tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44410038993143992052024-03-13T06:39:28.501-04:00Life... According to the Feeser'sAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-29567831432185026952015-12-29T05:13:00.001-05:002015-12-29T05:19:05.251-05:00Our Week: 20 Dec to 26 DecSunday: Church today, Facetime with Feeserville, and then Gingerbread house decorating!! Every year, Aunt Tonya gets a gingerbread house for her and Price to make and decorate together. Since we won't be home for that this year, I bought a kit that came with 4 small houses to everyone could decorate. Each kid had their own house, and Ron and I decorated one together. It was a lot of fun!!<br />
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Monday: CHYNA'S BIRTHDAY!!! She's 17 today!! She picked dinner tonight at TGIFriday's and invited our neighbor to go with her. We had lots of fun!!<br />
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Tuesday: We had Spanish class for the last time in December and 2015. Otherwise, we did school and just hung out.<br />
Wednesday: We went to a performance at the Teatro Oriente (Theater) in Moron tonight. People of Spain stay up really late at night. They generally don't eat dinner until 8:30 or even 9:00. This performance didn't start until 9pm, but we decided to go anyway. We knew we wouldn't understand anything they were saying, but the performance was supposed to be dancing and playing this musical instrument called a Zambamba. They sang lots of songs and not much dancing happened. It was something I'm glad we saw, but I did spend a lot of time confused about what was going on. Everyone seemed to have a good time, and I thought it was really good!<br />
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Thursday: Christmas Eve!!! Lots of fun today!!!<br />
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Friday: Christmas Day!!!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-57276849760426187302015-12-19T15:13:00.004-05:002015-12-19T15:13:41.634-05:00Our Week: 13 Dec - 19 DecSunday: Relaxing day after an eventful Saturday in Merida. We had a great time at church and then spent the day relaxing and hanging out.<br />
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Monday: Back to school this week. Both boys are studying about the UK this week. They have pretend passports that we will add a country to every time we learn about them throughout the year. Hopefully we'll be able to add some actual stamps to their real passports this year. Wesley had to make the earth's crust and then show what happens when there is an earthquake. He made a volcano with the dough that Chyna made for him. It was cool! :)<br />
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Tuesday: Spanish class today went well. In Project 3:17, I'm still in Exodus, and today I went a little farther and listened to and read chapter 4 as well. I was completely confused by Exodus 4:24. When Moses finished speaking to "the angel of the Lord" in the burning bush, he went back and told him father-in-law that he was going to Egypt and he said okay. So Moses took his wife and two sons and put them on a donkey and left. I have to say that I'm pretty happy that he actually took his family with him. I didn't actually expect that because God and told Moses to go to Pharaoh and ask him for THREE days to worship outside the city and that was all at first. So it didn't seem like something he would need to take his whole family for, but I'm glad he did. Anyway, back to verse 24... It says that the Lord met Moses at one of the stops at night AND WAS ABOUT TO KILL HIM. This is completely unprovoked as far as we can tell. There is nothing at all to say why this is, and THEN... to keep her husband from being killed, Zipporah (Moses' wife), cut off her son's foreskin and TOUCHED MOSES' FEET with it. This just brings up so many questions for me. I'm going to spend this week looking up more about these verses in chapter 4, and next week I'll decide what point of view I want to use for the creative writing part of this book. For Genesis, I told the story of the fall of Adam and Eve from the point of view of the earth. I can't even find what I had written, but I'm also going to look for it this week as well.<br />
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Wednesday: Got school updated today... that was about it. :) <br />
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Thursday: I looked through the travel guide for Madrid since we are going there in April for Ron to run a race. We will spend the weekend there before flying on to Copenhagen for the rest of the week. I will continue to plan our Madrid/Denmark trip. <br />
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Friday: Today was all about genealogy. I found out this week that my genealogy software, Family Tree Maker, was being discontinued. They are no longer doing any updates with it and at the end of next year there will no longer be any support for it from ancestry.com who owns the software. I was a little sad at first, but then I saw where Rootsmagic (another genealogy software) had a special discount for people who wanted to switch to their software, and I've heard great things about it. So I spent today exporting my files and importing them to the new software. I'm excited to get going with the new software next week. We had a progressive dinner in a nearby neighborhood tonight, where we went to 4 different houses and had wonderful food at each place! It was a great night!!<br />
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Saturday: Today was great for two reasons. First, we went to the nearby city of Moron de la Frontera (we just call it Moron!) and met at the tourism office to walk around the city and look at different Belen's... (Bethlehem in Spanish)... Here in Spain, their traditional decorations for Christmas are not like what I'm used to. They don't do the Christmas trees like we expect to see. They do nativity scenes. From basic sets to very elaborate. We went to a couple of churches in the area and then to a couple of people's homes to see their Belen setups. The second great part of today was getting to see the new Star Wars movie with Ron and the boys (Chyna decided to stay home because she doesn't like Star Wars! :) Anyway, we were able to see it on base because the deployed marine service members here got a copy and offered some extra seats to any of us who wanted them. It was a great movie, and I won't share any of my other opinions on it since I know some people haven't seen it yet.<br />
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See you next week... Oh, and only 8 weeks until my mother comes to visit us!!! ;)<br />
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Tuesday: Bunco Time!! It is always so much fun! Today was just focused on school and I worked on some of my bible study project. I call is Project 3:17 for now, and I'm slowly working on it. Today I was in Exodus.... I was struck by the fact that Ex 3:17 happened at the burning bush moment between God and Moses, and during that time Moses was told everything that would happen. Each step was laid out for him, and today I wondered if Moses ever wondered WHY he had to go through each of those steps even when God knew what would happen at the end... and even TOLD Moses what the end would be. "I will bring you out of Egypt... to a land of milk and honey".... Stay tuned for more about this verse and my project 3:17.<br />
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Wednesday: Updated the kids' school for the next couple of weeks. I'm excited about some of the things they'll be working on. The boys are focusing on geography this year, and the end of this week they will be making an edible map. I can't wait to see what they do! :)<br />
