Choir Concert

The very best way to spend a Friday night...

Watching the kids Choir Concert and busting with pride at the cuties that are ours!!!!

Abbie singing her heart out:
Sam doing his recitation:

Ruthie hitting the high note - right on key!!!

Take me Out To the Ball Game with the Bell Choir

Bell Choir during rehearsal:

Rehearsing one more time:
Bragging isn't always an appealing trait in a person but I just can't help it - my kids are just stinkin' cute!!! And they make me cry - on a Friday night during the Choir Concert!! What amazing people God allowed me to mother!!!

Oh Lord, when I look at them I am overwhelmed at the blessing of being their mother - what a wondrous gift!!!! Please give me to wisdom and strength to do this job the very best that I can for Your Glory!!

Oh Shoot!!!

I was going to post pictures of my day today...

Using pictures taken with my new camera...

BUT...

The pics are stuck inside the camera...

And I can't figure out how to get them out...

My Hubby works on computers all day...

And does not want to spend lots of time on the computer at home...

Who can blame him?...

So...

He tried for a while...

And said he's going to bed...

So my pictures will live in the camera for now...

And this blog will be pictureless a while longer...

Oh, Shoot!!!!

Update:

As I was going to shut down the computer, I noticed a new button and being the inquisitive person that I am I pushed it to see what would happen (it's a good thing I'm not in charge of anything important - you know things with scary red buttons - I wonder...??) Anyway - low and behold the pictures from my camera showed up on the computer - the question is can I get them from there to here on my blog? Since it is 11:58 pm and Esther will be waking up the minute I drop off to sleep (she does that every night - it's uncany) that adventure will be for tomorrow - after homeschool co-op, potluck dinner with friends and choir dress rehearsal (in other words - later tomorrow :0) Good night!!!

Monday Morning

FOR TODAY June 1, 2009...

Outside my window...Sunshine on my maple tree leaves, blue sky, the tiniest of breezes

I am thinking...about my week - trying to plan so it won't be too crazy. With more end of school year activities we are on the go lots right now.

I am thankful for...so many things. Little things like a crochet hook and fine alpaca wool - big things like a home to clean and a husband who works hard!!

From the learning rooms...wrapping it up for the summer - just a few more small things to finish - I'm so glad, we all need a break!!!

From the kitchen...Not really sure - going to work on my menus next - I noticed I've switched to warm weather cooking lately. Yum!!!

I'm wearing...a summer skirt, coral colored T-shirt and sandals

I am creating...a mobeius style wrap with some beautiful laceweight alpaca - I'm also starting a project - using chalkboard paint right on my kitchen wall and framing it. It should be a cute way to put up my daily schedule. (If anyone has any great tips - let me know - I've never done anything like this before :0)

I am going...to the fruit stand, fertilize my flower pots and vegetable garden, the hardware store to get my chalkboard making supplies

I am reading...I have a bunch of books to read - our church decided to use the church library for a Sunday School room and gave away the books to anyone who would like them - so - I grabbed a bunch - but I've been so busy I fall asleep before I get two sentences read (I think I've been reading the same two sentences for about a week :0)

I am hoping...I figure out how to use my new camera soon. It's a bit more complicated than my old one. I can't quite figure out how to get the pictures out of the camera into the computer. Hubby will show me soon (he out of town for work right now)

I am hearing...birds singing, kids talking in the living room - it's pretty quiet for the moment

Around the house...Tidy up, hang laundry outside, plan those meals, a bit of weeding (hopefully)

One of my favorite things...Walking around my yard first thing in the morning - seeing what happened in the garden since yesterday (although finding baby plants chomped by a slug isn't fun to find - but it is part of the adventure!!!)

A few plans for the rest of the week: Wednesday evening - Kids club BBQ at church (last Wednesday church for the summer), Thursday evening - Choir concert rehearsal, Friday evening - choir concert. All fun stuff but I will be glad when this is done!!!

Here is a picture I'm sharing: This baby girl has finally grown TWO teeth - yahoo Esther!!

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Busyness

What a week!! For a short week we've sure managed to fill it up so we come to Friday feeling like it's been extra long!! All good stuff - just lots of it!

As the school year draws to an end we have so many more functions to attend - even though we homeschool. Recitals, concerts and year end workshops and so much more. Our homeschool co-op does a fabulous job of showcasing all the kid's hard work from the year. This evening was my daughter's fiddle recital. It was tons of fun and she even danced with 3 other kids to some of the Celtic fiddle music. She did such a good job!! Pictures will be coming - my friend Simply Stork took pictures for me - Thank you, Simply! She's an excellent photographer with a camera that works - unlike me :0). Pop on over to see her - she's lots of fun!

The weather has really changed and it seems like summer with arrive after all! Sunshine is breaking out all over!!

