Driving With Becs and Sweetie Walks! A Miracle!

A short little update here!  We are so excited that Sweetie is walking now!  She is so enjoying being with her sister-chicks and it is so adorable.  Thank you so very much for those who joined in and prayed.  God cares even about our little chicks!

First I thought I'd quickly share a couple of pics too from Becs and my country drive.  We took an old less traveled road and oh the eye candy there.

Becs and I had sooo much fun.  We would stop and take pics and talk....So fun.  Of course these pics on my blog are from my little cheapie camera. But I still like them. : )  Bec's are much better! If you go to Becs blog you will enjoy her photography and her recipes too!

Sometimes when Becs and I drive we go to smalltown and through the drive-through soda place for some good ol' unsweetened strawberry tea....and always enjoy the country scene here behind the drive in.  Such a privilege to live in the area.  I thank God that He brought us back.

Sweetie!

Is this not the most precious thing ever?  Mar and I have been nursing this little Bantam and in our carnal minds we thought she would be lame at best and would have been so excited at that even.  Oh God did so over and above!  

Her little claw was froze it seemed, (and before that the vet had suggested to euthanize).  You see a week or so ago she was feverish, one leg was completely frozen in a forward position and the other entire leg was frozen in a backwards position.  Both claws were limp as they could be. 

We prayed and took care of little Sweetie and last week I noticed when we would pick her up her legs started operating back and forth as normal!

 God gave me the thought or idea to place a piece of masking tape on the bottom of her one foot that was left froze and also on the top to make a cast of sorts. That leg was also partially still froze.

 Mar and I went to work. : )  Becs did her part in cuddling the little chick too.  These little Bantams, (Banties) have the cutest little feathers on their feets!  They look like house shoes!  

When we were doing our Sunday evening family devotions, I heard the chicks tweeting and I snuck into the hobby room where they are kept...Lo and behold...Sweetie was walking!  I smiled hugely and just stayed put in that room for a while praising the Lord for what He did!  It was a miracle!

Sweetie is here on our table as we very carefully removed the masking tape after she showed us for a day or so she could walk and walk well!  Praise the Lord!

Sweetie is a little darling, she knows our voices.  All of our chicks do.  She is a wee little Bantie, I suspect that since she was so sick she has a little catching up to do, but she may stay petite too and that's okay with us. : )   

So that is an update for those who were wondering how Sweetie is doing!  Go!d is good.  So very good!

Supper:
I'm making some vegan lasagna for supper tonight so it's assembled and ready to pop in the oven!  I made my Grandma Oddo's pasta gravy so it will be double good!  I also have some frozen bread rolls rising and a green veggie will be served too.  You may be wondering what I use for ricotta?  I use tofu in my own little ricotta recipe.  Yes indeedie.  I do believe it's just as good as Cousin Phillip's. ; )

Hope you are all doing well.  What are you cooking tonight for supper?  Do you have any praise reports this week?  Any prayer requests?

Praying for our country,  take care now, until the next time....    <3 br="" melia="" nbsp="">

Little Sweetie Update and Glimpses of Life Here. Music and Sweet 50s Show.

I thought I would post some pics of little Sweetie. This is Sweetie a few days ago in her blankets and box....she is so sweet and thank God Sweetie is getting stronger.  We pray over her and sing to her sometimes, we play pretty music here as always.  We love pretty music. When we hold her up her legs now move back and forth praise the Lord!  You see, just last week, her legs were froze, one forward, one backward and she was feverish. A vet had wanted to euthanize.  We decided not. Since then and before not only do we pray but Mar visits the tractor supply and found out from a knowledgeable young rancher guy who works there to give Sweetie and our little flock antibiotics in their water times like this.  You give me a good farmer, rancher, grandparent and they are worth their weight in gold.  Yes indeedie. 

This is Sweetie in her box with our girls watching in the living room and I thought it was so cute the way she had her wing over the box!

