From the monthly archives:
Bring on the summer fun & picnic food!
No major plans for the holiday weekend here. We’ll be taking it easy and getting some sun, probably mostly in our own backyard, which, after all, is pretty much our favorite place to be. It’s all good.
Getting me thinking this week-
Sheila’s 25 Marriage Tips- there is some good [...]
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She coughs. I worry.
It’s the nature of the game, being a mother, an ordinary mom.
Maybe I worry a little bit more so being an asthma mom, having gone through several hospitalizations with 2 of our girls and their quickly developing pneumonias when the wheezing comes on fast and strong. Or maybe every mother worries with every [...]
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391. air conditioning
392. a husband who will take the time to take apart and clean the air conditioner so that it actually cools the house down
393. eyes opened and lessons learned during the recent series of Revival meetings
394. hearts and souls revived, like a breath of fresh air
395. safety on the road night after night [...]
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Wow, life is busy, my heart if heavy, and life is busy.
A young friend of our oldest son, Noah, was flown to Children’s Hospital last night with a head injury. Please join us in prayer for this young man, for a full and complete recovery. I know the Lord is able to heal his every [...]
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Recently overheard-
3 yr old Mercy – “Mom, my hippucks make my breath be gone.”
Translation (I think): “Mom, my hiccups take my breath away.”
More Mercy- “Mom, you’re getting big like a giant door.”
(She’s been into comparing sizes lately… but, a giant door?!)
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance
Proverbs 15:13a
5 yr old Hope- “I like it outside [...]
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381. that brilliant orange display of His creativity (Orioles are my favorite birds, I think, it’s so hard to choose a favorite…)
382. listening to the Loons call from the lake across the highway well into the night these past few nights (Loons are another favorite, see? it’s so hard to choose, but then, I don’t [...]
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We’re loving our current read-aloud- James Herriot’s Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small. My children cannot get enough of this book- we’d read it in one sitting if they had their way. My voice would be quite hoarse and we would probably miss a meal [...]
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A recent example of what I like to call our lifestyle of learning-
While seated around the table together, enjoying a Saturday morning breakfast of Mr. Extraordinary’s biscuits and sausage gravy, one of our children was turning the pages of a very old copy of Today’s biggest animals (A golden look-look book). Naturally, the child sitting [...]
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