Beckys Blog

A conversation between a 5 yr old and an almost 4 year old.  Raquelle is talking abut hell and singing a very sweet angelic sounding song about people dieing and going to hell.  Titus interrupts, "When I was a baby, I went to hell once."  I tell him, "No you didn't.  Only people who die and don't believe in Jesus go to hell." Titus - "I believe in Jesus" Me - "Who is Jesus?" Titus - "Jesus is God!" Me - "What did He do?" Titus - "He died on the cross for our sins!" Me - "Did he stay dead?" Titus - "No, he came back to life again!" Me - "So how do you go to heaven?" Titus - "Believe in Jesus" Raquelle - "No, you have to ask him to forgive your sins and come into your heart too." Titus - "Oh." Raquelle - "Are you going to do that now?" Titus - "No, I going to sing my song first." - Titus pounds on the toy keyboard an...

I can't believe my last post was announcing that I am pregnant, and now I am half way done!  Well, not really half way done, because I expect to go past my due date.  I am really looking forward to a different birth experience this time.  Instead of going to a hospital again, and repeating the previous birth experience I have had (you can read those in the archives...March 2006, April 2007, and Oct 2008), I am delivering at Bella Vie this time.  It is a midwife run water birth center just west of Salem.  It is beautiful out there.  The birth suites are amazing and it is right by a vineyard and an orchard.  If I am in labor long enough, these will make great scenery for a walk to keep things going. In other news, we are out growing our house.  Once again, I am glad we are renting.  That means we only have to give 30 days notice to move to a bigger house, and not try to find someone to buy the place with the current market!  We have deci...

Crackers and soda for nausea - $3  New pants - $30 Another car seat - $100 Medical bills - $5000 Adding another member to our family - Priceless! It would be a shame to waste such good DNA on a only a couple kids, so we have decided to bless another child with our genetic code.  That child will be introduced to the world in July of 2011.  :)

Well, shortly after last nights post on food, We bought our first cow!  Or rather, quarter of a cow.  We had been looking into buying grass fed beef by the 1/4 cow for a while now.  Thad called a farmer from church last week to ask about a cow and we were too late.  The October cow was already spoken for, and he wasn't butchering again until January.  Well, a miracle happened.  One of the people who was splitting the current cow went hunting and got a deer!  So he backed out on the cow AFTER it had already been butchered!  Yay!  So we got a call late last night asking if we were interested in our quarter cow this month instead of waiting...of course, Thad said YES!  Now we are getting 161 lbs of Grass fed, organic, Black Angus meat delivered to our house next week!  Where on earth are we going to put it!?!  We do have a mid sized chest freezer, so this week, my goal will be to primarily feed the family from things currently in ...

It's no secret that there are a lot of food allergies in my family.  We get by by only avoiding the worst offenders and not all of them.  If the whole family was to avoid everything that we are all allergic to, I would not be able to use wheat, egg, dairy, blueberries, sesame, garlic, nuts...and a LOT of other things I can't remember.  Recently, I had been having regular bad head aches and stomach aches.  Around that same time, Thad did a job at a commercial chicken farm...it was absolutely the most disgusting thing ever!  He suggested that maybe if we take chicken out of the diet, my stomach would be better...surprise!  It worked!  The theory is that the antibiotics fed to the chicken may have been killing the good bacteria that is suppose to be in my digestive track.  So...no more chicken now too.  For the headaches, I came off of caffeine 2 weeks ago, and for 8 days now have eaten NOTHING that I am allergic too.  Amazingly...the heada...

The harvest season is starting to wind down, but it's not gone yet.  We happened to plant late season tomatoes, so they are finally ripening!  I am actually being overwhelmed with free produce this week.  I have a box of pears in the fridge from Marjorie waiting to ripen so they can be canned.  A couple from church brought us corn, zucchini, bell peppers, cucumbers, celery, cauliflower, and squash.  My own tomato plants are producing 200 or more ripe tomatoes a week!  And that is off of only 3 plants!  So it looks like canning and processing is in the near future for me.  I am holding off a couple more days on tomatoes until the weekend, then I will can diced tomato for use in homemade chili over the winter.  Today, during the kids nap, I washed and chopped up all the celery.  There was enough for 3 potato soups, so I added the onion and put it into 3 gallon size freezer bags.  Then I started on the bell peppers.  I have 2 quar...

   A family picture from a couple weeks ago.    Raquelle    Keziah     Titus