Been gone a long time!!!

Well, it sure has been a long time since I wrote! Life has been REALLY busy! We have been blessed with 4 more kids we are planing to adopt :) That makes 8 kids total for now. God is so good to us! I am homeschooling them all plus the little girl I watch on weekdays. We are doing school a bit different this year. We are schooling 4 days a week, year round. I like this much better, and think the children will benefit greatly. DH has been hunting with no luck yet...we have been busy with church and on and off with being sick. All in all, life is great! Just thought I would drop in and say hello....not sure if anyone will even read this....it's been so long since I have been in "blog land"...lol...

Blessings,
Kim

Happy Monday!

I LOVE Monday's!!! It may sound crazy...but I do! I cherish the time I have with my family all together on the weekends....well, I guess we are all together everyday (except DH goes to work)...but weekends are different somehow :) Today will be busy with cleaning and playing. This is our first week of "summer vacation" :) I am taking this summer to really get organized and develop some routines in our home, mostly morning routines. I found that during the school year if we are not "on the ball" and we get off track I have "lost" the kids and they struggle to get back on task..I struggle too! So, I will work on that some today as well. I will also be planning to get ready for our anniversary trip this coming weekend. DH and I have been married for 10 yrs on June 5th!! That went fast! My WONDERFUL sister is coming here with all her kids to stay with all my kids for the weekend! She will have her hands full! I'm not sure we have enough chairs for the dinner table! LOL...anyway, DH and I are going to a NASCAR race! We are SOOOOOO excited!
Well, I am off to start blessing my home and making a weekly menu! Lots to do!
I also have to go uncover my entire garden! We were supposed to have a frost last night! ARGG...we did get a light one! DH said we should move farther south! LOL
Have a blessed day!

Frugal buy!!

This is a picture of the new curtain I made for the living room and a new sun catcher I got for .99 from CBD!!!

a closer look at the sun catcher

a closer look at the curtain :)

The curtains cost me $1.25 a piece to make ! Pretty and frugal ...just the way I like it!

Have a blessed day!

Just some fun!

We got the baby a baby pool, but all he wanted to do was stand in the bucket we got out so the kids could fill water guns! LOL

DD enjoying the pool :)

DS just lounging around!

DS just riding the waves! It took days just to get him to even get IN the pool! He will ONLY get in if he can ride in the "boat"...lol...kids! He sure does have fun though! Even DH and I got in the pool over the weekend :) Now it's raining..and cold...so these pictures are nice to see right now :)

the garden

This is just a picture of our chicken coop, I thought I would include....it's right by the garden :)

These are our strawberry plants

This is our potato garden...we also planted pumpkins in the empty space you see on the right.

this is a picture of our "main" garden...I couldn't get the whole thing in...but we have planted peas, onions,carrots, beets, lettuce, spinach, brussel sprouts, beans, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucc., asparagus, rhubarb. I can all the veggies and put them up for the winter :) We LOVE our garden and the blessing that it is! God is so good!! We love to see His hand at work! Have a blessed day!!

SHOCKED!!!!!

My 9 yr old daughter and I went into a nearby public library last night and as we were checking out I looked over to where the computers were (in PLAIN SIGHT!) and saw a teenage boy looking at pornography!!!! I was SHOCKED! So, I was trying to tell the librarian, who was hard of hearing, that this boy was looking at trash on the computer without drawing attention to myself or alarming my daughter, this was not an easy task! Finally she heard me and took care of it, but wow!!! Are we not even safe to go to the public library?? Why don't they have net nanny on the computers??? I am so thankful that my daughter didn't glance over that way, wouldn't that have been so sad? She would have been corrupted and a little less innocent in that moment, all at the library! Sad times!

kim

homemaking

Recently I have noticed myself saying that I was bored. What is that?? I happen to LOVE Mondays, it is house blessing day! The kids and I work on the house all day and ask God to bless us and we thank Him for all we have, it is ALL His, but He has blessed us with it :) Anyways, as I am going from room to room looking around I can name off a hundred things that need my attention (along with the help of the kiddos), so I wonder why am I bored? Just say that I was to get EVERYTHING done or just wanted a break from housework, isn't that the time I should use to play with the kids, make a special meal, work on a craft, read a book, you know the fun things! I am shocked at myself sometimes, and grateful for the Lord showing me the way...because if I was leading...that would be trouble! LOL...
So, today I am feeling extra blessed and encouraged! Like I said I LOVE Mondays! Hope you all are finding joy in homemaking, and seeing all that we have to do in a positive way!
Have a blessed day!