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| Hi Everyone! I've started a new blog at http://missynaysmusings.blogspot.com
So come and check it out. :)
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| I have not posted here in a while. My wonderful husband created a beautiful website for me here:
http://kernow-hosting.com/~bvc/rene/
He is learning web design and created something similar to what I have,
only in green. I asked if I could have one in purple and this is
what he made. So I've added some updates to my "Tea Time" page.
Notice what I'm reading? Lemons! I just finished a 5 day lemonade fast. I just love lemons! 
The book shown above is super neat. Not only does it have cooking
and baking recipes, but it has recipes to make soap, potpourri,
candles, bath salts, hand soap, lotion and many other things. It
also has information on the history of lemons and how to grow your
own! I am going to try that one day. 
Yesterday was, of course, Father's Day and I completely forgot until about
noon. My husband didn't remember either. So I whispered to
the girls and we got out the construction paper and glue and glitter
paint and made big cards for him. He loved them. Then I
made pot roast, carrots and potatoes for him, one of his favorite
dinners.
After dinner we turned off most of the lights and I lite a candle and
read Anne Of Green Gables to my girls. It was neat and I think
I'd like to start doing that more often in the
evenings.
My middle daughter will be turning 5 on Wednesday! She has
requested a Doll cake. I've made the doll cake twice for my
oldest daughter, but not for my middle daughter. I was hoping
she'd go for the lamb cake. I've not used that pan to really
decorate a nice cake yet. But she was adament. Maybe
I'll do the lamb cake in a few weeks just for fun.
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| Today is an absolutely beautiful day! I believe there will be no
more cold weather for me this year. The girls went swimming in
the tiny toddler pools our neighbor gave us. Our neighbors and
closest friends in this community are an elderly couple. The man
is retired and not in good health. He has diabetes and is in a
wheel chair. But that doesn't stop him from getting around and
getting things done!
He built a huge water fountain on his porch several years ago, but
decided a few days ago that he was tired of it so he took it
down. He was using two hard plastic toddler pools as the base, he
had one inside the other. So he asked if I wanted them. The
girls had lots of fun! We hope to get them a larger inflatable
pool later in the season, but for now the toddler pools are great!
This type of day makes me want to go bike riding in a park and then settle down to a picnic with tea and feed the ducks. 
I just started reading Jane Eyre today and it's a very nice book so
far. I just started chapter 4. I love, love, love to
read! I'm still reading (and taking notes) the book on charting
your fertility cycles that I posted below. I had read it years
ago and charted for 6 months. It's amazing to see how wonderfully
God has created our bodies and how it all works like a finely tuned
computer. And if you didn't know computers could be fine tuned,
you should talk to my husband - the King of computer tweaking. LOL
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| BTW, for my Shed friends, I'm Rene'. My first name is Melissa and my middle name is Rene'. Hence the name: Missynay.
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| I signed up for this mainly to leave a comment and be able to subscribe
and get updates about the ladies I know. But I've come across a
couple of ladies who are subscribed to *me* - so I thought I better
write something. LOL
I just fall more in love with my husband and daughters everyday!
They are so amazing. I remember, before I had kids, hearing
ladies say they are so glad school has started and they kids were gone
all day. It sounded so bad! I thought "I'll never think
that about my kids!" Then I had them. I've always planned
to homeschool, so enjoying the time they were at school was never an
option, but there have been many many times over the years that I
longed for a break! But everytime I got one (and they were few
and far between) it just seemed to result in more stress. Mostly
because instead of feeling refreshed and more able to do my job as
"Momma" I was even more discontent and just kept looking for another
"time away".
Then I met the ladies on the Shed and heard so many of them with way
more kids than I have (like 8 and 10!) say that they have no desire to
"get away" from their kids. I realize that I'd bought in to our
modern society's mindset that children are a burden. I also
realized that a lot of my daily stress came from my lack of training
the children and lack of organization in our home. Things are so
much better when the kids obey and when there is a routine in place -
which we are working on. I'm so lazy, I often scrap the routine
way too much and then chaos reigns again.
But, over time I'm beginning to really enjoy my kids and I don't feel
like I *need* a break. When dh and I go out on a date it's
wonderful to be alone with him out and about. But I'm just as
happy when the dates over and we get to see the kids again. :)
My 2 yr old has gotten in the bad habit of saying "Mom! You kidding!"
about almost anything we say - while giving a command or
whatever. So we decided it had to stop. I swatted a couple
of times Saturday and told her firmly not to say that anymore.
Last night I told her to go potty (we had just finished brushing teeth
and were already in the bathroom), she sat down and said "Mom, I not
say 'you kidding'" - she had the most serious look on her face and it
was so cute I almost laughed. Oh, she's adorable!
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