Magical Night

It's a wonderful life

I love the movie It's a wonderful life.  How a bout you?   I love the love story, faith, how people help one another out.   What made me and my best friend Janet laugh was how much the price of a home was.  In the movie they talked about a home costing $5000.00 !!  For some people that is just a monthly payment not the total price of a new home!!

What happened to those days??  When a neighbor cared and help out a neighbor??  When you broke down (cars) people would help.  Where you would share you blessing more, like the extra in your garden.  Where people really respected each other.  When it was safer for children to be children.  What do we have for the kids today?  On t.v we have sex, drugs, drinking violence , porn.  Do you know that some underwear adds would have been porn back then??  What happened???  We need to go back to stronger values , to what is really important.  God , family , friends, others.

Bring back the good old days......

God Bless, mj

Our eyes were opened

Hubby and I talked last night about the girls and how spoiled they are.  How it came about was we had the roof repair man come over to look at the leak.  He asked why we wanted to build a large house at our ranch.  I told him the home that is there  is only 1082 square feet and this house we live in is feeling smaller to us because we would like the grand babies to have a room just for them.  How many square feet is this house he asked?  1500 square feet.  He said his family of 4 live in a 865 square foot home.  ( I feel bad for looking at a 4200 square foot home). 

Then our daughter Shayna drove up, he asked if that was her truck? I looked at him and said yes.  He just looked at me.  He then asked if Kristi will be getting her own car?  I said yes ,as soon as we can find the truck we are looking for.  Then the girls started talking about what kind of 2 horse trailer they want because our 4 horse is to much from them to  haul just 2 horse or pigs.  The man asked me if we were going to buy them a 2 horse trailer?  I said yes.  He then had a look on his face that said they are spoiled.

It really open my eyes!!  They are really spoiled!!  Most children in a family do not each get their own trucks or a horse trailer.  They would use mom and dads.  They will share a horse trailer though. We do need a two horse trailer, it is not just for them.  When we go to horse shows it is a waste of gas to haul a huge 4 horse trailer with just an Arabian and a pony.

So last night we talked and it was really an eye opener for us both to see that our children have never wanted for anything.  My husband has worked very hard to give us what we need and more.  But we realize we need to change some things.  To see it through some ones else's eyes was the opener.   We are going to change some things.    I am not bragging or anything like that just sharing my growing some more.  It was just a real eye opener.  I mean a real eye opener !! 

God Bless, mj

Thanksgiving Trouble

Do you think a husband should talk to his wife about who is coming to Thanksgiving  dinner before anyone else(his mom)??    I found out from my mother-in-law that my husbands cousin , her hubby and 3 children are coming to dinner.   I asked hubby why did he not tell me me?   He told me I was making a big deal over nothing.   I said no ,but as your wife I should find out from you not your mom leaving a message as to who is coming to dinner.   As it is his mom is telling me when she will be here staying in a hotel , for how many days and when hubbies grandma will be here(our house) and how many days she will stay with us for me to care for !! 

  I can not care for his grandma by my self, the girls will have to help.  My leg is still broken after 11 months, I have to have more surgery, I walk with a limp and am not anywhere near as strong as I was.  How am I to pick up and carry his grandma in and out of the tub to giver her a bath and pick her up when she falls??    I love his grandma , and will do my best.

Oh well, God Bless, mj

We found a house

We found a house we like.  It is a 7 bedrooms,  4 baths 4200 square feet and on almost 3/4 acre, only for 350 thousand!! , we are in California remember.   We were emailed it and just loved the pictures and how it sounded.  We went to see it and it is two house not one house!   Ugh!!!    Why do they not tell you that when you are looking at a few to see?   They know what you want, so why do they waste my time??

We are going to look at another one, but this one is smaller only 3 bedrooms, 2 bath and 2300 square feet , but it has the land we want. 

We are just looking at this time as we still have our ranch and love it there.  We will see where and if God wants us to move, but we keep looking.

God Bless, mj

Fires in California

I do not know if you see on your news things about California , but we are having major fires.  We have 6 going and 3 of them are close around us.   We live in Chino.  Chino Hills was Chino to, until they changed it to Chino Hills ( it was always just called the hills) because they did not to live in a city that has a prison.  Carbon canyon is also part of Chino Hills (Chino).   We live a few miles form Diamond Bar and Corona.  We have fires all around us.  We are praying for the people who lost their homes and for all the people helping out.  So many people lost it all.

People were evacuated 3 miles from us.   It has been very smokey and it looks like it snowed due to the ash.   It is fall but we have been in the 90's.   Hubby had such a hard time getting home from work on Friday.  The 3 freeways were closed as was Carbon Canyon.   It took him over 2.5 hours to drive the 17 miles home!!

God Bless, mj

Pictures of Marty's life

I am posting more pictures of Marty.

Marty as a pup:

As a young man:

At Disneyland :

Different Christmas pictures taken at Disneyland:

Him with one of his puppies:

As you all can see we love this guy a lot!!  Marty was a part of all our lives everyday.   I am still developing  rolls of film.  As I find pictures of him I will post them.

We miss him so very much.

P.s here is one of the poor guy dressed as Snow White:

He just love to be with us and his sisters, even if they painted his nails and dressed him up as a girl.

God Bless, mj

Pictures of Marty with the grand babies

This past week has been very hard.  It is empty with out Marty here. For the first few days I hardly got any sleep, like 6 hours in for days. E very time I would close my eyes I would see him.  When we took  him in I did a a lap blanket and I have had it in my bed with me to try and help.  I still smell him on it and I love to snuggle it, but it also make me miss him so.  On the 13th Janet my best friend for 25 years came out with her daughter Mya and it has helped, but they miss him too.  This is the first time in 13.5 years that he was not here.

Here are a few pictures of Marty with HIS grand babies:

Marty with Maddie and Jeffie riding him:

As you can see he loved those babies of his.  I am still looking for more pictures of him we have found a lot but a lot more are still waiting for us to develop them.

God Bless, mj.

Thank you for all you prayers and kind words it helps more than I can say.

Thankful for today 11-08-08

Today I am thankful for my husband who keeps giving me hugs and kisses because he understands.   I did not sleep last night at all.  I went to bed at 9am this morning.  Hubby knows why I can not sleep and tells me I did not disturb him even though I did.  He just keeps showing me his love.

I am also thankful for Hope, Marty's daughter, I see him in her.

I am also thankful for Faith, Hopes daughter, granddaughter.   It comforts me to see him in them both.

God Bless, mj

Friday night for the girls

Tonight the girls went to a friend play at church.  They love it.  After the play all the kids went out to Denny's for a bite to eat.   They will be home at 11.30 pm.

What is nice is that Shayna who is 18 years old and Kristi who is 16 years old are so trustworthy.  Shayna and Kristi went and picked up their friend Jessie (girl) before the play.  What is nice is they just like to hang out with friends do, church events and have clean fun like riding ice block down hill in parks.  What is neat about that is they called the police to make sure it was legal first.  It was.  They got some girls and boys and have gone ice blocking a few times.

The girls like boys , but neither are ready to date.   Kristi was asked out about a month or so ago.  She told the boy that she is not ready to date yet.  I did not tell her to say that nor was I any where near her when she said it.

God bless, mj

Coming soon

Coming soon:  Pictures of Marty and his life.  

I posted about his going home to God on my other blog thunderwolf ranch.  But I am will start a scrap book on him and his life.  So I will share the pictures.

God Bless, mj