Seeking the Lord Daily

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