Owner: Everyday Me.. seaside tales URL:http://www.angelfire.com/sc/anderklan/seasidetales Join Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:17:48 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: We are a Christian family who would rather say we are Followers of Christ, more than any denomination, though we were both raised in the Southern Baptist church. My husband is in the United States Marine Corps and I am prior service Air Force. We have 4 c Site statistics:Click here
the baby shower theme continues 2007-10-02 15:49:47 I mentioned yesterday in my post here that Happy Panda is hosting a cyber shower for Susan and Janice of 5 Minutes for mom. I also said I would make it a theme and continue with stuff all week. Today you get the great honor of seeing my "baby bump" -- but only one -- as well as hearing about our baby names. This pic is from my pregnancy with the oldest one and I remember being very proud of my belly when my honey took this shot. It was taken in between Thanksgiving and Christmas so we were almost at the 9 month point. By the way, you can't see it very well in the picture, but this was our retro apartment... the stove, sink, and fridge were all a very nice shade of pink!We picked out our baby names based on their meanings. Our daughters name means "victorious blessing" and this was such a true statement, especially for my husband who had come from a very hurtful previous marriage. He wanted children so much and though we had a sketchy start, we knew this was our
a gift of autumn 2007-10-02 10:47:28 Ms Ann, and her husband Mr Harold, are our Children's Church leaders at our church. They were out of town last weekend and I had talked with her before they left. She told me where they were going and I was so excited for them because they would get to see fall foliage -- something we lack here in the desert. This past Sunday, Ms Ann walked up to me and said she had gotten these for me since I miss the turning leaves so much. That was such a blessing to me that she thought of me and our conversation while she was on her vacation! Aren't they just beautiful!Tags: Blessings, Friends, Church, Fall Foliage, Colored Leaves |
can I just say??? 2007-10-01 17:16:29 Wordpress is getting on my nerves today! Everytime I try to post at someones blog I get a message saying it looks like I am spamming... UGH!!!Now, I feel better :-)
Join The Party 2007-10-01 14:30:11 Happy Panda is having an online baby shower for Janice and Susan at 5 Minutes for Mom and they want to share the party with everyone! They have a great list of prizes you can win too!!I have looked around but I don't have that many pics of me pregnant. Of course, we have about 20 old rolls of film we found in a box in the garage so they could all be on those..LOL.. I do remember one of me in our retro pink kitchen in Omaha so I'll see if I can find that and post it. It was my first pregnancy and I wish I still looked that small!!It is amazing to me how all of my pregnancies and deliveries could be so different. I guess they are all as unique as my children!My daughters delivery was induced on January 1st and I finally had her on January 3rd. The combinations of meds kept making her heartbeat jump up to over 200 so they would pull back on the meds but of course the contractions continued. I remember hearing other ladies scream and be done in hours as I waited day after day. When Read more:Party
Incentive programs for home educators 2007-10-01 12:47:09 Did you know you can receive free pizza coupons for your kids (K-6) by participating in the Pizza Hut Book It! Reading Award Program? Click here to go sign up!! We signed up this year through our homeschool group (but you can sign up individually) and received our tickets last week. I like that I can set the goals myself based on the skills of each child. Peter Piper Pizza also has this same type of program and you can go here to get more information for that. I called our local store this morning and he told me to come by with a letter from our group saying how many families and kids we have and he'll get everything ready for me. They have incentives for good behavior, reading, academic acheivement, etc..Chuck E. Cheese has promotions for grades, accomplishments (like quit sucking your thumb), more. Click here to print off goal sheets and sign up for rewards.Feel free to share whatever incentive programs you have found!! Tags: Pizza Hut Book It! Reading Award, Peter Pipe Read more:Incentive
Monday Meanderings week 1 October 2007-10-01 10:16:26 1) HOMESCHOOL Print off worksheets for this week and fill in blanks in lesson plan. Go to Yuma Territorial Prison for field trip. Plan event in San Diego with Mike for next Monday
