Provident Living... AKA Food Storage

Matt and I have started down the path of food storage and home production. Or, as our grandma's said "cooking from scratch". I have discovered that this is going to be a journey. One full of twists, turns and re-commitment. I want to keep this sight for documenting and sharing all the great times we have with Ben and as a family. So, I have created a blog completely dedicated to our families journey to self reliance. Check out www.thewomackjourney.blogspot.com where you will find ideas, thoughts, plans and what I am sure will be some amusing anecdotes. If you are already self-reliant, please, please, please share your insights!!! If you have this same goal to become self-reliant, let's make the journey together!

Hula-hoop!

While Matt was playing marbles with the Cub Scouts on Wednesday Ben found a hula-hoop to play with. It kept him entertained for quite sometime! The boy has moves!

Carseat? Who needs it?

Ben tried to convince us he no longer needs the carseat. He does look like a big boy! We are going to save the big "turning of the carseat" event for when we head to Texas in November! Maybe then at least the first 10 minutes of the 12 hour trip will seem new and interesting to him!

September 11, 2008

This is a special day to most Americans. For the Womack Family it has several points of significance besides the painfully obvious. Today our nephew Dalton turns 13!! Congratulations D', Happy Birthday we Love you!! Today would also be my Dad's birthday, I believe he would be 61 today.(someone will correct me on that if necessary, I'm sure)

Anyway, Matt and Ben and I have some family and very dear friends who are and have been Military service Men/Women. We just want to take a moment on this day to tell them and all of the American troops that we love you!!! We love your families!! And we pray for all of you daily! May God Bless you and keep you always!!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

Lucy Goes Bannanas...

and so does Ben!!!

Be Prepared . . .

So, Ben is working on that tried and true Boyscout Motto, "Be Prepared." This morning after his morning bottle I put him down on the floor in his room to play, as we do every morning. He promptly crawled over to his crib were there happened to be 2 pacies laying, apparently discarded from the crib during the night, and popped one in his mouth and started carrying the other around with him. This is not an uncommon occurrence, but this morning I had the camera handy!


First, He brought it to me so I could see that he had TWO Pacies!!!

Then He gave the spare one a good snuggle so it would not feel left out, not being the one in his mouth and all.

Then he took it with him to play!! First reading.....

Then climbing/shelf clearing, one of his favorite pass times!....

and the off to empty the dresser!!! This actually requires both hands....

So he placed the spare paciy in the toy basket for safe keeping!!

A "sign" of the times...

Sorry not cute pics to accompany this entry. Just a little update on Benjamin and the world we share! I am happy to report that he has finally decided to use some of the sign-language we have been working on. He will do "more" and "milk". The really funny thing is the last couple of days we have noticed he has started using the "milk" sign for any general want. Bear, Blanket, Picked up, just whatever. We are trying to alleviate this by giving him only his sippy cup when he does milk, but alas I do believe he is smarter than us and we may have created a monster!!

On another note. He seems to be picking up on the idea of toy "clean-up". Friday when I was getting ready to take him out of the bath I started singing the cleanup song and putting his tub toys in the basket, to Matt's and my complete shock , he started picking up toys and putting them in the basket too. Of course Matt and I made a huge ta do about it and clapped and cheered and told him what a good boy he is. Then his morning during pre-nap bedroom clean-up he actually put some toys in the basket!! I am soo glad Mom told me a few weeks ago to start working on clean-up with him and not just always do it myself! Maybe he will grow up to be a neat tidy person!!! (a mom can hope!)

Big Ben's Only Fear!!

This is Chuck the Dump truck. Chuck revs is engine and says " Lets Get Going there is allot of work to do!" Then he starts to drive away.

This is Ben climbing up mom's leg to get away from Chuck.

The funny thing about the relationship between Ben and Chuck is the way it began. We were at Ben's Nana and Papa's house for Cousin Brayden's Birthday party. Chuck used to belong to Brayden. When Ben first met Chuck they played and Ben laughed and they were good friends. Then Ben went to sleep, he took a nice 1.5 hour nap in mom's arms. When he got up from his nap some thing had changed!! Chuck was now very very scary and needed to be avoided at all costs!! Grammy says he must have had a bad dream, that is all I can figure too. It has been almost a month now and Ben still runs for the hills at the very sight of Chuck!!! Silly Boy!

Ben's Thoughts

Look Mom a Cup!!
I wonder what will happen if I put the Shaker Egg in the cup and Shake!!??
Awesome!!! It makes twice as much noise!!
What the? Were is the egg?
Come Back here you!

Ben.. on Ice!

Ben Loves Otter Pops!! He will take a big bite out and keep it in his mouth! It is great fun!