I need your prayers again........
Posted on Sat 30 Aug 2008 at 7:46 AM by GrandmaRosie - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Dear friends, my little grand daughter, Velvet Rose, is in the hospital. She is Bi-Polar ( according to the DR's) and threatened to kill herself. Velvet is 11 years old. Pray the Lord will touch this young life and keep it for His Glory. My heart is broken. Pray our family as we deal with .
Glenda Update 3
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 at 10:36 by Shan (Sweetie) - 3 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Talked to Elizabeth and Glenda had her surgury on Wednesday to remove her kidney. She was only hospitalized overnight and is home healing. This is Friday, August 29th, Elizabeth said they were fairing well, but Mom was definately two days out of surgury...and where you would expect physically at that time.
Keep praying, hopefully by removing this very diseased kidney, Glenda can begin to truly heal! We know God has her healed already!
hugs
Sweetie
Happy Friday!
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 at 02:37 by BlueApple - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Link
It's been a long week! With school starting next week I had extra children in my child care this week...I had 8 children most days and one day 10. We had fun but I'm exhausted! I'm looking forward to next week when I start my preschool program for them - helps to have a bit more structure and they love learning!
This weekend is our annual camping trip with family - there are at least six families going which is always fun. I plan to do a lot of reading and sleeping! I don't think I've read an entire book all summer - just too much going on and when I do read I fall asleep! LOL
I hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend!
****The last couple of days****
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 at 09:01 by Page - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Life around here has been a little bit busy over the last couple of days. Yesterday I was so blessed to receive an early Christmas present from my Mother in Law which was a Kenwood Food Mixer - in fact this machine does everything and includes a food processor, liquidiser plus accessories - so I was so so blessed. This will make bread baking especially so much easier (not that I mind the hard work of kneading but with the food mixer this will be so much quicker and easier).
Also yesterday I picked around 10lbs of green tomatoes, we have noticed over the last few days that these are starting to rot so we thought we would leave them for another couple of days, as the weather was supposed to be really warm & sunny yesterday ha ha, this never really happened. I guess the sun came out about 6pm for around an hour but now from about 7.30pm onwards the nights start to draw in.
Ok, back to tomatoes, there are still loads to be picked and several more are starting to rot and the tomato plants themselves have just about had it as the leaves are quite yellow now. I also a few toms that were starting to turn red on the kitchen windowsill but some of these are starting to rot too.
I have possibly found a couple of English recipies for green tomato chutney but if you have any other recipies then please let me know asap as I need to really make the chutney either this afternoon or tomorrow morning
Wednesday was quite busy as I managed to clear two large bin liners full of rubbish (mostly mine). I emptied out my bureau, filing trays & bags with papers that I had not gone through in awhile and as yesterday was blue bin day (recycling bin) I decided that I may as well have a clear out. I also had to wait in for a computer chair to be delivered so I made use of the time. I also went through tons of papers downstairs so I was quite pleased with the amount I managed to clear and I have tons more space now woo hoo.
We are having a filing cabinet delivered a week on Monday which will go in my office. I need to move things around a little but we are desperately in need of a decent filing cabinet. We were blessed with monies for our wedding so hence have used some monies towards the filing cabinet. We managed to purchase one on e-bay, scandinavian pine which is near enough the same wood as our computer cabinet. We also purchased the office chair from e-bay too. I had been using a dining room chair for years but sitting on this for long periods of time especially for work wasn't exactly comfortable. Andrew became so fed up with this chair that he decided to order the office one for me and it is so comfortable!
This morning Andrew had to be up around 5.15am so after he went to work I managed to put out two lots of washing (2 loads were washed yesterday evening and one around 5.45am this morning). I did my morning quick tidy up of the bathroom and cleaned the kitchen sink area and kitchen worktops before starting work.
Today is my ironing day so this afternoon when I have finished cleaning the kitchen I will be spending a couple of hours at least ironing which is fine. I also need to start doing my menu plan for the next month this afternoon.
If I do make some chutney I will let you know how it goes - as I have never done this before.
I have also been having major problems with my desktop computer a lot lately & especially when I was working Tuesday evening, it must have crashed & at times re-started itself around 14 times. The son of the lady whom I am working for took the desktop yesterday afternoon and is very kindly re-building this for me.
