tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15725859542078838352024-03-13T14:11:54.589-06:00Family Moments TogetherHebrews 10:23-25
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger497125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-81955050627859925282016-01-12T10:13:00.001-07:002016-01-12T17:45:12.537-07:00Lots of snow = Snow Ice Cream and Snow ConesWhen you get lots of snow, you have to enjoy it by doing some sledding and building, but that just isn't enough....you must make DESSERT!<br />
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SNOW ICE CREAM</h2>
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INGREDIENTS:</h3>
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DIRECTIONS:</h3>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.68px; font-style: inherit;">In a large bowl, whisk milk, sugar, vanilla and salt together until combined. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.68px; font-style: inherit;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.68px; font-style: inherit;">Scoop up some clean snow, and immediately stir it into the milk mixture until you reach your desired consistency. </span></li>
<li>Add Toppings</li>
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Should Turn out Fluffy...might try putting step 1 in the freezer for a bit before adding snow.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-90405342134098085762015-05-31T23:40:00.001-06:002016-01-12T19:04:29.581-07:0033 months<div class="" style="clear: both;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdexaCG4xbvC_jH4ju7f3ByTaNNPxl6VKTxiR3QdmQFJ6coX89We5YbHbUGQMwfwyJGoU3u1E9imU7UxabbticZeN2gspxkI4d_h2ogbrrL22nGKlybo0LHkiEKihvyeVzLwrZpf72kb5J/s640/blogger-image-591373657.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdexaCG4xbvC_jH4ju7f3ByTaNNPxl6VKTxiR3QdmQFJ6coX89We5YbHbUGQMwfwyJGoU3u1E9imU7UxabbticZeN2gspxkI4d_h2ogbrrL22nGKlybo0LHkiEKihvyeVzLwrZpf72kb5J/s200/blogger-image-591373657.jpg" width="177" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">You would have been 33 months today. This mommy misses you so much. I hear it is to lessen, but I still miss you everyday. The tears aren't there as much, but the ache is still near.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span></div>
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I can hardly wait to see you. You have two fantastic brothers. Turner talks about you all the time and thinks of you every time he sees a butterfly or a balloon. </div>
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This picture is how I have always imagined you would have looked. I bet only more beautiful. </div>
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I love you princess Madilyne. Forever and always. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-88446843216874958412015-01-27T21:08:00.000-07:002015-01-27T23:05:19.448-07:00Walmart To Go<br>
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I was to use my gift card to buy some groceries to plan for the holidays, but I didn't get my card until the 8th of January. I didn't have any holidays to plan for at that time. I did, however, need supplies to make my kids favorite homemade bread, so my supplies that I purchased were for bread and some yummy Chicken Enchiladas. I do not have posts of those tasty meals as they were deleted somehow, but they were quite tasty and delicious and even more-so because I didn't have to shop with the kids and then start cooking and baking after being stressed by shopping. WIN WIN<br>
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If you are interested in doing this and saving yourself some time and stress, you can go to <a href="http://soch.us/KVrW-42N2E" rel="nofollow">Walmart Grocery To Go</a> and register, and If you use my referral link, you and I will both save $15. Who doesn't love to save money? Go here: <a href="https://refer.walmart.com/friendshare?e=nettester71@q.com" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">https://refer.walmart.com/friendshare?e=nettester71@q.com</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://soch.us/Q7KS-42N2E%22%20rel=%22nofollow%22%3EWalmart%20Grocery%20To%20Go%20%3C/a%3E">Walmart To Go</a> - Pick Up</h3>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVoiEuUkYcePXxp4tU_h_n1xSfhbolEYRZ-ngpMLHi3e8yjqCtkabcqzEE_0Q4wr6LUcwDH_DJCn_0IyugO3N4dDGyypvXMFxQ-HsNZPgdS2Eszajl-PuXbmb6WlBO_yLvdzmh6VU1x0D6/s1600/007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVoiEuUkYcePXxp4tU_h_n1xSfhbolEYRZ-ngpMLHi3e8yjqCtkabcqzEE_0Q4wr6LUcwDH_DJCn_0IyugO3N4dDGyypvXMFxQ-HsNZPgdS2Eszajl-PuXbmb6WlBO_yLvdzmh6VU1x0D6/s1600/007.JPG" height="150" width="200"></a> I first tried out the <b>Walmart To Go</b> pick up as I figured this will end up being more my speed as the $7 for the delivery service is more that I want to spend even for the convenience, on top of that, I was told that with delivery, they bring the stuff right to you and meet you outside.<br>
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I did my shopping online, and the one thing that I noticed is that I couldn't use my coupons, or I didn't see how to do that. The other thing that I love to do when I shop, is to check clearance items before I jump into my shopping as I can find a lot of my items there first. Having someone else do that shopping for you, you miss out on some deals. I guess that could save me money in the long run as well, so it wasn't a huge issue. Being able to just pick up groceries and not having to take my kids SHOPPING saved me a tons of time, sanity, stress and so much more. The other thing that I noticed is that you can't use more than one card to pay for your order. This isn't something that I would normally need to do, but in this case, I was being "paid" to shop and was given a visa card with some money on it, but my total came to more. I was not able to split it, so had to decrease my order so that I could use the card. Because of this, I decided to try both services, Delivery and Pick Up, to compare since I still needed some items anyway.<br>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiReiDfBLEmhzrjPBjrTdMGsNvOx45IPzZoJv5hoMzlj2oX2H4n0Izru3oa4nXx9SlHae7ZnmJWb_VORbrdfZ53Hee2_hg1YbnztYNc4zRVOyBUe8-zbVAWXEjCC6jSv_cU2hOxBC0yRBvF/s1600/008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiReiDfBLEmhzrjPBjrTdMGsNvOx45IPzZoJv5hoMzlj2oX2H4n0Izru3oa4nXx9SlHae7ZnmJWb_VORbrdfZ53Hee2_hg1YbnztYNc4zRVOyBUe8-zbVAWXEjCC6jSv_cU2hOxBC0yRBvF/s1600/008.JPG" height="200" width="150"></a><br>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCyW49ktEhQRxSf3NJKvFLe39mIpDGuCLqIx9TC88dax52WZSftbAvwvvQqpeMb0uZrAScZ847VHY_xfRRntvruHoYXRYPl1OCqYbUMa-yfDI2O0a5WmaKSXOfWD7MatA5Dt-YxpBXfmK/s1600/010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFCyW49ktEhQRxSf3NJKvFLe39mIpDGuCLqIx9TC88dax52WZSftbAvwvvQqpeMb0uZrAScZ847VHY_xfRRntvruHoYXRYPl1OCqYbUMa-yfDI2O0a5WmaKSXOfWD7MatA5Dt-YxpBXfmK/s1600/010.JPG" height="200" width="150"></a>After I ordered my items, I received an email with direction on what to do and what to expect. I was told by a friend that tried the service how easy it was, I did not have quite the same experience and having a person meet me is not what the email I received said to expect. I found myself a little disillusioned and disappointed by my first experience at pick up. <br>
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When I got there, I had to drive around to find where the <b>To Go</b> pick up area was. I had a hard time finding it. I found the parking signs first, but the email mentioned a door that you go through. There was NO door for customers but there was an EXIT door at the very back of the building. I ended up having to get out of the car and walk into the store. I approached a checker to find out where I go to check in to get my <b>To Go</b> groceries. The clerk was not certain and sent me to customer service, which was at the complete other end of the store. When I got there, they asked me who told me to come there and then called someone. They informed me to go back out and there is a door where they will meet me at. I went back outside and the only door out there was where the <b>Walmart To Go</b> truck was parked. It was not where the Reserved parking was, so that is when I started trying to verify I was at the right spot. <br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6gt5qR304XgutbGIYLBU4ib0GFrkJjKaopiS8eEDWPbykEDUYjVAFyJ0kHdeU1sm3iiphZjurzkzphANDoLjT0B9B3hrRGJX56Ct_97lALNPVAkAxJnEw2CdZUaLOkCoqek0Y9UIOrLOf/s1600/009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6gt5qR304XgutbGIYLBU4ib0GFrkJjKaopiS8eEDWPbykEDUYjVAFyJ0kHdeU1sm3iiphZjurzkzphANDoLjT0B9B3hrRGJX56Ct_97lALNPVAkAxJnEw2CdZUaLOkCoqek0Y9UIOrLOf/s1600/009.JPG" height="200" width="150"></a>At this point, I look WAY up and find the <b>To Go</b> sign and number to call. I dialed the number and asked if I was in the right spot for my groceries. They said I was and they would be out in a moment.<br>
I was VERY glad that I did not have my children with me on this first experience, or I would have been livid with how little the staff knew and that I had to wander all over to find where to go. This should have been a much easier experience. It did show me that they might need to train their staff, get a few more signs and make sure some are posted much lower.<br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2xf62dhiSPK34p6a7hTJU9k7WcecLRNEHgNtIo3MdSiQJAiX1V9Ohb7W6LM80pfsNhXaFuXm7YgKwRyd6gFrBSbLo56UBFtkwibrQ-WYPmylHylhU7dYEPOzKC4g_shS7Sbysn9XWICw0/s1600/012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2xf62dhiSPK34p6a7hTJU9k7WcecLRNEHgNtIo3MdSiQJAiX1V9Ohb7W6LM80pfsNhXaFuXm7YgKwRyd6gFrBSbLo56UBFtkwibrQ-WYPmylHylhU7dYEPOzKC4g_shS7Sbysn9XWICw0/s1600/012.JPG" height="200" width="150"></a>I would like to know who thought hanging a sign way to the top of the building would be the best place for letting people know where the service location was. It is great for advertising from afar, but not for people that are driving and parking and trying to find it. It is not safe to be craning your neck that high while driving. :)<br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqV2FXWfg0scg5Wy0jSIYeE-cIHRRD_whyphenhyphenWbOD2nOe0bFEz7FAdoCGroiAOUh0IqBV1SakqcOfLxcwqC1egHhz784YsyC3aNpPxfSsTzmed2L7ejO5q-HIKvzY2ABz4kAnVsDjDae2s41t/s1600/013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqV2FXWfg0scg5Wy0jSIYeE-cIHRRD_whyphenhyphenWbOD2nOe0bFEz7FAdoCGroiAOUh0IqBV1SakqcOfLxcwqC1egHhz784YsyC3aNpPxfSsTzmed2L7ejO5q-HIKvzY2ABz4kAnVsDjDae2s41t/s1600/013.JPG" height="150" width="200"></a>Once the <b>To Go</b> clerk came out with my groceries, I didn't have to do anything but verify my order and open the trunk. They unloaded it all and put it in my car for me. This would be a completely doable situation for me with my kids. It is hard to shop in a store with 3 little children. I have one that is in an infant seat, he takes the back shopping basket, then I have a 3 year old that sits in the seat and a 6 year old that will either walk or will sit in the buggy that holds 2 children, if I am fortunate to find one after having to wander to find these specific carts. By the time they are all in the cart, I have no where to put my groceries, so it is already a nightmare before I even start. <br>
