Happy Campers Are We!

I was at camp for a whole month over the summer and I fell in love with everyone! I was a CIT and let's just say we are not normal! I was looking through an album on Facebook of camp and I found one of Me, K, K, and E. I absolutely loved it! Well here are some pictures of the CITS, some counselors, and us being weird ;)

Cae

30 Days

Mom turned on the tv this afternoon when we got back from volunteering at a blood drive at church. It's called 30 Days and is produced by Planet Green. Now 30 Days takes a person and have them live in someone else's family for 30 days. The episode that Mom watched took an Atheist and put her into a strong devout Christian family. During the Bible Study they were talking about heaven and if the Atheist believed in heaven, she said that she didn't. The Bible Study group said that they did, and that although no one has come back from heaven they still believe in it.

Well NEWSFLASH Bible Study, read your Bible and learn someone did come back from heaven, who you ask? JESUS! He died and then rose again, He lived with his father in his father's house. God's house is heaven, so Jesus was in heaven and came to the earth, so someone needs to fact check their argument.

Cae

Daddy

A couple months ago, Mom was reading one of her homeschooling sites and a comment came up from a mother stating that her husband works a lot and is very rarely home, and that her daughter (around my age) misses him and she was looking for help. I looked at Mom and said "Tell her to suck it up! I've lived with it for most of my life, she can live with it also! Or tell her to make a pillow from old jeans from her father." Mom laughed and she understood my reaction. My father is very work oriented, I have been accustomed to not seeing him in the audience at a play, or sitting in the pew for my confirmation. I used to attempt to figure why he would be in FL instead of CT for my birthday, or why he would be in SD at a meeting instead of watching me get confirmed, or why he would be somewhere in New England while I had a lead role or a solo in a performance of mine. I've finally come to peace with this, I no longer care. I know that it would be nice to have my father there watching me and clapping for me, but there are times that he needs to be somewhere, and a lot of these times are important and if he didn't go it could cost him his job.

My father most recently missed my confirmation, he had to be in SD for work. I can't really be mad at him, but it does make me wish that he was sitting in the pew next to Mom, but I guess you can't have everything. I have to say Dad has missed some important things in both my life and Bro #1's life. Dad felt bad for not being able to see me get confirmed, but I told him he's finally even. He missed Bro #1's baptism, so he can miss my confirmation.

As I get older I learn that although I would want me father with me, but if he isn't there in person, he's always there in spirit.

Cae ♥

Who's Da Boss - Flashback Friday

This weeks prompt for our Flashback Friday from Mocha with Linda;;

How was your family structured when you were growing up? Did you grow up with both original parents in the home? If your parents divorced, did you go back and forth between them? Whether divorced or widowed, did your parent remarry? How old were you? Was yours a multi-generational household with grandparents living with you? Did your mom work outside the home, and if so, was it full-time or part-time? Was there a clearly delineated division of labor between your parents (or parent and step-parent) and how traditional was it? Did your parents believe in child labor?! That is, how structured were chores? What responsibility, if any, did you have for things like doing your own laundry, fixing your own school lunch, etc.? Were your parents do-it-yourself-ers or did they hire people for repairs, painting, etc.? Is your current marriage/family structure similar to the way you were raised? What do you do differently than you did then?

Well my family is a dictatorship with a slight side of democracy. Dad's the head of the house, below him Mom, below Mom, myself & Bro #1, below us the animals- - -I actually think the dog is above the cat, anyways. Most of the time when discussing Bro #1 and I can ask questions and we can slightly figure out what the parents are talking about, but they get to make the decision in the end, but we can add in put. Mom and Dad worked full-time until Bro #1 and I were pulled out of school, then Mom might have gone to part-time, but I don't really remember. Dad is still working full time and doesn't work on a 9-5 schedule, for example he came home last night at 10:30 from a bid opening somewhere in CT. Mom currently is a SAHM, but is applying for jobs.

Child Labor? What's that? JK! I know what it is! When Bro #1 and I were first homeschooled, Mom and Dad worked for the family business so we would help somehow, I would file, send faxes, shred papers, or the most boring and worse job we could get. Organizing the parts room and figuring out how much we have, there is a fancy word for this, but it's 7 and I'm really tired! Anyways, Bro #1 and I have grown up always doing something, if we weren't working at work then we had chores at home to complete, and if there weren't chores to do then Dad would find something for us to do instead of watch tv or play the computer. I joke that when I become a mother that I will raise my children completely different from how mine raised me, but I don't know how or if I'll follow through with that threat that I've said multiple times to Mom.

