Monday, January 5, 2009
18 things I love about being married
In light of my lists I do for each birthday, here is my list in honor of our 18th wedding anniversary today!
18 things I love about being married...
1. Being married to my best friend is the best thing in the whole world
2. Waking up next to my Honey is bliss
3. Having children with my Honey brought us a bond that none can equal
4. Knowing that Honey would do ANYTHING for me is so empowering
5. Being held and kissed by Honey...well...there's nothing to compare!
6. Love can indeed grow stronger, day by day and year by year
7. Being married is all that I dreamed it would be
8. Having a Honey who adores me makes me incredibly happy
9. Knowing that Honey is on his way home still makes me giddy
10. Hearing Honey's incredible voice still gives me thrills and chills!
11. Walking life's path, though sometimes hard, is wonderful with Honey by my side
12. Having a strong Honey makes my life easier
13. Knowing that Honey prays for me (and our family) makes me secure
14. Having a Honey who works hard for his family is priceless
15. Being a submissive wife is the easiest thing in the world when you have a wonderful Honey
16. I get to spend the rest of my life loving my Honey...what else could be sweeter?
17. The look in Honey's eyes when he gives me that look....just makes me melt
18. That sharing a lifelong love and bond cannot be gotten any other way than time spent together. It's a priceless treasure that means the world to me.
Happy Anniversary, Honey. You are my world, my rock and my love. Here's to at least 50 more years of wedded bliss!!!!
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
Is it really 2009???!
Okay, so, who said it was okay to make it 2009???!
We had a wonderful Christmas. Filled with family, food and fun. Can't ask for much more than that!
We'll be headed back to the books soon..but first, we are going to get together with our dear friends....we missed seeing them this Christmas break due to our company. It will be nice to spend the day with them! Course, I also get to see her the next day for MNO..and again for Keepers at the end of the week. AND..this dear one has invited our children to spend the night next weekend. Can I tell you how very blessed I am to call Misty my bestest friend?! She's AWESOME!!!!
Monday marks a most special day for us...it's our 18th wedding anniversary. Ahhhh....remembering the day we became one...love that! I think we need to watch our wedding video that evening. I can't decide what to make for our supper that evening. I'm not feeling inspired yet....I did the menu for the rest of January..but left that day blank.
We're headed to town to grocery shop in the morning. I think it will work out best to get it taken care of tomorrow. Getting back to school is going to be as tough for me as it is for my children...maybe tougher! You would think with this being our 11th year of home education, that I wouldn't feel this way...but alas, in all honesty, I do! Oh..not the home education part of it..the returning to a schedule part of it. We've so enjoyed not having a schedule that it's hard to go back...
The weather has been way too warm for winter. While I appreciate the lower electric and propane bills...I must admit that I still look forward to the coldness of winter..the time of hunkering down in our home. I long for a fireplace to curl up in front of....
One of our big gifts this year....from my folks and my brother and SIL...was a Wii! It's been lots of fun for our family. I have to say that my Honey has the most realistic looking Mii that I've ever seen. I love it! It's like he's here even when he's not! 
Gotta love anything that gives me more of my Honey!!!!
I'm off to do some shopping in the Old Schoolhouse Store. They have all their e-books half off..but that expires tonight...nothing like waiting till the last minute, eh?!
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Monday, December 22, 2008
It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!
It's been a whirlwind of a time around here. It's so wonderful having Mom and Dad back with us again. I love having such a great friend to go shopping with..and just generally be with!
My cookie swap was, as usual, alot of fun. Thanks, ladies, for coming, and sharing both your night and your cookies with me! It humbles me to think of the distance you traveled and time away from your family you spent...to be in our home. What treasures you all are to me.
Aunt Nina arrives on Tuesday!!!! We are so excited!!! We'll head to the Huntsville airport to pick her up. We have a couple of stops to make on the way...but the children are especially excited to see her in that airport!!
I believe I have all of my shopping completed. There is plenty of wrapping to be done..but once I do that, everything is ready for the big day. All but the couple of gifts that I'm waiting to arrive in the mail...like Mom and Dad's...and Aunt Nina's! Yep, I waited a bit too long to order said gifts...oops!
The only big thing left to do before Christmas is the annual Mom's sugar cookie bake and decorate-a-thon. It's an annual tradition, one not to be missed. My FAVORITE Christmas cookie is the iced sugar cookie. They must be Mom's recipe..and they must be iced and decorated. That says Christmas to me. Could it be all those hours I spent icing and decorating a gajillion cookies as a child? 
The weather is to turn colder soon. It's supposed to warm up a bit on Christmas Eve day...along with more rain. Then it's to get colder again....where is winter?? I know we need the rain...the drought we've gone through is not good at all...but days on end of rain equals mud...thick, gooey mud. Not cool...not cool at all!
