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When I started this blog a few years ago I decided that I wouldn't blog unless I had something worth saying. I wasn't about to write a blog post just "because" or in order to keep my readers. Often my posts have come as a passion burning in my heart, I sit down at the computer to write and within a few minutes I have it published. But lately this hasn't been the case....so I haven't blogged much.

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From the day our girls are born I pray for the man they will marry someday (Lord willing). And as soon as they are able we train them daily in preparation for the day they will marry and have a husband and a home of their own to care for. And even though there are all these years of planning, training and dreaming, nothing can quite prepare you for the day it becomes reality! As you know we

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Wow, once again I say "Where is time going?" I keep waiting for things to slow down....but now I am beginning to wonder if they ever will!!!! I am noticing that we are in a new season in our lives. One that seems to be a little busier. Not that we have taken up anything new, but just that LIVING is busier. Of course having many children always makes for busy....but this is a different kind of

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Yesterday we finally got our act together together and took family pictures.Here is a preview :)

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Well little did I know on Thursday when I wrote my post about waiting on our grandchild to be born that a few hours later we would get the news that we have been blessed with a precious little granddaughter! We are so overjoyed to announce the safe arrival of MAKAYLA FAITH. She was 7lbs. 14 oz. and born right on her due date....November 10, 2011! I've had a few cuddles with her aready. We are

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Wow, just realized it's been over a week since my last post! Where does time go anyway? Well here is some of what has happened around here in the last week: We got our machine shop cemented (Yeah for that being done and yeah for all the helpers....it was a big job!) We celebrated our grandson, Andy's 2nd birthday. 2 years ago from now we were wondering what his future would be like. Being

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Joy is so much different than happiness. Happiness is fleeting, happiness changes with our circumstances, happiness is temporary. That's why it's so important to teach our kids the importance of having joy. We can have joy because we have a God Who loves us unconditionally. We can have joy because even though our circumstance may change HE will never change. We can have joy because we have

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Today we celebrate our last birthday for the month!It's been a whirlwind month with all the projects and birthdays, but it has been such a joy to celebrate the birth of each of these who were born in October! It's Caleb's 13th birthday today!It kind of sneaks up on you...you know.One day they are a tiny little baby in your arms....And in what seems like a blink of an eye you couldn't carry

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Last week went by like a blur as we were busy getting ready for winter.We have 2 wood stoves to heat our home and so lots and lots and LOTS of wood is needed to be gathered.I think this "wood" probably be one of our favorite work projects together as a family! We get to enjoy the great outdoors, everyone can pitch in...even the toddler :)It's kind of like were on an adventure!And what a great

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Today we are celebrating 2 birthdays. Zachary's who was 11 yesterday and Jesse who's 9 tomorrow. It's great having these two boys birthdays so close together because it's double the fun! Zachary is one of the sparks of our family. He's quite the little clown and comes up with all sorts of things that we just smile and shake our heads at! But underneath all his silliness he is a deep thinker. He

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Years ago, when Josh was little I took up the hobby of crocheting. In fact while I was pregnant with him I was on bed rest, so I had lots of time to crochet. I made a little sweater for him. Problem was it turned out kind of girly looking so he didn't wear it much! As more little ones came along, I just didn't have the time for this hobby anymore, so I put it aside. But the crocheting bug never

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We have chosen as a family not to celebrate Halloween. Not only does this mean not dressing up and going door to door with our kids, but we have also chosen not to attend any other functions that are an alternative to Halloween. And here are our reasons why. 1. We feel that Halloween is not a day that is honoring to God. It doesn't take much to see all the evil and darkness that centers around

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In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The harvest season falls earlier in Canada compared to the United States due to the simple fact that Canada is further north. The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English

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Well it's here! October, our month of birthday celebrations galore! Megan started things off again this year, but this time with an 18th birthday on Oct. 2nd. Megan is labeled as the chief cleaner and photographer in our home. If she doesn't have a broom in her hand, she has camera! Okay, I am exaggerating just a little bit! The other times she is holding a violin :) Megan has a giving heart

