Blast From The Past ~ Civil War Ball 2002

This week is the last of the Civil War Ball photos.
We didn't take as many this year...
We must have been really busy...
DANCING

 Jessica and a friend, Anna

 Rachel and friends...
(left to right)
Anne, Rachel, Lindsay

 The whole crowd of friends we knew at the ball...
Back: Rachel, Lindsay, Anne, Robert
Front: Jessica, Anna, Jennifer

Court and I


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The purpose of Blast From The Past is to link up a post about something from the past. You can reach back all the way to your childhood and bravely post pictures of you in your wild clothes and hair styles or post something from last year and tell us about it. I'm not picky. Hey, even yesterday was the past... LOL My posts will mostly be about events that happened prior to blogging, as a way to share those things with the world.

• It can be about you, about your kids, about your parents, about whatever. For ideas check out the other posts in my label Blast From the Past. 
• Please use a permalink that sends readers directly to the correct post. If you are not sure what that is click the word permalink for an explanation. 
• Mention my blog and offer a link back to the main page of my blog. http://debbiesdigest.blogspot.com/ This is a requirement to take part and a kind gesture to me your hostess as well as your readers--they will know where to join in the fun, too. You can put the Blast From The Past button on your site and in your post. You will find it on my right sidebar. Please use it to link to my site, to spread the word about my meme. Using the button will help others know how to find me and how to join. Tell others to click on the button in your post to find us here.
• Leave me a comment. First so that you can let me know what you think of my pictures and secondly so that I will know a new post has been linked up and I can come visit your blog and comment on your photos. 

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Goal Planning Monday ~ Week 61

 Time to write some goals and strive to accomplish them this coming week??

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A pretty good week. Things are going well at home considering the stress of not having any income. I just keep doing what I feel God wants me to do each day and try not to think to far into the future. Please keep praying that my hubby will find a job. I need to check my yearly goals and figure out what things on there I have not completed yet, and try and accomplish at least some, if not all, of them this coming week.

My Goals from last week and how I did:

Spiritual Goals 

1. Devotions daily - for the next few weeks, or however long it takes, I will be doing How People Change and How People Change Study Guide: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace. I have wanted to work on this and have not had the extra time. It has a lot of scripture, especially in the homework of the Study Guide. I will not be writing in my journal. I will be writing in the study guide.  Done - I am in the middle of ch. 4 in the book which is chapter 2 in the study guide.
2. Finish reading Reshaping It All. Done - Yippee! One more book finished for my yearly reading.  
3. Listen to Godly Music Daily, as part of my morning Devotions. Done
4. Pray daily. Done- I want to do better with my prayers. I have not been using the prayer book that I made myself and I want to get back to using it this week.
5. Read Power of a Praying Wife and leave hubby a note for each chapter I read. He needs the extra prayers and encouragement.   Not Done 
   

Homeschool Goals

1. Keep Christopher doing all 12 workboxes Done - Christopher is still doing well, not sure if he finished everything on Friday, but he did do his essay. He really struggled with this one and I had to sit and help him considerably.
2. Keep Nathan doing all his school. We discovered, after a family conflict, that Nathan is finished a couple of subjects as far as his required hours. So he is concentrating on the subjects he has left. Not Done - I cannot seem to motivate Nathan at all. He has less work to do but still does not get it done.
3. Keep up with logging in the boys work and grading as we go through the week. Done

Blog Goals    

1. Post Blast From The Past on Tuesday. Done
2. Join in some favorite memes that I like to do and try and leave comments on a few blogs of those who link up. I will not be tracking my linking up but want to do it to encourage others to comment on my blog as well. Done

Personal/Other Goals 

1. Comment on all the other GPM ladies posts. Keep track of their names with links here so I know whose I have done.Done - I commented at our  hostesses blog @ Mama Manuscripts, I commented at Cristi @ Through the Calm and Through the Storm Cristi was the only one to link up, besides me, so that 's everyone. 
2. Log books into Book Collector software. I am working on my personal fiction books. Done - I logged about a 1/2 tub of books this past week.
3. Read, Read, Read! I will be linking up my reading this year to I am currently reading a number of things... for personal, fun, fiction reading I am reading The Hidden Flame (Acts of Faith, Book 2). I have some books to read for History and I may also read part of Emma by Jane Austen.  Done
4. We are back to sharing the meals and after dinner chores. Make sure the kids keep up with chores and cooking. The others are not required to meal plan but they are encouraged to do so. Rachel has all her March meals planned, the others don't and didn't plan in Feb. either. Done
5. Figure out what to do about the Saturday chores and get at least some of them done. Not Done- Going to visit my Mom on Saturday took up a lot more time than I had planned so I did not get any cleaning done and did not get to discuss this issue with the family. Maybe this week we will have time.
6. Scrapbook. I want to do both paper scrapbooking Done - OK, I counted this as done but want to confess that I only got some photo's cropped and did not actually do a page. I will make sure to scrapbook at least 2 days this week so I can really count it for my yearly goals of scrapbooking twice a month.
7. and spend some time playing with my new Scrapbook software, My Memories. Done- No problem here. Spent more time on this than maybe I should have. I love it. I figured out a few more things and uploaded my first picture to Facebook and now posted below.

