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Here's a picture our pastor took of us at church on Christmas Eve. (WOW! Do I need a haircut!!
If you would, PLEASE keep us in your prayers. Sunday was our last day at the church we have worshipped and served at for the past 12-1/2 years. It's a 70-mile round trip and we feel that the Lord is leading us to serve closer to home. We have a few churches 'on the list' to try, please pray that we will be sensitive to the Lord's leading and land where HE wants us. Thanks. Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< |
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I hope you all had a happy and blessed Christmas and that your New Year will be even MORE happy and blessed!!Posted in Family News from the WOLFpack
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Thanksgiving is over and not only was it a day to be thankful, but I am thankful for how it went. In this cold but sunny day, I am so grateful with how the Lord answered my prayers and calmed some odd family dynamics. I awoke between 7-7:30a.m. and got a batch of fresh herb bread dough going and then prepared and set the turkey to baking. As my family woke and after they had quick breakfasts of cereal, I set them to working! lol All the last-minute dusting, sweeping and toilet cleaning for my mom's inspection - er, uh - I mean, everyone's comfort and enjoyment! But we had a great day. Some friends of ours who have to drive past our home to have their Thanksgiving at some relative's who live 1/2 hour past us came and visited us for about an hour. I enjoy talking to friends while I cook, it makes the time go faster and more pleasant. Just after they left, the first of our guests for the rest of the day arrived - a friend of our 2 dd's who has a new baby and our family (and another family from our church) are ministering/mentoring her, and other friend came, too. Just after they arrived, my family - mom, brother and his girlfriend - came. I have to say that - THANKFULLY - my brother was on very good behavior and only one quick little attempt at an opposing politcal comment was made but I told him that I didn't want to have those conversations today and (wow!) that was it. PTL!! We had so much wonderful food - truly a feast: I made the turkey, the obligatory green bean casserole, salad, homemade herb bread, cheesecake, veggies w/my homemade dill dip (better then store-bought, if I do say so myself! lol), cheese tray and homemade punch. My mom brought the stuffing, cornbread, mashed potatoes w/sour cream, chives and cheese (!), red velvet cake (homemade!), home-grown corn and sweet potatoes, while my brother brought shrimp and cocktail sauce. It seems like I'm missing something, but believe me, we DID NOT lack anything good! I would also like to tell you all that I am thankful for all of you who take the time to read, to comment and to leave messages and/or e-mail me. I praise the Lord for the miracle of the internet and the fun of blogs that have brought us together and the friendships made. You have made such a precious, comforable nest in my heart. Blessings to you all... Kim Wolf<>< |
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Off and on something comes up about my modeling days and some of you will contact me by message or e-mail and ask about it. I modeled from the time that I was 9 until - literally - days before I married at 25. I also doubled as a make-up artist from 19 to around 32. I know...if you know me now you'd think that was impossible! lol I often say that I'm rebelling as I've given up the suits and 4" heels for jeans and Burkenstocks! But, I thought I'd share a few of my portfolio pics with you...
Different agency. This was from 1977, age 18, taken in Downtown Dayton, Ohio. I always loved location shots and doing commercials. I really enjoyed the switch on a 'formal' look by going w/a tux instead of a long gown. I wish I could find a still of the "Arby's Days"...I used to do local Arby's commercials.
This was a fun headshot taken around 1980, age 21. I actually had a MONSTEROUS stack perm and calmed it down for the day's work! Well, there's the show. It certainly seems like looking at a movie of another person's life now, and, in many ways, it is. I wasn't a Christian until I was 23 and the Lord is SO gracious, forgiving and good to me! I went through a broken engagement from an atheist, became a Christian in 1982 and married my wonderful Christian husband in 1984. I am undeserving and grateful!
So, there you have it. Hope you enjoyed the journey. Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< |
This is from my very first portfolio shot in 1969 at age 10. I had done a couple of runway shows before I even had a portfolio. I was with this agency until I was 16.
