tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76286214710376463652024-03-13T02:38:06.540-05:00Celebrating MotherhoodJust A Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01687664195785821127noreply@blogger.comBlogger853125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628621471037646365.post-63204830533933193332017-03-12T14:34:00.000-05:002017-03-12T14:34:23.398-05:00Life happens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is what happens when you blink. The Legs grow long and the wrinkles come. Time slips into the very fabric of your soul and you never realize she's there until some random number takes you by surprise. Like 25. We've been married 25 years and although that number seems outrageous it really has just flown by. Our journey of living and struggling together has kept us busy and time has worked her way into our life.</div>
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The girls have all done lots of growing. I wish I could fully describe the balance between these four sisters. Each one waking up to her own self and trying to find out where they fit in this great big world. As their mama I'm trying to find that balance that we're all looking for, protection without being over protective. I have failed miserably over the years looking for balance but I think we all do. It really is just an ebb and flow. I have over parented and under parented over the years and neither was done intentionally but we all tend to parent out of our fears or our areas of pride. I tended to over parent out of a response of my own parents under parenting its a crazy cycle but as I get older and figure out that I'm human and my parents were human and the only parents who do it right, don't exist.<br />
It's all God's grace. No effort of ours stands. It all becomes rubble, only what He does will be carried to the next generation. This doesn't mean we don't try, it just means there is no magic formula that we can follow.<br />
I know its not easy in those middle years when you're no longer a baby but you're not grown up either. I spend lots of time trying to show them that the Lord has made them uniquely special and wonderful. I know that each day with them is such a treasure and I truly try to have a great balance and some days I do and that would be considered a very, very, good day.<br />
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All the guys have shot up and changed so much. They all sleep in twin beds in our downstairs and between the football and wrestling there is always craziness. I love having sons and seeing the men that they're growing into, always shocks me some. The love they show me is over the top but I know that one day they'll transfer that love to their brides and so I take it all now while I have it. It's funny how it works like that but it does. You know that you will <span style="color: black;">always</span> love them and they will always love you but it changes when they leave, as it should, but goodness when your first babies leave it kinda takes you by surprise. If you have one that is leaving be gentle with yourself and give yourself time to grieve and time get used to the new. None of us have it figured out and its different for each family but I think the closer you are the harder the leaving comes. </div>
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Scott and I have been very hard at work over these last 25 years having babies, raising babies making mistakes and doing some good things and all the while trying to keep our marriage a priority. It's just hard y'all but everyday we strive to do something to keep our marriage alive. Some days that might mean a walk around the farm or just a quick cup of coffee. Other days it might be taking a week out and spending time a way. Life wants you to forget your purpose and our purpose as Christians Is to glorify the Lord and love Him forever and then to love one another. As a couple with lots of children it's more important then ever we don't forget why we were created. We can get so caught up in the busyness of life that we forget. Our marriages have to be put first after Christ and it may take years but if you don't put your marriage before the kids it will show up sooner or later. So celebrate life together. Don't forget to act silly ,take dance class, keep a hobby that you both love and most importantly have adult friends that you can do life with. We often neglect this but so many times over the years I've been so lonely even though I was surrounded by a boat load of kids. </div>
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If you're a mama you know what I mean. Loneliness in the midst of chaos. </div>
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We need adult friends to laugh with and share life's troubles with. Our friends help keep us balanced and give us a safe place to land when we need a break. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I get that question a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I truly can't imagine just being still and slowing down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hear stories about great missionaries like Elisabeth Elliot and Amy Carmichael and it spurs me on to be busy about my work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I used to be guilty of saying I'm working myself out of a job but if I'm honest my job has really just begun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm a wife to Scott and I will always be his wife. Serving him and loving him. We've been married for 24 years in April and I'm still working on being his wife. Still learning how to be a better wife even when I would rather not. Learning to die to myself and put him first.. I don't think I'll ever be able to slow down in that department. Some days two steps forward others 10 steps back. I will be Scott's wife until I die and like <a href="http://barnhousenews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sherry Lee</a> once said after Tom died "I will do him good all the days of MY life'. That changed me in a lot ways. Tom was gone, how could she do him good now? By loving his Lord more and loving his children. Teaching them about the things he loved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Lots of work still to be done even after he had gone to glory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Hows that going for us? Our marriages are being attacked and we are not doing our husbands good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we're married, our husbands are our mission field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I told a friend, I'm finding out that mothering gets harder when they leave your home. You can't fix all their problems for them like you can when they're under your roof. Taylor still calls me for advice and encouragement and I'm so grateful she seeks me out when times are tough and I pray I never slow down and not be around for her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <b><i>Magnificent Seven</i></b> ( as their daddy calls them ) need us not to slow down. We're busy training and loving these guys. We're busy pouring God's love into their heart and soul. Scott and I are having daily talks on how we can teach them better and encourage their gifts. They're all so different and there is no time for slowing down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We must be diligent in not growing weary and frustrated in parenting. Oh believe I get weary and frustrated but as I've gotten older I realize sometimes the training of our children is God's way to bring out the areas He wants to train <i>us</i> in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I have had to learn to let go of petty frustrations, I realized I was getting frustrated because of my own selfishness or sin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No, just because you have a lot of kids doesn't mean you have anything figured out. Sometimes it just means you have alot of kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now I'm a <u><i>birdie</i></u> and boy that holds huge responsibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This precious little girl who reaches out to me and says bir-bir,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My heart is flooded with my role in her life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being there for her and teaching her. Helping John and Taylor in anyway we can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I heard a story about a missionary woman who was on the same mission field for 60 years. The day she died she taught her bible class and then made supper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we've got your back White family. We are forever grateful for their love and support because when you vow not to slow down you need people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She gives me the look that reminds me of how little she still is and I put the things on my to-do-list away for the day, realizing that if they all get sick it might be a while before I can pick it up again. Sure enough before the hour ends two more are sick. I make my bed and room as comfortable as possible. I love the beauty of the 'sick room' with the sun shining down on all of them. I think it's so important to keep the room pleasant and clutter free. I have to clean it several times during the day because of the clutter they bring in to occupy the time of laying around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think it's so important to keep them warm when they're sick so that their bodies can fight the sickness and not add<i> keeping warm</i> to it's list. So I put my prettiest blanket over them and start the humidifier with some peppermint oil. I encourage them to rest and nap, telling them how hard their bodies are working right now. I put on our country hymns and just let the healing begin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> God designed our bodies to get a fever to fight off the virus or infection and to slow us down. So when we lower fevers our bodies can't work as well and it ends up working harder. I get nervous with fever though and I have friends who have special needs children who might have seizures and such if their fevers get too high, so I believe it's important to read up on things. </span></div>