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It's truly amazing I don't have more gray hairs :) And this is just a few days after Zachary announced to me that he figured out why he wasn't growing very fast. According to his theory, he hurts himself so much that his body concentrates on healing instead of growing! I wonder why he hurts himself!?!?! Thanks Zach for fixing my clothes line. But next time you have to reach so high....maybe

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When asking for ideas about blog posts it was suggested that I write a series on the fruits of the Spirit. I thought that was a great idea (thanks Sherri!)  What better place to start than with the first fruit of the Spirit.....LOVE. Wow....a little word with HUGE meaning! 1 Corinthians 13 is a famous scripture about love, and rightly so. It is packed with explanation of what real love is!

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23 yrs. ago Mark and I stood together, and before God and our family and friends we said our wedding vows. We were young. Mark was 20 and I was 18. If we knew then what we know now, would we still have gotten married that young??? YES! YES! YES!  We have never, ever regretted getting married at the age we did. By the time we got married we had known each other for 6 years and dated for 2 yrs.

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We have been so blessed to have perfect weather for combining this week! We have been able to get lots done and hope to continue to get lots done while the weather is nice. I have been combining on and off since we started farming 18 years ago. Even though it's very busy, harvest is my favorite time of the year. It's a time where we get the crops safe in the bins and get to see the fruit of

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I just wanted to say "thank you" to all of you who left such kind comments and birthday greetings on our blog yesterday! I am so blessed to know that you have enjoyed our blog and I pray that it will continue to encourage you in your walk with the Lord. It was great to hear from some of you that I haven't ever heard from, and reconnecting with others that I hadn't heard from for awhile and of

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I (Jennifer) am hacking Mom's blog because today is a VERY special day!!!! Today is Mom's (your's truly's) BIRTHDAY!!!!!I want to ask a favor of all of you (anyone and everyone who reads this blog). If my mom has in anyway encouraged you or made your day brighter while reading her blog, I would like you to comment and tell her how much you have appreciated all the time and effort that she puts

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Just realized that our "We've Bin Busy" video wasn't working yesterday. I think the problem is fixed. Sorry about that!

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As if harvest season isn't busy enough we decided to put up 2 huge grain bins this season! We were hoping to put them up when it wasn't so busy, and thinking harvest would be a little later this year because of the later start we had in seeding we concentrated on other important projects...well, as always, farming is full of surprises! Harvest came like a whirlwind and so....we had to juggle busy

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I came across this trailer via Pink Slippers blog.I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to having a few minutes to watch the whole thing.The statistics of young people leaving the Church today is nothing to ignore!It's time for the Church to rethink why this is happening!Maybe, just maybe things need to change? Divided Trailer from NCFIC on Vimeo.

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Do you ever feel like you say some things over and over again..... I do, like "Shut the Door, Say Please, Say Thank You, Did you do your chores, Did you brush your teeth, Did you wash your hands, Did you clean your room, Be kind, Be Loving,  Be Gentle, Don't Touch, Don't throw that in the toilet!!!!! Ya....I have said those things and more many, many, many times!!! But there are some things

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Jaden is just like his mama! He looks forward the same thing as me every evening.....POPCORN!!! As soon as he hears the popcorn popping he drops whatever he is doing, runs to the popcorn maker and makes sure he gets a few kernels!! Here is a cute video Meg put together of how he says popcorn....ENJOY!

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Every year when we prepare for another year of school, we are seeking God as to what His purpose and plan is for our schooling in the coming year. As we were planning for this year I remembered this post that I had written a couple of years ago. I thought I would repost it as it says perfectly what I have been thinking the last couple of weeks. God....show me..."WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT".... to

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Since we just took a vacation and it is fresh in my memory I though I would do a post on how we do vacations!!! We have done vacations different ways over the years. We have tented, we have camped with a camper and we have stayed in hotels.  I can't say I prefer one way over the other, they all have their good and not so good points, some are more work than others, but they all make great

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“Parents!  The work entrusted to us is holier than we know.  The precious instrument, so delicate, so wonderfully made, so marred by sin already, and so exposed to its power, is of such inconceivable worth.  To take charge on an immortal soul, to train a will for God and eternity, surely we ought to shrink from it.  But we cannot.  If we are parents, the duty is laid upon us. But, thank God! 

