Home-Keeping Hearts Giveaway!

Jenny at Home-Keeping Hearts is hosting a Giveaway! She'll be giving away to one lucky winner a copy of From Mother to Daughter by Vivienne Bolton. and a one year subscription to The Kings Blooming Rose Magazine. Check out her giveaway here.
Jessemily

Busy Busy Busy

So...I honestly thought that since school was starting and I would have a "schedule" that I would get to blog more..that is oh so wrong. I'm to the point I just want to completely get rid of this blog. But I'm going to stick with it. Today we bought 30 lbs of tomatos from the Amish because our garden didn't grow anything..at all. The rain turned it into a big muddy mess this summer and the corn (the only thing that did grow) was eaten by some very lucky Racoons. Hopefully next year will be better. Anyways we're canning the 30 lbs of tomatos that we did buy into spaghetti sauce. YUM!! We are planning on canning even more so I hope to get step by step pictures that I can post! However..we'll see. I really hope to get my life under control soon and get into the habit of posting every now and then!

Long Time No Post

Yes..it has be a VERY long time since I have posted anything. I apologize for that. This summer has become so hectic!! However I am enrolled at the public school this school year and as I get into more of a routine I hope that I will find more time to blog. We'll just have to wait and see what happens! I really hope to get to blog more because I REALLY like to blog. I'm hoping to post some recipes soon. We'll see what happens though! So no I'm not dead I'm still alive I've just been extrememly busy!!

Waiting For Your Prince Charming

*Sorry this post is mostly for girls..but I suppose some boys could get something out of it.* So..everyone knows that waiting is a hard thing to do right?? I don't think waiting is easy for anyone. But one thing that you really need to wait on is your prince charming. You know that special someone who you want to spend the rest of your life with?? Well let me tell you that they are worth waiting for. Now, as ashamed as I am to say this I am telling you so you don't make the same mistake that I did. I got caught up in the "dating game". So there was this boy and I told him that I don't date, he said he understood. I told him that if I was ever "with" someone I would be "with" them because I wanted to spend the rest of my life with them which included getting married and so on. Now he said that that was fine, that he REALLY liked me, that he wanted to spend forever with me. Now I realized that I was only 14 at the time. Normally you don't find your true love at 14, but he said he wanted forever so I believed him. So I was "with" him but we weren't dating. I gave my heart to him..I loved him with as much as I could. However later I found out something. Since we weren't "dating" he thought it would be alright to be with other girls and he wouldn't feel guilty about it since it wasn't "cheating" since we weren't "dating". To him being "together" was not the same as dating and it gave him the right to be with whoever else. And here's where I fell for the dating game. I wasn't aware that he was with other girls while we were together, so I decided, well I guess dating isn't that bad it will still be the same as when we were together right?? Wrong. Very very wrong. Within the first couple of weeks of us "dating" I realized something wasn't right. I'm not going to go into details but it just didn't feel right. He stopped promising forever and started saying "Well you never know what will happen with us, you can't start forever now". I was devastated..completely devastated. He decided to end it in a most devastating way for me..by "dating" someone else. Now my story is just one of a thousand. I can't explain why people think its normal to jump around from one person to the next, why its considered alright to just "date" instead of try and find the person your going to be with forever. I won't fall for the "dating game" again I can assure you. Don't make the same mistake that I did...its not worth it. In God's time if it is meant to be he will show you who you are supposed to be with..if your even supposed to be with anyone. I have to accept the fact that I was wrong..and I have to start over. I have to ask God for forgiveness (which I have and still am) and I have to let him lead the way with my love life. Its hard to give over all of your control to someone else..but its worth it. I already know that I have learned from this experience..but its also changed my life in some negative ways. I'm already noticing that I'm having a harder time trusting people. I'm not as easily convinced anymore either. So maybe these are good things to have..but I find them to be quite negative in my life right now. Anyways I just wanted to share my story and I hope that someone got some good out of it. I don't want ANYONE ever going through what I had to go through. I will also say that the hardest part of all of this is that I still have feelings for him. I gave a part of my heart to him..and its not as easily returned as everyone would think.
Jessemily

Tennessee Post

So I just got back from Tennessee!! What fun that was! This is going to be a short post..I'll have pictures of my trip coming soon!! I took lots of pictures with the help of my mothers camera that she let me borrow. *Thanks Mom* Just wanted to stop in and let ya'll know that I will post pictures of my trip when I get the time!
Jessemily

Update

I normally don't post on Sundays..but I haven't found any time this week to post. Next week I will not be posting at all I'll be in Tennessee with my Girl Scout troop...yes I'm still in Girl Scouts, there is nothing wrong with being in Girl Scouts at my age! lol We're going white water rafting and to a circus and we're also going to a Titanic reenactment museum which should be a lot of fun! I can't wait! We're leaving tomorrow morning at 8 am..I'm not a morning person so this part might be difficult! I'll post about my trip with pictures as soon as I get back home!
In Christ, Jessemily

Wordless Wednesday: Peaches

Marvelous Monday!

