And the winner is....

The bear with salmon won the contest. So, look for your Alaska quarters in 2008!

May the Lord find us faithful.

Tuesday

Even though my house does not look like it completely, I did accomplish much today.

The to-do list:

1. Laundry

2.Mop

3.Empty dishwasher and refill and run

4.vacuum rug at front door

5. school

6.remove winter clothes from girls closet

7. hang cleaned summer clothes in girls closet

8.go for a walk

I think that was it, I would like to blink and my house be clean, organized and every little project completed, but that is  not reality. Reality is that the work needs to be done by me. Tomorrow I have some little people coming by while their Mom goes to the dentist, so I am unsure what kind of day I will have. I so desire a routine day. It has not happened for a while now but we should get there on Wednesday, well, not Wednesday, we have a rescheduled piano lesson that day and then church, so we will aim for Thursday. Next week should resemble more of a "normal" week for us. I think the calendar is empty for that week.

I am looking forward to the used curriculum fair, last year was my first year to go and I found some wonderful things and hope to find more wonderful things this year.

The blessings had a wonderful day outside after school work was finished and cleaned up, until blessings #2 and #3 decided to take up tree climbing, blessing #1is very cautious and just watched and suggested they not climb trees. Blessing #2 fell and scraped up her arm pretty good. I had to clean and bandage the wound and she was still a little dramatic about the whole thing with little "ows" when she would move here arm. I gave her ibuprofen after dinner and she seemed less sensitive to movement. Time flew this evening, by the time I noticed, it was nine o'clock and baths still had to be had by all(I had sprayed them down with bug spray). Blessing #1 ended up going to bed on his own(that has never happened) while I got the other two bathed and ready for bed and it was about 10:45 before they got to bed. I hurried up and mopped and got the bathtub cleaned and the bathroom put back together and decided to post a quick post before heading off for my shower and few minutes to read before crashing.

That is pretty much our day in a nut shell.

May the Lord find us faithful.

 

Friday

We have had a busy but family oriented week, I have actually done some grocery shopping on Wednesday all alone, it was quick and quiet, nice for a change but I would not want it that way all the time. Yesterday I went to play group alone, the blessings stayed home with Dad, I had to go as I was the devotion giver this month. It ws also kind of nice to go and chat.

My husband and blesing #1 are gone up to set up a bear bait station. So, it is a girls day, we are just staying home and probably in, it looks like rain today, very cloudy so probably cool, yep, I just looked and it is only 34 degrees this morning and it is 9am. I will be inside today trying to breathe, I am experiencing allergies after many years of reprieve. I grew up in Kentucky and had constant problems in the spring. It has taken me quite a few years to begin having these problems here, but the doctors say that is normal here. We want to try local honey but I haven't found any yet, but I will continue to search, the farmer's market opens next week, so I know there will be some there. They say (who is they?) that if you eat local honey your allergies will subside, we are going to give that a try, my sweet husband has problems as well and I think one blessing at least has followed suit.

Well, I have nothing else floating  through my stuffy head this morning, so.....

May the Lord find us faithful.

Happy Tuesday

We had a very happy day today, my husband has been working out of town for the past 8 days and he came home last night, I do not announce when he is gone until he is back. So, we had a big breakfast and went tile shopping. It was long and tiring. We bought the tile but need a couple of pieces for the corners that they do not carry, so we will find out in the morning if they can order them. I was so hoping to get the counters finished this week while my husband is off from work and at home. But, I also would rather wait a little longer and get the right pieces to do the job well. It is just a plain tile the color is biscuit and it has  a matte finish. Plain but it will go with everything and it is not glossy, I do not care for glossy.
Now for a few photos: These two are put up for my cousin, Brian who I just spoke with tonight for the first time in 8 years, isn't that horrible? I am so ashamed. But we talked for a good long time and got caught up and we will not let that happen again. We do email on occassion, but not enough. So, here is Mel and I. This picture makes me think "Wonder twin powers activate!!" Is that a disco ball in our hotel room. We stayed at the Holiday Sands hotel.  We were at Myrtle Beach in  the second  pictre as well, with Mel's sister Steph we had those t-shirts made at Myrtle Beach, we were so cool!!  Just  a little blast from the past for my cuz!! Good talking to ya' bud!

Sorry for the long empty space, those pictures were scanned and saved on my computer.

Here are the willows blooming, soon we will be green.

