Ahoy Matey! Beds

Uh-Oh, I have found the most AWESOME bunkbeds ever! {this is an uh-oh because they are very expensive and because when i find something i love, it is very hard for me to settle for anything else}


This being said - 'Dad, what do you think about making something like this? ;)'..........


Okay, what for it..........
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TA - DA Here it is!!!!!

the beds can be found here,  they have other styles, and ideas, and even have the idea to have a crib type bunk on bottom! Oh, and, Tim you'll love this, they are only made in Germany and cost like 2,000 euros just to order - not including shipping.


These are perfect for me, i mean us, i mean the boys of course.


Okay, there it is awesome right?!,  now i'm going to put my two cents in about building them, so if you don't care about that you have been given fair warning to stop reading ;).....


Ready,
Now, first off we don't have to build something just like these, but I definitely like the crib idea, the swinging rope, the hammock chair, and the bookcases, and a slide - if possible.....


And also, depending on how much it costs to build, it might be just as effective to add some of these features to a loft bed and bunk bed bought separately and reinforced together - which is basically what they have done here.


Okay, well i'm going to work on some drawings with all my spare time i have now ;)! i'll get back to ya later about the beds, in the mean time please give me your ideas for them - Dad, especially ;)....


Later!

It Starts.....

Yea!!!  I am currently starting a new schedule at work.  This is awesome for us as a family, a very good no GREAT thing! 


 It means i will start getting more sleep, which those of you who really know me know that I need and that all of my boys will greatly enjoy, it also means i get to spend more time with our kiddos, and it means i will be home in the evening when Danny gets here.  


I know a totally 1950's house wife thing for me to say, but honestly we have had a tough year of really not seeing each other even in passing hardly at all.  


It is been so long since we have that this last Sun while Naomi, my sister, was in town we took an hour to go to the grocery store just me and Danny, and it felt like a date ;)!  (By the way, thanks so much Naomi!)


At any rate, the new schedule is that I will now be working weekend days 7a-7p. I know this means that I may not see all of you very much now, but I know that you will be very glad for us as a family that we get to spend our time together :).  I will still see you, probably more during the week.

Love to ya all!

Top 'o tha mornin' to ya

Well with St. Patty's day a couple of days away I just wanted to tell you all a little history about this lucky holiday ;), I found this interesting and remember being told about this holiday sometime in my childhood but like most things here lately I had forgotten. 

Fun Craft

So, the short of it is that St. Patrick was a christian that came back to Ireland - where he was from - to spread the gospel.  And he used the Shamrock  as a way to explain the trinity to the pagan followers in the country.  
St. Patrick's day was a day of remembrance to this man.  It was first celebrated in the U.S. in Boston by a bunch of Ireland's. 
Now, over the years it has become more of an Irish Holiday and more Irish tales, songs, and art have become part of the holiday (i.e. pot of gold, luck, leprechauns, etc.).  But how amazing is it that it actually is a great time maybe share the gospel with a shamrock, or explain God's covenant with a rainbow ;). Isn't it amazing how God works his Glory into all things, even something so small!
Happy St. Patricks Day to ya!
Hope to give you an update about our day, we are planning on having some fun over at a friend's house....

Cold, Rainy Day Fun

So, it was a cold, cold, wet day today and instead of just sitting there, just sit, sit, sit, sitting not knowing what to do we had some fun this day and wanted to share it with you ;) - I know a bit too much Dr. Seuss reading around here, we love 'The Cat in the Hat'.

Well, we got up and went out to Home Depot today and made some lovely race cars at the kids workshop.  Our wonderful friend Mrs. Louann came with us - she is the person that told me about the workshops, she used to take her kids and loves coming with us and I could use the help - 3yr old and 5 yr old with hammers and nails = help ;).
And later in the day we made a slide out of Tristen's mattress - it was his idea - and all three boys had a blast with that.  Who needs the park?  On a cold day my living room is a perfect park - a place for Spiderman to practice his climbing and saving skills ;).

The Future of Food

Okay, so sorry it has been sooooooooooooooooooooooo long since I posted anything.  What can I say life is just to fun to sit and type sometimes. ;)
This evening I must tell you about me and my husbands' new passion.  We watched a documentary the other evening on the future of food.  And did you know that U.S. companies are getting patents on food, or rather on seeds that they have genetically engineered!  This is a huge problem! I hope all realize this.

First of all, no one should be able to get a patent on a living organism.  Especially a seed.  There is no way to keep it isolated.  A seed grows into a plant, the plant produces seeds (the patented seeds), and those seeds are carried away to be embedded into another plot of soil and grow and produce, yep, more GE seeds.  These seeds could go anywhere and then anyone can get charged with infringing on the "patent".

And this is exactly what happens to so many good family farms.  Families that have been farming since the beginning of the century, that have been using only their own seed.  And then their seed gets mixed up with some patented seed - whether a bird drops it on their land, the trucks carrying the seed loose some on the road near their land, the wind blows the seed on the land, the list goes on and on for the ways this could happen - and the farmer is sued for having a patented seed that they never even intended on having. (read this article for more information)

What do GMO's have to do with World Hunger?

Secondly, these GE seeds are made using e-coli and other various elements to infect the seed - infect our food with whatever extra DNA strand a company wants.  And this isn't something to make the food better for us.  It is for the company to make more money.  It is complete Greed.  For instance, Monsanto is a company that first made a pesticide called Round-Up.  Well, they have patented seeds like canola seeds to be able to resist Round-Up.  And then they try and sell it off to the public as good thing by saying if you buy our Round-Up Ready seeds you are helping world hunger.  This is completely untrue.  It is hurting world hunger.  It is causing more small family farms around the world to pack up and leave their homes, because they either can't afford the patent seeds/are getting sued, or they can't make a living as a result of the amount of plants coming from big commercial farms.

Please tell me everyone sees my point in this and that America just hasn't rolled over and let this happen, rather it happened to us without us noticing.....
We must start noticing at any rate and actually pay attention to what we eat ( as well as what gets passed in legislature - but that is an entirely 'nother topic).  Some organic foods are not needed, but others are quite useful.  It is labeled organic on an American grocery shelf, that means that absolutely no GMO foods were used in making the product.  Otherwise, it is very probable that they were used if it is a food that is already a widely sold GMO seed (i.e. corn, soybeans, ____).  Please keep in mind sometimes organic is just a way to up the sale.
Remember the Song 'EverGreen, EverBlue' ......It is so simple.....This world is ours to take care of.
God gave us these bodies to take care of, and this Earth to take care of.  I don't believe that these foods are good for use nutritionally and so I don't believe they are good for the Earth either.

As a result of learning about this our family has decided to do more of our own growing of food, buying produce from small family farms, and eating more organically.  We are also trying to figure out how we can help the local family farms, especially those growing organic crops.  Maybe designing seed packets for them and helping them to also sell their seed.  Or setting up a delivery service. Or maybe the most we can do is buy from them.
If you feel lead, what are your ideas on what you could do?