Today I am so very, very thankful to the Lord she is outside in the little gated area on the grass with her siblings. : )  It looks as thought at this point in time her one claw is a bit stiff and unmoving so Mar put a piece of cotton ball under the claw to open it up and some tape.

We had quite a surprise yesterday!   We couldn't find her and found she had scooted, walked into the indoor pen with the other siblings!!!  I couldn't believe my eyes!  I thought for sure Jem or Becs had placed her there but she got her little self in there all by. her. self!  Praise God!  I am so glad we did not euthanize this little darling.

Today she is even fluffier! 

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Just in...Driving With Mom

I just came in from taking  Becs driving. She needs her license and we need to get on the ball....We have been having such lovely outings here in the country!  Becs brings her hotshot camera and captures some beautiful scenes...So. fun.  Thank you Jesus for this time with my 'baby' girl.
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 I caught this a week or so ago with Jem one evening on datenight.  This is one of the old historical ranches very close by.  This ranch was ran by a woman all by herself!  She would frequent the skinny road in her pink cadillac!  A very neat white two story wood frame home is back up in the property there.  Cowboys still run this ranch.  <3 br="">

I had a dream there were clouds in my mirror...clouds in my mirror....and.....   ; )

This is Delle getting ready to enjoy my new recipe of Vegan Tamale Pie!  It sure turned out good!  I hope to post the recipe soon on my thats-italian blog.  

I really should condense to this one blog...my girls think I should...I started Vision For a Godly Home because of our Homeschool Workshop.  Thats-italian was started for everyday...and when the Lord led us here to The Forest Cathedral it was such a miracle I just had to journal it all...so this is my day to day week to week life.  I just plop it down here. : )  Something to pray about.

This is Jem and our little Muffie.  In the evening hours, Muffie is all Jem's.  Jem is doing his nightly sit-ups, he's been doing this routine as long as we've been married!  : )  I like candid life shots like this.  Do you?

Life is candid, it's a surprise, up and down sometimes like a roller coaster but God is the same yesterday, today and forever.  I love Him so.

Listening to: 

  This is PRETTY.

Our family has been enjoying this sooooo ADORABLE old 50s series:

FURY

   This series is so SWEET. 

This is an old black & white television series and is precious.  Christ honoring.  

The little boy was praying such a sweet, sweet heartfelt prayer in the one we saw last night, he reminds me of Jem when he was a little boy.   

I asked Jem what made him want to always move to the country since he was a little boy?  

He tells me someone took him to the country when he was little, he doesn't even remember who.... and he remembers walking through the property just loving it....and he says with a serious look on his face... I just loved it!

....  And that I guess is the start of our Forest Cathedral.  

A few more thoughts and notices this most delightful Friday afternoon before closing:

While driving today Becs and I listened to:

Are we adding to the Beauty?  I think of this often.  My attitudes, the way I say things...am I speaking to my family as kindly as I would speak to a stranger?

This ministered to my heart just now:

This reminds me of my talks with the Father.  This one came up by accident but it was not an accident. : )

That's it for now friends and kindred spirits, this may be an abrupt ending I know but please oblige.  I've got to get sewing on a skirt and wanted to let you know what I've been up to and how Sweetie is.  Let me know what you have been up to won't ya?  : )

Love,     ~Amelia

P.S.  I just received a report that Sweetie is standing up and walking, clumsily walking but walking!   Thank you for your prayers!  Please keep praying!   xxxxoooo  

Little Sweetie. Today.

Oh so many thoughts this unusually cold day...

Our country is in trouble isn't it?  So many prayers going out this week.  My heart breaks over the innocent lives taken in Boston and Texas... The deceit of the enemy of our souls that tainted the two young men. So. Tragic.  And of course the Gosnell trial.  It is so horrible, so cruel and barbaric what has happened and happens everyday in our country in the womb and in some cases out of the womb. There are no words.   My husband says, even how people (monsters) treat little animals is just so horrible. 

Today Mar and I brought one of our baby Bantam chicks to the vet.  Her name is Sweetie,

...the receptionist asks..."I hope you don't mind me asking, but does your chick have a name?"

