Much of my free time this past week was consumed with studying for a Sunday school lesson for my teen girls. One day, my little girl decided she wasn’t tired during naptime. I told her she could bring her books out and sit next to me while I studied. She did pretty well, but …
Category: Thoughts
The Bible – Book 12
The final book I completed in 2011 was the Bible. The Bible is such a large book that contains so many stories – stories of new life, death, tragic decisions, beautiful surprising endings, intriguing plots, romantic heroes, despicable kings – and above all, the greatest love story of all time. This book tells about …
Overflowing Oatmeal
You know it’s gonna be a rough day when… Yes, some days I feel like a get a lot accomplished. It’s 5pm, dinner is in the crockpot, both kids are happily somewhat happily waiting for their Daddy to get home, the house is relatively clean… And other days are more like, well, more like overflowing …
Goals Schmoals :: Strategies for Making Awesome Goals
Well, 2012 is here. All 4 days of it. How are those new year’s resolutions going? I made several goals for myself – one of them I’ll share today. But first…how do you go about making goals? What is the best way? A while back I shared this graphic (via google images) from one of …
“Don’t Let Go”
This past weekend, my hubby and I took our senior high teens on a rafting trip in West Virginia. It was definitely a great time! (Well, actually, the river manager didn’t want me to go rafting since I’m 34 weeks pregnant. But I had a great time with the teens before and after the rafting …
Encouragement
Hello all! I am on vacation in Hilton Head (in case that wasn’t clear from all my freaking out facebook and twitter updates recently) ;), so this week’s posts will be much less normal than usual because I’m planning to spend most of my time with my family instead of on the computer blogging. See, …
Workin’ With What I Got…
Do you remember looking at those picture books when you were little – the ones where it showed a stripe up close and you had to guess what it was, then on the next page there was a picture of a zebra? You don’t remember those? Hm…well, I loved those books. And just in case …
Mother’s Day
Tomorrow, May 8, is Mother’s Day. There are many people who come to mind during this holiday: my dear Mom – the one who carried, birthed, nurtured, fed, trained, and still continues to love me. I love you, Mom. a friend – a mother at heart – but to this point has not been able …