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Thursday: I used my subscription to onceamonthmeals.com to make our menu for January's meals. I can't wait to try some of these. I also looked at the tourist website for the city of Merida, Spain. We are taking a day trip there on Saturday. Next summer, our Goodwin Girls' trip will be driving along Route 66, so I ordered a couple of tourist guides for that to get ready for that trip. I can't wait for all of our upcoming trips!!! <br />
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Friday: The boys made the edible maps today. Wesley picked Maryland and Price picked Europe during WWII. It was harder than they thought, but for the first time, I think they did a great job... I'll add a link to their video about the maps later. We also had our Christmas Party for the base today too!<br />
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Saturday: We took a trip with some other people from the base to Merida, Spain. It is really a fascinating place, but we didn't have enough time to even hit the surface this time. We would really need a very long day or two short days to see everything. It was an important capital during the Roman Empire period from about 16 BC to about the 3rd century AD. It has some beautifully preserved ruins and a wonderful museum of the stuff that has been excavated from around the city. I was just amazed by the detail in the tile work and by how much had been found in their searches. I'll make a separate video to add to our Spain videos, but here are some pictures below.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-80041909828121279562015-12-07T12:59:00.002-05:002015-12-07T12:59:23.815-05:00Our 2 Week(s): 22 Nov - 5 Dec<span style="color: blue;">Sunday:</span> We had Wesley's 9th birthday party today. It was so much fun, and he really enjoyed himself. <br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Monday:</span> Worked on organizing pictures and getting ready for our trip this week. I finished 4 scrapbook pages trying to get us caught up (I'm WAY behind with this) Each Monday I plan to work on it a little at a time.<br />
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We took a quick overnight trip to Huelva on the southern coast here in Spain. We drove down to our first stop, La Tienda del Muelle to see the museum dedicated to Christopher Columbus. They have replicas of each of the three ships that first sailed to "the New World". We had a lot of fun exploring the area, then we drove down to our hotel... just down from the beach. It was beautiful. We walked over the sand dune just in time for sunset. The beach was covered in shells. The last time we were at one of the beaches in Spain, there were no shells, so we were all pretty excited to find some. We decided to bring some of them home!<br />
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And speaking of home... on our way back home, we decided to have a quick shopping trip to Rota (The big Navy base near us). While we were walking around shopping, I started bleeding. I didn't realize it until later, but I was about 12 weeks pregnant and had a miscarriage. It is a really long story, and one I don't want to get into right now (although I'm sure I'll write a blog post about just this... later). The short story is that I went into surgery, had some bleeding complications, was transferred to a local Spanish hospital, given lots of blood, stayed there for 4 days, came home. Now I'm recuperating here at home and taking it easy. That means that I kind of lost nearly a week, and we are slowly moving back into our regular lives. Praise God I'm better and healing!!<br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">Memaw's Visit Countdown: 11 Weeks!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-55091520138013829612015-11-23T08:05:00.000-05:002015-11-23T08:10:07.501-05:00Our Week: 15 Nov - 21 NovMonday: I got my first order of Young Living oils. We couldn't wait to start using them.<br />
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Tuesday:<br />
After Spanish lessons we walked around the city of Moron a little. We went into the oldest restaurant in the city. It is also a private social club. The owner took us on a tour of the private area, and it was beautiful. Their library smelled delicious!!! I wanted to just sit and sniff!<br />
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We also tried Burger King for the first time in Moron. Using my limited Spanish worked just fine!</div>
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Tuesday afternoon was Cub Scout meeting and we tried to learn how to juggle. It was fun!!<br />
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We had a performance of a play that Wesley wrote. The video will be in another post, but this beard deserved it's own picture!!<br />
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The entire cast of the play!</div>
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I finished half of the 42 motifs I have to make for the peppermint blanket. Only 21 more to go!</div>
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Spanish lessons today were all about verbs that end in -ar... I was having flash backs of Ms Bacon's spanish classes at UAM today!! I should've paid more attention!!<br />
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Today I updated the <a href="http://taylorfamilygenealogy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Taylor Family blog</a> with the next person. I'm trying to do a blog post of another person from the Taylor family each Friday. I found her in 1958 in Little Rock, and since her grandchildren may still be alive, I'm not pursuing the next generation locations yet. Next up is her brother, John Guice Taylor.<br />
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I caught up on my youtube subscriptions and added a new crochet pattern to my youtube playlist from my favorite youtube channel, The Crochet Crowd. If you like to crochet, or even if you want to learn, they have patterns for everything, and the man who does the videos is a great teacher. You can find their page on youtube,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/mikeyssmail" target="_blank"> here</a>.<br />
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We took Wesley out to eat at TGI Friday's for his birthday dinner. It's his favorite American restaurant and he didn't know they had one in Spain. He was so happy!! He also found a penguin to take a picture with even though the penguin was holding a beer, he didn't know that, so he wanted his picture made with it! :)<br />