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Would I use this service again, YOU BET. As a mom with three small children, it was a great time savings to me. It was hard to let go of the control of picking what I wanted, searching for the best deal and making sure I got the best produce. I don't know that I would purchase produce this way again as my oranges were really pithy and lacking of flavor and one in the bag was rotten.<br>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://soch.us/Q7KS-42N2E%22%20rel=%22nofollow%22%3EWalmart%20Grocery%20To%20Go%20%3C/a%3E">Walmart To Go</a> - Delivery</h3>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKGlpdMTj7ZDjLe1gdxu78JTE6KmCXfX24rf5NJlntqOqerULJyUcXchrrMGWFRhgTAnofnO6qBgiNgLFVgLyUQkAcgu19ZVBTWNwzmxzy1MfpEhSH9kKPcctIHVoyf81TW8slD741UHi/s1600/014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKGlpdMTj7ZDjLe1gdxu78JTE6KmCXfX24rf5NJlntqOqerULJyUcXchrrMGWFRhgTAnofnO6qBgiNgLFVgLyUQkAcgu19ZVBTWNwzmxzy1MfpEhSH9kKPcctIHVoyf81TW8slD741UHi/s1600/014.JPG" height="150" width="200"></a> This was an easier service overall as I didn't have to go find where to park, where to get my items or wander around finding employees that had no idea about the service or what I needed to do. I waited in the comfort of my own home for my groceries to arrive within a window that I got to pick. Not much easier than that.<br>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1iX4zZgFDXX25V5BIeV_2K-uofUtpE-Ou_NoTTcNW7QfX2few3Dg3LlV1a1WmXor7NYj4-pGONLqenOUh7iKohIfMyMjPO4O4D6PyWk9RyCn32duyzb4ICPFGRjx7iCmarojcPZrupkoz/s1600/021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1iX4zZgFDXX25V5BIeV_2K-uofUtpE-Ou_NoTTcNW7QfX2few3Dg3LlV1a1WmXor7NYj4-pGONLqenOUh7iKohIfMyMjPO4O4D6PyWk9RyCn32duyzb4ICPFGRjx7iCmarojcPZrupkoz/s1600/021.JPG" height="150" width="200"></a> Now, it seems that my money didn't buy as much as I feel like I get when I go to the store myself, but maybe it because I was so much more aware of what I was spending as I saw it add up online as I put it in my online cart. That was a nice feature, actually. I can see it beneficial to people on tight budgets that can struggle with overspending. (That can be me.) <b>Walmart </b>allows you to save frequent items on your account so you don't have to look for them all the time. I have a friend that would love this as she tells me she buys the same things pretty much every time she goes. That is not me at all. I don't know how anyone can do that...probably just me not being disciplined enough again, but I don't need to confess all my sins in one blog. :)<br>
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Overall</h3>
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<li>I didn't have to shop</li>
<li>Saved me lots of time</li>
<li>They brought it to me</li>
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<b>Cons</b><br>
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<li>I didn't see a place to use my coupons</li>
<li>I don't get to shop the clearance</li>
<li>Can't use multiple cards</li>
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<li>It was hard to find the location as the sign is only on the side of the building</li>
<li>Once at the side of the building, there are a couple parking spots, but there is nothing saying where to GO for the <b>Walmart To Go</b>. Who looks up that high for a sign when you are parked...There is NO door as mentioned in the email.</li>
<li>Employees didn't know where to send me to pick up my groceries.</li>
<li>There was no number to call to verify. They tell you to call ahead, but the number was not supplied in the email, just the address of the store.</li>
<li>Doesn't have everything that I needed in my grocery area</li>
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<li>I get to pick my window of time</li>
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<li>Having to pay an extra $7 for delivery is a con for me. We work on a very tight budget, and $7 goes a long way. Will that keep me from every doing it, possibly, but not guaranteed.</li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every year I like to make a Christmas ornament. This year I thought I would include something that would require my son to learn to tie a knot. We have been working on tying a shoe, so lets do some more tying for Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was a cheap and easy craft to do and turns out oh so cute. We made a larger one to hang on our front door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The original idea I found on pinterest. You can link up to their original blog at <a class="summary-link" href="http://gimmiefreebies.com/1.%20Tie%20the%20scraps%20of%20ribbon%20down%20the%20stick." style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #008b9c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Fire Flies and Mud Pies</a>.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Sticks (we wandered around our yard and grabbed various sizes)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Ribbon scraps (I used greens, reds and whites)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These trees were not my most favorite things to make, but I have family members that LOVE chocolate and peanut butter, so my son and I embarked upon the challenge or trying to make these and make the pretty. I don't feel that I was as successful as I would like to be and would change how I made them the next time around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This idea was found on pinterest here: <a class="summary-link" href="http://www.teacher-chef.com/2013/12/17/peanut-butter-christmas-trees/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #008b9c; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Peanut Butter Christmas Trees</a></span></div>
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<li class="instruction" id="zlrecipe-instruction-1" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">melt your almond bark with a double boiler</span></li>
<li class="instruction" id="zlrecipe-instruction-2" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Attach (with bark) an Upside Down miniature PB cup to an upside down regular size PB cup.</span></li>
<li class="instruction" id="zlrecipe-instruction-3" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Turn another miniature PB cup upside down and attach with more chocolate to the first two cups. Finally, attach a Kiss to the top.</span></li>
<li class="instruction" id="zlrecipe-instruction-4" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Repeat with as many trees as you plan to make.</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-27485676947831078492014-12-02T10:00:00.000-07:002014-12-02T10:00:01.347-07:00Nutter Butter Snowman & Ice Cream Cones<div class="item b-b" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Frutiger, 'Frutiger Linotype', 'Dejavu Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20.4375px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"><b>Prep Time:</b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;"> </span><span content="PT10M" itemprop="prepTime" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 minutes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Total Time: <span content="PT20M" itemprop="totalTime" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20 minutes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Nutter Butter Snowman & Ice Cream Cones" class="photo" data-jpibfi-indexer="1" src="http://gimmiefreebies.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/DSCN2588.jpg" height="300" itemprop="image" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;" title="Nutter Butter Snowman & Ice Cream Cones" width="400" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My son and I like to do crafts and bake together. Anything that allows him the opportunity to be creative is always a fun thing to do together. I believe in learning through hands on, so when I saw these cookies on Pinterest, I just knew that he would love making these with me, and he did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My little man even made one of the snowmen into a pig snowman and he was so proud of his creativity. I enjoy watching his face light up with delight when I take interest in what he creates. What a great way to encourage him to do it on his own and also help him develop a great sense of self worth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I found these ideas on pinterest. Here are the links to the original ideas for the <a class="summary-link" href="http://www.browneyedbaker.com/nutter-butter-snowmen/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #008b9c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Snowman</a> & the <a class="summary-link" href="http://rosebakes.com/nutter-butter-ice-cream-cone-cookie-treats-recipe-tutorial/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #008b9c; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ice Cream Cone</a></span></div>
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<li class="instruction" id="zlrecipe-instruction-1" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a double boiler, melt the almond bark according to the package instructions.</span></li>
<li class="instruction" id="zlrecipe-instruction-2" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Working one at a time, dip a Nutter Butter cookie into the melted coating and flip it over to coat completely (a fork is great for this). Remove and let any excess drip off then place on the wax paper-lined baking sheet.</span></li>
