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These Days… My weekly journal

By on December 17, 2012 in Weekly Journal

For an explanation on each picture, scroll down to the bottom of this post.


This week we:

: :  are thankful that everyone, including me, is finally over the dreaded flu and just in time to finish the long list of Christmas presents still to make

: :  were thankful for a little bit of color since everything outside is turning brown

: :  peeled enough garlic to keep vampires away for ever then preserved them in olive oil for easy no need to peel garlic

: :  enjoyed some wonderful egg nog and watched lots of Christmas movies (I know its still Advent but we can’t help ourselves)

: :  saw the last time the baby could use the sheepskin to lay in the swing.  He surprised us by almost squirming out and so now we have to keep the tray down which does not leave room for the plushness of his sheepskin.  He still has one in his bed though : )

: :  treated the kids to some nice warm meals including shrimp and grits

: :  finished the new farm addition enclosure…I will post pics of him very soon

: :  received a nice Christmas present via UPS and of course the kids liked the box better

: : held all my babies very close for a few nights now and thanked God for the inspiration to homeschool 15 years ago.  We have been staying close to home more.  Not because we are any safer here  but because this is where we are grounded and were we find our strength 

On a side note, I wanted to thank all of you who commented on my Anonymous letter.  So nice to know as momma’s, we have each other’s backs!

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These Days…My weekly journal

By on December 3, 2012 in Weekly Journal

I did not forget to show you my big project as promised but still need another day to finish so I will share it with you tomorrow instead.

I think it has been a lifetime since I have posted my weekly journal (well, if you only had a lifespan of 2 months). For an explanation on each picture, scroll down to the bottom of this post.

This week we:

: :  We celebrated our Thanksgiving feast.  The day was spent together, cooking, watching the parade and It’s a Wonderful Life as is our tradition and of course sitting down to eat our meal and recollect everything that we are thankful for.

: :   Made some wonderful Merlot spiced cranberry jam (recipe to follow on Friday) to enjoy and share with our in-laws

: :  Erica talked me into buying the last watermelon at the corn farm so that she could carve it

: :  Visited our in-laws farm to check out a future addition to our farm…sorry, I’m not telling what it is just yet and it’s not a goat

: :  enjoyed some time outside cloud gazing as a part of our cloud study

: :  taking advantage of the still warm afternoons to sun our bedsheets before its too cold outside to hang the laundry

: :  got to visit some of our dearest old friends and spend a few hours together before they returned to their home in South Carolina

: :  dressed Matthew in his green and orange to watch the big game with his Poppa

: :  got a visit every day last week from a homing pigeon which the kids have named Alice.  There must be a pigeon farm close by because we get visit by tagged pigoens very often.  For about two years a pigeon we named Grace would come by every day and got to know us so well that she would eat from our hands

: : made my favorite gift for wedding showers to go along with something store bought from their registry.  I have made this gift for a great many couples and yet have not made one for my own home


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