Peter

I killed Peter today. Which turned out to be an adventure!
Growing up we did not celebrate Halloween, I still don't and am working on talking my husband out of it as well. Therefore I have never carved a pumpkin.
I did grow pumpkins one year. I convinced my dad to let me plant a couple pumpkin seeds in the yard when I was 5 or 6. He figured they wouldn't grow so he agreed. They did grow...and grow...and grow. They over took our backyard with their vines. A little info about my dad, when he mows he mows. It does not matter what is in the yard, small trees, toys, flowers, if its in the yard it will get mowed down! (One time he mowed over my brothers Arbor Day Tree) I begged and cried for him not to mow over my pumpkins! Being that my big brown eyes can melt his heard in a matter of seconds, every time he mowed he would carefully move the vines around and mow under them. I believe there were 3 pumpkins that came from that adventure nice large pumpkins. I don't remember actually gutting the pumpkins but we did make pie.

I said ALL that to tell you this, I did not go into this knowing/remembering what the inside of a pumpkin looked like...or smelled like...or felt like! I have texture issues. I can't stand for my hands to be dirty, I constantly clean them and can not handle grime at all. We don't have hamburgers or meatloaf at our house because I can't stand the texture to make them. There is also food texture issues but we won't even start on that.

Okay now I really said all that to say this: Pumpkins on the inside are icky! and I would have liked a warning :D

He's in the oven right now and I have cleaned all the seeds and will work on them soon too.

Best Freebie So Far!!

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Peter and Steve

Steve still needs eyes, I haven't decided what kind yet.
Peter is still around, hopefully not to long, a few friends of mine who are also recently unemployed understand this but I feel like I have less time to get stuff done than when I was working full time!

Fabrics I bought today!

Some of the colors are a little off, but if you want to order anything specific please let me know!
Christmas is coming!!

My $50 challenge

Dan and I have come across some rough times. Not horrible just not fun, finding a job is REALLY hard!

So after looking at our finances and talking it over I challenged us to stick to $50 a week for food and others. All our utilities, mortgage, gasoline (because when you need it you need it) and Binding Faith supplies do not count in this (most of them I've already tried to trim out most of the fat)

$50 for food and "stuff"

"stuff" is our biggest problem. At no point will I say which one of us has the following issues so I will say "we" We tend to buy things just because "thats what our parents buy" or "it's a good deal."
We also tend to eat out when in a hurry. And here I'll say it, I LOVE MT DEW. I could drink it 24/7!

On Sundays we will take $50 cash out of the ATM and that will have to last us till the next Sunday. I've already made a menu for the week:

Monday: Left overs

Tuesday: Sloppy Joes

Wednesday: Homemade Pizza

Thursday: Orange Chicken
Friday: BBQ Pork
Saturday: Pigs in a Blanket/ BBQ

The first week will be the hardest and the easiest. Hard because well we are used to wanting someone and buying it (with in reason, like a soda or pop.) Easy because I went grocery shopping on Wednesday so the fridge is full!

Also on the agenda:

• Turning Peter the Pumpkin into Peter the Pie!
• Finish the 2nd bedroom! I have been working on completely cleaning and decluttering the house for our eventual home study.
• Homework but of course that never ends!
  

I'm hoping to get a lot of stuff done this week with Aprons. I'm hoping to make some sales to help make ends meet!

Class

We have another class today (making up for the one we missed while playing with our new nephew!)

We also have been assigned a social worker! By the end of the month we should have our first meeting.

Thats all that's new!!!

No wait that's not it!

My sewing machine HATES me! I broke 2 needles yesterday. Sewing cotton! COTTON!!
How in the world do you break a needle sewing two pieces of cotton together!

October 15th

I would have posted this yesterday but our modem died..

October 15th is a day around the world that people light a candle and remember babies that were taken to soon, whether it was by miscarriage, still birth, or infant death.

I lit three candles yesterday.

One for my amazing Gabriella who 9 months ago went to Heaven. I don't know why she had to go but I know that someday we will hold her and it won't have to make sense. I still cry myself to sleep most night because I miss her so much.

Number two for a baby we only knew about for a few days, baby July.

And number three for my brother and sisters that are waiting for me in Heaven.

I was once told that it would get easier. It doesn't. But you learn to coup. You learn that the world keeps turning and you can choose to stay at home and cry your days away or you can put on a brave face and go with the turning.

My husband has been amazing through all this and I can not imagine anyone helping me like he has.

I want to say that I've leaned on God this whole time, I haven't but He has held me through it all. I got so angry with Him but I know in my heart that He allowed it to happen for a reason.

Before I formed you in your mothers womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.

Jer 1:5