All Things Home and Family
Here's a chance for the rest of you to laugh at me, too, like Amy is. About my precious, little radish green. I don't mind the schputting. When I saw those green, curly leaves I couldn't resist. They're growing quickly... an inch in 12 hours easily. "Who dares despise the day of small things, since the… Continue reading Happy Things
We are not feeling bluesy really. I am just thinking about the inconveniences of sub-zero weather. There are small annoyances that happen only in mid-winter when the temperatures drop. One of those things is static electricity. I walk across the carpet in our bedroom and listen to the snapping. I can feel it grab my… Continue reading Winter Blues and Thankyous
All we have is a skiff of snow. Not enough for anything but making the back roads slick and to be able to say that there IS snow. Not enough to play in, or make a snow man of, or plow even. I doubt you can measure it although I saw that someone… Continue reading A Skiff Of Snow And Other Stuff of December
The green of the leaves and grasses is old and faded. I tend to mourn the passing away of summer even while relishing the arrival of cooler weather. Swimming and sweating are done. There’s school instead. It is time for canning and cleaning away the crop of cobwebs in all the ceiling corners.Speaking of spiders… Continue reading Summer is Giving Way to Fall… and Other Ramblings
I am counting today because of Japan's suffering. ~ We have warm, spacious houses far, far removed from the threat of tsunamis. It's not like they in Japan deserve what they're getting right now anymore than we deserve what we enjoy. ~I am thankful for salvation and the freedom to live and share it. ~ I heard… Continue reading Blessings
We tell our children that tomorrow's world is going to be much different than today's. We tell them that they will have worse or more intense evil to face and to teach their children against. It's a scary future if you get to focusing on the news or listening to too much VCY America radio. Being… Continue reading Wake Up Call For Us Moms
How To Tell The Difference Concern 1. something that affects or is of importance to a person; affair; business2. regard for or interest in a person or a thing he felt a strong concern for her3. anxiety, worry, or solicitude4. important bearing or relation his news has great concern for us Complaint noun1.… Continue reading Concern…or Complaint
( Thanks, Lance, for this picture of the Split Rock Lighthouse on the North Shore of Lake Superior.) I have been trying to get this post on “paper” now for several days. With reunion pictures to sort and photo stories to create I have been distracted. Elv preached Sunday about David…the poet, the… Continue reading Cave Time
* That I must somehow learn to paint pictures with words.* That grandchildren call up all the latent mothering skills and that bonding is inevitable and intensely sweet...also a dagger when they leave.*That unless 2 people who have been married for 28 years make an effort to remain close friends; life with all it's burdens,… Continue reading I Am Learning Lately…
Elv was listening to a someone on the radio explaining how that we have lost the ability to concentrate due to our busy and varied lives. We sit down to the computer and plan to Bible study, but we check the weather, our blogspot, the news, and our emails on our way to E Sword… Continue reading Reading and Concentration
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