Come on get here, NOW!

2013.... See ya... I won't miss you... I will be happy to see you go.... Can you move out of the way so that BABY NEW YEAR can get here already!!!!

I decided that this year there will be no resolutions.... Resolutions have no structure, they have no end. They are hopes and dreams of something different. This year I have goals. Most of them are short term. But that's fine because I will have such a feeling of accomplishment once they are done... With that being said, it should motivate me on to the next goal. All of the goals revolve around one another. 

Get the address to the property

Loose 2 pounds a week

Get Thyroid under control

Start eating more organ meat (liver)

Juice more

Make $500 a month (31~UL~yarn)

Get the electric on property

Fix soffits on shed

Find a used mobile to put on property

Plan on going to convention

Clear orchard area

Plant trees

Find out about cementing the floor of the shed

Get 2 does

Breed out 4 sets of kits before the end of the year

Get 1/2 a cow

Get 1/2 a pig

This year is going to be about focusing on the property, me and my home. Two of which have severely ignored. 

Here is to Eating that Frog in 2014!

Yart

Stuck in the Smoke Hole of our Tipi.

This is my newest favorite Christmas song.... Then Dominic the Donkey and Jingle Bell Rock! Enjoy!!

Yart

Oh, where is it?

The Christmas Spirit.... It really hasn't made an appearance to my home in a couple years now.

I'm not depressed or down trodden!?!

I'm not rushed or frazzled!?!

Almost everything is done....

Decorating -Check

Cookies - Check

Presents bought - check

Wrapped - check

Meal Planned - check

House Cleaned - Almost 

Not sure what the deal is....

But I feel like its just another day... I think it has something to do with the monsters getting older.... I fell like I'm going through the motions.

On a side note... 

I took the family to help out at Toys for Tots... We sorted and placed toys.... Then we went back and assembled bicycles. We had such a great time... Picky even commented that how cool it is that we put the bikes together that little ones will be getting on Christmas morning... I love my monsters! I was so proud of them... They jumped right in with what needed to be done... Never a complaint... Always looking to see where they could work next!

Winter Solstice -

We didn't do anything special... Mouthy worked on her Pooka Pages. The older girls helped me make cookies. It was a very quite day together!

Yart 

What Spring Holds!

About a month or so ago we lost our Tickety-Boo. Not really sure what happened to him but he didn't make it. So that has now freed up the hutch for two females this spring. Grim works with a Fella that has rabbits. He said that we can come out and get them once the weather breaks! YEAH! I am so excited to actually have does!!! I'm hoping that I get them old enough so that I can breed them right away and have the first kit before the weather warms up to much.

Now if I could just figure out how to make these bark, I could have a couple!

Baby Doll Shetland Sheep!

Off to by lottery tickets!!!

Yart

Lots going on!

Since its that time of year again, I feel the need to clean house... I know it would make more since to do it daily or even weekly... Which we do keep up on the top layer of stuff.... But its the deep down cleaning that I feel the need to do... I didn't get a chance to do it at Thanksgiving because of the dreaded funk of 2013. So now we are just 10 days from Christmas and I need to get it done... But what am I doing instead.... Playing on the computer of course.... LOL! And waiting on the time to come for me to leave and get my oldest Monster from the bus depot! She will be home for almost a month... Its going to be weird her being here again.... When she was here at Thanksgiving I was so sick that it didn't matter to me who was here... :D Since she will be home during the day with me as the others are at school, she will be able to help me get a ton of stuff done....

I haven't even started my Christmas cookies yet... 

Chocolate chip

Oatmeal

peanut butter

magic bars

cherry nut bread (oh, my mixer is going to hate me)

snowballs

russian tea cookies

thin mints

The shopping is done... Just need to get everything wrapped! Still need to get a turkey, already have the ham. I have most of the stuff for the side dishes. Just need to get a few more things.

Yart

I never got to show you

Years ago Grim bought me daisy's for Mothers day and I planted them. Little did I know Daisy's actually bloom in the fall. So every year I am surprised by a glorious display of beauty while everything else is dying off.

These came into the house the first week of November. Who would ever think blooming flowers in November in Southern Michigan. The funniest part is that the heat didn't get turned on for almost another 2 weeks.

Crazy weather!

Yart

Prayers

Tonight I pray for a family facing the unthinkable... I've prayed since the first day and even before... I will continue to pray... For that is all I can do! My heart breaks for them, I can't imagine their pain or sorrow... 

Yart