I tell the sweet receptionist..."Oh no I don't mind, her name is Sweetie! : )  I think your question is a valid one, these are feeling little animals, our chicks are our pets too!"  

The receptionist agrees and seems relieved we understand feelings in animals and yes, small animals.  And this is Smalltown not the city. (just so you'll know) ; )

Above the receptionist waiting room area is painted hugely...

All Creatures Great and Small the Lord God Made Them All...

Our poor little Banty  has not been well since yesterday, her little legs, one goes forward and one goes backwards, she is feverish...

The most young female vet comes out and smiles a sweet smile. I look down and see well worn farming boots under her pants, her long wavy hair is pulled back in a barrette, a sweet young natural face a bit plump. Sweet girl.  She gives a grim prognosis...but also tells us she has had to read up on the chick since hearing we were coming. She tells us they aren't used to seeing chicks. (who in the world is I wonder these days but I would think in a rural area?)  She tells us perhaps euthanize; Mar and I both don't do well on that, tears well as they already had yesterday...Mar walks across the room and grabs for kleenex. We're like that.

These are God's Creatures, and I only want to do them good never, never harm. She doesn't appear to be suffering, she's also eating and drinking. : )

I suggest to the sweet young vet that perhaps we should wait and pray, pray and wait...and loosely band Sweetie's legs in place as she first suggested.  She kindly says yes, and suggests giving Sweetie a shot to ease fever. She listens to Sweetie's chest and hears congestion as well.

I know the Good Lord made this little Banty and He can heal her...I've already thought about making something for her to get around in.  We bought the little hens for eggs and eggs alone and of course sweet pets too. <3>

Mar and I bundled our little 'Sweetie' up and carried her out in her box with soft cloths, her food and a dropper with water.

Mar and I stopped and had our customary little snack of unsweetened strawberry tea, onion rings and tater tots, it's the picture of contentment for us there in smalltown, it's an oasis of Peace. Yes, we ate our snacks with our baby chick in the car, we tell the car hop, a young black man about our chick and before he leaves he tells us he hopes our chick gets well soon.  ...It's smalltown and I think that's great, it sooo makes me glad and thankful.

We are watching and praying over 'Sweetie' with her sparkling little sweet eyes just a-prayin' and taking care. 

God is watching too.  He knows even a sparrow and if and when it falls....and if it doesn't.

This little yellow and black spotted one in the middle is little Sweetie when she was a newborn, 3 days old fresh from the tractor supply.

Lifting our country up in prayers, The Lord is the answer, and I don't say that lightly as I'm sure you'll agree.

Pick some flowers outside if you can... Mar and I stopped on the side of the road and Mar was able to pick the prettiest springtime bouquet...Oh it's so pretty!  You should have seen me holding the box with Sweetie on my lap and holding the flowers in the other hand riding down the road!  : )

Good sweet memories.  : )

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big 

 difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

~Marion Wright Edelman

Be Still and Know That I am God...My Walk. My. Walk. My Walk With the Father.

Today. This photo of me doesn't really look like that much like me, but then again it does. The toothy grin is all mine. : )  The hair color not so much and it looks like I have drawn on crow's feet! Oh my! I don't have crows feet! My hair? No....it's not short, I have it pulled back. Who cares. I guess I do or I wouldn't write it!  Oh dear me, I'm tired. *grin*

 I decided today was just too beautiful not to take a good ol' prayer walk. I had a lot to talk to God about. Sometimes we have little battles and we must let the Lord fight them for us.  Be still and know that I am God. That sums it up but I'm not making light believe you me. People can be sneaky and mean but the Lord knows how to expose things. He also knows and sees the manipulation and control that we so many times deal with  in situations.