For this week that is 14 Done, 0 Partly Done, and 2 Not Done. Not bad considering the way the week ended.


My goals for this coming week:

Spiritual Goals 

1. Devotions daily - for the next few weeks, or however long it takes, I will be doing How People Change and How People Change Study Guide: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace. I have wanted to work on this and have not had the extra time. It has a lot of scripture, especially in the homework of the Study Guide. I will not be writing in my journal. I will be writing in the study guide. 
2. Finish reading Reshaping It All.
3. Listen to Godly Music Daily, as part of my morning Devotions.
4. Read Power of a Praying Wife and leave hubby a note for each chapter I read. He needs the extra prayers and encouragement.
5. Read  ch. 14 of God's Priorities for Today's Woman for Ladies Bible Study on Friday. We are meeting this week instead of the 6th, because the 6th is Good Friday. Then we will do the last chapter of the book on April 20th.
   

Homeschool Goals

1. Keep Christopher doing all 12 workboxes.
2. Get Nathan to do all his school. We discovered, after a family conflict, that Nathan is finished a couple of subjects as far as his required hours. So he is concentrating on the subjects he has left. Even though he has less subjects to complete he is not getting them done daily which means he is further behind. If he wants to graduate in May he will have to get a move on!!
3. Keep up with logging in the boys work and grading as we go through the week.

Blog Goals    

1. Post Blast From The Past on Tuesday.
2. Join in some favorite memes that I like to do and try and leave comments on a few blogs of those who link up. I will not be tracking my linking up but want to do it to encourage others to comment on my blog as well.
3. Post my yearly goal update for March on March 31st. 
   

Personal/Other Goals 

1. Comment on all the other GPM ladies posts. Keep track of their names with links here so I know whose I have done. 
2. Log books into Book Collector software. I am working on my personal fiction books.
3. Read, Read, Read! I will be linking up my reading this year to I am currently reading a number of things... for personal, fun, fiction reading I am reading The Hidden Flame (Acts of Faith, Book 2). I have some books to read for History and I may also read part of Emma by Jane Austen. 
4. Make sure the kids keep up with chores and cooking. My hubby is back to eating gluten free, so that threw a wrench in my cooking plans. I need to work on my menus for April and figure out some things to make my hubby that are gluten free.
5. Figure out what to do about the Saturday chores and get at least some of them done.
6. Scrapbook. I want to do both paper scrapbooking 
7. and spend some time playing with my new Scrapbook software, My Memories.
8. Work on History plans. I am almost caught up to the things I already have planned. I may, though, stop after the few plans I have and wait until next year to start. The next subjects are the people of the Revolutionary War and then the War itself. I think I will just leave that for next year and after finishing Catherine the Great, Haydn, and Mozart stopping History and concentrate on Science... we have a whole unit of Astronomy to finish in only 8 weeks.

Do you have any goals for the week? Post your goals and link up. The button at the top will take you to the meme and you can join up with us. I have been doing this for more than a year now and setting weekly goals is really helping me keep focus and achieve more. Have a great week.

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Wednesday Hodgepodge Vol 71

1. The first day of spring is here...do you enjoy working in the yard? Weeding, raking, mowing, planting-your favorite springtime garden chore? How about your least favorite?  We have very few plants in our garden. It is not a priority for us right now. Whatever comes up comes up. I did go out and clip some dead flowers off one of my plants on Tuesday. It should have been done last year but I was lazy and kept thinking they would just fall off. I finally looked up the care of the plant, a hydrangea, on the internet and it said to take the blooms off as soon as they die. The buds form for the next year during the later summer after the blooms for that year are done. So that is why I don't get many flowers... now I know better for this year. Besides that we have one rose bush, a few hyacinths, and a bunch of tulips. Oh, also some Black-Eyed Susan's that try and take over everything. I would love to have as nice a flower garden out front as my neighbor does, but we never have money for flowers.