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Today was pretty lazy for most of our family, but Ron went into Sevilla to participate in a Mud Run... It was red mud! :)<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-22826334665323317582015-11-17T16:21:00.002-05:002015-11-18T08:04:37.053-05:00First Trip in Spain - Granada!!We took our first official trip in Spain, and we went to Granada. It was wonderful, and we had a great time. Enjoy these videos about the trip and what we did there!<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I woke up one day. I have no memory of time before waking up. Just that I was awake and alive and everything was new. My father was with me, and as I looked around I saw lots of colors and moving things. At the edges of myself I could feel wetness even though parts of me were very dry. I felt a warmth shining on me during the day and cool, sometimes cold breezes on me at night, but my father never left me. I found that I was able to nourish living things. They grew out of me and Oh, they were beautiful. One time, I felt Father pick up a piece of me. A man was formed from me by my father and I noticed that while he didn’t grow out of me, part of me was used to make him, and he was also nourished by me. It seemed that everything was nourished by me and I loved providing the fruits and the flowers and all the other things life needed. Father put this man in charge of me and all the things I nourished. Father noticed that the man, called Adam, wasn’t as happy as he could be, so he put Adam to sleep and took part of him, just like he did from me, and formed a woman. Adams called her Eve. We all had great times after Eve came along. I loved to spend time with Father and the humans. I loved that we worked together and I helped Adam nourish his family. It was so easy and naturally, and none of us had any problems or worries. I’m not sure when Eve started talking to the serpent, but I know that one day I saw them together. They were looking at one of my trees and talking. I saw her reach for it, but then jerked her hand back and walked away. I love that tree with its beautiful blooms and fruit. I see the humans go by it every day and pick fruit from other trees around it, but they aren’t allowed to pick the fruit of that tree. I know there is a good reason, but sometimes I see them looking longingly at it. They want that fruit, but Father assured them that death would come from the fruit. No one wants that. A few days later, I saw the serpent was back with Eve and this time I could hear him telling her that Father hadn’t told her the truth about the tree. He said it wouldn’t bring death. Is that true? Surely Father wouldn’t tell us something that isn’t true. I see her reach up for the fruit, and this time she takes it. I really want her to take it because maybe the serpent is right, and maybe this fruit won’t bring death. She takes a bite. We all wait. Nothing happens to her. The serpent is right. Now we’re wondering why Father didn’t tell us the truth. It didn’t bring death. Eve looks just the same. Adam was walking along at this time and Eve called to him excitedly to tell him that nothing happened to her after eating the fruit, and it tasted really great. So Adam immediately tasted the fruit, and he too thought it tasted good. As soon as Adam and Eve had both tasted the fruit I began to feel different. I couldn’t point to exactly what was different or what the problem was, but I knew there was something changed. Adam and Eve didn’t say much after that either. They both looked at each other in a weird way and then went their<br />
separate ways. I still didn’t think much about it until I heard Father come into the garden with us. He usually comes all the time, but this time was different. Father was walking slowly along by himself and he looked troubled, which I had never seen before. He actually had to call to Adam and Eve when usually they came running to him when he came to the garden. He called them more than one time and still they didn’t come. I was beginning to feel kind of sick, and I was about to ask Father what could be wrong with me when I heard Adam finally speaking to Father. Everyone sounded sad and hurt and even angry at times. They were all blaming other things on the decisions they had made. I couldn’t hear everything they said because I was beginning to feel so weak and sick. I didn’t like the way I was feeling, and then I heard Father say why I was feeling this way. He spoke directly to Adam and said, "You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.” I now understood this sickness I was feeling. I no longer had the strength to help Adam grow things. I was cursed and no long able to nourish all living things without using all of my strength. I cried out my pain to Father, and heard him whisper to me, “Don’t worry and be upset. The pain is here now, but I have a plan and I promise you will live to your fullest one day again. Believe and have faith.”Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-69206137431490015282014-05-23T04:30:00.000-04:002014-05-23T04:30:03.033-04:00Friday: Hoppin' Hobbies!Here is the update on my latest scrapbook pages... and YES... I AM still in 2010... my boys were just babies!!! I finished July, and ready to move on to August this week... You'll have to use your imagination on the pages that are clearly double... :) Have fun with your hobbies!!!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-80480521373348566592014-05-22T04:00:00.000-04:002014-05-22T04:00:07.770-04:00Thursdays: All About the KiddosThis is an article I wrote and published here on the blog a couple of years ago about our very first foster child. It was called "Our 'Extra-Child' Christmas". It's been a while since I read it, and as I went back and read it again, I realized how close to the surface all of my emotions still are about him. I'm not sure that will ever go away, but I can at least smile more when I think of the time we had with all of them. I changed the names of all of the children when I wrote the article, and I'm too lazy to go back and change any of that now. My children aren't Brady and RJ, and his name isn't Ethan...<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;">It had been a crazy, chaotic, but wonderful six months in the Feeser house. We had completed our foster </span><a class="link interlink" data-rapid_p="1" href="http://voices.yahoo.com/theme/1441/parenting.html" rel="&content_type=theme&content_type_id=1441" style="background-color: white; color: #8a8a8a; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" title="parenting">parenting</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"> paperwork in June, and got a call the very next week about a boy. He was already at the DHS (Department of Human Services) office, and they wanted me to come get him. I loaded up my own boys, Brady(4) and RJ(1), and we drove over. When I first saw him I fell in love. He had straight blonde hair that stuck our from his head in all directions, scared and confused blue eyes, and the cutest little nose that I can still see three years later when I close my eyes. He was holding a backpack bigger than his nearly three year old body, and holding a blanket that the DHS worker had given him. My kids were so excited that a new boy was coming to our house, and we soon had him loaded in a car seat and on our way. They played all afternoon together and I had </span><a class="link interlink" data-rapid_p="2" href="http://voices.yahoo.com/theme/872/dreams.html" rel="&content_type=theme&content_type_id=872" style="background-color: white; color: #8a8a8a; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;" title="dreams">dreams</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.100000381469727px;"> of how easy and great this would all be.</span><br />
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Of course, the "newness" wore off, and he began to act like the little boy he was. A sweet little boy who had been neglected for most of his three years. He wanted to be loved by anyone who would, and in turn, he loved everyone he saw. He was always shy and apprehensive at first, but after just a few minutes he would feel comfortable and come out hugging everyone.</div>
