Forced Sabbatical?

 

   It appears that my blog life must remain quiet for awhile…… We are in the depths of getting ready to move. I hate moving! :oP   Because we were only going to be here a month (that was 9 months ago!) we didn’t take the time to sort or purge as we packed. We had a BIG time crunch and so everything got tossed in tubs. Fast forward to now, said tubs were fairly brittle and a lot of our stuff was exposed to moisture as it sat in my folks garage. I am in the midst of going through box by box and tossing everything with mold/mildew, purging our belongings to try and bring some simplicity to our lives, and washing EVERYTHING fabric that has been stored. It all STINKS! :oP   To complicate matters my children are in *LOVE* with everything that has been packed away and so almost every decision gets a subtle guilt trip. *Sigh*  I have no idea where they get their packrat tendencies! <rolling eyes>  I am trying to be ruthless in my purging but am not sure that I am succeeding. I am making progress though and still avoiding pre-term labor and bed rest!  I am hoping that by pacing myself I can keep my contractions to a minimum and get moved before baby. Still not happy with the new housing situation but am working on submission to God’s will and trying not to hope that He will do a last minute miracle and provide us with some room for the kids to play lest I set my heart on it and get disappointed! ;o)   Once we have moved I am not sure when/if we will have internet :o( or how long it will take to get settled. Anyhow, I could be gone for awhile but it shouldn’t be forever so, my faithful few readers, don’t give up on me! :o)

  I have some amazing pics to post of the kids but am not sure when that will happen…….. Maybe I can sneak it in before the move?  We’ll see

More kids

Well, these aren’t the pics from this weekend, these are still May pics! I thought I should post them before I get to June pics ;o)  and I haven’t gotten June’s pics off of my camera yet!  :oP  Maybe tonight?  haha

 

Here is my lovely J, complete with her “Holly wood smile”. She is definitely in the posing phase!

 

 

Here is my beautiful B and, though she is in the posing phase too, I love how this one turned out!

Here is my handsome little man!  Shadows were a bugger in this photo but over-all I am pleased.  It shows such a different look than the last pic I posted of him…….

And, for J’s pleasure, here is our much loved Milo. Isn’t he cute?!?!?!

The highlights of our week

This week has been an interesting one……. Right now everyone is sleeping but me. I wish I were but I just ate and well, with baby taking up so much room in there, I just can’t lay down after eating. :o(   We have had lots of family fun this week. We went to the beach one eve and it was amazing!  I was so tired afterwards I thought I would drop but we lived through it. Sadly I had to make the hard choice to leave my camera in the car. I wanted new beach pics of the kids but last time I took it to the beach is when it started acting up. Hard as I try to protect it from blowing sand I am not sure I am fully able to and I don’t want a repeat of of camera probs now that my warranty is expired!  The kids each found “perfect” walking sticks, which came home with us, and the girls names theirs. ;o) They love to name things!

  We spent several hours yesterday at a neighbors because my sweet hubby had agreed to mow the property. We were not able to finish but we had a lot of fun while there. Kids made forts, climbed “mountains”, explored nooks and crannies, had a picnic, rode with Daddy on the lawn mower, etc….  I, for the first time in my almost 30yrs of life, mowed a yard!!! It was a rider so I can’t get too big headed about it, but it was fun! :o) I also got, what just might be, the worst sun burn of my life. :oP  I forgot that my skin has not seen the light of day in forever and my shoulders are now a nice bright lobster red and have a few little blisters, and my nose is just a few shades lighter. :o)    I took oodles of pics so hopefully will have a couple good ones to post.  It was hard to get good pics of the kids because I mostly saw them running in the distance. :o)  We may go back today and have a picnic dinner and try to finish mowing. Not sure yet…… but if we do I am definitely taking sunscreen!!! 

