Grandaddy

My grandfather passed away today. He was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 thoat cancer in April, was only given two weeks. I saw most of his life Grandaddy beat the odds on just about everything. He was suffering and while we all know it was for the best it and hes with God now...it still is painful.

Recently I have been reading my grandfather diaries from 1944, he was appox 17-18 years old and most of the stuff is mundane but some really gives an insite into his life, thoughts or feelings.

Everyday (or almost every day) I am going to post some inserts from his diary until the last one in 1947. Seems fitting, he wrote these to leave a record and now someone gets to read that record. People never truely die...for they live on in our hearts, memories and history. As long as you remeber them....they are always here.

Mustard seed?! Yep totally done!

So as you can guess by my title that things were totally led by God. As the day went on, and the object of our worry became closer the calmer I got. It was the best experience I have had! Totaly easy, and the things turned out much better than originally thought! Well thats God for you, giving you what he has planned is always better than we can possibly think.

So having the faith of a mustard seed is harder in theory, but with God...its easy. I will say though that putting your full faith in him and walking out on it does get easier as the seconds get closer to it. Ever herd of Blind Faith...yep thats what it is when you meet it.

Thank you Lord,

You simply amaze us with your love, faith and plans you have for us. You continue to take care of us, and provide for us even though we sin against you daily and we dont deserve it. Thank you Lord for my blog followers, and continue to bless them and there lives. Be with my family and friends Lord and comfort those who hurt, worry or upset. For give us for our sins and trespasses.

In your heavenly name...Amen

Thanks for reading my blog, though at time it may not make any sense!
Mustard Seed

Faith of a Mustard Seed

Today I am having faith of a Mustard Seed, which you know is harder to do than it is to say. I always know God will take care and provide for us, but I am headstrong and think i need to be incontrol of the problem AND I am impatient! LOL What a confession! Write it down and print it out, I dont usually confess that info.

The hub's car has broken down AGAIN...we just spent 1,400 last month on a new transmission, put a tenture pully into it, countless sets of tires, tire rod ends, drive trains and an odomoter cluster (1,500 part!!!) and its only a 2004 with only 128K miles on it! I am begining to realize why they discontinued this model of cars. Well its gonna cost 1,100 plus tax to fix this car, and thats the cheapest quote, so I decided to lets look at trading it in. I called the leinholder and got our pay off, prayed that if this is what God has for us that all the pieces would fall into place that we wouldnt do this unless it was his will. So I am trying to have faith of a mustard seed and put this problem out of my mind, Gods got it and He WILL provide and take care of it. Its just letting the control freak in me to settle down, and shut up. LOL Harder than you think!! I am having to be patient, and let God take control.

God,

Its me again, Carolyn...Dont forget me down here. But I NEED you now, I know i need you always but I need you to open a window on what seems like a closed door. I only want to do your will for our lives, I know you will provide a way and will take care of us. Help me silence the control freak in me to hear your will and path for our lives.

I love you and in your heavenly name
Amen


Later

A child of God having faith of a mustand seed

My Journey to Find a Better Mood

I set out on a journey yesterday to achive a better mood. With the help of my wonderful loving incredible husband, I did find it. He cooked dinner, drew me a bubble bath, brung me a fresh brownie out of the oven while in my bath...and I soaked for two hours reading my new fav book (True Blue, David Baldacci). Then I got some kid free time with one of my besties Sissy, wasnt long but enough to catch up on our days and to bring a smile to my face.

Then this morning I awoke with a newly found sence of calm and peace, that is from my heavenly Father. I prayed and gave all my trouble and worries to him, and in exchange I got peace knowing that He is in control and He will take care of me. Isnt it great that we have a God who is willing to bear all for us, to take everything bad and wipe our sins away?

I found my better mood in a place I always knew it would be in the arm of my heavenly Father and the man he made espically for me.

Cars 2 In 3D

I was really excited about Cars 2, I loved Cars and couldnt wait to see the upcomming second edition. As the norm with sequils it didnt compare to the original. We did see this movie in 3D which is new to us rednecks so of course we thought it was cool. Our little one enjoyed the movie but I on the other hand could have slept though the hole thing.
Seconds in a series rarely do as well as the original, Sex in the City 2, Kung Fu Panda 2, Little Mermaid 2, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Honey I shrunk the Kids 2 but there is an even rarer event in sequils chapter....those that out do the original....my most recent was Hangover 2. I love love loved that movie!!! I loved the first one, but the second one also rocked!!! I mean come on, the first one was awesome....it was going to be hard to top that and they did!!!

