Miscellaneous Musings....time to catch up

I am such a bad blogger of late. I have been quite distracted with much life happenings and I sometimes feel like I don't really have anything worth saying. However, I will try to get myself better disciplined to regular writing so I don't feel so overwhelmed like I need to catch up on so much.

I am thankful the weather is finally cooling off. Emy and I are looking forward to spending more time with our horse Spirit. He is absolutely the sweetest dearest equine friend. He truly renews and refreshes us when we get to spend time with him. I guess I get a horse fix. He is so loving, I think if he had people arms, he'd hug us back. Ok, I'm sounding a little weird, but a true lover of horse flesh would totally get what I mean.



Well, I was a little productive a few weeks ago. Emily and I made almost 40 (39 1/2) jars of pear butter. We get pears from a friend who has hard pears, which aren't really good for eating raw but better canned. So we washed, peeled, sliced and cooked lots and lots of pears and then put them in the blender with a little sugar and cinnamon and now we have a good stock in our pantry. We will likely share a few jars for Christmas as well. My husband decided he likes it on buttered toast.

I also finished my first quilting project. I made a large star wall-hanging to go in my dining room. I was learning from a dear friend from my church how to quilt and this was my "final project" of our lessons. It is machine pieced but hand quilted. I carried it all the way to Indiana and back quilting it whenever I found time. It turned out really pretty and I am now off to making more. I actually took the paint chip card with me to the quilt shops to buy fabric specifically to match my dining room. It was really fun to make and I am going to work on a western quilt next with cowboy boots on it.



I am really trying to be patient about getting pregnant. I get so excited and anxious each month as I notice signs and hope that the Lord will bless us soon. I am trying to not get my hopes up each month but to occupy myself with other tasks and hobbies knowing that if it is the Lord's desire for us to conceive again we will. I often reserve myself to the fact that I certainly don't deserve His grace because of all the selfish decisions I have made in the past. But I also know that grace is grace. Fully undeserved merit and He chooses to give it in many ways. I truly desire to serve Him with my whole body. It is such a deep longing to wonder if you'll ever feel another child moving in your womb or the euphoria from nursing your child. The great wonderful things like a first smile, first step, first words. I know that if I am not blessed with the ability to bear more children that I have been greatly blessed by His hand and will continue to be so as I watch my children grow and learn about life and step into adulthood one day all too soon and anxiously wait to rock grand babies.