We’ve all been so sad about losing our precious Daisy that we decided to get not one but two mini long haired dachshunds.. I am probably completely crazy but hey blame it on a broken heart 🙂
You’ll be able to follow along on our new adventure here as I will try to be better about keeping this blog updated. Having two little tiny girls is going to be crazy fun!
So tomorrow around 6pm we will meeting our newest members of the family. Can’t wait for you all meet them too!
It’s been awhile since I’ve written a post and I thought this would be fitting to share one now. Our beloved Daisy Mae graduated to heaven on Easter. I’m still not sure how to process the sadness and loss of it.
Daisy was a funny long haired mini weiner dog that was full of so much personality and a lot of sass.. She was well…an awesome dog that we are going to miss very much.
Daisy was our youngest daughters dog since she was 5 years old and this has been very very hard for her. The worst part is I am out of town helping our oldest daughter open her next bakery warehouse. The sadness of not being able to see her for several weeks and then not getting to say good-bye is overwhelmingly sad to me. Was she wondering where I was-if I was ever coming back?? Kudos to my hubby for all he went through taking care of our youngest daughter and making some very hard decisions and a whole lot of emotions. He’s a great guy!!
Daisy Mae we’ll see you in Heaven..meet us at the pearly gates xoxox
So it started out as a normal Saturday morning until my husband came inside with this little baby bunny. He wasn’t sure at first if it was indeed a bunny but after one look I assured him it was. “Well” he said “then you better come with me to see if there are anymore before I accidentally kill them all”. He had been doing some tractor work moving an old pile of hay bales and for whatever reason he said he hopped off of his tractor and then he heard a little squealing noise, that’s when he found this little guy. So my daughter and I grabbed gloves and followed him down there and began to pick through this giant pile of old hay bales. At first we didn’t see anymore, until I was moving some hay and there another one was…then another..then another until we found 5 baby bunnies. Their some of their eyes weren’t open yet, so we knew they were just fresh.
We gathered all of the babies and put them in a plastic bin with some of the hay they had been laying in and I called an animal rescue in the area that is for wild animals only. She advised me that the mom only comes twice a day to feed the babies and so go ahead and clean up that area and then dig them a little hole and place them back in that hole and cover with the hay. Place a ring of flour around it, so if the mom comes back it will mark her foot prints. I thought wow what a genius idea! We just needed to do it before dusk because that’s when they come back to feed. Early in the morning and at dusk, otherwise she said they are out doing bunny things.. haha I literally laughed out loud at that..bunny things hummmm ok 🙂
So at dusk, we went back to the original site where we found them and dug a hole. We placed a small tomato box in the hole and filled it with hay and placed all 5 babies in and covered them really well with more hay and then put a big thick ring of flour around the area. The next morning my daughter went to check on them. She said it was because if anything had happened to them she didn’t want me to be sad 😦 it was very sweet. To our great surprise they were all there!! The mom came and fed them and they seemed very content! They had literally grown overnight it, was so bizarre. They grow so fast!!! I watched a couple videos about these bunnies and when they are wild what do we do which was very helpful. We learned that bunnies are only in the nest for maybe a week! Can you believe that? When they say multiply like rabbits they aren’t joking!!
So everyday for the next week, we kept checking the bunnies and slowly but surely they left the nest! It was one of the coolest thing to experience. We got to hold them and love on them…what a blessing! What a great experience that we had getting to raise these little precious bunnies even if for only a week.
What’s one of the coolest experiences you’ve had recently with nature and what made it so epic?
Keep lookin up! Blessings to you xoxo
These two goofballs have been keeping us entertained all summer! We have sure enjoyed spending time with them. Although we did have some different expectations. We expected them to be our friends..well they are our friends..sort of … but only when we have treats for them, it’s really annoying. We have seen all of these other goats in videos following their humans around and climbing on them but that’s not the case here. If anyone has some ideas of how we accomplish this please let me know 😉
Winston loves bananas which is so funny! You can take one to him and he will gobble it up, peel and all and Nelson wants nothing to do with them! They have also begun fainting (they are fainting goats it’s normal) and it’s actually pretty funny and sad all at the same time. Poor guys but it does give us a good laugh. You should look up videos on fainting goats it will keep you entertained for a while.
They are just so dang cute! We are wanting to get a bottle fed one in the spring maybe… I’ve heard that’s the key to making them your friends. Enjoy the small simple pleasures life brings you these days! Have a blessed week friends.. xox
Sometimes in the midst of chaos and a pandemic, you just need to get away for a little bit to regroup.
