I understand you being super busy–it sounds like it’s all good things in your life keeping you so. Same here. We are having a hum-dinger of a good school year…it keeps us busy all day long, but we’re having a lot of fun. I’m getting a better education this second time around, b/c I actually care and am interested in what I’m learning. It’s pretty cool! You BETTER email me when that baby arrives! This next month will fly by, on my end anyway.

(((Hugs)))

Anyways yes it has been a terribly long time Mary hasn’t it! I check in here every so often but have rarely had actual time to post anything and I do miss it so! I miss the emails from your site letting me know there are new comments, etc. But my Lil’ Man has been keeping me busy and then things have been busy within my entire “other” family. My sister having her Baby, my Mom and little brother went to stay with her so my Dad and I are taking care of my other little sister. While my Dad and husband went out hunting I had to go and stay with her and make sure she made it to school, hockey, and volleyball on time and feed her, etc. It’s been great because I haven’t had much time to bond with her since I moved out (there is 9 years between us so she will be 17-tomorrow!) and I think she feels since it’s only her and my littlest brother at home now that she needs some older sister presence in her Life.

I hope everything has been going well for you Mary! Looks like everything on here has been good and hopefully we can catch up more in future. I will send you an email when I have my second little one! Miss you!

Oh Bethanie…running water is SO taken for granted, isn’t it? It’s hard to believe there are plenty of women out there still walking miles each day for whatever water they can carry home by their own muscle power. I’ve been without running water PLENTY enough to appreciate it…our well seems to go through pumps quite often–thankfully hubby is SOOO good about replacing them ASAP. And the funny thing is, these pumps are all guaranteed for three years…so we’ve had several free replacements. Anyhow, I so identify with your comment! That attitude of gratefulness is like a tidal wave affecting our outlook. Just as an automatic cynic can find things to be bitter about in everything good.

Geri, I saw in my sidebar that you’d commented and my heart did a flip-flop! It’s been so long, girl! I’m so glad to see you here and hear how things in your life are going! One month to go!!! And your sis had a girl! Now if you have one, won’t they have fun–the same ages almost! I loved your heart-ramble, it’s so good to chime together on these things. And it’s amazing these wonderful guys we married who cherish us and our children, and are willing to go outside the cultural box in how they view providing for their own. What those other guys at your dh’s workplace are missing out on! I know not everyone can stay at home and raise their families…but I think more people could afford it than you’d think. It’s a sacrifice of material proportions, but it’s a BLESSING unparalleled!

SOOOOO good to hear from you again! Take care, sweetie!

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Leticia, I know! Losing children was a part of life back then…I think of the large numbers of children people had back then…wow…

I shudder to think of not having doctors, or not calling my mom everyday. We have become such a spoiled society.

Those pioneer women would probably shake their heads and “tut..tut” us for all of our “luxuries.”

Come to think of it, if I had been pregnant in the old days, I and Luner would have died in child birth. What a frightening thought.

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How I wish we could get together & make applesauce or quilts or something…There’s nothing that makes fingers fly than good friends talking.

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