I don't know if we will do a vegetable garden or not. I would like to but we really need to make some raised beds and we don't have the money for that for sure. We will probably not do a vegetable garden, maybe a tomato plant or 2 and a pepper plant and maybe not even that. My daughter Rachel is the one who usually does the garden, sometimes with the help of one of her brothers.

2. What puts a spring in your step? Special time away with my husband, getting out for ladies Bible study, spending time with my friend Michele, walks at Longwood Gardens and Winterthur, and going to Ladies Spring Retreat with my church.

3. Describe a time when you had to spring into action? The day I started hemorrhaging when I was carrying my dd Jessica. I was 3  weeks from my delivery date. We were at church. I got to my husband and he sped to the hospital. I said, "You are not and ambulance." He said, "I am today. Lay down and relax" He got us there in record time. I was waiting every minute for a cop to start chasing us. He was supposed to have gone on a business trip that weekend but he didn't have a peace about going and told his boss he couldn't go. If he had gone I surely would have stayed home that day from church and may have died, and Jessica also, because we lived way out in the boonies and it would have taken longer to call 911 and them to get me to the hospital. As it was they said we had only minutes and rushed us to surgery and did a C-section. She was perfect, though tiny... only 4 lbs. 11 oz. at birth and went home at 4 lbs. 8 oz. just a few days later. She was my only child to get a perfect 10 on the apgar score. We are blessed.

4. We're having carrots for dinner...would you prefer yours raw or cooked? For dinner I would prefer them cooked... unless we are having a salad then a small amount, fresh, shredded is good... I eat them both ways.

5. Do you take the shampoos and other sundries from your hotel room when its time to check out? Sometimes, we seldom go to hotels. I used to take them all the time, now not so much. We are more likely to bring our own than take theirs. We usually cram 6 of us in one room and the girls and I like to bring stuff to make sure we have enough.

6. What's the most enjoyable team or club you've belonged to and what was it that made it so? I would say that is a tie between the group of us that helped out and took advanced geology classes in high school (that was a great group of guys and I was the only girl, I was treated very special and the teacher was like a second dad to me since mine died at the end of my 9th grade school year), and TOS Review Crew (the people made it special, the friendships, the prayers for each other. Though I only met 3 of them in person they were/are better friends then some friends I have had in real life. I am still in contact with them all on the Internet. Maybe they wouldn't be as good of friends if we met in real life and spent more time together. I have a tendency to not keep real friends very well, maybe it is something about me, I have not been able to figure that out.)

7. Is cloning a sign of progress? No, it is a sign of man trying to be God, a sign of sin in our world, a sign of man being self centered and thinking of himself to highly and to much.

8. Insert your own random thought here. Today is my dd Rachel's Birthday.

Happy Birthday to my oldest dd. I love you with all my heart. God's Blessing on you this day and the whole year through. May you recognize the work of God in your life, in the coming year.

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Blast From The Past ~ Civil War Ball, March 10, 2001

Last week I showed you the first Civil War Ball we went to.
This is the next year.
Now Jessica was old enough to join us at the Ball.
Fun was had by all!

The building the ball was held in.

the room we danced in

the ensemble getting ready to play for us

Rachel dancing with her daddy.
So sweet.

Us girls.
(left to right)
Jessica (age- 12 in just a few weeks), Rachel (age- 15 in just a few days), and I

Me

My hubby and I.

Our family at the ball.

So sweet, especially Jessica.

Friends... The Cowdery's

Girl friends

The Bonnets and Bayonets group that put on the ball.

The whole group that attended the ball.


I hope you enjoyed those photos.
I know I enjoyed posting them and looking back.
now...

Here are the Rules for participating:
The purpose of Blast From The Past is to link up a post about something from the past. You can reach back all the way to your childhood and bravely post pictures of you in your wild clothes and hair styles or post something from last year and tell us about it. I'm not picky. Hey, even yesterday was the past... LOL My posts will mostly be about events that happened prior to blogging, as a way to share those things with the world.

• It can be about you, about your kids, about your parents, about whatever. For ideas check out the other posts in my label Blast From the Past. 
• Please use a permalink that sends readers directly to the correct post. If you are not sure what that is click the word permalink for an explanation. 
• Mention my blog and offer a link back to the main page of my blog. http://debbiesdigest.blogspot.com/ This is a requirement to take part and a kind gesture to me your hostess as well as your readers--they will know where to join in the fun, too. You can put the Blast From The Past button on your site and in your post. You will find it on my right sidebar. Please use it to link to my site, to spread the word about my meme. Using the button will help others know how to find me and how to join. Tell others to click on the button in your post to find us here.
• Leave me a comment. First so that you can let me know what you think of my pictures and secondly so that I will know a new post has been linked up and I can come visit your blog and comment on your photos. 

