Chateau De Paix

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:23:00 +0000

I don't blog here anymore. But I do come here everyday to check the blogs I like to read. I have them linked on my new site but they don't tell me WHEN they update so I always come back here. Since I do I thought I would place a new photo here just because I am tired of seeing my dog sleeping. come see me at aseemlylife.com

No blogging for me.

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:26:00 +0000

I'm very sad today. My MAC is in the shop. Ten days before I get it back. No blogging for me.
Unless I find a way to update my blog via another computer. But I can't see how that will be possible.

MY NEW SITE, COME ON OVER AND VISIT

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:54:00 +0000

Just wanted to remind you to come on over and visit me at my new site.

ASEEMLYLIFE.COM

No one really knows

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:57:00 +0000

Today I'm posting on my new website. If you want to read it you can email me for the address. I'll be happy to give it to you. I will either see you there or I won't but I'm moving over to the new place. Take care.
Marty
martyenniss@gmail.com

5 Weeks

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:58:00 +0000

There's a blog I like to read. She recently was pregnant and showed a picture of her belly each week. I thought Amani deserved the same. Three weeks to go.

Worship Day/Father's Day/Measuring Day/Great Day

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:28:00 +0000

I can't recall the last time I was so excited about a day. Today I celebrate.
First I celebrate my church. I love going to church every Sunday Morning. I get there early and putter around doing little things to take care of what's been given. I pick off the dead leaves of the plants, spray for those nasty little gnats that make a home around them and water if they need it. I pick up lint and check the bathrooms for any needed touches. I love getting ready for the worship service. I love being there early enough to worship twice.
Then I am going to celebrate Father's Day. I will have four fathers at my house today. My own father, the father of my children, and the fathers of my grand children. How lucky am I. I'm going to give them all canned apricot jam from last season.
We also get to celebrate Measuring Day today. We will put the grand children up to the post and mark their growth. We will award the fastest grower just for fun. We will measure their running, water balloon tossing, swimming and holding their breath. Don't tell them if you see them but I have added a political category this year. I'm going to ask them who the President of the United States is. I know my four year old will know the answer. He's proud that he knows who "bakobama" is.
I will rush home after church to finish the snacks so my son can eat right away. I will swing by the farmers Market looking for freshly picked strawberries to go with the vanilla ice cream that we will churn when we get home. Can you still call it "churning ice cream" when you just plug it in? I remember hand cranking it with ice and salt and ice and salt. Now that's homemade ice cream.
It's gonna be a great day.
I just know it.

Sunday afternoon nap

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:53:00 +0000

IS THIS THE LIFE OR WHAT?

Docking the tails of Cocker Spaniels

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:49:00 +0000

I am expecting a litter of pups on July 19th. I'm pretty sure I know what I'm getting myself into. I've been present during the birthing of pups before. I bred Amani with a handsome fellow from El Shaddai cocker spaniels in Cherry Valley. She's agreed to teach me how to dock the tails (the breeder, not Amani), so that will be new for me. I've never cut off the tail of a dog before. Sounds horrible but I guess it's not as bad as cutting foreskin from our little baby boys. I was wondering why the practice was started and found through some reading that there were practical reasons to do so. The reasons varied depending on the breed. Some of the reasons were:
1. guard dogs, to prevent them from being grabbed by the tail
2. herding dogs, to prevent feces from building up in the fir.
3. hunting dogs, to prevent tails from getting tangled in the briar thorns and thistles
4. Terriers, it makes a stable handle to grab the dog and pull it back out of the burrow.

I"m sorry to make you think about cutting off tails but I think it's important to understand why we do things. Also, for those who believe it to be a horrible practice, it's necessary to know that in those countries where tail docking has been banned there has been a tremendous increase in the number of severe tail injuries requiring emergency docking when the dog is an adult. Tails are very hard to heal for two reasons. Anyone care to take a stab (no pun intended) as to why that is?

New Website

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:49:00 +0000

I've been working on my new website. It's almost ready. I've been making changes, asking for input and changing it until it's better. It's never done, always seems to be something to change to make it better, easier, fun. Currently I am in Ohio for a wedding. It was a great day ending with a tornado. My first tornado. I'm coming home today and wanted to post before I left because I wanted the pictures of my shoes to go away.
I met some amazing people on this trip. Really interesting people. One has her first book coming out in November. I like meeting interesting people. It makes me want to be better.

5 favorite dinners

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:36:00 +0000

Don't forget about submitting your five favorite dinners.

Economical
easy
kid friendly
Nutritionally well rounded

I think that's what people want now.
Should I offer a giveaway as an incentive to submit?

I have already mentioned that I am working on a new website and will offer a
"What's for Dinner" page
So I would love to have your help.

