This weekend I have been working my yard and front flower bed a bit. It has been such lovely weather here.

I should be soon having my tulips blossom and my grape Hyacinths are coming up really to pop their sweet delicate purple heads. Oh I love spring!

What is even better ( crosses fingers )  my bad allergies have been pretty good too. I usually this time of year when things start to bloom have such sinus problems. I switched earlier in the year to Clartin then a month later Allegra. That way my allergies cannot not compete for my attention LOL.

Memow  has spring fever too even though he is fixed. HA! He keeps trying To run out the door, the silly cat. We have to watch him closely. Aaron was playing outside almost every day with his friends and it drove that cat nuts. he would cry and cry at Aaron outside. I felt bad like maybe I should get leash for him but HA! I remember last time I tried that with a cat.

My windows are open and the air outside is warmer than inside. It feels like spring now and a bit like summer. I was outside sweating up a storm and had to come in from work. I have exercise asthma so I try and be careful in the hot weather. When I get an attack it is pretty bad not to feel sick the rest of the day.

I planted Peonies in the back yard and am excited to see if they will come up. I am scared I did it wrong even though I followed directions. 

Here is picture off the internet of the kind I planted. I really hope it works out. I might not get flowers this year but I don't mind the wait as long as they grow nicely.

Are you planting anything this spring? I always say in the fall I am not going to plant again the next year but yesterday hubby took me to Lowes to get a few things and I bought more seeds. LOL I am hopeless.

I am planting squash, peas, tomatoes, herbs and a few sunflowers.

I made a container garden and when I am done filling and planting them all I'll take a picture.

Have a nice day!

 

I always wondered about this subject.  my mom brought it up once with my dad.

My dad was watching a movie with violence and killing galore. My mom grew up Mennonite and pacifist. She was very much a devote Christian in her heart. But she become more and more modern and progressive as their marriage went along. She continued to be a pacifist though.

Her question to my dad was with the types of movies he allowed and disallowed for them to watch. Dad didn't mind Rambo for example except for cursing ( dad hated cursing) and hated anything with sexual situations in them. He was very pure about that his whole life. My dad never allowed porn or other things of that nature into our home. I am thankful for that but mom being a woman liked a good romance with a small amount of action. HINT HINT! LOL She said it was more natural than killing a person.

Dad really detested it and they got into a heated argument about it. Dad was a Christian minister most his life. He saw anything remotely sexual as perversion. Mom's idea was killing was just as perverted. He said it was a story about good vs evil why he didn't have a problem with it. Mom said, what is more vile? Having Sex or killing someone and declaring yourself judge and jury almost like God to decide a persons fate. She said at least Sex can be forgiven that the dead do not have a choice. MOM had a point. Not that it persuaded my dad. He didn't want that for his family. Really glad about that too since incest is a problem some do not talk about. I can say for certain my dad never was a pervert. NEVER! Nothing happened in our family. I also wonder if the fact he knew about what my cousins did to me effected him. (that is another story)

This had me thinking about it though. I am so careful not to allow sexual things appear around my kids but my kids can kill on video games all day long or watch violence on a regular basis.

I am really thinking about what mom said. What do you think?

Sex is a more natural thing and is part of our daily life. YES IT IS! LOL I might go my whole life and never kill a person. Yet acting out sex out in movies and such is close to porn in my narrow minded view. Yeah I am a prude. BUT Yet I like to watch it WOO HOO. Repressed much?? HA!

Yet I wonder if seeing a healthy sexual relationship is healthy for everyone? So much perversion going around with child abuse, incest and rape. I wonder if the people who have good righteous sex are to closet about it? I mean if kids know their parents are having sex how bad is that for them to know. I know there are lines to be drawn out but I just wonder. NOT that I condone displays of open sexual nature in front of my kids but if they know we do it don't you think it would be better for them to know then act like we never do? ARGH I know this is going to be taken wrong but we do like to talk about it so I am open to reason, with adults only please.

SEX, what does it make you think & what do you think? IS it vile and dirty or natural and loving? Or both?

Side note: A friend and I wonder if the whole issue of being so closely guarded about sex is why we have perverts. They have sexual repressions because of Christian society views are so stigmatized so they act in secret on kids or relatives. YEAH Let me tell you in the church there is a lot of problem on this subject. I am not talking about teens. I am talking about child abuse, rape and incest. Maybe if people didn't act like it was a big Taboo to have sex in the first place with your partner, it could be seen a healthy. Just wondering....

Don't be angry with me. JUSt pondering.

I have a project under my belt all the time. How about you?