<li class="instruction" id="zlrecipe-instruction-3" itemprop="recipeInstructions" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Decorate according to your creativity or your child's.</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-44038124780064173482014-12-01T10:00:00.000-07:002014-12-01T10:00:01.616-07:00Candy Cane Suckers<h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 30px; line-height: 25px; margin: 1px 0px 6px 3px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">This is a fun and simple treat to make for a child's school's Christmas party. They are easy to make</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"> and fun to do with your children. What kiddo doesn't love a sucker?</span></h2>
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<li itemprop="ingredients" style="border: 0px; color: #4e2800; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 8px 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2 boxes of 40 small candy canes</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bring double boiler to a slow boil</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">reduce heat to medium</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">put almond bark in the double boiler to melt</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">place two candy canes facing each other to make a heart</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">put stick in the middle</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">take melted bark, and spoon into the center</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sprinkle with candy sprinkles</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-21521512753617044052014-11-30T19:36:00.003-07:002014-12-11T13:41:59.364-07:00Salty Turtles<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Salty Turtles</b></span>
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Christmas baking has been a tradition in my family since I was just a little girl. My mom would always have tons of treats to choose from and every year would make a few new treats to try. Last year, my mom made these, and they were ever so tasty easy to do, so my son and I decided we were going to make these this year and enjoy eating and sharing them.</div>
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With the salted caramel becoming quite the hit with desserts and coffee, these treats should really be a delight to people as it covers the salt, chocolate and caramel spectrum while also being EASY to put together. Not a lot of time is needed to get these done. What takes the most time is unwrapping those tasty ROLO's. What I did was put that task on my 6-year old and told him when they were all unwrapped, he could eat 2. Walla, they were unwrapped and I could work on other things while he had his task to do.</div>
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These morsels will hit the chocolate, sweet, chewy, salty and crunchy needs all in one bite.</div>
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<b>Prep Time:</b> 5 minutes
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<b>Cook Time:</b> 4 minutes<br />
<b>Total Time:</b> 9 minutes
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<b>Yield: </b>approximately 60<br />
<b>Serving Size:</b> 1 candy<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My mom made these last year and they were ever so tasty and oh so easy to do. My son and I worked on these together for a tasty treat and easy gift to share with friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The salted caramel has really become a hit all over the place, so we made up these tasty treats and enjoyed a few as a family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These morsels will hit the chocolate, sweet, chewy, salty and crunchy needs all in one bite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was able to find a similar recipe on pinterest. I have provided the link here:</span></div>
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<a class="summary-link" href="https://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipe-details.aspx?id=8631&name=rolo-pretzel-delights" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #008b9c; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rolo Pretzel Delight</span></a></div>
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<li><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Heat oven to 250°F</span></li>
<li><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Place pretzels on baking sheet</span></li>
<li><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Top each pretzel with one unwrapped ROLO Chewy Caramel in Milk Chocolate.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Bake 4 minutes or until caramel piece begins to soften, but not melt.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Remove from oven; top with either pecan half or additional pretzel.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Cool completely.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">For faster cooling, place baking sheet in the freezer for 5 minutes</span></li>
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<span style="color: #0093cd; font-family: Helvetica;">DIY Snowman Milk Jugs Idea<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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Luminaries<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Idea from: <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/diy-snowman-milk-jugs-idea-a2-13599474.fltr">http://www.orientaltrading.com/diy-snowman-milk-jugs-idea-a2-13599474.fltr</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I changed it up a bit from what the above link
suggested. Here is what I did to make my
luminaries.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc-cNQlB-qvn74iFeDGi9sU6i5qNW-m74xK-Ecuj9cPKJ4mO73isQzeUe9PSoDThikqDRAD8hJLixCLc1-5YPL_OXtMjjhGc75DWL94w0NigtSb7NSeLIUgdeBfAKKsupf4CLYcmahlYvx/s1600/DSCN2541.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc-cNQlB-qvn74iFeDGi9sU6i5qNW-m74xK-Ecuj9cPKJ4mO73isQzeUe9PSoDThikqDRAD8hJLixCLc1-5YPL_OXtMjjhGc75DWL94w0NigtSb7NSeLIUgdeBfAKKsupf4CLYcmahlYvx/s1600/DSCN2541.JPG" height="200" width="150" /></a>This is a great project to do with your older kiddo if you
use a glue gun. You can try E6000 glue
to be able to do it with some younger kids.</div>
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<b>Supplies needed for the Luminaries</b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Milk
Jug(s)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Black
and various color Pom poms</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Red
& White Pipe Cleaners</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Orange
and Black Felt</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">String
of lights</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Glue Gun or other glue</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Rock(s)
if placing outside</li>
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<b>Directions for Luminaries</b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal">Cut
out eyes from black felt</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">cut
out nose from orange felt</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Twist
one white and red pipe cleaner together</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Glue
eyes, nose and black pom pom mouth on</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Glue
the pipe cleaner from one side of the head to the other and place desired
pom pom on either side</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Cut a
hole in the back of the jug to insert a rock and some white lights</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">put it
inside or out for a lovely display</li>
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<b>For the original craft from the link above, you will
need:</b><br />
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Step 1: From black cardstock, <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/diy-snowman-milk-jugs-idea-a2-13599474.fltr" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">CUT</a> </span>eyes and mouth <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/diy-snowman-milk-jugs-idea-a2-13599474.fltr" title="Click to Continue > by saveron"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">SHAPES</span></a>; eyes should be larger than mouth pieces.<br />
Step 2: From orange cardstock, cut triangles for
nose.<br />
Step 3: Glue pieces to <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/diy-snowman-milk-jugs-idea-a2-13599474.fltr" title="Click to Continue > by saveron"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">CLEAN</span></a> milk jug.<br />
Step 4: Glue chenille stems to both <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/diy-snowman-milk-jugs-idea-a2-13599474.fltr" title="Click to Continue > by saveron">SIDES</a> </span>of milk carton creating an arch above eyes.<br />
Step 5: Glue pom-poms, <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/diy-snowman-milk-jugs-idea-a2-13599474.fltr" title="Click to Continue > by saveron"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">FEATHERS</span></a>, jingle bells, etc. on the end of each chenille stem to