Bet you can't guess what the website name is?
By the way, it's already published I just haven't told anyone so I can work out the kinks.
Blessings

Some things never change, even after 39 years

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:22:00 +0000

When I was a kid I could never find my shoes. "HEY MOM!!!!! WHERE ARE MY SHOES?"
"WHEREVER YOU TOOK THEM OFF LAST."
"CHECK UNDER THE KITCHEN TABLE."
Sure enough that is where they would be.
Funny thing, this morning I couldn't find my shoes. No use in asking Gary. I think he may not even see them any more.
I found them of all places in the trunk of my car.
Yeah, I don't really know why they were there. They just were.

I sorta chuckled today when I got home from work. I started to pick things up around the house and couldn't help but
see a pattern in my life.

Some things never change. Is it really that important anyway? Apparently not to me.
And Gary? well he does come home every night.

What's for dinner?

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:43:00 +0000

I would bet that you have been asked this question countless times. Here is what I am asking of you.
I am asking you to send me 5 of your favorite dinner menus.
I told you before that I am working on my new website and I am including an area for dinner ideas.
I'm looking for generally healthy meals, simple, and cost effective for young families.
Can you help me?

You'll see mine on the new website.

As good as it's going to get

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:10:00 +0000

I told you I would do my "best" or "as good as it gets" photo. I celebrated my 39th Anniversary today. We went to a new restaurant called The Public House. The website promised good things. I put on my new little skirt and my new little top and we drove down there. We walked up and there was outdoor dining, indoor or front deck. The front deck had a heavy mister going which would have had my hair straight in 20 min. I was having familiar feelings of an anniversary past. Many years ago we went away without our children and drove to myrtle beach, SC. I was all prepared for a lovely dinner out and was all dressed up in this nice black dress with a lovely accent scarf of yellow tied around my neck. We went to this special restaurant only to find that it was a country steak house with peanut shells on the floor and a waitress in jeans. I was very overdressed, very out of place and felt like a goofball. I was living out one of my childhood fears. So when we walked in and we were standing there realizing that we were once again in a hamburger, steak, beer joint my husband looked at me and said, "let's go somewhere else". We left and drove to a nice place with some soft Jazz and enjoyed a lovely dinner.

AS GOOD AS IT GETS

AS GOOD AS IT GETS

God can bless us however He chooses

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:03:00 +0000

Yesterday was my 39th wedding anniversary. We married on May 15th, 1970. It was a Friday evening at 7pm. It was hot that evening, just like last night. We looked at the clock at 3 minutes to 7 and while standing in a room of 250 people My husband announced to the two men we were speaking with, "in 3 minutes it will be 39 years ago that we walked down the isle." Congratulations, they said. Then one stopped and said let's pray. So right there in the midst of the commotion he prayed for us, for our marriage. He thanked God that our marriage had endured. He was sure that in those 39 years we had faced some difficult times, and he was right, but that we had endured. He prayed for the next 39 years, He blessed us, our marriage and our ministry. He is a kind and gentle man whom I had only met today. I thanked him when he was done and told him that at the end of the day when I thought about my favorite part of the day it would be about him. Not that he had prayed for us but something he had shared earlier in the day. It was a dream he shared with us. In this dream he had a conversation with his son. It was an intimate dream. A conversation, moments with the son he had lost to cancer. I was touched in a way that let me know the importance of that dream. Really, I think he spent those moments with his son. It reminded me of the morning I woke and told my husband "I spent the evening with my grandmother last night". I woke from having spent the evening with her, having conversation with her. When someone you love is gone that means something very deep. I recalled the story my mother told me about a similar conversation she had with her mother after she had passed. That conversation meant something profound to her.
Some people would scoff at this and insist it was only a dream. Not me, I believe God gave him another precious evening with his son. God blesses us however He chooses.

This one is for the taggers

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:08:00 +0000

Last week I was challenged to take photo of myself just as I was at that moment and post it. My picture was taken after a long day of work. I hadn't even removed my germ laden lab coat. (but there I was at my computer)
I am tagging you back. I want to see a picture of you at your best. Seriously, go in shower, put on whatever makeup you are accustomed to, fix your hair and put on something beautiful, (at least from the waist up)
Look like you would if that boyfriend you are falling in love with was on his way to pick you up. The one who will meet you at the door with flowers because he thinks you're lovely. The one who draws you a flower instead so it will never wilt. The one who will fore go the Colosseum in Rome to fly home and be with you. The one who who asked you to go steady with him after 10 days. The one who married you after 6 weeks. The one who has put up with all your shenanigans for 39 years and still loves you.

I cannot post my photo at this time. But I will be posting it on Saturday, early evening just before my husband/boyfriend takes me to dinner to celebrate that we have reached our 39th anniversary. Who will give a plug nickel now?