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These are the reasons I don’t usually give medication when my kids have fevers:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: decimal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Medicine masks symptoms.</strong> When kids are feverish, they usually lie still, eat very little, and take frequent naps. When we treat a fever, the child feels better and will often run around, play, and eat. While of course it always heartens me to see my sons feeling better, intuition tells me that they should rest more and move about less while fighting a virus. Perhaps our bodies even know that digestion requires lots of energy, and the appetite is suppressed in an effort to conserve resources. Moreover, if we artificially lower the fever, how can we know when a child can return to school? I recently was at the playground with a mother who said her daughter was “so sick an hour ago, but after Tylenol she wanted to come outside to play!” As this little girl coughed all over my son, I wished this mom had skipped the Tylenol, or at least kept the child inside after the medication took effect.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: decimal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">No medication is without side effects</strong>. I worry about the long-term consequences of frequent doses of children’s pain and fever medication. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-05-02/features/ct-met-childrens-tylenol-0503-20100502_1_generic-medications-drugs" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #25aae1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Recalls</a></span> have made parents skittish, and some studies suggest a possible link between acetaminophen and <a href="http://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/home/eng/Acetaminophen.asp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #25aae1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">autism</a>, <a href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/782029_1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #25aae1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">asthma</a>, and—when taken during pregnancy–<a href="http://time.com/9961/tylenol-during-pregnancy-linked-to-higher-risk-of-adhd/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #25aae1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ADHD</a>. In addition, these medications—whether in liquid or chewable candy form—are full of artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners, and preservatives, ingredients that I try to avoid giving my children even when they are feeling <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">well</em>.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: decimal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The fever helps the body heal. </strong>As I’ve already said, I think fevers are great for forcing otherwise active kids to rest when they need it most. But it seems a fever’s role in fighting illness is even more direct: <a href="http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2011/11/fever-plays-vital-role-in-immune-response.aspx" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #25aae1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">evidence</a> shows that fever is beneficial to the healing process, triggering the immune response and preventing viruses and bacteria from replicating. One <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/12/001228090125.htm" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #25aae1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">study</a> showed that flu sufferers who suppressed their fevers with medications were sick for more than three days longer than those who took no medication.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: decimal;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fever reducers contribute to the spread of flu.</strong> Many well-meaning parents administer medication and then take their less symptomatic—but still highly contagious–kids out to public places, where they no doubt infect others. Moreover, recent studies suggest that artificially lowering a fever in flu patients increases viral shedding, meaning more flu is spread via infected coughs and sneezes. Researchers <a href="http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1778/20132570.short?rss=1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #25aae1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">posit</a> that in an average flu season, fever-reducing medications could lead to tens of thousands of extra flu cases, and at least a thousand flu deaths in North America alone.</li>
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Despite these very good reasons for letting a fever run its course, I do sometimes give my kids ibuprofen (for the reasons listed above, I no longer use acetaminophen).</div>
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If my son is feverish and can do little more than whimper, or if his throat or ears are so painful that he cannot swallow without crying out, I give them the lowest effective dose of Children’s Motrin.</div>
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Beyond the obvious goal of reducing my your child’s suffering (and of course your own), you might consider a fever-reducing medication to:</div>
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The evening after I wrote this post, my one-year-old woke up screaming with what I can only assume was an earache, based on the thick nasal congestion that’s been lingering for weeks.</div>
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He didn’t have a fever and was in such obvious discomfort that I gave him a teaspoon of liquid Children’s Motrin—his first dose ever!</div>
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While I know my mother would have baked an onion for his ear and rocked him all night if he were her child, I found myself feeling less guilty than grateful—grateful that my baby’s pain can be eased by modern medicine, artificial colors and all.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I keep my kids on Vit D but I up the amount when they're sick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I usually give 400-500 a day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but when they're sick I give 500 2xdaily especially during the winter months when they're not outside in the sun as much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One Doctor wrote:</span></div>
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Our bodies don’t make vitamin D, so we have to get it from our environment. The primary source of vitamin D is the sun, but we can also get it from some foods.</div>
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Lifestyle, race, age, and other factors can put you at risk for vitamin D deficiency. If you fit any of the following descriptions, you may need to consider getting more of the vitamin.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I started my journey with a natural MD my vit D level was in the 20's even though I was outside a lot on the farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the past 7 years I've been able to keep my level around the </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">75 mark. This is one area <a href="http://www.restoreyou.net/" target="_blank">Dr. Bernui </a> checks twice a year.This is a big marker for him so it became important to me for our children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I even put a drop in Isabella's bottles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I encourage you to read up on Vit D and do your own research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I generally treat ear infections with olive oil and garlic drops. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.wellnessmama.com/" target="_blank">Wellness mama</a> has a whole blog on the subject of natural treatments:</span></div>
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Traditional Garlic Olive Oil is a remedy that has been used for dozens, if not hundreds of years for ear infections. Unlike many other conventional remedies, garlic can work with the body and provide relief quickly with long-lasting results.</div>
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Antibiotics are often prescribed for ear infections, even though the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) has not recommended this as a general practice since 2004. Many ear infections are caused by viruses, which are unaffected by antibiotics.</div>
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Thousands of children unnecessarily get antibiotics each year for ear infections when the antibiotics are not even effective for most infections. This has potential long-lasting side effects as <a href="http://chriskresser.com/the-high-price-of-antibiotic-use-can-our-guts-ever-fully-recover/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(134, 134, 134); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4fb369; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">antibiotics can permanently alter gut bacteria</a> and many types of bacteria are becoming antibiotic resistant due to overuse of these drugs.</div>
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Additionally, research has shown that most children fight an ear infection on their own within 24-72 hours without the need for antibiotics or other intervention.</div>
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That said, just hearing that your child will be better in 1-3 days is not comforting to a mother who is holding her toddler as he or she screams from the pain of an aching ear. Fortunately, there are remedies, like this garlic ear oil, that our grandmothers and great-grandmothers used to ease the pain of ear infection and speed the healing process.</div>
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Garlic is powerful on its own and olive oil is soothing to infection as well. Olive oil is often used as the base for healing salves and lotions because it contains potent polyphenols which reduce inflammation. Together, garlic and olive oil can help ease the pain of ear infection and reduce healing time.</div>
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This remedy is very effective, but it is important to make sure that the ear drum has not ruptured before using this or any other remedy in the ear. I have <a href="http://amzn.to/1ftd4JA" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(134, 134, 134); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4fb369; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">this Dr. Mom Otoscope</a> on hand to check my child’s eardrum before using any remedy inside the ear canal. Typically, pain subsides if the ear drum bursts so the presence of pain can indicate that the ear drum is still intact, but I always like to check.</div>
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If one of my children does ever experience a ruptured eardrum, I would definitely get him or her checked my a doctor, though often not much can be done besides keeping the ear dry and letting it heal naturally.</div>
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How to Make Garlic Olive Oil for Ears</h3>
