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Thanking God The Dishwasher Broke!

by admin on March 3, 2016 in Bits Of My Personality, Do I Call It Parenting Advice?, Domestic Damsel, Feeling It (Thankful), Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Life Keeps Changing, Little Things, Mama Heart Mushings, People In My Heart with 1 Comment

9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. 10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; 11 not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

~Romans 12: 9-12~ (Authorized KJV)

I recall a line from a quote, meant to be inspirational, that goes something like this, ‘be grateful for dirty dishes for they mean your family is feed’.   This little blurb has been coming to mind a lot more of late… as my dishwasher has been broken for months now.

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Singing A Song Even In Winter

by admin on January 12, 2016 in Feeling It (Thankful), Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Holiday Messages, Little Things, Mama Heart Mushings, Music Flavor, People In My Heart with No comments

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

~Anne Bradstreet~

Winter entices us all to remain more in doors, and rewards us with a sense of courage when we go out.

Winter gives us all a good reason to slow down and enjoy solitude, while also giving us an opportunity to really feel loneliness if we aren’t careful how much we sit in silence.

Winter brings out child like joy at the arrival of the first snow fall, and can push the older hearts to grumble as it lingers on.

Christmas is in winter.

Christmas gives the darkest time of year a chance to shine.

The lights, the love, the community; when found Christmas warms one to the middle no matter what the thermometer reads.

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There Was An Autumn!

by admin on December 10, 2015 in Feeling It (Thankful), Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Life Keeps Changing, Little Things, Mama Heart Mushings, The Pet with No comments

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; …

~Ecclesiastes 3:1-22~ ESV

Saying autumn was lovely is almost a given… it was lovely… and longer then usual so we enjoyed mild snowless weather right up until December.  Even now our December is not crazy snowy or crazy cold.  The kids had a great time covering the whole town on Halloween, getting too much candy and enjoying the hot chocolate and hotdogs handed out by our local seniors club.  I ran around taking as many pictures of the pretty changing leaves, as often as I could get out, and the dog (Riddick the smooth fox terrier) enjoyed the longer warm season… he hibernates come winter… poor little guy has very little fur.  School events are underway with clubs and sports for each of the kids, my man and I are enjoying our continued time spend volunteering for Spoken Word Ministries and we are all settled in to our old house actually able to await a real snowed in winter after such a good fall.

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Summer Past

by admin on September 25, 2015 in Adventure and Me, Dem Kids Sayed WHAT?, Do I Call It Parenting Advice?, Feeling It (Thankful), Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Holiday Messages, Life Keeps Changing, Little Things, Mama Heart Mushings with 1 Comment

Ah yes summer was had by all 🙂  It was warm and delightfully slow.  We got a great big pool and the kids lived in a tent all summer long.  The ‘not so annual’ ladies tea was back on after a summer off last year and all four kids got tanned and taller.  This was also a summer of ‘not knowing’ in many areas of life.  I will touch on the most personal one pertaining to our immediate family.

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Joyeux Noël

by admin on January 20, 2015 in Adventure and Me, Domestic Damsel, Feeling It (Thankful), Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Holiday Messages, Life Keeps Changing, Little Things, Mama Heart Mushings with 1 Comment

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.

In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other.

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have long, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

~Ruth Stout~

 

Our first winter here and so, of course, our first Christmas in the grand old house we call our new home.  A winter of abundant and glorious hoarfrost and many power outages.  Even Christmas morning was postponed till the power returned, after having been off most of the night, and so we started opening the presents much later in the day then children traditionally can handle.

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Prairie Summer So Brief

by admin on October 10, 2014 in Adventure and Me, Bits Of My Personality, Feeling It (Thankful), Life Keeps Changing, Little Things, Mama Heart Mushings with No comments

Summer was honestly a blur… a blur composed of an often unbalanced mix of study and play…the kids and I trying to daily work on our French and still make time to take hold of that delicious summer freedom.

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Bed Time is A Crisis

by admin on July 31, 2014 in Do I Call It Parenting Advice?, Feeling It (Thankful), Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Little Things, Mama Heart Mushings, People In My Heart with No comments

It was well past his bedtime, so late Mom was ready to crawl into her own bed for the night.  Unlike the stubborn little guy pouting in the hall Mom was more then ready for this time of the day.  All the main floor lights were shut down and she was determined to get that frustrating littlest man into bed then find her own before she fell asleep on her feet.  She walked up stairs intentionally stomping to give him a serious hint about how serious she was about him returning to his bed. Continue reading →

Studies & Bike Abouts

by admin on July 24, 2014 in Adventure and Me, Bits Of My Personality, Dem Kids Sayed WHAT?, Do I Call It Parenting Advice?, Little Things, Mama Heart Mushings, Uncategorized with No comments

Sometimes I open my text book and I panic.  The thought bursts into my mind that I AM TOO OLD TO LEARN… to be more accurate, the thought is more complex and more like I HAVE BEEN A MOM FOR 13 YEARS AND HAVEN’T HAD TO STUDY IN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE AND MIGHT NOT KNOW HOW TO DO THIS ANY MORE!  I am sure many parent’s (at home full time and not) have thought parenthood has shrunken or (my personal favourite descriptive) melted ones brain!  Or perhaps it is just me (insert d’oh and frowny face here).  Mom is gonna carry on though… set an example for the kids… and all that such stuff… but first I close the text book after I have panicked and go for a bike ride. Continue reading →

Catching Snow Flakes In Your Own Back Yard

by admin on January 30, 2013 in Adventure and Me, Bits Of My Personality, Do I Call It Parenting Advice?, Feeling It (Thankful), Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Little Things, Mama Heart Mushings, Uncategorized with 1 Comment

All we wanted to do was get to the hill for some sliding.  What we really wanted was to skate, but that takes a lot more planning and we were running out of time on one of the few warm days this January.  Dad held us up at the last and we ended up sitting in a toboggan, in the yard, trying to catch the fantastically fluffy snow flakes on our tongues.

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‘Chili Needs Cheese’ and ‘Corner Store Movies’

by admin on January 17, 2013 in Bits Of My Personality, Foodie Like Me, Little Things, Mama Heart Mushings, Uncategorized with 1 Comment

Did you know you can still rent movies at the corner store?  Well we can!  Good thing too, with no cable and all the channels digital (thus inaccessible for us) the big movie store names disappearing faster then I would have said “When did that happen?”, we are pretty limited at our house.

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