Here is our dog, I have never seen a dog lay this way, she does this all the time. She was being rotten here and not wanting to go inside, she loves to be outside, but we do not have a fence and she will wander the woods around our house.

May the Lord find us faithful.

 

Inward beauty

I cannot say this any better so go read this  over at Growing in truthif you have not read it already.

May the Lord find us faithful.

Menu Monday

I usually forget this and throw it up on Monday morning which is monday afternoon for most of you. So, I am a little ahead of the game for one week.

Monday = Leftover lasagna

Tuesday= Cracker crusted baked fish (cod or northern pike),  salad

Wednesday=Grilled chicken salad

Thursday= Salmon on the grill;egg noodles; salad

Friday= Moose burgers, we do not grill these, they dry out (We label  ground moose packages "mooger" for the freezer; we actually grind our own when we have small batches);baked fries

Saturday= Grilled Moose steaks; roasted garlic mashed potatoes; salad

Sunday= Moose or Caribou Roast or stew, depends on my mood; cornbread  *or leftovers

I must stop and go to bed, this is making me hungry.

May the Lord find us faithful

 

Good Monday Morning to All, Sunday night for me

Monday will be a wonderful day, we will do some cleaning of our home and a little school after I deliver a meal that I forgot at home Sunday night, for someone at church. I had that meal all bagged up and ready to go with me and completely forgot to grab it out of the fridge. That is what happens when I take a Sunday afternoon nap!!!! But forgetting things is my life's story.

 Nothing new is going on here, we have been busy outside of home so I have no school news to add here, there has been no school. My husband will be off from work Tues. through next Sunday, so this coming week will be a hit or miss school week. I think we are going to replace the tile on the kitchen counters. This needs to be done sooooo badly. I have money saved up and just waiting on time. This week may be that time, we will wait and see. The tile is original to the home and about 25 or so years old, definitely needs to be replaced.

I also need to get the summer clothes out of storage this week and get them washed and the winter clothes changed out. My sweetheart put up the posts for a clothes line for me last fall and they are out there in the yard just waiting to be connected by the line. I love hanging laundry out on the line to dry. I love the smell of those line dried clothes. I have always had a make shift clothes line so a real one with multiple lines will be fantastic. I will definitely post a photo of our laundry on the line. (I know you are all waiting on the edge of your chair for that one.) 

May the Lord find us faithful.

Not planning on daily changes

I know I have changed my template two days in a row. I just do not love any of the templates, I do not know enough to create something of my own and I am not going to pay for any thing, so bear with me as I figure things out. This template is called glacier, so I figure that is fitting for an Alaska blog. Speaking of Alaska, the avatar "moose" is a picture I took, this bull walked through our yard a couple of summers ago. Sorry he is a bit blurry but I am not the best at resizing those pictures. 

When walking the dog this evening, I noticed the willows blossoming more and more. Things are waking up here, we should be green real soon, I took a few pictures but it is getting late and we have another day of curriculum fair tomorrow.

We seem to only be attending the workshops of Jim Weiss. He is a great story teller, makes me want to read so much more, he has my son just mesmorized. The Blooms are also here, I sat in on a few minutes of one of her sessions but the blessings needed a change of scenery and to move about a bit.

I so desire to attend a real homechool conference at least once in my homeschool "career". The one here is sponsered by a  state run organization and therefore there is no talk of anything Christian and no Christian companies selling their curriculums, etc.   Some of the past speakers have been Christians and I have had some good talks with them at their tables (out of session). 

Enjoy your day and.....

May the Lord find us faithful.

Wednesday photos

The blessings were playing baseball today and there is no snow in this picture!!!!!

I had the kids pose for me so I could get a picture of their Kentucky shirts, my cousin sent them these shirts for Christmas.

And finally, the bathroom went from this:

To this:

May the Lord find us faithful.

Menu and thanks Lynn

  I was givend the thinking blogger award by eclectic education for my geography blogging. Sharing about sharing about Alaska. Thanks!! Sharing about Alaska is second nature to me. Keep watching for more photos of our spring happenings as I am planning on documenting our "green up", that happens quickly as well, in fact most things (except winter) happen quickly here in Alaska.

I will post later today with my five thinking blogger links.

Menu  disclaimer: the blessings picked most menus this week

Monday -leftovers

Tuesday- Baked or grilled chicken with mac and cheese

Wednesday-Spaghetti, salad, french bread

Thursday- Sandwiches

Friday- nothing planned

Saturday-make your own pizza

Sunday-lasagna, salad, french bread

May the Lord find us faithful.