..2) FELLOWSHIP/BIBLE Bake/buy and bag cookies for church visitation (weekly item). Finish lesson and answer questions for ladies fellowship. Buy snacks for this weeks class. Prepare felt board and cut out rest of Sparks characters for AWANA. 3) EXTRA CURRICULAR Go to art lessons on Thursday evening. Practice piano, guitar, and drums. Take Victoria to Constitution class. Redesign Finish the HEY homeschool group website and add new events4) HOME CLEANING Print weekly chore chart. Mop floors downstairs EVERYDAY. Call for spider spraying around outside of house -- I HATE black widows!!5) HOMEMAKING finish dress with Victoria. Organize homeschool stuff better.Fill out Mom's Family Calendar**. Weekly dinner plan:Monday: leftovers from weekendTuesday: Lasagna, Sal Read more:October
I am joining the bandwagon 2007-09-30 17:53:37 I have been reading blogs, party webpages, candidate webpages, etcetera for several months now trying to understand where everyone stands. I want to know for myself what a candidate believes and not just the media slop that is fed to us like pigs at a trough. I was impressed with a video I saw of Mike Huckabee talking about creation. It was at a debate and rather than side step the question he answered it fully and frankly. I like that in a president, and so I liked it in the candidate too. My husband is a Marine and so Iraq is a very important issue to me. My husband has been there, and though it is not our wish for my husband to die there, it is our wish that the Iraqi people have freedom. My husband will have to serve again. It is inevitable. We are ok with that. We would be selfish to be otherwise! If we pull out, then the terrorists have won, as well as those neighboring countries that would love to see Iraq shatter into a million tiny pieces just to prove how not dependable "
homeschool blog awards 2007 2007-09-30 17:23:27 I have put a new graphic in my left sidebar. ***I added several new items and rearranged the page so all of the extra buttons are now on the right. ***It is for the homeschool blog awards for 2007. These great ladies have been working hard getting ready for this year and the blog looks great! Please click on the image or here to go check out the new look and new ideas!! Oh, and yes, please put me on your notepad as a nomination...LOL.. shameless, yes, I know!!I have also added the Some Gave All graphic and link; the Frugal Hacker graphic and blogroll; and, the Family Friendly blogroll. I hope all, or at least some, of these links are helpful to my few readers. Tags: Homeschool Blog Award, Family Friendly Blogroll, Frugal Hacks, Some Gave All |
chaos in the books 2007-09-30 00:21:11 I try to always keep our downstairs presentable in case someone comes over. The upstairs is a different story because that is where the children live and play but I never want my husband to be embarrassed if he brings someone by the house real quick for something or another. It isn't perfect, of course, but we do a pretty good job of keeping it neat and organized. However, since school began several weeks ago, it has become rather cluttered with books. I'm just wondering how other homeschool families manage this?! Currently, the largest area of concern is the corner of the dining area. We have stack upon stack upon stack of books, writing implements, lap boards, maps, timelines, posters, etcetera in this small corner. Mostly it is books though. I think it is pregnant because every week it seems to grow a little larger! I guess part of the problem lies in the fact that we are book lovers. I keep going to my bookshelves to clean one out, thinking this will solve the problem beca
Gold Star Moms 2007-09-30 00:19:20 Ky Dan has a great article about Gold Star Moms and others who are standing AGAINST the likes of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Cindy Sheehan. I'm glad to see people supporting our troops! |
Holiday Cooking Recipe 5 2007-10-13 09:28:54 Overwhelmed with Joy is sponsoring the 2nd annual Holiday
Cooking, Blogger Style Recipe Exchange!WOW! So sorry.. yesterday was busy and I didn't get to add my recipe so I'll add it today. My first recipe was my mother in law's wild rice. Next came the cheese ball -- a favorite hors d' oeuvres in our house at the holidays. Yesterday was pumpkin bread! Yummy!!My father in law's chili cheese puff was on Thursday, though I've since learned that he "borrowed" it from Aunt Marge :-) Today you get the recipe for the delicious Jam Cake and Caramel Frosting that my mom makes every Christmas. 5 eggs, beaten2 cups white sugar3 cups flour1 cup butter1 cup buttermilk1 teaspoon baking soda1/4 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon1 & 1/2 teaspoons ground cloves1 & 1/2 teaspoons ground allspice1 cup white raisins or dates1 cup chopped nuts1 cup seedless blackberry jamCream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy; add beaten eggs; sift flour, salt, and spices in s
deep piano sounds resonating in my ears 2007-10-12 11:29:48 I'm sure this goes for all music, allegretto means playing moderately fast whereas largo means very slowly. My daughter is supposed to be playing this bass-y song allegretto but she decided to do it largo just to see plus she started playing an octave lower. OH MY GOSH... it is like the creepiest ever! I'm starting to get freaked out just hearing it play behind me... ok. Honey. You can stop piano
