Christian Family Life~ Humor ~ Thankful Thursday

Dear Friends,

I am so thankful for the Lords unconditional love, and grace, my family and wonderful friends. I am so thankful for pools, smoothies and ice machines in the heat and the sound of laughter. Ok speaking heart to heart on laughter this is serious folks... my friend Lee asked why I haven't blogged about her?

Like she pointed out I did blab as she put it about my other friends but not her. Well I hope you don't mind.. but had to tell you I am so grateful for friends that are different then us, that stand up for us , make us proud and well put smiles on our faces. About my friend Lee .Once upon a time.. is anyone there ? Well dear friends one day Lee had a beautiful birthday party for her daughter at the park . You know the kind with all the balloons , games , prizes the works. I am here to tell you it was quite lovely. But....she went the extra mile and had everyone under the sun invited. I was assigned head chauffeur and picked up some of the kids and brought some home. After a hectic day and well quite frankly a headache . I loaded up the charges in my van, so did Sue, Jen and well you get the picture. So I drop off all the kids I knew , had little chats with moms and dads as we pulled in their driveways ,and set to go home with my children. When I realize I have one child left. "Um who are you and where do you live?" I found myself asking trying not to panic and quite proud of myself.

"For 25.00 I will tell you" comes the reply ..

Whatttt.... Well I drive as fast as a van will drive at the time and make it back to the park where Lee is cleaning up. I present her with my problem and she says "well where did you get her"?

Well Mary Sunshine where do you think? The dollar store? So we both turn to this little pleasant child and she tells us its now 30.00. Well Lee tells her she is not going to stand for this, gets a real mean mom face when all I could do was want to cry and bemoan my situation to anyone at the park who would listen and tells the girl she is marching her to the police . Well the girl gave the info Lee marched her to the door without my 30.00 I might add and has been my hero ever since. By the way if there is anyone left forgot to tell you she was a little girl who lived near the park ( was not invited to the party) and is probably a negotiator today.

Thank goodness this happened years ago or you know where I would be .

May the Lord bless you with laughter and love this week. Thank you for visiting.

Thank you Iris for hosting.

In his endless love,
Angel Mama():)

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Family Summer Fun and Memories

Dear Friends,

Find a penny pick it up!

"They looked to Him, and were radiant." Psalm 34

To recreate that fun theme use a small kiddie pool fill with homemade bubble recipe, and tons of wands, homemade bubble wands, hula hoops, and plastic pop rings. You can make bubble wands out of wire hangers also. My husband made me one out of copper with glass marbles etc and its an angel . So cute !

I have found over the years the pure joy of summer. I enjoy the warm summer memories of when I was little or doing things with my children in the lazy dazy days of summer. By the way can any of you hula hoop good? I need another lesson. I have to tell you one of the best summers my children had was at Ben and Jerry's ice cream festival ( yearly picnic). Oh we had so much fun. The best though was the bubbles. Oh my it was a blast.

We love making ice cream or sweet pinwheels. We love
using these for favors or part of our art parties. To
see how to make pinwheels click here. How to
make magic ice cream in 5 minutes with
a freezer bag click here.



I have found over the years the joy has been in
creating the memories. We love doing theme parties .
My children have loved these over the years and my
daughter who is in college still talks of her favorite a garden
party, complete with lady bug cupcakes and bee candy
made out of wheat germ and almonds. She made the candy
for a college project and that still makes me laugh.
Sir Nick still loves these kind of adventures.
His favorite is being a bug detective in the butterfly garden
or playing in his fort. I love collecting art magazines, project books and
gleaning from all your inspiring fun , creative moms and fellow bloggers.
Please leave some tips for us all and share your memories.

Taking the time to be creative with homemade picnic baskets, forts,
going to old time festivals, parades, the beach, using lump clay,
or a homemade puppet theater have been some of our favorites over the years.

This next week I will be making more pizzas for our second art park we are hosting, get things for canning and just having fun. So make bubbles, eat chocolate, make lemonade shakers in mason jars, catch fire flys. If you make smores can you invite me? If it has to be healthy make mango ice cream.... I have a lovely recipe .


Smiles and Love,

Angel Mama ():)

Thankful Thursday~ Christian Family Life and Humor~

Dear Friends,

As another week passes and I look over the moments in the week, I am so grateful for the Power to choose. The power to choose happiness in all circumstances and all things. Life , marriage, children and friendships are all so precious to each of us. Choosing to make our own happiness , plant our own gardens of love. I thank the Lord for having given me the gift of my wonderful children. He has so blessed me indeed .I know it is up to me to do a good job raising them and looking to the joy of it.

I am thankful for the Lord being in my life.

I am so thankful for my wonderful husband and his sense of ethics and humor.

I am thankful for my wonderful family and friends.

