Spring Break

This is Spring Break week! On Monday we tagged along with Mom while she was RV shopping. It was a nice day and full of giggles since we were lost most of the time. We were headed to Carthage to a camper place but it wasn't in Carthage it was more in Joplin. Oh well we found it after a while and then she test drove a camper and we rode along. Which was pretty comical also. Those things are bumpy and can make you sea sick very easily. Anyways we had a great day all in all. Thankfully she saved me from cooking dinner since we didn't get back to town till 5 and I had laid nothing out thinking that we would be back long before dinner.  So today I had to catch up on laundry and I had to grocery shop. I was really looking forward to the grocery shopping. HA! After all that I was able to squeeze in a mile walk around the park and then the kids played. I really didn't do that much. We did huff and puff around the track though. It felt nice to be exercising but dang I am so lazy. I am not sure I want to do it again. HA!


On Tuesday nights we do Family Fun Night. The last several weeks we have been watching the Bible Series on The History channel. There has been some pretty neat scenes. The parting of the red sea being my favorite so far. Anyways we were talking about Herod and his illness and Rowdy said "Doesn't he have that cheetah stuff?" We both cracked up. Tonight's episode was all in all good. You could pick these to pieces on things but I feel that maybe they are reaching people that don't know God and this will get them into Church to learn more and be saved. We have been studying The Book of Revelation and it has been very eye opening. I am very anxious to see how that is portrayed and I hope that they don't try to lessen the blow. It is not going to be pretty for the unbelievers. I know where I stand. Do you know where you stand?

Blog, What blog?

I am a blogger now. To bad I never remember to blog. I have thought about it several times over the last few days but haven't sat down long enough to do it. So what has happened in our lives over the last few weeks. Let's see. We bought a car for Kris. I call it his hoopty. It's a 2 door Buick regal. We are currently looking for a disco ball for the rear view mirror. HAHA It has a rug on the dash which really cracks me up. I told Kris that he needs vacuumed which made me laugh more. It seems to be a good little car and he is fine with driving it so all is well. The best thing about the car is no payments! YEHAW! We own the hoopty free and clear. So that is pretty much it for new things but it is spring break this week. Let the gardening begin! We are going to till up the garden this week and then I am going to start several things here in the house. Mostly tomatoes. We will see how that goes. I figure that if it goes south then we can always buy the plants later.

I am happy to say that I am still doing the NO POO. It is working well. I don't itch like mad all the time but I do on occasions. I can live with that. I am still flaky so I still have the psoriasis but its not irritated all the time. Meanwhile I went yesterday and got my hair cut. I didn't do anything drastic just a trim. I was torn on getting layers or just leaving it and just leaving it won out. I didn't do the layers. Would like to have it a bit longer then get layers. It drives me crazy when I cant put all my hair in a pony tail without hair falling down. Oh and they yanked by eye brows out. I hadn't been to the salon since May or June. WOW! The best part of the whole salon visit was that Paisley got her hair cut into a bob. It looks adorable and it fits her sassy personality to a T. I love it!!!

Well last night was a weird night. Kris nor I could sleep. We were both up till 2 am. Very odd for us cause we are not late night people. Anyways I got up with Paisley around 8 (Thankfully she slept in) then I waited till about 9 and started cooking breakfast. Kris got out of bed when he smelled the bacon haha. We ate a great breakfast of french toast and bacon. Then we got started on our list of chores for the day. Kris mowed the yard and I started on the garage. He stopped me from further cleaning when I got to his fishing tackle corner which was TERRIBLE. We got the lawn mowed, garage cleaned and Kris got to break in his new smoker/grill that I surprised him with earlier this week. Rowdy and I decided that Kris needed a surprise for all his hard work in taking care of us and so we found a good price on a small smoker/grill at Wal-Mart. We had grilled last weekend but the leg fell off the grill while in use and so we had to toss it. This replaced it and it was a very nice surprise for Kris. So we seasoned that today and then grilled some chicken wings. It was yummy. I am not a fan of wings because they seem slimy to me. They were grilled really good though.

