! I pray that you are all having a great day in The Lord. It has been a really good day here on the homestead. School has finished for the day and we are ready for the weekend. We had a great time at Homegroup yesterday. We got rained out at the park and ended up doing our yearly planning in a members van. I am really proud of the 4 children we had. They played in the back of the van for almost 3 hours while we parents discussed the upcoming school year and what activities we wanted to plan. They were ALL so good with no complaints at all. Now that says a lot for our kids. Homeschooled kids are more ready to adapt to whatever their circumstances! My DD (15) wanted to stay home by herself this time. So I let her have some "alone" time while at the meeting. My other DD (18) had to go to work. I am so going to miss her this year at our Home group meetings. I have no doubt that when the time comes that she will be able to Homeschool her children for the glory of God. DD (18) has been my "guinea pig," so to speak when it comes to Homeschooling. I have also learned that each one of my children has different needs and different ways of learning. So what has worked with one doesn't mean it will work for the other. Trial and error, prayer and more prayer. I get the privledge of seeing them grasp a concept for the first time. I got the privlege of teaching my son (9) to read. I got the blessing of seeing my Dd FINALLY grasp Algebra and move onto geometry all by herself. It's not always easy. There are days when I think, "they need to get on that bus and let "the professionals" deal with them. Well, God made me their Mom and that's as "professional" as it gets. He who has called me will be faithful. Most importantly though is what I have learned over the past 9 years. God has used this Homeschoolinhg experience to shape and mold me as well as my children. Being around one's children ALL of the time really makes you realize just what an example you are. The good and the ugly! All of my strength comes from My Lord though. It's The Lord that I cry out to daily and I am so thankful that He is always there no matter what the situation. He has shown me time and time again that it needs to be Him that I need to turn to when a problem arises. Homeschooling will really make you see problems and issues that might be easier left to another, but ultimately better left to the professional, Jesus Christ! To God be the glory now and forever! Bless all who pass this way! Amanda <>< It's Friday again!Can you tell I love Fridays??? I do because this means that I made it through yet another week. School went well this week. Peter Rabbit managed to accomplish all that I had assigned for him. I realized today that we need more structure when it comes to our history and science lessons. The structure needed is more like choosing particular days to work on history/social studies, and then a certain amount of days for science. So this is what we've come up with so far. We will work on Science on Mondays and Tuesdays, and history/geography on Wednesdays and Thursdays. I thought working them each a little bit each day was going to work for us, but in actuality I'm finding that it will be a recipe for burn out for me, not him. And I'm the one that needs to keep it together here. This will leave us with an open Friday to either finish a project, or map work, or just leave extra time open on Fridays for any type of extra curricular activity. Next week I would like to begin a read aloud with him. We have chosen as our first read-aloud, The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White. This is an area that I have been seriously lacking in and now that I finally have this bunny's attention, I need to keep it. This being our fourth week, we have now gotten on a sort of flow. Printing Power finally came in from Rainbow Resource, only now I'm wondering if I need it at all and will this just be adding another stress on his plate. Our English paces already have plenty of writing built into the program, and I'm only seeing that Peter Rabbit needs help in forming his a's, d's, and g's. He's having problems closing them on the top. So do I need a whole entire handwriting program for those three letters when all of his work is so extremely neat already? I don't think so, but either way, I won't make any rash decisions and get rid of it right away, I'll hold on to it while I watch him for a while. Frogger is doing nicely with all his chosen books this year. He is not a writer by nature and so struggles with original thought. He gets going when nudged, so that is my job this year, to be a major nudger. Frogger is mildly dyslexic and struggles with spelling, but I try not to make too much focus on his weaknesses and just continue to work on them. We have been working with Sequential Spelling, a program specifically developed for dyslexic children, and we have seen a major improvement in his spelling. Still, I am coming to realize that maybe this is something he'll always struggle with and that's okay. At least I'll have the years of Megawords and Sequential Spelling work to show people as proof that we did work on this issue. LOL! I also think of my husband, who is also mildly dyslexic, although a bit more than my son, and he manages in the workforce just fine. Frogger does excell in mathematics so for this I am grateful and have to realize that we all have different gifts and talents and God already knew this when he created Frogger, so if God already knew this and knows this and has Frogger's life all mapped out because I trust in Him, then I just need to chill out and let time and the Lord have its course on Frogger's life. Frogger is a real trooper and never gives up and therefore encourages me to never give up. Frogger approaches life with a postive attitude and claims he's never ever had a really bad day. Yes, this child makes me smile! Carebear is doing wonderfully with her online college classes and we have been discussing her future and the possibiblites of finding a job in our area, but we are also in prayer for God to lead us in the exact direction He would have her go. I am a very big believer that God answers specific prayers so it will be interesting to see where God will take her and me in the process. Turtle is working so hard as this is her last year of highschool. I am so proud of her because her English is so much more challenging than anything that she's done or used to. We almost dumped it and purchased something easier, but it was her choice to press on and get through this course. She could have easily quit as I almost made it too easy for her to do so, but she didn't, she hasn't...to God be the glory!!! Lots to do this weekend...lots on my mind...I will post on my thoughts for something new that I'm thinking of doing soon. I've never done it before and am totally inexperienced, but have read about it on soooo many of your other blogs that I'm willing to give it a try...what is it...you'll have to come back soon and find out. Have a blessed, blessed weekend and thank you for reading our homeschool weekly update! Me! ps I'll also be trying to work on my blog and maybe add some new features. Stressful TimesGood Morning!
