{Gifts 399-431}
- Inability to resist a friend's dinner invitation
- The display of God-given talents seen in this year's Christmas Spectacular!
- Hannah Gambill's recitation - beautiful, moving, and well done
- First chat with our mailman this Christmas season
- Excedrin migraine pills
- Rain - nourishing, slowly and steadily, the new trees
- A tight, dry, non-leaking roof
- "I have not seen the righteous forsaken or His children begging for bread. He is ever lending generously and His children become a blessing." Ps 37:25-26. Hope that God can make my children Christ-followers and a blessing to others.
- A history of saints refreshing each other's spirits (I Cor 16:18) and my own personal experience of being refreshed by the saints
- A real Christmas tree - delivered on a night when Eric wasn't working late
- My clean-up team
- Down comforter
- Raw iron
- Friends who pray for me
- Starting my 4th decade with Ab & family in town
- Recounting three decades of God's steadfast love to me(!)
- "What a night! What a dinner!! What a booth!!!" ~Elijah, upon exiting Red Robin after our first real date
- "Do you want to dance, Momma?" and dancing wonderfully, joyfully outside the restaurant
- Such a great addition to our family - Joe!
- Girls in princess shoes
- Coffee with Ab
- Having family I trust to care for my children
- "What did you get, Bella?" {pause...slow smile erupts} "My bloomers!"
- Miles' irresistable smile
- Polly Jane loving Joe
- Finding the three oldest children on the bed with Ab, listening to an adventurous tale
- Grace to see - without despairing! - my incorrect view of life
- Pressing through the uncomfortableness of discussing #425 - a blessed gift, indeed! {My job is to help ERIC, not vice-versa.}
- A list of books to read in 2012 - lofty goals
- Butternut Squash Soup - 1/2 made @ 2 PM for tonight's dinner
- The grand old oak outside my window - perhaps planted 112 years ago, right when our house was built?
- A cell phone - allowing me to connect with my Mom, my sister, and so many wonderful friends
- Beef - homegrown and more than enough to feed us
Monday, March 5, 2012
Great PawPaw Turns 86!
We ran down to Atlanta for a quick weekend trip to celebrate Great PawPaw. Aunt Donna, Uncle Dennis, and Uncle Dwight threw the birthday bash.
Aunt Donna was, of course, amazing at keeping the children entertained.
They were so sweet and even included Haven on the cake~:-)
I love this!
Opening presents:
Elijah thinks James is super cool since he is PO-LICE! Here they are perusing a WWII picture book, gun in hand.
3.26.2011
Aunt Donna was, of course, amazing at keeping the children entertained.
They were so sweet and even included Haven on the cake~:-)
I love this!
Opening presents:
Elijah thinks James is super cool since he is PO-LICE! Here they are perusing a WWII picture book, gun in hand.
3.26.2011
A Ninja & A Fairy
Ha! Haven wore these wings again just this morning (3.5.2012).
Love these crazy kids!
3.25.2011
Hives
This round of hives popped up on Monday, March 21st, after a super fun weekend with all my college friends. These pictures give a tiny glimpse as to what covered my entire body, particularly my left eye with this case. A Medrol dose pack was ineffective. It took a 10 day course of Prednisone to wipe out this round.
These are the kind of pictures I take to the doctor. "Can you look at these? This happens to me about every six months....Oh, you've never seen anything like this?"
3.24.2011
These are the kind of pictures I take to the doctor. "Can you look at these? This happens to me about every six months....Oh, you've never seen anything like this?"
3.24.2011
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Book Review
Since graduating high school, my reading time has been consumed with mandatory reads - reading with a deadline, reading for a test, reading to learn. I finished one school then another and quickly had a baby. This baby, thankfully, threw my life into a tailspin. The last thing on my mind has been squeezing in reading time. Almost five years later, I'm worried my brain has atrophied and am scared by all the challenges of educating my own children. I've started to read again. My lofty goal for 2012 is to read two (yes, just two!) books a month. Below are the books I read in January.
1. Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches by Rachel Jankovik
This book gave a dose of just what I needed: practical examples of getting to the heart of a situation - my heart and the heart of my children. I know I'm supposed to be shepherding hearts. I know I'm supposed to be seeing all kinds of behaviors as expressions of "heart issues." But, really? What kind of heart is being exposed with screams of "I don't want to wear tights! I want to wear legggggggiiiinnnnnnnggggggssss!" Jankovik gave so many great examples of how to Biblically think through common situations. I found this book extremely helpful, full of gracious admonishments, and influential in helping me live out Biblical parenting.
2. Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education by Douglas Wilson
If you talked to me in January, I might have gone on and on about this book. In the midst of struggling through quickly-approaching education decisions, this book offered a little practical thesis that echoes where my heart is. I've been drawn to Classical Education in recent years, but would not have been able to give you a real definition of it until I read this book. Excellent, excellent! This would be helpful to any Christian parent in the process of educating their child.
3.1.2012
1. Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches by Rachel Jankovik
This book gave a dose of just what I needed: practical examples of getting to the heart of a situation - my heart and the heart of my children. I know I'm supposed to be shepherding hearts. I know I'm supposed to be seeing all kinds of behaviors as expressions of "heart issues." But, really? What kind of heart is being exposed with screams of "I don't want to wear tights! I want to wear legggggggiiiinnnnnnnggggggssss!" Jankovik gave so many great examples of how to Biblically think through common situations. I found this book extremely helpful, full of gracious admonishments, and influential in helping me live out Biblical parenting.
2. Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education by Douglas Wilson
If you talked to me in January, I might have gone on and on about this book. In the midst of struggling through quickly-approaching education decisions, this book offered a little practical thesis that echoes where my heart is. I've been drawn to Classical Education in recent years, but would not have been able to give you a real definition of it until I read this book. Excellent, excellent! This would be helpful to any Christian parent in the process of educating their child.
3.1.2012
Thursday, December 22, 2011
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