Happy Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I hope you all had a wonderful time of rest and visiting with the ones you love. We gave thanks this year for so many things. Even when the rest of the world is in turmoil we can still be thankful for the blessings God continues to provide. When all else fails, His love endures forever and is for each and everyone of us. For this, I give thanks.

Punky Girl made this fantastic turkey to greet everyone that came to her grandparents' house.

This is her preparing to "shoot" the turkey. Who knows why she wanted to pretend to do this, but she did.

Punky Girl and her cousin Smiley. Punky Girl loves having a little one to boss around at all the family gatherings. It is a good thing Smiley has a little bit of "punk" in her to hold her own.



We ended the day with a kill. Buckaroo shot his first rabbit with a gun. He had already killed one with his bow when he was 4, but for some reason a bb gun hunt was more of a challenge. How many of you can say you ended Thanksgiving with a rabbit kill?

The Year of the Appliances

When Nimrod was getting ready for his big hunt, he asked if we had a coffee pot. (He doesn't drink coffee but his dad wanted it for the hunt).I don't use our little coffee pot on a regular basis so I had to dig through the cupboards. Guess what I found? A roasting oven. I didn't even know I had one. It was brand new. I think Nimrod's grandma gave it to us when we got married 13 years ago. So, since I had so much luck with the toaster oven (LOL) I thought I should try using it.

We love 7 bone roast and don't really enjoy having the oven on for 3-4 hours so this was going to be my perfect solution. I put the roast in and 10 hours, yes 10, later and the roast was done. I would like to say that the roaster oven was defective because it had never been used but that would be a lie. As with the toaster oven, I learned something. It helps if you put the oven on the correct temperature. Cooking at 225 degrees takes twice as long as cooking at 325 degrees.

We had cereal that night for dinner.

THE BIG ONE

He did it! I told you how Nimrod had gotten the tag of a lifetime. NOW, he has the deer of a lifetime. This is a 33 inch buck that just may make the record books. He has yet to have to officially scored but I'm rooting for him. Don't you just love the way God painted the sky to make the picture even more beautiful?

But You Said...

A few weeks ago in Punky's Sunday School class they discussed praying. The kids learned they can talk to God about ANYTHING and pray when they are sad, happy, scared, frustrated, and just about any other emotion.

Later that night when it was time to get ready for bed, she did NOT want to take a shower. This surprised me because she usually loves taking showers. She gets in there and "teaches" and plays. I mean she has a running dialogue that could last hours if I would let her stay in there. Anyway, I finally get her in there with tears and screaming. She starts talking to her students and crying about not wanting to be there. FYI-this was day 7 of Nimrod being gone and I had little patience. So I leave her in there to go get Buckaroo started with his shower. I come back and she has stopped crying. She is still going on and on in her monologue. I figured she was whining to her "students" about how mean her mom is. I flippantly say as I walk in, "Are you still whining?" She immediately stops talking-"NO! I am not whining." I let it go and have her finish the shower.



A little while later Punky Girl comes into the kitchen and in her little girl voice says to me, "Mommy, you hurt my feelings when you came in and asking me if I was still whining. I wasn't whining." I kindof rolled my eyes and half-heartily apologized for her hurting her feelings and then quickly followed up with, "It sure sounded like you were whining. If you weren't, then what were you doing?" "I was praying to God and YOU said in Sunday school we could talk to go about ANYTHING so I was telling him how mad I was at you 'cuz you frustrated me when you made me take a shower and I didn't want to."



Oh...maybe I should rethink my lessons so they don't come back to bite me.

Halloween Fun

Halloween started with the carving of the Pumpkins. Punky Girl wanted a "scary" looking one. See left pumpkin. Buckaroo wanted a "vampire teeth" pumpkin. See right pumpkin. I drew, Nimrod carved and the kids scooped. They loved the guts of the pumpkin.

Our resident "fierce" knight

Punky Girl is the CUTEST police officer I know. We made the costume from things around the house that we had. It was fun to do together. Gotta love wonder-under.




Our friend loaned her his real police hat and her daddy bought her handcuffs so that made it extra special.

One Motley Crew-an original purple bird, a policegirl, a "harried" mom and a fierce knight. Guess which one didn't have to make up a costume?