“Oh, Mothers of young children, I bow before you in reverence. Your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in the little ones that you hushed to sleep in your bosoms last night, are powers that shall exist forever. You are preparing them for their immortal [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Holy work
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged motherhood, quotes on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Giveaway
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The book giveaway will end as soon as it comes in the mail. I ordered it this weekend (right before I came down with the flu). Anyways. I am thinking in the next week or two. For some reason I always think book mail takes forever to come. We’ll see. So if anyone else wants [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What an excellent reminder. God’s definition of Love is beautiful.
It is defined perfectly in Jesus.
Lately
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a great post from Sew Liberated on EC. I echo her sentiments exactly about how amazing it is to see a little baby let you know it needs to go! : ) Michaela today was distracted by playing and started to go in her diaper and immediately crawled over to me and motioned for [...]
Finding our true image in the mirror of God
Posted in Uncategorized on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s another helpful quote from Franklin’s book Who Calls Me Beautiful. Enter the book giveaway here.
Identity in Christ is a powerful, living force. My identity defines and shapes my life: “I have been crucified with Christ: it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live [...]
Protected: Andrew
Posted in Uncategorized on June 21, 2009 | Enter your password to view comments
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Protected: Michaela 8 months
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2009 | Enter your password to view comments
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Chomp!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SO not pleasant! Michaela has bit me since she got her teeth in, but this morning it wasn’t just a bite…no this was A CHOMP.
Here’s a picture of the sharpies
Lately links
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michaela is playing happily next to me…therefore I have a moment to share a few links. Yesterday, for some reason Mikki was quite clingy. I wore her in my pouch sling nigh the whole afternoon and had a killer back ache by the end of the day. Andrew let me hide in our room by [...]
Sacred and well pleasing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Homemaking, quote on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith [...]
Voracious appetite & recipes
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michaela of late has been a little eating machine! She wants to nurse near constantly and I do nurse her very frequently (we are the demand feeders of the century really) but it didn’t seem to be cutting it so I have started to increase the amount and types of solids she is eating. Now [...]
Who Calls Me Beautiful Chapter 1 excerpts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, Scripture, women on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Enter the giveaway here.
Women strive to shape their lives after that which popular culture tells them is beautiful, and Christian women are no exception. When we are preoccupied with physical attractiveness, we assert that the world’s standards of beauty matter more than God’s and begin to reflect the values of a world that Jesus [...]
Who Calls Me Beautiful Giveaway
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book, giveaway, quote, women on June 12, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday I was at our local thrift store perusing their book shelves when I picked up a copy Who Calls Me Beautiful by Regina Franklin. It was in perfect condition unlike most of the books on the shelve which mainly dated back to the 70’s or 90’s. I glanced at it quickly and the title [...]
Soap nuts
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you heard of them? I am going to try them out! Go enter to win a trial bag at Lindsey’s blog.
Stand’n
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michaela is just changing and growing so much every day it seems. She is a fast crawler now. Her favorite thing to do these days is PULL up on just about everything. That and rearrange our drawers. Oh and she also enjoys feeding our dog her rice cakes and then taking a bite. You know [...]
Confusion
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20
Joyful commands
Posted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The ten commandments for me
1. Thou shalt not let any of your goals come before Me.
2. Thou shalt not make an idol or worship your free time or desire for free time.
3. Thou shalt not say empty prayers with your child taking My name in vain.
4. Thou shalt not treat the Lord’s Sabbath Day as [...]
Just curious
Posted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Protected: Michaela 7 months
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Michaela on June 4, 2009 | Enter your password to view comments
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I have a favorite
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged babies, cloth diapering, diapers, MEOS on June 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Well, the first draft of this the computer ate.
So the second draft might be a tad short and sweet and get to the point as I am tired tired tired…but happy to be posting this I have been meaning to post this for a while. I have a favorite diaper! It is a fitted surprise [...]