Women who do not have a heart at home have a horrible problem with women like myself or my mom. Ignorance, jealousy, discontent and envy, it's sad and it's troubling. They may say we are abnormal because we enjoy our sweet, quiet homelife. There are many women who have bought the lies of the culture and feminism, or perhaps the busy-busy-go-go-go lie...It's a shame because true Contentment is a beautiful thing from the Lord.  A meek and quiet spirit is a precious thing in the sight of the Lord. ...And as Elizabeth Elliott used to say....And that's what the Bible says.

I feel a little at times like the young lady Dale in the old book 'All Through the Night' by Grace Livingston Hill.  I'm in the midst of it now in small ways. But...we can remember... God is bigger and He will surely fight our battles. That doesn't mean we don't feel the words people say or what they do or say behind the scenes but when it comes down to it we know God has the battle.  Be still and know that He is God! : )


Enough of that. : )  I went to the back of the property and I sit in my special place, I look down and I know I've had a quality walk when I see mud on my pants! *big smile*

 

I just love my sweet little dogs, they make such good little companions on my walks!  They are my fur angels!

   Our sweet little Muffie.  Muffie was rescued by Mar from the middle of the street with a rusted collar and so very matted bless his heart.I'll never forget, she called me "I passed this little dog in the street and thought I can't leave him there!  I turned around and...Mom, he jumped in the car and rolled on his back so happy!"

 Our handsome Charlie, I was laying down in the grass on my back talking to the Lord and Charlie came close standing next to me and I grabbed this most beautiful shot of our Charlie.  Charlie was rescued by our youngest, Becs, with her birthday money, she cried and said she loved him how can I forget?

The clouds above me...

 That's my prayer walk today. I hope you all are doing well, we can Be still and know that He is God! : )

Love, Amelia ...still that Last Child in the Woods along with her doglets...

May I suggest:  Be Still and Know by Millie Stamm, a beautiful devotional

Pet Sitting, a Portrait of Contentment & Loveliness Indeed . A Great Sunday.

Mar-Mar had a pet sitting job this past week for two sweet, sweet dogs and the kitties.  I just fell in love with these doggies. The big brown lab is JD and the little guy is "Creek" because the wonderful pet parents, rescued him from the creek area where he was perhaps dumped.  Yes, this happens and it's horrible. It's so hard for me to believe what human beings do to innocent animals.  In my opinion, as Christians we should be bothered by it. Bothered greatly just as we should be bothered by factory farming.  But what should I expect when so many church goers are more interested in how their homes are decorated or fill-in-blank.
Edit 3.18. Please oblige:  I shake my head on it and thank God for my grandma's simple genes on the decorating machine. She could cook up a storm but really wasn't that interested in decorating! Ha!  My mom too, things were decorated nicely, but simply and she was content and still is.  My home? It's not decorated that great and I don't care, I have other stuff to do! : ) I do have some nice ideas but there are so many more important things to do. : )  Good food, cozy loving home, laughter and a sweet family in Jesus.

 I'll gets to it when I gets to it.   ; )

Pretty eves here in the country I would rather kick back and soak in the beauty of Mar-Mar feeding and playing with these incredibly sweet fur angels.

 Back home!  Wheeeeeee!!!!!!!  Just enough blue in the sky to make a pair of Dutchman's britches!

Here is our precious little Muffie boy.  He ran out to our car and we let him in quickly on Mi-Mi's lap. : )

I sure hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday evening!  We visited a fabulous AG church we had visited probably 20 years ago.  The now pastor, an acquaintance of ours was a cross between a young Billy Graham and Jim Elliot.  Abortion was mentioned in a most passionate way several times at least.  Little children being led into church, one little smiling boy in a wheelchair with no legs. An angel.  This church even had smiling loving greeters for those children!  I've never seen so many loving people in one church.  Hallelujah.  We prayed together in groups for our country or and things on our hearts. I love the old Methodist church we visit but the drive is getting to us now.  Homechurch is nice too, you can't hardly beat it but sometimes the Holy Spirit whispers to venture out at times too. : )

Such a blessing that God brought us back here to this area!!! Oh thank you Jesus.  The drive is awesome, horses, cows...beautiful green oaks blooming. Noooo billboards!  The smalltown people are humble, Jem calls them the salt of the earth. 