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Just wanted to direct you all to our daughter-in-law Rebecca's blog to see a part of what we've been up to around here. She did a great job of capturing our latest project....putting up a 9000 bushel bin in 17+ hours. Legs were running, hands were flying, and bodies were exhausted...but we got 'er done! It always amazes me to see what our family can do when we work together! Everyone was

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There are times in our family where things are peaceful and everyone is getting along and then there are mornings like this morning where it seems that there is quarrelling and discord everywhere I turn. Satan attacked family/brothers/sister/relationships from the beginning of time. And he hasn't stopped. The family is a very strong unit when there is harmony. God has perfectly fit

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This is Mark and I and our precious grandson Andy....isn't he so sweet :) Do you ever have times when you look at the mound of stuff that has to be done and just wonder how in the world you are ever going to accomplish it? I do, in fact that's kind of how I feel right now. Over the weekend we just took a bit of a whirlwind trip to Alberta where we met up with Mark's family. We left on Saturday

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20 years ago today we had our first daughter Jennifer. Her birth was very memorable as the Dr. was late and they told me not to push.... I still have hip problems today from listening to those nurses!!!! NEVER AGAIN :) And I also fainted a couple of times when in labor with her. So ya, memorable :) And when the Dr. said she was a girl I didn't believe him. I was so sure that I would have a boy. I

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A year ago today I was cuddling a brand new baby boy in my arms. Who ever knew that I would wonder a year later how we ever lived without this lively little guy! Jaden has been a mover and a noise maker ever since he was born. In fact he wasn't even fully born before he let out his first cry! And he hasn't stopped making himself heard since then! I guess being the youngest of 12, he knew to be

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I know I have mentioned many times, on this blog, how we believe it is very important for our children to be each others best friends. And many times I have been asked by my readers just how we get that to happen. It has taken me a LONG time to get this post down in writing but here is some of our thoughts on this topic. When our children are still very young we teach them to LOVE one another

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With the recent warm weather you can almost hear the garden growing :)We feel so blessed how great the garden looks. After the rough spring we weren't sure if we would have any produce. But right now it's looking like we will have lots of veggies! Here are our peppers. We use peppers for salads and for making salsa. This is one of the two apple trees we have in the garden. It is loaded with

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We finally have some nice hot weather here in Manitoba!And of course hot weather brings WATER FIGHTS!!! The kids were having a blast!I love to listen to their giggles and happy squeals!As I was sitting there watching them today I started thinking about how short this time with them all is.It seems like just a few short years ago we had our first 4 little sweet ones.And here we are now with 2

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Well I have to be honest with you here and tell you that grocery shopping is not one of my most favortite things to do! I like to shop for clothes, kitchen gadgets and pretty much any other thing....but not so much groceries. I think part of the reason is it is kind of like housework...it can get monotonous and never ending! But just like housework I realize it is a necessary part and therefore I

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Do you ever talk to someone who is making an important, life changing decision and you wonder if you should give advice or not, even if they are not asking for it? I have come across this dilemma many times in my life, and it was often about the same subject....a couple making the decision to "fix" it so that they won't have any more children. Sometimes I have voiced my opinion, other times I

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 Thursday we started the July birthday celebrations! We have 3 birthdays in July. It was Brooke Abigail's birthday. Brooke is the one that reminds me the most of her sweet Daddy! She is witty, charming, easy going and likes to laugh and cracks herself up! She makes us all laugh many times in a day.Her laughter is very contagious!!  She is a big help around the house and loves to help bake. She

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Because we have one washer and one dryer we do laundry 6 days a week.  On the average we do at least 5 loads of laundry a day. Now this number goes up and down depending on the time of year, if we are night training someone, potty training someone, have an infant or the dreaded stomach flu is in the house!!!!! Summer is nice because we can hang clothes on the clothesline which makes laundry go a

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This weekend we attended a conference called “Higher Calling.” I loved the name….what a wonderful thing to focus on….going higher and deeper with God. There were many times this weekend I was challenged in my walk with God. I love to be challenged. I don’t ever want to get to the point where I am to proud or lazy to realize that there are things in my life that God wants and needs to change.