create earmuffs.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-30750213380810729322014-11-20T21:21:00.001-07:002014-11-20T21:33:48.754-07:00Proud mommy moment<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">Proud mommy moment that I must share. Get your tissues ready. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">I had to take Turner to the doctor today as he hasn't been feeling great. While there, the PA hurt him. He was in tears. He told her, "it's okay, it's not your fault, I forgive you." </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">That isn't the best part...</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiZ4seI8vSKGPeHiiSOUNd9VkGI5bECuuyAMcLFjXvZFMIK-7sRr7KA_XNWMIKqYNlNzLX0IDyoYWGVQp5Vzw9IE4LfaUofhdXDccPRsFOAf5d-0lkepNJXX29BUldMR51tbb72XvbS-h/s640/blogger-image-983150790.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidiZ4seI8vSKGPeHiiSOUNd9VkGI5bECuuyAMcLFjXvZFMIK-7sRr7KA_XNWMIKqYNlNzLX0IDyoYWGVQp5Vzw9IE4LfaUofhdXDccPRsFOAf5d-0lkepNJXX29BUldMR51tbb72XvbS-h/s640/blogger-image-983150790.jpg"></a></div>We went to get his medication and when we got there, there was a matchbox display. He found a car he liked so I said I would reward him for his courage and kind heart. <p></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">We went shopping while his medication was being prepared. While I was paying, he took his pennies and shared his horse ride with a little girl. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">Still not the good part...</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">After I paid, he asked for the car he was so excited to have. He walked up to the little girl, held the car in one hand as he rested the car on his arm (like a waiter would a bottle of wine) and said to the little girl, "I want you to have this." And he walked off to join me.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">He tells me as he is walking off that it was hard to give it away, but it made his heart happy though too. He then asked why I was sad. I was standing there WEEPING with pride at the giant, compassionate, sensitive, caring heart that Jesus has gifted my son with. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">He has really been showing the love of Jesus this week. On November 15, 2014, we celebrated 1 year since Turner asked Jesus to be his Savior, and we can see the evidences clearly displayed frequently, but God has been using him a lot this week. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">While he has been sick, he has made sure to walk Kristina and Austyn and even Toby to the door. He told me that even though it is cold out, that isn't going to stop him from being a gentleman. LOVE</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">Yesterday he told Torrey and I that Christmas is coming and he just had his birthday and has so many toys that after he opens his presents, he thinks he should give them all away to kids that need them even though he would like to have them. We told him to pray about it and if that is what he felt he should do, we would help him. He told us the best part if Christmas is Jesus and being with his family and friends. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">How can you not love my boy? </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-65796495792878144912014-11-05T11:37:00.000-07:002016-01-12T10:25:42.788-07:00Some days are excellentWe had an excellent day of homeschooling yesterday. Everything went smoothly and there were no tears. <br /><br />Sometimes we lose sight of why we keep our kids home with us. This can happen to me a lot. I see a facebook post about what some other kid is doing and I question everything about me teaching my son and everything about my son's learning ability, but the truth of the matter is that God made me fully equipped to care, teach and love my son. There will be no one that can do that better than I can, but the truth is that I have to daily pour into Jesus so He can pour into me. Homeschooling is just one more area that I have to lay my life down for someone else. I am seeing more and more flesh in my life as I am very selfish and still want my own space and time. Balance is hard.<br /><br />My love for my son and my desire to honor my husband in our decisions to homeschool has lead us to remove T from Options. This was not an easy decision to come to, but one that we felt was best for a multitude of reasons. I struggle even typing this as I struggle with pride in the way of Fear of Man. I don't want someone to judge my decisions and want everyone to like me. I had to get over that and realize that what we are trying to do for our son, doesn't match up with what we were doing, at least not right now in our life.<br /><br />Let the fun begin and continue. I have a bright little boy, and I have resources all around me to educate him to the glory of God.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-50136418840512516492014-11-05T11:15:00.002-07:002016-01-12T17:52:42.471-07:00Lazy Eggs<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
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They truly were Lazy Eggs. It took only a few minutes to put them together and then we got ready for our day while they cooked up. Can't get easier than that. The clean up was a breeze too as the eggs came right out of the pan and washed up without much elbow grease.</div>
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I think adding some avocado to this dish would make them absolutely amazing and tasty.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For each bite:</span></span></div>
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You can find them on the GimmieFreebies blog too: <a href="http://gimmiefreebies.com/lazy-eggs-ham-cheese-breakfast-bites/">http://gimmiefreebies.com/lazy-eggs-ham-cheese-breakfast-bites/</a></div>
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My son has requested a toothless birthday party for his 6th birthday. His birthday is the end of October so it makes it hard for outside parties. We have tried for outside the last 3 years and have had interesting weather, so this year we decided for indoors and as it would be, this Saturday is to be gorgeous.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-53172154709427555662014-07-21T00:32:00.000-06:002016-01-12T11:38:35.814-07:00Happy 3rd birthday, Jordan Rae.<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPvojx_5e7iT67vXG4Q7v4rUeJ265ChAqAVr1YzXV8WF1CMDr8oq9fVV4CHY_KWsi8VGioN8EJtdjWEQeK20HhWIAb03XTKF-XdLN5pHs9QvoI9K_ktxi9WOgBmZ6Z9YZvGkS330X3lWk/s640/blogger-image--528852771.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPvojx_5e7iT67vXG4Q7v4rUeJ265ChAqAVr1YzXV8WF1CMDr8oq9fVV4CHY_KWsi8VGioN8EJtdjWEQeK20HhWIAb03XTKF-XdLN5pHs9QvoI9K_ktxi9WOgBmZ6Z9YZvGkS330X3lWk/s640/blogger-image--528852771.jpg"></a></div>Three years ago we lost our first baby. I miss you, Jordan Rae. I never got to know you as much as your sister Madilyne, but I wonder often what our family would be like if you, Madilyne and Elisha were here in our arms. <p></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">These days don't ever really get easier. I miss you all so much. I long to see you, kiss you, smell your hair, inhale your scent, change your diapers, hold your hand, run my fingers over your soft, dimpled hand, see the rolls of chunk on your body, hear your cries and coos and sighs. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">So many "what could have beens" to live with. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">I will always miss you. My heart aches because my love for you continues and you aren't here to receive it. This love was only meant for you. No other child can ever have the love intended for you. Each of you have your own special place on mommy's heart. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">I love you Jordan Rae. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZBnKmTK3sZgd-rIBrIWsX2ggib9SAkum1RGdqL3-k75dt3YXPn_ZCkneJngeuD8Qu_LL23iW-vhp1FZpCh9A56aGMNaso4kUNVEARxg7k7m8wsuBK4K2dLwnCd0ScASM7rymDU8gIJkI/s640/blogger-image--257667498.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZBnKmTK3sZgd-rIBrIWsX2ggib9SAkum1RGdqL3-k75dt3YXPn_ZCkneJngeuD8Qu_LL23iW-vhp1FZpCh9A56aGMNaso4kUNVEARxg7k7m8wsuBK4K2dLwnCd0ScASM7rymDU8gIJkI/s640/blogger-image--257667498.jpg"></a></div>You went to see Jesus 5 years to the day from when your great grandma went home to Jesus. I am glad you were able to be held and loved by her and so many others that I love and adore. You are not alone and that gives me comfort. <p></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">I know heaven isn't like earth, but since I am still in an earthly body, I do not understand heavenly things, so it helps this mommy to think of you being loved by those I know. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">Know I love you so and I still cry and ache for you. I move forward each day because God has me here for your brothers. It is not easy to walk without you, but there is still joy because Jesus is in me and I have the pleasure if loving your brothers. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">Until we meet again. My love will continue. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-73714086629909570562014-06-27T20:41:00.000-06:002016-01-12T18:59:42.584-07:00Nursing your little brother<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkbaX6_RZk_9OgOUaPYCsZKevU_pELsl9ZSwCPGTonrGhheAKoLwb8BLO6rXmnuBJMrr9sOBtD4dldR5-pOwO5S433a4NVX58OjGkjaqVIAN9wMQQjk3_66KOVQJCNPR-psKBxj9nsbXg/s640/blogger-image--275300112.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkbaX6_RZk_9OgOUaPYCsZKevU_pELsl9ZSwCPGTonrGhheAKoLwb8BLO6rXmnuBJMrr9sOBtD4dldR5-pOwO5S433a4NVX58OjGkjaqVIAN9wMQQjk3_66KOVQJCNPR-psKBxj9nsbXg/s320/blogger-image--275300112.jpg" width="320" /></a>I loved nursing you older brother so very much and hated when he weaned himself. I was so excited to experience nursing again with you.<br />
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I did ask a nurse why this happened. I asked if they turned me in. They said my record flagged her but she NEVER should have handled it like that. All the nurse staff was fabulous for the most part and let me talk if I needed to and were filled with compassion. The nurses were so upset about how I was treated that they took it up chain. They did so to help other mothers in similar experiences never have to encounter this. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBeoJi16YyUMNoN7HuQjLvCXy5gCY9oHAxbdq8aK_-EBGNxEkowvIN9SOIc63zd8tiY7u0VbjPr1T2_toisGjKBagZeEDyrTlFLo2uJ9SregslMnls63vI4L9jKJafhumDdjAL9RqKpr0/s640/blogger-image-627059785.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBeoJi16YyUMNoN7HuQjLvCXy5gCY9oHAxbdq8aK_-EBGNxEkowvIN9SOIc63zd8tiY7u0VbjPr1T2_toisGjKBagZeEDyrTlFLo2uJ9SregslMnls63vI4L9jKJafhumDdjAL9RqKpr0/s200/blogger-image-627059785.jpg" width="200" /></a>We have been contacted by the president about our experience and are trying to walk carefully. We don't want to cause problems for us or the social worker, but we do want to help educate those who have never walked this journey so they can have more compassion and better planning and communication when approaching someone in this journey. </div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP_2qEFjxapHTJGiPJCvK10mJwJ47QegiqhdK_l1VhMlP9hpWOcr3lux-srIj_Sa8H72rp6hlolFOC4873Up1Z_Jpx4YSUJTorZQlHEoQEj8tBKtbcAZXjMnWxhWtOF3v3GrxGZBZ0Edg/s640/blogger-image--1659644698.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP_2qEFjxapHTJGiPJCvK10mJwJ47QegiqhdK_l1VhMlP9hpWOcr3lux-srIj_Sa8H72rp6hlolFOC4873Up1Z_Jpx4YSUJTorZQlHEoQEj8tBKtbcAZXjMnWxhWtOF3v3GrxGZBZ0Edg/s200/blogger-image--1659644698.jpg" width="154" /></a>I still find myself so torn in my emotions. I see both my older kids in Liam. It is hard to look at Liam sleeping. He looks like Madilyne. This can raise fear in me. I pray so much to not be a freak and be calm. I need God and prayer daily. </div>
