My Little Curly Q's

In a blog that has since been unrecoverable, I had a post on the curly q's of our Baby G and how cute they were a top of her then little head. Today I am typing on the fact that we dont just have 1 child with swirls of sweetness, but TWO kiddos with curls!

But I will back it up to the best of my ability on what I do remember regarding Baby G's hair raising post.

When Baby G was born she had a light downy of hair coloured in red, and upon further inspection you would see swirls. Those swirls eventually grew into curls once her hair finally began to come in and cover her round little cherub head. 

 

 Its been a learning curve on how to keep them swirly do's ... well swirly! They frizz so easily when she sleeps on them and often times wakes up looking like Albert Einstein... Hair all wild and in a mess. I continue to learn the proper caring and "feeding" if you will of curly hair, for instance I dont wash her hair but now 2 times a week and I make sure I am using gentle baby shampoo.. and when I dry her hair after Tub Tub Time as we say in our household..I make sure to gently squeeze with the towel and not jostle the hair, then I apply coconut oil to her scalp and ends.. especially since we have hard well water and it makes our hair and skin a little more susceptible to drying out. So far its been helping.

 So having one child on the homestead with cute ringlets of curls, just wasnt enough.. Nope the LoRd would have it, that we needed 2 babies with swirly do's! Thats right when my husband and I had our second together, little did we know when Tater Tots hair would actually grow in to notice a difference, he too would have them same little curly q's as his sister. 

The same hair care rules apply to him, wash maybe twice a week, gentle squeeze drying and lather the coconut oil to preserve those strawberry blonde locks of his.

As I look at how much my two youngest stand out with their curls, I think on the fact how interesting genetics really is. I mean you have here two adult parents with straight hair, My husbands is brownish with red in his beard ect, I on the other hand, growing up had very strawberry blonde hair and as I have grown older it has become more of a darker red, would think maybe our children would have straight hair.. and either one of our hair colourings. But if you go outside our little molecule family you will see that really, Greg and I are the Odd ones of our individual respective families. Gregs brother and a majority of his family are curly, my side is the same as well. So it was really just a guesstimate that our kids had a 70% chance of having Curly or wavy hair than lets say a 30% straight, since curly/wavy runs dominate in the family genes. Hair colour could have been the same.. but I like to think that the LoRd answered a prayer when I prayed for (at least when I was pregnant with Baby G) one little red head, with big beautiful eyes.. And he granted me that.. and it appears Double Blessed.. For I have TWO strawberry blondes with big beautiful blue eyes. 

Irish Blessings

  Top of the Mornin' to ya'll

 Did you bounce out of bed and dance a little jig like a leprechaun to get your morning going?

  Or did you like me, slide out of bed and hit the coffee pot? 

Regardless  Its a beautiful day to wake up and be Irish, or even pretend you are!

So you better make sure you are wearing GREEN, as not to get pinched. 

  So tell the Truth, How Irish are you?

a teaspoon? A tablespoon, half cup or more? 

I cant say I am fully from Ireland, I also have British and Scandinavian blood in me. 

Regardless of the amount of your green veins, isnt it fun to enjoy the day and partake in the festivities it brings?

  For me, I make the modern typical Irish Supper.. Corned Beef and Cabbage... Mmmm

and when my older two children were much younger, we would watch the Veggie Tales Story on how Saint Patrick's Day came to be..

Now obviously through the centuries and years..and somewhere lost in translations.. we traded the Truth for a bit of folklore and fantasy, and its how we now ended up with a day of drunkenness, and shenanigans with pots of gold promised at the end of a rainbow.. 

 

 BUT ...Like did you know Saint Patrick.. he was not Irish at all?! He was actually British who had been taken captive by Irish Pirates and brought to Ireland to be a slave..sometime in the years since being captured he was able to escape and return to his beloved home country. While back in Britain he came to know the LoRd more strongly, and during his time of growing in his Faith, he felt the LoRd beckon on his heart to forgive the people who had taken him captive and return to them and preach the Good News and teach them Forgiveness. So he listened, returned to Ireland.. and became a missionary. 

       Which is pretty neat in my book.. What do you think?

Well my friends from across the fence, my little Lassie and Laddie are awake and I must once again tend to my homestead. I shall leave you with this Irish Blessing. 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Valentines Day

                                 

     

 I can definitely say that Vintage Valentine Cards are quite adorable and cute..

 but nothing speaks to the heart directly than that of a H♥me Made Valentine.