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Do you ever have something happen to you that just makes you feel loved? Loved by God, loved by someone? This happened to me yesterday. You see we have this garden.....this really big garden. And then we have this other garden.....this little bit smaller than the really big garden, but still a big garden. And then we have these weeds. These "getting bigger by the moment" weeds. These weeds

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The kids made this for Father's Day. Thought it was too cute not to share :)

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Toys, toys, toys!!! Seems like a never ending job to keep on top of that subject around here! With this many occupants and this many birthdays, we had to find a way to manage toys before they took over our house!!!! We used to have a play room down the basement and that is where we stored most of the toys, with the exception of “special” toys. Those get stored in the kids rooms. (But there is a

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We were on our way to church on Sunday enjoying the drive when all of a sudden Mark put on the brakes and started to back up the van. He said he thought he saw a turtle on the side of the road. And he did....a big one!!!! So we stopped the van, let the kids take off their seat belts and admire this amazing creature!!! He stared at us all gauking at him as if to say, " What's all the fuss about!

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This morning when I went for a walk I was listening to the song "The More I Seek You". Do you ever have those moments that you are just overwhelmed with the majesty and beauty of God?As I looked around at the beauty of our Creator, I was just in awe of Him.I felt so humbled that He loves me and wants a relationship with me. I am such a tiny speck on this earth, yet He cares about me.I was so

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Over the years of having children I have been often blown away by their childlike faith. We have taught our children to pray from and early age. And I have never grown tired of hearing them pray. Yesterday, the tractor we were seeding with, broke down. We were eating lunch when we heard Mark tell Josh on the 2 way radio that he was driving along and the tractor just stopped. This year has

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We figured before the cows disappeared in the mud in the corrals, that it would be about time to move them to the pasture :) Truthfully we move them to pasture around this time every year!!! But I thought that was a more exciting way to start a post!!!! We are very, very muddy here though. Ever since spring began it is a rare treat to see the sun shining for more than a couple of days in a row

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This has been a phrase that I have read a lot on blogs or facebook over the past few years. Basically this is how it goes....."COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN......I'm just keepin it real!!!" I have thought this whole phrase through and figured out why it kind of bugs me. I'm all for keepin it real. One of the things people assume about me being a mom of many is that I am this kind of

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There are not many tasks that I procrastinate in but this one I do....every year!!!!!  Yesterday we finally got our winter clothes put away and have all the summer clothes on the shelves. Except for the toque and mitts of course. If you life in Manitoba, you know you never really put those away :) Years ago we got rid of all dressers and drawers. I got so frustrated with broken drawers and

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If I could have a penny for the times I have said "Shut the door" in my days of being a mom....I would have lots of pennies :) One particular child that has really been giving me grief in this area is Mikaya. It seems every time she would follow her brothers and/or sister outside and would be the last one, she would leave the door wide open!!!! Again and again this happened....and no matter how

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A few weeks ago we picked up an incubator and instead of buying chicks to raise we decided to hatch our own. The boys and I did a lot of research and learned all what to do and not to do. Our first hatch was a success with 28 out of 42 eggs hatching. We now are on our second batch of chicks. This morning they started to hatch....so far 6 have escaped their crowded quarters and are enjoying being

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I think I have run out of ideas to post about in this series. So, unless you have other topics you would like me to cover, this will be the last post in this series. In this post I will attempt to answer Lori Mayo's question. I would like encouragement and insight to over look all the comments on... "Where is lil-Jonny with math- etc"? You know when a family has un-saved family and all and

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Often when people find out how many people live in our house they say something like , "Wow, you must have a huge house!" I think they are really computing....11 children, a bedroom for each one....wow, you must have a big house!!! While, in fact, we only have 4 bedrooms. A master (with a nursery), a spare room, one boys room and one girls room. Here are the reasons we have chosen to have one