Our anniversary is coming up in January...maybe we can get away after Christmas for a date night while Mom and Dad are still here...hmmm...will have to talk to Mom about this...
If I don't get to blog again before Christmas, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!!
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Friday, December 12, 2008
13 days till Christmas!!!
Whew! Less than two weeks till the big day!
I did some online shopping last night. Was so pleased to find some gifts at very good prices!! I need to get some gifts in the mail...SOON!!!
Honey brought home a new jacket and a Christmas ham with him last night. They were gifts from Home Depot. How cool is that?! This Sunday is his work Christmas dinner. Should be a fun evening!
The rain has finally stopped here. Folks just north of us got snow yesterday...and up to 3 inches of the beautiful white stuff. Us? Nope..just rain. We did wake to a light dusting of white...but not enough to do anything with..bummer! I'd LOVE a white Christmas again!!!!
Today is another craft day for us. We're making our annual gingerbread houses...except they'll be made out of graham crackers. One year, Rebecca and I would like to do a true, fancy gingerbread house. But, for now, these are fun! Rebecca made gingerbread cookies yesterday. That girl can bake!! We share a love of kitchen stuff....just as I share with my Mom. It's a wonderful tradition. 
Mary joined us this morning. I love that we still have a babe who wants to snuggle with us!! I relish it cause I know the time is far too fleeting and it will end soon enough. My baby is going to be 6 next month. SIX?!
The cows were out this morning. When I woke Thomas, I looked out of his end window (the window that Daddy had said would be good for Thomas to have to be able to see the cows...smart Daddy!!!), I saw cows...not where they were supposed to be. Rebecca and Thomas got up and we went out to find them in the pole barn munching away on hay. Toby knew they needed hay last night, but it was raining..and had been for two days. It was a sloppy mess. With the rain and the cold, we thought it best not to go out in it. No biggie this morning, Thomas the wonder boy started the tractor and took them a roll of hay. Rebecca and I cleaned up their mess and moved some hay to them out of the pole barn. Once Thomas had the hay out, we moved them into the field with it. We shut the gate so Toby and Thomas can take a roll up top tonight when he gets home.
The shorter nights make it tough to get alot done after work. But, thankfully, Toby gets off at 2 and is home by 2:45 or so. We put off supper till he's done what needs doing and eat a bit later than usual.
Tonight is pizza night!!! We all love this night!!! We have a movie to watch and will turn on the wall heater in the living room and cozy up to enjoy our movie and pizza. I think this is the most looked forward to night of the whole week in our home!
I must scoot now...time to pay a couple of bills and then get started on those houses!
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Christmas break!!
We are officially on Christmas break now!!!! Yippee!! I remember when they were smaller (well, Rebecca and Thomas)...we used to take off for the entire end of the year holiday season...the Monday before Thanksgiving until the Monday after New Year's. Ahhh...those were the days.... Now, we have so much more school work that it's not really feasible to take that much time off..course..it's also hard to stay focused on school work during the holidays... for me, not so much for them!
We have much to do before Christmas arrives. But, we're pretty much on target for getting it all done. Course, I've been there before and the best laid plans don't always pan out.
Today is shopping day! We're headed for milk...then drop it off here at home. Then we are going to my hair salon. Rebecca and Thomas need some hair attention. Next, we are headed to that great shopping mecca..Wal Mart! The children each have some cash (thanks to Granny..and Daddy!) to spend. This year, we've done something different. They've chosen a name, so instead of each of them buying for each other, they'll buy for one special person, plus Daddy and Mama. I plan to take one child with me through WM to pick out their gifts for their special someone and Daddy. The rest will stay with Rebecca. We'll repeat this process till everyone is done. Could be a long day, eh?!
The next two days will be craft days. I can't tell you how excited Natalie and Mary are for this! They are my craft bugs. Anything involving creating is right up their alley!
Thomas hung the outside lights yesterday. It looks all festive out there now! I believe we done with the decorating...course...there's always a little more we can do, right?!
I put all of our school books away yesterday. Oh my...do we ever need shelves for school books!!! I stacked them three different ways before I found a method that mean the books would not fall over! But, this way, you also can't pull out a book from the middle...you know..should anyone want to look at a school book before say, January 5th. Oops..not sure we'll start that day..yes, it's the Monday after New Year's...but it's also our 18th wedding anniversary. It doesn't seem right to start back on that wonderful day, now does it?!
My folks will be here soon...and not soon enough! We miss them dearly!!! And Auntie Nina will be here the following week!!! YEAH!!! We love having company!!!
I want to get some gifts wrapped before I wake my children...I think now is a good time...
Have an abundantly blessed day!!!
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Keeping Holiday book review
I've had the pleasure of reading Keeping Holiday by Starr Meade for a book review. The Crossway Book review program is sure a great thing!!
