Mother's Day Gift Ideas - Movies and More!

If you, perhaps, have an Amazon Prime membership, then it's not too late to order something special for your Mother for Mother's Day!

Here are some ideas...

Movies:

The Waltons Movie Collection (includes: Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain)


The Walton Legacy


The Lost and Found Family


Soldier Love Story


Cinnamon




Books:

The Maid from Fairborne Hall


Fresh Start Summer


A Jane Austen Devotional


Pocket Posh Jane Austen: 100 Puzzles & Quizzes



Home Items:

Sweet Gardening Pleasures Gift Basket


Digital Photo Frame


Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter


Organic Vegetable Garden


Smart Candle in a Jar


Jessie Steele Cupcakes Apron


Jessie Steele Cupcakes Pot Mitt


Cupcake Oven Mitt by Jessie Steele


Sunbeam Pink Cupcake Maker


Pink Batter Bowl with Handle and Pour Spout


Apple Pie Recipe Towel


Roxy Women's Aruba Sandal


Mother-Of-Pearl Dial Watch


Kindle Fire


Kindle Pink Sleeve Cover Case


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If any of you have any of the items above - would love to know how well you like them!


Happy Mother's Day to all Mothers!

You have the hardest job on the face of this earth! God bless you all!

The Family Farm vs. The Government

I'm going to go a little off subject today - because this issue personally effects my family and many of yours, too.

There was a recent law, proposed by our Government, our Labor Department, to put an end to children working alongside their parents on the family farm. This new law would have contained various restrictions; such as: barring children 18 years and younger - from grain elevators, bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and auctions. Even showing animals at local fairs would not fit into their regulations - along with replacing many 4H and FFA programs with a 90 hour federal training course.

Well, farm families, every day citizens, 4 H and FFA groups got out the word - and they were just beginning to push back! God bless them.

Look at what the register-herald.com said:
"All it took was a massive outcry from America’s heartland and the Obama administration pulled in its horns on a plan to ban juveniles from pitching in to help out with the chores on family farms."

Coming from a farm family, myself, I know, as a child & teenager, how often my siblings and I rode in Tractors, went to Livestock Auctions, visited grain elevators, and on and on...

Imagine, if children in this country were banned from working alongside their parents - picking apples in trees, learning to drive and operate farm equipment - the family farm as we know it in our country - would become extinct and I cannot begin to imagine what would become of our American food supply, if we had to rely solely on foreign countries.

For those of you, who enjoy the TV series, The Waltons, imagine if John Boy Walton, or his brothers, Jason, Ben, and Jim Bob, had not been allowed to work in the barn and cut wood, alongside their father and grandfather. Ben might never have picked up the trade - and carried on the tradition of Walton and Sons. Also, do you recall the episode where the children watched Chance's calf being born. According to this law, the children would not be allowed to watch, because the animal was "inflicting pain."

Or, imagine Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie... she might not have been allowed to climb up in the hayloft, milk a cow, or pick up a pitchfork and clean her own Horse's stall. There are children everyday, who, like these characters on TV - live their lives just like this. And, many of them - love it just as much as their parents did - generation after generation.

For now, there is good news -

The Government may have fought The Farm - but, thankfully The Farm Won!

I am hesitant, however, to rejoice too loudly... for this is surely to be an on-going battle for the future of our country. Our family will continue to put it in the hands of the Lord - who created heaven and earth! "A man reaps what he sows." ~ Galations 6:7

Thank you to those of you who have read this post. I appreciate all of my followers. In writing this, I was trying to think of various TV shows or Movies that showed children working with their parents/grandparents on the farm. Any ideas?

Also, I think it's important for us to stand up for our rights! This is America - Land of the Free and Home of the Brave! Let me know what you think - see Comments below...

Holocaust Rememberance Day

I just wanted to express my rememberance of this tragic event in our history - in honor of those who lived, yet suffered, and those who sadly died, at the hand of such evil.

When I think of the Holocaust, I think of such horrible, terrible loss, and wickedness... and I recall particular scenes from the movie Schindler's List, which I saw at the Theater years ago. It had a tremendous impact on me. I cried mostly throughout the three hour showing. Please know, it is a Rated "R" movie, due to the horrific violence. The film is most powerful in the telling of how these innocent Jewish people - men, women, and children... were captured, starved, and killed.

We remember them and we pray... for those who suffered then, for those who suffer today, and the future of our own country and world.

God bless you all...

Prayers for those in the Heartland

Like many of you, I have seen the various news stories on TV covering the devastation the Tornadoes and storms left behind when they struck on Friday, March 2nd, 2012. I watched a lot of the Weather Channel, trying to see if it was anywhere near where my family lives, and I am personally blessed to share that all of my family is fine, however my Aunts neighborhood was not. Her home was not damaged, although many of her neighbors homes were. I can't imagine what they are going through there, but I do know my Aunt and Uncle, who are such giving people, will do whatever they can to help their friends and neighbors.

My prayers go out, especially, to those who lost loved ones... and some, everything they have ever known. I saw an older woman on the weather channel - she was sitting on a porch looking bewildered and still in shock - and she said she was just 'glad to be alive'. It makes you feel so grateful and puts everything into perspective. God bless her and so many just like her.

Please, everyone - pray for these people, do what you can to help, and protect yourself and your families by purchasing a weather-alert radio, if you don't already own one. It could save your life.

God bless you all...