Join me!


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Goal Planning Monday – Week 60

 Time to write some goals and strive to accomplish them this coming week??

Join us by clicking on the button above...
after you read my goals.

Life throws us unexpected curves. God allows these things to come into our lives. Nothing about our lives comes as a surprise to God, though it often does for us. This week my husband came in to Ladies Bible Study just as we were letting out to tell me my mother was in the hospital. We were supposed to go, that afternoon, and pick her up for her to come to our house for a week. This news through me for a loop. I know she is getting older and more things were going on with her, after all she is 89. But, non the less this added stress to my already stressful life. She was admitted to the hospital and is still there. The Dr.'s are still not sure what is wrong with her, though they did find a urinary tract infection. She is having more tests today. She is expected to go to rehab, for at least a week, to try and help with her dizziness. She was dizzy even sitting in her recliner, just moving her head. They still have no conclusive proof of what this is. Also, my sister and I noticed slurred speech, and they noticed it at the hospital, so she could have had a TIA (http://www.webmd.com/stroke/tc/transient-ischemic-attack-tia-topic-overview) but there was nothing on the MRI. The Dr.'s said the urinary tract infection could have caused the dizziness. I looke on the Internet and did not find dizziness listed for symptoms of urinary tract infection. I think they are grasping at straws because they just don't know. They gave her some intravenous antibiotics yesterday. We will see if the tests today show anything. She is less dizzy, not dizzy at all when sitting now, but still more dizzy than usual when they get her up to try and walk with a walker. Please pray for her, and for me, my family, the extended family. Especially my sister as she helps make decisions about my Mom's care.

My Goals from last week and how I did:

Spiritual Goals 

1. Devotions daily - for the next few weeks, or however long it takes, I will be doing How People Change and How People Change Study Guide: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace. I have wanted to work on this and have not had the extra time. It has a lot of scripture, especially in the homework of the Study Guide. I will not be writing in my journal. I will be writing in the study guide.  Partly Done - I missed one day, I think.
2. Finish reading Reshaping It All.    Partly Done - I read one chapter, but have 2 more to go.
3. Listen to Godly Music Daily, as part of my morning Devotions.  Partly Done 
4. Read Power of a Praying Wife and leave hubby a note for each chapter I read. He needs the extra prayers and encouragement.   Not Done
5. Read God's Priorities for Today's Woman ch. 13 "The Art of Showing Kindness" for Ladies Bible Study this coming Friday. Done

Homeschool Goals

1. Keep Christopher doing all 12 workboxes and Nathan doing all his school. We discovered, after a family conflict, that Nathan is finished a couple of subjects as far as his required hours. So he is concentrating on the subjects he has left.  Done - Christopher Not Done - Nathan, though Nathan has less to do each day he has not been doing it. It is his school work and when he is done he can graduate...even if that doesn't happen until September or January. I am just sick of nagging him about it.
2. Keep up with logging in the boys work and grading as we go through the week. Not Done Things were crazy on Friday with my mom being in the hospital and even over the weekend. I did not get anything done that I had planned to do on Sat. or Sunday. Saturday I just didn't feel like doing much of anything and just watched movies with my kids and played on my computer. Sunday we went to PA to visit my Mom in the hospital and that pretty much took up all day. When we came home it was dinner time and then we watched some more movies. I will catch up with logging stuff in today and tomorrow.

Blog Goals    

1. Post Blast From The Past on Tuesday. Done
2. Join in some favorite memes that I like to do and try and leave comments on a few blogs of those who link up. I will not be tracking my linking up but want to do it to encourage others to comment on my blog as well.  Done

Personal/Other Goals 

1. Comment on all the other GPM ladies posts. Keep track of their names with links here so I know whose I have done.   Partly Done - I commented at our hostesses blog @ Mama Manuscripts, I never did go back and comment on the other participants.
   