I'm so happy - my garden is springing up with amazing speed. So far I've seen radish sprouts, tiny green onions are showing up, the peas - snow and sugar snap - have appeared, purple chard has popped up and the cucumbers have been sighted!! My pole beans are beginning their climb, yellow wax, burgundy king, fillet and Romano bush beans have all been springing up and a few zucchinis are making an appearance. I'm still waiting on the fingerling potatoes and the carrots, winter squash and the pumpkins. They'll arrive soon with the sun warming up the soil like it has the last couple of days. My tomato and lettuce starts are happily adding new growth along with my marigolds and cosmos that I planted to bring the bees to my yard.

I've also been able, with this lovely weather, to start hanging our clothes outside on the line. My sweet hubby got out my line early one morning this week before he left for work - he even wiped it all down for me. What a honey!! Normally I don't enjoy laundry chores (okay - normally I hate laundry chores - mainly because the minute you think the job is done a basket gets filled up with more dirty clothes!!) But I do love hanging our clothes early in the morning and then taking those crisp, sweet smelling clothes down in the afternoon and folding them right there - listening to the birds and the kids playing and looking at my garden!! It's never a chore then - it's a blessing!
I am so grateful that God has given me this home and family to care for!! Some days are rather yucky and others are filled with treats - but whatever the day holds I know it is a privilege to do this task God has put in front of me!!!

Home Again, Home Again Jiggety Jig

After a wonderful, restful long weekend visiting my parents we are home again. I so very badly want to post pictures but our camera is most sadly deceased. I'm anxious to go out and get a new camera right away because now that I know what to do with all my pictures (post them here :0) I find it hard to be without one. Thankfully my husband is less hasty than me and so we will be shopping sanely with some research to find a good camera for a reasonable price.

So once again I'm asking for my friends to use their imagination.

Our weekend had a bit of a rocky start as Esther came down with a case of Roseola complete with fever, fussing and a beautiful measles style rash. Poor baby wasn't very happy for a while. She did look amazing though with pink freckles all over!!

We left our home before dawn for the long drive to avoid holiday traffic and to enjoy the peace of sleeping babies (who while they are awake dislike car seats with a passion) It was a lovely, quiet drive through farmland and deep forests, clear cuts and small towns to arrive at Grandma and Papa's house very near the Pacific coast on the edge of the rain forest.

While we were visiting we got to enjoy the company of many different kinds of birds, chipmunks, and the local elk herd who grazed right across the street - so amazingly beautiful!!

We baked Grandma a birthday cake and carefully decorated with an abundance of sprinkles loving placed with little fingers one by one with intense concentration -fun to watch for sure (man I wish my camera was working!!!)

The weather was beautiful - sunny with a few clouds sailing by. We walked to the nearby stream and played - finding frogs and little fish and throwing rocks. We went to the ocean beach and played in the sand and ran from the waves (with only one falling in but many getting good and wet - brrr - that water is cold!!) We played games, wrestled with Papa, colored pictures, ate great food and some of the big ones shot guns with Papa. And of course Mom and I talked and talked and talked :0)!!

Oh, what a wonderful time we had!!! God knew I needed this blessed time with my parents! How I love them!! This was memory making time for sure!!

Now, on with real life again. I hope the peace and rest I found this weekend will hang with me even when things get crazy again!!!

Finally Listening

Sometimes God steps in and makes a person listen - even when they don't really want to - not that I would ever be such a person - no not me!! Ha ha ha!

For a while I'd been convicted about how much time I was spending on the computer. And being the always obedient person that I am - I immediately listened and cut back - NOT!!

I won't say God broke our computer but when it did break down He did bring to mind how much more productive I was and how much more time I spent doing things with my children.

Now, I was not spending all day on the computer (or even half the day :0) - but it was stealing time I should have been using differently.

So, this week - even though my computer was fixed I spent the time doing things like planting my garden and baking and tending a fussy, teething baby.

My garden is starting to come together - I'm so happy - the kids and I got it all in before we leave town this weekend!!
So I've enjoyed this impromptu blogging break!! We are going to spend this weekend with Grandma and Papa celebrating Grandma's Birthday!!! We are looking forward to it!! I am planning to work computer time into my schedule when I get back home next Tuesday. Guilt free computer time is so much more fun!!!

Hope your Memorial Day weekend is wonderful!!!

Back!!!!

I'm back!!! Computer is fixed and I don't have to use the laptop. I'm so glad - the laptop is just hard for me to use. But - I guess the memory card on my camera is toast so I can't take any pictures. I actually lost a whole bunch of great pictures when it went bad - I'm bummed. I won't ever keep so many pictures on my memory card again!!!

Other good news - the sun is supposed to come out at long last in time for the weekend!!! We've had so much rain and cold. We do have to get through one more cloudy and chilly day (starting out in the 30's temp wise) but then warm in the upper sixties - yahoo!!!! Short sleeves and flip flops (actually I've been wearing my flip flops for a while - pretending it's warm enough cause I hate shoes - but my toes have been very cold!!!).

This is what I'm hoping to do all weekend (well, church of course but this is the only other thing):
Dig!!!!! All Saturday!! Just dig!! My garden needs me to just dig! Then all next week I can plant my seeds!! I can't wait!! I just am aching to dig!!

Hope your weekend is filled simple joys like digging!!!