Today I am working at top beadwork for my husbands moccasins.  There is a tragedy in that story. I lost my first completed bead work to finish the moccasins 6 month ago. I have searched and search for that beadwork. I had set it aside for awhile while my sister moved out with her family and in my earnest to clean well, I think I tossed it out. WAH! This bead work isn't an easy job. It's called embroidery style beadwork with two needles and lots of patience. So when I lost it I was depressed about it for months. My Ojibwa tribe does a pucker style moccasin. Examples below:

I am going to do his without fur. More like the first picture but without the tie in front like the second pair.

I promised him moccasins for years and I am finally getting around to doing it. I really am bad.

Is there any projects that you do for others for love? ")

I need to get off here and work on this. I promise to take pictures and show my work. HA! at the rate I am going it might be another 5 years. HE-HE!

 

The kids have the week off so I have been sleeping in everyday. OH I love it.

I have been puttering around doing my thing but it feels like vacation to me too.

I have an addiction to a Facebook game called Candy Crush. I feel bad but it is so addictive and since it's on my phone it is like a small guilty pleasure that is consuming a lot of my time. I feel bad but I didn't even make dinner last night I was so busy playing I forgot the time and ended up just heating left overs for dinner. They were good leftovers but I felt bad. I have to give myself some credit I did bake bread yesterday. Today I want to spend some time doing  a bit of supper prep so I don't get behind again.

Anywho How is your day planned out today?

Mine is laundry and some more play. I want to squeeze in a walk since the weather is so nice.

I miss some of my regular friends on here. WHERE ARE YOU???

Chat at ya'll later! Candy don't crush itself.

We are a multi-cultural family so we celebrate both.

Last night we had my husbands Killer Matzo ball chicken soup and watched the Ten Commandments. My husband has to watched this every year because that is what he did growing up so he watched it with his boys. We discussed Moses and all. Dessert was Egg Matzos with butter and honey and macaroons too MMMM. I like Passover but we don't do the whole nine yards with a traditional meal and all. I tried some years but wasn't very good at It and husband wasn't into it as much since we are not religious Jews. His relatives do and it looks fun. Jewish holidays are just so fun.

This morning we had an Easter egg hunt for the boys. I know they are a bit old for Easter bunnies and baskets but I made it hard. I hid clues in the eggs, instead of candy, on how to find the next egg hidden in the house. HA! It was fun watching them trying to figure out the riddles. I had to help out a few times. The final clue was to find where I hid their chocolate Easter bunny. I loved it that Leif was running through the house with a big smile on his face. I will do it again next year for sure.

 

The chocolate bunnies didn't stand a chance.

 

Yesterday was a sad day. It was the 13th anniversary of my mothers death and the first for my Aunt Peggy. Also I learned the sad news that my brothers ex-wife Lois also died early that morning. I have talked about her before in the past. She was a good friend even if my brother Tim wasn't with her anymore. We talked and we still considered us sisters. She was a lovely Navajo woman and taught me so much about that culture and cooking. I really am so very sad she is gone but she had a serious disease and her passing was a relief too since she was suffering so much. We talked often on the phone and Facebook. I am going to keep up my relationship with her youngest son Jordan who isn't blood but I loved him like I was his auntie too. They came to visit us once and I got really connected to them. I invited him to come visit us sometime and I promised them a visit to New York once and told him the deal is still on. He was really happy to hear that. Please Pray for them .

Here she is  in the middle with her grandchildren.

  

 Lois left 3 adult daughters, an adult son, and a teen son Jordan many Grandchildren but none were biologically my brothers. Lois was much older then me when Tim  and her got together. It kind of was a weird relationship and I wasn't surprised they split. But I still loved Lois all the same and was mad my brother left her like he did. Tim is with living with his girlfriend and they are expecting their second child. We are estranged I think because of Lois even though I explained I love my brother always no matter what. I hope it brings in a new hope for our relationship too but I hate it had to come to a death of a beloved friend for that to happen.

 

On a brighter note: This is something my mom gave me one Easter for me and my son Leif the year before she died. HA I photo bombed this bunny and son. Do you see ME?

Today I am making a traditional Easter feast of a nice baked macaroni and cheese dish with ham, roasted brussel sprouts and  and asparagus. Yummy! Also with a Sugar free Strawberry pretzel salad dessert to end the dinner. I can't wait!  MMMM

I took a lot of pictures of my flowers this morning and I hope you enjoy them. They survived the snow and today is raining but nice enough to open the windows and bit.

 

I hope you have a great Easter and/or Passover.

G-d Bless!

