Mostly running! Well, not running to fast, it’s been frigidly cold here until this past week. We’re just starting to thaw out – and now this week is getting colder again.
Sorry I’ve been so absent here the last couple weeks. I’ve been posting a ton of new info over at the Good for You-Naturally!™ for Life Course & Community, and just don’t have enough online time to write material for several places at once. Join us for the Course & Community today and find a New You in the New Year! Weight Loss – Better Health – do it for your Family, for Life!
But as for an update here, so far the New Year has brought:
- Out of town trip with 10yodd – birthday shopping and post Christmas returns.
- Back to our studies – finished up Creation to Abraham, studying Job this week, then on to the Patriarchs, Abraham, Issac, and Jacob.
- Broken arm – son #2, basketball mishap. Even though league was ending that day, he’s bummed. Travel team is just starting.
- Lights down, Nativities packed away.
- New hard drive and upgraded RAM installed – lightning fat Mac now.
Well, that’s about all the events for the last couple of weeks. Time to hit the hay, that food truck will be here early tomorrow morning.
I’ll try to do better at updating, but probably not with many articles before the Good for You-Naturally!™ for Life Course & Community is over.
For Me & My House,
Lisa
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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints…
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Chris Klicka achieved his homecoming at about 11 MT this morning. He is now rejoicing in Jesus face to face, after a 15 year challenge with MS. Though we rejoice with the angels (and Chris and Jesus,) we also mourn with his family and all the home educating families blessed by his ministry. Please continue to pray for his family.
Read his wife, Tracy’s, post on Caring Bridge and these tributes from Home School Legal Defense Association and Israel Wayne, and the video tribute given from HSLDA leaders at the HSLDA National Leaders Conference on Sept. 26th when Chris was hospitalized.
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Yes, it’s not only soup weather. We’ve also hit tea weather. The hot tea started here when a couple dc had scratchy throats and wanted to nip it in the bud before it got worse. Throat Coat did the trick – along with some EOs.
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But with the chilly, rainy, dreary weather, the tea spree was on. I decided to pull out my new tea pot with warming base I got from Let’s Do Tea this summer. (Cool, ain’t it?)
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Chamomile tea is a favorite around here – Sweet Apple Chamomile, Sleepy Time, and plain ol’ straight Chamomile. Nice that it’s a relaxing herb, but it also relaxes enough to make you sleepy. Not something we needed to drink all day! English Toffee is a new blend I got from Celestial Seasonings. It is an herbal coffee-sub, made with chicory root and such. I also like Teeccino. But our tea is usually just my own herbal combinations or Celestial.
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Never “real” tea. Many reasons I’ll get into on another day. But good enough reasons you should consider. For today, just go have a cup – or pot – of herb tea instead of one of the caffeine containing alternatives. It will be helpful instead of harmful to your health – and will taste GREAT! See my pregnancy herb blends here. Watch for more herb tea recipes for the whole family in Good for You-Naturally!™~ Simply Beverages.
The 3rd death on our property in about 2 weeks happened today. Plus…
Beginning at the beginning -
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Death #1 – our last guinea pig. The boys said she committed suicide. She kept going under her water bottle and pushing up on it, getting wet. They’d move her out. She’d go back and do it again. She died a couple hours later. Interrupted one of our first days back at lessons with an unexpected funeral and burial.
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Death #2 – even more traumatic. A few days later, I turned on the car and started to back out. Heard a horrible clunking in the engine, and turned the car off. Thought dh or the boys had left a tool under the hood or something. Got the boys to come look. Opened the hood. Fur went flying. A stray kitten had tried to find a warm place. It was taking its last breaths when we found it. Couldn’t throw it in the trash, the garbage men had just come that day. Didn’t want to dig a deep enough hole. Called the pound to come get it.
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Death #3 – today. Young squirrel coming down the tree. Black lab jumping up the tree. Dh running for them and calling dog. Dh not quick enough. Squirrel in dog’s mouth. Dh intercepts – too late. Dog chained. Squirrel suffering. Boys and pellet gun mercifully end its misery.
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Just as I was ready to type up our latest death sagas, dh calls. He, 2 sons, and son-in-law coming home from hunting. “Bring the little boys to daughter’s house, so they can watch.” 30 doves to clean. (Guess they didn’t want to bring them here around the dog.) Just what I did NOT want to watch. Boys tearing wings off dead birds and …
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I’ve seen about all the dead things I care to in a while.