Ok and speaking of humor. I am so thankful for the gift of laughter and a sense of humor. With my friend Mary's permission I am going to tell you what my day was like the other day. We were getting ready for the children's art park and lessons we are hosting here. Mary has 4yr. twins ,as well as a 2 yr. and was babysitting 3... She graciously offered to go with me to help get the rest of my supplies and everything I needed, for my friendship tea, I am hosting next month. I was crying grateful that she went. Having the twins, my son and the other 4 kids should be enough said right there....LOL Are you with me still ?

10:00 am bathroom break the one 7yr Sarah jumps up and tries to flip like in "gymnastics" over the top of the door frame...while all eyes and lectures on safety were on her, the twins started fighting . I was in charge of Gracie the two year old , when I turned around she had stripped ...yes you heard me ...yes almost completely .I found myself stuttering and repeating " Oh my " over and over and other phrases randomly, intelligent things such as: no " we don't touch anything" until other people started staring and saying ok.... I grabbed her shoes yes those were off too and put them as well as her clothes back on. I then had to wash her and the 7 yr olds hands about oh...100 times . By then I felt like I had run a NY marathon and actually well ..won first place...ahem If you were in a mall and witnessed this I am sincerely apologize for traumatizing you. As for all the cute chocolates I bought to fill the tea cups, well they hopefully calorie free and still in stock ,as I ate every last one when I got home.

I am grateful for all you, your wonderful blogs and inspiration.

May the Lord bless you this week and always. Thank you for stopping in for a visit it means so much to me.

Thank you to Iris for hosting Thankful Thursday.

In his endless love,


Angel Mama ():)

Life on Cloud Nine with Angel Mama

Dear Friends,
I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I will be around to see all your lovely plans, glean from your inspiring posts and enjoy visiting you and your families for awhile later.

I spent most of last week and part of the weekend reformatting, installing the OS updating software, and giving the computer the works as I had a virus I got in it last week. So I had been without access for a few days, while doing this.:)

We also installed our pool, I had guests over for tea and cleared out the spaces in my workshop for our summer art fun. Boy that was a job I wasn't looking forward to but am glad its done. The kids have picked out some projects to do with Dad also so we picked up those supplies.

I have to tell you I made the most wonderful recipe for over 100 burritos and it turned out so good. They freeze wonderful. I will give you the link later and our additions . We make our own chili and use it with some of the burritos for variety. This is the absolute best recipe I have tried in a long time. You will laugh I think the cost came out to .20 a burrito and that is because we add the chili etc. Angel Daddy is bringing some of these to work this week.

So you don't get the impression all was calm while I was doing all this. I pulled my slip out of the dryer and went to get dressed to go out with all the guys ( yes I am a Mama with a house of just boys right now as my daughter is off at college) and couldn't find the slip anywhere... I wandered the house aimlessly with such conversations to Angel Daddy "did you see my slip I just had"?

"What slip?" says my wonderful husband as he and the kids head out to the door and load into the car. We will just be out here waiting dear as I know you are almost ready( as it took them all of three minutes to get ready). After aimlessly wandering I went and got a new outfit as I decided I didn't want to wear that cute number anyway. My hair is now almost to my waist and takes longer to get ready then all of a 2 yr old preschool class for a walk. After what they said was eternity we go shopping for the rest of the pool supplies ...OH joy getting my list... out low and behold I almost jump for joy and not care who is around for there in my purse is my slip... Yeah not only did I not lose it but I am not losing it.

Have a wonderful day my friends.

I am off to make snow cones, take Sir Nick out swimming , make fruit leather and dry some herbs that are ready.


Love ,

Angel Mama ():)

Life and Housekeeping on Cloud Nine

Dear Friends,

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. Ours was very busy as usual. So I apologize if I haven't made it to your blogs to visit yet. I will be there today to read all your wonderful plans, weekend adventures and lovely posts.

We went to the Library as planned on Friday and Sir Nick signed up for a summer reading adventure for 6 weeks. They have a lot of great things planned and he is so excited. I am so happy and so blessed we had been praying for supplemental curriculum books for both he and Jon for awhile now, and found boxes upon boxes for sale at the library. Our family has so many books and a huge library but I wanted more textbooks. My husband and sons helped me go through all them and we found elementary Algerbra, HS algebra, Calculus , Geometry, Trigonometry, Spanish, American Literature, History, Civil War books,Photography, Artist books and so many more. We ended up with about 50 books as well as reading books, home improvement and cook books.

I have started to teach 6-7 years olds Sunday School so have been busy with lesson plans.

We are also expanding our art studio and getting tutorials and supplies for the kids. We are doing silk screening and screen printing next weekend as well as will be making our homemade paper again.

Well I hope you all enjoy your wonderful day I am off to put salsa chicken in the crock pot , do laundry and wash all the floors.

I have a column to do for Candi's blog also so will do that before the afternoon. I will be by soon.

Love,

Angel Mama ():)