{"id":1074,"date":"2011-02-13T22:46:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T22:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2011-02-13T22:46:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T22:46:53","slug":"whod-have-thought-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/13\/whod-have-thought-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’d have thought it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m feeling MUCH better today. MUCH better then I have in DAYS, possibly a couple of weeks! I did not\u00a0realize\u00a0just how bad I had felt, until I felt better!<\/p>\n

Why? How?<\/p>\n

You’d never believe it, but… I had treats last night. A third of a intense dark chocolate bar, and a handful of skittles.<\/p>\n

Within an hour or so, I realized my head was starting to clear. When I realized what was going on, I really couldn’t believe, it. I never even thought this could be the problem, low blood sugar?<\/p>\n

So today, I woke up still feeling some what better. I made sure I had breakast, an apple and a boiled egg along with a coffee with sugar and cream. I’m STILL feeling better. Still not quite 100% but I feel 200% better then I did this past week. I feel like I can actually function again, WITHOUT a ton of effort. I really feel sorry for anyone going through something like that on a regular basis. I honestly can not imagine. A week or so was bad enough and I’m going to be working on my eating habits to try and figure out how to keep that from happening again. To be so unable to control how I was feeling was NOT fun. I felt so disorientated, almost confused, couldn’t think clearly, had to work hard to concentrate on the\u00a0stupidest\u00a0little things and then the blurriness on top of it all was just too much. I was starting to wonder how I would carry on if I had to continue to function like that?!<\/p>\n

So<\/strong> glad I feel like me again.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, I thought I’d share a few snapshots from this past week.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago today, our son landed a job at a local riding stable. If you’re on our facebook page, \u00a0you’d have seen how exciting that was!<\/p>\n

This stable, we learned, is not like your regular riding stable. This stable has 30 RESCUED<\/strong> horses. Anyone who has been ‘hanging’ around our homestead a while, knows how we feel about horse rescue.<\/p>\n

All five of our horses are rescues.<\/p>\n

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(some of the ponies at the stable)<\/em><\/p>\n

The more we learned, the more we fell in love with the place.<\/p>\n

Even Carl, the pet TURKEY!<\/p>\n

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Within a week, our eldest daughter also applied for a job there, and, also started working there this past Thursday.<\/p>\n

So yes, now Alesia has three jobs. The full time-but-not-called- full time job at the grocery store, working for Homestead Emporium, AND now working Thursday’s and Friday’s at the horse stable.<\/p>\n

She really couldn’t resist.<\/p>\n

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I really couldn’t blame her and although this now means driving her to work and back SEVEN days a week, and Joshua SIX days a week because they don’t work at the stable the same days, how could I do anything to stand in their way?<\/p>\n

Besides, come April, they can FINALLY go for their drivers tests.<\/p>\n

Then I’ll finally be graduating from Taxi back to just plain old mom.<\/p>\n

For a couple years anyways, until the next three start…<\/p>\n

Although, they will be volunteering at the stables soon, but I’ll be volunteering with them, so that shouldn’t be too much driving.<\/p>\n

On our way to the stable every day, is a train track we drive over.<\/p>\n

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There’s an eagle tree along the track.<\/p>\n

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You all know how I love eagles. I tried to persuade him to fly away, so I could get an inflight shot, but he wasn’t going for my attempts.<\/p>\n

Guess eagles are pretty smart.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, my sister brought over dinner. A “caught” salmon from the wharf in Seattle.<\/p>\n

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I mixed up a glaze of brown sugar, sweet Japanese soy sauce, garlic and a teeny bit of chopped pickled ginger.<\/p>\n

Poured it over top, covered it up, and baked it in the oven.<\/p>\n

YUM. It was SOOO good.<\/p>\n

So as you can see, my week wasn’t all bad. I just couldn’t concentrate long enough to share the good parts, so I shared nothing.<\/p>\n

I hope to be blogging daily again this week. \ud83d\ude42 Just ELEVEN days until my husband comes home! FINALLY! It will have been almost 6 weeks since he left by the time we seem him again.<\/p>\n

We’ll be celebrating Valentines Day, and my 40th birthday, apart.<\/p>\n

But, we’ll make up for it while he’s home for 6 days. We may work hard, but we like to live life\/play hard too.<\/p>\n

Makes life that much more fun.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I need to get back to work.<\/p>\n

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I’m feeling MUCH better today. MUCH better then I have in DAYS, possibly a couple of weeks! I did not\u00a0realize\u00a0just how bad I had felt, until I felt better! Why? How? You’d never believe it, but… I had treats last night. A third of a intense dark chocolate bar, and a handful of skittles. Within […]<\/p>\n

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