Momma's New Maid.. A Mixer :)

Papa got a nice bonus from work this spring... This spring it was really nice as he wasn't going to school and his bonus didn't just get thrown into the 'surviving while going to school' pot. Instead he picked out some beer stuff he WANTED not needed.. er.. as much as anyone NEEDS beer making stuff. :) Just kidding honey.. I know I know beer is your chocolate :) *blog about beer stuff coming soon :)

ANYWAY.. he also picked out a mixer for me! He's been wanting to get me one for quite some time and I've been not letting him.. why, now that I have it, I'll never know.
I LOVE IT!! Makes my life ten time easier.



Mine has cookie paddles that make great chocolate chip cookies and clean butter like nothing else!! It's got a dough hook and a large enough bowl that can make my bread recipe THREE TIMES!! Which means I can do less bread making and more other stuff! It makes wonderful ice cream too! He also got a slicing thingie to go with it but I haven't used it yet. I imagine I'll be using that a lot more in the fall for canning etc.

As I've been typing this out J's has been getting everything we need for chocolate chip cookies ready by the mixer.. I love how he can read the recipe and get everything out and all I have to do it throw it all in the mixer (J could do that already too! But a momma gets to have some fun!) and then I let him turn it on and wait for it.... all of 20 seconds and we have the. best. cookie dough. EVER!!! See ya!

~Bravery~

I recently got brave.

HA I know what your thinking..

You think I'm very brave because we/I


- Raise our kids God's way, not mans!
- Know who I am in Christ and live it!

- I have 6 children, and will very likely have more!
- And had the last 4 babies without pain meds :)
- Drive a truck that turns 40 this year. (We are going to have a party for her :)
- Milk a cow and raise and butcher chickens and pigs.
- Home church and Home school my kids and LOVE it!
- Live in a partly finished straw bale house.
- Make a lot of the foods most people buy, butter, bread, etc.

Ok I GOT BRAVER!!!

I typed in.. cutting long hair into layers on google
and found this YouTube movie.. watched it twice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-GAilMmCqQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Then I walked into my bathroom.. with my iPad for reviewing the movie in necessary.. and CUT MY HAIR!!

I didn't even need to watch the movie again! What I should have done then is search up how to cut the front to frame your face. I didn't. I just remembered what my last hair dresser did and DID it..

Yes I really did! Other then the fact that it's all a bit too long still,
I LOVE IT!!!
Would I do it again? YES!! Every month I think :)
I also took my thinning scissors and thinned it evenly all around with my head still upside down over the toilet. I never lost the extra hair I got while pregnant with J3. So I had all that and all the stuff from Baby G and that was a LOT of hair!! I could have made a fair large mammal.. like a small cat!

I just realized I should have taken pictures. HA!! NOT!!

I really like the way it feels, how it curls in layers and how easy it is to brush and take care of now. I've been playing a bit with hair 'do's but I'm more of a farmer then a hair dresser and I'm not having tons of luck with that. One of the ladies from home church, all the ladies said they liked my haircut even though I'd gone to bed with wet hair and it was a FUZZ ball :), also wanted/needed a haircut so I sent her the link.. I haven't seen it yet but she says she loves it ;) * I've since seen her hair cut and it looks awesome. She took it one step farther and did the same idea as in the movie but split her hair in half over her shoulders and cut it that way too! Which I think I'm going to try for layers in the front!

Papa likes it too :) He says it's long enough to keep him happy and short enough to keep me happy!

What a great deal :) No having to find someone to sit the kids, making appointments and wasting time waiting forever! No awkward talking to some one I barely know of while she cuts my hair.  It took me less then 10 minutes and that was the first time!  I saved money too :) BONUS!!!