Hey! I'm back! We are still in Missouri and really liking it. I guess I have a love hate thing going on with Missouri so it's good. We are rejoicing over my new pregnancy! So excited to see what the Lord has for us with that! Always amazing!
My daughters and I have started our own little sewing business! We are doing dresses, embroidery for gifts or whatever, homemade baby bibs out of jeans (so cute), and upcycled jean skirts! Along with several other things! We are enjoying it!
We have a pretty nice sized garden. I am bummed that we only have 8 tomato plants. But we do have friends that have greenhouses and we are hoping to get canning tomatoes from them. We also just got our own chickens! 14 hens and 1 rooster! They are so fun to have and watch! We are really starting to take this homesteading thing serious. With the gmo's and high fructose corn syrup and who knows what else on our grocery store shelves there's no time like now to start growing food instead of lawns!
Well, other than all of that we are still serving the Lord every day to the best of our ability! He has shown us a lot here lately and we are continuing to grow in Him! Just like the name I gave this blog, Striving to abide in Christ! By His grace we are still doing just that! Praise be to Him!
Friday, July 5, 2013
Thursday, November 29, 2012
The Blessing of a Large Family
Wow, you have your hands full!!! Says almost every stranger I meet. Yes, and if you think my hands are full you should see my heart! :)
Children are a blessing, my children are a blessing. It is hard, very hard. It is a sacrifice, a big sacrifice. Homeschooling and keeping the home take up most of my day but it is what I was created to do. I praise the Lord that He saw fit to give us 8 wonderful children. And now I look to Him daily to train up these little souls for Him. My utmost desire is for them to love and serve the Lord with all their hearts!
We have been getting some schoolwork done. Still trying to really settle in here. It still does not feel like home and I am often homesick for Nebraska. I miss our family & church family. We are not sure about our future. Troy would love to have his own business day cabbing trucks for farmers and that is not an option down here. We are exploring other work at home businesses that we could do here. Just not sure right now but really praying.
We are in the middle of a house remodel. We had wood laminate in our dining and kitchen and it is not happy with the amount of water that somehow ends up on it. So it was getting quickly ruined. Also our kitchen sink had a hole in it and we had to replace that which is leading to cabinets being replaced because trailer cabinets are too small. Not to mention the renters had let the water leak under the sink and caused mold and it's just gross, ugh. Also our stove broke, we had been limping that thing along for quite awhile, even bungeeing the stove door shut. I was a little happy when it quit for good (shhh don't tell). So onto craigslist to look for a stove with convection that was cheap. Found one $100, a slide in. Well we are re-doing the cabinet bases along one wall and need new counter tops so we can make that work! Ended up getting it for free because it has a crack in the glass top. It still works and it is cracked in a back burner so yeah! Anyway, it is a process. I just want to get settled and it seems to be taking a lot longer than I thought.
So, there are a few things going on with us lately. My daughter has started a blog and I have been letting her do the majority of posting for our family. If anyone is interested you can go to www.Ashley-funfarmgirl.blogspot.com She does a really good job at keeping up with things better than I do. I will however post before and after pictures when we get things done. Maybe some in progress?
Children are a blessing, my children are a blessing. It is hard, very hard. It is a sacrifice, a big sacrifice. Homeschooling and keeping the home take up most of my day but it is what I was created to do. I praise the Lord that He saw fit to give us 8 wonderful children. And now I look to Him daily to train up these little souls for Him. My utmost desire is for them to love and serve the Lord with all their hearts!
We have been getting some schoolwork done. Still trying to really settle in here. It still does not feel like home and I am often homesick for Nebraska. I miss our family & church family. We are not sure about our future. Troy would love to have his own business day cabbing trucks for farmers and that is not an option down here. We are exploring other work at home businesses that we could do here. Just not sure right now but really praying.
We are in the middle of a house remodel. We had wood laminate in our dining and kitchen and it is not happy with the amount of water that somehow ends up on it. So it was getting quickly ruined. Also our kitchen sink had a hole in it and we had to replace that which is leading to cabinets being replaced because trailer cabinets are too small. Not to mention the renters had let the water leak under the sink and caused mold and it's just gross, ugh. Also our stove broke, we had been limping that thing along for quite awhile, even bungeeing the stove door shut. I was a little happy when it quit for good (shhh don't tell). So onto craigslist to look for a stove with convection that was cheap. Found one $100, a slide in. Well we are re-doing the cabinet bases along one wall and need new counter tops so we can make that work! Ended up getting it for free because it has a crack in the glass top. It still works and it is cracked in a back burner so yeah! Anyway, it is a process. I just want to get settled and it seems to be taking a lot longer than I thought.