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We had more foster children come and go during those first six months with Ethan, but when Christmas came, it was just him. We had already decided to just make him as much a part of the family as possible, so he participated in everything we did, and we loved him just like our own. We also knew that the time was drawing closer and closer that he would be taken from us and sent to live forever with his grandmother in another state. I tried to make everything about that Christmas as special as possible, and I tried to sear the memory of everything we did in my mind so I would never forget it. I always take pictures anyway, just of everyday things (even random butterflies and sunsets), so I have many pictures to look back on that time and remember.</div>
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We didn't do anything that year that we wouldn't normally do, but there was still something more special about it all. We tried not to buy him more things just because he was leaving us soon. We tried not to let him get away with bad behaviors just because he wasn't going to be around next Christmas.</div>
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Christmas morning was a special time that I will never forget. He came into the living room and saw the tree with all the gifts around it. He just stopped and stared. Brady, our oldest son, who knew what this was all about, ran straight to the tree and started asking which pile was his. But Ethan just stood there and looked. He had never gotten anything from Santa that he could remember, and wasn't sure that anything was for him. I went over to the tree with RJ (who had just turned two) and led Ethan to his pile of toys and clothes from Santa. His face lit up when he realized it was for him, and he never stopped smiling as he and the other boys played with everything they had gotten.</div>
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Just two weeks later, I packed up all those toys and clothes and everything else he'd gotten in the six months he was with us, and I loaded him up on an airplane with his grandmother to move away from us forever. He hasn't been with us physically for a Christmas in three years, but those sweet blue eyes and spiky blond hair are in my memories every Christmas morning.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-80206834241827363402014-05-21T03:00:00.000-04:002014-05-21T03:00:12.877-04:00Organization WednesdaySo I went to a couple of stores to try to find Annie Sloan Chalk paint to do my table and chairs. I'm thinking I'm going to put this off until later this summer where I can be outside all day painting everything... So this project is on hold, and I'm moving down the list of to-do's... next step... Organizing my house!<br />
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This is a huge project, and I found a website that is going to offer me a lot of help in this department. It clearly states in the rules that I don't have to do each of their "weekly" projects in only one week, so I'm going to take my time, and I'll document each step here as we go. <br />
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Step One, the kitchen... Here is some "before" pictures... yes, that sexy man comes in and washes my dishes every night!!<br />
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Hopefully in a week's time I'll be finished with this room... if you want to join me in the Organization 101, follow <a href="http://www.abowlfulloflemons.net/2013/06/home-organization-101-week-1-the-kitchen-season-3.html" target="_blank">this link</a> and check out the rules... They did this in 2013, but it's new to me, and that's all that matters!!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-72619714701140649182014-05-20T03:00:00.000-04:002014-05-20T03:00:06.532-04:00Park Quest - Regions<h2 style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">
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So I've mapped out all of the park locations and divided them (roughly) into different regions. This way we can concentrate our efforts in a single location, and knock out more quests at a time. I'm also going to read the descriptions and determine if the quests will take a whole day or if they can be done in half a day, so we'll know if we can do two in one day or if we'll need to allow extra time.<br />
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/herringtonmanor.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Herrington Manor State Park</a> - 195 miles from me - Oakland, MD - Herrington Manor Turns 50 - cabins</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/bigrun.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Big Run State Park</a> - 175 miles from me - Swanton, MD - A Treemendous Adventure - Camping (No cell service / no potable water) - Self-guided Quest</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/newgermany.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">New Germany State Park</a> - 167 miles from me - Grantsville, MD - Where Would We Be Without CCC? - Camping</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/rockygap.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Rocky Gap State Park</a> - 136 miles from me - Flintstone, MD - One Silver Pond - Canoe Quest</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/deepcreek.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Deep Creek Lake State Park</a> - 183 miles from me - Swanton, MD - Discover Citizen Science at the Discovery Center - Camping</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/fortfrederick.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Fort Frederick State Park</a> - 95 miles from me - Big Pool, MD - Find Nature in History - Camping</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/cunningham.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Cunningham Falls State Park</a> - 69 miles from me - Thurmont, MD - Where the Wild Fishes Are - Self-guided Quest</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/southmountain.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">South Mountain State Park</a> - 66 miles from me - Middletown, MD - Operation Signal Station Decoded - Bonus Quest is AT! - Ice Cream upon completion</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/Pages/NorthPoint.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">North Point State Park</a> - 26 miles from me - Edgemere, MD - A Pier Into the Bay - Fishing Quest</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/patapscomckeldin.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Patapsco Valley State Park McKeldin Area</a> - 27 miles from me - Marriottsville, MD - Tree Transects</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/Pages/History.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">History Quest</a> - 26 miles from me - Edgemere, MD - Battle of North Point - Driving Quest </li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/sandypoint.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Sandy Point State Park</a> - 28 miles from me - Annapolis, MD - Orienteering In-Seine - Self-guided Quest </li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/seneca.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Seneca Creek State Park</a> - 36 miles from me - Gaithersburg, MD - Seneca's Mission - Bonus Quest</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/elkneck.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Elk Neck State Park</a> - 74 miles from me - North East, MD - Be A Chesapeake Bay Waterman - Camping - Bonus Quest Avalable</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/fairhill.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Fair Hill NRMA</a> - 73 miles from me - Elkton, MD - Family Frolic in the Forest - Self-guided Quest</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/susquehanna.