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Please continue to pray for me if you thinkng it. Liam is helping with the healing, but he will never bring my Madilyne back, and that is just a hard reality to walk everyday. I will never have my girl. </div>
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So, 18 & 1/2 months after you died and I have finally organized and put your memorial items away. I still need to do your scrapbook of sorts, but not sure I can do that alone. Especially not right now. I have really been missing you and struggling with sadness and loneliness. There just seem to be little girls your age all around me. There is joy in seeing their life and seeing the stage you would be, but how my soul aches for you. </div>
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I have been hurting so much that you do not have a grave site, headstone, engraving, memorial marker, plaque, nothing. The world discounts your existence because you never "lived". I feel I am minimizing your life because I haven't done something. I want to scream from the mountain tops how real, loved, wanted you were. You existed, you were special, you had a purpose in this life. You are missed every day. </div>
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God is still good even in our losses. That is a hard thing to wrap your head around. To say my daughter died and that is what I am saying is good, fights in my head. The truth is that God still is good even though my daughter died. That wasn't His original plan in creating the world. But, He did make allowances for us to still be with Him despite our choices. My daughter is in heaven with him now because Jesus died to save us. That is good. She is safe, perfect and living with Jesus. My daughter was gorgeous on this earth, but she is perfected in every form of beauty now. No earthly child can compare to her. Sorry moms, your child is cute, but Madilyne wins. :). Humor is good. There is healing in it. </div>
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It is time to move another step further in our journey, and so I cleared out the items from your room. Our upcoming special bundle or foster child needs a place. I have been able to unpack and wash some clothes for baby. The room needs to be a place to minister, not tie us to the past. You were never meant to live with us in that room. We need it for life, not to tie us any longer to your death. We need to honor your memory and our Lord by taking steps forward. Some of these take a really long time, but we are trying to be faithful to still take them. This will not ever change how much I love you. We have been able to use your room to minister to others, it is now time to use that room to minster to our family. This will never change our love for you and how much we miss you. </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-74240950651592188362013-10-03T15:46:00.000-06:002014-11-05T11:55:49.422-07:0010 things I wish every person knew about the death of a child<a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/ten-points-i-wish-every-person-knew-about-the-death-of-a-child/">10 things I wish every person knew about the death of a child</a><br />This is a great article to help people understand and maybe some ideas of what they can do, even if is it just to be patient, understanding and loving.<br /><br />I get some of these and have dealt with a lot of them. Grief is a strange thing in that you never know when the next burst of sadness, anger or anything may hit. Be a friend to your hurting friend. They need a lot of understanding and not a lot of expectations as to how they need to be. What is huge is knowing that when we are ready, you will still be our friend. This path tends to leave you with very few friends when you enter it. That doesn't have to be a bad thing, but can be lonely.<br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">By SAMANTHA HAYWARD</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The soul destroying agony of <a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/kathleen-folbigg/" sl-processed="1" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Was this just a series of incredibly unfortunate events?">your child dying</a> is only truly known and understood by those who have endured it. Four years on, I still glance down at my daughters grave in disbelief. Visiting my child’s grave is surreal. It’s almost like I’ve vacated my body and I’m watching someone I don’t know standing there putting flowers down.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Is this really my life ?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Only a parent understands the <a href="http://www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/letter-to-mum-upon-having-my-own-daughter/" sl-processed="1" style="color: #336699; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Dear Mum – there are a few important things I’d like to tell you…">powerful bond </a>you have with your child; that absolute undying love you have and that monumental desire that roars like an open fire inside you to protect that child at all costs. It is openly said that a parent will lay down their life for their child, but it is not until you have your own that you truly understand these fierce emotions. Parenting is wearing your heart on the outside of your body. Whatever you imagine it might be like to have your child die, multiply that by about a trillion and you’re probably not even close.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">On the surface it appears society is accepting of this unbearable sadness and people are supportive and open to talking about it. However, in my situation I’ve been surprised by people’s genuine kindness and empathy as much as I’ve been repeatedly shocked & disappointed by their lack of it. It’s necessary for bereaved parents to be able to talk and, most of all, be able to talk openly. I’ve found it’s the only thing which dispels the trauma.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Sure, friends and family have been supportive, but it’s proven to be the case with me that there is a mandate as for how long their unwavering support, patience, understanding, concern and empathy lasts. The truth is, the situation is so unbearably sad that it becomes incredibly emotionally draining on the other person.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The realisation that they can’t fix your sadness sets in, the frustration builds because not even they can see an end in sight, then gradually it starts to impede on the happiness in their life. They haven’t lost their child so why should they spend all their time sad about yours?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">I will, for the sake of all the other parents out there with empty arms, write ten things I wish people knew about the loss of a child. Maybe one of my ten points might make a difference to a bereaved parent’s life.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. Four years on I get up every day with the exact same sadness I had the day Ella died.</strong>The only difference is I’m more skilled at hiding it and I’m much more used to the agony of my broken heart. The shock has somewhat lessened, but I do still find myself thinking I can’t believe this happened. I thought that only happened to other people. You asked how I was in the beginning yet you stopped, why? Where did you get the information on what week or month was good to stop asking?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. Please don’t tell me that all you want is for me to be happy again.</strong> Nobody wants that more than I do, but it’s something that can only be achieved with time. On top of that, I have to find a new happiness. The happiness I once felt, that carefree feeling, will never return in its entirety. It also helps to have the patience and understanding from loved ones.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. Please don’t say ‘I want the old Sam back!’</strong> Or, I can see the old Sam coming back! Sam’s not coming back. This is who I am now. If you only knew the horror I witnessed and endured you would know it’s not humanly possible for me to ever be the same person again. Losing a child changes who you are. I’ve been told my eyes look haunted.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">It’s a strange thing for someone to tell a grieving mother, but it’s true – I am haunted. My views on the world have changed, things that were once important are not now and vice versa. I feel as though you’re telling me two things here. Firstly you don’t like the person I am and, secondly if the old Sam’s not coming back I’m out of here. By the way there is nobody that misses the “old Sam” more than me!!! I’m mourning two deaths here; my daughter’s and my former self.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. If you chose to acknowledge my daughter’s birthday or the anniversary of her death on the first year, it’s terribly gut wrenching when you didn’t bother to acknowledge the second or third or fourth.</strong> Do you think any subsequent birthday or anniversary is not as sad for me? It also says to me in very big neon lights that you’ve moved on and forgotten about my daughter.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. Please stop with the continual comments about how lucky I am to have my other children particularly my daughter.</strong> Do I say this to you? Then why say it to me? I’ve buried my daughter do you seriously think I feel lucky?