Cae ♥

Lidna Power! Random Dozen

This weeks Random Dozen comes from Linda over at Mocha with Linda, she helped out Lid from 2nd Cup of Coffee this week, and now we have a Random Dozen right before our eyes, so thanks Linda :)










1. Do you prefer to read the book or see the movie? Read the book, then watch the movie if it was a really good book and the previews look really good. 

2. What is your favorite holiday and why?  Thanksgiving, because it's a time to give thanks to God for what you have and realize that if you have a roof over your head, a bed to sleep in, and heat to keep you warm, you're doing okay.

3. Which do you like better - the mountains or the beach? For vacation the beach, to live the mountains preferable the verde montis (green mountins) over in Vermont, such a beautiful view.

4. If money were no consideration, what vehicle would you drive? My baby, a 1968 Stingray Corvette, red of course.

5. What is your favorite cold-weather beverage? Mocha Hot Chocolate, mix some coffee with the hot chocolate and you're all good. Or some hot apple cider from one of the many local orchards, yummy :)

6. How do you communicate most often with your friends: phone, email, text, face-to-face, or Facebook? Most of my friends would be Facebook or email, then again most of them are all in CT. My MA friends usually face-to-face, phone call/text, or an email it all depends

7. How do you receive your mail? Mailbox on the porch, at the end of the driveway, down the street, or post office box? Oh, well in my lovely stupid town we clearly don't believe in mail delivery, so we have to get our mail from the post office, at our po box, stupid, I know!

8. Of the four basic personality types - sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic, and choleric - which is your strongest? Which is your least evident? (See definitions below.) Can I state that these are all SAT words? Well I'm going to, these are all SAT words! Anyways, I'm most sanguine, even though it's definition is cheerfully optimistic, I'm most sanguine than any of the other, but my personal favorite is phlegmatic ;)

9. What do you miss the most about being 20? Can I do 10? I'm not 20 yet, so I'll do 10! Ummm, not caring what the world was doing around me, and of course horseback riding!!

10. How long from the time you get up, does it take you to get ready to walk out the door in the morning? It depends what I'm doing in the morning, if I have to leave maybe 10 minutes, if I have some time about an hour depending how long it takes me to dry my hair.

11. Who handles the car maintenance and pays the bills in your family? Ha, Mom does all of that fun stuff :)

12. For those in the US, how many states have you visited? For those outside the US, how many provinces/other countries have you visited? I'm around 24 give or take a couple states, I can't really remember ;)


If you enjoyed this weeks Random Dozen stop by Linda's blog and answer your own and then link up!


Cae

Cancer Strikes Again

Jill and I, with Jill's most famous quote while singing.

I've stated how cancer has affected my life, for the good or bad, well today I recieved news that wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. Mom got a call from a friend down in CT, saying that J, my old choir director and a second mother, was diagnosied with an aggressive Stage 3c Breast Cancer. This news hit me like a ton of bricks, J has always been there for me, she helped me through moving, she was always there when ever I needed a hug, and she was just always there is needed. She was my first S in my life, and man do I love J. Her Facebook Status are always funny, for example the one she posted yesterday was "The reason there are so few famous skeletons is that they are a bunch of no bodies", J is always making me smile.

Mom and I have already sent an email to E, J's husband, letting him know that the two of us will help them out no matter what! I've also been debating about donating my hair to Locks of Love, well I'm going to do it and I will have short hair! I'm also going to make a Bottle of Hope for J.

Please keep J in your prayers

Cae

Dusting

I used to ride horses when I was about 10, and I stopped when I was 12 because life got way to busy, and horseback riding was the newest thing that I started, so it was cut first. Fastforward to October 2010, it's been too long of a time of me not riding a horse, but I have been working at the horse rescue up my street, so I've been cleanning stalls, falling in love with the horses, grooming, and playing with the horses of course. Well last Tuesday I walked up to the horse rescue and Vicky, the owner of the rescue, asks me to finish cleanning the stalls and then says that I can groom Monty and put some ointment on his booboos, after I groomed Monty, Vicky asked me if I wanted to ride him bareback. I said of course, and grabbed my helmet. So I rode Monty, for the first time on him and for riding bareback, and I fell in love. Come Tuesday night, I was "walking like a cowboy", but the pain in my cobwebbed muscles, is a good pain, and a pain that I'm all right with, and can't wait until next Tuesday :)

Enjoy some pictures of my on Monty!
Cae