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Susquehanna State Park</a> - 54 miles from me - Havre de Grace, MD - Stepping Stones Through the Past - Not available on June 21st</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/tuckahoe.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Tuckahoe State Park</a> - 59 miles from me - Queen Anne, MD - The Great Tuckahoe Canoe Clue Pursuit - Canoe Quest - Camping</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/assateague.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Assateague State Park</a> - 132 miles from me - Berlin, MD - Art By the Sea - Camping</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/janesisland.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Janes Island State Park</a> - 144 miles from me - Crisfield, MD - The Lost Landscape of Janes Island - Canoe Quest</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/pocomoke.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Pocomoke River State Park</a> - 133 miles from me - Snow Hill, MD - Swamp Survival - Canoe Quest</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/calvertcliffs.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Calvert Cliffs State Park</a> - 65 miles from me - Lusby, MD - I Spy With My Eagle Eye</li>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/greenwell.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Greenwell State Park</a> - 75 miles from me - Hollywood, MD - Follow the Flotilla</li>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-54620767303494729472014-05-17T03:00:00.000-04:002014-05-17T03:00:04.341-04:00Project 3:17 - GenesisFor an introduction to Project 3:17, Click <a href="http://lifeaccordingtothefeesers.blogspot.com/2014/05/project-317.html" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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Gen 3:17 "The LORD said to the man, 'You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.'<br />
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I think instead of analyzing the text from a biblical point of view or trying to break it down like a theologian, I'm just going to write whatever pops in my head for this verse. I can't pretend like I don't know other parts of the Bible, so I'm not even going to try to act like this is the only context I have for this verse, so my "project" will end up being about more than just the ONE verse, but for now, this is the way I want to do it... Creative writing style!! <br />
When I read this verse, I immediately think of a parent/child relationship, but there isn’t really a parent/child scenario I could set up where the children could lose anything like what Adam and Eve lost with God. So I think they need to be adults, but they were also innocent. So maybe it needs to be someone who has been raised with lots of money, or lots of resources and was pretty sheltered… If they both grow up that way, as only children, not knowing the concept of right and wrong for some reason. They could get married at 16 or even earlier if I have it set back “then”… Then I just make sure they lose everything they have… maybe they’re making a way in the wilderness (forest kind), and they have finally gotten everything built and ready to go and they don’t realize that one decision that they make (what could that be?) leads them to lose everything and be put out where they have to work hard for everything they get. Wouldn't they already be working hard if they were living on the frontier? So maybe that premise won’t work. I’ll continue to think.<br />
One of the commentaries I read said this about the Garden of Eden. "Fruitfulness was its blessing for man's service, Gen. 1:11-29, and now barrenness was its curse for man's punishment." <br />
So how can I make something where someone goes from fruitfulness to barrenness? It seems like it would have to be something where someone loses everything, but I’m struggling with how to give them abundance without making them spoiled or “worldly”… How do you even portray a character without “sin”? Maybe it should be some kind of animals. I’m not trying to write this strictly for adults anyway, and maybe an animal would be the perfect way to show something that is innocent and yet goes from fruitfulness to losing everything… but it has to be the fault of the character. So maybe a character flaw of some kind that causes it to lose everything. Will that make it a character that no one wants to read about? Would that make it someone who people think was too harshly punished? How do I portray a “godly” personification onto an “earthly” object or being? The “god” character has to feel bad about the banishment, but it must be done because he also has to follow the rules. All of our movies and books tell us that the rules can be bent if you love someone enough… and as long as no one else gets hurt. So how do we establish a ruling Being who has to follow every rule, and knows what’s going to happen, and provides punishment and nourishment at the same time? The actual earth was cursed… it used to produce fruit because it was a blessing… now it is cursed and only produces fruit when man has worked hard for it. What can I use for that? What can I have that at first produces for the joy of it, and then produces after that only as much as the people work for? Some kind of farmland… but then wouldn't that farmland have to be personified? Would that make it too silly? Would that even make sense to people? What if I just told the story as is in the bible from the point of view of the ground? What if the soil could talk? God said that he could hear the blood of Abel crying out from the soil… so maybe that would work… let’s try!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-89494214821468383992014-05-16T03:00:00.000-04:002014-05-16T03:00:00.703-04:00Hobbies, Hobbies... EverywhereI don't know how everyone else's brain works, but I have a hard time sticking to one thing for a huge amount of time. I am completely committed to a hobby for about 3 months, and then I have to switch to something else, for about 3 months, and so on and so forth... I don't usually add any NEW hobbies, I just take the things I usually do and kind of rotate through them for a few months at a time... <br />
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I was recently interviewed for our foster parent license, and she asked me what my hobbies were... My mind went completely blank and I said, "I don't know if I really have any hobbies..." Ron came into the room at that moment to answer the question about his hobbies, and my mind suddenly opened up... I started listing as many as I could think of and then rando<span style="font-family: inherit;">mly th</span>roughout the rest of the interview I'd think of another hobby and yell that out as well... After that, I started thinking about what hobbies actually are, and what constitutes a hobby. <br />