From the notes I've been receiving, it's nice to know I've been missed! There is so much to tell and most of it isn't good news. As you all know I have been living for the day school started for our little ones so Keith and I could spend some time alone. The Lord had other plans. That Monday morning Keith woke up not feeling well and said he was going to lay back down for a little while and we would go to Iola when he got back up. That was fine with me but when he finally came out I decided I then didn't feel like going and after a discussion we decided to just wait and go the next day. He decided he would go out and work on one of his new buildings and I decided it was time to give the kitchen floor a good scrubbing. I had no more than pushed the mop across the floor when the phone rang. It was my younger sister saying my Dad (Who had just turned 83 the day before) had a heart attack and they were taking him via helicopter to Wichita.
I quickly threw clothes in a bag, grabbed some cash and by the time she got here I was waiting at the door. From the farm we went to Iola to pick up Mom and then we started across the country to Wichita. It was a LONG two hour drive and the not knowing how we would find Daddy was almost unbearable....Especially after Mom told us the heart attack had happened on FRIDAY and he hadn't gone to the doctor until MONDAY!!!!!
By the time we made it to the hospital I was more than upset and yet I tried to be positive for Mom. Walking into that hospital and not knowing what we would hear was horrible. Imagine my surprise when we found out Daddy was not only still with us but he was sitting up in bed watching TV and cracking jokes! I'm not kidding, the man looked better than I did...His color was great, he was complaining because they hadn't fed him and went on and on how that helicopter ride had almost killed him and the cost would pay for a new wing on that hospital!!!!
A quick talk to the doctor and we knew we weren't out of the woods. Because Daddy had waited so long to seek medical treatment there is a lot of damage to the heart. Add that to his age and we have a long road ahead of us. Four days after he was admitted they inserted a pace-maker and he came home the next day. He's now going through physical therapy three days a week and once his heart is strong enough (Hopefully four weeks) they plan to do open heart surgery. All four of us girls plan on being by his side when this happens.
I feel like I have aged twenty years since all of this took place. We always knew a call like this could come but I don't think a person is ever ready. No one knows what tomorrow holds for any of us but we know how precious each day is from what we have gone through the last few weeks For now, I'm calling Mom daily, we've been to see Daddy and I've set them up with a cell phone so if something happens they'll have some way of getting a hold of us. If you so chose, we would appreciate prayers for my dad. May your days be Blessed. Hugs, Sher
Friday at HomeWell my cleaning marathon has been a flop. I headed in full speed ahead, but my children, both in the womb and outside of it have kept me from getting as much done as I had hoped to. The weekend is not over yet, however and I intend to do as much as I can today, and the children will be visiting their nana and papa's house tomorrow so that hubby and I can get a bunch of things done together. I'm very thankful for a younger sister that loves playing with my kids and regularly asks if they can come over, as do my parents. So anyways, we are at home today, and I am fixing to get in the shower and then set to work on whatever I can do around here and get dinner in the crockpot. I'm considering doing a flylady crisis cleaning session today and then work on some major jobs done tomorrow. Well, I'm out of here for now! Have a blessed day! Sara HomeschoolingIt's so fall feeling with the cool weather it just makes the kids want to do school! We discussed spelling and the consensus is that Excellence in Writing's Phonics Zoo really does teach spelling better than anything else we have used. I had Calvert's spelling CD last year to give them a break from the same old, same old and they tell me they didn't learn anything from it. They tell me they always refer back to the rules they learned in Excellence in Spelling anyway. Well, good. We still have it and we shall continue! Their spelling really has improved over the years. I have seen huge growth but none of them are natural spellers. I picked up a book from Costco called Painless Spelling. I was reading it and it's quite interesting. It talks about words in a fun way. I think we will go through the book together and see what we can learn. I also have Rummy Roots and I think we should play around with that some, too.I enrolled in the 2008 -2009 Blogger Friend School and I am participating in their Back to School Giveaway. See, I think Brianna would LOVE those nature journals!!! I can always learn something new.  ~HAPPY FRIST BIRTHDAY BROOKLYN MY DEAR NEICE!~HAPPY FRIST BIRTHDAY BROOKLYN MY DEAR NEICE!
Today is Brooklyns frist birthday......Well acuttly it's Sunday....but today is her party....She is a hole year old...The picture I added is from the day she was born...So tiny eh!! But a real ball of fire allready!! We will get too see her tonight and her sister chloe who is 3 and my sister-in-law and my brother, Im over excited, Even though we live preatty close to eatch other we dont visit alot, Only becuse they are such a busy family and are not home much....But that's ok I still love them!! I cant wate.....Plus hopefuly I will see my grandma tonight too I havent seen her in a while sence all the family issues started with my parents and yet are still going on with them, Hopefully one day they will open there eye's and see what is going on....Hopefully! Today is grocery day, dh went to do them today, He still see's well enough out of his good eye too do it, but is not scared too ask for help if the need be, I made a large list of thing's for him too get, Were out of EVERYTHING.....So deffently need a few items that's for sure!! I didnt sleep very we last night but my own fault really becuse I didnt take my medacation too help me sleep, I really need to rember to take them, If not it is a very long night and I move too much in bed, Im surprized dh hasnt made me sleep on the couch yet....he he. Me and the boy's are just sitting here watching Dragon Tales, They usally watch there shows in the moring while I clean and check mail, Than after 11 theres no more tv till later in the evening...Unless theres a movie they might want too watch. I think I will do there beding after dh get's home...So he can give me a hand with the boy's, I am so greatful to have him....He never complanes when I need his help. Well this is just my jot down for the day. Blessings ~Ruth { Last Page } { Page 2 of 5 } { Next Page } |
I am so thankful that I have the blessing of teaching my children and not having to hand them over to others for 7 hours a day.