So, there are a few things going on with us lately. My daughter has started a blog and I have been letting her do the majority of posting for our family. If anyone is interested you can go to www.Ashley-funfarmgirl.blogspot.com She does a really good job at keeping up with things better than I do. I will however post before and after pictures when we get things done. Maybe some in progress?
Monday, July 2, 2012
We've moved.........
.....again!!!!
Wow, it has been awhile. Again I think this is the only way I ever start a blog post! :-)
We have moved back to Missouri. The Lord opened doors and we obeyed even if we are in total shock to be back here. I felt perfectly content moving to Iowa and living happily ever after! But no go! So here we are. There is so much to do. I have a happy little 5 month old and 7 others! Life is so full I feel like we are bursting at the seams! It is great though. I have wonderful children. They are the sweetest!
So here are a few pics of us moving and right after getting here with the house a MESS! Real life right here. We're working on things but it seems a slow process because as you know life does go on!
So that is a look into our life for the last couple of months. It all happened pretty fast. We will miss our family and friends from Nebraska and Iowa. We are greatly missing our church family. Now it is just time to trust and obey the Lord. He has a plan even if we can't see it right now.
Wow, it has been awhile. Again I think this is the only way I ever start a blog post! :-)
We have moved back to Missouri. The Lord opened doors and we obeyed even if we are in total shock to be back here. I felt perfectly content moving to Iowa and living happily ever after! But no go! So here we are. There is so much to do. I have a happy little 5 month old and 7 others! Life is so full I feel like we are bursting at the seams! It is great though. I have wonderful children. They are the sweetest!
So here are a few pics of us moving and right after getting here with the house a MESS! Real life right here. We're working on things but it seems a slow process because as you know life does go on!
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| Here Dylan is saying good bye to a good friend. Dylan is my right hand man! What a hard worker he is! |
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| Levi is packed! |
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What strong helpers I have! 
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
It's been awhile.....
Honestly, I wonder how many of my posts are titled like that? I seem to lack in the blogging department. Oh well! Life is busy and that is good. These days are so fleeting.
I wanted to share about the Lord providing us a car. Our little gas saver blew up and Troy couldn't fix it without sinking a lot of money in it. It was hurting us pretty bad driving the truck and 15 passenger van everywhere. Well, the Lord knew about it and laid it on someone's heart to give us money to buy a car. When this man offered I said, Wow! I then went on to tell him about the $800 car I found that needed some work. He said no I want you to get something nicer than that. He ended up giving us $3500 to buy a car. It is a nicer car than we could have afforded for sure. We couldn't even afford the $800 car. What an awesome God we serve to take care of our needs exceedingly above all that we ask or think. We are now enjoying our new little car!
Also we had out tent meetings in Griswold this past weekend and they were great! I can tell you that it has been awesome to remember that God loves me and cares about me. It has changed my relationship with Him. It is out of my love for Him that I serve Him and do good works. I can do nothing of myself but in Christ He does good works through me. I think one of the greatest ways He does that is to remind us of His love for us! I am His daughter and He loves me!!! I want to please Him. I want to live my life for Him. I know some that serve Him out of fear and I can tell you that it didn't work for me. I do fail daily, not willingly but daily and with the Lord being portrayed as wanting to strike me down each time I fail I couldn't even pray to Him. Yes, I went through a hard time, a desert time maybe you could say. I felt the Lord was as far off as He had ever been. Maybe I was in the wilderness, all I know is that I was alone and had forgotten that Jesus LOVES ME! Praise the Lord for His mercy and for showing me again that He has never left me, I was just blinded for awhile. I continue to grow in His love. I am being fed well spiritually and seek to continue to learn to be more like Jesus! I hope these are your feelings as well. Have a blessed weekend serving the Lord!
I wanted to share about the Lord providing us a car. Our little gas saver blew up and Troy couldn't fix it without sinking a lot of money in it. It was hurting us pretty bad driving the truck and 15 passenger van everywhere. Well, the Lord knew about it and laid it on someone's heart to give us money to buy a car. When this man offered I said, Wow! I then went on to tell him about the $800 car I found that needed some work. He said no I want you to get something nicer than that. He ended up giving us $3500 to buy a car. It is a nicer car than we could have afforded for sure. We couldn't even afford the $800 car. What an awesome God we serve to take care of our needs exceedingly above all that we ask or think. We are now enjoying our new little car!
