Blogging, life and a pole barn!

While my total blog views over all clicked past 10,000 this past month, my views this month have tanked.

I'm lacking time and effort into this whee little blog. Sorry.

I would like to say it will get better, but it won't anytime soon.

I'm going to the INCH homeschool conference this coming weekend.

After FIVE long years of saving we finally had enough money to purchase a pole barn! We did not, however, have enough money to pay for labor. So, that means our summer will be spent building the pole barn! Along with of our most loving and generous friends.

We had the land cleared last week. Holes drilled in the ground for the poles to go in yesterday. That part was worth higher out. We had access to a dirt cheap (pun intended) Bobcat owner with a post hole digger attachment. $160 for all 25 holes drilled AND the 40X40 plot cleared. You can usually expect to pay $20 per hole drilled! We are so blessed.

Today we had 6 of those loving generous friends over and put up all but one pole for the main pole building. We were short one pole, but I'll just give a shout out to Delton Pole Building on Monday and we will no longer be short a pole.  They are wonderful people to work with. They take customer service to new heights. 

We also have 7 more poles for a lean to that need to go in the ground.

Over the next 2 weeks we hope to get all the horizontal boards boards on the poles. Then give another humbling shout out to our dear generous friends and put up the trusses. Then roofing, siding, doors...etc...

What an adventure!

HOW RUDE!!!

I sign up for e-mail newsletters. More than I can possibly read. I just delete most of them. Usually I end up unsubscribing after a few months of just deleting them.

I've found a new one, that I will tell you more about in another post.   I've actually read some of them. I file most of them away in a folder I've made in my email specifically just for this one newsletter. Never done that before.

Anyway,  my point is..

I get this newsletter today and I actually read it (I usually just file them into a folder in my email, remember, helpful right?! LOL)

Anyway it talks about your "critical voice" the voice in your head that tears you down...says your fat, can't do this or that...etc.. and how to overcome it.

But the part that got me is the thought that if some stranger came up to me and said these things that I think to me, I would think they were mentally ill or really rude, to say the least. I might even be a bit scared of them and either punch them in the face or run the other way.

So, why do I allow myself to be rude to me?

 

"How rude!"

 

 

I had never thunk of it that way before.

I am worth more than my rude way of self talk... I mean for pete's sake...God sent His one and only son to die for ME...even if I was the only one who ever accepted His gift of salvation He would of done it all over again. He loves me that much, why don't I love me half that much?!

 

 

Where did March go?!

Wow, where have I been? More than a month has passed since I last posted.

So, just WHERE was I?

Lets visit where my calendar says I was.

2nd- Winter Carnival at church complete with God's Helping Hands puppet show.
3rd- Kids sang at church
4th- Homeschool Partnership bldg for the kids classes Art, ballet/jazz, piano, and guitar.
5th- Massage therapy appointment for my back and leg pain
6th- Homeschool Partnership bldg Quick look at great books/Fencing and East Fork Farms and Kids
        church programs/our date night
7th- took my niece to her doctors appointment
8th- Acupuncture appointment for my back and leg pain
10th- Church
11th- Homeschool Partnership bldg for the kids classes Art, ballet/jazz, piano, and guitar.
12th- Massage therapy appointment for my back and leg pain
13th- Homeschool Partnership bldg Quick look at great books/Fencing and East Fork Farms and Kids
         church programs/our date night.
15th- Acupuncture and new herd share owner picked up milk the first time. :)
17th- Church
18th- Homeschool Partnership bldg for the kids classes Art, ballet/jazz, piano, and guitar. Vision 
         Screening for Collin for Vision therapy.
19th- Massage therapy
20th- Dentist appointment for fillings for 2 kids, Homeschool Partnership bldg Quick look at great
         books/Fencing and East Fork Farms, vision therapy results of screening meeting with
         Opthamologist (which I apparently can't spell or blog spot doesn't know how to), and Kids
         church programs/our date night. (I was running from place to place
         literally ALL day.)
24th- Church. Family Easter party at my house.
25th- Homeschool Partnership bldg for the kids classes Art, ballet/jazz, piano, and guitar.
          Elaine had PJ day at her ballet/jazz.
26th- Got the Furnace Annual maintenance done. Massage therapy.
27th- Homeschool Partnership bldg Quick look at great books/Fencing and East Fork Farms and Kids church programs/our date night.
30th- Had my friends 2 sons all day.
31st- Church. He has RISEN!!! :) Son Rise service with Baptismal, breakfast, Easter service with Communion.

Phew, is that all!?

I'm sure many of you are busier than this and some of you are not this busy. But I am ready for summer. I am ready for the busyness of school activities to stop. I'm sure we will just fill it up with something else, but I am ready.

And now I am running twice a week more than this taking Collin to his Vision therapy appointments. This too shall pass. :/

Chicken Wounds

While making my Store front on my blog, I came across a video Collin made of me cleaning up a chicken wound.

This chicken was attacked by another rooster. The hurt chickens name is Mache. Sounds kinda like maze and mange slurred together. It's the part of Dalmatian that says Mache. We had three roosters all at once. One named Doll. One named Mache. The final one damed Shun. I think, as Shun didn't live long.

Mache is our mascot of sorts and was the former picture on my blog header before I recently updated my blog.

SO, I thought it fitting to share more about him.

He has a life long home here. We won't be eating him. So much that he doesn't reside in the chicken coop. He lives in the goat barn. So, the other roosters won't attack him.

Here is the old old video of us trying to clean him up. Enjoy my goofy kids. Poor rooster, just remember he is all healed up now!

Piglet...

 

 

 

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.

“Pooh?” he whispered.

 

“Yes, Piglet?”

 

“Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand.

“I just wanted to be sure of you.”

 

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

 

 

I am often like Piglet. Insecure. Scared. Wanting to be "sure" of those I love, that they love me, too.

 

I don't often speak that out loud. I keep it inside. I make jokes. I try not to get close to people, so I don't get hurt when they walk away.

 

I often have to remind myself that Pooh didn't walk away from Piglet. He stayed right there. Kindly guiding him.

 

God is my Pooh. I am His Piglet.

 

"So do not worry, because I am with you. Do not be afraid because I am your God. I will support you with my right hand that saves you." Isiah 41:10

 

That verse is on my wall above my computer. To remind me God is with me, always, just as Pooh is there for Piglet.

 

 

"We'll be friends forever won't we, Pooh?" said Piglet.

"Even longer," Pooh answered.

 

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh



 

 

 

He said WHAT?!

My 11 year old Collin is such a ham.

I have been suffering with back and leg pain since Oct. 2011. Bulging disc in my low back. I've done Chiropractic and Physical Therapy. I started massage therapy yesterday.

When told I was going to therapy my dear son Collin says this...

"Mommy's getting therapy, the nightmare is over."

I'm sure it comes from some movie, as most of his antics do.

I'm also gonna ignore that the original version probably refers to mental health care.

He's my big joker. What can I say!?

COMING SOON!!!

Soon, YOU will be amazed at my ability to follow directions and ASK for HELP!

I am working on setting up a store front on my blog and possibly on my Facebook page!

This option will hopefully make it easier for you all to order my wonderful Goats Milk Soaps and stuffs.

WHAT??!! You didn't know I sold stuff?!

Yes, another reason I am opening a store front. :)

Don't worry this blog will still remain a fun loving place to come and read about my crazy life stories and recipes. :)

In the meantime, please ignore the mess while I am updating Ye Ole blog.