Little Okie Homestead

I'm Thankful For...The Right to Vote Day 7 Today I'm grateful to live in a country where I get to vote!  Even though who I chose to vote for may or may not get elected I know that it is a privilege! Many people fought for our rights to vote over the years & I'm glad they did! Now it's time to pray! Pray for our president & the decisions that he will have to make in the next four years! Pray for our country that we can stand together in these hard times! Pray for our media & the information they report to us. That is will contain truth over lies! Pray for the young adults that are just starting out to be informed! Pray for our children & whatever the future will hold for them! Overall it's just a time to pray for America to stay the way the founders intended it to be! A free market place where people like my hubby can start a business and be successful! A place where dreams really do come true! A place to call hom...

I'm Thankful For...Time With the Hubs Day 6 Today we were lucky enough to get some extra time with the hubs. Of course it was because he didn't have any work to do for the day but I will take it once in a while.  He's such a hard worker and is trying so hard in this awful economy to get his business started and hopefully be able to give others some jobs in the next year. It's hard! It's costing a lot of time, energy and money. It's sad that he has to work such long hours but today we were lucky to have him home early to hang out with us. And it meant that I got to go to the grocery store without the kids! Always a good thing for a  homemaker ;)

I'm Thankful For...Monkey's Heart Day 5  (almost caught up!) The past few nights we have started reading Bible stories before Monkey goes to bed. We always read books but we finally found our boxes and boxes of children's books from storage so we have our three children's Bibles back!  I'm so excited! Monkey has been asking to read these stories over his normal children stories that we read. I just love how God seeks their hearts at such a young age. I can't wait to see the work has in store for Monkey as he gets older. I can only pray & do my best as a mom to help him grow to be a wonderful man after God's heart. And maybe just maybe he will help turn his Daddy back towards Christ!

I'm Thankful For...Friendships! Day 4 Today I'm thankful for friendships!  I have had many times when I have needed close friends to surround me with love & support and I'm so glad that I get to help someone else today & tomorrow that are sharing some struggles that I have been through! I'm so grateful that God has placed this on my heart to be extra supportive to these women that are struggling! It's not easy to be a wife & a mom but with God's help we can get through anything!

I'm Thankful for...Prayer! Day 3 Today I'm thankful for prayer that lead me to be motivated to get up and get started on my workout!  I really want to lose my baby weight and the weight I have been carrying around for years now! So the plan? Well it involves several things that I'm praying God will help me continue. 1. Be in bed by 10pm every night that Goose will allow me to.  I want to get good sleep so I am ready to workout and get my day going everyday! 2. Spend time in the Word and Praying. I know that I can not do this alone! I don't have the motivation or the energy to do it without God's help! 3. Get up every morning at 5am. It sounds really early to me but if I'm up by this time I can get a full workout in, a possible shower (if not it will have to be later), I can then cook Hubby breakfast before he leaves for work and make sure he takes lunch with him. This is part of wanting to be a helpful wife. If I do this Hubby isn't ...

Day 2 I'm Thankful for our free crib Write your own thankful post, grab the button, & link on up to share what we are all thankful for! Our Family Bassinet Goose outgrew his bassinet by 3 months.  It was time to put his crib together and move in with his brother! Isn't he just adorable! Look at all that room he has to wiggle around in now! I think he looks pretty happy about the move! He's been in his crib now for a few weeks & he's doing great! He's not waking up Monkey very often & enjoying all the extra room to move around! With Monkey we got a handy down crib (which we still have) however I have lost the screws that hold it together plus it has the drop down side so it wouldn't have been the best to use. Someone generously posted on my local freecycle to give this crib and changing table/dresser away. I was lucky enough to be the first to respond & now Goose has a safe crib that has all the screws to sleep in!  ...

Last year I did a 'I'm Thankful for...' series through the month of November and I'm going to do it again. Link up with your thankful posts! Day 1 A few days late ;) Today I'm thankful for my hubby! This past April it became apparent how fragile life is and I very easily could have lost him. I'm very thankful that he is here with us being a great husband and dad to the boys. He's such a hard worker and trying to build his own business to provide for all of us. I'm thankful for all he does for our family and how much he loves each one of us! Here he is playing with Monkey at a bouncy house while walking with my family in the Memory Walk in remembrance of my grandma!