Also we had out tent meetings in Griswold this past weekend and they were great! I can tell you that it has been awesome to remember that God loves me and cares about me. It has changed my relationship with Him. It is out of my love for Him that I serve Him and do good works. I can do nothing of myself but in Christ He does good works through me. I think one of the greatest ways He does that is to remind us of His love for us! I am His daughter and He loves me!!! I want to please Him. I want to live my life for Him. I know some that serve Him out of fear and I can tell you that it didn't work for me. I do fail daily, not willingly but daily and with the Lord being portrayed as wanting to strike me down each time I fail I couldn't even pray to Him. Yes, I went through a hard time, a desert time maybe you could say. I felt the Lord was as far off as He had ever been. Maybe I was in the wilderness, all I know is that I was alone and had forgotten that Jesus LOVES ME! Praise the Lord for His mercy and for showing me again that He has never left me, I was just blinded for awhile. I continue to grow in His love. I am being fed well spiritually and seek to continue to learn to be more like Jesus! I hope these are your feelings as well. Have a blessed weekend serving the Lord!
Thursday, August 4, 2011
What a great life!
It has been awhile since I posted anything here. Sorry to neglect! Life has been full and good. I am learning and growing in the Lord and I am so thankful for that even though at times it hurts.
This pregnancy is going good. I just started a new raw food pregnancy journal. I am going to post what I eat each day. Probably have pictures at some point. It is www.rawfoodlady.blogspot.com I am hoping it will help me stay more accountable. I need it!
So I am further along than what I thought. That is exciting! Seems I didn't have a miscarriage after all. Still confused about it all but I am measuring at a few weeks more than what I should be. Only one in there, for sure! I am trying to get an ultrasound on my Dad's birthday to find out what I am having. It would be special. So my new due date is January 9-18th. So excited to have a winter baby!
Other than that our house situation may be changing soon. We are wanting to move close to Griswold. We love our church there and need to be close to them. It's so important to have that fellowship with people who are loving and serving the Lord. I can honestly say that every time we are there I am convicted, encouraged, and blessed! Such a great combination! It is also wonderful to watch the youth of the church. They are not leaving after worldliness as soon as they can, no they have pure hearts that want to keep serving the Lord. You know a church is doing something right when the youth are this dedicated. It is a beautiful thing!
Okay well, I am off to bed soon. Keep looking to the Lord, He is coming soon!
This pregnancy is going good. I just started a new raw food pregnancy journal. I am going to post what I eat each day. Probably have pictures at some point. It is www.rawfoodlady.blogspot.com I am hoping it will help me stay more accountable. I need it!
So I am further along than what I thought. That is exciting! Seems I didn't have a miscarriage after all. Still confused about it all but I am measuring at a few weeks more than what I should be. Only one in there, for sure! I am trying to get an ultrasound on my Dad's birthday to find out what I am having. It would be special. So my new due date is January 9-18th. So excited to have a winter baby!
Other than that our house situation may be changing soon. We are wanting to move close to Griswold. We love our church there and need to be close to them. It's so important to have that fellowship with people who are loving and serving the Lord. I can honestly say that every time we are there I am convicted, encouraged, and blessed! Such a great combination! It is also wonderful to watch the youth of the church. They are not leaving after worldliness as soon as they can, no they have pure hearts that want to keep serving the Lord. You know a church is doing something right when the youth are this dedicated. It is a beautiful thing!
Okay well, I am off to bed soon. Keep looking to the Lord, He is coming soon!
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Our day at the river!
We had a fun time at the river. Unfortunately we didn't get to go mushroom hunting. It was May 14th but somehow Nebraska didn't realize it was supposed to be warm! :0) So we just had a fun time taking pictures. We are going to go back soon without coats for some nicer pictures, Lord willing. But this is a glimpse of our day!
The Lord has been greatly encouraging me in my quiet time with Him. I also have been reading some really good books. I need to get on here more often and post my thoughts. One thing that is standing out from the last book I read is about people that claim to be Christians. He likened it to someone claiming to be a farmer. Yet they only go out to the field about 10% of their total time for the week. The talk about farming and even read some books about farming but rarely get out there. It is the same with most people that claim to be Christians, sadly they are following the norm (world) right to hell. They go to church every time the doors open yet have no real relationship with Christ. They are never convicted of anything. That is a warning sign right there. If the spirit in you is not convicting you of how you dress, how you speak, what you do with your time, and so on then you have the wrong spirit. It is not the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God does convict. I thank Him for that and hope to keep growing and learning from Him! God Bless you!
The Lord has been greatly encouraging me in my quiet time with Him. I also have been reading some really good books. I need to get on here more often and post my thoughts. One thing that is standing out from the last book I read is about people that claim to be Christians. He likened it to someone claiming to be a farmer. Yet they only go out to the field about 10% of their total time for the week. The talk about farming and even read some books about farming but rarely get out there. It is the same with most people that claim to be Christians, sadly they are following the norm (world) right to hell. They go to church every time the doors open yet have no real relationship with Christ. They are never convicted of anything. That is a warning sign right there. If the spirit in you is not convicting you of how you dress, how you speak, what you do with your time, and so on then you have the wrong spirit. It is not the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God does convict. I thank Him for that and hope to keep growing and learning from Him! God Bless you!
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