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I had a great Mother’s Day, thanks to my wonderful husband and kids. We had a nice day enjoying family and friends and of course eating together. And I also got many great gifts. Flip Flops, CD, book, hummingbird feeder, chocolates :), a beautiful bouquet of flowers and 3 roses. As great as all those gifts were, my favorite is the one I will receive in November (Lord willing). Check out here

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Hey all! It's Kerri here hacking Moms blog. (for a very good reason of course:) As you know it is a very special day for all our wonderful mothers today. So I am going to tell you 25 random things about the specialist mother in the world! 1. She can talk like Donald duck 2. She is an amazing singer who taught us to sing 3. She has been pregnant appox. 108 months which is, 3,240 days or, 77,760

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I have had this poem in my drafts for a long time, just waiting for the right moment to post it. It describes how I feel about being a mother quite perfectly! So what better time to post it than for Mother's Day :)    Happy Mother's Day to all my blog friends!  by Edgar A. Guest “They tie you down,” a woman said, Whose cheeks should have been flaming red With shame to speak of children so.

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It's come to my attention that people are interested in the way we do things around here. Day to day things. To me life is just life and we live it every day....pretty much normal. But I do remember being kind of fascinated of other large families when I was a young mom and so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people are curious about us. I know I have mentioned this before, I don't often

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Are you always looking for new and innovative ways to help in your housecleaning? Well the other day I was emailed this tip. I thought is was very helpful.....What do you think??? 1. Open a new file in your PC 2. Name it 'Housework.' 3. Send it to the RECYCLE BIN. 4. Empty the RECYCLE BIN. 5. Your PC will ask you, 'Are you sure you want to delete Housework permanently?' 6. Calmly answer, 'Yes

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    WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PICTURES?????? 

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In some previous posts I mentioned that we were doing a chicken lapbook. I have had a lot of people ask what a lap book is. A lapbook is the same idea as a mini unit study. It covers a topic and can include all of your subjects except math. There are excellent resources online for lapbooks. For the lapbook we did on chickens I found most of my resources here. I have done different kinds of

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Since we are incubating chicken eggs we decided to do a lapbook about chickens.We just finished it up yesterday. The boys had such a great time that they asked to do another lapbook, but this time about sharks.When Jesse saw me getting the material together for the shark lapbook he looked at me with concern in his big brown eyes and said, "Mom, we're not going to try to hatch sharks are we?!?!?"

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What I've been up to?!?Go here to see what happened today and why I aquired a few more gray hairs in the past week :) CONGRATULATIONS MEGAN. WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!

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One of our favorite mottoes "LIFE IS LEARNING, LEARNING IS LIFE". Learning is so much more than just sitting down and studying some books. It happens all around us, all the time. And our challenge as home schooling parents is to keep an eye out for those opportunities and actually use those moments as teaching moments. Right now we are hatching some chicken eggs in an incubator. We check the

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Winter :) Yesterday we had another dump of snow. And even though all of my flesh wants to focus on the negative I will focus instead on this. It was such a beautiful snowfall, snowflakes gently falling.Brought such peace and calm.And now all the mud and dirt has been covered by a pure white blanket of snow.It reminds me of how if I ask Him, God forgives and covers the filthiness of my sin. And

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Around here you never know what you're going to find out in the barn.Today Zachary went out to do his daily job of picking the eggs.We have 2 hens running loose outside the chicken pen.They like to lay eggs randomly around the barn, so Zachary was trying to find them.Then he found one of the hens, herself, in chicken (well it's not in person :). But when he went to move her, to see if there

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The last post I talked about our goal of homeschooling rather than just simply bringing school into our home. Now I am going to talk about what this looks like for us, practically. We have long ago found that the best cirriculum is something that most of us, who are Christians, have in our home....even several of them. Yes, it's the Bible! We have always had the Bible as part of our home

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And for our second (and last) April birthday we have little Miss Mikaya. When I think of Mikaya I think sparkling eyes, priceless expressions, great smile, encourager, mischevious, talker, questions, and a whole bundle of fun! Things of Kaya that we said goodbye to in the past year: -Her cute little chubby rolls -Her hair twice! (from her cutting it) -Size 3 & 4 clothes -Sneaking gum without