Well till the next time y'all.

It's my Birthday and I'll cry if I want to....

Today is my Birthday but I am not crying in the least bit. Now if Monday had been my Birthday then crying would have been exactly what I did. I was pretty sure that my throat and ears were being cut off by some cruel individual they hurt so bad. Let's start at the beginning. I woke up Saturday morning and my chest hurt. Like the kind of hurt that when you breath in cold air it feels like you swallowed needles. Well I took some medicine and went on about my day. By the time Sunday rolled around I knew there was no way I could go to Church. Boy, am I glad that I didn't. I would have infected the whole Church. I stayed in all day and pretty much just laid around and slept. Monday morning I woke up and felt even worse. So much so that I said I am going to the Dr. So I called and got an appointment at 2:30 in Gentry but I was hurting so bad that I was ready to be seen right then. So I asked Ronda to come and get me and see if I could go to the walk in clinic in Wal-Mart in Siloam. So she drives me to Siloam and guess what? The stinking place has moved and no one has a clue as to where. So we end up back at the house and she takes the kids with her to do her grocery shopping and I zonk out in bed. I am exhausted after the trip to Siloam and somewhat loopy from the pain. Very Strange feeling. Anyways at 2 my Mom comes back here and gets me and we head to my 2:30 appointment only to sit there for an hour waiting on the Dr. UGH! Slowest clinic in the world. Mom checked on why it was taking so long after 30 minutes and then I sprawled out on the couch(seriously) and then after another 30 minutes I staggered up to see what the hold up was. I finally got into see the Dr about 10 minutes later. So they weighed me and blah blah blah and took my temperature and said oh my your temperature is 101.2. I said ok. I mean really I have been here a blooming hour when I left the house AN HOUR ago it was only 100.5. So the nurse rushes around and looks for me some Tylenol. The clinic has NONE. Yes, I said NONE! I promise you after that they had me lickety split out of there! I was done in 10 minutes time. HA! They wouldn't shake my hands either....I don't get it. I kid I kid. I didn't try to shake hands with them. So after 2+ hours I finally get home, fed and off to bed I went. So in that long ramble the point is that even though I am NOT 100% better I am better than I was on Monday. I really had no plans of celebrating my birthday today anyways. Rowdy is quite concerned as to why adults don't have birthday parties like kids do. I believe for that reason alone he is in no hurry to be an adult. :) Well I gotta go. Sorry for my ramblings and if it makes no since. I cant type and make since at the same time so I don't try.


Never mind maybe I will just cry. UGH!!!!!

Role model

Being a role model. This weighs heavy on my heart a lot. What kind of person am I teaching my children to be? I feel like I am doing a pretty good job of showing them how to be. I had a wonderful upbringing but there are things that I would have changed. Mostly going to Church regularly. I now see that finding a good church is hard to come by(not saying that was the issue) thus the reason we drive to our Church even living far away. I really try to watch what I do and say so that I am setting a good example. I strive daily to give Rowdy a firm foundation of God by studying the bible with him, giving him memory verses each week to both write and memorize, and by going to Church not because we have to but because we yearn to learn more about God. I really do think that Church attendance is so very important to raising a child. If we don't attend regularly then why should they go EVER? There is so much they can learn at Church about God and it makes it easy to come home and practice those teachings. I also strive very hard to give Rowdy the best education that I can. I did not have that great of an education and I really want him to have better. Oh, I had good teachers along the way but they didn't follow me all the way through school and help me along. I made good grades for the most part but when it came time to college I was VERY unprepared. So much so that I only went to the Community College for 1 year and was in tears for the most part through most all of that. I was in remedial course for everything. It was very disheartening to a mostly "A" student.I don't want that for Rowdy. I am really learning along the way and we are only at the beginning. I will be able to take college courses after I get done homeschooling and probably pass with no issues. I could careless about going to college at this point in my life. I have found my calling and I am truly content with it. I think my kids see my love for God, Kris and them among other family and friends. I am truly blessed but I know with God's help all these things can be improved and I am ready and willing for any changes in my spiritual life.

