I understand , I know that it has been a looooong time since I have posted anything. Well to make it quick my job position has changed I am at customer service(which now that I think of it I dont think I actually said anything about what I worked oh well.) Also I am just working weekends so I am a stay at home mom throught the week which is nice for all of us.
Anyway J (monkey boy) is another year older so he is five years old now and we are doing the HS thing full on. We are on the ninth lesson and we are learning about Water and the spirit water that Jesus gives us when we are saved. We also learn the science of water such as as a solid, gas and of course as a liquid. He is enjoying his lessons except if we interupt his routine then he has a problem. I am not one that believes in a routine but he is very particular.
E (peanut)is seven and he acts like his is 13 he is very much a smart butt. He will tell you when he feels you are wrong on something and if you have wronged him. He wants to be a bus driver since yes he goes to public school which is were J will go next year for kindergarten. He is absolutley in love with the fact a vehichle that big can drive so smooth and carry that many children and the person that drives the bus can stop a bus and just sit there till the kids listen. He is his fathers child......!
DH has gotten a new job and he is really liking it. It pays him better which is another reason I have lowered my hours at work. Which was a deal that we made long before I got my job. He has been doing the academy and officially started two days before christmas.
So today is christmas and the kids have enjoyed it. It has been snowing all day but we cant go outside to sled because the wind chill is so bad. We had to stay at the MIL house last night because there was no way we would of gotten snowed in and not been able to come here to spend time with the grandparents. I did work yesterday from 1pm to 6:30pm and you would not believe people at 5:59 people still wanted to come into the store to shop WHAT is up with that. DH worked as well but he worked a full shift he worked 7:30am to 3:30pm. We have enjoyed ourselves today and will continue to enjoy Jesus's birthday. I will end this by saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY JESUS!!!!!

Well it has been awhile. Really however it has been boring around here. Peanut is in first grade and loves it. He rides the bus and thinks that is the most wonderful thing in the world. We are still redoing the house and have finally gotten the boys room totally finished. I still need to paint the kitchen and our room.
J or what I sometimes call him Monkey boy turned five yesterday and I am pretty sad about it. My baby is getting sooo big. We are homeschooling him for preschool and loves it. He is really retaining all the information that we are teaching him as well. We are learning the numbers based on the creation story (which I got from a book known as My Fathers World.
I am moving up in my job. I am know at customer service which is ok but that also means more time at work so that is the biggest problem with me trying to go back to school as well.

Like I said we are boreing sorry( oh by the way it is a good thing we are HS'ing for preschool and not into spelling yet hehehe! )

Well that is all we have so far to talk about maybe we will have more later sorry to all those following.

