My day yesterday

What a wonderful day it was!

My husband had asked me for a date a few days ago, and I agreed.

Usually when we say we need a date, it involves just being alone somewhere for awhile, maybe a walk, but nothing spectacular... just the comfort of being together (and alone) for a little while...

So yesterday came, and as soon as I was home from school, DH grabbed me up and took us to the park, where we fed the ducks....

That was enjoyable. They are so cute, with their little tails just scooting back and forth as they swim closer (or away)..... nice conversation and comfortable times.

Then we took a walk through the park.... saw some beautiful colors. My pictures just don't do them justice...

And my personal favorite...

I also saw something I've not seen in years.... milkweed! Who remembers that?

We even found a couple of old abandoned buildings..... had to investigate, of course. DH thinks they were part of the railroad at one time.

Saw a critter or two...

It was a nice hike through nature with my husband. We like to do stuff like this.....

Afterward, he took me to the mall, where I was treated to a personal "beauty time"... LOL!

Then, as we were leaving, I told him we'd better get on home to our daughters, so we could have supper. Mind you, it was fully cooked and in the crockpot, ready to go....

He said, "Nope, I'm not done with you yet."

He pulled into a restaurant parking lot and escorted me inside, called the girls and told them to go ahead with supper, cause he and I were having dinner out. We had steak and shrimp, and it was absolutely scrumptious! I loved every bite and was blessed every second by a man who loves me and tries to make every day just a bit more special than the one before. (and I think he succeeds!)

He told me, "Sometimes I don't care about the money, I just want to be with you."

Well, and sometimes a lady just has to know when to keep her mouth shut and enjoy the gifts from being in a marriage blessed by God, right?

Quick Jot...

Just to let you all know we are ok here on the homefront! Just busy, busy, busy!

7 weeks to go till my graduation, Abi is busy with school, Daddy is  busy with work and preparing the house for the winter winds and snow, and Amelia has even been busy (in her own way, of course! LOL!).

I do need to scoot and get to reading some material for class tomorrow, but wanted to ask the Lords blessings on each of my friends here...

Thank you all for your well wishes and prayers as our family struggles through this hard time!

Love and hugs~

Hair conditioning and curling....

Ahh yes... a few nights go, the girls and I decided to have a hair conditioning and curling fest for ourselves. We had so much laughter and fun, that we'll probably do it again soon! LOL!

Let me see if I can post a couple of pics of the silliness.....

 Here we are with some serious conditioning going on....

and here's me... Mom.... with curlers in her hair and Dad's kerchief tied around, trying to make it look not quite as horrid as it really did. It didn't help. LOL!

We had a great time, which is rather rare at times with 3 females in one house.... and all 3 with very strong independent temperment and minds. So I did have a blast! And the girls hair turned out soft as silk, and mine actually had curls that stayed more than 5 minutes!

Just some fun times here in Hatfield House.....

The Goodness in People...

There is goodness.... yes, there is... so when a little something happens, I like to reflect on it for awhile. Like today, the family and I just returned from WalMart (had to get some ink for my printer, and of course, a few other items I could have lived without...), there was a little baggie stuck in between the screeen door and front door. In it was $2.75 in change, 2 ink pens and my voice recorder that I use for lectures at school....

Where was this found, you ask? In the bookbag that contained the laptop that DH rented for me while waiting for this one to arrive (the little itty bitty). He does sweet things like that, so I don't mess up my homework or go thru internet withdrawals.... LOL!

So anyway, the other laptop was returned, and these people tracked me (us) down to return my property. I just thought it was a sweet and kind gesture that is deserving of recognition, so I shall get a card and maybe a small token and take it to the lady who returned my things that I so carelessly left behind. Thank you!  :)

Another kind gesture was a friend of mine noted on my Facebook page today a simple sentence that touched me... she told me, "You rock Lady!" LOL! Her and I have been friends for so long... distance cannot stop the friendship. We don't call too often or write letters, but small notes here and there keeps us up to date on each others lives and happenings. I love her and she is a special and wonderful part of my life. She's beautiful and kind and has the willpower and patience of Job.... and she says that I rock? Nah... not me.... SHE is the one tht rocks... truly! I love her and thank her for putting up with me and not giving up on me throughout these many years.... Laura is the one that truly ROCKS!!!!  I love you my friend!

The job is going well, learning many new things.. some I wish I didn't have to learn, and others....well.... new job bull, I guess would be the way to put it. I'm being trained by one that does thing differently than another I am trained by..... like I told my DH.... I just have to find my own niche and fall into it, eh? :)

Other than that, things are going well. I need to focus a bit more on my schooling than I have been, and get busy with some serious studying, cause 8 weeks till graduation!

Well, I had better get off to bed. Clinical tomorrow and I have to be awake and motivated for that! LOL!

~~~Blessings~~~

Lots going on round these parts!

Let's see.... family things still in the works include....

finishing up the garden, although we still have a pepper plant and some brussel sprouts left. DH has cleaned up the rest. Hopefully, next year the "late blight" disease wont get our tomatoes..... He has also cleaned up the flowerbeds, and gotten the chimney ready for winter heatin! We got a deer last week, that was processed and has blessed our  (almost empty) freezer. DH did that too....  :)  He is soooo good to us!

Me? I started a new job, left the old one, rather unexpectedly (when it was discovered I was leaving, they let me go, but said I quit...) Huh. Anyway, I've been busy with training and paperwork and such with my new job, so I am learning, however slowly. It's ok, cause I was hired in for a RN position, but am training for it now, so when I graduate, I will already have my job waiting for me!

School is going well. We're almost finished. December graduation! Yea! I'm in the finishing stages of Psych rotation right now, which is fairly interesting......

DD15 is doing well in her school. having some trouble keeping up with quizzes and such. but Dad and I are strict on that. Homework is first... no matter what. She tries to grump out of it every once in awhile, but I check her grades online every AM, so a D or below earns her a kitchen table seat for that evening with that subject in front of her. Needless to say, this method is working pretty good...

DD16 is another story. She isn't in PS... she won't learn, she refuses to even try HS, wants to sleep till 12 and stay up all night. Is quite sure her 12 hour a week job will carry her through in life. Stubborn as a mule, and needless to say, DH and I spend a great deal of time in prayer......

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Enough of that! Things here at Hatfield House are normal as always.... money is scarce, but love is plentiful, so we are all good.....

We got a free mini laptop that I am working on now, so we can return the one that DH rented for me until we got the desktop fixed... so now we can return the rented one, and use this one and save money until we can get the big one fixed. That'll save a little bit anyway. Actually, a lot.

Have a few things in mind for Christmas coming.... how about you? What are you doing to prepare for he holidays coming up?

What about some good money saving ideas? Heaven knows we could all use that these days!

~Blessings!~