Prayers

Is God still listening? How many times have I wondered that exact thing. I tell you that I couldn't count the times. I often get this silly feeling that He isn't and I have to remind myself that nothing is my timing it is ALL His timing. My devotions this morning was on just that. What perfect timing. I have signed up for the daily devotions on the Charles Stanley site and it seems that they hit home with exactly my feelings each day or at least remind me of God's will. This morning devotions laid heavy on my heart for my friend. I ended up forwarding her the devotion. I am sure that she has heard these things before but it hit home with me and reminded me that God perceives the WHOLE picture and we see the moment that we are in and the past situations. So our "valleys" that we maybe in now are really just God getting our blessing lined up for us. My heart aches for the family and the unknown that they are facing now. Even though prayers are not answered in our time it is such a peace to know that God is still right beside us the whole way and that we must walk in obedience to Him. 

Psalm 25:20-21

²⁰ O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.


I hope that this blesses you like it did me.

First thing that I am going to say is that I am so thankful for a pastor that preaches on finances. You know if we sat down and put pen to paper with our finances it wouldn't work out but we do always come through and all of our needs are met. I know that as long as our needs are met then our wants will come in God's timing not ours.I also love when I go to Church and am reminded that we are in God's will. I know that we are but that reminder is so helpful. I have a few people really on my heart to pray for and boy have I been praying my heart out. On Monday the need for prayer was feverish almost. I felt restricted like I didn't need to do much of anything else but pray. Isn't it wonderful how God works?
We went to our Valentine's day party with our Home-school group and we had a really good time. I cut out 44 mustaches and attached them to suckers and I think it was a great hit. We came home and I made heart shaped biscuits and Rowdy requested I make the sausage patties heart shaped too. So I did those then made gravy. My guys LOVE biscuits and gravy. I am not so big on it but they really like them. Then we played a short game of Monopoly. I know there really isn't such a thing as a short game of Monopoly. It was a start the game and in 30 minutes we are done. HA! That game is tiring.
Well that is all for now folks. Have a blessed weekend.

Warning

I am fixing to blog about my day with Paisley Sage. I will tell you that if you have a weird belly then you might not want to read any further.

Today Paisley pooped her pants and before I could get her changed she had a "ball of poop" in her hands. Thankfully I don't think that it made it to her mouth but I did not smell her breath to make sure. Rowdy and I later had a conversation about this and he thought it was weird that the poop had grown legs and walked out of her diaper but he followed by saying "There is a first time for everything". He said this whole growing legs thing because when he cant find something or something is where it shouldn't be then I always say "Well it cant grow legs and walk off". This was one of those Oh crud how many times have I said that to him and now he is throwing it back at me. So then she got a hold of two sharpies(still not sure where they came from) and she colored on her belly. She never colors on the walls only herself. I have yet to figure out my feelings on that part. Sharpie is hard to get off skin. Paint is easy to use on walls lol.  So a few hours after poop play she bit a hunk out of a stick of butter.(I thought I should say it was a few hours(which it was) after the poop thing since she may have eaten some and well then bit into the butter lol) This is not the first butter tasting she has had. I am pretty sure she likes butter. After the butter she found a dead fly on the floor and she picked it up to inspect it and well as she put the fly on her tongue the fly flew away startling her. She exclaimed OH. This sounds like I didn't try to stop her from eating the fly and well I didn't. She had it from floor to mouth in seconds. Our house is full of flies and I would be lying if I said that I was glad the fly flew away. HAHAHAHA! 

Needless to say my kids keep me hopping always and I am forever thankful for that. 

