What would Jesus say?

I am sure everyone knows the saying , What would Jesus do?
So before you act in a situation you always ask first , What would Jesus do? Is this something He would have done? How would He have handled this situation? Would he be pleased for us to do this?


I have been thinking we need 2 other sayings like that .

What would Jesus think?
What would he think of this? What would his opinion be of this? Is this something he would think was a wise thing for us to do? Would He think this would be a wise way for us to spend our time? Would Jesus think that that certian movie or vidoe game was "good" ?


What would Jesus say?
What would have His answer been? Or what way would He have replied to that? What would He say in a situation like this? What would Jesus say about that movie you just watched?


Asking ourselves these quesions will help us make the right descions in everything we do. And will help us always to beware of what God wants us to do. God has gaven us guide lines to follow, and by his Word we know how He wants us to live.

This was just somthing on my mind i wanted to post with others. I hope this has been a blessing.
I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Please feel free to comment!

recent fun shots around here

This was tooken one one of her first times with in her in he high chair. She just loved sitting there like a big girl!! It was somthing all new for her.

Anna enjoyig a pile of corn!! Naw, her brothers just placed that on her table for the pictuer!

Clayton snaped this shot of mommy. I usually don't care for my own pictuer, but i thught this one was not to bad! I was sitting by the table with school books open. Thats a sticker that Sarah had just came along and stuck on my right arm.

Daddy and the crew gathering fire wood. Yes, even in Texas we hvae to gather fire wood for the winter!!! Though not so nearly as much as our Northeren counter parts. But we do have more than this trialer load. We have a long row of stacked wood behind the house, but that did not appear in the pic.

In the middle of school and Daddy came along with the cramera, so Clayton and I rose and posed for the pic.!!
Thats our wood heater in the back ground that we burn all that wood in! It keeps us very toasty and warm!!!

Untill next time, Have great day!! Mae

I really need to teach my boys to cook!

Aleast mac and cheese that is!
Last week during my yard sale this was made so clear to me! :)
It was close to lunch time so i walked over to the house leaving my sons in charge of the yard sale and quicly put hot to boil for mac and cheese. I then put in the noodles and went back over there ( just a hop through the woods).
I lost tract of time. When i remmbered i told 10 year old Nathan to go check on it, and to let me know if it looked done or was out of water.
He comes back and tells me ," Its not done yet, its still white. Looks like theres still water".
I am like "white"? "What do you mean white?"
He replys, " i dont know but i don't think its done yet".
So i let it be for a couple more mintues and then ran home to check. A scorched aroma meets as I walk in the door. And there I find my pot of macaronie completely out of water and a good layer of mac burned to the bottom!
Then I know what he means by, "white". It isn't yellow from the cheese mix yet!
He just assumed it turned yellow when it was done. Since it was not yellow it was not done!!

So i rescued the remaning macaronie from the pot and mixed it with the cheeese mix.
And I thought boy he really needs to have some cooking lessons big time!!

back at it

Sunday is our first day of school for the week. So we are back at it!!

Our yard sale is all over. We had it Wed. - Fri. of last week. Didn't sell near all i had hoped, but got rid of a few things. Now the rest i guess i should box up and donate to a thrift store. I certainly do not want it coming back in my house!
I had felt so good boxing up all these things and putting them in my yard sale. I felt so good that i was finally down sizing and decluttering. I felt so good that it was going to leave my home and enter someone else's, except it didn't go anywhere!! Well at least all the stuff is out side and not in my house!

The last few days have been so nice and cool in the mornings. I really enjoyed tending my yard sale those 3 days because of it. I would hurry and get breakfast, grab a cup a coffee, and go out side at 7:30 and enjoy sitting and relaxing in the cool air. I loved that part of it.

Well now that our sale is over i can get back to our normal routine again. And so now I will be coming with some wonderful posts again.
Yep, i am back at it.

a Texas morning at my house

Its such a beautiful day here in my neck of the woods in Texas!!
It was 53F with 93% humidity this morning when I woke! Felt so nice and chilly!!
This was our coldest morning here yet. Now this afternoon it is 74F. Love it!! Such a relieve from our long hot summer. But i know we will have very warm weather yet. We have such a late fall here. It rained here pretty good over Firday night and Sabbath morning. We needed the rain!

We've had some collard greens come up on their own from some plants that had gone to seed this summer. So we are digging them up and transplanting them. So we will have some collard greens to eat later this fall and into winter. Plus we want to plan some turnip seeds yet this week. But other than that we are not planting a fall garden. I am always so happy when the summer garden is over and want a break from garden work! Plus of course busy with the kids school.

I have things to write and share, but have been busy getting things ready for a yard sale. So i have not had much time to take notes and make a lengthy post. So after this coming weekend I should be back and at it again. I have had a lot on my mind.

So glad to be decluttering. I keep walking around the house looking in cupboards and corners looking to see what i can get rid of!!! The kids helped me sort through toys on Friday and found several we were all glad to part with. I want to live with less. Then i will have less to take care of and should make house cleaning easier.