As a side note...the last time I modeled were the last 2 months before we married, in 1984, in a wedding series that traveled to about 10 different stores. The wedding gown I had picked out for our own wedding happened to be in the show and the coordinators let me wear it in the shows in one of my sets!! My sweet Ty, when he would take me to some of the shows, knew which "bride's maids" walked out before me in the set when I wore my gown and he would lower his head and look at the floor until that set was over so that he wouldn't see me in my gown until I walked down OUR isle. Wasn't that sweet? He said that whenever I walked out in that gown the audience would ooo and ahhh and it was a terrible temptation to look. lol 
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Got this one from Jen... 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? YES! lol Usually bags for friends and wrapping for family. Don't know why, it just ends up that way. My FAVORITE wrap is brown paper tied w/twine or raffia w/some sort of CHRISTmas Stampin' Up stamps.
2. Real tree or Artificial? We used to do the real ones, but I pick up quills ALL year, so we have used a fake one for years. Last year, however, we got the most wonderful tree!! It's very rustic - just the way I like it - it has just a touch of "snow" (so it doesn't look 'cheap') and pine cones and we put only vintage and rustic ornaments on it. LOVE IT! I hate to take it down!
3. When do you put up the tree? If not the day after Thanksgiving, then the weekend following.
5. Do you like eggnog? No.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Hmmm...my Barbie Dream House. I'm old enough that it was the second edition, still cardboard, but it was WAY cool!!
7. Hardest person to buy for? My mom. She's very well off and has 2 of everything.
8. Easiest person to buy for? My dog, Maggie!
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes; it's the one my family has had since I was about 3 years old and is starting to fall apart. I'd like to get replacement Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus and a few animals from the company that does the wooden angels for all occasions (shoot, can't think of the name). While I'm at it ... I CAN'T STAND to see the wise men in a nativity scene!! They didn't find Jesus until He was 2 years old, for Pete's sake...so put them waaaaay over on the other side of the house that they can make a journey of it!
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Both. If I have your e-mail address, you'll probably get an e-mail; family and friends w/o e-mail get cards.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? OK...I'm serious here...no joke...My dear grandma was a very frugal gal, having lived through the Depression she was always thinking of USEFUL things to give. The first CHRISTmas we were married she gave us a can of Crisco w/a bow on top!! lol
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? White CHRISTmas.
13. When do you start shopping? Usually in December.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes. 'Nuff said.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? My mom's stuffing!
16. Lights on the tree? White.
17. Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night and I Wonder as I Wander. I have a really beautiful arrangement of 'I Wonder...' that I worked out on my hammered dulcimer.
18.Travel at Christmas or stay home? We usually go to my mom's house.
19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer’s? Possibly...um...no.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? A rustic star.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? We have our OWN family CHRISTmas on CHRISTmas Eve morning - when the girls were little we were always rushing all over the place and we weren't making OUR OWN memories and they couldn't enjoy their news clothes or toys. So, when our oldest was about 5 we started our own tradition on the day before.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year. The emphasis on Santa and stores putting up CHRISTmas - eh hem - I mean 'holiday' decorations BEFORE halloween!!
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Rustic, vintage.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Didn't I answer that? My mom's stuffing.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? A digital camera. |
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Got this in an e-mail and thought it was cute. KW<><
The holidays are near so I want to know... 2.
13. Christmas of 1998, Ty got me my hammered dulcimer!!
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When I was little we dressed up for the meal. Now we just wear ‘nice’ jeans and maybe a ‘dress’ blouse/shirt or sweater. 24. Do you own a Santa hat?