July 4th

Well yesterday was great. It was the birthday of our nation. A nation that is right now still fighting a war that some may feel is unnecessary. I will not comment on what I feel as far as this war is concerned that is not what this blog I have started is all about. What I will say is that this war does have me thinking especially with so many still over there that we take things for granted. We take the fact that we can wake up and make decisions everyday without thinking about what will happen to us for those decisions except how it would effect what we eat what job we have or if our family will be better off which are all good things to think about when making a grand decision. Most of us don't think about what our government will think of us if we wear a short sleeve shirt or put our hair down or even Shock to pick up the Bible and read it!!!!! But all over the world there are places that you can not show your elbows or your hair and reading a Bible will get your fingers cut off or even worse death will come to you. When I think about this pride is in my heart that I had a husband, a father, an uncle and even a father in law and know a brother in law that is fighting or has fought to make this land that I live in free for me to be able to do the things that we do everyday without thinking. With all this freedom sacrifices have been made.
Sacrifices have been made in this great country but it started even before the first group of people got here. Jesus himself sacrificed for us before we even thought about America before we were even a glimmer in our parents eye and they were in their parents and so on and so forth. Jesus sacrificed himself for us to live in peace and freedom wherever we may live it didn't matter if we were in Afghanistan or Iraq getting killed for our religion or not we are free with him. When the first settlers landed in this new world they were leaving their country and sacrificed the lives and family that they left behind in order to live as they wanted without fear or giving in to what others wanted. Then the Revolutionary war, the war of 1812 sacrificed men, children and even women to be once and for all free of the persecution of England. Then the civil war so that truly all men; black or white shall be free. Then WWI and WWII was war to give freedom and to insure our freedom would not be taken by any political party. WWII also showed us that there were still monsters out there that did not believe that one certain group that should be free and we were there to show that America is free and that we will insure that those people deserved the freedom to believe as they did. Also that people should not die for there heritage or their religious beliefs. Then Korea happened which was the war against communism that sparked the Vietnam war as well which sacrificed many of our military men and women. Then in the Desert storm war we again were faced with a man that believed that he was Gods messenger and that those that believed in freedom should no longer exist and insisted on killing his own people that got in his way. 9-11 happened and effected us on American soil and we knew all to well that even thought we had freedom if someone wanted to bad enough and had help it could be taken away all to quickly. We now in a way have lost some freedom no longer can a airplane trip be easy we are inspected and all get a list of things that we can no longer take on a plane because a group wanted to show us that capitalism and our religion were not going to be taken lightly in the middle east and that people that believed in Jesus Christ as the son of God should no longer exist. ( Ya know Jesus Christ the one that sacrificed himself so that we would be free to worship him and to wash away our sins.) Then the same man that in Desert storm tried to hurt us and killed his own people decided that was not enough and started threatening Americans and started killing more of his people. If you look back in history Americans waited to long for the Jewish people in WWII and that was wrong we did not want to do that with these people that would be inhumane and we would of been no better off then the mad man we were all disgusted about. Do we still need to be in this war since the mad man is dead that is not for me to decide that is up to your personal beliefs. That is what is so great about this country we have the right to our opinion.
From the king of England that would have people beheaded if something in the paper was written bad about him to the Enquire know that says smut about everyone that is even slightly famous we see the freedom in this country. I truly understand that protesters are given a bad name in every country including sometimes this one but without protesters we would not be a country. It took protesting to get the Revolutionary war started, to get the civil war started, to free the slaves and make them free, to give women freedom, to insure that black Americans were not only free but had rights, to women the right to finally vote, to give Hispanics freedom in America, to give Japanese Americans freedom (ie.WWII period). There have been many protesters out there that truly believe in what they are doing such as Pro life, Pro choice, Against the wars, and for the wars. There is also protesters that no one really wants to discuss but we all have to realize that even with freedom in the worldly since we will have bad and good. I have the choice in this blog not to post those for it disgust me that some people use this freedom in this country to hurt others and to be small minded and belittle those that they do not understand.
Fourth of July is a wonderful time to remember all that this young nation has gone throught and to really realize that while we might not all agree on what goes on in this country we can agree that this country has survived by the sacrifice of so many in this nation. Thanks for anyone that reads this. This was an emotional blog post.

Wednesday

Well I am half way through watching the dogs and taking care of the house for my inlaws while they are on vacation. This last week has been busy with me getting the house done well ....... to be honest it was and has been busy for my DH. He has been doing more in the house then I have. Their is only one thing time consuming for me this last week, Laundry. Yep you would not think so with the technology today but if you look at it from a different perspective we have not really made anything as far as laundry is concerned that is convienient. When we didnt have a washing machine or a dryer we had less clothes am I right. Come on noone wants to take the time to hand wash as many clothes as we do know. This lowers our pocket books with alot more then it did then when women had three dresses two for chores and one for church in the summer and the same amount in the winter. Know we have books and magazines that show us how to enlarge our closets or to find places for all of our clothes that we have to have. But I am going off on a tagent that I should really stop really.
Laundry for me is taking awhile because A. I have no dryer and B. It has been raining every other day of the week if not a sprinkle everyday. It would be one thing if it only rained because a little rain will soften the clothes but with this rain there has been lots of wind which of course takes the clothes off the line before I want them to. So I have four to five more loads of laundry that needs to be done and lo and behold it is raining today again. AWWWWWW!
Anyway, The boys did play a little while in the pool today and yesterday. They have also really loved the sprinkler. Ava is warming up to the house it only took three weeks not three days as everyone else suggested. Our yard is coming together and our new front porch will be built on friday thank God! Also on a important note for me not anyone else but me I guess according to the rest of the family is that my compost is really starting to do its thing. I am in a major need of a pitch fork or rake something to turn it over since we are already starting to get wet soggy stuff at the bottom Yeah!! I will have good compost in time for next years garden already. That so far is what has been going on in my life.
Thanks to anyone that reads this.... sorry my life is not exciting but it is just that my wonderful and to me exciting life with my DH, My two boys and our dog Ava.

Well I havent written a new entry in a looong time. I have been without internet since we moved. I will get pictures for everyone what the house looks like now since we have started remodeling the house. The boys wanted red like in the Disney movie Cars. So that is what they got but of course it took two coats of paint in order to do it. Then we painted to living/ dining room combination area a really light blue and the bottom half of the walls a white color. We laid new floor and it turned out better then we thought. We have to put a front deck on the house since the deck that was there is already falling apart. The people before us didnt know how to take care of anything I think oh well. Anyway the kids are soooo excited because the back yard is big enought to have our dog Ava in and a nice size pool for the kids and us to atleast cool off in the summer heat.
Unfortunatly with the weather this summer they have yet to be able to get into the pool. Also our plans of a garden were short lived since we got there so late in the year and we have no money for a tiller and dont know anyone that can till it or plow it as I have been told with how big we want it and the fact it hasnt been tilled in a looooong time like 6 years or so that we might have to plow it. Anyway that will have to be next year. I will keep everyone updated with what is going on in this area of the world more often but I have to get to my MIL house more often since that is the only place I can get online we still have no internet out where we live.

