Two days of Thanks

I'm really having to think what I'm thankful for today. Yesterday I was thankful for the modern cleaning supplies and that my mom taught me how to keep a nice clean house. It keeps your stress level so much lower if you keep a clean house.

Today I'm in a very ornery mood and don't know what to say....I guess I'm thankful that Koda is off work for a few days and that we are all healthy. Hopefully I'm happier tomorrow. I think I finally have discovered what is causing my pessimistic mood to show up much more often, but we'll see.

Saturday and Sunday Thanks

Yesterday (November 6th) I was very thankful for my wonderful sister in laws who are willing to help watch my girls when I need them too. I'm very happy that the three of us are always willing to help each other out and that all of our kids get along.

Today I'm thankful for the fact that it is Sunday. I love Sunday's. Sometimes the getting to church and staying through it by myself with two little ones is stressful. But the habit that I'm teaching them is so important. Afterwards, we usually just relax at the house or go visit family. I love Sunday for it is a day of rest and I use it to its full potential since I run the rest of the week.

Payday

Don't you just love payday? That time when the check comes rolling in for all that hard work you've been doing for the past little while, and you know you've been rewarded.

Don't you just hate payday? Once the cool the check is here, then comes the bills and grocery shopping to do for the next two weeks. Or at least thats how things go down here.

I am thankful that my husband has a job and we do have a steady pay check every two weeks. I'm also grateful for the restraint I put on us so we can get that much farther outta debt. My favorite quote. "Livin' like poor people now, so we can be rich later on!" Yep its nice, especially when I see that money piling up in the bank account, knowing that I'm going to have my tractor paid off when the first payment comes due in January. AWESOME FEELING!!! Then soon I'll have no more school loans and if my caculations are right and we are still at the same job making the same money...our land will be free and clear in SIX years. Even more awesome!!!

I'm looking forward to the day that the paycheck will just have to buy the neccesities of life and can go to savings and retirment to sit and build so when the time is right, we can retire and farm. What do you want to do when you retire and get to live off your hard earned saved money?

Milk Cows

Today the girls and I had to go and help Grandma L. out of bed this morning and I also had to stop at the grocery store and get some more milk. Ever since Page weaned herself, it seems our milk usuage has gone up tenfold, its amazing. This is our third gallon since Monday. Well as I was buying it the thought came, oh how I'm so grateful that I can come to this store and buy the milk, instead of having to milk the cow for it. Especially on cold mornings like this morning was and I know this evening to be. When you are milking a cow, it has to be done, night and morning, every single day, at about the same time. I'm so thankful that I live in this more modern time were I have the convenice of going to the grocery store and buying my milk. Don't get me wrong, I can milk a cow, and I would if I had to, but I'm so grateful that we have big dairies, who do all the milking for us. Thanks to those who do go twice/three times a day to make sure the cows are milked for us lazy people who like to go to the grocery store!

October Bee Blocks

My thankful thought of the day goes right along with the many blocks I did for the quilting bee's this month. I'm very thankful that my Auntie Renee teaches a sewing class at the high school and that I was able to take it. Quilting is a very important part of my life. Like I've said before quilting is a major stress reliever for me. I enjoy these bee's for they are just little enough projects, plus I get to try many differnt styles of blocks that I never thought I'd do, to do with two children. I'm thinking though that five bee's may have been a little to much, It squeezes out the time I have to do my own projects. But I really enjoy the groups and the ladies in them.

This month was mine in Sew Bee Wonky and because of a flaker, they had Oct and Nov to finish them. So far I've gotten two blocks back...and I LOVE THEM! Last month (Sept) was my month in Bee Quilted and in Newbee. I've gotten all my Bee Quilted blocks back, just need to get them sewn together and I'm still waiting on two Newbee blocks. Hopefully they show up soon, cause I want that quilt done by December time.

Anywho!

Here's the parade of Bee blocks I did this month.



Sew Easy Being Green Blocks



Newbee Strip twist Block

Bee in my Bonnet Christmas Block

Bee Quilted Block

Thankful Thoughts

For the past few months I've had different thankful thoughts come into my mind for blog posts, but I thought I'll wait till November to post them, and I'll do a different thankful thought each day. Look at how well that started out...I didn't get yesterday's up. So here it is today then onto todays.

November 1st--I'm very thankful this day for calm horses.

Here's the story. My little busybody Daisy has it in her mind that she should be able to ride every single day of her life. Me I use to be that very way, so I can relate with her...but I'm relating with my mother much more so at this point in my life. (: So we got home from helping Grandma L. get out of bed and the first thing Daisy tells me is: "I'm going ride."  I said: "No, you can go play in the shed, but you can't go riding today." She looks at me, considers my words, then takes off towards the shed with her little compradres, the puppies.

I finish packing what groceries I had and Page in the house. I look out at her. I can hear her over in the shed. About every 2-3mins I'm checking on her. About fifteen mins later, she's not there and all the dogs are gone, and I can't see them anywhere by the house. So I load up Page and we go off to find her. I look in the horse field after I deducte that she's not in the shed, on the gravel pile, or by the tractor. Low and behold four little black dots, Daisy, Annabelle, and two puppies, all right by the horse. I can tell that Daisy has something in her hand but not what it is.

As I get closer I notice that it is a bridle. And that she is close enough to this horse that she can actually pet his chest...fear rose in my own chest, cause I know what that horse could do with his feet....but common sense or enough horse handling from the time I was that age, told me stay calm don't spook the horse. Daisy was there asking the horse to lower his head so she could bridle him and they could go riding. Needless to say, we ended up going riding that day, that was an experience in itself. Me and two girls, on a saddle that I didn't fit in...ya an experience...My brother is bring my saddle up today, so I will always have it here to ride.

So yes, Yesterday I was very thankful for a calm horse. And I apoligized to my mother, for I did the same thing to her, at the same age, only it wasn't once horse in the corral, there were many and they were all broncs. To those who say keeping track of a two year old is easy...I say just wait...

November 2nd--Today I'm thankful for many things and it all centers around the great nation that we live in. But today I'm very thankful that we has American adults have the opportunity to take the time and vote and help decide future members of Local, State, and National government boards. We do get a say, and while the say is very little, compared for those in the National government, we have very much say in our local government and thats a huge thing, also very awesome, we get to pick who leads us. I like that thought and I'm grateful for it.

Halloween 2010

Little Bo Peep, Her lost sheep, and the doggie

 Well once again Halloween has snuck up and left us in the dust. This year we had lots of fun dressing the girls up. Page was a darling little lamb (thanks to Rashell for borrowing the costume to me!) and Daisy was Little Bo Peep. I had lots of fun making Daisy's costume and its a dress!!! She can wear it to play in!!! Yay!!!! We had lots of fun.

We went and seen Koda's grandmas and then went trunk-or-treating with Shasta and Tracy and their motley crew of kids. It was lots of fun going with all the cousins together.

On Friday night we went to the pumpkin festival with Koda and had fun looking at all the pumpkins, but we left very quickly. I still had to cook dinner and get a husband to bed so he could be to work by 4:30. Ah what the husband does for his little family!