1. Jen
2. Beth
3. Sarah E
4. Lori M
5. Sue L

Words alone are different than meaning

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:38:00 +0000

I removed my last blog. I didn't remove it because I didn't like it, I removed it because I didn't like the adsense that it brought. You see, when you have adsense on your blog google scans for words that match advertisers. I think they scan words not content. Because if they did they would not have placed the ad that they did. So anyway, since I didn't want to advertise their site I removed it.

I would however like to advertise, quilts, quilting sites, fabric, sewing, crafts, church, Free Methodist church, Christian organizations. Green, save the planet, Children, grandparents, Bed & Breakfasts, Lake Elsinore Businesses, Flour Fusion Bakery, Raviolis Italian restaurant, vintage buttons, marriage, watercolors, writing, Jodi Picoult, daughters, firefighters, just to name a few.

Making note of another change that is coming I am going to be changing the name of my blog.
Guess what it's going to be.

In my heart

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:51:00 +0000

In my heart is a game my daughter and I play. When we want something that we can't have or give we pretend that it IS by saying
"In my heart..........." In my heart I'm with you, In my heart I'm giving you this......

Yesterday I invited someone else into our game.
My friend and her family left for Ethiopia yesterday.
I called her and told her about our game we call "in my heart"
I told her I was working all week and couldn't do what I wanted to do so..............

In my heart I am at home and you, Jurvaun and a few of your closest friends (which apparently I just declared myself to be)
are with you.
We are sitting outside on my veranda and we are talking, laughing and drinking iced tea.
We are talking about your trip to Ethiopia.
We are praying for you and your family.
We are praying for the connections that will be made.
We are praying for your children, that there will be a seed of connection planted in their hearts for Ethiopia.
In my heart we are praying for that place you will find that will be home to you.
In my heart I am reminding you of the covenant that God made with you.
The covenant that you will go as a family and come home as a family.
In my heart I am telling you that I love you and
I am proud of you.

Never say Never

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:07:00 +0000

I was tagged by someone. Someone I love. She says that she never reads forwards. Never believes the sad sad stories that we are told in the circulating emails. She doesn't ever send them on to 5 of her friends so she will reap whatever is promised. However this one she did. Never say Never. thefamilyenniss.typepad.com
Only for Beth will I do this. I was to snap a photo as I was the moment I received it and post that picture and tag 5 more friends to do the same.
No, I say, No. This is wrong. But it's Beth. Why would you not do this for Beth? After all she will win big if you don't break the chain, I tell myself. How could you deny her the great prize? So here it is, this is exactly how I look as I walk into the house after seeing 5 patients from Vista, to Fallbrook to Murrieta and back to Fallbrook and the home to Lake Elsinore. I haven't even removed my lab coat.
Just as I am

I have titled this picture WHAT MY HUSBAND SEES
I don't have 5 friends to tag beth. Now what do I do? Does that mean I break the chain?

CHURCH IS WHERE I LIVE

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:15:00 +0000

When you live your life in a church it can make your heart ache. You get up one day and someone is gone. Never said good bye. Then you wonder. You can't help but wonder. Why would someone, who has been there with you suddenly disappear without so much as a good bye? I figure there are a lot of reasons people leave. Some come and say good bye and explain why. Sometimes that hurts too but at least you know. Sometimes people move away, sometimes they move on because it's right, it's sad when they go but it doesn't hurt. It hurts when you don't know.
Then I look around and see that I'm not alone, not everyone has left, really it's just a few. I had a 12 year old give me perspective today. We were selling tickets for a church event and only sold 12 tickets. She said to me "if only 12 people come, then we will minister to 12 people"
"Yes" I said "that is exactly what we will do."
That 12 year old understands and she reminded me.

When you live your life in a church you learn to let people go. You have to. No matter who goes there are always people who stay.
The ones who stay are why I still live in the church.

This is the church building where my heart lives.
I will not loose heart.

A morning garden tea.

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:53:00 +0000

This will not be the last garden tea we serve at the Inn. I received a phone message last evening which went like this.

"Hi, Mamma, Umm, I wanted you to do one of those garden tea parties when I'm available,
I just wanted to call and say that cause I really wanted to go,
I love you and I miss you very much."
That was a message from my almost 6 year old granddaughter. Do you think I might be having another tea party?
You can count on it.

Three of my favorite women in the world came to my tea party. I think we had a great time.

We ate Zucchini fritatta warm from the oven, served with a fresh fruit medley topped with freshly picked strawberries.
For a sweet we enjoyed, freshly baked this morning, vanilla bean shortbread.
We enjoyed a bottomless carafe of orange spiced sun tea and music by Jack Johnson, conversation about injustice, rummage sales, responsibility, flamingos, stalking and revenge. Oh yes we did a quick google search for a particular person (for stalking purposes) which scared us a bit at how easy it was to find someone. Just the usual tea party conversation I suppose.