2. Log books into Book Collector software. I am working on my personal fiction books. Not Done
3. Read, Read, Read! I will be linking up my reading this year to I am currently reading a number of things... for personal, fun, fiction reading I am reading The Hidden Flame (Acts of Faith, Book 2). I have some books to read for History and I may also read parts of Emma by Jane Austen.  Done - I read a bunch of The Hidden Flame in the car on Sunday. I also read a History book to Christopher last week for school. He finished it on Friday while I was at Ladies Bible Study, but I still have the last 2 chapters to read this week.
4. We are back to sharing the meals and chores. Make sure the kids keep up with chores and cooking. The others are not required to meal plan but they are encouraged to do so. Rachel has all her March meals planned, the others don't and didn't plan in Feb. either. Partly Done -The house is really a mess right now. We have not been doing well on chores this week. We also have not been doing the Saturday chores and need to figure out what to do about that. It is also just about time for some spring chores... like washing windows.
5. Scrapbook. I want to do both paper scrapbooking and spend some time playing with my new Scrapbook software, My Memories.  Partly Done - I worked on the My Memories scrapbook software, but I was planning on  paper scrapbooking on Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Oh well, I still have 2 weeks in March to get some done.
6. Go to PA on Friday and get my mom for a week's visit at our home while her bathroom is worked on. Not Done - She is not coming due to the hospital visit and rehab.

For this week that is 5 Done, 6 Partly Done, and 5 Not Done. Not bad considering the way the week ended.


My goals for this coming week:

Spiritual Goals 

1. Devotions daily - for the next few weeks, or however long it takes, I will be doing How People Change and How People Change Study Guide: How Christ Changes Us by His Grace. I have wanted to work on this and have not had the extra time. It has a lot of scripture, especially in the homework of the Study Guide. I will not be writing in my journal. I will be writing in the study guide. 
2. Finish reading Reshaping It All.
3. Listen to Godly Music Daily, as part of my morning Devotions.
4. Read Power of a Praying Wife and leave hubby a note for each chapter I read. He needs the extra prayers and encouragement.  

Homeschool Goals

1. Keep Christopher doing all 12 workboxes and Nathan doing all his school. We discovered, after a family conflict, that Nathan is finished a couple of subjects as far as his required hours. So he is concentrating on the subjects he has left.
2. Keep up with logging in the boys work and grading as we go through the week.

Blog Goals    

1. Post Blast From The Past on Tuesday.
2. Join in some favorite memes that I like to do and try and leave comments on a few blogs of those who link up. I will not be tracking my linking up but want to do it to encourage others to comment on my blog as well.

Personal/Other Goals 

1. Comment on all the other GPM ladies posts. Keep track of their names with links here so I know whose I have done. 
2. Log books into Book Collector software. I am working on my personal fiction books.
3. Read, Read, Read! I will be linking up my reading this year to I am currently reading a number of things... for personal, fun, fiction reading I am reading The Hidden Flame (Acts of Faith, Book 2). I have some books to read for History and I may also read part of Emma by Jane Austen. 
4. We are back to sharing the meals and after dinner chores. Make sure the kids keep up with chores and cooking. The others are not required to meal plan but they are encouraged to do so. Rachel has all her March meals planned, the others don't and didn't plan in Feb. either. 
5. Figure out what to do about the Saturday chores and get at least some of them done.
6. Scrapbook. I want to do both paper scrapbooking and spend some time playing with my new Scrapbook software, My Memories.

Do you have any goals for the week? Post your goals and link up. The button at the top will take you to the meme and you can join up with us. I have been doing this for more than a year now and setting weekly goals is really helping me keep focus and achieve more. Have a great week.

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Read-Aloud Thursday ~ Daniel Boone and Captain Cook

Last week we read Daniel Boone: The Opening of the Wilderness. I did not get time to link up and write the review for last Thursday but got it done on Sunday. Click the link above to read my review of that book. It was a great book! One of my favorites so far this year.

We are now reading Captain Cook Explores the South Seas I have found this book very interesting. There were a lot of things about Captain Cook that I never knew. Most Landmark books are interesting. I would give this one 4 stars so far. We finished chapter 7 out of 9 chapters and so we should finish the book tomorrow. I would definitely say boys ages 9 or so and up would like this book. I had no idea that Cook started out as a farmer's son. He went through a lot to rise to his position as captain of a ship.

I didn't know he was married either. It would be really hard to be married and pregnant and then see you husband go off for a 3 year voyage. I can't imagine.

Captain Cook and his shipmates had a lot of hard times on that 3 year voyage but some of them made it home and they had discovered a lot of things... including The Great Barrier Reef and claiming Australia for England (it had been discovered but not thoroughly mapped, landed on, or claimed before).

I was also interested to see how many famous characters from this time period had spent time fighting in the French and Indian / 7 Years War. It is amazing how many important people had a hand in that war.

below are 2 other links to Amazon for this book.
Captain Cook Explores the South Seas
Captain Cook Explores the South Seas

Well, I don't want to tell you everything that happened or you won't want to read the book.

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