28 Days to Hope for Your Home - A Slob Comes Clean

Have you ever wondered if there’s no hope for you?
I know that feeling.  I’ve experienced it too. I’m so glad that now I can say . . .
There is hope!
For anyone!

28 Days to Hope for  Your Home

{not for the mildly disorganized}

Develop four habits over four weeks.

Discover hope for real change in your home.

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One Favorite Photo 2011

Today I read on the blog Madigan Made a post where she  asked if we could pick our favorite photo used in our blog last year.  Well, I'm not a big photographer.  I'm sure you can tell that from my photos.  I've never been much of a picture taker, even when my kids were small.  But I was curious if I could pick one photo out of the few I'd used in my blog. 

Here is my choice:

This photo is one I took at a rodeo Pappy and I took GrandBoy to.  He LOVED it!  He loves horses, and we have cows so he knows all about those.  Heck, he even rides goats!  Here he is stooped down, looking through the bars of the coral fence watching the rodeo clowns during a break.  It was hot, and he'd come out of his shirt, leaving just his camo overalls and his cowboy boots.  We need to go back again soon!

That's probably going to be one of my favorite photos of all time!  Honey

January Spring Day!

Today was a beautiful day for January!  It was in the 70's, and beautifully sunny.  We had more baby goats today.  One is almost solid red!  Really beautiful. 

Tomorrow it will be stormy and raining and flooding again.  Our boat dock is under water.  Praying that the weather doesn't get bad here tomorrow.

Well, I'm off to bed.  Have a great night.  Honey

Baby Goats

This past week has been busy here on the farm.  Last week Pappy and GrandBoy found new born twin goats in the field after a very cold night.  (at least as cold as Alabama winters get in January!)  The mama goat didn't have milk, so Pappy and GrandBoy brought the babies in and put the in a wicker laundry basket in my kitchen.  Pappy was feeding them powdered goat milk in a syringe.  Later they were outside again.  GrandBoy starts yelling at the top of his lungs, "PAPA!  PAPA!  I found another baby goat!"  Pappy thought he was pretending, but he hurried over to GrandBoy.  Sure enough GrandBoy had another baby goat!  This one was being cared for by his mother, though.  All three of these babies were boys.  So Pappy fed the twins in the house formula.  Later that night, they died.  I think something was wrong with them.  The single baby is doing great, and running and playing in the pasture with its Mama.

The chickens started laying again last week.  I hope this keeps up.  Since the goats are now kidding, Pappy told me we can use the last of the goat milk in the freezer, and he'll start milking the goats in a couple of weeks.  So I will be able to save a little money not buying milk and eggs.  Food is so high, and I don't even have to buy that much!  We grow much of our food, and try not to buy processed foods.  I don't know how people that purchase all their own food are still able to buy any. 

Daughter #1 is doing well with her nursing school.  She stays busy all the time.  I'm glad to see things coming together for her.

Daughter #2 moved out of our home last night.  Not much else to say about that.

Alabama had tornadoes last night around Birmingham.  Tornadoes are always scary if you live in Alabama.  Only two people are dead, I believe, which is a blessing.  We have flooding here where we live.  Hope this is the last of the stormy weather.

I hope you all have a blessed day!  Hope to see you tomorrow.  Honey 

Thank you Lord for my Husband

I'm so glad that tomorrow is Friday.  But I have noticed that they certainly come around more often than they used to.  But since I am getting older, I need them to come quickly because I am always tired!  Tomorrow is Friday the 13th!  I was raised in a Southern, superstitious family.  I try to avoid Friday the 13ths!  If I had my rathers, I'd stay home, reading a good book, and maybe getting my house clean.  (I won't tell you I need to take down my Christmas tree, because you might think I am crazy.  Really, I'm just busy and short-handed!)

The weather here has been strange.  We were warm for a week or so.  The it rained a lot.  Now it is cold with snow flurries and flooding.  I'm about done with winter this year.  I'm ready for Spring.

This is another one of the photos my daughters took for Christmas. 

Pappy and the GrandBoy

Today I was thinking how thankful I am for my husband.  He always support me in what ever I want to do.  Since he retired, he does what ever needs to be done at home, even keeping our 3 year old GrandBoy three days a week.  GrandBoy was so wound up today that our dog (a miniature dauschound) had been hiding all day.  He hid so well that Pappy thought something had happened and he was missing.  Pappy went to bed at 4:30 and hasn't been seen since.  I guess it was a rough day.  Normally none of these things happen.  Then after GrandBoy's mom came to get him, he called later crying saying he wanted to stay at Honey's house.  I left him down there.  He'll be back in the morning!

Now Pappy would tell you a lot of this was my fault.  That I called and texted him all morning with problems or updates on our tenants.  Then I called during nap time, and woke GrandBoy up when he'd only been asleep for 40 minutes.  He said if I keep calling during nap time, he will cut the phone off.

All three of my girls are mad at me, at the same time, for different reasons.  Oh well.  The Lord didn't tell us moms that we'd be popular.

I started reading "Seasons of a Mother's Heart" from my list yesterday.  Part of me was thinking today that this book is for young mothers, and I'm an older Mom, so maybe I should read something more appropriate.  But for some reason I was drawn to this book.  And since the book is about seasons, and I AM still a mom, surely there is something encouraging in the book for me, right?  I hope so.  I could use some encouraging.