I'll close with this song by Sara Groves in honor of this precious, precious old time church service where truth was spoken!  "There Might Be Hope"



Much love to you all, Jesus has a way of encouraging when we least expect it.   ~amelia  <3>

Cozy Valentines Memories! So Fun! So Sweet!

Solving the problems of the world, our four daughters after our sooo sweet Valentine dinner; wonderful homemade pizzas. Sooo delightful and just really so neat, like my Italian grandma & grandpa's house.  

Even though our girls are older and our youngest is eighteen we still like to do whimsical little things for Valentines day. Every day should be Valentines day really, it's a time to celebrate love and appreciation for family and friends, thanking God for our Blessings.

 Aren't these boxes above lovely???  Beccs made these and put some wonderful homemade candy in each beautifully wrapped in tissue.  She used stevia instead of sugar and oh it was so divine!  Just the boxes she put together were a gift in themselves!  All the girls had the sweetest little things to trade ever! 

Li-Li made these lovely felt hot beverage holders and tissue holders for our purses.  Sooo darling.   

 The girls really enjoy decorating...See the cute Valentine lanterns?  It gave things such a whimsical look!

 
Look at these cute little cards Mar-Mar made!  She is under intense training to become a court reporter and she put her new skills to work on these adorable Valentines cards in steno!  Sooo clever.  Pray for her, the classes aren't easy, students are sometimes seen crying in the hall with a nodding, good natured-nurturing professor.  Although Marianna does seem to be thoroughly enjoying the challenge.  One oriental young man in the class quit to go to vet school. It's true. She bought her steno machine from him.  I wonder if he knows according to our doc cousin that vet school is more difficult to get into then med school in our state?

All of our girls have been trained to be homemakers first but with the very strange times we are in, people going off with every weird thing imaginable, our older girls especially are making provision in versatile businesses that can also be done at home too until God sends His best to them in His timing.  It's times like these I wish we were millionaires so our girls could just be home not worrying about this stuff.  Oh such is a mother's heart (as she wrings her hands on her apron, a good natured sigh and a trusting look to the Lord!)

That's about all.  I just wanted to share our little Valentines day time together...It was fun. It was sweet. And it's all about the love of God and our love for Him and His blessings no matter which way you look at it.

And to all a goodnight. 

Sweet dreams.    ~Mrs. Amelia

Monday- Monday and a Thursday Morning Here at the Forest Cathedral

A Thursday morning not long ago at the Forest Cathedral...The lights and shadows were amazing this morning.  As you scroll down you can see the light and shadows move, glow and subdue....

 

This particular Thursday morn I see Li-Li running back in from the car, she has forgotten something.  These kind of mornings are a bit of rush-rush and sweet goodbyes....Li-Li was bringing our two junior kittens, Mo-Mo and Howdy in to the vet's for spaying and neutering. Ohhhhh how we hated to send those poor little kittens in for that.  They have never even been off our property. Poor little babies.

See the red tractor?  It's our new country neighbor's, he had temporarily parked it here.  I told new neighbor his tractor was cute to look at out from my kitchen window here and he informed me in a humorous way that he would prefer his tractor not be referred to as "cute" but masculine and hulky. *chuckle*

 

I love quaint jam jars that can be used for drinking glasses too.  This is my special lonestar glass. : )  Nothing like nice cool water with that morning coffee.

I hope you all are doing fine adjusting to this new time change.  I'm kind of mad at myself.  I woke up at a good time and then overslept.  Shame on Mrs. Amelia.; )

Well, today I'll be washing clothes & blankets and most likely go to smalltown with Mar, delivering give-away clothing to the Christian center and making a run to the smalltown grocery.   ...and I think that's a good thing.  Yes indeedie.  ...and then there is that famous question....What's for supper?

Have a blessed day Everyone.  Praying for our country, may we lift it up in prayers, it's a crucial time as you know I'm sure.

Big Hugs to All!      Amelia