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it’s the second day of the new week already. it’s totally unbelievable! i don’t know where my monday went, but it’s GONE. i do have something to show for the day…but alas, only half my plans got accomplished.
we’re really in spring break mode here. trying to get extras done, but also doing a little extra on the relaxing side of things. the girls have crafts planned, and i have lunch’s and outings planned. 
funny how our minds work differently. LOL.
and…gone are the springy watery puddles on the yard, and back came the snow. we’re more like this again…tho this picture was taken last week. we’re really waiting for the temperatures of spring to reappear!
enjoy your tuesday, and spring break if you’re having one!
Looking outside these days, it’s simply beautiful. Yes, it’s mostly brown and dirt…but there’s so much promise! We have moisture from spring run-off and the rain, we have soil ready to produce new growth, and we have branchs patiently waiting to produce buds, and there’s birds with all different feathers arriving daily!
With that said, I’ll leave you with some pictures of all these promises! (pictures taken before the snow ’storm’ that started tuesday)
After evaluating my week yesterday, I realized it was a busy week, once again.
Today will slow down a little, due to weather conditions…and i’m praising God for that!
We’ve got snow falling softly into the puddles. It’s so different than what we could have imagined yesterday as it rained. LOL. Gotta love March, and the weather you’re almost guaranteed to get with it!
Spring break is around the corner, and OH is this mama excited! No idea how we’ll entertain the girls, but it sure will be nice to have a break from carpooling and making the bus each morning. Not sure how the baby and I will like it next year with the middle child heading off to kindergarten…but I guess we’ll figure something out!
Here’s our front yard yesterday and another one of today.
FOR TODAY Monday, March 23, 2009…
Outside my window…wetness, muddyness, and hope.
I am thinking…of the things to come. Spring does that to me.
I am thankful for…all the blessings I take for granted each day. Amazing Grace.
From the learning rooms…I’m struggling my way through this program…and Pray for strength to continue and persevere.
From the kitchen…A fresh start and new recipes…see yesterday’s post
I am wearing…a bedhead….and a positive attitude for a great start to a great week!
I am creating…a new person inside of me. no, i’m not expecting a baby…i AM the baby. so much to learn in life, i sometiems feel like a baby soaking it all in.
I am going…to smile my way through the mud and muck of spring
I am reading…captivating…
I am hoping…to get it ALL done today. ALL meaning everything on my list.
I am hearing…my home working to keep me comfortable and content. (furnace and fridge and fan)
Around the house…are signs of a happy home. toys, candles, light, food, and even pocket change.
One of my favorite things…is a plan of action. not the action itself…just the plan. 
A few plans for the rest of the week:
bible study with my GF monday morning.
couples bible study monday night.
tuesday night is sewing with a few church ladies,
wednesday night is the last night for the girls clubs program at church,
thursday is the start of spring break for my kindy girl and a birthday party for one of her favorite church friends,
and thursday night the girlfriends and I are headed to olive garden for supper. yummy!
after that it’s friday and weekend time already! WOW!
Here is picture thought I am sharing…(a picture of one of my favorite scrapbooking projects i’ve ever done…a mini album of us as a family for DH many years ago)
Last week I caved, and bought a new cookbook. I had looked it up a year or so ago, and thought it would be nice but never bit at it. This week I came across it again, and couldn’t resist. That’s kinda putting it mildly! LOL. I went to purchase it, and saw that it was available as an ebook, or as a published book needing to be shipped. Shipping to Canada was an unreal price, and driving the 15 miles across the border to pick it up was not sounding too exciting either. Having a new printer with relatively efficient ink usage and costs, I figured the amount I could save in shipping would pay for my printing and a binder (which I had available to me in the basement after shuffling some papers around). That was before I realized the size of this book. I was imagining a regular book, like the church cookbooks I had in my cupboard. Well, this book is chalk full of resources, tips, suggestions, substitutions, and who knows what. It consists of a full 470+ pages.
As I started printing, I realized that my printer was going to take a year and a day. I had opted for the double sided printing (Praise the Lord), and divided it between two days. (not wanting to sit and wait for the paper bin to empty on me inbetween, I left the room to do other things…thus it took longer).
Finally, I had the book together. I hole punched the pages, and put them in my nice ‘new’ binder. Oh the joy that filled my soul as I sat and paged through it. There was SO much stuff in there! And So many recipe’s that I just KNOW i’m going to make!
We’ve enjoyed one recipe so far, and I look forward to trying more!
You mean to say, I’ve gone on and on, and on, yet haven’t told you WHAT book I bought? I’m so sorry! (right, i’ll let you think I am….LOL)
I purchased the book called Dining on a Dime by Tawra Jean Kellam and Jill Cooper. You can find out more about them on their website called Living on a Dime.
You can follow my recipe review and progress here. If you have this book, what are your favorite recipes? I am considering getting this book and giving it to every new bride I know! It’s just so full of information I had to gather from here and there throughout the last 8 years of marriage…plus more! An amazing resource!
It’s kind of a wordless Wednesday today. I haven’t had much to say in a while, but I also haven’t been taking much for pictures lately either.
It’s definitely springy outdoors, but the first part of it always seems gloomier than what we hoped for. First the snow has to melt, and that always happens in stages. In the process of those stages, everything that the snow was hiding gets uncovered and is revealed in all it’s blahness. Dirty snow, littered ditch’s/sidewalks, and brown grass. There’s just not that much beauty in it.