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I’m grateful that ear infections are very rare in our family, but if one strikes, I immediately head to the kitchen to make this remedy…</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 12px;">There are two ways this remedy can be made, depending on how much time you have and your preference for heating olive oil or not.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 12px;">The fastest way is to heat the olive oil in a small pan or double boiler (preferred) and add the minced garlic. Then, keep on very low heat for about 20 minutes to let the beneficial properties of the garlic infuse into the oil. At this point, strain the garlic and remove. I let the garlic cool to just skin temperature and place about two drops in the ear. The warmth and the oil often offer fast relief. Since fresh garlic is used, I make a new batch of this mixture every 24 hours if needed rather than keeping the remaining oil, since bacteria can potentially grow from the garlic.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 12px;">If you prefer not to heat garlic, you can accomplish the same thing by mincing raw garlic and keeping in olive oil without heating for 2-3 hours before straining and using, though this option is not as helpful if you need immediate relief.</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's so hard to decide to do these things when you have a crying child so do your research before anyone gets sick and have the things you need on hand so you can quickly make the drops or the soup. You don't want to be having to rush out when they get sick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> print off all the articles that show how to make certain things for ear pain and fevers and have them in a binder for quick reference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">By the next day fevers are gone but I still make them rest for another 24 hours or so. Giving them plenty of fluids and soups. This would be hard with a toddler but keeping them busy without exposing them to other virus is a win. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I lay in bed with our sick ones and we watch a whole series of When Calls The Heart..We laugh and I do my best to encourage them and make it a place of healing, and hope that they will feel better in a day or two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Teaching my daughters/sons to care for themselves and to care for others so when they have a sick room of their own one day they will know the sick room is a wonderful opportunity to serve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wishing you health from the Farm,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The day you were born was a warm cloudy day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your birth-mom woke up with contractions but she didn't know if they were the real thing or not. She called her doctors, who happen to also be my doctors. They told her that she was "too calm" to be in labour and she was probably just having braxton hicks. They didn't know her very well because your birth-mom is more calm than just about anyone I have ever met.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She kept hurting and about 3:00 that afternoon she told her dad he had to take her to the hospital. He was so funny telling us how his arm knew it was the real thing becuase she squeezed it all the way to the hsopital. When she got there she was already 8cm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the mean-time I had no idea any of this was going on and we were getting ready for supper when the phone rang.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was her dad saying "I don't think it's gonna be much longer" I was saying you mean it's going to be today? He laughed his deep laugh and said yeah I think y'all need to head this way."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I remember the emotions of complete and total happiness and nervousness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but the background noise of all of your brothers and sisters cheering and hollering and throwing all their things in the car and high fiving each other brought me back to the present quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your daddy had happend to take off work early and was almost home when I got to run out and tell him the news.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were nervous!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We dropped all the kids off at Taylor's house and took a very familiar drive to the hospital that has delivered every one of our babies. We were smiling this time though and the tears were tears of gratefulness and nervousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">See, we knew that your birth-mom could change her mind and we knew that we would be okay if she did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had grown to love her and respect her so much over the past 6 weeks and we were just on her side regardless of what happend that night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think daddy and I prepared our hearts for the fact that we may not come home with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We felt peace</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We got to the hospital and our attorneys and social workers had told us we had no rights there. None! We may get to see you we may not. We would just have to bascially wait on the birthmom, so believe me when I say we expected nothing at all. We were in the waiting room with your birthmom's dad and your birthdad's mom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time seemed to go so so slow in the next 5 hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had to go the bathroom several times because I would just break down in tears for your birthmom because I knew the reality of giving up a baby (baby William) and I really knew that her heart would be hurting and my mama heart was breaking for her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your birthparents were in the delivery room when you were born. Your birthdad was so protective of her and I came to love him that night as I watched him be with her and never leave her side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The text finally came through that you had been born at 10:23 at night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your grandfather went back first and he came out teary eyed and couldn't really talk to anyone. He did manage to say that you had a head full of dark hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was our time...Our time</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We opend the double doors leading to where you were.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Scott and I grabbed hands and I remember looking up at him and saying what if she changed her mind? He kissed my hand and said we're better because of all of this but I don't think she's going to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I knew he didn't know just like I didn't know but sometimes even when you don't know you keep walking down that hallway, God will reveal His plan soon enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We got to her room and tapped on the door</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and we went in and the room was filled with such peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I mean it was tangible peace. The kind that passes all understanding. Your birthparents were holding each other and you were being cleaned up and they were just watching you and their eyes were filled with so much love and tenderness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hugged her and I hugged him and I told them both how very, very proud I was of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They had made decisions that would forever change their life and forever change your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hard choices to do the right thing for the love of you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn't want to just run to you because I was trying so hard to be careful of my place. I slowly made my way to your little self and I honestly caught my breath when I saw you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You were so beautiful!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You were perfect in every way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your skin was so pink</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your lungs worked great</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but you had the craziest hair I had ever seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The nurse said "you're the adopted mom" and my hearts bottom fell out because I knew she hadn't changed her mind. She had told her nurse all about us and our big family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I said yes I am and she said do you want to hold her? I remember looking back at your birth-mom and asking if it was okay and she said yes course..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I held you for the first time and you fit perfectly in my arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I walked over to where daddy was and I handed you to him and he was shaking. We both were in awe at your perfection and while they both watched us we took you in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We gave you back to your birth dad and I leaned over the bed to kiss your birth mom and I told her that we would be in the waiting room if she needed us for anything. She looked up at me and said</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> "why don't y'all stay in my room with us?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been shown great hospitality in my life but nothing could have prepared me for those words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Y'all stay with us</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I am forever changed by those words</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In her hardest of times she invited us to stay</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lord help me to be more like her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We went back in the waiting room and I was saying Scott can you believe she offered us a couch in her room?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We both knew what a gift it was</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We got a text a few minutes later and we took the walk up to her little room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her and your birthdad were holding you in her small bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">her dad was sitting in the recliner</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and Scott and I had the couch. It was so surreal for me watching everything going on around me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They gave you your fist bath and I got to take your picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every click of my camera I had to wipe tears away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So much happiness So much Pain in one little room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm sure the fire marshal would not have approved because we were crammed in for sure.The nurses were so sweet and they all looked the other way.They knew the situation and I think they were trying to help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That first night your birthmom needed help going to the restroom and I helped her and then she asked me to braid her hair and I sat on the end of her bed and combed her hair and braided it and I listened in that wee morning hour her tell me every detail of your birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She kept telling me over and over again thank you for anything I would do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was every single one of the nurses favorite patient because she was calm and thankful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They would often find us side by side in her bed holding you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were laughing at your hair and your cry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We would dress you up and take a millon pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your daddy would go get coffee and food for anyone that needed it. Or he would nap on the couch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the room filled with the people who loved you most.