Walking...calorie counting

Well I started on Saturday logging my calories on My Fitness Pal to see how many calories per day I was eating and how far off mark I was. Well so far I went over one day (Sunday). Today I started walking. Oh boy. I forgot how much better I feel after walking. I have a huge amount of energy after I walk. It is so nice. I must keep this up. I did try something that I haven't did since Elementary school. Rowdy decided that I should draw a hop scotch on the back porch and then show him how to do it. PHEW! I did good but my poor ankles screamed after walking a mile then jumping. HA! I will not be doing that ever again. Well I will probably forget but hopefully it wont be any time soon that I forget.

So my "resolutions" for the year. Well I am happy to report that I am doing very well on the only one I remember which is Bible Study. I am learning to work around the kids and do it when I can and I love it! I can just feel the closeness to God. I did get a wee off track during the sickness that we had going around the family but I got right back on track. I'd have to look back and see what the other resolutions are so I am assuming that I totally dropped them. :) The most important one was bible study daily and not missing it here and there.

Well tonight is Family Fun night and the pizza is going so I better get off and get the stuff ready so we can let the fun begin.

Blessings Y'all,
Kari

Rowdy's got it.

Well this has been quite the month for us. Last Wednesday I started getting sick. Finally by Monday I felt like I was on the mend. This is Wednesday and I am much better although I do still have a nagging headache. Not even ibuprofen will knock this headache. Enough about me. Let's talk about my little ones. So Monday we started back to a normal school schedule and all went well till Rowdy got up today. YUP! Hello, stomach bug. We got started doing school and did our verses, and the handwriting page and Rowdy said his belly was hurting. So he went to bed, then to the bathroom, then to the bathroom. You see where I am going with this. Well yesterday evening Paisley had about 5 dirty diapers in a few hour time period and really I didn't think much of it cause it wasn't loose per say. Well it sure clicked this morning. So Rowdy has laid around all day and I have monitored his temperature and changed more dirty diapers on Paisley. I really thought the sickness had went down the road and tonight we were going to get to go back to Church. WRONG! So sad but I knew he was sick when I mentioned Church and he said no way can I go. I feel like we haven't been to Church in a month and I am tired of it but we will be back and this I know. Guess what? I cant wait either!!! I wonder if people long to go to Church like we do? I really look forward to going and learning more. Oh, I can learn the Word here at home but there is nothing like hearing it explained to you and get right to the root of what God has gave us to learn. I LOVE IT! There is always Sunday and did I mention I am looking forward to it! Meanwhile back at the house Rowdy is running a low grade fever. CRUD!

Sick

Well crud!!!! I am sick! I think I have the stinking rotten flu! I thought today that I would just be better. Wrong! Now it is in my ears, nose and throat. I can't swallow without my throat hurting. Can't talk without it hurting. Now my head hurts too. It has been rather quiet around here needless to say. I made Kris get me out of the house(we drove around) today because I felt like I was stewing in my own juices here. So we turned the heater off in the house, opened a window and left. Came back after I had a good nap on the road. I didn't feel any better after all that and the house was cold. Go figure! Bah humbug to this Saturday! I guess if I am not better by Monday then I will suck it up and go to the Dr. I hate to go to the Dr especially not having insurance. So if anyone reads this please say a prayer that I get better quick! I let school slide on Thursday and Friday. By sliding I mean we didn't finish it all each day. No biggie really but if I had a sub it would have been better! HA! I am really hoping that I am better by morning so we can go to Church cause I despise missing Church. I feel so out of touch with my whole week. Like everything is not starting on the right foot. Well I think I will go and let my ear boil with peroxide then I will put some sweet oil in it and hit the sheets soon. Sorry for the whining.....not really.

Detox Bath

I took a detox bath tonight after fighting this head cold stuff all day. Yesterday I had a cough and sore throat of the evening but when I woke this morning it was bad. I went to the store this morning and grabbed several drugs and decided then that I need to try this detox bath to see if that helps. Well I went to Moms house to get in her garden tub and I dumped in 2 cups of Epsom salts, 1 cup of baking soda and about 1/4 cup of ginger. Boy, did I start to sweat. I sat in there for about 30 minutes then I put Paisley in it and she played for about 10 minutes. I got out of the tub about 6:40 and am still sweating and its 7:55. I got home and put away dinner, did some laundry and was sure I was going to pass out in weakness and hot. So I took my temperature thinking maybe I was feverish but I don't have a fever. Hopefully this helps rid me of whatever but I am not counting on it but it was rather disturbing how much it made me sweat.