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6. It’s not healthy to cry in front of the kids?</strong> You’re wrong. It is perfectly healthy that they see I’m sad their sister has died. When someone dies it’s normal to cry. What would not be normal would be for my children to grow up and think “I never even saw my Mum sad over Ella’s death.” That would paint me in a light that would tell them it’s healthy to hide your emotions when obviously it’s not.</div><dl class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_214758" style="background-color: #ecebe6; border: none; color: #4a4a4a; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 259px;"><dt style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt=" How to talk to a parent who has lost a child. From someone whos been there." class=" " height="346" src="http://www.mamamia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/image-5.jpeg" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="How to talk to a parent who has lost a child. From someone whos been there." width="249" /></dt></dl><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7. I have four children I don’t have three. </strong> If you want to ignore Ella as my third child because she’s dead go for it but don’t do it for me. Four not three!</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">8. There are still some days, yes four years on, that I still want to hide away from the world and take a break from pretending everything is oh so wonderful and I’m all better.</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Please don’t just assume I’ve thrown in the towel, or worse, actually be so thoughtless as to wonder what’s wrong with me. I still know I’ve married the catch of the century and my children are gorgeously divine and I have a beautiful house, but I’m grieving.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">It’s mentally exhausting, especially raising three young children and on top of that maintaining a strong and loving marriage. Unbeknownst to you, I’m dealing with not just my own grief, but my beautiful husbands and my two boys.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">It would be nice if you congratulated me on the state of my family because keeping it together, stable and happy, has been hard work.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">9. I did notice.</strong> To the friends and family that found the entire death and dealing with my sadness all too hard and held secret events behind our backs that were lied about, stopped inviting us to things we had always been included in and slowly ended our relationship thinking I didn’t notice.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">I did notice. The only reason why I never said anything is because I’m not wasting my words on your shameful behaviour. I am thankful for something though – I didn’t waste any more time on people that were capable of such shallowness and cruelty. Please don’t fear. I would be the first one by your side if the same thing happened to you. That should give you some indication of how horrible it is.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10. Grieving for a child lasts until you see them again</strong>. It’s a lifetime. If you’re wondering how long your friend or family member might be grieving for, the answer is forever. Don’t rush them, don’t trivialise their sadness, don’t make them feel guilty for being sad and when they talk to you, open your ears and listen, really listen to what they’re telling you. It’s possible you’ll learn something. Don’t be so cruel as to give up on them remember it’s not about you it’s about them.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">I’ve been left repeatedly heart broken as friends that I truly loved and never thought would walk away from me tossed me into the too hard basket or – more hurtfully – the crazy basket. Phone calls stopped, text messages stopped, comments on Facebook stopped and I get the same thing every time. “Sorry darling I’m just flat out”, “Let’s catch up soon” and “I miss you.” The list could keep going but I get it. I’m not the type of person either that is going to pursue a friendship I know the other person doesn’t want. Everyone has a conscience and thankfully I don’t have to live with theirs.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">You would think there are a lot of articles that raise awareness of the awful process associated with grieving for a child, but even stories from other parents are a rarity. The sad reality is there just isn’t enough said or printed. You seldom hear through the media about grieving for a child and the impact their death has on all the various people involved.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">It can destroy a marriage instantly, it can leave siblings hurt, confused and angry. Often siblings are too young to understand, they’re angry that their family is not the same and even angrier that they don’t recognise their parents. Losing their sibling is bad enough but so much more is lost for these siblings that is never recognised. I could count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been asked how my boys were.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">You might hear about the gory details surrounding a child’s death in the media but that’s about all. There should be so much more written about this topic, and additionally it should be talked about more openly than it is. I’m disappointed not just for me but for all the other grieving parents in society that this topic is met with so much fear and silence.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The bottom line is people are uncomfortable with the situation and I really don’t know why. My feelings tell me it is such an horrific thing that most people don’t want to know about it. Maybe they fear through knowing so much they might become obsessed with their own children dying. Parents worry enough about their children already. Do they really need the added worry about knowing how your child died?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Without question, my daughter Ella dying suddenly has been the worst thing that has happened in my 37 years here on Earth. I doubt that anything in my future is going to top it. Actually, just between us, I beg and plead with God on a daily basis that nothing ever does top that experience, but the truth is I just don’t know.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">I’m not a mind reader nor do I have a magic pair of glasses where I can see how the rest of my life will unfold. I just have to hope that nothing ever does, but I have a very real fear it will because it has actually already happened to me. I know without having to hold a psychology degree that having those fears is normal.</div><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_213872" style="background-color: #ecebe6; border: none; color: #4a4a4a; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 25px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 365px;"><img alt="depressed How to talk to a parent who has lost a child. From someone whos been there." class=" wp-image-213872 " height="237" src="http://www.mamamia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/depressed.jpg" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="How to talk to a parent who has lost a child. From someone whos been there." width="355" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="padding: 0px 4px;">“I don’t think I would be able to survive something like it again.”</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">What I’ve endured, losing my little princess, has been so unimaginably horrific that I don’t think I would survive something like it again.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">What I have had to give emotionally to get through it has dwindled away all my mental strength – just like twenty cents pieces in a kid’s piggy bank.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">I’m broke – not broken – I’m broke emotionally. I know all the energy I’ve needed over the last four years has not just been spent on my grief for Ella.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">It’s been on trying to get my friends and family to understand what it’s like to walk in my shoes. I’m angry about that. When I should have been grieving, I was defending myself.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">I’m probably very close to being as angry about that as I am about her death. I wish I wasn’t angry. Lord knows I don’t need another emotion but I don’t know how to not be angry, especially with some of the things that people have said and done to me. I talk and talk yet I’m often never actually heard.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">I’m not sure if it’s a lack of literature around or perhaps that people simply don’t want to read it because it’s so awful and they don’t want to know someone they love and care about it experiencing so much agony. I personally know though, if I found out a family member or friend had been diagnosed with an illness or disease, or worse, their child, I would be on Google immediately finding out more about it and how I could help them the best. So why is it that this doesn’t seem to apply with the death of a child?</div><dl id="attachment_214758" style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><dt style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Most people just think they know. I find this extremely frustrating. The death of your child is the worst thing that can happen to a person, yet most feel educated enough to advise, to criticise, to lend their words of wisdom when they don’t know the first thing about it. Get over it? Why don’t we see if you could get over it first!</dt></dl><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Most people wouldn’t know that when I meet someone new I instantly become uncomfortable and filled with dread. I know at any moment when I engage in conversation the question is going to arise about my family and how many children do I have? I would love not to have to tell them. Life would be a lot easier if I could take that path. However, I do have another child. Her name is Ella. She would now be four but she died when she was 19 days old. She isn’t lost – I know exactly where she is, she’s dead.