 

 

 

 

This morning was a surprise since we woke up to a blanket of snow. I was wondering if my dreams came true and I was living in Canada again.

I took some pictures of my spring flowers covered in snow.

Enjoy!

 

The Daffodils look cold. 

 

These Hyacinths are just blooming for Easter. I hope they make it.

I think its pretty but I hope the snow doesn't kill them off.

 

 

Today I am missing Church and a church friends. I don't have any of both.

My old church burned me so badly I haven't returned to any church. My friends from that old church all unfriended me on Facebook a couple years ago because I voted for Obama. Such Good Christians...

Now I want to go and I cannot go. I cannot drive to one or have close church I could walk to around here.

I have a friend on Facebook that attends church in  my area and I have been thinking of asking her to ride along Sunday mornings. BUT I am afriad to let her down if I don't like it and lose her as a friend. Seeing my past record this isn't that far off from reality. It is the same with my Husbands family too. I am afraid to start going and hating it then feeling guilty not going with them, so I go, and loathe my whole time there while getting more bitter. WOW I am a mess!

I think this feeling comes on me every holiday that comes up. I have become a wannabe holiday attender. I am thinking that maybe I can just start my own church but I am not a leader in Spiritual things.

WHat do yo think of Online church? I am thinking of seeing if I can join something like that. Have you all heard of that?

Do you attend or did you attend one once? Tell me your church experience Positive or negative I want to know. I have had both why I want to find a good place to worship.

It seems the week just begun since I got over my cold yesterday. It was a dozy. I couldn't think or see straight. Now I am better and it is already Friday.

Today I baked bread, finished my laundry, and showed my baby sister how to Spackle walls. She is becoming a little homemaker these days. (Shhh I think she is starting to nest a bit. he-he You know what happens after that.)

Apart from my normal duties I have also been taking care of my husband who rarely gets sick but was home for two days with the same nasty cold. When he got better I then had a sick oldest son who got an ear infection. My oldest is way more independent than my husband LOL.

It was fun having him home though since we did a marathon of a TV show called "Community" from NBC. It is a pretty hilarious show and right up our funny bone alley. We still have HULU so we can watch some things.

I have some idea of what I want to do this weekend but no solid plans. Aaron is having a sleep over tonight. Leif is going to a quinceanera tomorrow for his buddy's sister. (I So wish I could go to that too.) Husband has homework to catch up on since he missed classes. And my big plans are to go shopping. I have grocery list made and coupons ready to go. Boy I am so fun huh?

Any Plans for you?

Memow plans naps, kitty kibbles, chasing his toys( that we throw) and bird watching.

Cats are so easy.

I lost my expensive Charm Bracelet. I have had  that bracelet few years and my husband has been buying me charms for it on special occasions. I feel pretty sick about it since it wasn't just a piece of jewelry to me. It was a love thing.

What is worse I think it was stolen by a neighbor girl who is not coming over any more since it disappeared. She had mental problems and I tried to keep an eye on her while over playing but sometimes she would wander through the house. I had it hung up in my bedroom. I know that day she was last here she was upstairs and hurried out the door to leave without saying good bye. I thought nothing of it at the time but I searched high and low for that thing for months thinking I would just find it. I cannot. I hope I am wrong and it is just lost but I have cleaned my bedroom several times and looked everywhere I can think of in my head. I think it went out the door like my cell phone with another neighborhood kid who also doesn't visit anymore. I realized he took it too late too.

It seems more than things get lost when kids steal from us. Friendships for my son too get lost and that hurts worse that losing my possessions.

Is Maxine not the best? LOL I love her crabbiness because it makes me smile at my own. Trying to put that frown upside down here.

We dropped off the nephews yesterday in Binghamton NY with their parents and they are back in Canada today. That is a half way meeting point we have now and plan to do it again this summer.

 

This funny had me rolling. Canada has this effect on me too. I wish we could afford to go back but having the nephews for a visit was good enough for now.

I was glad to get that small driving trip in because it was a lovely drive through mountains and snow.

The Scenery while snowing was fantastic.

 

I put some corned-beef, potatoes, carrots and cabbage in the crock-pot this morning and plan to relax today. A bad cold set in my lungs last night so I slept miserably. I slept until 10:30 which is really unusual for me. I am going to play Candy crush and enjoy the day off. Technically I did a months worth of Childcare in a week. I loved every minute with my nephews. But I am glad to get back to normal schedule with my own kids. They are happy this morning they can play their video games again in the living room. LOL

 

 St. Patrick's day is going to be a good day though because I feel all rainbows even if I am under the weather.

I hope your day is rainbows and gold too!