I forgot to post this last night. My brain is pretty cloudy still but I think everything is lose and moving around so that's good. Not sure that the bath worked for me but it sure didn't hurt me.

School Room and some other rambles

Well we have been doing school in the dining room utilizing one end of the dining room table and really it gets pretty spread out and so then it stays and has to be shoved to one end to sit at the table to eat. So Kris has decided that I need to move the school stuff into the toy room. I have put my foot down after the whole escapade with bathroom DS that I will not move anything till there is some sort of partition put up to block view of toys. I have a feeling that I will be constantly in there making sure he isn't playing. Anyways so nothing has moved but the play room is much more clean! HA!

Paisley has decided that she likes to take an evening nap instead of an afternoon nap and she wont go to sleep till we drive around. Tonight I took off and drove through the "hood" and then went towards town and got to the four way stop and looked back and she was crashed! Completely gone. I drove up and around by the cemetery and said Hi to Dad and then came on back home. We visit his grave once per week. I assume that will taper off because I never see anyone else visiting their loved ones but I sure like to go and see his pretty headstone with his handsome face on it. It is a good reminder of his face.

We have been doing family fun nights on Tuesday nights and it is a lot of fun. We end up playing A LOT of board games and I must say that I am not getting any better at Yahtzee. I find that game rather confusing. I want to complete them in order of the sheet and not think about it much more than that but that isn't the name of the game. I guess that is just the blonde coming out. I rock at Connect Four though and am pretty good at pick up sticks. You know those no brainer games. 

Paper Rater....

I found a FREE online site that you can use for a grammar check......cha ching! I bet this will be fun. It will probably irritate me so much and confuse me cause it doesn't "get me" that I will just quit blogging but I am going to give it a whirl. Stay tuned for less confusion....errr maybe!

Quiet....not Quite.

Apparently I have been needing Quite time not Quiet time. Yeah, I am goofy and didn't even notice. Darn it I need grammar check. Thanks Shanna for pointing this out of me. So until next time when I need a quiet time which will probably be quite sometime away! HA!

I got a laugh out of it but I really do need to do better. There is always next time. :) 

Fail

It's one of those days or hey even one of those weeks. We have done school for hours on end and no that isnt an issue but the fighting to get things done is the issue. He is understanding things fine but he doesnt want to do any of it. Today he was writing his spelling words four times each and it took almost 2 hours cause he procrastinated the whole way through it. Meanwhile here is MY fail. On Monday during school Rowdy started going to the bathroom A LOT during school. I just assumed he was going and doing his business although sometimes he would take forever to poop. Anyways I would yell (Yes, yell. That's the kind of person I am when at my wits end) "Hurry up and POOP!" So this goes on for Monday, Tuesday and then started the day off with doing it too. Let me lay the scene out for you for today. I tell him that he has to write each spelling word 4 times each. He whines no, not 4 times. I say ok how about 6 times each. He says ok fine 4 times each is what I'll do. So then after about 30 minutes of writing a few of the words he goes into the bathroom. Meanwhile I am doing this and that and I yell hurry up and poop. So he reappears about 10 minutes after my yelling. So then he works on the words some more and about another 30 minutes go by and off to the bathroom he goes. Well this time I decided to see what the deal was instead of yelling at him. Well guess what I see when I walk into the bathroom. My little boy sitting on the pot playing his Nintendo DS game. Plugged in and charging so conveniently while he "Poops". Well I grew up with the phrase(I will clean it up) "Poop or get off the pot" Well I explained that phrase to my beloved little boy today. I also took the DS away for weekdays and it can only be played on the weekends and NEVER to be played in the bathroom nor charged in the bathroom. Really why did it take me to Wednesday to figure this out? I am so slow! The crazy kid has a weird stomach and so I really thought he was pooping. So mind you when I discovered he was playing his DS my Mom walked in the house and got to witness the whole scene. I was really close to throwing the DS away. I was so peeved about it. Happy School week here at the Lemley's.

