Wonder Mill Giveaway

Here’s another awesome giveaway!

Gluten Free Homemaker

Until next time,
Tamara

Green Pasture Giveaway

Hey Everyone!

As you can see, I’m starting to make this blog feel like our new “home” on the web. Unfortunately, our original blog disappeared again and ,again, I don’t know if or when (or ever) it will be brought back. I’ve changed the theme, updated the sidebars and hope to be back to blogging more meaningful posts in the near future. A few things have contributed to taking the wind out of my sails so to speak over the last year and I just haven’t felt like “talking.”

However, I didn’t want to pass up the opportunity to let you know about this great giveaway though (and increase my entries )! We’ve had the pleasure of using one of their products in the past and loved it! (Cinnamon CLO Gummy Fish! Sounds gross I know but they were GOOD! No joke!) Would love to try another product free! Here’s the link to the contest:

Kelly the Kitchen Kop – Green Pasture Giveaway

Let me know if your entry wins. Would love hearing about what you tried!

‘Til next time,
Tamara

Review: Love Your Husband, Love Yourself

EXCELLENT book! Over the course of time, the School of Hard Knocks, previously reading many of the listed resource books and the Word, I drew many of the same conclusions. However, I wish this book had been available at the start of my marriage…provided I would have been willing to listen. Would have saved on much frustration and tears. God’s timing is His timing however. Lessons learned (still perfecting ) though and she has written about it much better than I ever could! I highly endorse it and heartily recommend it to ALL *married* women – young or old, newly married or not. If you’ve already experienced and learned these things, then it would be a fabulous reference to pass on to some other lady God leads you to share it with!

If you would like to know more about this book, I would be grateful if you used my affiliate link:

Love Your Husband/Love Yourself: Embracing God’s Purpose for Passion in Marriage (See all Marriage Books)

Thanks! And, Happy Reading!

I don’t want to…

but I’m going to have to.

This blog takes up too much web space on our site. Precious space for the business. We’ve been having trouble with the site crashing and I finally realized it’s a space issue. So, this blog has to go from here. I’ve already imported posts and comments over to the WordPress site that I chose this summer. I have a little more work to do on it – sidebars, etc. – and then I’m going to officially delete this blog. Hate to…but have to. Love having it self-hosted…but the business comes first. I hope that everything transferred well. As I said months ago, I can’t stand the thought of losing so much past info. I do know I have some duplicate posts over there that I’ll have to spend time sorting through. Didn’t think the transfer was working so I clicked again and, well, that was a mistake. Anyhow, this is fair warning for anyone still reading here. This blog will no longer exist here soon and, if you still want to keep up with us, you’ll have to pop over HERE to do so.

Thanks for reading and stay in touch!

Tamara

Blogging is about to get easier…

I have another “new” to me computer…finally! Been waiting for it for a while. I’ve actually had it about two weeks already – a laptop even – but it was unusable for approx. a week of that. I kid you not…within 24hrs of having picked it up, the harddrive blew!! We had turned it on the night I brought it home to just take a look at it, get a little feel for it, see if it would play a movie all right, etc. and then turned it off. Took all of maybe 15min. on it. The next morning I plugged it in, turned it on and was really excited to start using it. Inserted my mobile Internet device, it started to do it’s thing – install, etc. Then, I plugged in my external harddrive because I wanted to start transferring info right away. Within 30sec of having done so, *kablooey* (as my 10yo boy likes to say )!! The screen is blank and I can’t get it to do anything. Into DOS I go…says I have 0gb and no harddrive is installed. WHAT?!?! Dang. Get on the phone to the computer company and they confirm it’s toast. *ack* The person I got it from I trust implicitly and she says she hardly used it. I believe her so it was a real bummer. Guess it was just too old (6yrs) to handle new tech. {roll eyes} $100 to fix the last one (didn’t) for a new memory card…will be $100 for this one too for new harddrive. Decisions, decisions. Finally, it was decided to fix the laptop as it’s nicer, (more than likely – didn’t know the person that had the desktop) has had less use, is probably newer (didn’t check date of desktop), etc. I want the portability too. So, takes a few days, but dh gets it down to the computer shop and has a new harddrive put it. Not the one I wanted but it’ll do. So, I reload everything and then comes updates. Bah! Took me *four days* to finally get all the updates downloaded and installed! Finally, the computer looks right, acts right, etc., etc.!! I’m so happy!!