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Today started out so gloomy and cold as the rain brought in such frigid temperatures. But I needed to go out to my favorite Old Order German Baptist farm dairy this morning to get some more whole milk and brown eggs. Even on gloomy days, that little trip brings a smile to me face. It's a nice 15-20 minute drive and I had my sweet little dog, Maggie, w/me and I put my CD of the music from PBS's "Frontier House" in the player and we were off. There was some sort of 'big doin's' at the Old Order meeting house this morning b/c I passed no fewer than 11 horses and buggies on my errand. That's always such a wonderful sight. When I got home, I fixed dh's favorite Saturday morning breakfast, Amish French Toast (http://www.homesteadblogger.com/wannabeone/105269/) and don't you know that 2 (TWO!!) of the eggs I cracked open had double yokes!! Then, about an hour later, the weather got cold enough that our rain turned to giant, fluffy snowflakes for about 2-1/2 hours. What a lovely sight on a dark, quiet (except for the Ohio State Buckeye football game! It's the little things in life that mean the most. PTL. Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< |
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Well, I don't know about you - and I don't want to offend anyone's politics - but I am SO SAD over what happened to our country last night. Never in my lifetime did I ever think that I would live to see a Socialist/Marxist voted into the office of the President of the United States. My grandpa fought in WWI to defeat people like this; my uncle and my dad fought in WWII to defeat people like this. How sad they would be today. HOWEVER...I DO know that GOD is still on His throne! Whatever judgement we must go through, we can do all through Christ Who strengthens us. But here is a bright spot in my day - my youngest dd, who is a Senior in our homeschool this year - handed me this impromptu essay that she's going to put on her My Space... Yesterday a man was elected President of the United States. Someone I fear. Someone who approves of abortion, someone who approves of gay marriages and someone who is a Socialist and his name is Barack Obama. I am starting to wonder what has happened to our country. I have a couple of things I would like to say to you all today and I felt like I needed to share them with you. I watched a movie today called "The Patriot," and if you haven't seen it yet, or you have seen it and it's just been a long time, then I encourage you to watch it. Now, granted, the fact that the story of a man named Benjamin Martin (character played by Mel Gibson) and his family's story may not be true; but what they did to his family in the movie, those kinds of things did happen to other families back then; and they probably did things to those people that we wouldn't even want to see on screen. The main thing that I want you all to realize is that they won the Revolutionary War because they didn't take God out of the center of that war. We have taken God so much out of politics that it's sickening. People like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln would be rolling over in their graves over our nation right now. Those two men made a difference in our country because they kept their faith in God! So I ask you now...What has happened to our nation? We take God out of our nation more and more, and let me tell you something, if you take God out of our nation there is not going to BE a nation. I want to go back to that movie, "The Patriot," for just a little bit. That main character, Benjamin Martin, lost so much. But we see him hold on to his unfailing faith. He always knew that God was with him. What a great testimony for those who are struggling. But where has faith like that gone in our nation? We all take so lightly the purpose of voting or just being here in America period! I read an article about what some women went through just to have the right to vote. They were arrested for wanting just to vote! Listen to these true stories..."Lucy Burns was beaten until she could no longer stand. She was chained with her hands above her head to cell bars and was left there hanging and gasping for air...Dora Lewis was hurled into a dark cell, smashed her head into an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women." This was called the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15, 1917. Nobody acts like they even remember what happened at 9/11 anymore. I even forgot about it this year...how sad is that?! God gave us a second chance to change the world on 9/11. There has been so many opportunities for our nation to come together but we haven't taken them. God wants us to witness to the world and how can we do that if our own nation is starting to fall apart with gangs and racial issues?! I think these people would be disappointed in our choices and our actions. I know some of you out there didn't even vote and that always disappoints me when someone doesn't vote. Because the people before us worked so hard to be able to let you all vote and we take it for granted. People want to take God out of public schools completely and that is just not right. I will be praying for our country and our troops. We need to remember that God is and always will be he center of our nation. Not the President and/or Senators. This is God's nation! Last night, after the 11p.m. (est) announcement that Obama had officially crossed the 270 electoral votes, this dd came down and said, "Mommy, I think we need to pray now!" I am so proud of my girls, but - as I'm sure you know - there are those moments that just make your heart nearly burst from love. This was one of them for me. Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< GOD IS STILL ON THE THRONE!! |
