50 YEARS
These are my parents, Bill and Cathy German, on their wedding day April 24, 1959. They just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They have 6 children ( I am the baby in case you were wondering) and 23 grand children. They met in the navy and dated for only three months before they got married. Needless to say raising six children was not easy. They never had a lot of money but they worked hard to care for their kids and provide for them the best they could. With the divorce rate so high it is kind of rare in this day and age to see someone make it to 50 years of marriage. So I thought it would just be nice to share that it still can happen. My dad writes poems and he wrote this one for their 50th. I just wanted to include it.
Once upon a time
As our story will show,
A young Navy coupld
Cupid shot with his bow
He was a sailor
She a cute WAVE in blue.
Three months of courting
And they both said “I do.”
In a small Navy Chapel
At Millington, Tennessee,
A few friends and no flowers
And the best part, it was free.
On April twenty-fourth
It will be fifty years.
A life full of blessings
With laughter and tears.
Not in the beginning
But now Christ leads our way.
We have been nothing but blessed
Is all we both can say.
Six lovely children,
A quiver full you see.
Brenda, Kenny , and Mike
Cindy, Dana and Jodee
To top everything off
As we’ve been in God’s hands.
We are ever so blessed
With twenty-three grands.
That’s our story for now
I will lay down my pen.
And if given a chance
We would do it again.
What an amazing father…
I just found this blog through Heather Spohr’s blog and I was just floored. Take a look this is amazing. Be warned it will make you cry and there are a few bad words. This will really tug at your heart strings.
Pecans anyone?
So we got up and decided to get out today. It’s so beautiful a little windy and nippy but still nice.
So we put a coat on Kyboo, Chicken said he did not need one and went out for a little walk. We were headed to beside the little lake behind the Mill where we live. There is tons of pecans on the ground we got some yesterday and decided to pick up some more.
Aunt Bekah gave me a yummy recipe for candied pecans and I really want to try it out. I think I have enough pecans now. So we set out with our Easter Baskets I thought this would be the easiest way to pick them up and we got quite a few.
So hopefully I will get to making some candied pecans this afternoon. =-)
Here is my calzone…..
So here is a picture of the yummy calzones I made yesterday for my sister and her family when they came over. They turned out really good. And also here is a picture of my bread it turned out really good yesterday too. 
I have a busy day today but I just wanted to post these picture up really quick. =-)
This is a quick one….
I have told myself that I would try and blog everyday well at least every week day.. I got up at a decent time this morning people who know me know I like to stay up late and sleep late. And sad to say I have trained my chickens to sleep late too LOL.. Which I know my husband must appreciate on the weekends. It lets us sleep later. But we are having my sister and her 7 kids over for lunch today… She home schools all her kids which is really nice because then we can have these afternoon lunch/ play date. I plan to make calzones today yum…. I make sourdough bread I got the recipe and starter from my mom. So I just use the bread dough and make my calzones stuff them with meat and yummy cheese cook and walah yummyiness wrapped in bread dough. So needless to say I need to get off the computer and get to work. Sigh so guess I will chat at you later.. I will try to post some pictures of my yummy calzones… =-)
Forced Volunteer work…… H. R. 1388
Well I am riled up today… My husband told me about this bill the H.R.1388- Mandatory Youth Service Bill they are trying to pass. See link below..
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/18/house-readies-passage-volunteerism-critics-pricey-forced-service/
Now on the outside this sounds great -volunteer work for our youth and teens right? But my friend this is forced volunteer work that is right forced. So there would be no choice for our kids now the first thing that comes to my mind is the Hitler Youth … they started out “great” I am sure if anything associated with Adolf Hitler could start out “great”. But the Hitler Youth continued and soon all other volunteer organizations were funneled into this one group and it was mandatory. And those kids were brain washed and look where that led.. This was not an over night thing the groups started in 1922 and ran until 1945. So I am sure most Americans would be like well hello this is America “that” could never happen “here”. Yeah right open your eyes look at the road we are headed down. The first wake up call should of been the school children singing Obama’s praises.. see link below.
I just really fear where this country is headed if we don’t wake up and see where they are taking us. We have no checks and balances now the Congress , the Senate and the Executive Branch are all being run by the same party. And with this whole bail out mess I mean come on even many Democrats now are thinking this thing won’t work..so we are basically spending our children and grand children’s money for what? For them to further their socialistic agenda. I know they blame this whole thing on Bush but really it’s done nothing but gone down hill and rapidly since he took office and soon the Democrats will have to take responsibility for all this spending not to even mention the “pork” spending which Obama was never going to let pass he was going to go over it “line by line” . Now what happened to that?
