Adventures in Haymarsh

Author: Monica Jacobson (Page 70 of 152)

God’s Artwork

It’s 11 below, but I have to admit, God’s a good artist.  Like the BEST!

It’s hard to capture the beauty.
Lots of digging out to do.❄️💪🧑‍🌾
We just had to bake and ice gingersnaps to match the snowy weather! ❄️

Quote of the Day”He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.”–St. Bernard

🍁 November ❄️

Mother Nature threw us a curve ball.  My birthday had to be cancelled to prepare for a storm.   We were so blessed on Wednesday that after making 3 phone calls, 3 friends indeed!  Showed up to help move the cattle closer to home.  Once the storm hit, it took us a good part of a day to dig out. Thank God for tractor snowblowers!  Growing up we just had our no cab loader tractor…the cabbed tractor with the snowblower is a game changer.  With this amount of snow, it appears winter is here, the snow and cold makes everything so much more challenging…a good test in patience, perseverance, and optimism.  This is our 4th year here and definitely the earliest winter has come in those 4 years.  After trudging through the couple of feet deep snow banks this evening for chores, I’m going to seriously look in to snowshoes.❄️

Gearing up to head out.
We did sneak in a tasty meal and cake celebration 🥳
Boys have more responsibilities for 4-H this year.🍀
❤️

God Provides

We’re busy nearly every weekend in the Autumn trailing cattle, weaning calves or fixing fence.  We never know who God is going to send to help us. Today He sent another excellent crew, 10 riders total!

Cowboys❤️🤠❤️
💙Father & Sons💙

💛📕❤️No Screen Zone💛📕❤️

We decided to try a “no screen zone,” this past summer.  We loved the results so much we’re continuing it on.  We are living counter culturally.  Praise Him!!!

Love it when I round the corner and see our children reading good books together.❤️❤️❤️. My most important prayer for all of my children is for them to attain heaven and I stress heavily how important it is to us for them to encourage each other to heaven too! I pray they pray for each other, hold each other accountable, and I hope they constantly talk about religion, faith, morality and politics. If they can’t dialogue decently about the important aspects of life, they won’t ever challenge each other spiritually. 🙏. My grandmother is still an excellent conversationalist at 97 years old. She taught me that the first person to lose their temper in a debate loses the debate. We’re working hard on teaching our children to be classy conversationalists, and reminding them often about Philippians 4:8.

All Souls’ Day!

Praying for you to be in Heaven Mom…basking in Christ’s Glorious Light 🕯️!  

Our wonderful priest is reinstating a wonderful tradition of blessing the cemetery and then blessing individual graves. It meant a lot to us to have this whole crew pray around the Jacobson Children & my Mother. 🙏. The Catholic Faith has so many beautiful traditions.

Finding Balance

Andrew and I strive to Say the Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3pm…the days when we are able to fit it in are the Best Days.  St. Faustina…pray for us!  Live with Joy, friends!  We love finding the balance of not being scrupulous and not being presumptuous but Living that Beautiful Joy filled Christ Centered Life!


Today’s Meditation
“Let the sinner know that he will be tortured throughout all eternity, in those senses which he made use of to sin. I am writing this at the command of God, so that no soul may find an excuse by saying there is no hell, or that nobody has ever been there, and so no one can say what it is like. I, Sister Faustina, by the order of God, have visited the abysses of hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence.”
—St. Faustina Kowalska (741)

Jeremiah 29:11

Blessed to have such encouraging and supportive friends and family.

For Baby Vincent.
Matching everyday dishes from Bob and Jen & a dozen Roses from Catherine and Anna. ❤️
The Children will like this! Thank you dear friend ❤️

A friend shared this with the book club: a bit of crass language but worth reading:

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A Beautiful Sunday 🌞. Family outing checking on the newly weaned calves after Mass.
Grandpa’s generation loved scaling this hill, Andrew and I have scaled this hill during our dating days and now our children are encouraging each other to the summit. ❤️
❤️❤️❤️ God’s Country!❤️❤️❤️
Handsome Chap!
Off to trunk or treating🍬🍭🍬
Cleaning pumpkins.

A serious carver.  Asked to carve a gourde this year.

October 🍁🧡🍁

Enjoy your October Sunday 🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁
This came across my email today, thought it was worth sharing…a good message! Makes me never want to be critical of anyone. My Sister once told me, “Look at everyone like they are doing their best, don’t judge, let God do that part.” Wise words!

Quote of the Day
“Build an oratory within yourself, and there have Jesus on the altar of your heart. Speak to Him often while you are doing your work. Speak to Him of His holy love, of His holy sufferings and of the sorrows of most holy Mary.”
–St Paul of the Cross

So blessed to have my 3 Treasures home with me!🧡🎃🧡
“It’s snowing Mom! ❄️ Should we go gather the eggs?”🥚
Such a great book to read as a couple! Applicable to husbands and wives. We read it once already and are reading it again because it has such practical tips on how to love & serve each other.
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