Anyway I am still going strong as a vegetarian and couldnt be more happy about my decision to be one. I have met more people that are also vegetarians and am so excited that I am not the only one in this area. I have found that alot more grocery stores are getting into the vegetarian circles if you will and even the vegan circles as well but there is one that I still have a huge problem with they have the smallest vegetarian /vegan area in their store and I am sure we all know which store that is. well if you dont it is Wal-mart. I can not believe that they dont have a vegetarian or vegan section when they scream that they have everything that one person needs. Well..... only if you are a meat eating person or you dont mind animals dying for clothing and such oh an you like not american made products. I will tell you that my family does still shop their but not by choice that is the only thing with the economy the way it is that one can afford and still feed their family. I do however shop for food at other stores that are more animal friendly and earth friendly. We dont have a Kmart here we have a Dollar General and Dollar tree but lets face it they are even worse with there chemical laden products that you can actually smell coming off the clothes.

Well ..... sorry for the soap box will post more later hopefully I will have pictures as well.

Started moving stuff

Well the subject line pretty much says it. We moved all of our stuff or should I say STUFF from storage into our home and we are putting it in the proper rooms now. We got our bed up and are washing all the clothes as they have been in storage for a year so they do not smell that great. I am getting my kitchen in order as well. We are also going through the stuff and getting rid of stuff. We are also donating alot of kitchen appliances that we got because we thought we needed them but we never use them to the church garage sale. The garage sale sells items to get school supplies for the kids in the nieghborhood for the next school year. My sister gave me a stove, a dishwasher and a refrigerator just in case those appliances did not work in this house and the stove and dishwasher do work so they are going in the sale as well. While I understand the most we will get is 50 dollars I am ok with that since we will be giving the money for a good cause.

Tomorrow I work from 9-2 and on Tuesday as well. Then on Wednesday it is putting more stuff up and then Thursday I start to paint the boys room. I hope to have pictures then since I will have found my camera by then (cross fingers). Oh and on Wednesday I will be packing the stuff we have at the inlaws and bringing it to the new house. We are hoping to be all moved in by next Tuesday since Dh doesnt work Friday night. We will be staying over there Tuesday night since peanut will be out of school after Tuesday.

This last weekend has been pretty exciting for other reasons as well. My sister in law graduated from highschool and had her graduation party. It was fun to see highschool hadnt changed much since I was in school 11 years ago. Yep, I am old. Anyway then she went to her Senior all night party which she had fun at. Then we went to church today and that to me is always fun. I really love our church.

well That is all for know. We are going to go to a movie just us ladies while the boys stay here with the other adults of the family. ( I use the term loosley since well they are guys heheheh just kidding). Anyway to any followers or just readers I know this post was boring but nothing is really going on this last week except unpacking and being bored and a little stressed. I hope you enjoy the boring weeks as well as the weeks we do lots of interesting stuff such as in two weeks we should be going to visit the amish community so sorry there will be no pics but lots of post. May I will get a pic of them with a cow or two in their amish hats that we get them. Or when my mom comes up we are supposed to go to a indian pow wow and we might get pics of that but wanted to say even when we are boring we do have some crazy stuff happen I just forget them before I can post it. ..... note to self right it down!!!!

Just wanted to share this recipe
Tofu tossed salad
1 bunch red lead lettuce
1 5-ounce container alfalfa sprouts
1 small jicama, peeled and sliced into strips
1/2 dill pckle, chopped
1 Tbsp fresh chopped cilantro
1 6- oune har mariniated artichoke hearts, drained
2 zucchini , sliced
2 green onions, minced
1/4 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced
2 ripe tomatoes, sliced
1 14- ounce container firm tofu
1/2 cp Italian salad dressing
1. Tear red leaf lettuce into small peieces.
2. In a large bowl, combine lettuce, sprouts, jicama, pickle, cilantro, artichoke hearts, zucchinni, green onions, mushrooms and tomatoes.
3. Drain tofu and cut into small squares. Add to salad.
4. Pour your favorite Italian salad dressing over salad just before serving Toss well.
Serves: 6
Calories:183. 94
Fat:8.98 grams
Saturated Fat:1.56 grams
Carbohydrates: 19.90 grams
Calcium: 202.91 mg
Lactose:0.0 grams
THis is for all the vegetarians and vegans out there also for vegetarians who are lactose intoloerant.