 I wonder if anyone else has these crazy shenanigans going on at their homeschool? 

Sickies, grouchies and piggy tails.

Paisley started getting sick on Wednesday and ran a fever for 24 hours. We didn't attend Church on Wednesday since she was sick. Kris had to work late on Wednesday night so we had to get someone to fill in for our AWANA class. Then late yesterday she got better but I started feeling yucky. Ending up puking up my toenails. Well I heaved enough that they should have came up but they are still there. I then went to bed to toss and turn most of the night. I haven't been running a fever and after getting whatever off my belly have been fine since. Paisley is better but after nap it takes her a bit to snap out of the fog. She is eating again and making up for not eating on Wednesday. Hopefully no other person in the house gets it. Meanwhile I had cabin fever due to not leaving the house since Tuesday but I got out today and went to Hobby Lobby. It was nice to look around and not be in a hurry. We also went to Payless shoes and found Paisley some black dress shoes for Church. She has black boots but really needed some plain black dress shoes. They are sparkly and cute. She will probably grow out of them next week. She grows fast whereas Rowdy wears things for 2-3 years before outgrowing them. Funny how different each child is. I finally was able to take time and get Paisley's hair into piggy tails today. It looks so cute! I have tried before but she really wouldn't sit still so a simple straight up(fountain) pony tail was simplest. I am in love with the piggy tails though. Here is a picture of her. She isn't very happy about getting the picture taken and my lens was smudged so its not the best picture but she still looks darling to me. 

Now that this picture is so big I see that I need to vacuum. There is always tomorrow or Monday. I did rearrange the living room yesterday and vacuumed everywhere before moving stuff to its new spot's but today it is needed again. Vacuuming is really a need to do daily thing around here. So is sweeping. I need to get better at sweeping after each meal. It would be much better. I also cleaned the stove top up. I didn't know till recent that you could lift up the top(where the burners are) and clean under there. Over the summer I boiled something over and it made a mess and I didn't know how to clean under there and I tried sucking stuff out but it didn't work. Now I know. So I did that and then I turned the self cleaning feature on and opened a few windows up and enjoyed the 64 degree weather we had. Only in Arkansas can it be 64 in January and well it'll probably snow tomorrow! HA! I'll take 64 over snow any day though. 

Have a good weekend! 

Kari

Date Day

We had a date day (few hours anyway) today. It was nice. Mom watched the kids and we headed out to some pawn shops. We are looking for a small gun anyways stopped at a gunsmith shop in Siloam and found a small gun for $189 but not really what we are wanting. So then we decided that we would go to the Northwest Arkansas Convention Center to the gun show but the line was out the door and almost to the end of the building so we decided we didn't want to do that. So we looked at a few more pawn shops and then headed back home. All in all it was a nice day together and we did a lot of driving and talking. We didn't find a small gun but we were just starting our search.

So Paisley has been really hateful to Kris since he started growing out his beard. So much so that when he comes home from work she would only glare at him, she wouldn't hug him, kiss him, sleep close to him and well wouldn't come near him even. So yesterday he shaved it off and all was back to normal. She once again loves her Daddy. I hadn't really thought about it but she wouldn't even go over to him while sleeping she would stay snugged up against him before "the beard" but since "the beard" she has slept right by me. Well last night after he shaved it was back to normal. She snuggled with me like normal and it wasn't long she was inching over to Daddy. Daddy was quite happy about having his baby girl close again.