Let me start by saying this is not a book I would have chosen to read on my own. I normally gravitate to books on how to do something, not just entertainment. However, I am so thankful to have been given this opportunity, because I have LOVED reading this book!!!
It's an engaging, easy read...very captivating from the beginning. This is important to me...as I said I don't read alot for entertainment, so if it doesn't capture my interest quickly, I don't usually finish the book. This one did capture me and i finished it in two days time.
If you are a fan of CS Lewis, you will enjoy this book. My favorite line from Keeping Holiday is "You don't find the Founder; he finds you. He's not just the Founder; he's the Finder, too."
I heartily recommend this book....to read for yourself as well as to read to your children!!!!
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Evolution of Dance
Oh my! This guy is GOOD!!!
Here is his website. What a fun video to watch!!
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Third Day
This is Third Day's Call My Name. The lyrics are included.
I LOVE Third Day!!!! They have several songs that I enjoy. I've ordered their CD and can't wait for it to arrive so I don't have to be limited to listening to them while online! :) The end of the song is the best....this man's voice is great!!!
Here's another of my favorites...
This is Cry Out To Jesus....the words speak for itself...
To everyone who's lost someone they love
Long before it was their time
You feel like the days you had were not enough
when you said goodbye
And to all of the people with burdens and pains
Keeping you back from your life
You believe that there's nothing and there is no one
Who can make it right
Chorus:
There is hope for the helpless
Rest for the weary
And love for the broken heart
There is grace and forgiveness
Mercy and healing
He'll meet you wherever you are
Cry out to Jesus, Cry out to Jesus
For the marriage that's struggling just to hang on
They've lost all of their faith in love
And they've done all they can to make it right again
Still it's not enough
For the ones who can't break the addictions and chains
You try to give up but you come back again
Just remember that you're not alone in your shame
And your suffering
Chorus:
When you're lonely
And it feels like the whole world is falling on you
You just reach out, you just cry out to Jesus
Cry to Jesus
To the widow who suffers with being alone
Wiping the tears from her eyes
For the children around the world without a home
Say a prayer tonight
Chorus:
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Shadowfeet...
I love this song...the video not so much...but here are the lyrics so you can sing along. I find myself singing this song during the day ALOT...just ask my babes! :)
Walking, stumbling on these shadowfeet
toward home, a land that i've never seen
I am changing, less and less asleep
made of different stuff than when i began
and i have sensed it all along
fast approaching is the day
[CHORUS]
when the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
when the sky rolls up and mountains fall on their knees
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you
Theres distraction buzzing in my head
saying in the shadows it's easier to stay
but I've heard rumours of true reality
whispers of a well-lit way
[CHORUS]
You make all things new
You make all things new
You make all things new
You make all things
You make all things
[CHORUS 2]
When the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
Every fear and accusation under my feet
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you 
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Monday, December 1, 2008
A busy week ahead...
The week ahead is filled with activities....but fun activities!!!
We are home today...doing our school work and enjoying the bit of snow that has fallen. Tomorrow is my town day...I'm meeting two different ladies to sell them some of our "stuff". I will be so happy to have this stuff sold!!! Then it's off to Wal Mart to return something I bought on Friday, and do a bit of Christmas shopping. Then it's time for my Mom's night out!! It's our Christmas party...we'll celebrate with a good meal, great friends and a round of Dirty Santa!
Wednesday, we're "watching" a friend's BIL. He's mentally at the age of about 5, but is over 50 years old. They are going to the public school to teach an abstinence program (so proud of them!!). When they come to pick him up, we're headed for our milk run. I'm really looking forward to getting milk this week. The gal and her husband we buy milk from moved into a new rental home, and out of her parents' home this past weekend. We have a gift for her and can't wait to give it to her!
Thursday...at this moment, looks like we'll be home as usual that day. :)
Friday is our homeschool group's Christmas craft party. I actually have chosen my craft already! Yeah, me!
Saturday, we're headed to town to see Handel's Messiah at a local church. We've never seen this and are really looking forward to it!
Sunday, is a Christmas parade in town. We watched our little town's parade yesterday....can you tell we LOVE parades?!
So, that's our week....busy, but fun!
We bought our tree yesterday. And brought home a bag full of trimmings to decorate with. Yep, it helps to be married to someone who works there... 
I think we'll get it put up tonight, provided we get some other decorating done today. We have a TON of boxes of decorations...and I do mean a ton....that need to be unloaded and taken back to the attic so we can move around in there! The living room is small...and the boxes just make it feel smaller.
Next week doesn't look as busy...that may be the week we get started on cookies. I also am making a cake for a friend of mine for her grandson's baptism later this month. I need to get her approval on the design.
Lots to do, lots to do...but I just love the holidays....only wish the season lasted longer...
I'm off to make some hot chocolate for my red nosed babes who've been outside trying to play in the tiny bit of snow that fell this morning...
Have a blessed day!!
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