So today is a very busy day!! For the past month or so every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday my family watches my older sister Kim's children. They are 3 years old and 2 years old. They are a lot of fun! The three year old is a girl, and the two year old is a boy. But today in addition to watching two youngsters, me and my mother have an eye doctor appointment. So that leaves my wonderful Father and my two younger brothers to watch the little ones while we are away! I'm sure this will be very interesting! As of right now the little ones are being very quiet watching t.v. They are exhausted after playing outside. I'm getting ready to make lunch for them and then I'll have to leave for my appointment. Mondays are normally my laundry day, so I need to make time for that as well! Mondays are always a very busy day for me! I'm still waiting for the garden to dry up so that I can plant more vegetables! Rain has been awful this year! There are a lot of farmers who haven't even been able to plant their crops yet because of the rain! Everything is simply too wet. Well that's all for now! I'll be posting again very soon!

Aren't these flowers just beautiful! I completely forget what
they are called, they have a very strange name..but I do
think they are beautiful!!!

Kittens! And Lots of Pictures!

So my cat Gin (pronounced Jen) had four kittens about 3 weeks ago. Sadly one of them died but she still has three other ones! And today..after much patience and coaxing on my part, I managed to pick up each and every one of them! This may seem like a very easy thing to do..but their in my familys shed behind a giant chest freezer! We don't use the freezer any more, it still works but we didn't have room for it when we moved, so we bought a new one and this one is in the shed. They are adorable though!! My brothers and I named them..they are some pretty unique names! One of them is Pussy-Foot, (apparently on Looney Tunes one of my brothers favorite cartoons their is a cat named Pussy-Foot, so they named one kitten that.) ones name is Shaka, (my brother named it after some African war hero) and I named one of them Captain Carlton. (He was a pirate in a book I read)

This is Pussy-Foot, and as you can see our shed is packed FULL of stuff so it doesn't make it any easier to get to where the kittens are! All three of the kittens are absolutely adorable but they are starting to hiss when we come near them..so socialization class starts right away!!

Thats my lovely Mama Cat! Shes a great mother! She really is.

While I was waiting for the kittens to finally venture out from behind the freezer I went and took LOTS of pictures of our garden. We aren't anywhere near done planting yet, but we've had a lot of rain lately and so its too wet to really plant.

Close up of a tomato plant.

This one already has a tomato on it! I can't wait until it turns red and I get to eat it! lol

We're going to have a lot of green beans this year!
I'm pretty certain we have three different kinds!

We planted both white and red onions this year!

My mother wanted to try and raise broccoli this year so
we're going to try it! One plant died but this one looks
alright!

We grew peppers last year and they
did really well! So we planted
some this year as well!

We're going to have a lot of corn as well! So far this is what
some of it looks like! But we have I think three kinds of corn!

So thats all for now! But I'll be posting again really really soon!

Jessemily

Wordless Wednesday

Getting To Know Me

     So..I figured I would introduce myself. I'm really bad at introducing myself and I often ramble so excuse any rambling on my part! My name is Jessemily, most people call me Jesse though. I am the oldest of my fathers children but the seventh born in my family. My mother was married once had six children and then divorced, remarried and then had me and my twin brothers! So were all one big happy family!
     As far as my religious beliefs go I would say that I am an old-fashioned minded christian! I try to dress modestly all of the time. I wear skirts and dresses most of the time but I will wear pants. I also cover in accordance to 1 Corinthians 11:1-15. My beliefs are that Paul is talking about a separate head covering, hes not talking about a woman's hair. I cover mainly with wide headbands at the moment although I do love the look of veils. I'll certainly be covering this topic in much more depth as time goes by.
     Some of my favorite things to do are bake, sew, quilt, crochet, read and garden. As of now we have two big vegetable gardens that were hoping to get completely planted soon. My mother taught me how to crochet, however she can't read crocheting patterns whereas I can. I'll read almost anything! I love to read, but my favorite thing to read other then the Bible is historical fiction. I love to bake and cook. As long as I have a recipe in front of me I can make almost anything, well except for cookies..I always burn cookies! I'm working on a baby quilt at the moment to put in my hope chest for future use. I'm very lucky as well because my mother knows how to sew so shes been teaching me very very slowly! She wants me to REALLY know how to sew. My lifelong dream is to be a seamstress, well I want to be a mother and wife first, but then I want to be a seamstress.
     My ultimate goal for this blog is to help me to express myself. Right now I'm going through a really emotional time and I find that writing about it helps a lot. So some posts will be WAY off topic, but I do know that my blogging journey will be a lot of fun! Oh and by the way I don't have pictures up on my blog yet..but I will soon. I just have to get some camera problems fixed and then I'll be posting pictures!