Pregnancy Update

Well, this weekend was another one in trusting in the Lord for his care. It’s amazing how much we take our health for granted when we are well, going strong, getting things done. It is good to have the Lord bring events into our lives for us to remember to thank him for his care, [...]

Birthday Fun

 
Well, on our hot weekend, we had a fun filled day of celebrating 2 of the boys’ birthday. We had about 25 people over after church, half of which were kids. We had fun with making a fruit watermelon “car” bowl using pears for wheels. I had a hard time keeping it filled before the [...]

Happy Earth Day!

Hope you all are finding ways this week to help our Earth. I have been waiting for my “green” bags to arrive which are on backorder. I look forward in using them and not collecting the plastic bags anymore. I actually have an entire tall kitchen bag filled with the plastic bags to take and [...]

Welcome Home Blessing

I wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU to ALL of our church family who surprised us as we got home this Saturday from a few days visiting with family. Let me fill you all in on how we were blessed.
Our home is circa 1890 and was a Multi-Family unit that we converted back [...]

Great Story

I was sent this in an email. It is a great story. Try not to cry.

When You’re Down to Nothing, God is Up to Something.
She jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She said: “How is my little boy ? Is he going [...]

A Thankful Heart

This week has been fun at home preparing for our Thanksgiving Feast tomorrow. Both sets of grandparents are able to come to our house this year. The kids have had fun making name place tags. We have been studying the colonial times and fits in really well with this season. Our 4 year old [...]

The Error of Ingratitude

I subscribe to Teri Maxwell’s email called Mom’s Corners. I could very much relate with her in today’s email. I am daily evaluating my heart as well as helping my children to “do all things without complaining.” I hope this post will encourage your heart to press on with a thankful heart as it did [...]

National Geographic’s Green Guide

I came across some other ways that we can “go green” on National Geographic’s Green Guide
Here is one comment found on the site.
Reducing My Carbon by nancy_deines
(3/7/2007 10:12)
I’ve switched to Shaklee’s “Get Clean” household products line which eliminates thousands of plastic containers being produced and put into landfills. The products themselves are made from renewable [...]