Squaw Creek Ranch

It hard to get in the mood to blog when you don't have a camera and yoru keyboard doesn't work. It's quite sad, really. That laptop has cost us plenty in the last three months so I refuse to take it in again and spend money, so it is back to using the dinosaur PC in our freezing cold bedroom, thankful nonetheless. We had oodles of snow on Thanksgiving Day...for 24 hours, which most of you know as you live here. The kids, my husband included, took out my old three-wheeler from days of old and hooked it up to sleds and inner tubes. They spent hours sledding in the cow field, though Jessica said taking a frozen cow pie in the back while riding the innertubes was not fun. What blessing for these children, they have no idea how good they have it!

I have been on and off the couch since last Sunday with a nasty head cold, which makes the days fly by! We are all moved in downstairs and loving the space!! I am not a mother who restricts running in the house, within limits. There are just days when the children need to run off energy(that is, children under 7) after being cooped up and so I let them, but in the old house it got quite loud and I just had to put on a smile. I was sipping my tea the other afternoon watching as my young ones ran laps around the living room and not around my feet! It has just been a sweet week of praising the Lord for this sweet blessing, We could have lived without it, and happily, but boy it is appreciated. I remember moving into this house thinking we HAVE to build on in the next couple years...ha! 8 years later here we are, thankful we waited on the Lord as He provided it debt free, instead of pushing it through and carrying a load of debt. That would have been a mistake and there were a couple times I whined about not having more space, putting an unneeded burden on my husband that I regret. For crying out loud, even packed in our seemingly little 1400 sq ft home and 9 people, it was a mansion compared to what other families across the world live in.

Mr. Turkey was mighty tasty last night and tonight we are enjoying turkey soup with homemade egg noodles(Thanks Renee) They were so much fun to make and every child could participate. With that said...off to the dinner table. Hope to own a camera soon. ;)