Mostly, the tea was for me. I got to spend the morning with three of my eight.
None of the bad stuff that can come with people, just fun, laughter and relaxing.

I almost forgot. Everyone went home with a lovely parting gift of their choice.
And I must mention, because of my gratitude that I also received a lovely parting gift from one of my guests.

Garden Tea Party Hosted By The Inn

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:02:00 +0000

CHATEAU DE PAIX INN would like to invite you to a morning garden tea.
To be held on the morning of April 22 from 9am to 11am
A lovely tea will be served.
We hope to enjoy your presence.

The Innkeepers wife.

We are busy at the INN making all the goodies for tomorrows, Morning Garden Tea. The tea is brewing in the sun, the strawberries will be picked fresh from our garden and much more. Hope to see you all.
RSVP in the comment section.

Reminders

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:16:00 +0000

Sometimes I have days when I can't seem to remember much good about myself. Do you ever feel like that? Days when the fog rolls in so thick that it blurs my vision. I can't see where I'm going and feel I may have wasted my life. I begin to feel like no one likes me. Sometimes it's immobilizing when I believe it's true. I don't know if others ever feel like this. I do. That's why I have the envelope made of fabric. My daughter made it for me. It sits on my nightstand. In my envelope I hold the words that have been written to me from the people in my life that remind me. Apparently there are a few people who think I'm alright. I don't take the cards out and read them really. They just sit there. I see them sitting there and they remind me because I remember what they said. I just need to remember on those days when the fog rolls in.

Who reminds you?

Who fills your envelope?

I had the Best Birthday

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:45:00 +0000

THINGS I LOVED ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY:
1.Breakfast with my dear friend at my favorite breakfast place:

Ramoshouse.com

2.A Movie with snacks with my girls:
We laughed out loud at this movie. There were some very funny parts. Touching parts, (or maybe I should say scenes).
There were some bad parts too so I can't recommend it.

3. Dying Easter eggs with my grandchildren. For those who are offended by the thought of easter eggs. Well all I can say is
we probably aren't close enough that you're reading this anyway.

4. The best, I mean the BEST Good Friday service of my life.

5. Meeting someone who shares my birthday for the first time in my life.

6. All the Happy Birthday wishes on facebook.

7. The birthday letter from my daughter in law which will go in THE ENVELOPE. (I'll tell you about that soon)

8. Receiving a vase of beautiful hand picked red roses from a friends own garden hand delivered by my God daughter E.

9. Opening a package from my baby sister which contained all her favorite things, super soft slipper socks, dental floss,
chap stick, and a scented candle.

10. Getting a card from really old sister saying happy birthday, I'll be on the road on your birthday. (then she called me
anyway.

11. Being given a lovely hand designed card from my daughter with a gift card from anthropologie. Only I don't get to keep it,
It's for me to give away on this blog. I have plans for that already. It's pretty cool when your daughter believes in you.

12. Because my husband had to work all day and all night on my birthday (good friday) my birthday happened again on
Monday. I got to do whatever I wanted all day.

13. Opening a package that sat in my house for 5 days without being opened until the 10th, A frame which says
"Best Friend" for my pooch.

14. Spent an hour in a great nursery, walking around and around, up and down the same isles again and again. Still he didn't
say a word, he even picked out a plant or two himself. I never heard him say once, "you about ready to go?". He just
walked and when I was ready, he brought out his ATM card.

15. We went to the Bakery on Main St. Flour Fusion and bought soup made by Bob and sandwiches wrapped to go. Then we
drove to the movies. We watched a great "end of the world" movie with an actor that shall remain nameless because I was
taught; If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. But if you like seeing the end of the world, the
effects were great.

16. Came home and planted all the plants my husband bought for me.

17. My choice for dinner. California Pizza Kitchen frozen pizza and a Bag of Salad from the grocery store.
which I'm going to go eat right now.

That was just a great birthday.

Embrace what you love

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:42:00 +0000

An amazing day reflected in two photos.
The love, the embrace, the badge.
When it's over, embrace what you love.

Jackson, you're a good man.

P.S. For the money shot with the wife go to thefamilyenniss.typepad.com

Happy Birthday Giveaway, Winner

noreply@blogger.com (Chateau de paix Inn) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:35:00 +0000

Jurvaun Trier, Thank you for your sentiments regarding your dear husband. It is my pleasure to send you the gift card that you will be able to honor your husband.
It's interesting to me how difficult it is to choose a winner. Everyone mentioned deserves to be honored. Thank you for playing the game.