I Would Gather Children

Some would gather money

Along the path of life,

Some would gather roses,

And rest from worldly strife.

But I would gather children

From among the thorns of sin,

I would seek a golden curl,

And a freckled, toothless grin.

For money cannot enter

In that land of endless day,

And roses that are gathered

Soon will wilt along the way.

But oh, the laughing children,

As I cross the sunset sea,

And the gates swing wide to heaven

I can take them in with me!

Author Unknown

All in a Word By Aileen Fisher

T for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather.
H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday.
A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart.
N for neighbors, and November, nice things, new things to remember.
K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon.
S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that abounds.
That spells ~~~THANKS---for joy in living and a jolly good Thanksgiving.

(This was the first poem I did but I forgot to put it on a post)

Thanksgiving (Lizelia Agusta Jenkins Moorer)

Let us give thanks to God above,

Thanks for expressions of His love,

Seen in the book of nature, grand

Taught by His love on every hand.

Let us be thankful in our hearts,

Thankful for all the truth imparts,

For the religion of our Lord,

All that is taught us in His word.

Let us be thankful for a land,

That will for such religion stand;

One that protects it by the law,

One that before it stands in awe.

Thankful for all things let us be,

Though there be woes and misery;

Lessons they bring us for our good-

Later 'twill all be understood.

Thankful for peace o'er land and sea

,Thankful for signs of liberty,

Thankful for homes, for life and health,

Pleasure and plenty, fame and wealth.

Thankful for friends and loved ones, too,

Thankful for all things, good and true,

Thankful for harvest in the fall,

Thankful to Him who gave it all.

My Sisters Blog

My older sister just started a blog. It has a lot of pictures of my cute nice and nephews. It's called 'life' and is on my blog list.

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Samantha

Heroes Of Faith, by Edgar De Witt Jones

By faith the voyaging Mayflower embarked from Old England and found harbor off the bleak New England shores.

By faith the Pilgrim Fathers set up a government on a new continent dedicated to God and inspired by a desire to do his will on earth as it is done in heaven.

By faith Thomas Jefferson was stirred to strike a blow for political independence and wrote the thrilling document that declared that all men are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights.

By faith he said, "Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself."

By faith George Washington left his spacious mansion at Mount Vernon and espoused the cause of the tax-burdened colonists.

By faith he forsook ease and comfort, choosing rather to suffer hardship with his men at Valley Forge than to enjoy the favor of a king.

By faith he became the President of the newly born republic and endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

By faith Alexander Hamilton established the financial credit of the nation. In the eloquent words of Daniel Webster: "He touched the corpse of public credit and it sprang into life. He smote the rock of national resources and abundant streams of revenue flowed."

By faith James Madison gave richly of his scholarly mind to form the Federal Constitution.By faith Andrew Jackson fought the battle of the impoverished and underprivileged many against the privileged few.

By faith Abraham Lincoln bore the awful burden of four purgatorial years seeking to preserve the Federal Union.

By faith he carried a dreadful war to its conclusion without hate in his heart, saying, "I have not only suffered for the South, I have suffered with the South."

By faith Woodrow Wilson in the dreadful heartbreak of a world war dreamed a dream of a war less world in which the nations should be leagued together to keep the peace.

By faith he glimpsed that promised land which,like Moses, he might not enter. And what shall I more say?

For time would fail me if I should tell of that unnumbered host, the unnamed and obscure citizens who bore unimagined burdens, sacrificed in silence and endured nobly, that a government of the people,for the people, and by the people might not perish from the earth.

Fun Bracelet

I found a pattern for this bracelet on a blog. It is crocheted. Here are the pictures and the link to the blog.

The wire I used was just plain craft wire, with glass pearl beads........

The first row, I did 6 stitches......The finished bracelet.......Well almost finished. I ran out of wire, so I was not sure how to end it. I will more then less likely take the beads off and throw it away, trying again when I have enough wire.I put it on Delaney but it was a little tight and she did not like to wear it. I closed it on her with a safety pin....

Here is the link to the blog where I got the pattern. The lady who does this blog uses all kinds of craft stuff so it is worth looking at.

http://laughingpurplegoldfish.blogspot.com/2008/11/beaded-wire-crochet-bracelet.html

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Moooo to you report.....

Hello everyone! Guess what came to our house last night at 2:30am?! Yes, that's right cows!! We have seven baby cows.! I am sure that you are wondering where we got them and why, so I will start at the beginning and tell you all about it...



Last Sunday my Uncle called us and said he wanted to bring us two cows. We were very suprised but after some study we said....ummm....well....ok......we would take them. They would all be drop calves so they were very cheap. For those who do not know, 'drop calves' are calves that come from a dairy. The Dairy breeds the mothers so they can get the milk (of course) and they don't want the babies so they either give them away or sell them very cheap (like $10 each). So, he said he would bring them up soon. Well he called yesterday after dinner and said he was on his way. Because of the long drive he did not get here until about 2:30am. We all (yes the little kids too) got up and helped get the cows out of the truck and into the shed we got ready for them the day before. We got all but two into the shed and they stated jumping about and pushing us for food. The two we did not get out of the truck were sick so we left them in the truck until we could try again tomorrow, or should I say in the morning. At about 7:30 in the morning we went out to feed them. The ones in the shed ate just fine and we all had a good time feeding them, even though they were a bit pushy. The two in the truck did not eat to well. We think the smaller of the two might be hot calves. Again for those how do not know a hot calf is a calf whose mother was give a fattener feed, and that feed makes it so the calf's insides are all...well burnt up so they will just die. Something like that......But the dairy said if it dies they will give us a new one for free. The other one we, well I think will be OK it we get it dry, warm and more food in it. But again if it does not we will get another for free. So that is about all I have to say at the time. If you have any questions please leave a comment. Here are some of the picture we took. I will try to update once a week on our new cows. Here they are...

This is Batman (see the mark on his forehead)...This is Pepper....And this is Salt.....This is V.......And here is Tiny..........This is one of the sick ones so we have not named it, it's the one we think is a hot calf.........And the other sick one, the one we/I think will make it.........Here are the bottles we use to feed them, they hold about 2 quarts if I remember right. The calf should eat about a quart a day, twice a day at first. You have to be very careful not to over feed them because that will kill them.............Some feeding pictures............ And just some cute ones...



OK that is all.

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We are 12!!!!

Yes Sarah, you are right (See comment on the surprise entry). We Reilly are now 12. 'I will have to try and change the name of the blog.' We are very excited and almost all of us think it will be a boy. We are unsure of a due-date so I will have to get back to y’all on that one. That is all. By the way, I will be very disappointed if I don’t get comments on this post, including ones for people who look at the blog, but don’t have there own blog.
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Big Surprise

We have a big suprise coming soon! I will tell you as soon as I can.

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