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You were surrounded in those first days with all of our love in a very tangible way. You will always be loved by all of them and there is hardly a day that I don't text some cute picture of you and she text back saying</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"please kiss her and tell her how much I love her."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I always do and I will always remind you of her</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">great love for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">when we had no where to stay she gave us a place</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">even though it would of been easier to say no</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She gave you life Isabella and she adores you...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will never let you forget how much you have to be thankful for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and my prayer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">is that you will be a life giver just like her..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With Thankfulness,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">mama</span></div>
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<br />Just A Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01687664195785821127noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628621471037646365.post-20286124863648090112015-11-29T18:48:00.000-06:002015-11-29T18:50:16.386-06:00Our adoption story part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are so happy to announce the newest addition to our home and farm</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Isabella Marie White</span><br />
born November 17, 2015<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We received a call on Oct 8th that a birth-mom and birth-dad had chosen us to adopt their beautiful baby girl due in mid November. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This already loved and cherished little one was being called </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Isabella and we chose to keep her name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was given the name and number of our birth-mom and was asked if I wanted to chat with her? Of course I do! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I know open adoptions scare most people but I pray after you read our story it will help you to understand better what open adoption is and what it looks like for us.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was so nervous, I can't explain to you the feeling of picking up the phone and calling someone that had just made you the happiest person in the world but knowing she was making the hardest decision of her life. I sat in the pasture for a long time before I was able to dial her number. So many emotions and so little time to process them all. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but I called and </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> She answered and our relationship began.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>God never ceases to amaze me with the small details of perfection that He is so concerned with in my life.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She is amazing and strong, and I feel weak-kneed and weepy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We make small talk and then talk about why she chose our family and she said "well they gave us a stack of books to look through and they all looked great but when we got to y'alls book we just knew. We knew that we didn't want her to grow up the only child and you guys had adopted before."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She chose us for the very reasons that everyone told us that it would be hard for us to adopt again.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I love when He does that.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Small details that He works out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We would spend the next 6 weeks texting and sending pictures everyday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She would send me baby bump pictures of Isabella</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and Dr. updates every week. Talk about amazing this girl is..</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am honored to be any part of her story. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">She showed me hospitality like no-one had every shown me before,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">She welcomed me into her world and made me comfortable there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We decided to meet a week before Isabella's due date and even though I was so very nervous, The girls and I made our way to our favorite restaurant. My emotions were again all over the place thinking what if she doesn't like us when she meets us? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course when we finally met in person it was a moment of knowing we're a perfect fit. She is loving and beautiful and is holding hands with Channie before we leave the restaurant. We laugh and talk and eat way too much.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Our time ends to soon. The girls all smiles on the way home saying how much they love her and I couldn't agree more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was finally able to sleep for one of the first times since finding out about Isabella. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My heart and soul relaxing and letting it sink in that we would soon be adding a little girl to our home. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> end of part 1</i></span><br />
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Just A Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01687664195785821127noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628621471037646365.post-25565284501867465282015-11-10T17:29:00.000-06:002015-11-10T17:43:17.600-06:00The Gift<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Typical fall in Alabama</div>
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The leaves just made their journey to cover and protect for the cold and it's a warm 70's.</div>
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We hustled and did school and made banana nut bread and they scattered outside.</div>
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The house quiet, </div>
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My soul thirsty for quiet.</div>
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Needing to think through some things.</div>
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Ended up crying out thank you to the Lord for all of the precious gifts in my life. When you get older you will do this often..</div>
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I'm so thankful to walk out on on the porch and not be able to see them but to hear their voices</div>
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as they were finding worms for their brother.</div>
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"Cooper, I found you a worm and a grasshopper"</div>
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Joe comes running across careful not to slip to retrieve the small bait.</div>
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My heart bursting with each click of my camera. What makes them so close?</div>
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For one I think or I guess I know, it's the farm.</div>
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We have no neighbors so they have each other.</div>
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Their days spent exploring and fishing together.</div>
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They cut down trees that get in their way and share hot fresh banana bread.</div>
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They sit on our church pew on Sunday mornings all dressed up squeaky clean listening and learning about God.They get muddy together. They also get in trouble together for not finishing a job or for making the whole house shake playing football. They get in trouble for wearing their good jeans to play tackle football in. Their knees stained with grass and little holes wearing in them. They share a small space and all their stuff gets all mixed up. They get in trouble for being sharp and for fighting over the front seat. They share the same big bed, my bed, when they're sick. </div>
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I call them to the table by yelling come on girls it's time to eat. Guys put that football up..{I guess you can tell they really love football.}</div>
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I can lump all of them together with just one word.</div>
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For a brief season I get them </div>
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So often we miss this season with the busy-ness of raising a family or forgetting that they're getting taller every day. They stand in your doorway after just eight hours of sleep and you notice but you try not to...They're taller.<br />
You buy new clothes that are one size bigger and you don't flinch. </div>
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Each day is one step closer</div>
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Childhood the great gift from our Lord...</div>
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It all passes so quickly</div>
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Cooper is on the edge of letting childhood go and I have watched two other of my babies make the same passage and well it just hurts. When you're so overwhelmed with littles you think to yourself the day will never come and when it does you feel it. Except now I anticipate it and it makes me stop and enjoy them and to teach them to enjoy where they are and not try to and rush one single moment of their childhood. </div>
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But it still comes I can feel it and well the day this land is quiet with no rubber boots </div>
