FREE BOOKS! July 1, 2007

Here is a web site to some free ebooks. I noticed some good ones in there like Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein, and Huck Fin I believe. Just thought I would share this site.

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Wailing Wall live video cam~ July 1, 2007

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Tid bits….. July 1, 2007

The last few days I have been neglecting my home and spending it out at my moms house weeding in the garden. for three days, I was out there for a few hours each day and it still needs care. Things are growing good and it is now getting watered since there hasn’t been much rain lately. There are small tomatoes growing already. I can’t explain how exciting it is to see fruit or vegetables growing when you know you are the one who planted it. Now I know how God feels seeing us grow. We are his fruit.

I went to moms today so Paul could work on the garden. I worked on my master schedule then. I didn’t know it was going to be so much work. It is very thought provoking and time consuming so I hope it is well worth my time. I think I will really benefit from it when school starts again. I think I am one who needs to follow schedule or I am scatter brained and don’t know what to do next. My sister gave me the book to go along with making the schedule. It is called Managers of their homes. It was put together and written by Steven and Teri Maxwell. I have heard nothing but good things about this couple and they have a great web site at http://www.titus2.com/. Hope you can visit it and see what they have available. They also put together a system called Managers of their chores,a system for getting your little ones to help out around the house. I haven’t really felt the need to get this one yet. I will usually just tell my kids what I want done by them and they will do it. I sometimes wonder if tacking something up will be better though so they know what to expect every day and would hopefully get in the routine of just doing it without me telling them to. I don’t like that thought right now though because my jobs for them are different every day. One day it might be them cleaning up their room and the next, I might need help washing down some walls or dusting. Maybe this is where that schedule I mentioned above will help.I have tried this idea I got from someone else and it seemed to work. I loved it because I could change up the jobs for the kids and it didn’t take a lot  of time to do it. I will post a picture of it above. I had them wear these work badges and they couldn’t take them off until their work was done. I haven’t done this since school ended but I might start it up again since it worked so well. Especially for the older ones who didn’t want to wear them all day. They wanted to hurry up and get the job done so they could take it off. The little ones thought it was so cool!

Anyway, here is a recent garden picture. Alot has come up since the last garden picture. Things grow so fast.  You can see there is plenty of work to be done. It is getting there though. It is alot of work for only two people to be working on it because it is so big. It seems it gets bigger every year and every year I get more overwhelmed. It is a lot of fun and the kids enjoy being out there. Earlier I went on a date with my hubby. We just went to Applebee’s (my favorite ) and then went and picked up the kids right away. And wouldn’t you know, when we got there Matthew was complaining of a tooth ache and throwing this huge fit. It was like Dejavue all over again. This had happened the last time Paul and I went out. Matthew has since then had that tooth removed because it was so bad. Now the tooth that is bothering him is going to be pulled as well this coming up week I believe so that should be a treat for me. I am so glad hubby has dental insurance now. I am not looking forward to tomorrow because I have a wake to go to. I know I should go but i just hate this kind of stuff. Probably because I know I will cry. A family member has passed away of cancer and she was so young. Only in her mid 4os. She had just gotten married maybe a year ago to. Please keep her husband and other family members in your prayers as they are going through their grieving process. No one wishes this kind of thing to happen but it does. I know I sometimes question God, why? Why her when she was a healthy woman who didn’t do drugs or even smoke. Only God knows why. I believe everything happens for a reason even when we don’t know what that reason is. It’s in God’s plan.Our Almighty creator who made us and this earth can take us back in the split of a second. Our time here on earth is not meant to be forever and we will never know when our time is done. Just be prepared! Check this out. http://www.wayofthemaster.com/goodperson.shtml