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I’m sewing away over here and cleaning out our tons of books. How on earth do you decide what to keep and what to purge? Its so hard for me. I find books that I would love reading to Emma or on her own and get them then later on I realize that I need to condense the bookshelf to make room for other’s Ive found. Sigh. The never ending cycle. I love libraries. I do. And I know what a privelege it will be to use our excellent library. But I’m always leary of borrowing books and returning them in a timely manner. We have a 3 week limit as well as a 1dozen book limit per household on books at our library. I have a hard time finishing a book in three weeks (if its non-fiction, since I like to absorb more) and then to make sure that my children that are learning to be responsible to take care of the books and returned. EEK! I think I like the idea of having my own library. Then of course we also don’t know how long we will be here in town so near a library. We still dream of being on a farm.
So nesting… pro’s and cons;
Pro: A Sparkling home
Con: Pizza for dinner (oh wait, GF, um, chicken?)
Pro: Clutter gone!
Con: Orphan child running around
Pro: a sense of great acomplishment!
Con: Your nice stack of piles scattered all over the floor because you were too busy cleaning to watch your child who wanted to “help”.
Pro: A fresh start the next day
Con: Too tired to even face the next day.
The Seamstress-
The Model-
And the carpender-
We have been very busy here on our little homestead. I hope to keep this up better in the following days. Starting Monday anyways. 
WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? No.
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? I plead the 5th.
DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? I like it, I don’t love it. But i know what I’m writting…most of the time anyways.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Turkey or roast beef
DO YOU HAVE KIDS? Nope, I do have 1 child. Sorry. Joke. When your hubby grows up with goats you never say, Kids, if you mean children. You say child. ROFLOL! Had to do that for dh. But I have a 1 year old daughter and another one almost here.
IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Ummm. I like Adrienne’s answer here.
DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? What? Like you dont?
DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? yes
WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Ask me on a good day. Right now breakfast still isn’t sitting too well with me.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Cold? Hot? I like oatmeal Mamacita’s way. I like Wheatena, and I like granola.
DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Sometimes.
DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Physically, somewhat, emotionally, no.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, although Baskin Robbins has this new flavor that is to die for, German Chocolate Cake (extra coconut please!)
WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Manners
RED OR PINK? Pink
WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? Sin or laziness.
WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? Grandma
WHAT COLOR SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? barefoot. The shoes God made! 
WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? Eggs on toast with spinach and cream cheese
WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Silence
IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Green
FAVORITE SMELLS? Rain, fresh air, alysum, PW food
WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Jenna
FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? BLECH! BLECH! BLECH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hate sports.
HAIR COLOR? brown
EYE COLOR? brown
DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Nope
FAVORITE FOOD? Chinese
SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Define Scary. I love Charlie Chan’s but I also love Jane Austen.
LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? 7 Brides for Seven Brothers
WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? White with pink rosebuds
SUMMER OR WINTER? Winter outdoors and atmosphere, Summer days indoors.
HUGS OR KISSES? I am assuming you mean chocolate, Kisses. Don’t hugs have white chocolate? Can’t stand white chocolate.
FAVORITE DESSERT? Cheesecake
WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? Umm.. I have 5 going. Taking Charge of your Fertility, Candle in the darkness by Lynn Austin, Walking Drum by Louis L Amour, and Love to Dare (the journal from Fireproof)
WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? boring black
WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? Don’t have TV
FAVORITE SOUND? waterfall
ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Who?
WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME??? Louisiana
DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? Um, I sew. Nothing speical about that though.
WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Here
As I have said, we do Reformation Day rather than Halloween. Its the same date and I prefer the Reformation aspect of it, being a Christian and all that. 
Anyway, last year I read a Luther book. Pretty good sized one too (300 pg +) by Kittleson. This year however my husband and I are going through the large catechism. But I thought that would be too indepth for Emma girl. I asked a dear friend of mine, Dell, what she used for her girls. She always finds the best books for schooling. She recommended this one, by Paul Mairer.
I love this book already! I am always so leary of condensed children’s books. They never seem to have enough information in them or written too childish. I love how simplistic but packed with information this is. The illustrations are so beautiful that I would love to frame them. Already my husband is planning for evening readings with Emma. Which tells me a lot since he is more into serious and thicker stuff than this. He gave it to thumbs up.
I am always so leary of putting Martin Luther on too high a pedestal. I have had reservations on celebrating a day that started a church controversary. But, in retrospect, what he did, changed church history for the better. Its a good reminder to us to look at the corruptness of the church and how reformed theology has taught us for years to follow. But let us not point figures at a church predominance. Our church needs reformation today! Statistically speaking there are more people attending church then ever. But how many are truly Christians? How many truly follow the teachings and scriptures of Christ? How many follow the Bible only? Sola Scriptora (sp?)!
Let us always be looking to Christ as the Supreme Reformer, who changed history forever and one to follow always! Luther was a man, Christ was God!
A Little Gardening update-
What’s left of our fall/winter garden.
Parsely, Basil, and what’s left of the tomato plants. We have had some serious eating tomato worms this fall. 
What’s left of the radish row (right), Green beans (center), and lettuce with a few weeds (right)
Thriving pomegrante bush.
One lone African daisy.
Alyssum, the marigold finally gave up the ghost. Alysum do so well out here.
This was probably our best flower investment. We have had it three years and it keeps coming back year after year. I can’t even remember the name of it now. It’s one of dh favorites… Emma loves it too. She plays, “He loves me, he loves me not” with its dainty petals.
Our little Tumblina is growing too. As much as she dare tries anyway. LOL. She’s still a little peanut. But it makes carrying her easy.
I hope to have that long promised blog contest soon! I am still finishing up the item that will be contested off. Do I have you in suspense now?