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hitting dirt or no voices to be heard when I walk out on the front porch.....</div>
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What will that be like? Will I sit in a rocking chair hair gray and think of the times when this land held all of them safely here..</div>
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There is a pull, an open invitation from the world calling for our children and I will not give them up one second before it's time.</div>
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Once they leave, the magic of their childhood vanishes with them.</div>
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They come back to visit but it's never the same.</div>
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So enjoy your gift</div>
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Thank God for these sweet moments that you get to call all of them to the table with just one word.</div>
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Love from the Farm, </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another harvest season coming and I'm always in awe at how fast the seasons come and go. It seemed the summer passed way to quickly. They're growing taller and I'm as busy as I've ever been training and loving on these still at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I'm so thankful Y'all at how great the Lord is and how much love He shows me through my family. It's not perfect we're not perfect but just being able to be their mama and his wife is such a gift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We've been busy preparing our home for something very exciting..can't wait to share this news with all of you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What happens when you say yes to the Lord?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He shows out in a big way:) stay tuned.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another year to celebrate these two beautiful daughters of ours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My heart overflowing with love and gratitude as I get to show them how much they are loved on this day September, 19th their birthday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On this day the big tree in the front yard was the backdrop </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to celebrate their life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Never will I grow weary in celebrating the life around me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I feel as though the Lord has blessed me and given me so much more than I ever deserve and these babies are a joy to our family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I guess I will always call them babies because for so long we said go get the babies out of bed or lets feed the babies and that was their name for years and still is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are the sweetness that the Lord gave to us when we were all grieving so much. The Lord used them in our life to restore our joy and to count our blessings. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So under that tree, the same tree they have been swinging under for years, we sang happy birthday and as we always do went around our table and everyone told one thing that they loved about each one of them.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Such a sweet time of reminding them of the gifts that the Lord has given to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cooper made little hedge-hogs with the help of Chandler-Mae. I love the way he is so detailed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">but I think we can add cookie decorations to his list of things he can do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We gave way too many presents as usual and you know that it's never about the presents but I love giving them and if we go over board that's ok. This year the theme was Calico critters and calico critters they got. They also got orange crush sodas with straws and chocolate, lots of chocolate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't possibly forget the joy around that tree in our front yard. The memories floating up because they have grown up around that tree. Learning to walk or having a tea party. Such a special treasure to watch them celebrate there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Birthday sweet girls,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The little girl who has complety stolen our heart turned </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The little girl who made <i>our </i>little girl a mama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I remember all too well when her mama was 1 and I couldn't get enough of her. I would lay in the floor with a video camera rolling so that Scott wouldn't miss one minute of her life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I honestly didn't think he would believe me when I told him of all the new and exciting things she did while he was away. He believed me 8 hours later as we sat and watched every second of the film starring his princess. The name stuck and he still calls her his princess and probably always will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was the smartest baby ever and is still amazing and our friendship started way back then all those years ago and is stronger today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It grew with me falling more and more in love with this daughter of mine and well it just never stopped. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So when Marlee comes to the farm I feel like I'm doing it all over again. Watching this little girl grow up and falling more and more in love with her at every meeting. I love her brown eyes and the curosity they seem to hold. Everything is to be touched and tasted and held. She loves shoes and carrying shoes around when she can barely balance her little self. She loves to eat and eat she does just about anything you put in front of her. Her favorite thing to play is baby. She loves babies and she carries them, holds them and pushes them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This farm holds so many things dear to me and when she wanted her pictures made right here in these lush pastures where she grew up I was overjoyed to do so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was nervous though, what if I didn't capture the shot she wanted?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I looked out over the familiar field and knew where I would find the sun and knew it was time to grab the camera and start. I underestimate the power of love everytime because when I look through my lens I see them there and I can't believe all that flashes before me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We all were growing we just didn't know it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The day she didn't feel her move and how I cried out to God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> How we rejoiced when we heard her heartbeat fast and strong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were so ready for her to be here and we read that pineapple helped things along and we went and bought alot of pineapple and she ate it but nothing happend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We walked up and down Palisades Park the place John proposed is the place we rubbed a hole in the dirt with our shoes walking and laughing because we knew it wasn't long before we would all see little Marlee. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The day she was Due Aug 28 2014 is the day she called </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and said "mama, I'm hurting but I don't want to go in for them to tell me to go home."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I smiled because every woman who's ever had a baby has said the same thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I told her I would be right there. We took her even though she didn't want to go I remember calling Scott and saying if you want to be here you better come now and he did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The journey of a year flashes before me and I smile to myself because I know this has been a very good year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Birthday Marlee Bug. I pray you know how much we all love you. Our lives have been changed because of you.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Lord has been so gracious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Birdie</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Joy of buying a box of moon-pies from the local tractor supply and them thinking it's the best thing since sliced bread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I wonder if we have lost our joy in the hustle of the every day? I wonder if joy is missing because so many have stopped looking for it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The worries and the problems of this world plead with us to trade in our moments of Joy for days filled with stress and chaos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I want them to know that every day is a battle, it's a choice to either choose Joy or be joy-less I want them to seek hard after the Lord in this matter. They will soon enough be leading their own family in the battle of choosing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Without the Joy in my home my children will find it elsewhere. They will seek out someone who loves them and accepts them but my children don't have to look very hard for acceptance and love and forgiveness and neither do I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It's abounding here on this farm and so the moments of Joy and laughter are also abounding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It flickers through the trees like twinkle lights as the sun is setting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How can you be joyless when you have so many beautiful moments around you to revel in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> My children are joyful. </span><span style="font-size: large;">My children are cheerful and for me that's half the battle of parenthood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The Lord has been so good to us all and not every day is filled with moon-pies and great sunsets but the Joy of the Lord should be sought after in all of life's circumstances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's my job to point to them and encourage them to seek the Lord's Joy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am grateful for every ounce of them and I lavish my love on them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They know that I'm their biggest fan and I know their flaws and believe me they have them but I don't dwell there because I know their flaws will become some incredible teaching ground for the Lord. The Lord will use their weakness to grow them into the men and women he wants them to be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will pour out my life to make each one of them know that they're not just number four or six, but they are my favorite. I study and I learn and I re-learn things about them that make me stand before my loving Father and go 'seriously' you give me the privilege of being his/her mom? What have I done in your sight that grants such a gift as wonderful as this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and when they leave this gravel road one day they will not have to seek after acceptance because they will have been bathed in it on this farm.</span></div>