Still been keeping up on our morning routine of getting kids up by 7:30 and reading at the breakfast table. I am very excited about this.
I have just bought a devotional book a couple weeks ago that we have started to use. It seems very good. Its called Daily Light On The Daily Path. It is for one year of devotions. It has morning and evening readings, and is composed of Scriptures on arranged in subjects. This book is complied by the Samuel Bagster Family. I ordered mine through Above Rubies. Their web site is www.aboverubies.org I may share about it more in a future post.

Well until next time,
In Christ , Mae

But Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Timothy 6:6

I taught my son to sneak

I know your proabaly thinking, " she did what"?
Yep, you read right, and yep, that's true I did.
No, I am not proad of it, but niether can i deny it.
So i am sharing it here so others can learn from my experience, though I am certain i am the only one who would do something like this in the first place.

Here's how it happened. It started when my son Samuel who is now 5 1/2, was between 2 and 3.

He would ask me more say some chips, and I told him no. Well when I am not looking he gets on the cupboard top and gets the bag and opens it. Then i come on the scene. I think well the bag is already open now, so i guess it won't hurt if he has a little bit. So i give him some in a bowl, and say next time don't get them if Mommy said no.

Then another time he asks for gum. I say no. Again i am in another room and do not see whats going on. Before i realize it he has got the gum and stuffed it in is mouth. When i see him i am very displeased, and let him know that. But i think well hes already got it now, what the heck. So i leave him be.

Yet another time its a coke hes ask for and got the answer no. When my back is turned he quickly opens the can. I am like well its open now, it will just go to waste , he may as well drink it now. I tell him it was wrong to do that though.

Well this was happening often . He soon caught on if he opened that package or bag or can fast enough that he could have it, regardless if mom had said no. And he got good at it!! He was fast and he was sneaky! And he was getting to be a professional !!

Then we spent a whole summer at Grandma and Grandpa's house in Canada in 08. He had just turned 3. Well Grandma doesn't let no monkey business go on like this by no means. So she started cracking down on this wise guy!

She could not believe how I could possible allowed that behavior to go on. She gave me a few tips.
The chips or any other thing like that, was to close up the bag and put it away. ( i know, a no brainier)
She said for the gum even if its in his mouth being chewed on, i was to take it away and throw it in the trash.
The coke, was to be poured out, or given to his siblings.


He was not to be rewarded by no means for his sneakiness. And also to have time-out or other correction if needed. I let her handle most of the situations while we were there. I think he didn't like grandma too much! :)

It took awhile but he soon learned that sneaking was not going to work. He slowly got untrained from sneaking. To this day though things still come up. But he is doing very well.

On occasion though i do see him turn his back and quickly try to get into something. But i have always took it away and sent him to time-out. Just recently he got a cookie with out asking and took a bite. When i seen him i made him put it back for not asking. " He replied but i already bit it, you can put a bit cookie back can you.?" I said, " sure you can."

So let don't let this happen to you. Nip it in the bud earlier!! My 3 year old Sarah is trying to follow in his foot steps but I am having nothing of it!! This is one of my big changes.

i once knew a quiet mother

Several years ago in my middle teens my family and I spent 3 years in Belize, Central America.
Well it was there i met and got to know this wonderful mom.
We never spent awhole lot of time at their house, but on the occasions that we went there to visit, I was always so amazed at the way she was with her children.

Her quiet way that she had with them is what caught my attention the most.
She was always so quiet in her communication with them.
Even in correction.
In fact it seemed her voice would even lower a few notches more while she was getting after them for something.

On one visit to her house , my mom and I were chatting with her, and a issue came up with some of the children. (I believe she had 6 or 7 at the time)
So she get up from where she was sitting , goes to the child and gets down on their level. She looks in to thier face. In a very low voice that we can barely hear whats going on, she gets after the child for what he/she did. She explains to them what they did wrong and how they should have behaved. Then the child goes back to play. And the mother goes back to visit.

Mom and I looked at each other , and thought, wow!

All the children were so quiet by nature. None talked loud. The Dad also was equally quiet with the children. An i suppose that's why the children were they way they were. Because they knew nothing else. The parents were never loud around them. They were all very happy children.

The children obeyed instantly when given a command. They parents were very firm and strict with them, but never raised their voice . The quiet command meant business and children knew it. A raised voiced was not necessary.

Now it could be the parents just did that when people was around, but i seriously doubt it. The way the children reacted it seemed very clear that this was everyday rule of correction.

I loved the way this mom was with her children. I so longed to be just like that mom when I became a mom my self. But sadly I am not.

But i realize I can still work on it , I could still achieve to be that way. I know my children are trained for the louder voice. They know that when that shout comes they must jump or else. :)But i know too that could be untrained.

I still long to be that quiet mom.
And I so long for my children to be like hers.
This is on my list of changes.