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This past Friday (the 17th), the high school I attended had an all-class reunion at their Homecoming footbal game - it was to celebrate that this year's Senior class will be their 50th graduating class. I was looking forward to my dh and I going b/c I knew that I would see upper and lower-classmen that you just don't see at your own class reunions...plus...as a former band member I knew that Homecoming would always offer one the year's best marching band performances! A couple of years ago the district tore down EVERY school building and rebuilt them, including my old high school. The only original parts left of the school I attended are the gym and auditorium, so it would be exciting to see the new school. My girlfriends from school (who I still see a couple times a year) and I took "our own" tour of parts of the new building (I even got to use the teacher's potty! lol Our class president is now the Principal and he unlocked it for me! Mystery solved...it's nothing special!) and, indeed, it is a beautiful place. (Eh-hmmm....the SCHOOL, NOT the potty! Then, we went out to "watch the game." There were so many people there that we had to crunch down in the wheelchair section of the grandstand. We watched the game whenever people started cheering b/c we were taking to other class members as they walked by. But what we were really there for was to see the band. My little group of classmates that I was chumming with that night were all former band members and drillies...we had our priorities for the evening. As 1/2-time approached, we watched as the band took their positions at the end of the field - my their uniforms were so cool! - not the military-style we had. They were also a VERY SMALL band now, MAYBE 60 kids - enrollment has gone down so much that, according to our old principal who was there, they barely had 200 per class now; OUR class alone was 444 and our marching band had over 200 PLUS about 30 drillies! Now they only had their little band and 4 or 5 flag corp (ick - I'm NOT a flag corp fan). So, our anticipation was building...Homecoming would always be one of the best shows! The band came out, the girl drummajor dutifully marched out and climbed her director's perch, qued up the instruments and ... what's this crud? NEWS BLERBS?!?! "The war in Iraq took on high casualties today/the Dow ended with a down-turn/President Bush says he doesn't know how long our troops will be in Iraq/unemployment has reached a new high..." Then, the commentator started speaking in a modlin tone and saying things like "If we stick together we CAN over-come...we mustn't let life get us down...whatever is going on in the world you must get through it..." THEN the band started their routine - first, they hardly marched and then what they did had no creativity to it at all; and the music - it was slow, almost concert-type music!! OH MY! IT WAS SO SAD!!! All of my friends and I just looked at each other WAITING for the "fun part" to start - it didn't. 3 songs that were simply played to be playing something, it seemed to us. I ask you, and I'm going to e-mail my old high school and ask them - WHY -WHY use a football game halftime show - and a band routine - to put such depressing thoughts into the minds of young, impressionable teens?!?! Halftime shows are meant to entertain not spew p.c. doctine! What we saw was NOT entertainig in the least. It was utterly depressing. When our band would perform we would do Chicago and Beatles music and we would have people on their feet cheering and dancing!! WE WERE FUN!! I saw nothing fun or entertaining about anything those kids did on Friday night. My friends and I left after half-time and had our own little reunion at a local favorite pizza place that we all enjoyed "back when." Believe me, NONE of us were up-lifted or entertained by the half-time "show." It was sad and, once again, my dh and I were convinced that the last 16 years of homeschooling is one of the very best choices we're ever made in our lives! That our children aren't missing ANYTHING and, in fact, are being rescued from the depressing p.c. environment! Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< |
and tried not to forget that our wonderful dh's were dutifully wandering behind us as we giggled like school girls and remembered when. Fortunately, our dh's are friends so they could commiserate w/each other. lolPosted in Family News from the WOLFpack
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OK...since my sweet Jenna hasn't up-loaded her pictures of our meeting with the WONDERFUL Dixon family at her volleyball tourney in Ft. Wayne, IN on the Sept. 6th...Jacque Dixon was sweet enough to let me borrow one that she has. Honest...once Jenna FINALLY gets the others loaded I'll post them, too.
Thanks, Jacque, for the pic! Can't wait to get together again! Tell your family "hi" for me! Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< |
Aren't they just the cutest family EVER?! I'm in love with those kids...ALL of 'em! So well behaved and not afraid of (strange) strangers. 
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Thank you, EVERYONE, for your kind e-mails. It was so nice to get back on-line - after having not been on here since Friday - and see that someone had left a note or two. I spent most of last week caring for my dd#2 who had a cold, well, as most of you moms know, we always fall right in line in getting it, too. So, this weekend my dd#1 and I were couch and bed bound with our own miserable colds. I'm doing some better now - it's just nice to walk around, clean up and get back to some sort of daily routine. I still have the hoarse cough and all, but I'M UP AND ABOUT! :-) Blessings from Ohio... |