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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017
As August rolls along
I've been canning lots of pickles, some green beans from one of Daniel's Aunties and we were blessed to purchase over 50lbs of peaches this year... I canned some unsweetened sliced peaches and then I made over 13 quarts of peach jam sweetened with honey. And of course we've eaten a lot fresh. 😊 Just a few days ago was Tabitha's 5 month mark... hard to believe that she was born that long ago. Breastfeeding has been going great... thanks to health supplements and a couple herbs that I still take I have plenty of milk for her. It's been such a blessing to be able to feed her... and not have to give her formula. I am so thankful that I didn't dry up with her like I did with our boys. 💖 😊
Our garden is well underway... the potatoes are beginning to die off, so they can be harvested later on... we just had our first corn on the cob for supper last night... it will soon be coming in in bucket loads as we planted a lot! But between the Market Garden on Saturdays and giving some to friends I'm sure we won't be totally swamped with it. 😊
Our garden is well underway... the potatoes are beginning to die off, so they can be harvested later on... we just had our first corn on the cob for supper last night... it will soon be coming in in bucket loads as we planted a lot! But between the Market Garden on Saturdays and giving some to friends I'm sure we won't be totally swamped with it. 😊
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Peaceful moments
Last night I was laying watching the lightening out the window, listening to the thunder roll and rain fall steadily in the darkness, hearing Daniel's steady breathing, Tabitha's occasional stirs in her crib, the stirring/crinkling sound of our boys rolling over in their sleep.
It's hard to explain the feeling.
Happiness, thankfulness, feeling rather overwhelmed with how much I have been blessed, and feeling completely undeserving of the blessings.
And so a whispered prayer of gratitude to God, a grateful session as He reminds me in the moment that no matter what I am going through there is still peace to be found.
I don't have "every thing together" every day I look at my short comings and see my mistakes, I see my failings and I ache for my husband and children who have to endure my humanness on a daily basis. Yet there are moments of quiet peace, where I can forget for a time the things that hurt and I am thankful for those times.
It's hard to explain the feeling.
Happiness, thankfulness, feeling rather overwhelmed with how much I have been blessed, and feeling completely undeserving of the blessings.
And so a whispered prayer of gratitude to God, a grateful session as He reminds me in the moment that no matter what I am going through there is still peace to be found.
I don't have "every thing together" every day I look at my short comings and see my mistakes, I see my failings and I ache for my husband and children who have to endure my humanness on a daily basis. Yet there are moments of quiet peace, where I can forget for a time the things that hurt and I am thankful for those times.
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Long day
I feel that I accomplished a lot today... but our house is still a mess. 
Washed 3 loads of laundry, hung two on the line and had to wait for them to dry so the third load didn't get out on the line till this evening.
Picked about a gallon of tart cherries, the birds and ants have a hay day (oh make that cherry days) when our trees start ripening... by the time they are ripe enough to actually pick at least half of the cherries on the tree are bird pecked or ant riddled... but I have enough for either two pies or some cherry syrup.
Made Coleslaw for me... tried to persuade the boys to eat some, but they figured I was trying to poison them... So I get it all to myself...
Then the boys helped me clean the pool out... We'd drained it
mostly last night as the algae was starting to slowly build up and the filter system was getting pretty rough looking... It's now sparkling clean again... after a few hours it was full, and I put a proper ratio of bleach in it and turned the filter system on again to get it circulating all night.
The boys again were very helpful with weeding... pulled random weeds out of the potatoes that had gone to seed, and also tried to get all the portulaca weed out... grrrr... I dislike that weed... look it up and you'll see why. It wasn't here when we moved here, we got dirt from two different farmers, one had portulaca and now we fight it trying to keep it from taking over our garden.
After we did the potatoes the boys helped me pull weeds near the onions and beets... after a bit they all left, and then Isaiah came back and helped me again. Matthew and Seth decided to turn over the burning barrel and begin playing in the ashes. I stopped them before they really did anything with the ashes though.
Throughout the day I fed and cared for Tabitha... she's such a content little baby, just like her brothers were. Happy as can be to be a part of our family, as long as she's fed and had enough sleep that is.
Washed 3 loads of laundry, hung two on the line and had to wait for them to dry so the third load didn't get out on the line till this evening. Picked about a gallon of tart cherries, the birds and ants have a hay day (oh make that cherry days) when our trees start ripening... by the time they are ripe enough to actually pick at least half of the cherries on the tree are bird pecked or ant riddled... but I have enough for either two pies or some cherry syrup.
Made Coleslaw for me... tried to persuade the boys to eat some, but they figured I was trying to poison them...
So I get it all to myself... Then the boys helped me clean the pool out... We'd drained it
mostly last night as the algae was starting to slowly build up and the filter system was getting pretty rough looking... It's now sparkling clean again... after a few hours it was full, and I put a proper ratio of bleach in it and turned the filter system on again to get it circulating all night.
The boys again were very helpful with weeding... pulled random weeds out of the potatoes that had gone to seed, and also tried to get all the portulaca weed out... grrrr... I dislike that weed... look it up and you'll see why.
It wasn't here when we moved here, we got dirt from two different farmers, one had portulaca and now we fight it trying to keep it from taking over our garden.After we did the potatoes the boys helped me pull weeds near the onions and beets... after a bit they all left, and then Isaiah came back and helped me again.
Matthew and Seth decided to turn over the burning barrel and begin playing in the ashes. I stopped them before they really did anything with the ashes though. Throughout the day I fed and cared for Tabitha... she's such a content little baby, just like her brothers were. Happy as can be to be a part of our family, as long as she's fed and had enough sleep that is.
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