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Here is the online definition of hobby: "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My "regular occupation" is raising my children and teaching them school... so anything I do outside of that especially for relaxation is a hobby... Here is my list... hiking, digital scrapbooking, crocheting, genealogy research, running, taking a bath, writing, playing computer games (especially minecraft - it is very relaxing), watching Netflix and Hulu</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">... I'm sure there are other things I do to relax, but this is a pretty comprehensive list... You'll notice that reading isn't on this list. I do read, but mostly it is for informational purposes, so I wouldn't say it relaxes me. I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of reading anymore. The genre I love is mostly "off-limits" to me now, so I read books about transitioning children once they are adopted, or about what drug exposure during pregnancy does to a child.... So yeah, reading for pleasure isn't one of the things I do right now... </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">It's so funny to me that I now can say that I'm working on my bathing hobby, and head to the bathroom!! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think in most people's mind, a hobby is exactly what the definition says it is with one thing added... there is an object completed during the hobby process. Either you are assembling something, creating something, or just adding to something, the 'idea' of a hobby is that something is completed while performing your "hobby". I would say that playing video games on any platform is not considered a hobby because you have "nothing to show for it". I'm not sure gamers would agree with that statement, and maybe I don't either (have you seen some of the things created in Minecraft?) </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway, This section of the blog is going to be used for my hobbies... The hobbies that have some kind of measurable completion, that is... so I'll be posting my scrapbooking pages, genealogy discoveries, and crocheting projects mostly, (I promise no bathing posts!) I also probably won't be posting any video games updates or things like that, but I might have some movie reviews or TV shows I've recently discovered or something like that... It'll just be a place where I can keep up to date with the things I've been working on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, at the beginning of this post, I explained how I switch my hobbies periodically, and since I've just recently switched from crocheting to digital scrapbooking, and I'm way behind there, that's what I'll be using this weekly post for... to discuss and display my completed pages.... so stick around and go back in time with me as I try to get caught up, and see which hobby I switch to next!!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-15472831457802796192014-05-15T03:00:00.000-04:002014-05-15T03:00:18.862-04:00Parenting for someone else...We were foster parents for almost 2 years when we lived in Colorado (we left there almost 5 years ago, WOW)... Anyway, we moved overseas where we couldn't foster, but then once we moved back to the states, we started and stopped the process... twice. There are a few reasons for this starting and stopping, and it's taken lots of soul searching and heartfelt discussions to be able to come up with these...<br />
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1. The biggest reason of all, and still the one that to this day, nearly 5 years later, is the pain of saying goodbye. It doesn't matter how long they were with us, the shortest stay was only 6 weeks, we gave them all of us that we had to give. And not just me and Ron, but the boys also... especially Price... Wesley was only 18 months old himself when we got our first placement, so he barely has a memory of any of the kiddos, and that could just be a shared memory with us (I still have pictures of them hanging in my house)... I see the faces of the children I loved and don't have anymore. I'm not even trying to say that it compares at all to outliving on of your children, I'm just saying that the horrible pain of saying goodbye is a hard thing to get over.<br />
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2. Ron and I have gotten comfortable and content with our boys. They are both old enough to get most of the things they need for themselves, and the thought of starting over (even with a todder/preschool aged kiddo) made us hesitate.<br />
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3. Wesley has never been the "big brother", and I know for a fact that he loves being "the baby", so I know that transition will be hard for him, and while he says he wants us to foster, to "help kids feel better", he really doesn't know what it's like to have a 2 year old destroy your legos or try to rip apart your pictures you paint. I know that process will be difficult for him.<br />
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4. Price was COMPLETELY against this a year ago... when we asked him what he thought of when we said "Foster family" he said... "Leaving... they always leave" (I told you that part was hard on us all).<br />
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I've listened to him talk this out over the last year, and we've all done our best to be as open as possible in our discussions. During all of this discussion time, we were going through the licensing process for our county in Maryland, knowing that maybe we'd go through the whole process and say... nevermind. The bottom line is that we believe we can help a family in crisis, and this is the way we are choosing to help.<br />
I know, without a doubt, that my gifting and calling from the Holy Spirit is to protect and nurture children, but what I'm unsure of how it will play out in my life. That doesn't mean I'm not excited to find out!<br />
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We'll receive our license sometime in the next couple of weeks, and the waiting will begin for our first placement. Please join us in praying for the children that will pass through our home... and all of the people that will be affected by that...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-58743743931259750592014-05-14T03:00:00.000-04:002014-05-14T03:00:01.545-04:00Creative?? Meh... not really...So, anyone who knows me knows that I really don't care at all about decorating my house. That might not be an accurate statement, because I do care that it's decorated, but I have NO idea how to go about decorating. I can't even look in a magazine, see a design that someone else did, and think about how to make that in my own house. They would have to have the same layout as my house and the same furniture as me before I'd be able to copy their design. I'm just not made that way... HOWEVER... I have some relatives who are, and I use their expertise when I decide to do something crazy... Along comes Pinterest, and things just get crazy. So my first ever "Creatively Painted Furniture" project is going to be my dining room table and chairs. The legs of the table, chairs, and the bench specifically. Here are the pictures of my table now, and some of the things my cousin and I have pinned to my pinterest board trying to come up with ideas for my new color. I think I've decided on one, so scroll to the bottom if you can't stand suspense... otherwise, follow along on this crazy journey!!<br />
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Now here is the plan for this moment... Each chair one color, chalk paint... similar to this...</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-49618653892338477272014-05-13T03:00:00.000-04:002014-05-13T03:00:02.643-04:00Park Quest 2014<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">
This is our third year in Maryland, but our first year participating in Park Quest through the Maryland State Parks and Department of Natural Resources. We formed a team for our family, we are called The Feeser Four ('cause we're Fantastic)... We have from May 24th until Sept 1st to complete 12 of the 24 quests at these state parks. If we complete 12 quests, we are invited to a giant picnic extravaganza (they have an actual name for it), where they will give out some pretty awesome door prizes. Only teams that completed 12 of the quests can come, and they only allowed 1,000 teams to join from all over the state, so I'm excited to see how many of the teams finish 12 of the quests. </div>