Due to the above, I am using my laptop (of which there are a couple of issues on here *sigh*). There are some email addresses etc that I don't have (Bren please can you email me your email addy ) and anyone else that I don't have. Jacque & Jocelyn I don't have yours on here either - so please can you re-send when you can.
Monthly Measuring/Weigh-In
Posted on August 28, 2008 at 9:37 PM by ~Melissa - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Time for my monthly measurements... Overall, I'm happy. Sure, I wish it was a bit bigger difference, but I know some muscle building is going on and my arms are not as flabby, even if they haven't gone down a whole lot. You can kind of see a trend... second month measurements went up, most likely due to muscle increase. This month my hips went down just slightly which I was surprised, because I did alot more biking with a bike with no speeds and I could feel it with my upper thighs and buttocks. Figured they'd be bulging! LOL. I see that I am trimming from the top down.... reminds me of those weight loss commercials where you see both man and wife gain weight (cartoons), and then they lose weight and the woman loses her arms and *****, yet keeps her tummy and hips. Hope that trend doesn't continue... at least the difference isn't large and overall I am not loosing ***** yet, LOL, considering I gained a bit of muscle underneath when I started exercising more regularly. I was smiling big a couple weeks ago when the doctor's office visit confirmed some weight loss. I know my pants are getting looser in places, but my tummy is staying put, so my skirts I don't really see a difference. I try on old pants every so often just to see if I can fit into them or how different they fit. Last year's capri's were too tight to fit into, but now I can fit into them as I did last year (even though I weighed less last year).
August 28:
Upper Chest: 34.25, Breast: 36, Waist: 36.5, Hips: 41.75, Upper Thighs: 23.75, Lower Thighs: 18.75, Calves: 15, Upper Arms: 12 1/8, Weight: 144.5 (Two weeks ago at Doctor's office).
Warmly, ~Melissa
Previous Measurings:
June 26:
Upper Chest: 34, Breast: 36, Waist: 36.5, Hips: 42, Upper thigh: 24.25, Lower thigh: 17.5, and Calves: 15 inches, Upper Arm 12-7/8ths. Weight: 150 pounds.
July 28th:
Upper Chest 34.5, Breast 36.5, Waist 37, Hips: 41.5, Upper Thigh: 23.75, Lower Thigh: 18.75, Calves: 14.75, Upper Arm: 12.5
Camping, College and School Starting...
Posted on August 28, 2008 at 5:56 PM by ~Melissa - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Link
We've been gone camping and I am about settled into home (about...still much to do, but I am getting into a routine). We took a spur of the moment trip to camp at Governor Dodge State Park in Wisconsin. It is a quiet place, huge campground and a very large state park. We enjoyed some lazy summer relaxation before heading back home to meet what is there to get done.
Back home, Kate started college this week. She is learning her schedule. Unfortunately we can't get her into ONE more class and she isn't sure she is happy or sad about that. One more class would give her official full-time status according to the college. They told us that she was full-time, but this seminar class the financial aid office tells us, does not qualify her for full time. So, I am researching having her take a correspondence course that will transfer to her 4 year college in religion (which our local college doesn't carry). She is really struggling with the amount of work with the 3 classes currently and tells me she is not sure another class is a good idea. She was up until 12:58 am last night (with me by her side for the last hour and a half) doing her chemistry assignment. An entire chapter in one day and gobs of questions... lots of math problems and formulas... But she got it done and this morning looked ready to tackle another day. She will be working after classes today, which will bring her home straight to do homework until bed again.
We also started gearing up with our homeschool. Getting out some of those books and beginning a few classes. I am not totally organized, but this week was a week of organizing and cleaning up from camping and still cleaning out from the kitchen fire. Our first day of "school" the two older girls painted their baby sister's room. New to them and they did a great job. They've watched us paint through the years, now it was time for them. We also in doing this were moving her into this room, which was previously the "tv room" and in doing it, it has in effect decreased some tv watching time.
Today the girls are picking some pears from our pear tree. They are near ripe and need to be picked before they drop and "splat" on the ground. I wasn't expecting any pears as we didn't get hardly a dozen last year even having bees to pollinate them... but this year... no bees and a full tree.
