Seeking the Lord Daily

Just a quick post wishing you have a wonderfully blessed New Year in 2014~ Our family will be going through some exciting changes we can't wait to share~ Thanks for reading my blog and sharing our lives with us. May The Lord bless you all as you purpose to seek Him and His plan! Blessings~ Maudie                                                  

Merry Christmas Everyone! Remember the true reason for the season! Christmas should be about Jesus, not gifts or a tree! Blessings -

I hope this post finds all of you doing lovely and preparing for next weeks upcoming events. We are taking it easy as we are still regrouping from the flu! I'm hoping to be able to post more because my wonderful husband gave me an iPad for Christmas :-) I've decided to post a Christmas letter for all my friends here who visit my blog. We've been up to quite a bit this last year and I would love to share it all with you! I'm hoping to make this an annual  tradition. So here goes:             The year 2013 has been quite an interesting one.  On March 1st we celebrated the much anticipated arrival of our (this is going to be a long one) 7th child Jonas Heath, who is also our 3rd son,4th vasectomy reversal baby, 3rd tubal reversal baby, and my 7 th c section!  He is an absolute joy and has been from day 1. We are extra blessed by having him in our lives and are excited at the prospect of  such a wonderful future he has ahead of him. Shortly after his birth, we were convi

I hope this post finds all of you doing well and getting ready for the upcoming new year. We have had the flu/cold for 3 weeks now, and as of today ( Praise the Lord!) we are prayerfully on the mend. It has been a rough road to say the least. I want to start out by saying that I can already tell that this is going to be the first of several post to come on this topic, thus the "part 1" added to the end of the title. I also want to add a little disclaimer here. I am NOT trying to offend anyone, or say I have arrived at all. Please don't take it that way. I do hope if  what I say offends you that you will think if the possibility that perhaps it is the Holy Spirit convicting you of something. That is how I try to see it when I get offended :-) A little background on my theory about blogging and real life. I personally can not understand why more women are not honest in their online writings. Especially when they are trying to encourage another lady. I can honestly tell yo

I'm labeling this post "Thankful Thursday" because as I sit here I am reminding myself of all the things I am thankful for. I want to do a quick re-cap on what has happened lately. Our dream property we had our heart's set on sold. Our home has been shown several time and still hasn't sold. We are sad, but resting in the Lord's provisions and plan. When I titled this blog " Seeking the Lord Daily", that meant just that. We are seeking His will and His plan, not ours. And sometimes this is a bitter pill to swallow. I know that there are many people right now who don't have it as good as I do. My life isn't perfect, but its so much better than it could have been. I approach this Thanksgiving season with a new perspective on life. I am BLESSED. I am so grateful for every day I am given. I am blooming where the Lord has planted me. I know God is working out the details in the plans of my life. We are seeking out to find land again and find that p

Sorry I haven't posted an update lately! We have been super busy and I just haven't been able to sit down and post. My camera broke, so no pictures either :-( We still haven't sold our home and although its a little sad, I know that the Lord's timing is better than ours. With that, I ask that you all please pray the Lord sends a buyer to us by spring, so that we can clear the land on the new place and be able to plant a nice garden. I hope your fall is going well. We are seeing the beauty of it here with all the beautiful colors of the leaves. What wonderful Lord we serve! I'll try to post more regular from here on out. Blessings friends! Blessings~ Maudie

I am so excited to share that we have a good update on our showing from Saturday... The couple want to come back for another showing today at 5!  I am so excited yet I know that they still may not choose our home, but if they don't then atleast we are on the right track. It is bittersweet, in a sense, to be moving from here even though we have only been here 5 years as of December 18. I have brought 3 babies home to this house and had some wonderful memories. I also see God has shown me so much more than I ever expected in this short time as well. I am such a different person and I am amazed that the Lord has brought me to this place after all this time. Some of my children are super excited, others not so much. But this move, what ever God's timing is in regards to it, is just that... GOD. He has brought us to this and opened our eyes in so many ways. At times I am sad over loss that I feel I have suffered in several areas, but I remind myself that His plan is what I want for

Guess what! Our home is being shown again tomorrow at 12 central time. Please pray that the couple will love it and that they will put in a full price offer! I'm so excited. We are ready to go to our farm, but we are waiting on the Lord. Hopefully our wait won't be long! I will update soon. Thanks for praying for us. I'm off to join Cameron and the kiddos coloring in the living room :-) God is good.... Blessings~ Maudie      Our verse this week for encouragement during our illness. Thanks Savannah!                                                     

Hello! I am still here and I promise I have not stopped blogging again. We have been sick and my husband has been out of work since Monday. When he returns to work next week, I have several post lined up. We also got a call today that our house will be possibly shown again soon. There is a man interested who is working with a local credit union right now to secure financing. Please pray he is the one! This would be an answer to prayers for us. Secretly ( or not so secretly) my prayer is that we will sell this house for what we need to sell it for, be able to buy our farm for what we need to get it for and do all the repairs and clear the land in time to be at the farm for Christmas. That is MY hope. Now its just up to the Lord to reveal His plan and His timing.... Blessings~ Maudie                                                     

I hope this post finds you all doing well. I am super busy, but I wanted to post some pictures of our week, including some school pictures. And I wanted to remind you to check out our church's Bible study tonight on U Stream.  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/shepherds-hill-homestead Hope you enjoy! Blessings~ Maudie                                                                                                              