practice. NOW. YIKES!!!Tags: Allegretto, Largo, Creepy Music
good deals and freebies 2007-10-12 10:50:12 Today at Wal-Mart.com you can find several freebies but one I especially liked was a free Basis Sensitive Skin Bar.If you like shopping at Target, print off coupons for their specials here. JCPenney has a sale on Sunday for online, catalog, or in store. Click here for coupon to print for in-store or use the code PALS at checkout online or over phone for extra 20% off markdowns and clearance..For you military folks, don't forget militaryshoppers.com for coupons you can print off for the commissary and enter to win several weekly giveaways for $100 shopping sprees! Don't forget your coupons at the commissary! I am terrible at remembering this but the last time I did, I saved a whopping $38!!!The Old Schoolhouse has freebies every Friday and currently they are giving away two downloads just to take a survey so click here to take a look at that :-)Tags: Free Samples, Freebies, Giveaways
Bitterness of the heart 2007-10-12 00:28:31 After discussing this with my husband, we came to the conclusion it was best to remove several comments from my blog this evening. Unfortunately, my blog is set up in such a way that if I delete a comment, most strings under it are deleted as well if someone just hit the reply button. This made a few get deleted unintentionally and I'm sorry for that. I had received not only comments but emails as well and tried to respond in a loving manner but it kept ending with me saying "I don't know what you want from me." The truth is, nothing I could say would have made a difference. One of my favorite people I have come to respect a great deal, though I've never met him, is Doug Phillips of Vision Forum. I participated in the Jamestown 400 this year and throughout the whole event was inspired by the way this man lives his life for God. Many times I had to google "Mr Phillips" or questions that were posed during the 400 to try and find answers.
KCFY Christian Radio -- Christiannetcasts People's Choice 2 years in a row!! 2007-10-11 17:54:08 My family has listened to KCFY since we moved to Yuma over 5 years ago. We attend church with several people who are directly associated with KCFY and always hear great things. For instance, Mickie, who is the office manager, is in our Sunday School class, as well as Doris, whose sons show is Vicks in the Afternoon. We've helped out on occasion with share-a-thon bulk mailings. If we know they are out at a live feed somewhere, we always try to stop by and say "Hello!" as a way of showing support! My boys favorite time to listen is in the morning for the Morning Blend with Brandon and Alysia. One morning, one of the boys called in for a song that I knew the station didn't play (he had heard on a secular station in a friends car) and Brandon directed him towards Toby Mac and other Christian
music. I was thankful he didn't just say "No, we don't play that here!" Brandon's cool...everyone knows it! As you can tell, this station is really import Read more:Radio
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How cool is this?! 2007-10-11 11:34:38 So, I am ALWAYS sending music/videos I love to people and saying "You HAVE to listen to this!" I did that after this post when we discovered Monk and Neagle. Mike has been practicing Hallelujah Jesus ever since and has it down so last night he took it to church to our Worship Pastor and asked if he wanted to maybe try and learn it. Guess what?! He already had it in the service for Sunday!!! The choir spent a lot of the time learning it last night -- well, not a lot because it really is easy but you know what I mean.. WOO HOO!! And, the youth are learning Beautiful You for their next youth service. Is that cool or what?! I'm so excited!!!Tags: Beautiful You, Hallelujah Jesus, Monk and Neagle, MBCYuma
Train Up A Child Thursday 1 Corinthians 2: 1-5 2007-10-11 09:51:45 ***Train
Up A Child Thursday
is a meme dedicated to sharing biblical traits/characteristics you are teaching your children. There is no blogroll you have to sign up for or anything like that. There is a blogroll now but you don't have to sign up if you don't want to. If you wish to participate just sign the Mister Linky and/or leave a comment so others can see what you are teaching your kids, too! I would love it if you would share by putting the button on your page as a link back but again you don't have to.***1 Corinthians
2: 1-5 "And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. / For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. / I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. / And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, / that your faith should not be i
Holiday Cooking Recipe 4 2007-10-11 09:50:01 Overwhelmed with Joy is sponsoring the 2nd annual Holiday