Stay tuned. I’m trying to be more on the ball about this. Life just happens, you know?
I had a lovely weekend. Did you?
In two days I knitted two matching hats for my twin nephews for their birthday Sunday. We celebrated Emma’s birthday with family at the park. While it was not windy, it was very cold. Emma wore her wool sweater and still managed candied apple cheeks. She recieved a ball from Mama and Papa and many various gifts from her Aunts, Grandparents, etc. Aunt Jenna lovingly knitted her a nice warm hat. Such a beautiful color too!
Aunt Braelyn put some money towards her “College fund”, and Aunt Morgann purchased this really cool Dora ball jungle gym thingie. Ya blow it up with air and you can crawl around putting balls through this spinning, twirling thingie. Aren’t I eloquent with words/descriptions? Anyway, Its staying at Grandma’s house so Emma can play with it when she goes over. Uncle Timmy and his family gave a really soft cuddly bunny and a toy flashlight. Diapers were among the gifts. Diapers are the best gift a one-year old can have!
I shall not forget to mention her new motorcycle… 
I am picturing many afternoons with “Vroom Vroom” around the yard.
We were very blessed and Emma had a wonderful time playing and toddling about. There is no picture with cake in the face because we did Jello instead. Gluten Free and all that. She loved it.
I am now happily being busy trying to finish various projects… working in the garden when the weather permits. Oct. is usually a very windy month for our little town. This year it turned chilly sooner than usual. But I shall not put away the short sleeves yet. Everytime I do, it gets hot again. LOL.
Reformation time is upon us. We have been reading Luther’s Large Catechism. We also plan to learn more about the time period of the Reformation so as to understand the nailing of the 95 Theses that started a Reformation in the Church. We hope you’ll join us. Its a good study. Reformation Day is Oct. 31, same as Halloween.
Emma will be one on Monday. EEK! Where did the year go? Anyway, I have been very busy planning a simple birthday party. HA HA! No seriously. I have been busy but Emma’s birthday party is not the reason… her dress is!
This is a sample of what she is getting…
Her actual birthday dress has blue, red, yellow, and black. I know, sounds UGLY, but its gonna be cutimous! I promise! I made this one first so I could work with making up my own pattern to fit my lil petite thing. There is also a white pettiblouse/dress that will go with them. I just need to figure out how to make it better. Right now I think I am on my third try. I eat all my words when I said sewing was easy… Well, sewing IS easy…its the making up patterns that’s difficult!
Saturday we went out of town to gather apples. I know, with the cost of gas being as it is wouldn’t it be rather expensive to go out of town just to pick some apples? Well, we don’t do theme parks or fairs or anything like that. We love the experiance of choosing fresh apples from an orchard. We love the fresh crisp taste of them and love the picking experiance. Emma had a wonderful time. Remember last year?
http://sodbusters.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/saturdays-rasberry-tea/
I guess I never did upload those pictures… hmm… Well here is 2 of them.
One very pregnant woman- (remember it was Emma’s due date when we went)
And one Papa-
This year the weather was nippy and rainy. Emma was bundled up in her new outfit (made by me…) and a new coat and still had appled cheeks! Poor lil thing but she had so much fun picking and playing with all the windfalls.
I do have pictures for this year but I am waiting for my sister to send them to me since I used her camera. (Thank you, Braelyn!)
Ok, off to play with the peasant dress again.
What a busy time it has been. The days seem to grow shorter and the “to-do” list longer. We have about 2 months or less for Jr. Muffin’s arrival. So much to acomplish! So little time.
We still plan and pray to have a homebirth. The hospital bag is packed just in case though. Today I “rummaged” through some old photo’s and found the ones we took soon after Euphemia was born. Hard to believe it was only a year ago. The time flew by so quickly. Can you believe she will be one in less than two weeks? That thud you heard was me… fainting.
Baby update. Baby is well. I have been more couch confined or using a walker when the going gets rough. The baby is sitting on some nerves or something like that so its painful to walk and it doesn’t steady me enough. God is good though and through His stregnth this last stretch shall be over soon.
The garden has been doing fairly well. We are experiancing some bad tomato worm problems. Grrr. Emma has gladly taken on the task of torturing them before death. We have had to explain a few time though that these aren’t the gummy worms or sour worms that you find in the store. Non edible dearie. *shudder*
Harvesting the radishes has been fun! We still have plenty and have been sharing our bounty with family and friends.
It’s hard to believe that this is only after three weeks from planting! They do SO well out here.
Emma has been learning to cook. See how well she helps me with the hand-beater?
I absolutley LOVE my hand beater. I have decided to make cookies when I go into labor. I am not joking here. I am going to put on, Pride and Prejudice (nice long humourous movie) and make gingersnaps. All that muscle work will feel good! Of course I also have an idea to scrub the carpets as well. Whatever the plan is, its not to lay down. Work with gravity this time! Woo hoo!
I got to thinking as I was making these cookies how wonderful it is that the Word of God is NOt like a cookie. Cookies are wonderful treats. They are not meant to be eaten daily otherwise they just loose their sense of speicalness and well being a treat. All that sugar daily. You’d get sick of them very fast. God’s Word, the Bible, is our Daily Bread. We NEED it for that daily substance of something more filling, more satisfying, more needed. How wonderful it is that we have this book right at our fingertips! Even web-based sites have all versions of the Bible listed on them. Free access anywhere/everywhere. So why do we sometime use the Bible as the occasional cookie treat? I am very guilty of this. It been a constant reminder to me as I treat on the cookies, or when I make the dinner meal (which is usually the Big meal of the day for us). Have I found the nourishment in the Spiritual feeding as well? There is so many articles and devotion books out there that stress the importance of daily reading of teh Bible. Encouragment. Etc. So why in this day and age do we find it so hard to just sit down and meditate on God’s Word?
