Obviously, I'm missing something here...

Let me see....
cold, wet, dark
stinky dogs, dirty clothes, muddy boots
snakes, ticks, chiggers, briars.....
WHAT PART OF THIS IS FUN?
I have to admit that you couldn't drag me coon hunting kicking and screaming, but I'm glad the kids are spending time with their dad, and I'm glad to have an evening alone every once in a while!

I think Rosebud has outgrown the swing...

"Didn't this thing used to go back and forth?"

Mama's little babygirl with the fat thighs and droopy cheeks just can't figure out why even a brand new set of Energizers just won't make this thing go! But she's happy anyway!

"I dropped my Doodle. Could someone get it please?"

"Faster! Faster!"

And, of course, our sweet girl is never without an adoring audience.

Christmas Scripture

The Steadfast Faith of Joseph and Mary

Here is my daily devotion from The Institute for Creation Research , founded by Dr. Henry Morris.



The Steadfast Faith of Joseph and Mary
December 24, 2008
"There was no room for them in the inn." (Luke 2:7)
Those familiar with the Christmas story, known by multiplied millions around the world, often make the small incident of no vacancies at the inn something of a cute product of the trip to Bethlehem.
Few in the United States have ever been stranded without shelter for a short time--let alone have had to give birth in an animal pen. Most of us will never have to know just how isolated and abandoned Joseph and Mary must have felt that first Christmas Eve.
Both of them knew that this Child would be "Son of the Highest" (Luke 1:32). Both of them had had personal visits from the Chief Angel, Gabriel. Both of them knew that the Father of this Son was none other than the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1:20). And both of them had willingly obeyed God's instruction (Matthew 1:24 and Luke 1:38). They had every human right to expect "special treatment" and recognition for their faith and obedience.
Instead, however, the false rumors that had troubled Joseph about Mary's infidelity (Matthew 1:18-19) continued to swirl around them, and the long trek from Nazareth to Bethlehem only added to the plight of their social ostracism and poverty. The Bible does not tell us how long they were looking for shelter--we are only told that "while they were there" (Luke 2:6) Mary had to deliver the Child in a manger.
Until the shepherds came with their wonderful story of the angelic chorus, Joseph and Mary had no word of verification in addition to no room for their rest. And although they were in a house (Matthew 2:11) when the wise men came, nearly two years had gone by (Matthew 2:16) before they received the gifts that would sustain them for several years in Egypt.
Remember these two wonderful saints this holiday for their steadfast faith and unwavering obedience. HMM III

My Songbird

First of all, please don't pay attention to the condition of my house! This past week, the big kids and I were busy with laundry and chores while the boys were having their quiet time, and I overheard Seth singing his heart out, just him and the Lord. I couldn't resist videoing. I wouldn't trade anything for having the minds of my children filled with Scripture and hymns. They don't know who the Jonas Brothers or Hannah Montana are, but they know Who can wash away their sins, and that's all I'm concerned about!

Hide Them in Your Heart

TURN THE VOLUME UP! (You can hear Rosebud "razzing" in the background.) Here are the boys quoting John 3:16,17 in church this past Sunday.

Sweet Baby Girl

Sleeping Princess

Super Siblings!

My Firstborn and my Fifthborn

It's a great phase in life now for me, having children at such different stages of life. I love watching how gentle KK is with the baby, and I love how she just puts her arms around his neck when he picks her up. I hope and pray that all of my children will always be close throughout their lives.

My Peanut is 4 years old!

Happy Birthday to my Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Superman, Batman, Sam the Hobbit, Robin Hood, Crusader Knight, Scuba Diver, Buck Deer Hunter, Farmer, boy. This little gun slinging, sword wielding, hymn singing, dirt tracking, hat wearing, mess making fellow makes sure he doesn't miss any fun in this life.

He makes his rounds with everyone in the house daily. "I wub you, Mom." "I wub you, Dad." "I wub you, KK." "I wub you, Sis." "I wub you, Bubba." [Stop. Insert: "Mama, Bubba didn't say I wub you Bubbie to me!!"] And finally, "I wub you, Wosebud."

He's such a sweetheart (well, one of those mean as a snake sweethearts), and has been such a delightful and hilarious addition to our family.

Happy Birthday, Bubbie!

Thanksgiving Tradition

We always enjoy decorating gingerbread houses with the children Thanksgiving morning.

Another quiet evening

around the always calm and quiet Stringer dinner table.

Surely not...

Please tell me I have read this incorrectly. Please tell me that at this special time of year when we remember the birth of the Christ child, that this is not happening.

If you have the stomach, click on the following link and read this disgusting article.

Planned Parenthood Issues Holiday Gift Certificates

Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel for gift ideas!

Peek-a-Boo!

Glory To His Name

Bubbie's version of No. 113 in the Church Hymnal

Sweet Baby Girl

Rosebud with her best friends, Doodle and Ginger

Them's Fighting Words...

Bubbie: "Mama, please help me get my coat on to go outside."

