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Smokin’
God is Good.
Today, we spent time at our new friend’s the Schay’s house. Their little baby, Alan was baptized today! Yeah, a new soul for Christ. Karol loves that little guy too, loves him. For Baby Alan, Karol drew a picture of Our Lady and Jesus (with a crown of thorns) and gave it to him at the party.
The kids ran and played and ran and played some more while we were over there. We headed home after a few hours but stopped to pick up milk on the way. While Joshua and I were getting dinner together, Karol took the compost bucket out to the pile (that is one of his chores) then came running back in crying and saying “Snake!”.
Joshua went out to investigate and I followed. There, mere feet from the compost pile was a snake of unknown order, coiled up and looking very menacing. Karol had dropped the bucket probably four feet from the snake when he discovered it, to make his run for it, and for that I am eternally thankful. Joshua grabbed a shovel and killed the snake then Karol told us what happened when he saw the snake. From what he said, the snake opened his mouth at Karol, {shudder.}
I know Karol’s Guardian Angel was working triple time today as the snake, we are pretty sure was a water moccasin, which are very poisonous.
{pretty, happy, funny, real}
~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~
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I have been talking about eShakti for a while now and I hope I do not bore you all to death. Here is another dress I ordered and plan on wearing to the wedding we are attending next month. It fits so perfectly and is a nice light-weight material, perfect for summer! (Or, if you live in the South, for most of the year!)
It is slightly wrinkled, even after smoothing things out. Does anyone have any suggestions for helping to keep the dress from wrinkling when I sit?
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We had a ton of rain last week, a total of 4.69 inches fell in just over 48 hours. This was Friday evening, after the rain stopped for a bit. As you can see, we are the cool parents. Well, it was actually Joshua’s idea to let the kids run around in the puddles. They loved it!
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I hope Benedict forever has funny smiles and great squeals!
I think he is trying to lead the marching band through the water puddle.
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Yes, real(ly) pretty, real(ly) happy, real(ly) funny and real(ly) real.
Melt My Heart
“Mama, did God make me to give you flowers? Because I like to give you flowers”. – Karol Jozef (5)
Last night he was getting ready for bed and came to give me a hug and kiss. After hugging me, he asked me if I I had a baby in my belly. When I told him no, his face got a little sad, the he brightened up and asked for a baby. When I asked him if that would make him happy, he said that it would and he said lots of babies would make him happy.
And it is true. That kid is all over babies like white on rice. This weekend we had dinner at the house of a friend who just recently had a baby. Karol hovered around that baby like nothin’. He was in heaven when he was allowed to hold the wee guy.
More Rain
Wow, just wow.
We are getting a little bit of rain today.
Front yard, no we do not have a pond or a fountain in our front yard, usually.
This is right outside the back door. The goldfish pond is not currently being used so it is empty. The pool had just a week bit of water in it this morning, just a wee bit.
The storm blew up this afternoon and has been going on for about an hour now. For a while I could not see more than an 1/8 of a mile, but now it is clearing up a bit. We lost power last night, so I got dinner made as soon as I saw the clouds coming in. The lightning has been pretty close but we haven’t lost power yet! The thunder is amazing, I do wish I could share it with you all.
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{Pretty, happy, funny, real}
~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~
Every Thursday, at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
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I posted yesterday about the dress I bought from eShakti. Here are pictures of it, pardon the wrinkles, I have not had a chance to iron it yet.
Here is an up close of the embroidery.
And the tag “custom”! That is so cool.
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Our back yard had a fig tree and it is full of yummy figs. Caecilia and our little friend, Vincent love these.
Since there are so many of them, we are going to turn them in to jam and put them up. We will take some of them when we go on vacation next month to give to friends and family. (You’ve been warned)
No, we won’t be using all those jars for the jams we also have a huge bucket of yummy honey that we want to share with friends too. We bought this five gallon bucket last fall at you pick citrus stand in Florida. It is the best honey I have ever hand and aside from bing filtered, nothing else has been done to it! So I will put some of the honey in to those jars to give away also.
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Benedict is our funny boy, here is some proof of that.
He’s telling you all about the table and his pacifier…
…and waving his arms a million miles an hour…
…and offering to share.
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With a heat index of 96 at 10:00 am, this is how we spend part of our days. The kids went out for a half hour after breakfast before the gnats and the heat chased them in.
No, these aren’t all mine, we have two kids on loan for the week.
A New Dress
I have been wanting to post about my new dress. I have been stalking eShakti.com for a few close to a year now, but did not make a purchase. First it was because I was pregnant with Benedict, then the sale of our house fell through, then we sold the house, but I was dealing with post-pregnancy body issues and finally, when things seemed to even out, I just felt guilty about purchasing an article of clothing which cost more than $10, so I put it off.
I really liked the things I saw at eShakti, party because there were many classic items, but also because you could customize your dress for a mere $7.50. Pick out a dress then send them your measurements, the length you want, how tall you are, the sleeve type and neckline type and they will make your dress for you. All for $7.50, plus the cost of the dress. This was key for me, as dressing modestly is very important. I am also plus sized (there I said it) and have what I would say is a strange body shape, so clothes I buy to fit me around the middle just hang and droop around my bustline and neck area.
A few weeks ago, I was stalking around on the site again and found their overstock section with a dress my size, so I sent Joshua a message and asked him what he thought. He gave the go ahead*, so I started to order it, until I discovered that when you sign up for an account, you get a $20 gift certificate toward your first purchase. Well, heck with that, I decided to order a dress and have it customized (free with your first dress!)
I ordered my dress on 23 June, in the evening and it arrived on 5 July, pretty darn good turn around, if you ask me. It would have arrived on the 4th if it weren’t a holiday.When my dress arrived, we were eating dinner, so I set the box aside and managed to control the impulse to run and open it until after dinner was cleaned up, prayers were said and the kids were in bed.
When I opened the box, I was not disappointed. The dress was beautiful. The fabric was a nice weight, the embroidery was done by hand, the seems were well put together and the customizations were done exactly as I requested. After the inspection stage, I moved on to the try on stage. Wow. Just wow. I wish I had a picture to share with you all, as I did have Joshua take a few, but I am waiting for the new hard drive to arrive still, so you will have to wait. Also, those pictures were taken at 930 in the evening, with bad lighting and my hair was awful. But I will tell you, I told Joshua that eShakti would be my go to place for dresses.
I woke up the next morning and was checking my email from my phone, while in bed, I saw that I had received another $20 gift certificate. I nudged a half awake Joshua and said “It’s like drugs, drugs I tell you!”. They are trying to get me in with their $20 gift certificates and well, it worked. I had another dress picked out, so I figured I would use it to buy that dress.
In the mean time, I had emailed the nice lady at eShakti who was keeping me posted on the shipping of the first dress to let her know it had arrived and that I really liked it. In turn, she hooked me up with another gift certificate for another $20 off. Awesome. I soon discovered that the gift certificates could not be used together, so that meant another dress. Oh, darn.
And, no, just so you know, I didn’t just buy the dresses because they were sending me these gift certificates. I had been in the market for some new dresses. Plus, we are heading to a big shin-dig wedding in a month, and a new dress would be nice for that too. Now, I just have to decide which one to wear.
I promise to post pictures as soon as I get the dresses and the new hard drive is installed!
*no, Joshua does not have to give me permission to buy things, but sometimes he does encourage me to do so or nudges me to buy something for myself.