Our Little Spunky Farmgirl making her daddy a cute 

Valentine with the sticks she found in the yard.

Lets STICK Together Valentine 

 

Love Doesnt Have To Be Complicated♥♥♥ 

 

 

Crazy Train

 

 You know the saying, when it rains it pours?!Well its not just some cute slogan for a salt company.. Its a real life humdinger!

Just as we are coming down the roller coaster ride with one, we find our selves going back up the tracks with the other, and let me tell you.. Seems every month we are dealing with something or other and the antics seem to be getting more and more as the years come and go.

Let me see if I can discreetly describe whats happening with out going into too much personal detail. 

* Snarkisms, Late nights, Shoulder Checks, Stealing Someones Personal Information, Your Not My Real Parent kind of  attitudes.

If I am being very real and honest here, its this kinda of S**t day in and day out that makes you question if you did the right thing.... because where is the protection and support for the folks who are on the receiving end of "abuse" by the very ones they promised to protect. 

  

A Winter Day(The 5 Senses Of January)

 

The Sense of SIGHT beckons me out the kitchen door window to the back acreage of our little Homestead...the different hues of browns from the earth as the grasses that make up our pasture is in complete dormant, the greys of the bark on trees that have long since passed in days gone bye through drought and fire, the faded green paint of our riding lawn mower as it sits cold next to the red shed.

I can FEEL(Touch) the smoothness of the keyboard as I touch each letter to make up the words I am trying to express here. I feel the coolness of my ceramic mug when I reach to take a sip in what was once a hot cuppa coffee. The roughness of my makeshift computer desk, reminds me that a functional work space doesn't have to be perfect..

I can HEAR my 2 year old little girl, the youngest daughter of my womb whispering to her baby brother in between the sipping of her cup and him responding to her with the babbling I am sure she can only understand. 

I can still SMELL the burnt oatmeal from yesterdays breakfast that the 16 year old attempted to cook and forgot to add the water, while the whiff of a dirty diaper sends my nostrils to turn up my nose.. 

I can TASTE the Coffee I am drinking as I prefer to take it black or with creme..

Wordless Wednesday: Oklahoma Sunrise

 

Cheers To New Beginings

 

   

Howdy Friends and Online Stalkers ☺

Crazy to think that we are already several days into the Month of January and its the year 2022!

I dont know about you, but it feels like the past 2-3 years have been a mix of a bad cocktail and you wake up with a what in the world did I just do?! 

Fall 2020 we bought this Little Red House on the Plains, and just jumped right in(immaturely) as I shared in a previous post, with all the hopes, dreams and goals of turning our little homestead into something functional for us. Did I attempt to tackle goals and dreams.. Yes, did I anticipate the hardships of emotional,physical and spiritual anguish that 2021 brought me and my husband and our family.. a resounding NO! Sure we know that life is not perfect and it comes with its ups and downs..Just did not think that 2021 would have been as rough as it turned out to be. So I am glad it is over.

As 2021 was winding down, I felt the LoRd revealing to me a few bits in my shortcomings and a whisper on my soul of other things. In those things He reminded me where I need to be with HIM and where I had been limited with or with out HIM in my life. For the first time in a few years.. I can honestly say I have a Word(s) Placed On My Heart.. 

S I M P L Y ♥ R E T U R N

So this year I am doing things differently, My husband and I are doing things differently, The family and I will be doing things differently. All of Us will be doing things differently in the will of  Simply Returning.. I have plenty of thoughts and ideas of what that is going to be meaning for myself and the crew, like date nights again, baking, learning new things, or the reestablishing of healthy and happy traditions and routines. The very stuff we did and yet some how allowed the trials of life's hurts and hangups over the past couple of years override what was working positively in our f♥mily. 

I am sure things will get messy and mistakes will happen along the way of following Gods Will to 

SIMPLY ♥ RETURN, and I hope with each mistake and mess, I can learn from it and make the necessary corrections to get Myself, and the Family back on track.

Lets Say You?

Do You Have A Word or Two That Has Been Laid Upon Your ♥Heart♥ For 2022?

Care To Share?

Thanks For Stopping By,

JEANNIE