Urbanhomemaker
Affirmation is nice!!Yesterday marked the 90th day I have been on my second job!Review time. My boss gave me "exceeds expectations" on performance, then went on to compliment my work ethic, and my cleanliness. It's nice when someone notices your hard work, and effort. I had a smile on my face for an hour!!! The other good news is that my friend who has been out of the country for 3 weeks...........will be home tomorrow. I miss her so much!! We found a houseWe found a house we like. It is a 7 bedrooms, 4 baths 4200 square feet and on almost 3/4 acre, only for 350 thousand!! , we are in California remember. We were emailed it and just loved the pictures and how it sounded. We went to see it and it is two house not one house! Ugh!!! Why do they not tell you that when you are looking at a few to see? They know what you want, so why do they waste my time?? We are going to look at another one, but this one is smaller only 3 bedrooms, 2 bath and 2300 square feet , but it has the land we want. We are just looking at this time as we still have our ranch and love it there. We will see where and if God wants us to move, but we keep looking. God Bless, mj Giving 3 days straightWe sure do know how to stretch out a good thing here. We’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving for 3 days! Can you imagine the leftovers?The good thing is that I will be contributing to the various meals not making everything for 3 days. Whew! Thanksgiving Day will be spent at my parents’ home. I’ll be bringing spoonbread and my famous Triple Fudge Brownies. Mr. Steady will be fixing up his scrumptious Dirty Mashed Potatoes. I think the girls and I may make a loaf of bread too. The Day After Dinner, as it is now known, is spent with Mr. Steady’s parents. We cherish this quirky tradition as it means we get to spend some great quality time with his parents (it’s a gi-normous family). A few years ago we sucked Mr. Steady’s sister and kids into the tradition- since her hubby is always working that day. Foodwise: we try to keep to serving leftovers- another tradition. Mr. Steady does fry a turkey breast because we just love it. We have leftover mashed potatoes and spoonbread, his mama brings cranberries, a pie and a Jell-O salad. His sister brings her amazing potato rolls and at least one veggie side dish. I laughingly make a boxed stuffing mix to round it all out. This year my sister and her hubby have invited the family to their home for the Day After After Dinner. [This is the “off year” that my siblings each spend with their in-laws on TG day.] Since this is a first I don’t know what the plan is. I am currently waiting for my sister to inform me of what I am bringing to the event besides myself and 4 other hungry souls. I have to admit I’m getting a bit antsy as I’m working on my grocery list. I’m a bit of a nervous-ervous. I don’t normally grocery shop during Thanksgiving week. But Mr. Steady and I are hoping for some better sales in the local flyers and so we have put off some of the holiday shopping. Yikes! We made this week a pantry week so that we could save this week’s grocery money, combine it with next week’s and hopefully stock up on some things. Still, it makes me feel like I’m waiting until the last minute to get all my ducks in a row . . . . There is NO reward for doing the right thing!No reward.
Go to work. Times get tough, get a second job. Pay your bills. Pay your mortgage. At the end of a day, you fall into bed. You're tired. Sometimes you feel like throwing in the towel. You can't. Why? You're doing the right thing. When you sign your name on a mortgage document, you are promising. making an oath, giving your word via your signature, that you will pay back the money you borrowed. The papers were right there to read. You had time to read them. Pleading ignorance to anything isn't going to fly. If you bought a house that was more than you could afford......... That's your fault. Get the second job and pay for it. Sell it. Do what it takes to keep the promise. This is the consequence for coveting. But no. Wait. There are no consequences anymore There are rewards for greed and lust. If your eyes were bigger than your wallet....... it's ok Big Brother will bail you out, refinance your DEFAULTED LOAN, yeah, the one you quit paying on, the one that you broke your promise ........ yeah, Big Brother will give you a loan at a low low interest rate AND Big Brother will let you live in the home YOU'RE NOT PAYING ON an extra 90 day. But if you're a hard working American, picked up the second job because things got tight, you work hard to make sure your bills are paid..... SORRY This deal is not for you. You cannot get the lower rate until you are 180 days BEHIND in your payments. You have to be a deadbeat to get this reward. No amount of begging, pleading, yelling, letter writing, or speaking to upper management will help. This is BIG BROTHERS rules. That's right The government. Big brother only rewards bad behavior. Poor thing, she's just not teachable.............It's so hard to deal with someone who's not teachable.I guess you have different learning styles to consider. Myself, I am a visual. SHOW me how to do it, LET ME do it, then I will get it.....Visual learners require patience on the 'teachers' part because they are not 'text book' learners. Some people you can just 'tell them' what to do, and wham o.........they do it. Some people you just point in that direction and wham o........they take the bull by the horns and run. Some people require extra time. Some get it right away. Then, there are those who simply are not teachable. Not hopeless, because as long as there is breath in the body, there is hope...... They ask a question, you answer. They ask the same question, you answer again. They ask the same question, you answer by showing them. They ask the same question, to a different person. They don't listen. You tell them something, and they just don't hear you...or....worse, they ignore you, and ask someone else? I guess they are just looking for the answer they want to hear?? I don't know. It's frustrating, I can tell you that!!! It's hard to have patience with someone who purposely choses not to learn. It's hard to have patience with someone who asks the same question 20/11 times. Lord please give me the wisdom to know the difference between a slow learner and the unteachable!! Fires in CaliforniaI do not know if you see on your news things about California , but we are having major fires. We have 6 going and 3 of them are close around us. We live in Chino. Chino Hills was Chino to, until they changed it to Chino Hills ( it was always just called the hills) because they did not to live in a city that has a prison. Carbon canyon is also part of Chino Hills (Chino). We live a few miles form Diamond Bar and Corona. We have fires all around us. We are praying for the people who lost their homes and for all the people helping out. So many people lost it all. People were evacuated 3 miles from us. It has been very smokey and it looks like it snowed due to the ash. It is fall but we have been in the 90's. Hubby had such a hard time getting home from work on Friday. The 3 freeways were closed as was Carbon Canyon. It took him over 2.5 hours to drive the 17 miles home!! God Bless, mj Pictures of Marty's lifeI am posting more pictures of Marty. Marty as a pup:
As a young man:
Him with one of his puppies:
As you all can see we love this guy a lot!! Marty was a part of all our lives everyday. I am still developing rolls of film. As I find pictures of him I will post them. We miss him so very much. P.s here is one of the poor guy dressed as Snow White:
God Bless, mj Abe Lincoln, Thanksgiving and Divine InterventionHere's something I found and thought it would be a great lesson for our children with Thanksgiving coming... {KW<><}... In the White House, Abe Lincoln was pacing the floor of his office. He felt more troubeld than he had ever felt before. The fate of the Union was at stake. He felt as if he were almost alone in his concern for the outcome. Friends and aides appeared to be almost panic-stricken. Abe felt that this was the most critical hour of the [Civil] war, perhaps the most critical hour in the entire history of the United States. In desperation he left his office, went into this room and locked the door. There he fell before a chair. With his head in his hands, he wept and prayed. Now, more than at any other time in his life he turned to God. In deep anguish he told God that he had done all he could. He pleaded for help. There was nothing more that he could do. He must leave the result of the battle in the hands of God. He now knew that if his country was to be saved, it would be only because God willed it. It was a heartbreaking hour of prayer. When he unlocked the door and came out of his room he felt that a great burden had suddenly been rolled off his shoulders. His intense anxiety and torturing concern had been relieved. He felt a quiet and calm trustfullness... On his desk was a copy of the Thanksgiving Proclamation. He had proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a day of national Thanksgiving. The nation had never before had such an annual Thanksgiving Day and he had decided that it was time the nation remembered in a special day what God had done. Now he read slowly the proclamation: We have been the recipients of the choistest bounties of heaven; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. We have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. Tears slipped down his cheeks as he read these words, for he believed in them deeply. It was because of this belief that he ordered the Treasury Department to engrave the words, In God We Trust, on American coins. As he was sitting at his desk, thinking about these things, an aide rushed in and excitedly exclaimed, "There's good news from the battle at Gettysburg, Sir..." But in spite of this great victory, his days were filled, dealing with generals, listening to the problems of many citizens, and handling endless administrative details. For help he turned to God through the Bible and in prayer. Almost daily now, he felt the need to go to his room to pray. More and more, he became conscious of the work of God in the affairs of men. Writing to a friend, Byron Sutherland, one day, he said, I believe we are all agents and instruments of Divine Providence. I hold myself in my present position and with the authority invested in me, as an instrument of Providence. I am conscious every moment that all I am and all that I have are subject to the control of a higher power, and that power can use me or not use me in any manner and at any time as in His wisdom might be pleasing to Him. One day, Mr. Chittenden, the register of the Treasury, asked him if he believed that God actually directed national affairs. With a deep feeling of emotion, he replied, The the Almighty does make use of human agencies, and directly intervenes in human affairs, is one of the plainest statements of the Bible...I have many evidences of His direction, many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannont doubt that this power comes from above. ~~~Reprinted from Honest Abe by Harry J. Albus. The MIXI’ve been getting lots of requests for me to share my Christmas trail mix recipe. I’ve been wanting to do it as a picture post for the fun of it but haven’t assembled all my ingredients and containers yet.And it’s not on the agenda until after next week- So I’ll share without pictures for now and then add the pictures later . . . . . With that said- I must warn you that I change this recipe every single time I make it. I figure it just adds to the surprise. First I’ll share the basic mix and then boggle your minds with my switcheroos. Basic Christmas Snack Mix 1 large package Christmas M&Ms 1 pound chocolate covered raisins 1 pound white fudge covered pretzels 8 cups cinnamon graham cereal Mix it altogether and package in air-tight containers. Please note that I have never ever made it this way. Yes it is quite simple and I’m sure it would be truly delish. But I just can’t help myself. I must tweak recipes. So what do I do? Well, there was the year I couldn’t find white fudge covered pretzels- so I used yogurt pretzels instead. Yummo. Combine that with dried cranberries. Also- I’ve taken to purchasing the fancier bags of Chex mix that come out around Christmas time. Of course I purchase them when they are on sale- buy one get one free. Last year I used Chex Chocolate Turtle mix- 2 bags. Added in 2-3 cups of cranberries, the M&Ms, 1 pound yogurt raisins and a 28 oz. package of white fudge pretzels. Excellent. In the past I also found an apple-cinnamon Chex mix and added more dried apple slices, M&Ms and dried cherries. I love the look of the red dried cherries and yogurt raisins/pretzels. I often double the recipe due the high demand for this yummy mix. I keep costs as low as possible by looking for sales on the pricier items- like the Chex mix and M&Ms and buying the raisins and cranberries in bulk at an Amish store. I will post again when I’ve got all of this year’s ingredients assembled to give you the 2008 version. The Simple Woman's Daybook ~ #9 ~ 11/18/08
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Our 2 girls. Just love those smiles, just love their laughter. When did they grow up? To read other Daybooks click here --> http://thesimplewomansdaybook.blogspot.com/ Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< { Last Page } { Page 2 of 5 } { Next Page } |
At Disneyland :
Different Christmas pictures taken at Disneyland:
He just love to be with us and his sisters, even if they painted his nails and dressed him up as a girl.
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