Well thats my thoughts on Car 2

In search of a better mood

Negative Nancy, Bitchy Brenda, Shizballs Shelia...bad moods have many names, and most of the time bad moods just fix them selfs but here lately I have been in a bad mood funk. I dont know how or why I ended up in this mood except I woke up here I think and from there on out I have just been down in the dumps. Well in my excuse we have had alot of things to come along lately and cause my bad mood but excueses are like butt holes everyone has them and they all stink!

So I am setting out on a trek to find a better mood, I dont know how my journey will go. I dont know if I will find this elusive better mood BUT I KNOW ITS OUT THERE!!!

Wish me luck on my journey, I will update tomarrow if I found it. Hopefully I will because even my bad mood funk is annoying me.

Love to all
Heifer

Fabric Softner...Homemade

I know you might be thinking....ummm..yuck...but seriously it works and cost as little as 0.01 to make. Thats what I call being frugal, and it works really well. My only draw back on it is with out essental oils to add fragrance you smell vingar while its warshing. That being said its only a slight smell and you DO NOT smell it in your clothes at all!! Its perfect for HE machines, works well on all kinds of clothes and for those who have skin allergies it even more perfect. It also helps with stain lifting.

Below is the receipe I used, I did not double it....and I did not at fragrance to my first batch and while making my second I did but honestly i like no smell at all.

1 Gallon Bucket
1 Cup Water
1 Cup Baking Soda
6 Cups Distilled Vingar
6 Cups Water

In the Gallon bucket place the 1 cup water & 1 cup baking soda, then add your 6 cups vingar. As you may know it will fizz (hense the large bucket) let it fizz for a moment, you may want to stir to make sure all the baking soda is being absored. Then add in your 6 cups water, you can stir at this point. Dont be worried if it still fizzes its normal. Now add in your essential oils (appox 10 drops)

Pour into your container of choice and use no more than 1cup per load, I used an old downy container that I cleaned and even ran though the dish warsher. I always give a little shake before pouring. If your clothes smell like vingar after drying, use less. The added extra bonus is it cleans your machine, is healthy for the earth and if you live on septic it gives you an extra bonus of making your septic work more efficently.

Tomarrow I will post how to make your own dish warsher detergent...it works!

52/52 I started it!

So I received the journal I ordered from Etsy (like ebay but for homemade stuff) and I started my lists! Yay!!

Well I decided instead of being behind the rest of the group I figured I would get caught up, so I did and I have to say allready its harder than I thought it would be. Well I need to get back to work, but enjoy the pics of the my new wonderful journal!

Quick remodel for any bathroom

So again while cruzing one of my many craft blogs that i follow i found an incredible idea on how to do a quick remodel on any bathroom! Framing your mirrors! U Create has a monthly challange and a few months back they did one on framing your bathroom mirrors.
Framing can be done with crown molding or any type of wood. You can do a stain, paint or raw wood. You wouldnt believe the tranformations that a simple piece of wood can do!
I did this on every mirror in my bathrooms but i am only posting pics of our kids bathroom ( cuz its the only one completed) i must warn you though....when i removed the holdings of the old mirror i discovered that when my hubs painted the bathroom he didnt paint behind the mirror as he said. Lmao

52 Weeks & 52 Lists

So while surfing my craft blogs i like to follow one lady mentioned a 52/52 Challange...so after following her links i decided that this challange was for me!
The Basics: every sunday you post a list and the lists can be anything from a shopling list, your fav drinks, vacations, who you look up to etc. You post these list every week by either just the topics or a scanned image of your page.
Alot of the 100 something followers made there own books....i bought mine from Etsy. I am joining this challange a few weeks behind but i will make it up.

I am also adding a extra twist to this challange...at the end of each list i have to list 5 things i was grateful for and one selfless act.

I hope i can keep this up...i figure i can and hope i can...so join with me!