The girls already have a mindset of completing their school year on time... which means every time I break off for school to do something constructive, I am finding a not so welcome front from the girls. They pestered me about picking pears and really needing to do some "book work". My 13 yo isn't like that so much, she's been homeschooled from the start, but I fought this mentality all the way through with my oldest and my second (still) likely because they went to school and consider school just that... book work. While we have followed the Moore Formula and tried alternate forms of teaching, the two older girls have always come back to school meaning "text books". And with not having many other than math and occasionally an English textbook, they have really struggled with feeling like they have accomplished something. It took my oldest getting a good score on her ACT to realize she actually learned something without the regimented school routine. She has always felt behind her classmates who remained in school. Just because she was different. Not every day was a struggle though, she enjoyed homeschooling, but every so often the "oh, no, Mom's not a real teacher... thought would creep in and we'd be in for a rough day or two until they worked through that again". (Usually spurred on my an educational event at her previous school.) Anyways, I don't mean to make it sound like we don't accomplish things, it just doesn't seem that way when we don't school traditionally to the kids at times. I think that means I need to put in some more praise days for completing a project or unit study.
Organizing is going more quickly since the girls are back to help watch their sister. I have to remind myself to break away and spend time with little Paige doing "Nothing" so that she will have her Mommy time. WHile I'd love to have the house put together in a week or so... it likely won't be that quick. But happy kids are worth more than a Martha Stewart House.
Warmly, ~Melissa
APRONS RULE!
Posted on Thu 28 Aug 2008 at 7:13 AM by GrandmaRosie - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Awhile back someone askd me to post a few pictures of my many gingham aprons. Here are a few. love the ones with the "Chicken Scratch" worked in them.
Oven Fried Chicken
Posted on Thu 28 Aug 2008 at 5:06 AM by GrandmaRosie - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Oven Fried Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 cup corn flake crumbs or bread crumbs
- 1/2 tsp. dried thyme leaves
- 1/2 tsp. dried oregano leaves
- 1/2 tsp. paprika
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 2 egg whites, lightly beaten or 1/4 cup milk
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
- 2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In pie plate, combine crumbs, thyme, oregano, paprika and salt. Pour egg whites into second pie plate. Dip chicken in egg whites, then into crumb mixture, coating evenly. Place chicken in greased shallow 1 quart baking dish. Drizzle butter over chicken. Bake, uncovered, 20-25 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink in the middle.
Moist Chocolate Cake
Posted on Thu 28 Aug 2008 at 5:04 AM by GrandmaRosie - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Moist Chocolate Cake
2 C. flour
1 t. salt
1 t. baking powder
2 t. baking soda
3/4 C. unsweetened cocoa
2 C. sugar
1 C. vegetable oil
1 C. hot coffee
1 C. milk
2 eggs
1 t. vanilla extract
Favorite Icing:
1 C. milk
5 T. flour
1/2 C. butter softened
1/2 C. shortening
1 C. sugar
1 t. vanilla extract
Sift together dry ingredient in a mixing bowl. Add oil, coffee and milk; mix at medium speed for 2 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla; beat 2 more minutes, batter will be thin. Pour into two greased and floured 9" cake pans or 2 8" cake pans & 6 muffin cups. Bake at 325 for 25-30 minutes. Cool cakes 15 minutes before removing from pans. Cool on wire racks. Meanwhile for icing combine the milk and flour in a saucepan, cook until thick. Cover and refrigerate. In a mixing bowl beat butter, shortening, sugar and vanilla until creamy. Add chilled milk/flour mixture and beat for 10 minutes. Frost cooled cake.
Our Schoolhouse Opened It's Doors
Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 03:42 by SimpleFolk - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
--Henry Ward Beecher
Of course, as a homeschooling family, we are always learning, but we started our year today, officially. I just can't believe that it's time again, but I have been looking forward to schedules and the slow down that the school year brings. Funny, we have a very full year and it's always busy, but I guess compared to tending an acre of berries, three gardens and a pumpkin patch, it seems like a piece of cake! We are all signed up for classes with our local co-op: Spanish, drama, art, music, photography, soccer, "real money," and workforce etiquette. There will also be Apologia science labs and gym class. We'll have occasional fieldtrips, including the zoo, a real castle (studying The Middle Ages), and the firehouse where my husband gives a fire safety class. The greatest blessing will be those sunny days where we can study in our classroom under the trees. I am really looking forward to our year of learning together.
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