All that to say, I’ll finally have normal functionality and that will make typing, sharing pictures, links, everything much easier. I’ll bore you by getting back to updating a year’s worth of monthly updates. Hey, family posterity takes precedence! Ok, ok, I might throw a business update or two in there as well. Maybe some current homeschool stuff… You get the idea. I’ll be back to same ole, same ole again. I’m looking forward to it.

Finding the time will be the (only) trick now…

‘Til next time,
Tamara

Weekly Contemplation

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.” Martin Luther

Blog is back!

Our original blog that is. So happy about it!

Please visit us at – http://waynehunt.com/happenings

Should that blog ever become defunct again, we’ll be back here. Hope not though as it’s good to be “home.”

Blog Disappearance!

This is copied/pasted from a temporary blog I set up thinking this one was long gone…

New Home on the Web – 9/29/10

As much as I hate to say it, this is our new blog home on the web. Not that I don’t like WordPress or anything – I do! I used WordPress on our other self-hosted blog. But, that blog, the business website, that hosting company, is apparently gone. Gone without notice. 7 years worth of blog history plus all business contacts GONE. I did back up everything a while ago. Can’t remember how long. Can’t find it on one external drive and will be checking another soon. Not that I think I can extract the info… I backed it all up in case something like this should occur. Well, not exactly this but some unforeseen disaster. Anyhow, I’m pretty bummed about it still. The children and I had fun looking back over old posts occasionally. I keep a record of things on the calendar and, of course, pictures. But, I’m not a great “diary keeper” and the old blog was essentially just that.

As you can see, there are some “ancient” posts before this one. Long before we had private hosting, I had a free site and then tried Blogger. I never deleted the blogger posts and so was able to transfer them here. It’s something…but compared to what was lost, it’s almost nothing. I’m not going to mope about it too long. I am a little ticked though and grieved a bit. It will pass eventually…

I don’t remember off the top of my head all that I had in my sidebar or blogroll, etc. but I’ll do my best over time to add back what I can. (Feel free to remind me of things in a comment if you want.)

So, that’s my first official post here…a rant and a lament. Off to a good start huh? Hopefully, it will feel like home sooner rather than later. (I already miss doing my own html/css, etc.)

Needless to say, I’m thrilled this website/blog is back, that the info is not lost!! It was a little distressing to have the business info gone and no way for anyone to place online orders. People could call or email but there was no way for people to see product, shipping info, etc. And, entering the holiday season! Anyhow, we are relieved although still perplexed. You can be sure I’ll be backing everything up again just in case and then making a note in my binder as to where the info is this time! Just so long as I have it, I can figure out how to transfer when the time comes…if it comes to that.

I’m still working with an aged/decrepit computer so I can’t promise when I’ll get back to more interesting posts. I did have a nicer older computer given to me a few days ago but within 24hrs the hard drive blew. I tell you…the irony about kills me sometimes…. Both computers given to us within the last year would be about $100 each to fix. The second one might be worth it. We’ll see.

Must end this rather rambling post. So glad to be back “home” though!

‘Til next time,
Tamara

ps – Should this blog ever become defunct again, you can find us at: athomeinalaska.wordpress.com

New Home on the Web

As much as I hate to say it, this is our new blog home on the web. Not that I don’t like WordPress or anything – I do! I used WordPress on our other self-hosted blog. But, that blog, the business website, that hosting company, is apparently gone. Gone without notice. 7 years worth of blog history plus all business contacts GONE. I did back up everything a while ago. Can’t remember how long. Can’t find it on one external drive and will be checking another soon. Not that I think I can extract the info… I backed it all up in case something like this should occur. Well, not exactly this but some unforeseen disaster. Anyhow, I’m pretty bummed about it still. The children and I had fun looking back over old posts occasionally. I keep a record of things on the calendar and, of course, pictures. But, I’m not a great “diary keeper” and the old blog was essentially just that.

As you can see, there are some “ancient” posts before this one. Long before we had private hosting, I had a free site and then tried Blogger. I never deleted the blogger posts and so was able to transfer them here. It’s something…but compared to what was lost, it’s almost nothing. I’m not going to mope about it too long. I am a little ticked though and grieved a bit. It will pass eventually…

I don’t remember off the top of my head all that I had in my sidebar or blogroll, etc. but I’ll do my best over time to add back what I can. (Feel free to remind me of things in a comment if you want.)

So, that’s my first official post here…a rant and a lament. Off to a good start huh? Hopefully, it will feel like home sooner rather than later. (I already miss doing my own html/css, etc.)

‘Til next time,
Tamara

Weekly Contemplation

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ~ George Washington

“The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.” ~ James Madison

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” ~ James Madison

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt