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Things I didn’t think I would have to say to my children and the dog this week…
Please remove the fart gun from the dinner table! Please stop hitting the wall with the toilet brush, that’s gross! Please pick up your the toilet paper you wiped your butt with and flush it. Indie, please stop barking at the deer head on the wall! Don’t brush your toes with your brother’s tooth brush… No you can’t use your hammer to hammer the nail into the wall in your bedroom, I use that to hang things on. What have you said to your children this week that you didn’t think you would have to say?
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How Do We Deal with Anger?
The Lord has been prompting me as of late to address how I handle my anger. The Lord has pointed out to me that I need to stop making excuses as to how or why I handle something a certain way, and to simply work on looking more like Jesus every day. I am working on having consistent responses with my children. It should not matter how I am feeling in the moment, or any outside pressures there may be. I need to make sure that I am consistently responding in love, not reacting in anger. My discipline, if necessary, should also be based on the offence and not my…
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Mouth Molds….out of cream cheese and tortilla wraps??
If you have ever had a mouth mold done in the dentist office, you know that it doesn’t taste good and it makes you gag. When I visited the dentist last time I wondered what dentists and orthodontists were like growing up. Did they always aspire to work with teeth? Did they practice making mouth molds out of cream cheese and unravel all of the floss on the floor? I’ll let you know in about 20 years or so.
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A lesson in Humility
Evening was upon us on this beautiful summer day, and the trees were casting shadows, providing a much needed refuge from the hot sun. My two older children were working to clean off a future garden plot that was riddled with sticks and logs that the hogs had uncovered the previous week. The two toddlers were splashing each other with water from the wheel barrow from yesterday’s rain. They then chased each other up the hill side and were playing with twigs and leaves and bugs, and I could hear sweet giggles. My sweet newborn baby girl was resting peacefully in her bed that had been placed in the red…
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Green Bean’s and Sweet Corn
So today I processed green bean’s and corn for the first time. I didn’t think we would have enough to process since our chickens ate the majority of the bean seeds that we planted, and we had some irrigation issues, fungi, and severe bug pressure with our corn (I’ll talk more about that in a future post). Both are pretty easy to process in comparison to tomatoes that have more steps involved. I followed my Presto Pressure Canner and Cooker instructions that came with my pressure canner. When I started the process I had approximately 35 lbs of corn on the husk. For corn, you remove the husks and the…
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Two little monkeys …
So a couple of weeks ago, I decorated my younger children’s bedroom with animal faces that were beautifully crafted by people at my church for VBS. The children loved it! I explained to them that the animals on the wall were just for looking at, not for touching. Well my little monkey climbed up on a box and pulled down one of the monkey’s on the wall. Needless to say, the monkey didn’t make it.
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Sausage Making with Pasture Raised Pork…
So today I completed the process of making 25 lbs. of sausage for my family from our pasture raised pork. I decided to set 14 lbs. aside (not yet seasoned), for us to try our hand at making Summer Sausage and Polska Kielbasa. I made 4 lbs. of Italian Sausage, and 9 lbs of breakfast sausage (links and patties). We have already eaten the breakfast sausage before, and we are in love with the recipe! We are trying the Italian Sausage recipe for the first time, so I will have to let you know how that one turns out. Thank the Lord for a successful harvest and a Kitchen Aid…
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No job is complete until the paperwork is done
Mommy diaries: Child: “Mom, I pooped in the potty!” Me: “Yes! Great job buddy!”(Walks into bathroom a few minutes later, realizing this child didn’t ask me to wipe their butt….) Ha! Always entertainment around here!
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Cinnamon Dragon
I need to have my hubby finish helping me get my blog up and running, we are working on it…..because Mommy Diaries…..a picture is worth 1,000 words….turned my head for 5 seconds….little Miss independent….I’m having flashbacks to the days of my youth and the Cinnamon Dragon….
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Free Chicken
Mommy diaries…..I have a baby chick running through my house….and I don’t know where it is….Lord help me.