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We started April off by celebrating the births of two of our sweet children. We'll start with the oldest..... Nathan Daniel was born 04/04/04. He was the only child who has made it easy for me to remember the year he was born.....it gets tough after awhile when someone asks you the years that all your children were born :) But I come to Nathan's year with a smile and rattle it off....just like

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One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?"Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one

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Is there a difference between bringing school home and homeschooling? This is a question we began to ask ourselves years ago? And we have come to the conclusion that there is a difference, a big difference. When we talked about home schooling our children many years ago, we pretty much had the idea that we would just take the format of public school and do it in our home. This way they could

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This   Plus This   Equals This   Who will now be wearing THIS Funny, but not so funny thing is....she did this a few months back and her hair just nicely came back in! She has always had this thing with hair, ever since a tiny baby sucking her thumb. If she would find even one strand of hair she would hold it in her hand while sucking her thumb. We couldn't figure out how she could

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Through the years as we were raising our oldest children I often wondered if I would someday have a baby and a grandchild around the same age. I often thought about how fun that would be! Well, here I am, with a baby and a grandchild the same age and guess what????? I was right, it is a lot of fun! Andy was over here for a bit today and Jaden and him were playing with some new toys (thanks

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When people find out we homeschool many times the question comes, " Are you a teacher?" Meaning, have I had formal training that has qualified me to teach our children. When our children were born we knew that they were gifts from God to us. It didn't take long for us to realize that this parenting thing was a 24/7, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. They were ours to care for, to love, to nurture

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 Well since my sister Megan hacks my Mama's blog from time to time, I figured it would be okay if I did too!So here is an official post from yours truly, Josiah James Daniel Pauls. This morning a very rare thing happened. My Dad and all of my siblings, except for Jaden, went out to play hockey and left my dear Mama in charge of us. I don't very often get my Mama almost to myself, so I thought it

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I haven’t talked a lot about our home schooling journey on this blog but anyone who has met me knows that I am passionate about it. We started home schooling right from the get go. I don’t remember a specific day or our decision to home school. Mark and I both just knew that this is what God was calling our family to. Then I look back at our home schooling start I realize that our thinking of

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Hi! It's Me Megan again! :) Can you guess why I am posting again? Ya, you guessed it....I have pictures to share! :) This morning Jaden was drinking his bottle and Zach decided to put his sunglasses on him! I was surprised Jaden did not try to take them off or anything... I think He must have liked them! :)

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Well as you could tell by Megan's last post, my girls can hardly stand it when I leave my blog neglected. I am glad they keep me on my toes! Lately time has been hours turned into minutes turned into hours turned into days and before I know it a whole week is over! How time flies! Let's start with the chicken pox. Wow, where do I start? Really, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I felt

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Hey all, It's Megan (oh please don't roll your eyes...I am not that bad am I? ). Mom has been to busy to do any blogging the last few days  so me being the kind daughter I am  I thought I would help her out a bit and do a post for her! :) Now I am not going to do anything glamorous or anything. I can't All I am going to do is post pictures, cause I love pictures! In fact when I look at blogs

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On the 19th of February our most favorite daughter-in-law (she will carry that title for a few years:) Rebecca had a birthday.Now many may think that I forgot to post about her birthday, but quite the contrary, I have just been waiting for that perfect opportunity!!! And it has come :) A few uninterupted minutes (ya right!) to write down a few of  my thoughts of this sweet young lady. My first

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When our oldest 4 were little they all got the chicken pox at the same time. As God added more children to our family, the number of unpoxed children grew. They were exposed over and over, but never got them. When the poxes would be going around we would comment on how much "fun" it would be if our littles would get it! And the more children that were added to the unpoxed number, I imagined

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I am not typically a procrastinator, but there is one thing in parenting that I always procrastinate on. Well except with our first child that is. Nope, with him I enthusiastically dove in. Only to realize a little while later that I had no idea what I was getting into. Or how frustrated and impatient I would get. This is a topic that people think I should be an expert on. And I get asked many

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We are seeing spots!!

