New look!!

Hey, Just am trying out new looks for my blog! Yes, I was still not 100% pleased with it. But I think I like this. I think this will be a keeper! Let me know how you like the new look!
Well I must go feed the chickens and rabbits, I think I hear them calling me! Atleast the kideos are still sound asleep, but I am sure not much longer!
Have a very wonderful day! Blessings, Mae

Oatmeal Cookies!!

Greetings from Mae's house!

I have a couple yummy oatmeal cookies recipes that we all love, and wanted to share them!!

Oatmeal chocolate Chip Cookies
2 c. brown sugar
2 tsp. vallina
1 tsp. salt
2 tblsp. molassases
4 eggs
2 c. margerine
2 tsp. soda
2 c. Chocolate chips
1 c. coconut
3 c. flour
4 c. oatmeal
Mix all ingredents (except flour, oatmeal, and chips) with mixer untill smooth and creamy. add remaining ingreents. Mix welll with spooon. Drop with teaspoon on greased cookie sheet and flatten with fork. bake at 375F for 10 to 12 mintues untill gloden brown. Makes 5 dozen.

Dads Oatmeal Cookies
1 c. margerine
1. brown sugar
1/2 c. white sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1 c. fine cocnut
2 c. sifted flour
2 c. rolled oats
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking power
1 tsp. vallina

Cream first 3 ingredents , then add eggs and vanallia, add last ingredents. Mix well. Form into balls and place on greased sheet. Flattten with fork. Bake at 350 F for about 12-15 mintues or untill gloden brown. Enjoy!!


Around the House
Been very beutifull weather here last few days! Not to hot and not to cool! We got a little rain here the other day, and more is expected later this week. Is great for our garden!
The gardens are growing like cracy! Unfortuntly the weeds have been too, so been busy hoeing, and tillling! Now it looks wonderful at this moment! I think we are finished with the planting now. Just planted the orka, and reseeded corn yesterday where some of it did not come up. Wow, nice to have that done! We already have been eating lots of vegys from the garden. Lettuce, brocille, beets, spinach, radishes, swish chard, and collard greens! Yummy! Been putting spinach and swish card in the freezer as well.

Nathan is still busy with his grade 3. We are both very anixous to be through for the summmer. Me, because I have plenty other things to do now with the garden, and Nathan ,because it is so beutifull out side and he wants to be out there all the time!! We have a about 2 more months to go. This winter we plan to start school ealier so that we will finsh in the spring ealier. Clayton is all through with kintergarten, so I am so happy for that! Just one left to go! We can do it!!

Samuel's posion ivy is all cleared up! So far he has not picked any more! Yea! Sarah hasn't got in it so far, so am glad for that.
Snakes are out and about now, so got to be on the alert for those. Seen acouple around here already. Yikes! I can't stand the snakes!!
Ok, I better get off here now. Will continue to work on some wonderful messages I want to post on my blog, and hopefully make another post before long.
Keep strong for the Lord, and stand up for whats right!!!
In Christ, Mae

Dieing to the flesh, Living More for Christ!

Good Morning!
Well looks like I have the time I was wating for to make that post. So here goes!
Romans 8 :5-13
5 For they That are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh:but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit.
6 For to be carnely minded is death; but to be spirtually minded is life and peace.
7 Beacuase the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, niether indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit , if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of His.
10 And if Chirst be in you , the body is dead beacuse of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of Him that riased Jesus from the dead dwell in you , he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
12 Therefor, bertheren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall ive.

I am crusified with Chirst: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Chirst liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. Glations 2:20

I protest by your rejocing which I have in Chirst Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 1 Corinthians 15:31

We have to die to the flesh so we can live completely to God. Dieing to the flesh and self desieres is not not always easy , its somthing we have to wrok at, and is not somthing we can just do once, we must die daily to self. The more we we walk in His Spirit and our lives are more in tune with His, the eaiser it gets. We can not go part way in serving God, its got to be the whole way! God wants out whole heart, our comlete life, not just a part of us!! And when we give our live completely to him and no longer whant to live our way, what we want ,but what He wants in our life, then can He truly work in our lives! Our lives will be a glory to Him, and He will bless us they way He so desries to do!! Heres 2 verses I love.

