My life seems rather a blur lately.   I have been very busy trying to keep my family together and work extra in at the shop.  This is our busiest month of the year.  We have lots of traffic through the gun shop.  Some of this is due to me being a licensed agent of the Department of Conservation to sell hunting permits.   The rest is due to people needing ammo, guns, guns bore sighted, scopes,  scopes mounted and numerous other things.  This keeps us hopping.  This week I am working every day.  Glad I don't do that all of the time.   

Things seem to be going fairly well at home with the children.  They spend some of their time in here with me and some of it at home.  With two 17 year olds in the house and a nine and ten year old, they can keep things like laundry and general clean up under control.  They also help with supper preparations if I have things started or lined up!  What a blessing they are.

In a week and a half we will be heading to FL/AL  for the week of thanksgiving.  Actually we will leave the Friday night before and get home the sunday afterward so we will have a nice long break from work.  We are looking forward to it.  

Well I really need to get off of here.  I keep wisihing I had some pictures or something interesting to post but nothing as of now.   

Well,  we are having more fall like weather.  For which I am thankful.  It is still a very cold , and wet fall.  However it is not as frigid as our fall started out to be.  At first I thought we were going straight from summer to winter.

Things have been very busy in the gun shop.  Youth rifle season starts this weekend   and Archery season is now in progress.  In another week or two regular rifle season starts.  I can get very busy just selling Hunting permits.  There are always things to deal with like lost tags,  hunters safety certificates needed,  but they forgot to bring them ect.  Yesterday I had to call the Department of Conservation numerous times.   Last year I had out of state hunters coming in and not bringing their hunters safety certificates.  That is the one thing I can be fined severely for.  ( I am a licensed agent of the state)    So I was making phone calls to MO dept of conservation and then they had me call PA dept of conservation and round and round we went with them giving proof ect.  Meanwhile the young man went to a local chain store that is also  a licensed agent  and they sold him the license.  They never even asked to see his hunters safety certificate.    This is most aggravating.  Here I spent  much time on doing it the "right way"  and  the "legal way"  and they just disregard the law entirely.     Oh well,  we reap what we sow! 

I am still fairly busy in the Print Shop  but not quite as busy as earlier.  This is a blessing though, since I need  to help more in the gun shop.   I do enjoy my job I must say.  Sometimes I  would like to just be at home with the children, because I feel I am not always fully on top of things at home.    But,  I do like my work and I do like working with Mom & Dad.    So we are making it work.  I am home Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sundays.  On Thursdays, Caleb & Cecilia go with me to work.  So really I am just not with the younger ones two days.  However with phones available I talk to them frequently during the day.  Of course the other two "old " guys in the house don't need mom around all the time!

Last evening I was making a chicken baked dish.  I had the chicken in the crock pot all day.  WHen I got home I deboned it.  Then I made mashed potatoes and put them in the bottom of the 9 X 13.  I then mixed the chicken meat with cream of chicken soup, and chicken gravy.  I put this on top the mashed potatoes.  Meanwhile one of the twins was making biscuits.  When he had them all mixed I put them on top of the other potatoes & chicken gravy.  I baked everything like I normally do for biscuits.  They just seemed to not want to get done.  Finally I scooped them off and put them in pans by themselves back into the oven.   We ate the other without the biscuits.  Hubby did go ahead and eat one biscuit that he said was done.  I noticed he ate it rather slowly but thought it was because it was still rather doughy.  After I got the other biscuits out I took a bite and almost gagged.  Dear son had used baking SODA instead of baking POWDER.  YUCK!!!  I asked hubby how he could eat it.  He said it tasted pretty bad but he did not want to hurt my feelings.  He thought I had made them.  I reminded him that I make biscuits frequently and they never taste like that.  We had a good laugh.  Now the boy knows there is a big difference between baking soda and baking powder!

Today Fred & I have been married 20 years!

Where have the years gone?  Wow, we look young!!  I am thrilled to have such a great husband.  He has been a real companion.  He is also a great  father to our children.  What a blessing the Lord has bestowed upon me!!