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Little Johnny watched, fascinated, as his mother gently rubbed cold cream on her face. "Why are you rubbing cold cream on your face, Mommy?" he asked. "To make myself beautiful," said his mother. A few minutes later, she began removing the cream with a tissue. "What's the matter?" asked Little Johnny. "Giving up?"

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There are just some times when you have to laugh!Did you know laughter is contagious.Fast Forward this video to 46 sec.....watch it...see if it doesn't get you laughing.

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Today marks the day that we first met Kerri 16 years ago. I remember that day well. It was storming the couple of days before and I was in the early stages of labor, so we decided to stay in at some friend's a little closer to the hospital in case the weather got worse. So we spent the night and by morning things had not progressed much so we decided to go home and feed the cows and then go back

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Mark's cousin, Harry, gave this tarp to us and had the great idea of using it to pull kids behind the snowmobile. It's the only sled big enough for all of our kids to fit on! Here is a clip of the fun they had yesterday.

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We were talking about fire one day and how it needs oxygen or it will extinguish. To demonstrate, I lit a candle and then put a cup over top. Within a couple of seconds the flame went out. When I asked the boys why the flame went out they said it was because it ran out of oxygen. Then Jen said, "That's why you don't run if you are on fire, because it would fan the flame." To which one of our

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As you know, a stomach flu bug just swept through our home. It started with 5 kids getting it during the night, all within a couple of hours. Because the 2 little boys (Josiah & Jaden) were still healthy and I really hoped they did not get this awful bug, I asked all those who were sick to keep their distance from them. No hugging, no sharing cups and especially...NO KISSES! Well a couple

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Hi, this is Jaden.I know I haven't posted on here yet I kept wanting to but my Mama said that I need to go to school to learn how to write first.SO.....today was the day. I decided to wake up early from my nap and dig right in.Of course I needed some help from my sweet big brother Zachary.  First off I tried to get his pencil so I could write. But he kept taking it away and telling me it is too

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 I know I have talked before about children helping out in the home...but a question that someone asked me recently sparked another blog post :) We teach our children from very young to help out around our home. Why? Because they live here! And because our job as parents is to equip our children for whatever the future may hold for them. We start chores from the time that our children can

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Hey, just wanted to let you know that our daughter, Megan, over at Megoo Photography, is hosting a few giveaways. Anyone can enter. Even if you don't have a blog, just comment as anonymous and sign your name. So go on over there and enter....you'll make her day!

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That old people have crunchy faces? At least that's what Brooke told Mark the other night.She was taking off his sock and he said, "Don't take off my sock....Old people don't like to put their socks back on." And Brooke said to him, "You're not old....you don't have a crunchy face!" So there you have it. If you wake up one day and your face feels crunchy....it's because you are old!!!!

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I have a couple of new ones add to the large family list.... - 5 of your kids have the stomach flu....and that's not even half of them. - When the stomach flu visit your home you can hardly walk in your laundry room because of the pile of    "soiled" blankets, sheets, pillow cases and PJ's. - During a bout of the stomach flu, the floor is littered with buckets, blankets and moaning bodies. -

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Since everyone seems to be talking about snow these days, I thought I would join in. It's snowing here again today, big beautiful flakes. Actually, we have had quite a bit of snow this winter. It comes in little dumps here and there.....and it stays. All winter long...it stays. We won't see grass until around April or so. Do I ever get tired of snow? Truthfully, there are some days where I would

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Do you ever have one of these days..... One of these days that everywhere you turn there's stuff to be done. And you look around and realize that there is no human way that you could get it all done today. One of these days that everytime you look up, someone else wants your attention. And you are followed around with appeals of praise, pity, justice, knowledge, wisdom, and help. (Even as I am

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Today we have 2 birthdays in our family. So.....we are still celebrating :-) First I want to wish a Happy Birthday to the love of my life, Mark. I am so thankful that you were born and that you are now such an important part of me. You are everything I dreamed about in a husband and more..... You make me smile when I feel crummy. You make me look at things practically when I feel like dreaming.

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