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I don't want to forget them dancing. The way their little feet fit into little ballet slippers and the way their tooth-less grins smiled when they would look at themselves as they floated across the room together as sisters.</div>
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Not really at the age of caring about themselves quite yet just glad that when you go to bed at night and the darkness seems <b>to dark</b> you're not really alone when you can crawl into your sisters bed. </div>
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When you put on your dance shoes and their just there to laugh with you and dance with you in this one moment in time.</div>
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Seeing them dance and knowing that their childhood is just so fleeting. </div>
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I adore these daughters of mine their very smile and their very essence is such a true gift that I honestly cannot give praise enough to the Giver.</div>
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The beauty cannot be captured. I cannot look at this picture long enough without remembering it was just so much perfect this day. Them dancing in little shoes and me snapping away.</div>
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I see milestones of growing and the blossoming that is taking place as they stretch and move.</div>
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I see the beginning of them being them.</div>
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I see the un-tangling beginning and with every ounce of me trying to keep it all a tangled up mess.</div>
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They are growing up and I am growing older</div>
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With friends and family in attendance all of our children were baptised </div>
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They have each accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior over the past 5 years at different times. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found myself missing being here in all the pictures of our memories. Writing and keeping up with all the changes going on in our home. With the winter moved on I thought I had better get this post up about the wonderful snow we played in for hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We did have our baby lamb named baby girl and she was such a sweet warmth to get us through this cold winter. We raised her for 3 months then gave her to some friends who have a small hobby farm where she could learn to be a lamb instead of a dog.;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our rain boots served us well this winter. Not one single day went by that these colorful boots were not put to good use on the farm. I will miss them this summer. Their feet slipping so easily into these beauties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have a small fire-pit that we enjoy alot. From smores to hands it warms my heart. Such a small little thing but when they all huddle around it becomes a huge memory maker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Waking up to the sunrise and feeling like I'm home here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is such a gift in going back to a place over and over. The years of just knowing where you will sleep when you get there and what we will do if the rain comes in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our favorite restaurant still going strong and this year a new one made the list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> and her first time to see the beauty of the waves. She played in the sand and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">she didn't seem to mind it at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She was sick on this trip and me and papa had to stay up late in the hours of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the night so Taylor and John could rest and we took turns holding her and praying for her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We sang and whispered sweet things in her ear right before she threw up all over me..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's amazing though how we didn't even flinch. We just knew what to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It didn't bother me that I had her throw up all over me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's just cool like that when you're a Birdie and she's your grand-baby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These little girls are not so little any more and the beach and the waves don't scare them like it used </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to. My heart over-flows with gratitude for the way they still like to crawl in our bed. The way Josie always reminds us that she's the baby of the family. (by only 4 </span>mins<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and Channie's servant heart. Goodness, if I had any sense at all I would study her more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Copy her and the things she says and does. She is one of the sweetest, kindest girls I know and it inspires me to be just like her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They climb on the rocks right outside our house and the waves pound all around them but they know this place and they know how far they can go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Going back always helps you remember the year before and when you remember the year </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">before it keeps your mind straight. They're taller and bigger and the time I have them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to count them, to cover them is slowly slipping away and just like the waves I can't hold it back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Time is fleeting and it's constantly moving and we have to remember to not get pulled under by the rip tide of this world and enjoy them and invest in them..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's time to leave but we're ready. There is not one moment that has been wasted on our little island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have packed in the food, the love, the laughter until </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I will stop and be reminded yet again how fast a year changes things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Beach-house summer 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been home-schooling for 12 years. It's not always the easiest thing to do and there are times that I look at those women in Wholefood Market with their neat little binders and their yoga pants (because I know they just got finished doing something calm and relaxing) and I have to wonder to myself if I have lost my ever living mind and I chuckle to my Lord because he entrusted me to all of this.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> My buggy is currently holding enough food for a small army and that army enjoys hanging off of it and I'm working up a sweat just trying to navigate the thing. I totally ignore the looks from the curious onlookers those prim and proper foodies..I know what their thinking and heck I don't blame them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are a freak show most of the time and I've come to love that about us. I've come to accept that about us..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As luck would have it I'm on the other side of the store when one of these precious schoolers has to go to the bathroom.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm sure my face says it all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Didn't we just leave the bathroom? Didn't I just ask you if you had to go? and I remember you saying" no mama".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">..I remember these things...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My sanity depends on it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">She stares at me as though she knows I'm just having a moment and that I won't risk the outcome if I don't take her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I push my way past all the relaxed organics and park the ole buggy and take the 5 year olds inside to do their business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This all sounds simple enough but...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nothing is ever simple in a large family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's dramatic and most of the time loud. Laughter from the crew can be heard from outside the girls restroom, I wonder what's going on, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Josie and Ellie have a small issue that I'm sure some good therapist could make some cold hard cash from me trying to figure out. Their fear of this white porcelain monster that lays in wait for them to sit on it's back and then it will surely swallow them, at least that's what they think has brought them to their little brown knees with fear.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I have tried everything..</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">holding their little hands</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">skittles</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">m&m's</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hard mama</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I stay calm because I know it's coming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The all of a sudden not needing to go the bathroom</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The "I can hold it until forever" whine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I'm not buying it and I tell her to get up there and I choose</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">you Josie to go first. It's hard sacrificing one of these precious 5 year old girls, and the fear from her face is calling me the worst mama ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hold her hand and whisper things in her ear so the others in the stall next to us won't think we actually have a monster in our stall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Me... Okay I got ya just jump right up. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Josie... straddles the white monster and is peeing as fast as she can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Me... Baby it's fine I got you and you got this..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She's going for the tissue and she smiles a big smile. She has survived yet another encounter. I grab her just in time before the automatic flusher sucks her right down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now it's Ellie's turn and she feels all confident since she didn't witness the disappearance of Josie. Surprisingly she jumps up and sits right down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well miracle of miracles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm high 5-ing her and she is so proud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But... I forgot...I was supposed to save her in the end.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but in all fairness she was still wiping it wasn't time for me to save her yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the minute her little tiny bottom came up off the seat it automatically flushed and bless her, she was right in the middle of wiping and the monster came alive! and she threw the toilet paper at it and ran.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Worst Mother Ever moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Should have known</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Starting back at ground zero</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now she doesn't trust me. No matter how many times I've saved her in the past she remembers that one time in wholefood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, such is life and as far as homeschooling, the days are hard and beautiful and complex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The minutes spent being here with them is just breathtaking</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">with the over-all beauty of them being about the business of growing up right before my very eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't imagine not hearing their laughter in these halls of mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our hearts tied and my commitment to teaching them to read and write and so much more.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but I never said it was easy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Beautiful yes, but when you are birthing individuals it's hard work</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and sometimes the beauty looks more like a construction site but the vision of seeing them to adulthood in one piece and perhaps still loving me keeps me motivated on most days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a privilege to be their mama and although there are days that I envy the mama who look as if she's having a deep thought, I really wouldn't trade it for the world. </span><br />
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It always brings out something when we rescue an animal.</div>
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The farm grows a little warmer and we all know that spring is just around the corner but right now its still cold outside and we have to bottle feed a day old lamb and she depends on us for a bottle every three hours.</div>
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Cooper and Channie-Mae make pallets by the fire and stay up late to do the midnight feeding.</div>
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Animals on the farm have always taught us more about dying to self, working together as a team and building sibling relationships. </div>
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The very next day two little ducks make their grand entrance.</div>
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Between Daisy and the ducks we have suddenly become quite busy. </div>
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Cooper has earned money to buy these two and I chuckle at his over protectiveness. He has read everything he can find on the love and care of ducks. Who knew that his 13 year old heart could be wrapped so quickly. No other time in his life will he be as free as he is now.</div>
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So, free he is to love ducks.</div>
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I like the pace the farm has. It seems to stretch child-hoods out, slow things down as we schedule our days around the rising of the sun and the pink sky's.</div>
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So today he is 13 and a duck lover and I love the tenderness that these two bring out in him. </div>
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Cullen, started a tad-pole habitat with the help of Josie and so for the afternoon we read all about how to make them feel more at home. He patiently went back and forth to the pond grabbing water or rocks and plants with roots. Rain-boots a mess as they went. I had no idea these little visitors that will one day turn into bullfrogs that provide the outdoor springtime orchestra that I have heard my whole life required so much attention.</div>
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Their songs always remind me that the times are changing and another season is being set in motion as they make their way out of the winter mud and sing their love songs.</div>
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I love this season as I have loved every other one but they seem to come on quicker and I remember to slow down. I have learned to embrace the seasons and enjoy them because I know that this season will pass and oh I just want to savor every moment I have with these guys.</div>
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The kids</div>
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The wonder of it all so new to them and after all these years of parenting so new to me.</div>
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Memories of blankets on a hillside, all of us looking up at the pink sky's or playing in a small sand pile. </div>
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The blazing sun dipping deep into this part of the county and catching my breath as my kids' little frames can barely be seen by the overwhelming beauty of God's water-colors.</div>
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His paint brush so thick in color and wonder.</div>
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You think you've seen it all <i>and then this.</i></div>
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They didn't even notice, not because they didn't think it to be beautiful, but it's just a weekly thing out here on this farm. The beauty rushes in almost before you have time to run and grab your camera.</div>
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By the time I got to them they were still busy digging rocks and the Lord gently trying to get them</div>
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They kept working. I can't stop catching my breath.</div>
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Each frame so different</div>
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Every time the sun fading lower and lower</div>
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They stand guard here and the wind that blows through them and the light that shines around them</div>
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The sweetness of winter in some ways more beautiful</div>
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She yelled "it's a heart rock" and her echoing voice was heard by all the trees and the blazing light.</div>
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She ran down the hill in yellow rainboots carrying a rock that resembled a heart</div>
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and the view was all the better and forever etched in mind, these two playing under his majestic brush. . </div>
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How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives.</div>
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What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing with the time (<i>God has given to us.</i>)</div>
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. it is a net for <i>Catching Days.</i> </div>
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It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.</div>
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A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order-willed, faked and so brought into being; it is a peace</div>
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and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living, each day is the same, so you remember the series afterward as a blurred and powerful pattern.</div>
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O be still my heart. These ordinary days I live out where one day runs slap into the day before.</div>
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My life less complicated than it has been in years and the expected almost always happens when you</div>
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The stillness making you reach deep to enjoy the small moments of this life.</div>
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And those are almost always the simple things</div>
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I am hanging on to dear life most days. </div>
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Praying I don't make much of myself but I always do,</div>
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He forgave me and turned me in a different direction and I will forever be grateful.</div>
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We are all just sinners and none of us have it all together.</div>
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I choose to make a schedule for my day and live a very simple lifestyle</div>
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The stacked firewood and the cozy fires crackling outside of one of our favorite places to get away,</div>
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Puckett's. It's actually Leipers Fork, Tenn, but Puckett's is a cozy little store/ restaurant.<br />
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It's a little country town in the middle of nowhere, but the charm is amazing</div>
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slower pace of "Puckett's ville". Why don't we find more Puckett's on our journey? The slower pace of enjoying simple things like twinkly lights and good music and great art.</div>
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We walked down the little charming path to the next business and the beauty of art was all around us. This little treasure of stores, tucked in, off the beaten path, made us want to linger. Linger we did<br />
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Our marriage being renewed here, just down the street in a gated horse farm.<br />
