We had a birth Friday morning early, but none since. Had someone laboring last evening, but she did not continue. Perhaps tonight.
Still we have 4 moms ready to go anytime!
If I was home I would be winterizing the garden (I think Scott did a little of that for me) but it will prob not get done unless we have some weather when I am home that I can work in outside and the ground is not frozen! If not, it will wait until spring~!
I would also be helping him side the back half of the barn-something we have been trying to get done for some time. The south side HAS to be done before the snow comes! If we do not get it done, then another winter will ruin the current barn siding that is wood.
I would also be helping to get the loads of hay-
I would be helping build the other side of the hay-mow
I would be helping to get the silage-
I would be winterizing the yard (grand children's toys and all of the tables and chairs for outside)
But I am not home, so Scott is working on all of this. He is getting some of it done. It does keep him busy. Where he works -(day job) has let about 50 people go-they were fired I guess, but there is also a planned lay off coming, so we will see-hopefully he does not get it....
Today Scott said he broke the tractor (he did not mean to). That is too important of an item- we have to have that working. It is our 'work horse' on this small farm. 'esp in the winter for plowing the snow! So more money out now to get it fixed. Sigh. Isn't it that way in life?!
But everyone experiences stuff like that-it is not just us. So we trudge on! GOD gets your through it all!
I am not too active here--not like at home where I have 10 acres to wander around on! --except for my walks in the morning here, and doing some house hold chores, not much else to do. I could have done the mowing today, but the husband was doing that-I found myself wanting to take it over just to be active! But instead I went for a drive to sight see!
I am so very thankful for my daughter and son in law allowing me to use their netflix account so I can occasionally watch a movie too!
I have been u-tubing also. (is that the proper way to say that?) I have been watching u-tubes on crocheting and knitting even though i know how to it is sort of fun to watch them too!
U-tubing~~
It sounds like I am tubing on a rubber tire tube down some river! Now wouldn't that be a sight! Older over weight lady on an inner tube going down a raging river somewhere! Might win a funniest home video show or something!
Today I went out and went shopping-well-- looking actually-did not spend much money-a whole 5 dollars. I am a big spender!
I went to a craft store and looked around. I enjoy that kind of shopping-looking with out spending. Way too much christmas junk in the stores! (although I do like the smell of the cinnamon stuff!)
I did treat myself to a lunch/supper meal though.
That was nice.
I am finishing up my 5th baby sweater, and then will start on a baby blanket. I am also hoping to make some socks.
That is how I am keeping busy! Crocheting and knitting!
That is how I am keeping busy! Crocheting and knitting!
Maybe I will get some photos of the projects I have done so far-and post them tomorrow!
Then talked to my daughter (s) and son in law on the way back from the stores. They had helped their dad go get a load of hay. They were driving home, so spoke with them for about a half an hour. They decided that their dad and I needed to skype. They said that 'their dad' was missing me and needed to 'see' me. I said, oh boy, we have not seen each other for over 3 weeks and now for the first time we will see each other on a camera and we will have that fish bowl appearance! Yes that is the way we should look to each other!
But we skyped. Then they left and Scott and I said, humm when we are done I wonder how we hang up? We are old people doing this computer stuff-and that is very new to us! thought I might have to call them to be told how to hang up-but then we saw the little red hang up buttons.
It was nice to 'see' each other, but Scott said it made him miss me more.
So not sure it was the best thing or not, but it was still fun.
I was thinking about when Scott and I first 'met'. I like to ask couples sometimes how they met-when I am serving for them as a midwife, and the woman is going thru transition, if I feel like she needs to focus a bit on her contractions and her love for her hubby, (or him on her) I will ask them to tell me their story. (if I do that it does not mean that the couple is doing something wrong, it is a bonding thing...)
So if you have never heard of our story-well here it is:
My beloved is mine and I am his...Song of Solomon
We actually knew each other because his sister and I were friends.
So we knew each other, and would talk occasionally when I was over to visit her (his sister).