During this time away I’ve been thinking about several things. I’ve been thinking about some different things like who am I and what do I love to do. Although I haven’t discovered the answers to those questions, I am definitely taking some time to reflect and figure it out.
Although I don’t agree with all of these lockdowns and mandates, I do believe that God is in control and will always be in control, I just need to continually remind myself so I don’t loose my mind.
What are some things your working on right now to help you during this time?
So we live on a small farm..we have chickens, ducks, a donkey, dogs, barn cats and we are getting 2 goats in 5 days~ fainting goats to be exact! There is always so much animal drama here! I kid you not, it almost has become so comical that I can’t not tell you about it. Last Friday, one of our chickens we named pigee because well she looks like a pigeon got attacked by our male duck. This duck has been after her for a while but she usually manages to escape him. We last Friday that was not the case, she just wasn’t fast enough. My daughter and nephew went out to the chicken coop to fill up their waters and feed them and that’s when they found our favorite little chicken mangled. Her poor little face and head were very messed up. I won’t go into details because I can’t even handle it. We immediately grabbed her and brought her in the house.. I know gross.. but farm life is well.. another thing hahaha…
We got all the different stuff out to begin to try to clean her up and hopefully save her life! I was trying to clean her off and I don’t handle gross things or blood at all. I was trying my best to be strong and I had to take the chicken outside to get myself some fresh air and sit down. My daughter looks at me and said “maybe I need to take over you are very very pale” which is usually the case in these situations. So thankfully she took over. We got her as cleaned up as best we could, got a small portable dog kennel and waited for my husband to get home which is usually what I do when things are gross.. 🙂
We have been very faithful for the last week of keeping her very clean and putting a couple different medicines on her and giving her water with probiotics in it and keeping her little kennel very clean. We weren’t sure if her eyes were going to survive the attack. I will let you imagine what her face looked like using that information. We were cleaning her yesterday afternoon and my daughter said “mom I just don’t think she has an eye in there”. I said “I believe she does and it’s just swollen”. I have been praying over this chicken since Friday. I tend to pray and believe for God to heal my animals and honestly God must really love me a lot because they usually survive. I have countless stories of our animals that should be dead but God heals them! That’s a whole different blog. Anyways back to her eye.. We got her all cleaned up and put her back in her little crate and that was that. We went to dinner last night and came home and got ready to take care of the chicken and we pulled her out and bam there was her eye! All the swelling went down which is crazy because it was huge and I kid you not all the swelling was gone and her eye was there! Both of her eyes are still there! She is healing so great and I honestly can’t believe it. I believe in the power of prayer..I know it’s a chicken but I believe God loves us enough that he cares about what we care about, to come down and heal even our little chicken.
I would love to post a picture to show you what we were up against but that would probably be a very horrible idea..you’re welcome 🙂 For now just know little pigee is doing great and I can’t wait to watch her run around again..don’t worry she won’t be with that duck anymore. I’m considering making her her very own chicken house and getting another little bantum chicken just like her to be her friend.
The moral of this story is nothing is too big or little for God. What things have you prayed for that are so random that it had to be God? I would love to hear them!
I was scanning through social media today and came across this song. I love Elevation Worship so I took the time to listen to this song. As they sang this song and I let it just sink in I was almost moved to tears as I sat here. I asked myself am I available like the Lord needs me to be? My first thought is yes of course but am I really? Am I really always ready for what the Lord is directing me too? Give this song a listen and let it wash over you and your spirit and ask yourself the same question. Lord am I fully available for you and your will?
My prayer today for each of us is that we will be available with our hands and hearts open to what the Lord is saying today and everyday moving forward. Here I am, you can have it all.
Yes Lord I am available..use me
Jeremiah 29:11-14a (NLT) “For I know the plans I have for you” says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you” says the Lord
I am on a new path and a path of where I have no idea where its headed. I have offically retired from the bakery. A bakery that I have worked at tirelessly and have found some purpose in my life. I have had a lot of joy there and have found some amazing lifelong friendships with people who God has placed in my life that have become like family to me. I feel very blessed to have them in my life and its time for me to discover what God is calling me to now, which has yet to be discovered. Truth be told~ I feel a little lost right now. I am not sure of who I am but I am confident that God will let me know.
