Dad always said to us on the first day of school, " Learn something new today." Our kids went off to school today and i passed on this wisdom. And joshua learned today that if he poops in the toilet he gets a little car and so... he now has two, and is wearing big boy underwear. So, now the new baby can come and we will not have two in diapers. :) That was always a goal of mine, but not necessarily realized, nor necessary. He is going to be a bit lost today, but he says he will be, " helping papa" today while his siblings are off at school,
I am reading Joshua in my Bible readings every morning. I read this morning where God pulled back the river Jordon so the Israelites could pass into the Land of Milk and Honey. I don't remember ever reading that before!!!! I don't remember God dealing with two huge water episodes. And, it says that it was during a high water period, like spring run-off, so it was flooded! All new to me. Pastor told us to stop and think about it when we get a new thought, so i did and i journaled my thoughts as he suggested. I also read again about the fall of Jericho, and a new thing.... God said to not take any of the spoils, but of course some did, and HE got torked at them AGAIN. My new thought... " wow, He did not keep there there for another generation to burn through?" lol All i can say is they were a lucky bunch. God shows us signs and wonders and we just forget so easily. We are no different from the Israelites are we? This country has stepped over the line in so many ways, but killing its unborn may be the worst. I think we may be in deep trouble until we recognize the sanctity of life and i don't see that happening as long as we have Love One Another being the rule and not Be Obedient to God and what HE asks of us. These days obedience feels discounted and I don't think God discounts it at all. Jesus commanded us to first Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind, and along with that comes obedience to His Word, then came the Love your neighbor as yourself. When you throw out the Bible and just go with the Love one another and think that will keep you right with God, ...good luck with that.... i could be sorrily mistaken, but i think God demands our obedience just as a good parent does/should. I think we are in big trouble and wonder how God will save us from ourselves without purging our country of a tribe or two. heavy sigh.........
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
All things Beautiful
We decided to let the chickens out to peck around. They are so happy and just clucking away. One is missing because she will not get off the nest, though there is no hope for a reward from her endeavors. They just look like beautiful little happy spots out on the lawn and the pasture. We have cooler weather coming, and i hope they will get back to giving us a dozen eggs a day. I think the heat was not to their liking. We like happy chickens, happy kids, and generally anything sappy and homespun.
Today is the first day of soccer practice for Hannah and Jake. I think dad may have been the most
excited though Hannah woke up at six thinking she late for practice, but mom explained it was P.M, not A.M. So, she came upstairs and got out her practice school books or read her Dictionary until i got up to make coffee. She informed me it was cold up here so i got her an aphgan and told her i did not get a lot of sleep last night so was going back to bed for awhile. Then jim got up and she confessed to be hungry and wondered if she could have some cereal. Now we have been saving the cereal for when the baby comes, but he told her if she promised to eat every bit of it he would get her some. She promised and she followed through. I could hear them chatting about life in general while i waited for coffee. She informed me today that she may have a bad mother. I asked her why she would say such a thing. " Well, sometimes i ask her for something and she says no. Then later she will say yes. Why would she not know the first time?" So, i told her maybe she should consider maybe her mother had a reason for her decision, or maybe she was on the phone, or maybe it would not be good for her at that time but might be ok later. I told her i thought she had a treasure of a mother and she just needed to trust whatever she said at the time as the right thing, She thought about it and i can only hope i set her straight. lol These children have no idea how blessed they are by their mother. She is heavy laden with child right now but she is off at soccer practice, and glad to be there especially since Chris is there too.
This was his first day at his new school, btw. I hope it went well, So much new and such a different emphasis for him with no high school. I know he is where he is supposed to be so i can only conclude he will make things better for a school that puts God's will for His children first, Lots of volunteers at the school and i expect i will be one of them eventually.
Jim had a Drs appointment today, and he has lost a couple more pounds. The Dr asked him how come he was losing weight and he told her because our lifestyle has so dramatically changed from Alaska. She asked why of course. He told her he would be surprised if we have watched four hours of TV since we arrived here. We are on the move most of the time, either inside or out. The projects just keep on coming and we just hope to have some for sure completed by November.
The heat situation in the basement is non-existent so that is a priority. Tomorrow they will be calling about a heat pump system that everybody we know has in their homes here. We could get lots of rebates but we have no wall heaters, shoot we have no heat downstairs, seems like that would qualify us for something!!!! Anyhow the good news with the heat pump is that air conditioning up here might be a blessing altho i am really not complaining about the heat to tell the truth, but it might be good to keep the windows shut when it is so dusty...oh, that reminds me.... it rained last night!!!!! It has not rained since we arrived here in June and it is mighty dry. I got woke up by the loudest crash of thunder i have ever heard and there were several more before i heard the rain drops. Jim slept through because he hears nothing when laying on his right ear, but i woke him up so we could go out and shut the truck windows. The air felt SO wonderful. However, it only rained for about fifteen minutes, but today it feels so much cleaner everywhere. We have grateful hearts for that fifteen minutes.
Anyhow, the deck is clean now and if it does not rain tonight again i think i will attack the staining of the deck. Today it was still damp and besides i had peaches to can, which i did all day, but they are done for now and tomorrow i think will be the deck, ready or not. Jim is working on a way to irrigate the garden with a timer at night. We have such a water shortage here... i think it is a lousy pump,.. that we cannot water the garden and keep water in the house. Anyhow, he bought a timer and we will see how that goes. I don't think that pump will go longer than half an hour though unless he uses just soaker hoses. The garden is doing well. About twenty five turkeys were giving it the evil eye from outside the fence today, but we sicked the dogs on them and they reluctantly departed.
So many things to do.... wood to get in... the shed to finish so we can empty out that Mancave... and the hot tub room has to be completely rebuilt into something else which means the hot tub goes outside. Just not sure how we will get it out. I think that very wierd room was built around it. And then, no small project.... a baby to birth :) We are hoping for Sept 1st. He was due the 26th on Kenzie's birthday but he left that date to her alone.
So another day in Montana and lots got accomplished. Joshua called me GrandMom today. His diction has suddenly become perfectly understandable. He still says drinka in a way that is a bit hard, but think about how we say that..."do you want a drink a water?" For a long time he put "a" on the ends of all his words. He talked in sentences from the beginning so it was pretty tricky figuring him out. I told him today i really liked his words and he just grinned as bright as can be. I suggested maybe he might want to use the toilet instead of a diaper but he said, " no". So i guess that is that for now. Thinkin we will have two in diapers. He sees the stuff for the baby and he gets all sweet and oohs and aahs...Now how can he know about babies really? But, he does and he will be a good big brother i betcha.
So all things are beautiful with my chicks running around and no eagle or hawk has run off with any of them so i think i better get some feed and see if i can coax them back into their rolling chicken house. Chris built it and it is called a chicken tractor. You can look them up on line. Pretty inventive.
OMG.... i think it is thundering again!!!!! Yahoooooooooo! I told you all things are beautiful
*j* aka jacqueline
Today is the first day of soccer practice for Hannah and Jake. I think dad may have been the most
excited though Hannah woke up at six thinking she late for practice, but mom explained it was P.M, not A.M. So, she came upstairs and got out her practice school books or read her Dictionary until i got up to make coffee. She informed me it was cold up here so i got her an aphgan and told her i did not get a lot of sleep last night so was going back to bed for awhile. Then jim got up and she confessed to be hungry and wondered if she could have some cereal. Now we have been saving the cereal for when the baby comes, but he told her if she promised to eat every bit of it he would get her some. She promised and she followed through. I could hear them chatting about life in general while i waited for coffee. She informed me today that she may have a bad mother. I asked her why she would say such a thing. " Well, sometimes i ask her for something and she says no. Then later she will say yes. Why would she not know the first time?" So, i told her maybe she should consider maybe her mother had a reason for her decision, or maybe she was on the phone, or maybe it would not be good for her at that time but might be ok later. I told her i thought she had a treasure of a mother and she just needed to trust whatever she said at the time as the right thing, She thought about it and i can only hope i set her straight. lol These children have no idea how blessed they are by their mother. She is heavy laden with child right now but she is off at soccer practice, and glad to be there especially since Chris is there too.
This was his first day at his new school, btw. I hope it went well, So much new and such a different emphasis for him with no high school. I know he is where he is supposed to be so i can only conclude he will make things better for a school that puts God's will for His children first, Lots of volunteers at the school and i expect i will be one of them eventually.
Jim had a Drs appointment today, and he has lost a couple more pounds. The Dr asked him how come he was losing weight and he told her because our lifestyle has so dramatically changed from Alaska. She asked why of course. He told her he would be surprised if we have watched four hours of TV since we arrived here. We are on the move most of the time, either inside or out. The projects just keep on coming and we just hope to have some for sure completed by November.
The heat situation in the basement is non-existent so that is a priority. Tomorrow they will be calling about a heat pump system that everybody we know has in their homes here. We could get lots of rebates but we have no wall heaters, shoot we have no heat downstairs, seems like that would qualify us for something!!!! Anyhow the good news with the heat pump is that air conditioning up here might be a blessing altho i am really not complaining about the heat to tell the truth, but it might be good to keep the windows shut when it is so dusty...oh, that reminds me.... it rained last night!!!!! It has not rained since we arrived here in June and it is mighty dry. I got woke up by the loudest crash of thunder i have ever heard and there were several more before i heard the rain drops. Jim slept through because he hears nothing when laying on his right ear, but i woke him up so we could go out and shut the truck windows. The air felt SO wonderful. However, it only rained for about fifteen minutes, but today it feels so much cleaner everywhere. We have grateful hearts for that fifteen minutes.
Anyhow, the deck is clean now and if it does not rain tonight again i think i will attack the staining of the deck. Today it was still damp and besides i had peaches to can, which i did all day, but they are done for now and tomorrow i think will be the deck, ready or not. Jim is working on a way to irrigate the garden with a timer at night. We have such a water shortage here... i think it is a lousy pump,.. that we cannot water the garden and keep water in the house. Anyhow, he bought a timer and we will see how that goes. I don't think that pump will go longer than half an hour though unless he uses just soaker hoses. The garden is doing well. About twenty five turkeys were giving it the evil eye from outside the fence today, but we sicked the dogs on them and they reluctantly departed.
So many things to do.... wood to get in... the shed to finish so we can empty out that Mancave... and the hot tub room has to be completely rebuilt into something else which means the hot tub goes outside. Just not sure how we will get it out. I think that very wierd room was built around it. And then, no small project.... a baby to birth :) We are hoping for Sept 1st. He was due the 26th on Kenzie's birthday but he left that date to her alone.
So another day in Montana and lots got accomplished. Joshua called me GrandMom today. His diction has suddenly become perfectly understandable. He still says drinka in a way that is a bit hard, but think about how we say that..."do you want a drink a water?" For a long time he put "a" on the ends of all his words. He talked in sentences from the beginning so it was pretty tricky figuring him out. I told him today i really liked his words and he just grinned as bright as can be. I suggested maybe he might want to use the toilet instead of a diaper but he said, " no". So i guess that is that for now. Thinkin we will have two in diapers. He sees the stuff for the baby and he gets all sweet and oohs and aahs...Now how can he know about babies really? But, he does and he will be a good big brother i betcha.
So all things are beautiful with my chicks running around and no eagle or hawk has run off with any of them so i think i better get some feed and see if i can coax them back into their rolling chicken house. Chris built it and it is called a chicken tractor. You can look them up on line. Pretty inventive.
OMG.... i think it is thundering again!!!!! Yahoooooooooo! I told you all things are beautiful
*j* aka jacqueline
Friday, August 26, 2011
First things first
August 26th, 2011
Dear Gma
Glory be to God.,.,truly,... i have begun a blog! I have threatened forever, and here i am. A far cry from a book, but i feel like that will never happen, but one never knows. I never thought, after nine years in Alaska, i would be living in Montana either. I have written to you for years, but i never contemplated a blog on the internet. So different from when we wrote by Snail Mail while I attended Finley nursing school. Times change and it seems like mostly for the good for our Wolfedens. So, what is new you ask?
Well today McKenzie turned 13! Is that unbelievable or what! Seems like yesterday I was telling you about the bbbqbb (backyardbarbequebirthingbash). I remember so well the angst i went through over that, but how God turned it all out to be just fine. Thirteen years has flown by with this beautiful child, and i look at her and think i must be getting old. Then yesterday, i took a picture of Joshua (2), riding the sofa saddle with Patty on his lap, and i realized Patty has lived 47 years because Suzie would have been 49 here in a few months.
Dear Gma
Glory be to God.,.,truly,... i have begun a blog! I have threatened forever, and here i am. A far cry from a book, but i feel like that will never happen, but one never knows. I never thought, after nine years in Alaska, i would be living in Montana either. I have written to you for years, but i never contemplated a blog on the internet. So different from when we wrote by Snail Mail while I attended Finley nursing school. Times change and it seems like mostly for the good for our Wolfedens. So, what is new you ask?
Well today McKenzie turned 13! Is that unbelievable or what! Seems like yesterday I was telling you about the bbbqbb (backyardbarbequebirthingbash). I remember so well the angst i went through over that, but how God turned it all out to be just fine. Thirteen years has flown by with this beautiful child, and i look at her and think i must be getting old. Then yesterday, i took a picture of Joshua (2), riding the sofa saddle with Patty on his lap, and i realized Patty has lived 47 years because Suzie would have been 49 here in a few months.
What else is new? Jim got a new tractor!!!! We stopped to see one of our new neighbors to ask if we could have the trash grass being put into a trailer by their yardman, and we ended up visiting for a couple of hours and the upshot of all of it was that they had a tractor for sale and we had a need. So now hopefully he can finish his shed. Not sure if he is going to put a kid in the bucket to go pound the roof or just what. There is no figuring a man and his tractor. Chris felt a tractor was necessary for his dad and counted this achievement as one of " his" goals, but not sure how that can be. Maybe he felt guilty his dad sold his tractor in LaGrande when we moved to Cordova. We don't know, but everybody is so happy for Gpa, especially Joshua, who loves riding on lawn mowers and 4 wheelers with daddy and Gpa.
Well, i will write again. I have peaches to can and a birthday to celebrate. Made a peppermint ice cream cake last night for the occasion. We will celebrate Kenzie today and be so grateful to God for giving us such a treasure as is she: a child who chooses to please God before all else, who prays powerfully for her needs and those of others. I will tell you tomorrow how we got here i guess because it all started with Kenzie and me doing what you and i used to do when i visited you: sit on the couch, eat popcorn, and discuss life and how good it can be when we make the right choices. Till then ... *j*
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