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| Scott as he looked when we first met.. |
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| Ireena (me) as I looked when we first met... |
Once he picked his sister and I up when we were uptown shopping and walking around, and gave us a ride to another store. His girlfriend at that time was in the car in the front seat, but he spent an awful lot of time while driving looking in the rear view mirror at me-(I noticed that)-giggle!
Then one month that year- we both found ourselves single again. We were not seeing anyone else anymore-...had broken up with the people we were seeing...
It was new years eve, and he had went out to a party-this was in our B. C. days (before Christ). His sister and I were home baby sitting her nieces. We wanted to go up town, even take the kids with us ( I would be furious with a babysitter who did that with my kids!) But we did not drive.
Scott came home before midnight-he said later he knew I was there and wanted to come home and talk with me!
We talked him into driving us uptown to just drive around, so he said I could go out and start his car. He parked it in the pole barn on the family farm so it was a bit of a walk for me (I was a bit tipsy) and trudged out into the snow. I tried and tried to start the car-I did not have my license yet, but I did know how to drive. But his car -the engine would not turn over! I could not get it started! He showed up and told me 'you have to hold the clutch in"
clutch? what is a clutch?
Guess I was not gonna drive...
Then he said we were not going.
I was disappointed. Now really, what would we have done anyway? Nothing! Nothing but drive around back and forth thru town. That is what teens do,
back then anyway, that was fun stuff to do...we called it fun!
well, it was almost midnight-I was a bit tipsy and there was about 2 feet of snow on the ground and it was cold..so I thought I will smoke... (makes since-cold air outside so drag it into your lungs along with some toxic chemicals-makes perfect sense when your a bit tipsy and young! And-yes I use to smoke up to 2 packs a day!)
But instead, Scott decided to give me a first kiss...
Then he thought he would be nice and carry me through the snow...so I could keep my shoes dry...
Now for those of you who know me, I was not always the size I am now...here is a photo of me then...
so there was not too much of me for him to carry back then!
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| me years ago |
So he was carrying me, and then he tripped in the snow and dropped me into a snow bank. He was very embarrassed, so instead of saying opps- I am so sorry-he tried to make it look like he 'planned that' and rubbed snow in my face. Why do guys do that? Can not just say-opps!
After that night we began to date on a regular basis. No-- the dropping me in the snow bank did not make me think Wow! I want to date this guy! I wanted to before he dropped me!
I was very young, only 13 and he was 18. so -our first official date was when I was 16. Mom and dad rightly so, did not want me dating so young. They would allow him to come over and visit, and we were allowed to go for drives to town and back, but that was about it. We did still see each other often...
So on that first date night when I was 16- he wanted to take me to a nice restaurant-he had planned a great meal, and really wanted to be a 'big spender'. We were going to the town of goshen- :) and he thought he was taking me to a lobster place-well we ended up instead at long john silvers. When he pulled into the restaurant, I thought-hummmm not sure about this...
but I did not want to say anything (also I do not like fish) I was trying to be nice and not hurt his feelings- later as we were ordering, he realized looking at the menu on the wall-that this was not a nice restaurant...we should be holding the menu in our hands!!!! He felt so bad and kept apologizing saying this is not the place he wanted to take me to! But that is where we ate anyway for our first official date!!
Here are some early photos of us!
So, I have a question for all of you...
Are you having trouble in your relationship?
If so, go back and remember what you first loved about him/her. Do you remember when You fell in love with your spouse? Make a list of the things that you remember feeling or thinking or what and why you fell in love with him/her, and ask GOD/YHWH to help you to fall in love with him/her again...HE can!
Focus on the positive things. everyone has negative stuff that they say and do, and often those stick out more than the positive. It takes an effort sometimes to focus only on the positive.
Pray and ask GOD to help you to see your spouse thru HIS eyes.
"By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go..."
Song of Solomon 3:1-4
My beloved is mine and I am his...
Be blessed!
Ireena
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