Delight thy self also in the lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Psalms 37:4

Fear not littel flock; for it is your farther's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Luke 12:32

There is so many verses in the Bible on Gods promises of His Blessings for His people and His great protection over them. All we have to do is give our life to Him and total walk in His ways!!

Why don't you pray this with me this morning. "Lord help me to die more to the flesh and to myself today, so that you can live more abundently in me. Die to my fleshly desries, wants and wishes, and live more fullly for you , seeking your desires, your plan, and will for my life, that I may be a glory to you. Let it be no longer I that liveth Lord, but you that liveth in me, Amen."

Have a very wondeful day!! Blessings, Mae

Happenings around my house & annoucement for upcoming post

Greetings from Mae!!
sorry it has been ahwile since I have been able to post, I have not had a lot of time. I need a prety good block of complete quite time undisturbed, to make a good in -depth post!! And you know as busy mommy of litttle ones that does not happened to often! This morning I have my 2 youngets awake and running aroung me, so I am not plannning on posting what I wanted too, I will just give a brief update, so you know I am still around!!
Rain!
Not alot new here. We have had a lot of rain though, and more to come! So our gardens are very muddy once again!! At least we nearly are through planting, although I did have a few more tomato plants to set out. And orka which we don't plant till about May first. In order to go in the garden to pick our lettuce, spinach, collard greens and beet, greens, we will have to put on rubber boots!!
Posion Ivy!!
Oh ,my youngets son Samuel came in the house carrying a huge handful of posion ivy on Monday morning, and ploped it on my kitchen floor!! Well i emediently told him to pick it up and carry it back out!! That night he hollars from his bedroom, so I go in there and he tells me he is scratchy! So we go in to the bathroom and rub calimine lotion all over him. We had to do that several times durning the week. He is almost over it now though. Atleast he did not get it as bad as I do with blisters, he only had red itchy areas. Well maybe he has learnt his lessson of posion ivy!! It is all over out in the woods right now.

New book
Well the book I ordered came in yesterday!( Our 24 Family Ways, Family Devotioal Guide) I have looked it over and what I see about it looks really good. I am very excited about it and looking forward for us to get started in it!! Its family devotionals teaching children godly characters and bicbical values. Its very nicly liad out. I have added it in my book list on the right. As we work through it I will post more about it.

Well I must close for now, my little ones are going cracy!! I have big plans for futuer post but do not know how soon I will have time to do it. In the mean time I will pray and study and make notes of what I plan to write. The first one I want to write about is on, dieing to self and living more fully and abundtly for Christ! The more we die to the flesh the more God can live in us and work through us. I get exctied about it!!
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Him self for me. Glations 2:20

Have a wonderful blessed day!! In Christ, Mae

Added somthing new to the blog, and revised past post

Greetings from Mae's house!!

I have added some more links to the right ,above the book list. The first one is a link to the 'No Greater Joy Mintries' by Debie and Micheal Pearl, authors of the To Train Up a Child book. And the next one is a link to the 'Whole Heart Minstries' by Sallly Clarkson, author of The Mission Of Mother Hood. I thought they may be helful to others and you can easily check out more about thier books there. I have also revised on my post about the books. I added abit more to the paragragh about , The Mission of Mother Hood. I realized there was more on the back of the book than I first wrote.( I guess i was sleepy or in a hurry). So you can scroll down and see what I added.
New Book
Theres another book by Sally's husband by Clay Clarkson that I plan to order soon that really looks good. In the back of The Mission Of Mother Hood, Sally has a list of Our Twenty-Four Family Ways. Thats what Clay's book is about, a family devotional on these 24 family ways they have created for thier family. I am very exctied about the book. Its called Our Twenty-Four Family Ways. After I read it I will post on here about it. If any one has already read the book, please comment about it!!
Blessings, Mae

Update from my house & memorizing Bible verses

Good Morning from Mae's House!
Well we thought it was going to freeze this morning, so last night the boys and I ran around covering all the tomatoes , plus a bunch of pepper plants I just set out on Sunday. We had atleast over 60 plants to cover!! And after all our work I believe it never froze, wouldn't you know it! It just 36 F right now. But i guess that's good, because some our coverings were only shopping bags anyway, so may not have helped alot any if it really did freeze! So now we have to uncover everything his morning! We will keep everything close by though ,I believe its a chance of frost again tomorrow morning, and it may be for real this time!!!

