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Thankful Thursday!!!

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Okay here goes…:):)

1. Valentines Day- Kenny is always does something extra special. I always have such a hard time coming up with something that will even match his thoughtfulness. Any ideas?? Please comment.:)
2. Valentines- Okay this is kind of a double…but the kids are so excited after school is finished this morning. Blake, Camye and Paul are making cookies for their class at co-op. Chloe is getting a little old for that, but she has to bring a red/white/blue snack for her class (my World War 2 class) ..so we are making red velvet cupcakes with white icing and blue sprinkles.
3. Any man or woman who has ever fought for this country. I have been studying World War 2 and have been blind sighted with what most of our military have done for this country.
4. For those cute things that kids say…the kids each have a savings jar..that they save part of their allowance in for long term savings. Blake said to me yesterday…Mom you know what I am saving for…I said What…he said my DEBT..I said what debt?… He said the debt Obama is passing to the Senate that will make your children and grandchildren pay it back!!!!! LOL!! Can you tell where this family stands????
5. Healthy Children- As it is very well known..I am a total health nut..but I do like to brag and say that no one in this family has been on an antibiotic since June of 2006…almost 3 years. Praise God.
6. Spring- It will be here March 20th….That is just 5 short weeks away. We just had 3-4 days of warm spring weather. I usually get the blues in January and February. But not this year…it has been a great winter!! Lots of beautiful snow!!!
7.Homeschooling- Homeschooling brings me more joy than I could ever describe in words.
8.Knee Socks- In the winter..my biggest annoyance is cold ankles or calves. So I had 2 pairs of knee socks I was constantly wearing, only this year Blake filled my stocking with all sorts of crazy looking knee socks to keep my ankles warm!! I love them!!
9. Ebay- I just love shopping..mostly browsing at other peoples stuff.
10. Electric- I am so thankful we have electric this morning. All the school districts around us were cancelled due to electric outages and all the down trees from the high winds we are experiencing. But we are still lit up..:):)
Okay thats it..not too exciting!!!

Ever been in a pit?

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I have been, many many times..in different pits. Sometimes, it is a mind pit…my mind will play tricks on me, making me think things that I know are not true and to others I am sure would seem ridiculous and possibly I need mental help…well maybe not that bad. LOL!!
I am studying tonight for a Ladies class I am teaching for a friend. My topic Waiting on God for Deliverance from Beth Moore’s book Get Out of That Pit.

“But smooth living invariably, eventually, makes for sloppy spirituality.”
I thought this was an interesting thought. Sometimes in our comfortable little spirtual life, we get lazy. But God wants more..he wants all of us. So maybe when we are in a pit..whether that be if we slipped in, stepped in slowly, got shoved in or jumped in that pit, we could possibly take that as a compliment from God. We get comfortable and God wants us. He wants us…all of us.  He wants us to lean on him and have conversation with him. 
It takes two to tango, even out of a pit.
Sometimes it takes a fiery trial to light the fire in our souls. Every pit I have ever slipped out of…has only increased my love for the Lord and his greatness, has only increased my want to talk with God in prayer…

Monday’s Menu Post

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I usually share my weekly menu’s with several friends and family that do read this blog so I thought I would blog it since most of you read my blog.:):)

I dont claim to be a great chef..I just have to feed my family and like variety and I love to cook and bake!!! So why not plan it…since I plan every other aspect of my life.:):)
Sunday-Kennys’ InFamous Tator Tot Casserolle(He just created this)
Monday- Roast, Potatoes and Carrots
Tuesday-Chicken Penne Pasta
Wednesday- Beef Tacos
Thursday-leftovers
Friday-pizza
Saturday-Chicken lasagna
Enjoy! :):)

Thankful Thursday!!

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Okay…I have missed this event to blog about for 2 weeks. I remember this time.:) So here are my top ten things I am most Thankful!!!