Mama: "Sorry, Bub, it's just too cold and it's getting dark."

Bubbie: "But, Mama, the bad guys are everywhere!"

Mama: "Well don't worry about it. They'll probably freeze to death."

Bubbie: (frowning) "You're just a blue yankee!"

The Cream of the Crop

These are the young people from our church. I count it a privilege to be able to worship weekly with such a fine group of young men and women!

Hold on Tight to Your Children!

And please take your potty breaks before you leave the house, because our new president-elect (who just loves perverts) doesn't believe in discriminating against men who wear women's clothing and prefer to use the women's restroom.
Read here:
Obama Offers "open door" to Gender Confused

It isn't fair to God's glorious animal kingdom to call these people animals. Even the dogs and cats have it figured out that it should be male + female, but since the sodomites haven't "evolved" that far yet, they can't have children of their own, and they want mine and yours.

More Encouraging News from Our Nation's Capital...

Believe it or not, this is the new ad campaign being launched in Washington, D.C., for the Christmas Season. Read all about it here.

"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." Psalm 9:17

Priceless Moments

"Smile, Wosebud!"

"Cheese"

"Hey, babygirl!"

"I love these boys"

What's that smell??!!

Could it be my little "Baby" Crockett, in his new skunk hat?

My little brave frontiersman has hardly taken it off his head since he got it. Boys are so much fun!

Life Will Not Go On

"Life Will Not Go On" by Jill Stanek

The Munchkins

Mission Accomplished!

Caleb decided a few months ago that he was going to purchase his own copy of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and read them. He saved up his money, surfed the net (with mom!) to find the edition he liked best, purchased them, and read them very systematically. He set goals in a notebook as to how many chapters he would read each night. Last week, he finished the last book. I'm very proud of him for setting goals and seeing them through to completion. Way to go, KK!

Let Brotherly Love Continue

Summer Rose is absolutely one of the most loved babies ever born. All the kids just love on her all day long, but Seth just tickles me with his sweet, outspoken, complete adoration for her. He has such a tender heart

and a way with words, and she just lights up whenever she sees or hears him. He'll say, "Mama, you've got the cutest baby ever!"

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I remember when I was expecting my second child, I wondered if I could possibly love another as much as I loved Caleb. Little did I understand then, the miracle of a mother's heart. With each addition, the love is not spread thin; instead, the Lord grows your heart and just adds more than enough love to go around. And the joy increases, because you not only have the blessing of a new little life, but also the joy of watching the interaction of your older children with the new little one. How wonderful the Lord is!

Hey, Oprah! You're in the Bible!

And it ain't on the page you're thinking....it's right here:

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

For men [as in "mankind", including women, as in YOU] shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."

II Timothy 3:1-5

There you are, right there! (Get a King James Bible and read verses 6-9 to see what happens next!)

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson

Cult Of Obama - Missouri Youths' Militaristic Obama Chant

I don't speak jive, but I'm pretty sure this is blasphemy.

Vote Obama

"A GOVERNMENT WHICH ROBS PETER TO PAY PAUL CAN ALWAYS DEPEND ON THE SUPPORT OF PAUL."

George Bernard Shaw

Now isn't that special??

Men and women dance and sing the praises of a sacrificial rock shrine called Kit Mikayi ("First Wife") 20 miles from Kisumu, Kenya. A dozen worshippers have come to make sacrifices for Barack Obama at the shrine, its attendant said.

The Deer Slayer

KK killed a huge 6-pointer while hunting with his Dad this morning.

"Boy, I'll never forget this day, Mom!"

This is his second deer this season. Way to go, KK!

And for any tree-hugging pantheists out there who feel sorry for little Bambi, just remember this....

that there's a place for all God's creatures...

right next to the potatoes and gravy!

"Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." Gen. 9:3

"..in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy....Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving." I Tim. 4:1-4

Happy Ordinary Day to my Christian readers...

...since,of course, a child of God has no business celebrating Halloween.

Here is a link to last year's post on this subject.

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret." Ephesians 5:11, 12

Vote for Obama! Vote for Change!

This is for all those Americans out there who are weary of old-fashioned 18th century American ideals, and are ripe and ready for CHANGE!

Especially for those of you who are...

...sick and tired of having your own money in your pocket! Isn't it time to spread the wealth?

...over-burdened by the thought of having to raise your own children! We'll just let Nanny State medicate and brainwash them into submission. Put them on that bus when they're 3 years old for some early intervention, enroll them in after school and summer programs, along with free breakfast and lunch. Factor in the possiblity that they leave home at 18 for the state university, and basically you've reduced a lifetime of parenting to a fast-food drive-thru each evening and some weekend vacations. That is so much easier than the old-fashioned way, Mamas!

...bored with just hearing English when you go out in public. Who needs border patrol when you've got AMNESTY!?

...freaked out by little babies that poop in diapers! With federally funded, unrestricted abortions for any and all women/girls of all ages, the chances of you having to get close to one are almost nil.