The lush grass and the quietness of the foothills bringing our marriage to a sweet place of remembrance of being each other's. The slowing down and letting go is a place we long to get back to this year, Lord willing. Keeping our marriage a priority is so hard but it is something we are committed to.<br />
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The art of <i>their faces</i> as they blow out lighted fluff, or the way the flames keep them warm.<br />
The joy of eating a cheeseburger hot off the grill or carving your name in a table.<br />
The art of the everyday.<br />
The beauty within their smile.<br />
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The drive home, quiet, in the dark, as they drift off to sleep. The trees pass their windows and their mama drives through the night to get them home to a waiting daddy, who doesn't like coming home to a dark house without us.<br />
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The Lord blessed us with a few days in the upper 60's and it's always welcomed and needed.</div>
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We took hikes up the hillside and brothers danced in the Shadow of the sun.<br />
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Cooper, got up and fed mama Pig and her three babies and walked Rosebud out to her pasture and got in his boat and paddled around the pond. I saw him out there deep in thought and I cherish these moments with him.</div>
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He is such a joy and his sweetness always surprises me as he grows into a man. He's so loving and funny and I'm honored to be his mama.<br />
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Cullen digging deep in the old boat found this crazy looking bull-frog. He comes into my bathroom while I'm taking a shower and yells "hey mama look at this!"...I poke my head out to this ugly thing looking at me. I may have screamed alittle and Cullen belly laughed.<br />
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Channie-Mae, loves this land as much as I do and she walks these grounds like she's been here Lot's longer than her little 8 years. She grabs her cane pole and wets a hook and I see her spit on the ground like she means it. She's not embarrassed she just feels at home here. I chuckle to myself as her panties can't be seen and her little bottom is low riding in her skinny jeans.<br />
I keep laughing at her and she say's What? Oh nothing Channie Mae keep your pole in the water.<br />
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Ellie and Josie painted the house for a couple of hours. I love Honey for standing guard over them. I go in and out as I'm cooking supper and Honey is sitting there. These two are complete angels and I tear up just thinking about how I get to share life with them.<br />
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Joe always has a football helmet on which to us is just as common as eating. He sleeps with a football and wears a helmet anytime he's outside.<br />
When I tuck him in at night he's got the biggest grin on his face and a bear and football always at his side. I adore this little guy. I see his personality emerging as he asks questions about where he once lived and I honestly am so proud of him. Joe, is just one of the nicest kids you will ever meet and well to say that he's alittle over protected by his brothers, mainly Cullen, is an understatement.<br />
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Joe accepts everyone and It's a beautiful thing. <br />
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I love this rowdy crew and my heart constantly reminds me just how much.<br />
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We ordered our chickens today and oh what a glorious day it is.<br />
Everyone gathered around the computer screen as dad names each chicken and tells about each one.<br />
They each get to pick out two and we are all just a little giddy waiting for the call from the post office. When baby chicks hit the farm it means business and we are getting ready. My favorite new place as of late is Tractor supply. We wander around in this store like it's a candyshop.<br />
The little girls ride the little bikes they're trying to sell, right behind me as the guys load 50lb bags of sweet feed in my buggy. They only weigh 30lb's each so this is always a little dramatic as they lift and push these bags on my cart. I end up walking away assuring them they got it.<br />
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We did alot of work on the farm these last two days getting ready for planting. My face a little pink from working in the sun. My body a little sore, but a joy in my heart as I work along side these little people.<br />
We are excited for the new life that spring brings and with everyone being one year older it makes all the work just a little easier and alot more fun.<br />
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They stand on the edge of this property and with their hair blowing in the breeze. I snap a moment in time as they travel this dirt and I travel alongside them.<br />
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My lens revealing that they're growing and I'm getting older and I have no regrets.<br />
I wake with the sun shining through my window and drift asleep to the moon shining over this farm<br />
and I lived this day every minute of this day walking along side some of the greatest of God's creation.<br />
My Kids. His Kids.<br />
and I am humbled to be their mama.<br />
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~ Enjoying Surprise warm days in the middle of winter~<br />
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Love from The Farm</div>
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I am weary of the cold that has just unpacked herself on the farm in the past two weeks.</div>
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The sun hidden behind a dark wall of clouds, that if I look to the east or west as far as my eye can see, still rolling in. We huddle here and continue to put on boots and jackets and head out to feed the animals we share this ground with. I have noticed that the animals are fond of music. From my kitchen window their paddock is right outside and they stand as if they're listening to the sounds of our voices. they look in our windows and are silent as we sing our favorite hymn. They stop for a moment. I chuckle to myself because they don't seem like the type to like beauty, but truly pigs are one of the most interesting of our farm animals, besides my beloved Rosebud and even she can't compare with my pigs. Mama pig as she is affectionately called lets me know when the weather will take a turn for the worse because she prepares the day before for impending cold fronts and I see her pulling tall grass that's long been dead and take it to their shelter, a modest home on the edge of her property line where she has raised two litters of babes and kept them safe from harm. She pads their sleeping area and it looks more like a bubble of hay, a safe bed. </div>
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The soup is warm and filling and I have mama pig to thank.</div>
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I'm looking for her and I smell the camp-fire that seems to draw you out. The guys are blowing and running after wood for a small fire, she is laying with Honey warm and watching them. Her shoes laying at the foot of the tent and her feet tucked up under her. It's cold but warmer than yesterday and the nature here won't be denied This land seems to call for them through the tall trees whispering to each of them to come out and experience the cold with her like they do the warmth.</div>
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They can't resist and for most of the days I'm spending my time calling them in from the cold or the rain. They beg to stay out just a few more minutes and I finally give over because their childhoods only last a few hours and I don't want to shorten them because of the seasons. In a world that seems to want to steal childhoods I say no and I buy rain boots, warm jackets, wool socks and hats and push back the world for one more day as they climb trees and search the pond, dig in dirt and feed the birds.</div>
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I document as much as I can because I believe we're living in a time where children don't play outside much anymore and I want mine to remember their time here as a sweet season of learning to live without cell phones, and computers to keep them entertained. They will have them soon enough the world will make sure and we have those things and I'm constantly battling the urge of looking way too much into the lives of others and thinking I might just be missing something out here on this farm, I turn the noise off and I take a walk around the beaten path and I hear their laughter echoing threw the valley and the sweet reminders coming in waves.</div>
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Pink sky's at night farmers delight, or the way their daddy taught us,</div>
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If you look in the morning while your taking the cow out and see pink skies, you whisper</div>
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Pink skies in the morn farmers be warned.</div>
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They come to the breakfast table predicting rain.</div>
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The Lord giving us so many beautiful reminders of his built-in weather gauge.</div>
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I like this a whole lot better than the app on a phone or computer.</div>
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Love From The Farm,</div>
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Just A Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01687664195785821127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628621471037646365.post-32111884672589897892015-01-13T20:16:00.001-06:002015-01-13T20:23:52.571-06:00The stuff we share together <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Marlee's first Christmas on the Farm</div>
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It's so awesome having a grandbaby. I could sit and stare for hours.</div>
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Bella sleeping with the girls so they don't get scared</div>
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Reading the same book for the 10th time we have power but we love candle light.</div>
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Some things have changed.</div>
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Like the way we school.</div>
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The way we parent. The way we live.</div>
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The change of learning to let people go who can walk away.</div>
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Merry Christmas From The White House</div>
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2014</div>
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