I pray that everyone who is reading this is having a very blessed day~ We are doing our regular day to day task and getting ready to start school in about 20 mins. We did not get an offer on our house, but the good news is that they LOVED our house. They put an offer in on a house that will be 30 mins closer to the man's new job. If for some reason that offer is not accepted, they plan on putting an offer in on ours. I am a little sad, but so very grateful that they loved our home, that it showed well and that most important, God's time is better than ours. He knows what we need and He knows when we need it! Praise Him for that. I hope to come on later and post a few pictures of our first official school day ( which was yesterday). We have been doing school a day or so here and there, but all the recent doctor appointments have taken the top spot. I'm so glad I homeschool where I am able to take off and do what we need to do. So off I go...on to another wonderful day that t

I hope you have had a great weekend so far. Ours has been good. All the kiddos had another yard sale today (they had one last weekend too) and they made $20 dollars to split 4 ways. They made $5 a piece today and $ 6 a piece last Saturday. They also have the opportunity to earn $5 a piece every time their daddy gets paid ( which is 2 times a month), so they really enjoy making and saving money. They are all working towards saving for various different things. And we are also asking them to tithe along with us to the various places we give our tithe too. Our church is a home church and they just ask us to give to what we feel the Lord leading us to give. We want our children to see the blessing that they can get from giving to the Lord and to learn early that they can not out give God! Our oldest is saving for an iPad mini, the middle is saving for a collectable doll, the 3rd daughter is saving to be able to buy Christmas gifts for all of us and James isn't really saving...its the f

Please pray for us tomorrow. Our house is being shown for the first time and these people are really interested. Please pray that it will sell to them for full price or atleast no less than $5000 below our asking price and that we can get moving! Thanks and I'll update tomorrow!

A new season is nearly upon us! Fall is my all time favorite season because of all the beautiful colors of the leaves and the crisp breeze that usually blows in the air at that time. I am looking forward to baking ( another one of my favorite pastimes) and putting out all my fall decorations. We have a lot going on around here with school getting into full swing, keeping the house in tip-top shape in case someone wants to tour it, and I am also the coordinator for our annual Christmas card exchange on Momys ( an online forum I am a member of for large families). So all in all I have a ton of things on my plate. As time allows I am going to start  a series of several topics on here and I am going to post on them 1 day a week in addition to my normal post. We are experiencing so many exciting changes in our lives right now and along with all those changes comes a lot of things I feel like the Lord is leading to me to share. Among those topics will be modesty, marriage, mother/daughter re

How did your week go? Ours went pretty well. It flew by as time seems to do that around here lately. We have a couple of people interested in our house, so I'm praying that one of them will be the right ones and they  will get their approval letters and get to come tour our home! We're looking forward to selling our home and hopefully getting our new home in the country. We've already fell in love with the one place we're looking at, but we also have to trust in the Lord that if that isn't the place for us, that He will direct our path, and show us where we are supposed to be. By waiting on the Lord to provide us with the funds to purchase our new home, we get to experience the awesome guidance and provision that only the Lord can provide. Our lives are taking a new turn, and I'm truly blessed to stand back and be in awe of our Lord's will. By choosing the path that we have, we have lost friends, relationships with several of our family members, and our chil

I've had many things on my mind lately and I have decided after much thought and prayer that this is a good place to share those things. I know I don't have a super popular blog that tons of people read, but the whole reason I set out to blog years ago was to keep memories and to hopefully inspire a few people along the way. Not to make money or have a ton of followers. I have not posted as frequently as I would have like to, but I really want to try to make a point to post atleast once a week from here on out. In real life, I have very few friends. I can credit the internet to my closest friend in real life and my other friends are all online, although I hope to meet some of them someday. I look at blogs and sometimes feel insecure in my own life. I think to myself, that my life isn't as "perfect" as some of those other ladies. I have struggles daily and live a very real life. My children are not cookie cutter kiddos lined up with fake smiles and perfectly styled

Its been 3 months since I last posted! Oh my! I have lots of things to talk about. First of all, we are officially out of our "birthday season" as we call it around here. We have a birthday every month starting in January with mine, except April, all the way through July, ending with Savannah's birthday. We have had a good summer. And have enjoyed doing the normal day to day things we find our self doing. We have had the desire for sometime to move to the country and start a farm of some type. Well that dream may be closer than we think. As of this past Thursday our little home is officially looking for a new owner! We just happened to find our "perfect" place on our way home from church one day. We fellowship with some people about an hour or so away from here and the place we found is down their direction. It has 27 acres, a fully stocked fish pond, and a workable 2008 doublewide mobile home. As a fellow blogger whom I admire and frequent her blog quite a bit,

Our days have been quite busy lately and we have once again had the sickness strike our home. We were able to get our garden planted thanks to the kindness of our dear friends Jennifer and Jason Williams; Check out her blog. She has a wealth of wonderful things on there from debt free living, homeschooling on a budget, and healthy eating. I have her button right over on the side of my blog. Its the one with the neat spinning wheel. Our cardiologist appt at the children's hospital for Jonas is next Thursday. A week from today. I am praying that all is well. Another major job change is in the future for my husband. That too will be a major life event for us which lately it seems like we have more and more of those. My husband has about 3 companies that he is applying too. Please remember Cameron in your prayers and that the Lord will open up the right door at the right time. Ultimately his goal is to be self employed. However at this time, its not really happenning. But the good thin