I find myself soaking in lots of different church services online. I am intrigued and expectant. I am in search of what God is up to and I want to be apart of that! My heart has always been ministry and the one thing I want people to know until the day I breath my last is that God sees you, he knows you and your heart and most of all he is for you! The things that we go through in life are meant to propel us closer to God not further away. Because we are human we have free choice and unfortunately we live in a fallen world and people are bad.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 (NLT) “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperatley wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”
You see God doesn’t create those bad things, he just helps us get through them and helps to use those moments in our life for something good. Sometimes and most often, it takes a hot minute to see how and where God is going to use them so be patient and keep pursing Jesus.
More than anything right now I want to be used by God. I want to live a life thats full of purpose and where people come to know the love of Jesus. Where they find Jesus for themselves. Where they aren’t relying on their parents or friends relationship with the Lord but where they have their own deep encounter with the living God.
If you want to have your socks blown off listen to the song called “The Blessing” by elevation worship. It is a game changer!
I pray this week you and I both have an encounter with the Lord where we each know without a shadow of a doubt deep down inside our very soul that he is for us! I can’t wait how about you????
Be blessed friend xoxox
Who else is getting weary? I am definitely ready to get everything opened up to the “new normal”. Maybe because I am a 6 on the enneagram and well we don’t like the unknowns. We like to know what’s coming and how we are going to respond to it. We don’t like the unknowns. I want to get things moving because I want to get things settled inside of my own-self.
I am ready to go to all of my favorite stores like TJ Max, Ulta and Home Goods… Who’s with me??? We have still been working countless hours at the bakery on a very limited staff and we are getting weary. We laugh a lot because we don’t understand the quarantine life. We don’t understand what or how it feels to stay home every day all day..sometimes we joke about how it sounds dreamy but then we realize we actually love to work and then start laughing.
Last weekend I did some work in my garden and cleaned out the beds. I raked them and rearranged some stuff in the yard and that was awesome! It felt great to be outside in the sunshine doing what I love. I love plants and flowers and I could buy millions of them. I did plant some roses in my garden beds this year. I want to have a little rose garden and with deers that love to eat them, I decided I need to plant them in my fenced in garden that my husband built me a couple years ago.
How are you doing? How and what are you doing that makes your soul sing? Are you painting something? Are you planting a garden? What helps you?
Hang in their friends I’m hoping this is getting near to the “new normal”… xoxox
So I wanted to share with you what happened today while I was at Costco during this crazy virus time which leads to its own experience all together. If you haven’t attempted Costco lately maybe you should give it a go just to feel the experience of it all haha…
So the morning started off fine. I decided that at 8:10 am I was going to first head to Safeway to see if they have any toilet paper. We have some rolls left but I have looked for the last couple days and have found nothing so I started to kinda think about it a little bit more like maybe I need to be a little more proactive about this particular situation. So after not finding anything at Safeway I headed to Costco to get in line. It was 8:30 now and the line was already starting around the side of the building and the doors open at 9:30. People kept pouring in and getting into line and now it was wrapped behind Costco. I thought wow if someone is really desperate for something there is no chance they will ever get it way back there. I started chatting with the couple in front of me and I was telling them that I have been looking for toilet paper for the last several days and how my son told me last night that he and his brother go through about a roll a day! I was like well you boys are going to need to dial that down and I probably need to figure out what everyone is eating around here hahaha…Anyways we had a good laugh and kept chatting. Well the doors opened and the line started to move and we were told that the toilet paper was right by the door so I was already starting off a little rough because there were a lot of people still in front of me. We got to the front of the line and they handed us the sanitized cart and we went in. I saw the staff handing out the toilet paper and I got in line behind my new friends leaving a little room so I didn’t hit them. Well a gal on my left literally cut in between us and got the very LAST package!Like right in front of my face!! I was like what just happened. I looked at the guy and said “oh wow did you just see that”. He said “yes I am very sorry.” I said “its ok I will just keep looking”. Mind you we have some rolls at home but after my sons story I got a little concerned I’m not gonna lie. Anyways I proceeded to keep walking and my new friends pulled to the side and put their toilet paper in my cart! I said “oh gosh you don’t have to do that!” I was literally chocking back the tears. Not because I just got toilet paper I honestly was ok but because there are still the most kind people out there. I have been thinking about them all day today and I have been praying over them asking for the Lords blessing in their lives. Again not because they gave me toilet paper, it’s because they put someone else’s need above their own.
So as I finish my story about today I just pray that when I see someone in need I pray my first reaction is to give them what they need if I have it and put myself second. We are in a time right now where everyone is out for themselves and the “me first” attitude and I don’t want to be like that. They may never know how much they actually touched my heart today but I pray that I see them again maybe even at Costco 😉
Just go out and be the blessing 😉
Learning life together and loving Jesus along the way
Gina Marie 
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