1. I am sooooo thankful for God- I am so thankful for the Lord and all he did, does and will continue to do.
2. I am sooo thankful for My hubby- The most understanding, patient man in the world…lovesme  despite my emotional outburst…loads of tears…I am eternally grateful God brought this man in my life.
3. I am so thankful for My kids- Chloe- for being my little clone, Blake- for being my little helper, Camye-for being my little princess and Paul-for being my baby
4.I am so thankful for My family- I am so incredibly blessed to have such wonderful parents, grandparents, brothers,aunt, uncles  inlaws, nieces, nephews, cousins.
5. I am thankful for sleeping in until 8:47 this morning!!!!
6. I am thankful for hearing Camye and Blake’s sweet voices practicing their bible reading and song leading this morning…brings me to tears everytime.
7.I am thankful for Dark Chocolate.
8. I am thankful for the sunshine that was shining in my windows this morning!!
9.I am thankful for my husbands warmth at night to warm my freezing toes and nose!!!
10. I am thankful for Wii Fit..that has me working out everyday now.:)
Thats it for this week..:):) Well I really could go on and on..But I am sure everyone doesnt read that..LOL!!

Home School International Fair 2009

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Soo..this is why I havent been online very much this week. We have been working getting ready for our Annual Home School Internation Fair. This year we chose Israel. Because my wonderful mother in law went there last March and brought back all sorts of artifacts. In fact the entire display (with the exception of a few maps, flags and food), she loaned us the entire set up!! It made my job alot easier. I have been quite lucky..last year we did Okinawa, Japan..where my sister in law is from and we used things that she has sent to us.

Here we are with my great friend Stacey…who put this all together and kept it together even with the passing of her father shortly after she arrived. Kudos to you Stace!!!
My little blonde hair blue eyed Jewish boys….what would Hitler think? The perfect race in Yarmacas….
This is Myself, Stacey and Heather…we have this pic taken annually at the Internation Fair. Stacey is very pregnant for #5  this year…so we put her in the middle and she looks really slender:):) Our plan worked:)
Camye and her good friend Jesse Walton.
 

Anyways..it was great fun!!! We had so much filling out our passports as we visited each country. Everyone did such an awesome job~!!!!!

Say Cheese!!!

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Okay I have been tagged…..for the Say Cheese event!!


How many of you wonder what the person behind the post is looking like at that moment? Well, now is your chance to find out. If you are “lucky” enough to be tagged, take a picture of yourself as is today (or have someone take it for you like I did), post it, tell 5 things about what we “see”, and tag 4 other people to do the same. Make sense? Here is mine:

Okay this was taken this afternoon around 3, after a stressful, emotional draining morning. Blake took it for me.  I missed the Thankful Thursday event…and thought I better get back into it with the Cheese event!! So here is me Saying CHEEEESSEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. First, I see that I am wearing one of my fave sweaters from my fave stores Gabriel Brothers. This sweater is really not very flattering.LOL!!

2. I see on my charcoal colored shirt where Paul tried to hold onto me as I was trying to leavehim in the preschool class at our homeschool co-op….stretching the neck out nicely. 😉

3. I also think my hair looks a little green…I think it is time for some highlights..Its about time…I think its about Spring time….(ignoring the 10 inches of snow on the ground).

4.  I love to wear big bulky sweaters in the winter..I feel warmer in them.

5. I also notice that I need to clean the top of my fave candle Pumpkin Spice because there is black soot around it.

Okay there you goo…..I challenge…..Kimberly, Stacey, Heather and Blake:):)

Plans..why do I make them???

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First of all I am a planner..I have 3 calanders…an event planner on my phone and a pocket calander. All of these I keep up to date.