Cooking, Blogger Style Recipe Exchange!My first recipe was my mother in law's wild rice. Next came the cheese ball -- a favorite hors d' oeuvres in our house at the holidays. Yesterday was pumpkin bread! Yummy!! Today is a chili cheese puff that my father in law taught most of the family how to make. We like to prepare it the night before so in the morning we just toss it in the oven.10 eggs1 pounds jack cheese (can use cheddar or mix of both)1 large cottage cheese1 tablespoon baking powder1 small can of green chili peppers, diced (we actually substitute pace picante sauce to taste)1/2 pounds butterMix everything together well. Put into a 9x13x2 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 35 - 45 minutes. I use a cake tester to check for doneness.Tomorrow will be my moms jam cake we have every Christmas. We are supposed to only use tried and true recipes for the exchange but I will be including a bonus 2nd recipe tomorrow as I fo
FYI -- come by and comment on Friday for a giveaway!! 2007-10-10 17:43:23 All of the interview questions are finished and so this Friday
I will be posting my interview with Greg Myers from KCFY, our local Christian radio station! He has a priceless blooper to share and I'll be having a giveaway to boot! Come back by then and leave comments and you'll be entered to win a prize!Tags: Giveaways, Christian Radio, KCFY |
What I Love (time spent with family and nature on our summer vacation) 2007-10-18 10:51:30 This is so very last minute but I'm entering the Fall Five Kodak Printer Give-Away at Sprittibee's Blog. Kodak and Sprittibee are giving away an EasyShare 5300 printer! I completely understand if I'm too late but I just had to share some of these great photos our family took this past summer!!We created a photo journal newsletter to send to our friends and family using the below photos and thoughts. Click on this link for a page 1 screen shot and this link for a page 2 screen shot! My husband is a Marine and we try very hard to take one month in the summer and visit family and 'home'. These are pics that all of us took this summer. I just love looking at them. We really had the best time this past year and the drive across the country was just wonderful!! They remind me of the gloriousness of God in all His wonderful creations and that school is NOT just doing things in a book but going out and learning life lessons from what God has entrusted all around Read more:nature
Train Up A Child Thursday -- Philippians 2: 13-15 2007-10-18 09:37:24 ***Train
Up A Child Thursday
is a meme dedicated to sharing biblical traits/characteristics you are teaching your children. There is no blogroll you have to sign up for or anything like that. There is a blogroll now but you don't have to sign up if you don't want to. If you wish to participate just sign the Mister Linky and/or leave a comment so others can see what you are teaching your kids, too! I would love it if you would share by putting the button on your page as a link back but again you don't have to.***Philippians 2: 13-15 " For it is God which worketh in you both the will and the deed, even of his good pleasure. / Do all things without murmuring and reasonings, / That ye may be blameless, and pure, and the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a naughty and crooked nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.I often wonder when I hear people fussing about their jobs with an "I hate this, I hate that" attitude why they don't just get
teaching our children to become fools 2007-10-17 17:28:00 Normally I refrain from blogging about events that happen around me involving other people if they don't necessarily pertain to my own family. But today I must digress from the norm.We went to the dentist today and as I sat in the waiting room I watched a mom ALLOW her child to kick and hit her just for the fun of it. She did not try to stop her. She did not say she was wrong. She just let her continue. Now, this was not just "love taps" the child was using to try and get momma's attention, like a tug on a pants leg or impatient poking finger. This was full force kicks and punches. The mom laughed! I was appalled! This child needed (and probably has for a while now) a good old fashioned turn you over my knee kind of spanking!God teaches us in the Bible to discipline our children. It's not just this grandiose idea that is there without a purpose. It is to keep our children from foolishness. Here are some verses to direct you to what the scripture says:Proverbs 13:
Military Honors and a Vision for the future 2007-10-16 10:46:27 Yesterday I received my prize in the mail for being in the Order of the Jamestown 400, a treasure hunt put on by Vision Forum starting in October of last year and concluding this year with the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown settlement. Our family has grown and been blessed by the many things we learned by being encouraged to read and find out for ourselves the providential hand of God in the early days of this country. Part of the prize was a gift certificate for $25 to VF and I already know what we are getting with it. My husband is a Marine, and I am prior Air Force (even though my views have since changed on how I feel about that, I am proud of my service to our country), and we love history/ military history. We will be purchasing Return of the Daughters video that I posted about here (the vision for the future part) as well as Still Standing, the story of Stonewall Jackson's Christian character (the military honors part) while still being a Read more:Military
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a blessed and unique family 2007-10-16 10:07:51 This past weekend I received an invitation to a family blog, The Serven Clan, that was going private for the time being. I had purchased a few items from this family through their website, The Genevan Foundation for Cultural Renewal, and so I'm sure that's why I got the invite. I have to tell you, though you won't be able to look at their blog and see for yourself right now, how wonderful and extremely blessed this family is! You can see Christ's love showing through in everything they do! It is so amazing and wonderful to read about them.We are using Hymns for Kith and Kin for our worship time at home. We have been slacking a bit on this with our schedules running us to and fro everyday but hope to get this back on track in the next week or two as most of our night classes are ending. Also, we are using their Psalms CD's to try and learn 4 part harmony for the music portion of our homeschool. It's not easy with me as the teacher because I'm not so musically inclined but these Read more:unique
And the winner is.... 2007-10-16 09:54:02 CARLA :-) Thanks Carla for entering the readio station interview giveaway and I'll get you the book and CD really soon!!Thanks to random.org for their random list generator!! I type in the names, hit randomize and #1 gets the prize!! So easy!! WOOHOO!! Read more:winner
the Constitution and my blog 2007-10-15 23:51:22 Dear Fellow Bloggers --I love you! I love comments! I love answering comments! I love my chat box! I love coming back to your site and visiting you!! Some of you are actual kin and some of you I like to think of as my kith, all brought together by the whole wide world of the internet. My daughter and I have been studying the constitution of the United States at our local Freedom Library every Tuesday night. I have to tell you how amazing it is to sit and dissect this wonderful document our founding fathers gave us, sentence by sentence, article by article. I have immensely enjoyed learning the differences between rights and privileges laid out clearly for us to see in bold brilliant writing! It is truly glorious!! If you are a long time reader, or perhaps you were just introduced to my blog in the last week or so, you may have seen some comments and/or notice my posting about having to delete some things. You may have even read in my posts where I stated I also got some emails I had t Read more:Constitution
random words 2007-10-15 18:04:33 My children are so funny sometimes...Noah has always been our optimistic money grubbing one (and I do mean that in a kind way) --Noah: Can I go walk dogs.Mom: No, you have to wait for dad to come home. What do you need to walk dogs for?Noah: Because I want to go to the Hannah Montana concert.Mom: (he's not going anyway but thought I'd hear him out) You know, those tickets are all sold out and cost like $3000 on ebay, right?Noah: Oh good, I have a dollar. Only $2999 to go. Can I go walk dogs?Mom: sigh.. Wait until your dad gets home.and another...Caleb: Mom can I get on the computer to feed my puffle at Club Penguin?Mom: No.Caleb: UH! Why are you the only one allowed on the computer except Victoria? I swear you are on it like 12/5!...to which I just burst into laughter and could have easily upset my poor aspies soul except that he bursts into laughter too because he realizes 12/5 just doesn't make as much sense at 24/7! Besides, it's not true.. mostly...LOL..Tags: Random words, laug
Remembering our babies 2007-10-15 09:36:43 My husband and I lost two babies in between our other children. The first was in 1993 and I was almost 16 weeks along. The second was in 1995 and I was approximately 5 weeks along. Children have angels that are always in Gods presence in heaven (Matthew 18:10). I sometimes wonder if those angels interceded for my babies so they wouldn't suffer on earth. I know they are safe and healthy in heaven. God blessed us with more children after these losses but they did not replace these children. These babies hold special places in my heart that few people are allowed to experience with me. If you have had a loss and need to talk, please email me. My loss is not the same as yours but I have a listening ear and understand the need sometimes to just get it off your chest.Tags: Remembering
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