I took the summer off

The public school in our county started school yesterday. And it made me realize that I took the whole summer off from my blog! UGH! I really did think of things I wanted to post about 10 or 12 times during the summer . And since I can post from my Kindle Fire or my phone now ...there isn't an excuse! Just summer laziness I guess, I offically worked my way out of a job. We graduated our youngest. I was a homeschooling mom for so long ! I am slightly bereft ! Missing part of my title ! I have kind of taken a summer hiatus . But i intend to roll back in in a big way! I will be exploring the "real-food" movement more fully and I will also be re-vamping parts of our home . Bit by bit , as time,energy and funding allows. Perhaps I can remember to post those up-dates here. Today I will be working on the carpet cleaning more. :-) It got really bad while we were at camp. Our house sitter didn't do a very good job getting the pooches out when they needed to go. Hence , it pretty much smelled like a kennel when we got home. We picked u leavings, cleaned up what we could and have been woring on it ever since. I did find a spray called "simple" to spray on the spots that had enzymes to get rid of the urine. I used about 1/2 a gallon(!)saturated every place that might be a piddle spot & it made the house smell 100% better. I whole heartedly reccommend the stuff! I am trying to get new furniture and I must have the carpet clean first. So... I better get to it! Have an awesome day ! I will try to be back here sooner this time! :-)

Here we are at the end of the school year that marks the end of my homeschooling career. Sad and happy all together.I can hardly wait to see what God is going to do with this kid! Speaking of him...I have to share a funny story! Last week I found evidence that there had been a mouse in my kitchen drawers. Ewwwww...... I know! So I cleaned out the drawers(turns out said rodent has strange taste indeed!It had eaten propel packets toothpaste an emergen-C) Anyway....after cleaning and washing and throwing away and sanitizing the drawers I put back some stuff (like keys and measuring spoons) and went about my business. I have checked drawers often and only found evidence of rodent presence once.I congratulated myself on a John well done. Then... last night my DS (17) says that while he was home alone the other day he head something in the kitchen and went investigating. He tracked down the rustle to the drawer. He Yankee the drawer open and found the mouse. He grabbed a huge knife out of the sink and proceeded to try to stab the mouse, chasing it mercilessly around the drawer. He did not manage to hit it at all but now I suspect that that is the real reason the mouse has not come back! It had nothing to do with mycleaning efforts! Ha! I laughed so hard....almost as hard as my DH did when I said I was going to buy a live trap to catch the mouse! Are we a weird family or what?!? :-)

This week has been a trip! And not to anywhere I wanted to go! We had a fiasco with our dd(22). She is currently living with her bf (and yes she was taught that God doesn't approve therefore we can't either) anyway... Her BF put on FB that he was fixin' to get married again and put her name as it would be if they were married. Yep. I reacted. Actually I put out a plea for prayer over the situation. And then she reacted. And he made sure to declare us hypocrites...again. It's his fave word for my husband and I. Often with GD in front of it. This man is violent. She fled once out of fear and frustration. Then went back the next day. He's an alcholic , has had several DUIs and now she's drinking with him. She has chosen all the family curses we prayed so hard against. We are heart broken. So here we are with an even further damaged relationship to our dd. I sure have cried a lot of tears over this girl. And she's so clueless and so absorbed in her lifestyle of sin she doesn't want a clue. Sigh. Now today I was out in the garden and piddling around with my plants when this horrible scream broke the quiet serene birdsong . Turns out my Blueheeler was trying to kill my chihuahua. (Never can spell that!) My DH had come up with a tie up to keep the little guy in the pen while we are working out there(he's quite the escape artist) But he stretched out his run and got in the shed to see what the min-pin was after (it's a chipmunk) but his runner got tangled on a maddox in the shed and spun it around which made it hit the Heeler in the leg. He must have thought that he had gotten bit. It is bleeding! But he slung the little guy around and had him pinned by the throat. Man, it happened so fast! I was able to get to them before it became fatal. Praise God ! (Cause I'd have lost 2 dogs in one day!) My ds did run out to help. With a gun (of course) Between my screams and the dogs screams all he knew was someone was in trouble! He was doing school work in the house, Poor guy must have thought that someone was trying to steal his mama! LOL....yea....NOT! Sure looking forward to a better new week!

I haven't been able to change the design of my header but I did not have to enlist kid-help to get the blog name swapped over! Lol. DH is home for a nice 3 DAY weekend! Yay! We do have a lot to try to get done though. I would love for him to get some ground tilled. He wants to go order glasses (he's worn only contacts for about 10 years!) We have partting to go participate in to honor some young friends who are getting married on our anniversary. Yay! They are doing their best to do it Gods way. Love that! There is a bachelorette party at a painting studio....perhaps I can post a picture of what I create....if it isn't too hideous! Have a good weekend y'all!

May first! Yay! I am so excited about our anniversary this year. 22 years with my love. God has done amazing things! When we married we were both lost and sinful and selfish. I was only 19with a wild side that won out more times than not. Ppm placed bets on how long our marriage would last. The most generous estimate given was 6 months. Really. We made a lot of mistakes.we hurt eachother alot.somewhere around year 8 9r 9 we were headed for divorcement. But God...that bears repeating ....BUT GOD...God stepped in. Through an inexplicable series of events I came to know Christ as Savior. I gave my life to Him and He truly made me all new. With in a few month my hubby came to recommit his life to the Lord. I will say it hasn't always been easy BUT GOD has made it so worth it...to God be the glory!

Name Change

So...I completely missed March! These last few months have been a blur!(Just a lot going on , just like everybody else!) Tonight I decided to change the name of this blog to "good home". There's a couple of reasons for this. One. I was loooking at a magazine and the title caught my eye. It's called Better homes and Gardens and I had this errant thought that to be on my coffee table it should be some thing like "good home and uninspiring gardens" Good playing on the old Good , Better , Best thing. And then also alluding to the fact we have 6 pets 4 of which "just needed a good home" LOL! Yep! Change is in the air. I am adding and taking away things in the house and my wardrobe. I have begun having that purging twitch. It is a needed thing for me. I have piles of stuff everywhere! Even pile that are supposed to be leaving! I had a huge e-bay pile ... but I am concidering renaming it the goodwill pile. It's really just gotta go! Sigh. I have 2 boxes downstairs that I have no idea what's in them and just tonight realized there's an anonamous box in the hallway too. Now just praying for the gumption to get them looked at and gone! Gumption translates to "get off your butt and do it". (In case you were wondering) Not everyone speaks Southern , sad , but true! Now to go see if I can figure out how to edit the blog name! Might have to enlist a kid to help....sigh....41 isn't THAT old ! LOL

past Valentines....

I missed NewYears and Valentines entirely! You see we moved our main computer up to our newly created office.My mom has had my laptop to help ease her recovery (bubble buster seems almost as good as a nerve pill for her!) I got an awesome Kindle for Christmas and it didn't occur to me until TODAY that I could use this device to blog! SWEET! I am thrilled!
SO.....you might be seeing a lot more of me around here....and less of me too...since I am trying to lose some poundage. LOL
Well,happy (almost) St.Patrick's Day. Just in case I don't make it back here before the...but I. Bet I will now! Yay!