Okay….I made plans to got down and visit my parents and grandparents. I rescheduled our life group (usually meets at our house Sunday evening)…rearranged some other plans…so that I could go down on Sunday afternoon and go to church with my parents on Sunday night. I planned to stay until Tuesday at 4pm so that we could get home for Chloe to go to youth group at 7pm.
Well…let me back up a little. We are a very close knit family. We dont usually take trips unless we are all together and havent even taken a small trip without daddy since September and that was for 2 days to my parents.
Here goes….
So when we were packing up to leave..we were all telling Daddy goodbye..and how much we would miss him, as we pull out of our drive way, Chloe is saying maybe I should stay here so Daddy isnt so sad. I said its okay..we will be back Tuesday. 2 minutes later I look in my rear view mirror to Camye….sobbing….I mean SOBBING….I said what is wrong?? She says I need Daddy….so we called him and he got her settled down. We got to my parents around 4pm….Paul has a toothache..a TERRIBLE toothache…so I stay home with him while my parents take the other 3 to church. When they get home..CAmye is sobbing again..she has a headache. She then goes to bed and falls asleep at 7pm, Paul had been alseep since 5pm. Its 11pm..I cant sleep. Luckily neither can my hubby..so we text until 12:15…kind of fun and romantic. Finally I go to sleep..Paul wakes up at 1am….stays awake till 4am……we then both sleep till 7am. And he is up for the day…..I am exhausted. My throat feels funny…I just feel terrible. BUT I go visit my mamaw for about 3 hours….had a wonderful visit and then went to visit my other grandparents. By 4pm…my voice was gone. That night went to dinner at Bob Evans with 2 cousins and my aunt….we whispered the whole time. Planned on going to see my mamaw again…too sick by the time I get back from dinner. GO to bed MOnday night and sleep WONDERFULLY!! BUt wake up ….very sick….cant breathe….cant speak…my whisper voice was gone. I get laryngitis twice a year. AND it snowed 4 inches…but I had to get home….so my dad took the kids to see my mamaw….I didnt get to see any of my grandparents but the one time. I really did have to come home… I have a full schedule…blog more about all that later.:)
Anyway..I made it home…We have a winter storm coming tonight. I am actually glad…helps me to stay home and get all the things done I need to get done. I love just family days at home. I was so relieved to just see my hubby and the kids were so glad too. Although we love to visit Gran and Pappys..it just didnt go as smoothly as I planned. SO I will probably make another trip in a few weeks.
I can laugh now….but when it was all going on. I was like why didnt we just stay home??LOL!!! But at least I got a little visiting in….
Sorry no pics…didnt feel so well and forgot to take any.

25 Random Things about ME

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Thanks Stephanie! My cousin tagged me and I am glad as I needed something to blog about.

1. I have a WONDERFUL, talented, handsome hubby named Kenny Rogers. He truelly is the love of my life.

2. We have 4 Fabulous children together Chloe Jade-12, Kennith Blake-9, Camye Renee-8 and Austin Paul-3.

3. We have two dogs…Maltese/Shihztu’s Tex and Penny. We have 47 hens. We have a little turtle that is as least 8 years old. We are very attached.

4. I homeschool our kiddos. We have so much fun with it.

5. I teach at our homeschool co-op. Last semseter my friend Tammie and I taught World War 1 and this semester we teach World War 2. We teach the 6th-8th graders. We find this sort of topic to be rather depressing and find ourselves tearing up quite often and have decided next year we may teach a class on Rainbows and Flowers. Much more uplifting.:)

6. I have lost 50 pounds in the last two years. I have no problem losing the weight. Its maintaining it that is my issue. I really like to eat. So I have resorted to eating extremely healthy but counting Weight Watcher points to maintain.

7. I have 2 brothers, Rob and Wes.

8. I am at my parents this evening but home from services because Paul is sick ..or should I say screaming with a toothache. he has oral surgery on February 17th. I am able to blog because he passed out…well maybe just fell asleep.

9. I love to plan our family menus and grocery shop. I love Sam’s Club.

10. I have awesome friends.

11. I love Panera Bread and Olive Garden.

12. I have been trying to get in the habit of studying my bible every day. I do have 2 devotion books that I have read everyday since January 1st. I hope to continue that.

13. I love to bake, cook, garden, scrapbook, quilt, sew, and read.

14. I read about 2 fiction books per week.

15. I am currently in 3 different bible studies with 3 different books. That really keeps me reading. But it helps keep me in the word.

16. My husband and I are working together to improve each others self esteem. We both think each other need to have higher self esteem.

17. I love the song These Are the Days of Elijah.

18. I collect cookbooks.

19. My hubby and I have a date night once a month, but would love to up this to once a week. Maybe when the kids get older…or when we have more time.

