Simply Living & Risen Acres

Normal. Gosh I forgot what that feels like. Just when you think your life is headed back to a state of normality or you think you have learned all you can learn and hear comes a curve ball out of nowhere! You know I work with the elderly people and they are so wise. Some people look down on the elderly or refuse to work with the elderly because they are slower or say ugly things about them because they need a little help to try to continue to live their life in their old age. We will hopefully get to live life until our old age. I have recently been telling my husband I want to be the first to go when I am 95 years old! I feel like my husband would handle loosing me better then me loosing him. I say that because men are resilient and handle stress better than us women. As a wife I stay waiting for my husband to always come home to me. If I were to ever loose my husband I would forever wait for him to come home to me!  The elderly always tell me to make your home a place you never w...

  Whew! How do you like this heat? I am missing the fall and winter days! I am so not ready for summer. It is going to be a scorching hot summer....I just know it! We are hitting the 90s here and I am barely able to take it. Ok, why do we even need to have a summer every year? I would be fine with winter, spring, and fall! Maybe it is the fourty in me that is doing the talking? I do not know. Let us take a minute to pray for our ac units that they are able to perform their duty this summer. How did people survive with no ac back in the days?                   My mom on her wedding day holding me Mom is in the middle. This is a pic of my sibblings and I.  With all the terriffs I honestly do not know what to think or how this will all end. What I do know is for every household should plan meals meticulously out...have meal plans that stretch every dollar...you know the ones kids can take for lunch and shoot so we parents can take...

  Just been feeling lately like the word existing is what life has been. Have you been so completely drained and you take naps and sleep all night and still wake up exhausted? That's me! I need to start taking vitamins to see if that helps and if that does not work then I need to make an appointment with my doctor soon! How are people going like energizer bunnies at 40? I race against time to get stuff done before my exhaustion starts to set in and literally take over me and of course I succumb to it. I loath it, whatever it is! I work in a small city and sometimes I wonder if the city just sucks the life out of me because as soon as the clock strikes 5pm I am running, like Cinderella when the clock strikes twelve, to my car and I am racing to get back home....to the country. I stumble into the door of my farmhouse and can feel my body yell...we're back home in the peaceful country! Who knows but that could be it....the effects of country living! I hate leaving the country! I a...

 HELLO YALL!  We are in the middle of February already! How is life going for everyone? Mine...working and cooking. Cooking and working! This weekend my hubby and I cleaned the Farmhouse and mopped everything. Of course we muttered to each other how dirty things really are and we could not believe our eyes, even though we clean during the week....more like spot cleaning. We both work full-time jobs, so no one is a stay at home anything! So! No one is to blame but we help each other as best we can. Everyone pulls their weight to help with the house chores. Of course house chores are never ending. Cleaning is just a part of life. There is no way around it.  On Saturday our reset starts for the new weekday begins with cooking dinner with plenty of left overs and making my hubbys sweet bread for his coffee to take in the mornings. Trying to always think ahead, so when I get off work, I do not have to waste so much time preparing dinner during the weekday. I try to spend as mu...