Interesting thoughts...... (renamed post)

   Today I stumbled upon this quote by Dave Hunt that I thought was interesting. It is a different perspective than the popular one that I usually hear touted, so I thought I would share :o)   Nothing like a little food for thought! ;o)

The subject of social and political activism is a difficult and controversial one among Christians who truly want to do the Lord’s will; and I do not suggest that those who disagree with me desire to obey the Lord any less than I do.
The Roman Empire was not a democracy and therefore its citizens did not have the opportunities to exercise a Christian influence in it which we have today in the United States. That would not, however, have prevented Christ and the Apostles from actively working toward improved morality and social justice. That they faced the wrath of the government and even death did not deter them from preaching the gospel, which was vigorously opposed by both religious and political leaders, so it would hardly have inhibited them from at least social activism—yet they never engaged in it. Furthermore, there are Bible examples of those who had the opportunity to exercise great moral influence over whole societies (Noah, Joseph, Naaman, Daniel, et al.), yet the Bible contains no hint that they even attempted to do so. That fact weighs heavily upon me.
I desire to be obedient to God’s Word. I cannot escape the fact that I find nothing in Scripture to support social and political activism on the part of the church. I’m not trying to argue, but ask sincerely that those who disagree explain why Christ said explicitly that He did not pray for the world (Jn 17:9); why He never addressed the evils of the Roman Empire or of King Herod but confined Himself to critiquing and correcting the Jewish religious leaders and His followers or would-be followers; why the Epistles are intended to correct only the church and Christians, but never involve any rebuke of the world or any instruction to believers to work for moral improvement of the world around them?
We have great detail in Acts concerning the activities of Paul, but never do we find him engaging in social action. Surely the fact that the Roman Empire was not a democracy would not have prevented him from organizing Christians to work for improved morals and justice in their cities and neighborhoods.
Yet we find none of this. That fact, again, weighs heavily upon me. Of even greater concern is the fact that today’s church leaders who have dedicated themselves to opposing the immorality in secular society have so little to say in opposition to apostasy and rampant false doctrine in the church.

 

More kids pics and random news

  I fear I have been neglecting my blog.  I think about blogging often but just can’t decide what to blog about…..  I have more pics to put up but my current struggle with discontentment has seeped over into my bloggy thoughts and so I just don’t want to put anything up. :oP   Sad, but true.  So today I have decided to post pics of the kids from May. 

Here is my beautiful J looking so grown up:

My beautiful B, full of laughter and fun:

  

And my handsome Little Man, full of mischief and cuddles:

I apologize for the funky angle on Isaiah’s pic. Every time I tried to get down on his level he would come running forward and all I could get were his nose hairs, I thought a funny angled pic was better than that! ;o)

 

For randomness’ sake, some of you know that I have, ahem, *a few* food allergies/intolerances. Anyhow we have been on the hunt for a more varied selection of proteins for me. We now eat Lamb, Cod, Salmon, Buffalo, and Bison meats as well as sheep cheese on a regular basis (along with Beef), We have tried Rabbit and, once we find a good source, will eat that regularly. Tonight, thanks to my SIL A, we are trying goat. We are hoping to be able to get set up to where we can raise our own rabbits and goats for our meat but that may be awhile!

In other randomness Sunday marked the big 30 for us….. no not years (yet….)! Weeks!   I am not ready to be in the countdown stage of pregnancy!  Well, I am from a health perspective but NOT from a life perspective.  I so want to know where we will be living and be getting a home ready to welcome this new life into. I am not good at waiting for these kinds of details and am terrified of them coming last minute. I am a planner…….

Today was/is the first nice day in forever and the kids are actually in shorts!  Loving the sun! That vit D does wonders for all of us! :o)

Anyhow, I guess that’s about all that’s going on here….. not that anyone noticed the lack of updates and random personal info! lol

Cool Giveaway!

 

  The Modest Mom blog is having an awesome giveaway!!!   They are giving away a DVD set on The Charlotte Mason Theory of education! It looks great……. Here is the link: Charlotte Mason Giveaway

Check it out!  :o)

Flowers from my Mothers day walk

 

  Here are a few flowers from my walk…..

Well, 3 of the 4 are considered weeds by most, but I am not like most ;o)

I used to know what this one was, but can’t remember now. It’s pretty though and tiny! :o)

 

 

One of Dad’s tulips:

 

And this little flower is SUPER tiny! The whole group of buds is no bigger than a dime. I haven’t been able to think of a comparison for the actual blossoms…….

 

Enlarged like this they are a lot larger than life!

   My favorite flowers to try and capture are the tiny ones that most people never even notice, often though they have more detail and beauty that the big showy one. I love how God put beauty in the tiniest of creation, just waiting for us to slow down and notice His creativity and attention to detail.  :o)