Struggling To Find Ourselves

I found this prompt an interesting prompt, especially considering that I normally don’t think much about fairy tales AND the fact that I haven’t been over to check out the prompts on Sunday Scribblings in AGES!

I guess I could say that I am living part of my fairy tale dreams at the moment, with more parts of them coming true each and every day.  I have a wonderful son who, even though we are having some challenges over the last couple of years, is a GOOD boy and he WILL learn to speak his mind here before too long, and then there are going to be a LOT of people that might not like what he has to say, but they will really have very little choice about submitting to his wishes.  I have a husband who is beyond words.  There just aren’t enough descriptive words for me to use that REALLY describe him.  I have a loving, caring, considerate, respectful, passionate husband who REALLY loves me and my son, and will do anything for us.  I have a husband who has been completely out of debt before, and is on a mission to do that again, including paying off the current mortgage on the house we now live in within the next 10 years or so.  Each new year brings us that much closer to being completely debt free, as we work on paying off the bills and getting them out of the way.  And my husband has bought us a piece of property that is part of my fairy tale dream life.  It’s a small property, but if it is managed correctly, we can do ALOT with it and have it start generating more income, in order that we could move our operation to anywhere else in the world that we wanted to and still make the operation work.  I know what you’re probably thinking….you’re probably thinking that a piece of property is work, and you are right!  It IS work!  But it is work that my husband and I BOTH enjoy, and if/when we can make this small property pay for itself every year, then we will have the operation necessary to move somewhere else to a bigger, better property and have the operation pay for the property there too!

Fairy tales come in all shapes and sizes.  What is yours?

God Bless!

This prompt brought one thing to mind when I saw it this morning…..all of the things that we have  in our “backyard”.

We have a few acres for our backyard right now, and we are using it to support itself, so we have all kinds of different things in our backyard.  We have goats which are multiplying again soon!  We have chickens, who help feed the family.  We have a couple of horses and a mini donkey that will be getting “Christmas Presents” this year, more than likely.  We have a few ducks for the bugs and a goose to help protect the ducks.  We have a couple of guineas to help with the ticks in the Summer months.  We have a couple of dogs to protect the family and “flock”.  And we have a cat that helps take care of the mice.  We have visitors to our backyard, not limited too, but including coyotes, possums, raccoons, skunks, and any number of other visitors.  We have even had a “big cat” of some type visit our North pasture at least once.  We have only seen the tracks…not him.

Our backyard is a magical place sometimes, when you stop to think about the miracle of life that we have a chance to see when eggs hatch or when the goats give birth.  But it can also seem like a place where death/Satan lurks when our visitors get into the chicken pen or when other animals get sick or die…or just come up missing.

Hope you enjoyed the post!  I have enjoyed writing it!
God Bless!

Give….or giving….that is easier said than done sometimes.

I have to say that my husband is a giving soul.  We’ve been together going on 3 years this Fall, and he has given my 9-year-old- son a GOOD male role model to look up too!  He has also given us family “traditions”, like going to Worlds Of Fun and Oceans Of Fun once a year.  I can’t say that we would ever use anything like tan towels when we go, but we go, nonetheless.

I am thankful to have him in our lives!  I am glad God brought us together, so my son could see things that he would probably never have seen otherwise, like being able to live debt free!  That is something that other people that my son knows can only DREAM of.

Have a blessed weekend!

I can’t really think of a better prompt than the word “opportunity” at the moment!  It’s kind of interesting, since I haven’t done one of these prompts in ages!

A new OPPORTUNITY for possible extra finances is fixing to come my way in the next two or three or 4 weeks.  My husband has decided that he would like to scan a bunch of old pictures of his family and put them on a disk for some of his siblings.  In amongst these old pictures, he has found some OLD slides, as well as some 8mm video from who knows when.  I am still working on a plan to get the 8mm videos turned into a digital format, but I have done some research and found a way to put the slides in a digital format.  It’s a kind of scanner, but it doesn’t have to have any expensive scanner software!

You are asking yourself “What does this have to do with extra finances?”  Wellllll, how many other people are out there in the world that would LOVE to have their old slides, or negatives put into a digital format?  The “professionals” that do this kind of stuff for a living charge about $100 per hour to do the same thing I am going to be doing.  I certainly doubt I will be charging that much, but I should still be able to earn enough to be a NICE supplement to the household income here and there!

Have a GREATLY blessed day!

This is the first of these I have done in a while.  Don’t ask me why, other than I just haven’t been checking them.  I am going to do better at following the Sunday Scribblings prompts a bit better in 2011!