Have a wonderful Friday.  Honey

Roll Tide!

Hi friends!  I'm glad to see you again.  I've been away for a few days.  I'm so busy working these days.  And I stay tired.  I think maybe I'm not fully recovered from my surgery yet.  I just know that I want to sleep all the time!

We watched the BCS Championship game last night!  We LOVED it!  Roll Tide!  We thought it was wonderful, and had a great time until the very end!  Our daughters were texting us as they watched from various places with their friends.  Then this morning I got up, and on my way to work I was listening to all the news stations talk about the game.  So many said it was the most BORING game they'd ever seen!?  I didn't get it.  I guess that may be the case if you are not from ALABAMA!  We love football in this state, and my family loved the game!  My husband said that an Alabama team has won the last three BCS Championship games, and we know what football is suppose to be down here!  Roll Tide!

Daughter #1 is loving nursing school.  But she is really busy.  I guess every one has those busy seasons in life.  Oh, how nice to be young and energetic again.

My Husband is looking at Anatolian Shepherd dogs. He'd like a puppy if we could find one reasonably priced.  The are suppose to be the best flock/herd dogs, and we could use one with our goats.  We lose too many to coyotes.  So we are looking around on line to see if we find one in our price range.

I finished my first book (reading) of the year.  It was called "Riding the Bus with My Sister - A Real Life Story" by Rachel Simon.  It is the memoir of a college professor who rides the bus with her mentally retarded sister for a year.  That is what the sister does all day, ride the bus and talk to the passengers.  It was an interesting book.  I usually read extremely fast, and can finish a few books a week.  But I have been reading this one since the New Year.  It made me think about a lot of things in my life.  Maybe you'd like to give it a look.

Speaking of books.  I decided to make a reading plan for the year.  Several years I have kept a list of the books I read that year.  This year I decided to plan 12 books that I want to finish this year, one a month.  The rest of the time I will read what ever catches my eye.  Mostly mysteries!  So on to the list:

Honey's 2012 Reading List - One Book a Month

1.  God is in the Small Stuff and it all Matters.  Stop Worrying and Invite God into the Details of your Life.  By Bruce and Stan

2.  You Can't Begin Too Soon.  Guiding Little Children to God  by Wesley Haystead

3.  The Worn Out Woman - When your Life is Full and Your spirit Is Empty  by Dr. Steven Stephens and Alice Gray

4.  Beloved Unbeliever - Loving Your Husband Into the Faith by Jo Berry

5.  52 Dates for You and Your Mate by Dave and Claudia Arp

6.  A Woman's Guide to Spiritual Warfare by Quin Sherrere and Ruthanne Garlock

7.  The Leadership Lessons of Jesus - A Timeless Model for Today's Leaders by Bob Briner and Ray Pritchard

8.  The Proverbs 31 Lady and Other Impossible Dreams by Marsha Drake

9.  Seasons of a Mothers Heart by Sally Clarkson

10.  How to be the Happy Wife of an Unsaved Husband by Linda Davis   (I see a pattern here!)

11.  Sabbath Keeping - Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Rest by Lynne M. Baab

12.  Divine Assignments - You Have One too!  by Lana Heightley

Bonus:  Beautiful Boy - A fathers journey through his son's addiction by David Sheff

I didn't put the books in any specific order.  I will just chose as I feel that month.  I picked a bonus book so I would have a choice every month, in case I didn't feel like reading one of the books.  All of these books came out of my personal library, and have not been previously read by me.  I have way too many books, and have a massive amount of books I may never read.  So I am trying to make a plan for that.  For January I  plan to start tonight with #9. 

I would love to hear what you all are reading! 

I wanted to post some photos tonight, but that button doesn't seem to be working on my blog tonight.  Maybe tomorrow it will be working.  Hope you have a great Wednesday!  Honey

A Mom's Work is Never Done

Daughter #1 had her wisdom teeth removed today.  She did really well with her surgery, and has done well this afternoon.  I will be going back to work tomorrow.  I hope she does well then, too.  Today, each time she stood up to go somewhere, GrandBoy grabbed her hand and said, "I help you walk, K?"  Such a sweet boy!

Daughter #3's car is not fixed yet.  It appears the water pump stopped working, and she drove it with no water, and the radiator blew up, and that is not the end of the story.  So maybe we will know tomorrow if it can be fixed.

I went to pick up some rent tonight.  I usually don't do that on Thursday, but it has been a very slow month!  I hope this weekend will be good for rent collection.  I'm suppose to rent a house this weekend.  Hope that happens! 

I am looking for a refrigerator for an apartment.  I went to the Habitat Store today on the way to Daughter's surgery.  I called, and they only had one refrigerator.  I wanted to pay for it and pick it up this weekend.  Well, I got there and saw it.  The bottom of the refrigerator, that goes over the drawers, was broken in two places, almost in three pieces.  I asked the price, and the lady said $150.  I bought a perfect side-by-side there for $150.  I offered her $100, but she would not take it.  So I left.  Still need a refrigerator.

Just got a call that Daughter #3 needs a ride to work.  I will be picking her up when I am normally getting out of bed.  A mom's work is never done!  Honey