Planting
Yes we have done some more planting since last week. Besides pepppers i set out, I planted more green beans, yellow squash, zuzchini, and cucumbers. Plus Nathan planted pumpkins over in my brothers garden. He has big plans of selling them, and of course letting mommy bake him some pies and cakes too! This will be our first time of trying pumpkins. It will be interesting to se how they turn out! We are not really big time gardeners, we just like to plant for our own use (I freeze and cann alot), then if we have extra we give it to our nighbors, may sell alittle. I just love gardening!

Update on Mae
Well your probably wondering how my wisdom theeth pulling went last week. Well it went completely fine! The dentist pulled both at the same time, so I am all done! It was certianlly nothing to worry about. With the numbing stuff it didn't hurt at all. Really!! It was all over before I knew it! Glad I got them all pulled and done with. The only down fall is that probably now I have no more wisdom!! Oh well I can always pray for more!

Comments
Oh, for any of you that had problems leaving a comment, well I think i have that fixed now. I checked my settings, and changed somthing. So should be no problem leaving comments. So please do, I love hearing from my readers!! Also wanted to add those of you that have been keeping up with my blog so far, have probably noticed a new color to it every time they checked my blog out!! I keep tying out new colors and seeing how they look!! Was not satisfied with how it looked. But i think I will stick with what I got now! So no new colors in the near future! ( no promises though)

Memorizing Bible Verses
Just wanted to share what we have set up for our oldest boys to memorize bible verses. They both have their own verse to learn each week. Nathan ,almost 9, has a harder one, and Clayton going on 7, has a bit easier one. I write down their verse on an index card, and either they read it them selves or I read it to them several times a day, everyday durring the week. Then by Sabbath they are to say it to us by memory. I have made them each a chart, and if they can say their verse sucsessfully, they get a star for their chart. For Clayton when he get 3 stars in a row on his chart ,we get him a little prize . For Nathan I have it little more challenging, when he get 5 stars in a row we get him a prize. So far Nathan has not missed a verse this school year!! They are both very proud of their accomplishments! They try very hard to learn their verse to get their stars and to get the prize! I think its a fun way to help them memorize verses and learn the Word of God. I am learning most of their verses right along with them too.

Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sing upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children ,speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way ,when thou liest down, and when thou riesest up. Proverbs 11: 18-19

Well I will close for now, need to make the family breakfast, and get ready for another day of school here. Aslo must run out to the garden and uncover everything!!
Have a great day! In Christ, Mae

My Favorite parenting books and books that give me inspiration!

Good Morning from Texas!
We had another cold spell here. We thought it was going to freeze Sunday morning so Sabbath eveing we covered all our tomatoes, but then it never, it just got down to 36F. Our garden is still very wet, so havent got in there to plant anyhting eles, and I can't even hoe!!

You will notice over to the right of my blog I have added somthing new, a list of my favorite parenting books, and other books that give me inspiration and encouragement as a wife and mother. I wanted to share them on my bolg so others may also find them helpful. As I see it we never can get too much encouagement! Here i will briefly tell about each book in the oder they are listed, and you will beable to see if it would be a good book for you.

Above Rubies, By Nancy Campbell. Above Rubies is a magazine to encourage women in thier high calling as wifes , mothers, and homemakers. Its purpose is to up hold and strenghthen family life and to raise the standard of God's truth in the nation. The Name has been chosen from Proverbs 31:10. To learn more about Nancy Campbell and the Above Rubies minstry visit the web site I have on the right, just above the book list. There you can also sign up to recive the magazine. This is my all time favorite christain magazine, and eagerlly await the arrival of each one! I highly recomend this to all mothers! You will be trully blessed!!

Baby Wise, by Gary Ezzo and Robert Baucknam, MD. This books main goal is to help parents to get thier babies on a schudle and to sleep through the night by just a few months of age, weather nursing or bottel fed. But this book strongly supports nursing. I found its advice very helpful, and having the baby ona nursing schudle was a life saver for me, but my youngest at 21 months is still nursing at night!! But atleast i now have her down to only one time, that must count for somting!!