20. I love being a stay at home mom. I mean truelly feel like the luckiest person alive to stay at home.

21. I love that my hubby gets home at 4:30.

22. I am humming the song We Bow Down…have been all day.

23. I love my grandparents, actually all my family. I am greatly blessed with a loving family.

24. I love when it is early spring, kind of a cool morning and I am awaken by birds singing in my open bedroom window.

25. I love bubble baths.

Okay there you go…pretty random..But I tag, Heather, Stacey and my sister in law Kimberly..although I dont know if she reads my blogs.

It’s COLD!!!!!!

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First, let me say. It is cold!! We have been in the house most of the week. But we are having lots of fun!! I like to be snowed in or in this case “colded” in. We do have about 4-5 inches of snow. But the roads are clear. So we have made the best of our week AT HOME!!

Our house can be drafty at -9.4 degrees..so we have a couple of space heaters around..the dogs are really smart.:):)

This is the coldest we have seen..this was at 7:03 am.ALmost everything has been cancelled this week. Chloe did have youth group Tuesday night…but Wednesday night bible study was cancelled, Friday night- game night was cancelled and tonights Lads to Leaders spaghetti dinner was cancelled. The windchill is supposed to be -20 until noon. Tomorrow is supposed to be 32 degrees!! I cant wait to feel the heat wave!!


So we have stayed home..the kids and I love to watch the Food Network. We love Paula Deen, Rachel Ray, Barefoot Contessa..the list goes on. So Camye and I decided to try out some goodies. Recipes are at the end. The top right is our Vanishing Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies, then our Buttermilk Biscuits and our first attempt at Blueberry Scones (which Camye did the whole thing and they were AWESOME) Great job Camye!! We watched a show on how to make scones and Camye kept saying Now Mommy the key to a perfect scone is not mix it much, which is what they kept saying on the show.


VANISHING OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
1/2 pound butter
1 cup brown sugar (we used Sucanat)
1/2 cup cane sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour ( you could use all purpose flour)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups of Any Oats
1 Cup of Chocolate Chips
1. Heat oven to 350
2 Beat butter and sugars until creamy
3. Add eggs and vanilla, Beat well.
4. Add dry ingredients, mix well.
5. Stir in oats and chips
6. Drop on cookie sheet
7. Bake 10-12 minutes.
Blueberry Scones
1 cup of all purpose flour
3 TBSP of cane sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Pinch of Salt
2 TBSP of COLD butter
1 egg
3-5 tbsp of heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup of Blueberries
1. In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut butter in until crumbly. In a small bowl add egg and cream, stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in chips.
2. Turn onto a floured surface, kenad gently 6-8 times. Pat into 6 inch circle. Cut dough into 6 wedges and palce 1 inch apart on a baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 18-20 minutes.
Enjoy!!!

My letter is "T"

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My cousin Stephanie gave me a letter to write 10 things about….this is a very hard letter for me. Okay here goes..

1. Trip- Today Kenny and I were discussing when and where we are taking our 10 year anniversary trip too. AND it looks like a cruise!! YAY!!
2.Taco Soup- My cousin Stephanie put the recipe on her blog the other day and we had it for supper. Definetly something we will fix again. Everyone loved it.
3. Taste of Home- I just bought their new cookbook at Walmart yesterday. The new baking one. I love it!
4.Teaching- I did teach today..lots of fun. We are working toward the International Fair on January 31st and our country is Israel.
5. Tulips- These are what I wish were popping up in my flower beds right now. But I can really see anything but..
6. Tons of Snow- Yes we have about 4 inches of snow and it is still coming down.
7.Tennis on the Wii- A very very fun game..and great workout.
8. Talking- I couldnt function without talking. I love to talk all the time. When I am cleaning, taking a bath, gardening…anything. I probably call Kenny 15 times a day at least.
9. Today- We are snowbound. They even cancelled church. First time since we moved here over 3 years ago. After school, we baked all day. Not too much outside time right now because of the tempature. It was 3° when we got up…LOL!! That was 8am!!
10.Tomorrow-We have school…I am sure we will be snowbound again. I will work on laundry.

This little game was fun!. It made me really look at me and think of different things. Want a letter too? Leave me a comment and let me know.