Oh well I will quit my rant. But honestly people for those of you who voted for your precious Obama and his wonderful “Change” about two years from now when you start to get taxed out the ying yang and all this wonderful “Change” starts to effect you too and your kids. Well we tried to warn you……
It’s Monday again but it was a great Anniversary weekend…
So it’s Monday and here I am trying to get motivated to move for the day. I am definitely not a morning person. I down at least 8 cups of coffee a day which I know is bad but I have this problem with staying up late. Last night it was 2 am before I finally went to sleep. And then of course poor Ben gets roped into staying up late but he does tend to stay up late too. But I can blame part of last night on Kyboo the girl would not I mean would NOT go to sleep. She has molars coming in poor thing and we would put her down and then she would wake up. Since she and Mason are in the same room I did not want her to wake him up. So anyway I finally gave her some Tylenol and that must of done the trick because she went to sleep finally after that. Poor baby getting teeth especially the big ones are really hard.
Speaking of Miss Priss she is going through this awful NO!!! stage everything is no. HI Kyboo “NO!” she tells you. It’s actually quite hard to deal with this stage and it’s new to me because I was not home with Mason at this age. So I can see how trying it will be.
So this weekend was my 11 year anniversary. And my wonderful husband’s 35 birthday we got married on his birthday and of course we always hear the old adage well at least he won’t forget your anniversary but no one comments that I tend to forget it’s his birthday sometimes. And I feel bad he has to share his day. We did not go out of town this year but we plan to next month. We really had no clue what to do I mean a dinner and a movie really gets old after a while and movies are $20 for two now and I must be getting old because I actually prefer to watch them at home. If you have to go to the bathroom halfway through you can stop the movie or lay down if you want can’t do that in a theater. So my mom watched the Chickens and we decided to go to ABC for dinner ( Atlanta Bread Company) not a liquor store. 
And it was very nice it was cold and rainy and we got yummy soup. Does not sound like a very exciting dinner destination but hey when you have kids and you finally get to eat alone a McDonald’s would be heaven because you don’t have to keep you kid from knocking over their drink, your drink or dropping food on the floor or of them talking really loud which they tend to do in restaurants. So anyway needless to say it was VERY nice. So then we just went to a couple of stores and then ended up at Barnes and Noble… got some yummy coffee from the Star Bucks and then just sat and read books ahh it was lovely. So we had a great anniversary. Funny thing was I could not wait to get away from the Chickens but after about 3 hours I really missed them and could not wait to get my hands on them when we got home. Chickens can be a pain but it sure would be boring without them……
A new President.
So we got a new President today… Now I did not vote for him and do not agree with half of what he stands for but I do respect the office and he is our President now. So I will pray for his Salvation and that he will be a good leader. But if he raises taxes on us well we tried to warn you…..
All I want is a cape like Batman…..
So Mason is now 3 and he got lots of Imaginext Batman toys and of course this means that Mommy and Daddy have had the joy of being Robin .. Yeah fun! LOL but seriously it has been really near seeing his imagination grow and have him carry on little conversations with his Batmen because of course he got more the one. Anyway as I was playing with Robin and Batman this I wondered why doesn’t Robin have a cape like Batman is it because he is just the Boy Wonder I think so anyway. I just thought it was interesting so I started to sing “All I want is to be like Batman and have a cape.”. I guess my song was not appreciated because Mason told me to stop LOL! Anyway that has been our morning so far well that a a getting up early because maintenance is supposed to come and change our filter when . No one knows.:)
I feel like I am turning into an organic mommy!
I feel like I am turning into one of those mothers that is like I make my own bread. I stay at home. I nurse my kids until they are over a year old and now the latest.. My good friend had her baby in a sling. And I was like hum how does that work for you. She said she really likes it she currently has two other small children 4 and 2 and it is hands free. She does not have to tote around a heavy carrier try to hold on to the stroller and the two other kids. So I in my ingeniousness decided to make my own .. I had a stretchy blanket cut it up sewed it back together and tried it out for the first time today. It was great… we walked Kyra fell asleep on the way home walking it was so cute….=-) So I find a real one on ebay today and it’s normally $60 and I got it for $22.50 I was sooo excited. hehe yeah I am an organic mommy!!!