Heavenly Homemakers

Guess what we brought home with us after visiting my family in Kansas at Thanksgiving? A whole deer!! 

Our family friend, Bert, LOVES to hunt. My dad has many acres of land on which to hunt. My dad doesn’t charge Bert anything to hunt on his land. So, several years ago, Bert told him that he’d give my dad one deer each year in payment for hunting on his land.

My dad doesn’t like deer meat. So guess who gets a deer each year?! We do!! (My dad doesn’t understand why we get so excited about that.)  (Maybe you don’t either. Do you like deer meat?)

We think it’s yummy…and of course we like the free meat part of the deal. Our favorites are the tenderized steaks that I make into chicken fried steak. Yum! And with the hamburger meat, we make chili and tacos and sloppy joes and spaghetti and….you get the idea.

What’s really cool is that Bert acts like WE’RE doing him a favor by LETTING him hunt for us. (You’re welcome, Bert. Glad we could help.)  He is grateful that we appreciate it so much and can use the meat because he enjoys hunting so much. His wife isn’t a big fan of deer meat, so she appreciates us too. EVERYONE wins!!

Bert told us that if he gets another one this year, we can have that too. GO BERT!!

So, this Gratituesday I’m grateful for how God provided us with a whole shelf full of meat in our freezer. And for friends who are willing to share.
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Well, I’m feeling a little better but oh my goodness I’m low on energy. Who knew typing (and thinking) took so much strength. Sorry in advance for typoos and mistakz.

I’m thankful for our time in Kansas, where I was able to rest and rest and sleep and rest. A couple of times I even felt like getting up to play some games. Saturday I was so very thankful to feel well enough to have an awesome visit with Marie and her family. It’s so incredible to meet cyber friends in person!

When we arrived home Saturday night, my fever came back and I haven’t been out of bed much since. I’m so thankful that Matt and the boys are taking such good care of me. I’m thankful that my fever is now gone and I’m beginning to crawl out of my place of sickness. I’m thankful for DVDs and PBS (which the boys are getting an overload of right now). I’m thankful for soup. I’m thankful for pillows and quilts. I’m thankful for Karen Kingsbury books. (And if I wasn’t sick, I suppose I would be thankful for the opportunity to actually lay around and read.)  ;)

I’m thankful to finally be feeling a little better so that I can do a few things. I’m thankful that I am not going to overdo it.  (Yes, that was a hint to myself and also a reassurance to all of you that I’m not going to overdo it and get sicker.)  (In the next few days while you read any upcoming posts that involve cookie baking or any other activitiy that requires remaining upright for longer than five minutes…just know I’m not overdoing it…I already started working on those posts and taking pictures last week.)  (Which is probably when I overdid it but we won’t go there.)

I’m also thankful that my boys are going to clean up the mess they made in the living room while I spent so much time in bed.  (Yes, that was a hint to my boys to come in here and clean up the boxes and markers that are ALL over the place. And why is my gallon bucket of coconut oil on the steps?)  :)
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Please share what you’re grateful for this Gratituesday! It continues to be so encouraging to read about how God is working in your lives.
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**UPDATE**  Looks like Mr. Linky may be under the weather too. I heard something was going around, I just never knew it would reach him too. SO…leave your Gratituesday link in the comments if he’s not cooperating. Thanks!

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