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I looked up all of the locations and made notes about each one. This is my master list to help me keep them all together, and help us work through each of the quests. It doesn't begin until May 24th, so we are just in the planning stages now. If you live in Maryland, or are just passing through for a bit, you can do the quests even without being part of Park Quest, but there are some perks that you won't be eligible for... that doesn't mean you won't LOVE the state parks... this is a beautiful state.</div>
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Each park name links to a detailed description of the Park Quest at that site.</div>
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<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/assateague.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Assateague State Park</a> - 132 miles from me - Berlin, MD - Art By the Sea - Camping</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/bigrun.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Big Run State Park</a> - 175 miles from me - Swanton, MD - A Treemendous Adventure - Camping (No cell service / no potable water) - Self-guided Quest</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/calvertcliffs.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Calvert Cliffs State Park</a> - 65 miles from me - Lusby, MD - I Spy With My Eagle Eye</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/cunningham.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Cunningham Falls State Park</a> - 69 miles from me - Thurmont, MD - Where the Wild Fishes Are - Self-guided Quest</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/deepcreek.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Deep Creek Lake State Park</a> - 183 miles from me - Swanton, MD - Discover Citizen Science at the Discovery Center - Camping</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/elkneck.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Elk Neck State Park</a> - 74 miles from me - North East, MD - Be A Chesapeake Bay Waterman - Camping - Bonus Quest Avalable</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/fairhill.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Fair Hill NRMA</a> - 73 miles from me - Elkton, MD - Family Frolic in the Forest - Self-guided Quest</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/fortfrederick.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Fort Frederick State Park</a> - 95 miles from me - Big Pool, MD - Find Nature in History - Camping</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/greenwell.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Greenwell State Park</a> - 75 miles from me - Hollywood, MD - Follow the Flotilla</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/herringtonmanor.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Herrington Manor State Park</a> - 195 miles from me - Oakland, MD - Herrington Manor Turns 50 - cabins</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/Pages/History.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">History Quest</a> - 26 miles from me - Edgemere, MD - Battle of North Point - Driving Quest </li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/janesisland.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Janes Island State Park</a> - 144 miles from me - Crisfield, MD - The Lost Landscape of Janes Island - Canoe Quest</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/newgermany.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">New Germany State Park</a> - 167 miles from me - Grantsville, MD - Where Would We Be Without CCC? - Camping</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/Pages/NorthPoint.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">North Point State Park</a> - 26 miles from me - Edgemere, MD - A Pier Into the Bay - Fishing Quest</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/patapscoavalon.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Patapsco Valley State Park Avalon Area</a> - 19 Miles from me - Baltimore, MD - Firsts of Patapsco River Valley</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/patapscomckeldin.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Patapsco Valley State Park McKeldin Area</a> - 27 miles from me - Marriottsville, MD - Tree Transects</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/pocomoke.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Pocomoke River State Park</a> - 133 miles from me - Snow Hill, MD - Swamp Survival - Canoe Quest</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/rockygap.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Rocky Gap State Park</a> - 136 miles from me - Flintstone, MD - One Silver Pond - Canoe Quest</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/sandypoint.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Sandy Point State Park</a> - 28 miles from me - Annapolis, MD - Orienteering In-Seine - Self-guided Quest </li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/seneca.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Seneca Creek State Park</a> - 36 miles from me - Gaithersburg, MD - Seneca's Mission - Bonus Quest</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/southmountain.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">South Mountain State Park</a> - 66 miles from me - Middletown, MD - Operation Signal Station Decoded - Bonus Quest is AT! - Ice Cream upon completion</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/susquehanna.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Susquehanna State Park</a> - 54 miles from me - Havre de Grace, MD - Stepping Stones Through the Past - Not available on June 21st</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/tuckahoe.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Tuckahoe State Park</a> - 59 miles from me - Queen Anne, MD - The Great Tuckahoe Canoe Clue Pursuit - Canoe Quest - Camping</li>
<li><a href="http://dnr2.maryland.gov/parkquest/pages/wmrt.aspx" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">Western Maryland Rail Trail</a> - 95 miles from me - Big Pool, MD - Get Outside and Bike - 10 mile roundtrip bike or hike trail - Camping</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-67546715024773540492014-05-12T03:00:00.000-04:002014-05-12T08:45:12.425-04:00Starting over... now?!?!So for the past 5 years, I've used the same curriculum for our homeschool. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, and through the years I added things to it and taken things away from it, but we stayed with that as our main curriculum. When I first decided to homeschool, I scoured the Internet for exactly what I knew I wanted, but unfortunately, it didn't exist. What I failed to realize was that eventually someone would make the exact curriculum that I knew I wanted, but didn't know how to make it myself. And someone did... the year after I started homeschooling. It just took me FIVE years to go back to square one and start searching for what I knew I wanted. <br />
So now, at this late stage in the game, I'm starting over... with a new curriculum, and inside it is killing me that I can't go back and actually start my 10 year old in pre-k again with this new curriculum and just keep him home until he's 23! :) I don't think anyone (including me) thinks that's a great idea, so he's starting one grade behind where he was and we will work with not many breaks for the next two years, then he'll be back where he should be... right on track, with no more whining about school, and much more harmony in our home. <br />