I thought that the invisible idea was kind of interesting, given some of the key words that I have for this week and next week.  Have you ever noticed that the television shows, movies and even the media make certain things glamorous, in a way.  They have succeeded, for the most part, in making smoking look “cool” to society.  And, in what seems to be an ever-increasing regularity, they have made needing an acne treatment be “normal”.  I’m not saying it’s not normal, but I think the medical society tends to over-prescribe for ALOT of things these days, and that one is on my list of things that I think that they over-prescribe for.  Pretty soon, they will be making things like acne and ADD and ADHD and even scars “invisible”.

If it’s not the media world making things invisible, it’s the people of society who treat you like you’re invisible if you have noticeable scars or acne or anything like that.  With that in mind, it kind of makes me wonder what kind of society we will be living in in 60 or 75 years.

God Bless!

Hmmmm….dinner…..interesting prompt this week, though I have missed several.

I guess one of the things that bothers me about eating at other people’s houses sometimes is the fact that sometimes, people aren’t exactly….shall we say….conscious of how UNsanitary they are when they cook.  I don’t care if you DO have wrinkle creams that work…I’d prefer you not apply your cream while you are cooking dinner…..or at least a dinner that visitors are going to eat.

Dinner is sometimes a challenge at our house!!!  Figuring out WHAT to fix is the problem….and having energy and the supplies to actually get it fixed!!  But that, along with the decluttering, is something we are working on, along with a couple of other things!!

It’s rough sometimes, setting up a new house!!!  But we ARE getting it!!!  We are ACTUALLY starting to function as a TEAM, which makes life a WHOLE lot easier!!!  ONE step at a time, though….One SMALL step, if necessary!!!

Time to make some phone calls and take dinner out of the freezer for tomorrow!!  Have a BLESSED day!!!

The more things change, the more they stay the same…or so the story goes.

Along with the obvious change of seasons that has been marked by the brilliantly colored leaves on the various types of trees, we have noticed that the neighbors have been changing from their Summer-like thought processes into their Winter-Is-Coming thought processes.  They’ve been getting firewood up to the house, and cleaning out the flowerbeds of the last remnants of dried up leaves from all of the Spring and Summer foilage.  Propane tanks have been filled for the first time.  Front doors have been closed more to keep out some of the coolness that the North wind has brought to the neighborhood.  People are staying home more because of the coolness and wetness from the rain the last several days.  Oh, and let’s not forget that we can actually SEE the neighbor’s house over in the next block, straight across from us, because most of the trees have lost their leaves…*Laughs*  Not much change happens around here, other than the changes that we all go through as the seasons turn from one to the next.

What does change look like in YOUR neighborhood?

Observations is a BROAD category!!!

Have you observed that society, as a whole, has been changing?  No longer do we put an emphasis on education and morals.  Now the emphasis seems to be on socialization and not academics.  I have seen children “graduate” high school, as well as other grades, and they are not able to read or do simple Math in their head or write a sentence correctly.  If you can’t read, you can’t do anything these days.  But, on the other hand, if you CAN read, you can teach yourself to do ANYTHING!!!

Something else I’ve observed over the last few years is that the words “family” and “friend(s)” don’t mean near as much as they used too.

Oh, and I think we’ve ALL observed the price of things going up!!!!  And our rate of pay staying about the same.  How backward is that?

Thanks for the great prompt again, folks!!!

GHOSTS

Yes, I DO believe that ghosts are real.  I DO believe that, sometimes, they interact with the physical world we live in.  Have I seen one?  No, but I would swear on a Bible that I’ve lived in houses that have had a ghost…or even two, maybe.  It’s just….like feeling their presence or something….especially when strange things happen in the house…or items are moved with NO explanation….or when the television comes on in the middle of the night or is on when you come home from being gone.  Who knows?  Ghosts and the spirit realm is one of those great mysteries that all the scientists on Earth haven’t figure out completely yet…and probably never will.

The prompt for a couple of weeks ago caught my fancy.  What puzzles you?  I HAVE to admit that I’m puzzled by many things, but one of most major ones is:  How can “improvements” on something actually make it worse than the original?  I’ve found that to be true about MANY items.  Can’t they leave well enough alone?  Isn’t something ever good enough as it is?  Why do people INSIST on “improving” on things that work just fine the way they are?  Have you ever noticed that?  I’ve gotten to where I don’t want to buy a new dishwasher, among other things, because the new ones just don’t work as good as the one I had before.  Odd, isn’t it?