The Blessing of My Son.

So today started well.  Daddy and my oldest are on the road to Alabama and making their way quite well.  Sure do hope they have a little fun in their travels.  The youngest has pajama day at school and it sounds like he is going to have a blast with that.  My middle child Noah really surprised me today.  I have been charged by God to be a mother and to me that means to pray with my children, so I try to pray with each of my children before they go to school.  I didn't know if my kids like it or not but today I know they do. Noah was going out to the bus and he stopped and said "Mom we didn't pray today!"  We said a short prayer before he went to the bus.  My kids and family are truly my biggest blessing.  Thank You God for being so good to me. 

Night Time Poetry

If only they would go to sleep but awake they stay and I must weep.  They fight and fight, heavy eyelids every night and when will they see the light?  Just close your eyelids my darling kids before your loving parents blow their lids!

Summer Blessings.

Summer is flying by.  If only we could freeze time on our best days.  If we could bottle the laughter of a child on a lazy summer day and give its essence to a sick friend it could give new life.  I hope you take a moment to catch a few lighting bug and thank God for each precious moment of summer. 

School will soon be out and what does that means for me is trying to keep my children stimulated.  It is easy for families to go into the lazily days of summer with just that in mind.  But it is important to make sure your childrens body and mind are not as lazy as those days of summer.  So stimulate those bodies with walks and bike rides and stimulate those minds with historical sites and science experience.  Don’t forget that math by playing math game.  All you can find online so get surfing and don’t forget to move.

A Generation of Farmers.

   Spring for this family means planting.  For me it means planting flowers and for my husband and our boys it means getting the crops in on the family farm.  Like so many others who have been raised on a farms it becomes a family tradition passed on proudly from generation to generation to keep the family farm going. 
    Some family farms more successful then other family farm but all make up the fabric of our nations, rich farming history.  I am happy that my boys get to experience this type of life from both sides of their family.  With my father it is the raising and bailing of hay, that he feeds to his many race horse and beef cattle.  With my father-in-law it is the raising of soy beans and corn to help feed the nation.  Both I feel privileged to have my children be a part of as farmer's sons, farmer's grandsons and farmer's great- grandsons.

May I Have a Glass of Water?

I am not a fan of some fast food restaurants with kids play land.  It is not that I don’t like to see my kids having fun.  I love that part.  The problem for me is seeing the wide range of parenting skills or lack of parenting skills.  When a mother denies her children of a simple glass of water and in turn gets herself and her boyfriend a shake each it bothers me.  When do you say something?  I don't want to undermine the parents but what did her children do to warrant not getting a simple glass of water? 

Loving those clouds.

This is me enjoying my downtime!