ME ? Obey Him? by Elizabeth Rice Handford. This book is about God's plan for wifes to be obedient and submissive to thier husbands. Very in depth and packed full of scriptuers. It is written very well, and deffently a must read if you are struggeling in this area. It will make you feel so good about your role as a godly submisseve wife and not just a door mat as the world wants us to feel. By obeying our husbands we are obeying God, and as wifes we have a very powerful and importain role!!

Power Of A Praying Wife, by Stormie Omartain. This book may be geared more towards struggeling marraiges, but is wonderful for any wife. It teaches wifes how to pray for thier husbands and to hold thier marraiges strong in any circumstance. It covers 30 differnt topics that concern our husbands and how to pray for our husbands about each of those issues. As we all know no matter how wonderful our husbands are ,they are not perfect. This book helps us as wifes how to deal with those imperfect ways through Love and in Pray. The author strongly believes that divorce is not an option, and thats another thing I really like about the book
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Power of Mother Hood, by Nancy Campbell ( author of Above Rubies). I will write a piece from the introduction of this book. " This manual takes you in to the scriptures to see God's heart and mind for women and mothers. The word of God is so wonderful.It does not leave us guessing about what to do, even in the most practical matters of mother hood. All the power we need to fullfill this great calling is found in the Word of God, and all the wisdom we need for this mighty task is found in His Precious word." I would have to say this is my top favorite book in the list! Its very good!
Supper Nanny, by Jo Frost.For all of you that have watched the Supper Nanny show on T.V , know about Jo frost's methods of child training and correction. Well thats what this book is all about. It puts all of what she does in the show in the book , step by step, and age by age child training and setting up schudels for chidren. Very good book for mothers of little ones. I found lost of helpful advice in it.

The Mission of Mother Hood , by Sally Clarkson. I will write excatly whats on the back of this book. " Do you long for your home to be lifegiving and peacful? Is it your desire to pass on a legacy of righteousness to your children? Do you struggle to balance the duties of mother hood with a loving relationship with your children? Would you like creative ideas and direction for keeping your child's heart open to you and to the Lord? Discover how understanding God's purpose and design can empower you to be the mother you long to be." " No calling is greater,nobler, or more fullfilling than that of mother hood. Every day, as we nutuer out children, mothers infulence eternal destniy as no one eles can. Tracgically ,today's culture minimizes the vital importiance of a mother's role. By cathching a vision of God's origanal desing and allowing it to shape your life, you can resicover the joy and fullfillment that can be found in the strategic role to which God in all His wisdom has called you, for a purpose far greater than you can even imangine." A very good read!! Learn about the whole heart ministries and the rest of books offered by Sally Clarkson, at thier site on the list above the books.

To Train Up A Child , by Debie and Micheal Pearl . This book is about training your child to achieve total and instant aboedience, and to eliminate spanking. Of course they do believe in use of the rod but with proper taining will cut down on the need of that. This book shows you how to train your children so they will be a great joy and blessing to you. In one spot in the book it saids "how to 'house proof' your child, not 'child proof 'your house" Very good basic child training advice. Find out more about the No greater Joy Ministries at thier site. (Link above the book list on the right)

Even though I highly recomend each of these books, it does not mean I agree 100 percent with everthing in the books. As we need to do with all things , we need to take the good and leave the bad, and see how it compares with the scriptues. Well hope that you find this to be helpful to you. Just want to add also that any of you that are farmillar with these books I, would love for you to comment on them, what you liked or didn't like about them.
Well I am so glad I had this oppurtuinty to post this this. I started writing at 5: 30 a.m and it is now 6:30 a.m, and the childen are still sound asleep!! The time on the blog is wrong, I will change it when i figured it out if I can. In the mean time it makes me look like a real supper mom!! In just a few hours I go to get a wisdom tooth removed, and I am nervous about it.Then next week I am to get the last one removed! Ouch! But if I can make it through child birth I can make it through teeth pulling!! Will let you know how it went on my next post. For now, take care and God Bless! Mae