Patients is the key to getting through any season, but with the promise of such magnificent things to come, for me spring has me with the least amounts of patients. Getting rid of the snow means putting up with ice, puddles, and mud. Even though we’ve gotten rid of all the snow, we still aren’t promised to not get another last fall of it before a true spring begins.
What is your favorite part of this season? Is it the chance to see things grow, the newness of life, the cleanliness of the first spring shower, or the splashing in the puddles?
life has been taking turns here and there in the last few weeks, and there’s so many signs indicating a change of seasons approaching. have you been noticing the difference? the changes are evident in my life as well as in my surroundings. in case you hadn’t noticed, i’m not talking just about the approaching of spring.
i’ve been feeling the changes tugging at my heart for months, and have been blessed in so many ways already by allowing God to work in my life. i’m praying for the doors of different areas of my life to open up, and the amazing work of God to prevail. i have been blessed in so many areas of life, and i pray that God will strengthen those blessings and allow them to help me grow according to his desires for me. seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.
we where hanging out in the living room as a family sunday afternoon when the girls suddenly shouted out they saw canada geese! darrell and i questioned them a bit about the specs of what a canada goose looked like, and their description was certainly that of a canada goose. we ran to the window, but saw nothing. we ran to the back window and again saw nothing. i suggested we hop in the van and drive to the nearest open ‘water’ to see if they had landed anywhere. no luck. we didn’t doubt the girls knowledge of what a canada goose looked like, nor that they would benefit from lying to us, but we did have some doubt that it was truly that time of year. that the geese had ventured this far north already. later that day, as i was throwing together some leftovers for a quick supper, i looked out the kitchen window to catch a glimpse of three geese flying in the regular V form south of our place. the husband was there beside me, and witnessed it as well. all doubt of the DD’s sighting was gone. hope of the change of seasons was here! signs of change where in sight!
what are you seeing change in your life? are you in the middle of a change of seasons? what do you look forward to most about spring?
My blog counter had been going haywire again laitly. I was silly enough to head over to alphainventions and condron.us again the other day, to browse through some blogs while holding my cranky teething baby. (i don’t normally have time for this, i promise! LOL). Well, needless to say, that ended up brining me heaps of visitors here. Apparently when you are on their site, and you have your site open on your computer, they feed your site through theirs for others to view and thus, providing you traffic. Interesting and complicated process…so needless to say, my counter shows many hits that I wouldn’t count as real traffic. I don’t consider myself real traffic to a site that passes through their system. Only when I click on a site to actually read it’s content do I consider it a hit. Regardless, i’m feeling mighty popular. I will venture out and say that a few peoples google searchs have helped them find their way here, according to my dashboard information here behind the scenes. I have had a few hits for those seeking information on Lemi Shine, Mennonite Girls Can Cook, and Icefishing! Now we’re feeling it! LOL.
Super excited this morning to have an hour to myself! I spent some time with the teacher (a good 10 min.), and then ventured out to do some window shopping and pricing! I checked out two local shops for their pricing on reasonably lovely furniture for our bedroom. I was hoping to stick to my budget of $1500 before taxes. Well, needless to say, I came out of those stores realizing I will have to spend about $2000 plus taxes. I do hope that I can compromise a bit with the idea of having dh build us a bed frame (platform style) and then I could come up with some headboard to hammer to the wall. The other portion of my dreaming excursion was at the central vac location. I’m dreaming of owning a vacuum cleaner powerhead. we have the central vac system in the house…and it’s been working fairly well for the last 35 years. The only thing it would need would be a bit of maitnance. (did I use that word right? we’re not sure of it’s exact meaning over here) I’m dreaming for things to happen here this spring!
Did I tell you laitly what ELSE I’ve been wasting my time with these days? The girls have these toys. They lye around the house, they beep at me from under who knows where, and I get SO annoyed with them. This leads me to fixing the problem. I hunt these toys down….and start playing with them to fix the problem. Did you know that you have to clean up potty messes after the digital pet shop pets? Did you know that you have to feed them, comb their hair, and play with them? Well. When these pets have been neglected for a while, they start singing out of the blue. They either need to eat, have a brushing, or made a mess. Once i’ve solved the problem I usually feel the need to do something more fun with them, so i’ll take them up on a game of bowling! I think I could get addicted. I think I could quite easily be challenged to keep my score on the top score podium. I’m not competitive normally. I just like to challenge my kids to be better, that’s all.
Well, I better get to my kitchen…Enjoy your friday! What’s on YOUR agenda?
I had been hearing about this contest on the radio this last week, and a Girlfriends was so kind to phone me up one day and tell me about it. It’s called “The 70’s called and they want their flooring back” . It’s a funny thing my friend thought of me…I can’t imagine why.
I will first say. I love this house. There’s many amazing features in it, and it has a lot of room. The core of it is built amazingly well, and the finishing touches where top notch when it was built. The flooring has lasted more years than the sales rep. I think could have imagined, and the shingles outlasted their ‘warranty period’ as well. I have nothing to complain about really, I guess I just want to keep up with the Jones’.
If it’s in my future, I’ll accept it. If it’s not, i’ll just keep mopping up this floor, chipping away at the flooring each time I do. 
I must say, looking through the gallery of pictures submitted to win. (REALLY, WHO puts RUG in a BATHROOM?) I do have it pretty good. But don’t we always want something better?
I love entering contests…so here’s my entry photo’s.
the kitchen floor...what's left of it.
I’m not sure if it’s fact or fiction, but this is what our weather is supposed to be in the next 14 days?!!!
yuckilicious, muckilicious. just plain ol’ messy by the sounds of things! is spring HERE?
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