Pinterest Fail

Today I made translucent powder for either over your foundation or just as is. Anyways I used 1/2 tablespoon of cornstarch, 1/8 tsp cocoa, and 1/4 tsp of baby powder. The recipe calls for 1 tsp of the baby powder but I didn't use quite that much. I got it all mixed up. I also added a wee bit more cocoa to get more color. I then put on my face and about 20 minutes later my face itched like mad. FAIL!

Fire Department

So a few weeks ago I contacted one of the volunteers on the Decatur Fire Department and asked if we could bring them cookies for Christmas. Well they had already had their meeting for December the day before I called so I opted for their January Meeting. It wasn't entirely a Christmas thing more of a Appreciation for their voluntary work. There are 12 men on the fire department and I know all of them and even went to school with most of them or went to school with their kids. That's a great thing about living in a small town. Anyways I really want Rowdy to have a giving heart and be appreciative of people that do stuff that maybe has never and Lord willing never will effect us. They take time away from their families to save other families and most of the time putting themselves at risk to do that job. I appreciate that and I hope that after tonight and Rowdy meeting these "real" people that he will appreciate them. Every day I wonder if I am doing things right with my kids and not have them take things for granted because that is so easy. I know that I take too many things for granted and I assume that they probably do too even at their young ages. Rowdy is pretty excited and curious about these guys because he assumed that they worked at the Fire Department and lived there. So after some explaining that they don't live there and that they have families and jobs that they tend to daily he is pretty excited about going. He even pitched in and scooped all the cookies.

So far so good on most all my goals for 2013. Except the exercise. I cant get excited about exercise in the house and being outside when its cold. I should be out there now since it is sunny but alas I am waiting on a batch of cookies to be done. Kris and Mom like chocolate chip cookies minus the chocolate chips. I must say they are good but not helping me lose weight either.

January 1, 2013

Well I cant believe the new year is here. I have been thinking a lot about different aspects of my life that I need to work on. I am not going to disclose those things but I am hoping that I can making these changes that are needed. Somethings are just improvements. Strengthen things so to speak. As for day 1. I did absolutely nothing, notta, nope not a thing. It was kind of nice. Well I take that back I did cook breakfast here at the house but I didn't clean up. Then we went to Mom's and had a Duck Dynasty Marathon and smoked ribs, made coleslaw and fried taters. There I cut the cabbage for the slaw, peeled and chopped taters and threw them in the skillet and that was pretty much it. Most of us did a whole lot of nothing today and boy was it nice. Tomorrow is back to reality. We are not starting school but we have to get this house righted and ready for school to start back on Monday. Tomorrow we start back to AWANA and I have to get ready. I did a few things on break but I didn't get them all done. I still have to finish the poster boards with the verses on it. It is not easy to write big, not cursive, and neat. I am terrible at this.

Meanwhile I am totally fascinated by homesteading blogs. Yeah, it is very strange...foreign almost to me that people want to go from having electricity in their house at their finger tips 24/7 to solar power and oil lamps. I am not at all fascinated on living with no running toilets, showers, sinks, washers/dryers. I am however truly fascinated that they grow, can, kill most all that they eat. Goats for milk, chicken for eating and for eggs, huge gardens, fruit trees, a more simple life if you will with very little or no money spent at the store. Now do I want to buy a 5 gallon bucket and this huge plunger thing and start washing clothes....errrr NOPE. I hate doing the laundry as of now and I just have to toss into the machines. I would really have an outrageous laundry room if I had to plunge stuff. So in saying all this I am ready to start planting a HUGE garden and some fruit bearing trees. Mom thankfully has decided that we should grow a big garden at her house and so we are going to start hunting for soil to work with now and I have a list already of what we are going to maybe grow. Meanwhile I guess I'll just read some more blogs. I am always fascinated on how people live. I am not sure if people will believe this but there are stranger people out there than ME! HA!! I find it rather fascinating and I am learning along the way. No worries I don't plan to throw pee out the window anytime soon to lower my bills and be more off grid. My neighbors will be thankful since their front door is out my window! bahahahahaha. I have decided to be a bit more self sufficient if at all possible this year and years to come.