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Ella is my third child and she deserves to be acknowledged just as much as my other children. I’ve lied before saying I have only three children, but the guilt that follows me around for days on end is just simply not worth it. I can actually hear Ella saying to me “don’t I matter anymore Mummy?” “Why were you too ashamed to talk about me?”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">So personally for me, as much as I don’t want to tell someone I don’t personally know very well that my daughter is dead, the guilt of not acknowledging her is worse. I don’t have three children, I have four and my daughter is not my only daughter – I have another as well. It’s pot luck what their reaction is going to be. There’s no telling what they’re going to say. You just have to close your eyes, cover your broken heart and hope they don’t plunge that knife further in.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">If I could have my questions answered on why people give so much advice on a topic that they know so little about, it would really help me. What has surprised me so much since Ella’s death is how little empathy there is in the world. Empathy to me is a no brainier. You just imagine you’re in the other persons shoes, simple yes? Apparently no. Just think how you would like to be treated and if you wouldn’t like it don’t do it. You never know what your life holds – one day it could be you wearing my shoes!</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">I hope this article about my personal thoughts and opinions helps at least one person understand to some degree what life is like for the bereaved parent ❤</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">I dedicate this article to my soul mate, Darren. I’m the luckiest girl in the world having you, my darling. I love you more and more everyday you’re simply perfect and after fifteen years my heart still skips a beat with I see you. My friend Natalie Donnelly & her daughter Eryn. To put it simply: she is an angel and if the world was full of Natalies, it would be a better place. Also my bestie Liv thank you for letting me be and never smothering me with pointless words. Love you both xx</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-16743408675285860742013-10-02T00:57:00.000-06:002016-01-12T11:44:19.018-07:00How to Mourn with the Parents of Stillborn and Miscarried Children. By
John PattonThis I a great article. The original post can be found here: <span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">http://thegospelcoalition.org/mobile/article/tgc/how-to-mourn-with-the-parents-of-stillborn-and-miscarried-children</span><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">July 10, 2013. It was the day I was supposed to go to the hospital and find out the gender of my unborn child, a mid-point milestone of pregnancy in the 21st century. Every day, mothers and fathers walk into the doctor's office and wait with eager anticipation as the ultrasound technician helps them discover whether they will paint their nursery blue or pink. Will they plan for the creative destruction of a little boy or the emotional tempest of a teenage daughter? Will they clean peas and cheese smashed into the floor or entertain intense disquisitions about mermaids?<br></span><div class="mceTemp"><dl id="attachment_41360" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px; "><dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a href="http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/files/2013/08/grief2.jpg" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><img class="size-medium wp-image-41360" title="grief2" src="http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/files/2013/08/grief2-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"></font></a></dt></dl></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>My wife and I already have three children and chose to forego this knowledge with each of them. We were happily surprised with a daughter and then two sons. Our fourth child, the fourth in only four-and-a-half years, threw our life into utter chaos. The baby was a surprise, actually a complete shock, and yet we had adjusted to the logistically nightmarish shape our life took on in March when we discovered this baby's existence. We had four months to talk about a different house, different car, and contemplate the possibility of three kids simultaneously in diapers. We came to love the chaos brought on by the mysterious and awful power of new life. Who were we to judge what God had chosen to do in his providence?<br></span><h3><strong style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stillborn </strong></h3><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>But we did not go to the hospital on that Wednesday in July. We did not go to find out the gender of our little girl because we found out who she was when she passed from this world into the next at 17 weeks old. Our baby, our second daughter, was taken from us before we ever had the chance to know her. This far along in pregnancy, death in utero means that the mother must labor and deliver the stillborn child.<br><br>Stillborn child.<br><br>Was she stillborn, or was this just a miscarriage? <em>Just</em> a miscarriage? Medically speaking a child is considered stillborn in the United States once she reaches 20 weeks and beyond in the womb. Earlier death is considered a miscarriage. What do these words mean, though? Either way it means the extinction of human life. I do not know what to call it, but I know that I held my daughter in all her beauty for several hours in that hospital room; I beheld her lovely little toes and fingers and her glorious, if yet largely unformed face. I pleaded with God to welcome her into his kingdom with open arms and be a better father to her than I could ever be. I pleaded with my heavenly Father to help me deal with jealousy and envy at the reality that others would be spending time with my girl and not me. I begged him to keep me content on this earth, for the desire to be absent from this body and present with the Lord and my little Emma Llewellyn positively overwhelmed me. I did not think about suicide but rather a simple urgency just to be gone, to be taken from the pain of this world. Grief is strange that way.<br><br>I prayed that my wife would be cared for in the coming months, because I knew that her road ahead was different from mine in some ways. She actually delivered our lifeless child and has wrestled with the possibility she may have done something wrong. However rational her response, if you have experienced this kind of loss, such fears cannot simply be explained away. <em>What if I had not indulged that one sip of wine? Did I inhale toxic fumes? Did I not love this baby in my heart and soul as much as my previous children? What about that potent medication I took four years ago on which you are not supposed to become pregnant? </em><br><br>It is a tender mercy of God that we learned soon after Emma's death that she died for a specific reason. A fairly rare condition had developed in which the umbilical cord did not attached to the placenta the way that it should have, resulting in a tenuous connection between baby and placenta. That connection failed when Emma began moving around in the womb.<br><br>Whether you know the reason or not, your pain is real. Your family has died to what it would have been. Those in your family, church, or community may not understand your pain. They may say insensitive things, act aloof, and fail to understand why you cannot get over losing a person you never met. You can always have another one, right? No, we know it is not that simple. Someone made in the image of eternal God has left your earthly family forever.<br><br>Grace must abound in the wake of the death of a child in the womb precisely because others do not understand. And I do not mean grace from others to you, but rather your grace with others. God may call you to the primary task of ministering to others, even as they attempt to minister to you. Their lack of understanding may call for patience and gentleness you can barely muster. God gives this strength, even as he continues to console your heart with his Spirit.<br></span><h3><strong style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Comforting Those Who Wait for the Resurrection</strong></h3><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>Death, that most hateful of things, awaits every one of us, yet its sting is unique when it takes a helpless babe. While we believe Jesus conquered death at the cross, we wait for the resurrection to fully realize the death of death. Until then we must bear the burdens of and mourn with those around us.<br><br>The comfort and hope of the resurrection give us great resources for responding to those in your community who have suffered the pains of miscarriage. Here are six thought to keep in mind as you comfort and console.<br></span><ol><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong></strong><strong>Be content simply to "mourn with those who mourn" (Rom. 12:15).</strong>Know that your words of comfort will not be much consolation in the short run, even if you have experienced miscarriage yourself. As with most other kinds of loss, each person's experience is profoundly different.</span></li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Don't try to be the hero</strong>. Your may desire to utter just the right words that will bring healing and resolution to mom and dad's pain. But that desire may arise more from your own struggle to reconcile the reality of death with the hope of Christ than from the need of those suffering to hear your words.</span></li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Remember mom.</strong> Her pain will linger after most people have ceased asking about it. Don't be afraid to broach the subject and encourage her six, nine, or even twelve months after the fact.</span></li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Remember dad</strong>. A miscarriage is not a set of circumstances in which mom suffers the pain and dad gives support. It's tempting to think that mom bears all the pain, but a father feels helpless in his own way. He needs much love and encouragement.</span></li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Be patient.</strong> My wife and I have struggled over and over again to choose worship and dependence rather than despair or indifference. Sometimes we have failed. Be patient with those who seem not to be "getting over" their loss. Pray for the truth of God's goodness to break through. Love, love, love on your friends who have lost.</span></li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Read them the Psalms.</strong> Just pick them up and start reading. They give lyrical shape to the confusion, anger, pain, relief, hope, and every other possible emotion the suffering feel. Reading the Psalms helps us to live emotionally with a doxological mindset. Psalm 34 has been a key text for me.</span></li><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></ol><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br>Miscarriage, like all other loss, presents an opportunity to seek refuge in bitterness, independence, and hobbies or to rest in the bottomless grace of a God who has known the most severe pain and sorrow. His compassion for a family's lost child is matched only by his goodness to us. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-64725067207682630912013-10-01T20:47:00.000-06:002016-01-12T19:03:33.960-07:00Thirteen months old<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI';">It is amazing how you don't have to be aware of anything for your very being to just know. </span><br />