Thanks be to God that though I’m surrounded by death in this fallen, decaying world, He has come to give us LIFE and that abundantly and eternally! “Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory?”
a dead skunk in the middle of the road?
A dead squirrel in your ceiling!
Want to know how I know?
For the last couple of months we’ve had an awful stench, that comes and goes, in our master bedroom closet. At first I just thought it was dh. 
Then we removed all our shoes, and things from the shelves, and cleaned everything well, thinking there was a dead mouse in there somewhere. Nothing. When the smell returned last week, worse instead of better, we removed all of our clothes, as well as everything else, and put them in another room. The smell seemed to grow worse.
By this time the idea of a dead mouse in the walls was becoming a dead body under the house – well, at least a possum or a cat or something. Surely a mouse would have disintegrated by now.
While I was gone last week, after I’d removed everything from the closet, dh set out to investigate. First crawling under the house. Of course, our closet is in the far corner from the opening to get in the crawlspace. Nothing.
He told me he was checking the ceiling next. He didn’t. He decided to tear out a wall first. Nothing. Finally, he pulled down the ceiling. As he shifted around the insulation —- down it came! some insulation paper with a dead squirrel in it. UGHHHH!
I’m glad I was gone.
Now – dh is re-drywalling the ceiling. Re-drywalling and mudding the wall.
My clothes are still in piles, covering the bed and desk in the guest room. My shoes are still in trashbags covering the floor of the guest room. Awaiting the repainting and applying of the trim in the closet.
But at least the smell is gone.
The pattering of little feet across the roof of the house isn’t near as cheerful a sound as it was a few months ago.
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2 weeks ago 3 of our grandchildren had birthdays. (Yes, all within 4 days.) There are many more “famous” birthdays this month. 1 of our grandchildren shares their day with Ronald Reagan. I’m not sure how we missed that one. Another with Norman Rockwell.
Feb. 12th was Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. Our newspaper included an article written about our family’s namesake town, Hodgenville, KY, (even though there are no Hodgens there anymore.) Our relatives reminded us of the stories of Abe going to our ancestor’s house to eat cookies and play with the children. We read the article, but didn’t do any special studies of Lincoln, since we just did a whole semester on the War Between the States less than a year ago. Sorry Abe.
Lincoln gets to share his birthday with Darwin. We aren’t into celebrating that one. But we did watch Expelled the night before last. Good thing to do to recognize his life – and the effects it has had on our society. Or read 7 Men Who Rule the World from the Grave.
Next week, 22nd, is George Washington’s birthday. You can read some ideas I posted for “celebrating” this one, that’s highly worthy of noting. OK, it’s not like a birthday party or anything. But it is good resources for learning more about him, (as the above 2 are for Darwin and his ideas.) But we do get to celebrate the day with cake, candles, presents and all, as George shares his day with my father-in-law.
The other highly noted birthday we will be “celebrating” (focusing on) this year is John Calvin’s 500th. It’s worthy enough to get a whole year’s celebration. (Or rather, will take a whole year to read his greatest work.) (The “day” isn’t until July 10th.) You can read more about what I’m already doing for it.
A couple other noteworthy birthdays you have missed already this month are Thomas Edison, on the 11th, William Henry Harrison, on the 9th (Does anyone know who he is?) and Charles Dickens and Laura Ingalls Wilder on the 7th. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is yet to come, on the 27th. But none of them have any of our family to share with, so we won’t be celebrating them.
We have a pretty good record for shared birthdays in February, with 3 of our 4 family birthdays sharing with someone we would note. March brings 2 family birthdays which have no one noteworthy to “share” with. I don’t think our children will mind having the day all to themselves.
For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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Cal Thomas took a bold, but right, stand in declaring the Emporer (wanna-be) has no clothes.
Obama can call himself anything he likes, but there is a clear requirement for one to qualify as a Christian and Obama doesn’t meet that requirement.
Read the entire article here.
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I haven’t had time to sit and write about my thoughts on McCain’s choice of running partner, Sarah Palin – pro-life, mother of young children, feminist. Doug Phillips has expressed my thoughts quite well though, as has Voddie Baucham.
Add a little beauty to your day. My friend Joan from JoyPal Designs shares her Promise Gardens in this video on youtube.
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