My 7 year old, who started this year in 1st grade with the old curriculum, is now moving up to 2nd grade. He is an avid reader and hopefully will be a lifelong learner, and continue to grow and flourish under this new curriculum. <br />
Bottom line is, we've been doing the new school for five weeks and everyone in our house is happy with it, and I actually look forward to the things we're going to do each week. We've done more science experiments and art projects and hands-on learning than we ever have before. <br />
So now, maybe you're wondering what this wonderful program is, and how much it costs us (the "old" curriculum came with a lot of books, and costs over $1,200 per year)?? This wonderful program is completely free... and completely online... WOW... This woman (and some of her helpers) have listed each day with assignments (you will have to buy ink and paper) and online games to help the kids learn each of the subjects. At first, I thought it was too good to be true, but after just five weeks I can see that the boys are learning more. They are discussing our history topics together and are actively seeking out other things to learn about outside of school. This new school day doesn't take them very long, and that leaves lots of time for exploring ideas and books that we just didn't have the freedom to do before.<br />
It has just been wonderful... If any of you homeschool, or are thinking about homeschooling and worried that it'll take too much time or be too expensive, please go check this place out... It's called <a href="http://allinonehomeschool.com/" target="_blank">Easy Peasy Homeschool</a> ... An awesome name for an awesome curriculum. Oh, and next week I'll start sharing some of the things we've been doing over the last few weeks with our school.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-88402053391250914202014-05-11T03:00:00.000-04:002014-05-11T03:00:12.045-04:00Week in Review... 4-10 May<br />
I'll try to do this each week to keep my pictures better organized, have another backup, and keep those who are interested up to date on what we're doing. Also, once I get more posts put up, I'll start trying to link our weekly pictures to some of the posts from the week before, just to keep everything "flowing" the way it should.<br />
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Wesley finished his 2nd year of Sparks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The boys' first parkour class... LOVED IT!!</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-23267951314101131372014-05-10T03:00:00.000-04:002014-05-10T03:00:01.708-04:00Project 3:17So one of my "topics" I plan to discuss here on the blog is the Bible, or more specifically, a project that has been bumping around in my head for years... I would say the first idea for this project started more than 10 years, and I'm sad to say I've done very little on it up to this point. It all started because I was reading through my Bible or listening to a sermon, or... I'm not sure how it started, BUT I had the feeling/idea that we focus a lot on the 3:16's of the Bible. Not just John's, there are others that are widely known as well, and I started wondering what 3:17 said... Specifically, I looked at John's gospel first, just because that's the most well-known 3:16, and I found that it does indeed provide a more well-rounded picture of what's going on in the text. It is summed up nicely with the 3:16, but just going a little further and seeing what comes "after" was more my goal... Since the Bible begins with Genesis, that's where I'll begin my 3:17 journey... or "Project 3:17"... so next week is the beginning of my process and the way my crazy brain works with stream-of-consciousness writing about Genesis 3:17...<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-8848275279107128162014-05-07T19:08:00.000-04:002014-05-07T19:08:13.282-04:00It's 2014... WHAT???So, the Feeser family has been gone for a while!!! :) We are back... updates will be following in the days ahead... just trying to work out the kinks with blogger since it's been... um... 3 years since I've been here... WOW! Can't believe how time flies!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4441003899314399205.post-55088280290781558522011-12-09T10:20:00.000-05:002011-12-09T10:21:02.513-05:00Grocery Shopping and cooking, Part 2So the whole point to shopping with coupons and saving money and buying all these groceries is to actually make something with them. We've recently been trying out new recipes, and we're going to continue to do that. This post is going to be about a new program we're going to try. <a href="http://onceamonthmom.com/">Once a Month Mom</a> is an awesome site that looks like it will fit just about any eating program you want. Even making your own baby food. Go check it out (after you finish reading this, of course!). They aren't doing another monthly menu until January, so I'm kind of on my own for December. They have a great series on their site about making your own menu, so I'm following that. I've looked all over the Internet for recipe ideas to cook during the month. I still want to only cook one time, or at least only two times and be done for the month. So, I've picked a few "starter" recipes to get me going. Now I just have to make out my grocery list, check the coupon site, and go shopping... Here's what we're eating in December... Click on any of the recipe names to go view that recipe, I followed the advice of the Once a Month Mom site, and decided to make double of each recipe to have enough to eat in December. Here we go:<br />
<a href="http://mealplanningmommies.blogspot.com/2008/09/tuesday-night-bubble-pizza.html" target="_blank">Bubble Pizza</a><br />
<a href="http://thriftydecorchick.blogspot.com/2011/09/comfort-foods.html" target="_blank">Chicken & Dumplings</a>*<br />
BBQ Sandwiches - (just a roast and a package of onion soup mix with water in my crock pot til it falls apart, then shred it and freeze it. When you're ready to eat, thaw, warm up, and put barbecue sauce on it and eat!)<br />
<a href="http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Pizza-Pasta-Casserole" target="_blank">Pizza Pasta Casserole</a><br />
<a href="http://www.food.com/recipe/weight-watchers-low-fat-taco-soup-157732" target="_blank">Taco Soup</a><br />
Hashbrown Casserole (my mother-in-law's GREAT recipe)<br />
<a href="http://www.momsbudget.com/freezerrecipes/minimeatloaf.html" target="_blank">Mini Meatloafs</a><br />
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Check out some of these and let me know if you try them... I'll keep you updated on what we thought of each of them. <br />
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I've spent the last three days cooking when I've had spare time. We've eaten the Bubble Pizza (a HUGE hit), the Chicken & Dumplings (another hit), and the BBQ Sandwiches (this wasn't new to us)<br />
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*I made double the recipe for this, and froze the extra before adding the biscuits. My "dumplings" weren't nearly as good as my mother-in-law's, but the rest of the dish made up for it. It's almost as good as hers. Also, I put some small cups of the chicken mixture aside for lunches over rice. I'm eating that today, and I can't wait!!<br />
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101 Things mini-update:<br />
The Chicken & Dumplings and Bubble Pizza are two new recipes I've never made... check that off!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09447064166043647737noreply@blogger.com0