I totally forgot to post a pic of our newest members.. man having puppies and more than one has proven to be challenging and I find myself asking the question often “What was I thinking” haha … although it has gotten a lot better, it is still very challenging at times. This whole potty training thing is well..next level.
Enjoy this cute pic of when we first go them..
The crazy life we live..enjoy the ride! Blessings….
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
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?
Recipe:
In a large pot melt your butter then add the onions and garlic and saute them together until soft. You will only use this one pot for everything so make sure it’s big enough
Saute the above ingredients together
add to the pot
and bring to a boil
add to the pot
Boil until soft like you would for mashed potatoes. Use an immersion blender of you have one or you can use a regular blender if not. I prefer the immersion blender as it is easier and less mess. Blend everything together until smooth. Add milk or cream until desired consistency is reached-roughly 1 cups but I just wing it to be honest. Serve with lemon pepper and cheddar cheese. Today I added bacon bits and sour cream also and it was amazing!
Well it’s been awhile since I last posted. I’m not sure why other than I feel like a funk has been on me and honestly didn’t feel like I had much to offer anyone. Not that I am feeling particularly any different right now I feel like I need to do something because doing nothing is worse.
As I sit here today my state is literally burning up! We have hazardous smoke levels at our house and can’t really see 2 feet in front of your face. Ok maybe its a little farther than that but you get the idea. The smoke is really really bad here! I am so sorry for all of the people who have lost their homes or their lives. I’m sorry for their families and all the sadness they feel and for the half million displaced people in Oregon my heart is just heavy. I keep thinking about all of the fire fighters on the front lines and I can’t even imagine how they are feeling and I instantly get worried for them and a little anxious. I grew up in a fire fighter family and my oldest son is a professional fire fighter and my 2nd son is just starting his college career to become one also. So these times are really dear and near to my heart. I am fiercely protective over first responders and I believe in them and all they stand for and I always will. There has been a lot of negative media against them and honestly it makes my blood boil. Sure there are a few bad ones but people are sinful and so you will always get a few bad ones (no matter what profession). It’s called sin and free will but then grace enters….grace is extended to all of us even the bad ones. God will continue to purse even the bad ones as he doesn’t want not even one to perish. I am very justice driven so this is a hard one sometimes. Most times I find myself think man he’s a really bad guy and deserves eternal damnation but then grace enters… Sometimes thats a hard pill to swallow isn’t it?
This has been a really hard season for just about everyone I know. I can’ think of one person that doesn’t feel either sad, scared, angry, hopeless etc… this is where I have been landing myself and not really sure of what the future will look like or feel like. I am grieving what we once had and that honestly won’t go back to that way because well it can’t. It can’t because I believe the Lord is calling his people to rise up. He’s calling us to a different place and I believe he is preparing us for battle. Which is honestly exciting and scary because of the unknown but I have read the end of the book and God wins!
I feel like this may just be a bunch of rambling but this is what’s been on my heart lately. It’s time to rise up and step into what God is calling each of us too and watch what happens. What a time to be alive!!
Keep your head up soldiers together we can do anything…
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
Learning life together and loving Jesus along the way
Gina Marie 
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