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Yesterday I was having a really hard day and struggled with emotions and sleep. I didn't connect it until later that night. It was the end of another month. My precious Madilyne is 13 months. </div>
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The time seems so long ago yet just seconds in the past. I still miss her so much and will forever wish things were different. </div>
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I have seen many blessings in my life and my families as a result, so praise The Lord it wasn't all in vain. </div>
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My son still talks of what a great big brother he is to Lena. Every balloon he gets he sends up to heaven with hugs and kisses for her. He wishes over and over that she was here with us. I don't know that any would disagree. </div>
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Today was a little less emotional, but still felt some if the weight. </div>
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I love you my beautiful and perfect Madilyne.</div>
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This is Turner at 13 months. Would you look anything like him, what would you be doing? We know you are getting to learn from your father and praise him in complete abandon. What is that like? I can hardly wait to do that with you. </div>
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You are loved and missed by so many. I will never forget and always hope others won't forget or stop speaking of how their life was changed as a result if your life. </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-52750264006090674312013-09-20T17:52:00.000-06:002014-11-05T12:00:03.038-07:00Super Hero Cape<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVyQ_zbXIeQ-NBTleO04yu75CVnjA3DvgU5s126zE8sTmhlVEbHOsDw81rMaWcTMbduvBDYxP9KJvLCSy6mkmW9X5fMB7pigW9WEUQI1baBj2B885Wb2E6i0ey7MR7z6IRtV3gr9H68oI/s1600/IMGP0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVyQ_zbXIeQ-NBTleO04yu75CVnjA3DvgU5s126zE8sTmhlVEbHOsDw81rMaWcTMbduvBDYxP9KJvLCSy6mkmW9X5fMB7pigW9WEUQI1baBj2B885Wb2E6i0ey7MR7z6IRtV3gr9H68oI/s320/IMGP0001.JPG" width="320" /></a>This is a great Super Hero Cape pattern for your special little ones. I have made it numerous times and it is still one I come back to for the next little one longing to be a super hero.<br /><br />This is a picture of the ones that I made for my nephews, niece and son. I have made at least 6 others and getting ready to embark upon a few more. Easy and Fun.<br /><br /><a href="http://floatingworld.typepad.com/superhero.pdf">floatingworld.typepad.com/superhero.pdf</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-88820080753132954972013-09-17T11:04:00.000-06:002014-11-05T12:00:03.058-07:00Peak 313 Work Out<a href="http://peak313.com/wp-content/uploads/LAButton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://peak313.com/wp-content/uploads/LAButton.jpg" /></a>My last challenge group ended, so I am going to try one that incorporates the Word of God into it. I pray I can stay diligent and not get discouraged. - <a href="http://peak313.com/living-active-challenge/">Living and Active Challenge</a> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Peak313">Facebook</a><br /><br />I do not have all the items that were discussed in the blog for exercise, but I will still find ways to work out.<br /><br />In my posting of this, I am hoping that any that see will encourage me to keep pressing on to better health mentally, emotionally and spiritually.<br /><br />Here are some of the things that I plan to do throughout this challenge.<br /><br /><ol><li>Kettle bells</li><li>Walking</li><li>Exercise ball </li><li>Shaun T Rockin Body</li><li>Elastic Bands</li></ol><div>So, we are off....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://peak313.com/wp-content/uploads/LASoulFoodWk1.001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://peak313.com/wp-content/uploads/LASoulFoodWk1.001.jpg" width="640" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://peak313.com/wp-content/uploads/LAPhysicalWk1-3Year2.002-001.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://peak313.com/wp-content/uploads/LAPhysicalWk1-3Year2.002-001.png" width="640" /></a></div><a href="http://peak313.com/wp-content/uploads/LASoulFoodWk1.001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><br /><div><br /></div><br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-8613222928296525042013-09-09T12:19:00.002-06:002016-01-12T18:04:28.855-07:00Woodglenn Meadows ParkThornton updated the Woodglen Meadows park in 2012 and it is so much better. This year (2013) they have updated their sprinkler systems, so beware. The minute you think you can have a picnic or a day of kickball, you might get wet. We have tried having 2 events there at different times of the day and both times the sprinklers came on and got us wet and at multiple times that same day.<br />
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Hopefully by next year, they will have the sprinklers on a better rotation. I am guessing they are doing so much watering to fill in all the dirt patches from the new sprinkler lines.<br />
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This park isn't the best for tiny people. They do have infant swings, but the rest of the equipment really isn't suited for them.<br />
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There has been a port-o-potty on sight all summer. Not sure when they will remove it or if they will remove it. As of today, it is still there.<br />
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<li>Ralph moody - little britches</li>
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<b>Free domain books</b><br />
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<li>Little princess - Francis Hodgson Burnett</li>
<li>princess and the goblin - George McDonald</li>
<li>children of the forest</li>
<li>Sign of the beaver - Elizabeth George speare</li>
<li>Calico captive</li>
<li>bronze bow</li>
<li>Johnny tremain</li>
<li>new berry award winners - older ones</li>
<li>Amos fortune free man</li>
<li>Robinson crusoe</li>
<li>Kidnapped</li>
<li>Understood Betsy</li>
<li>Misses piggle wiggle</li>
<li>Charolettes web</li>
<li>Wizard of oz series</li>
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<b>Writing</b><br />
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<li>Italics</li>
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<b>Math</b><br />
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<li>Miquon</li>
<li>Saxon</li>
</ul>
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<b>Reading</b><br />
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<li>100 easy lessons</li>
</ul>
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<b>Spelling</b><br />
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<li>Spelling tiles</li>
</ul>
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<b>Bible </b><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Bible Road Trip - free online</span></li>
</ul>
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<b>Science</b><br />
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<b>History/geography</b><br />
<span style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans</span><br />
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<b>Foreign</b><br />
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<li>Rosetta stone</li>
</ul>
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<b>English</b><br />
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<b>Other resources</b><br />
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<li>Alibris.com - used books</li>
</ul>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1572585954207883835.post-43728808274179846312013-08-31T21:50:00.000-06:002016-01-12T19:01:13.676-07:00One year with Jesus<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: '.Helvetica NeueUI';"></span><br />
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We asked that if anyone gardens, if they would take the gerbera daisies home and plant them in memory of Madilyne. </div>
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They also have started a new thing at the hospital called "a star is born." We hope to buy a star at some point to hang on the wall in memory of our precious girl. </div>
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We celebrated your first year with Jesus. What a great celebration we had. So many have walked so faithfully with us this last year. Thank you for that blessing and living out very actively the mourn with those that mourn. </div>
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We love you, Madilyne. Forever and always.<br />
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