...tired of the snobby American government only associating with other humane, democratic world leaders, perhaps we could host Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or maybe Kim Jong-il if he's still really alive, at the White House! And I bet we could even get Louis Farrakhan to provide the entertainment.

...weary with going to polls and voting and blah, blah, blah. We'll just let the un-elected judges make all the laws from now on. No more having to read fine print and consider what might be best for your family!

...bored with the old-school definition of marrige and family. It's just so non-inclusive! After all, a family is "who you love and who loves you". The possibilities are endless. Man + Man, Man + Woman + Woman, Woman + Woman, Man + Dog, Child + Woman.

...really fed up with looking for that "Made in America by Americans" sticker. The best thing would be to tax entrepreneurs so heavily that they take their businesses overseas. Then everyday could be "multi-cultural" day! Made in China, made in Japan, made in India by hungry little children......

...burnt out on waving Old Glory, and the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas, The Ten Commandments, and the Bible. Let's just re-write history and make villians of all white people and ridicule anyone who dares to act like they believe in God. If we search diligently, maybe we could even snuff out some 180-year-old former slave owner and make him pay reparations!

...weary of having to choose your own doctors and direct your own healthcare. Doesn't it make perfect sense to let some fat, rude, overworked bureaucrat that you've never met decide when and where you need medical care? After all, it's worked great in socialist Canada and Europe! They've greatly cut expenses by denying all those cumbersome operations to people they deem unworthy of the risk and cost. In the end, a funeral and a small life insurance payout are much cheaper than a hospital stay.

It's definitely true, that a vote for Obama is a vote for change. "Change you can believe in" has been the mantra. Maybe it should read, "Change you better hope you can live with" if you're un-American enough to vote for a man by the name of Barack Hussein Obama II.

"My son, fear thou the Lord and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both?" Proverbs 24:21, 22

Happy Days

The Greatest Evidence of Your Christianity

"Ah! you know more about your ledgers than your Bible; you know more about your day-books than what God has written; many of you will read a novel from beginning to end, and what have you got? A mouthful of froth when you have done. But you cannot read the Bible; that solid, lasting, substantial, and satisfying food goes uneaten, locked up in the cupboard of neglect; while anything that man writes, a catch of the day, is greedily devoured. "I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing." Ye have never read it. I bring the broad charge against you. Perhaps, ye say, I ought not to charge you with any such thing. I always think it better to have a worse opinion of you than too good an one. I charge you with this: you do not read your Bibles. Some of you have never read it through. I know I speak what your heart must say is honest truth. You are not Bible readers. You say you have the Bible in your houses; do I think you are such heathens as not to have a Bible? But when did you read it last? How do you know that your spectacles, which you have lost, have not been there for the last three years? Many people have not turned over its pages for a long time, and God might say unto them, "I have written unto you the great things of my law, but they have been accounted unto you a strange thing."

Others there be who read the Bible; but when they read it, they say it is so horribly dry. ............. Do you know why? Blind men cannot see, can they? But when the Spirit touches the scales of the eyes, they fall off; and when he puts eye-salves on, the Bible becomes precious. I remember a minister who went to see an old lady, and he thought he would give her some precious promises out of the word of God. Turning to one, he saw written in the margin "P.," and he asked, "What does this mean?" "That means precious, sir." Further down, he saw "T. and P.," and he asked what the letters meant. "That," she said, "means tried and proved, for I have tried and proved it." If you have tried God's word and proved it—if it is precious to your soul. then you are Christians; but those persons who despise the Bible, have "neither part nor lot in the matter." If it is dry to you, you will be dry at last in hell. If you do not esteem it as better than your necessary food, there is no hope for you; for you lack the greatest evidence of your Christianity.

Sermon "The Bible"by Preacher Charles H. Spurgeon
Text: "I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing." Hosea 8:12

The Dangers of Democracy

(in other words, giving EVERY illiterate, uninformed "Joe" and "Jane" a vote....can be risky) If only we Americans cherished our privilege of voting, and took it seriously; rather than considering it a right to be toyed with.

This requires absolutely no commentary; it speaks for itself....and I definitely DO NOT trust myself as to what I would comment anyway.

Please listen:
Why are you supporting Obama?

Here's an excerpt from a great article by HSLDA's Mike Smith (read the full article here )

Alex Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh at the time of America's birth, wrote a warning to America in 1787. He observed that the average age of the world's greatest civilizations was about 200 years, during which they inevitably progressed through the following sequence:
from bondage to faith,
from faith to courage,
from courage to liberty,
from liberty to abundance,
from abundance to complacency,
from complacency to apathy,
from apathy to dependence, and
from dependence back to bondage.


I'm afraid the culture at large today is stuck somewhere between apathy and dependence, and on our way to bondage.

Everybody Loves Rosebud!

Camp-Out

Not to be outdone by her big brother KK who is off camping and deer hunting with the guys this weekend, Sis has set up her own camping headquarters right here in the living room! (That's my kind of camping!)