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"All who wander are not lost." -J.R.R. Tolkien i took my children to the movies this weekend...the older ones.  dropped them off and picked them up.   once home, one remarked of another: "mom, he cried during the preview of the Hobbit."   i smiled.  yes, Tolkien turns 'round our soul and draws us to places unknown...   i remember living in berkeley four stairwells up, reading for the

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Via Seawashed. SeaCottage...aka SeaWashed on Etsy, by Kerrie Sanderson has a bautiful artistic giveaway... A perfect little treat for Valentines Day. Check it out here: Burlap Luxe Vist her blog, sea cottage, as well.  It is a breath of fresh salt air. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My kids all left this morning with baskets or boxes of handmade Valentines for their class...and Nick

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...and we have been doing some baking....  and experimenting. :)   My first attempt at fondant icing....  Here's a secret:   It is not as hard as it looks... {it is MUCH harder!} but is was fun....in a my-hands-will-be-pink-for-the-rest-of-my-life kind of way. ...    I found this idea on pinterest....and tried to imitate it.   {I have done many things I have found on pinterest...that

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 via pinterest  i have the vintage trailer jones......   bad..... find me one...find me one....  please..... before summer... gotta find me one..... a little window box.... via pinterest pink rims.... via pinterest maybe a split door with a porthole... scotty?  shasta? yellowstone? I don't know...I just want one! via pinterest would you find me one?

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Starbucks loves me.  It's true.  Look at my cup this morning.    A sure sign of affection, if I ever saw one!   And I am not surprized.  All the money I spend there.  Time.  Thought.   Savoring.    No wonder Starbucks loves me. Follow Me on Pinterest For that matter, Pinterest should be head-over-heels about me.    Our little love addiction.  The gasps and ahs when oft' we meet.   The

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addendum: 3 gifts found in Him: (Joy Dare)  1- He puts the lonely in families...(and isn't that me?) 2-children are a blessing and he warms my heart in love for them 3-new mercies every morning....and that it is never too late to wake up and see ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ via pinterest    when did it happen? when was the last day i sat on

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I am in hexi love...hexagons that is.   I have always been intimidated by them... I have conquored my fear~ After admiring all these hexigons.... I found a great tutorial here..and inspiration here.and decided to tackle it! so here it is my very first hexagon..... weeeee.....maybe the start of a good thing. you can see a lot more hexi inspiration here on pinterest.

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many thoughts: by way of http://pinterest.com/pin/178947785163536209/ and  http://www.funspill.com/72-stunning-examples-bokeh-photography/ someone said to me yesterday...God knew in advance how few of us would choose Him, would choose His Son, but we were so valuable to Him, that He sent His Son in our place, to die, just in case we would... I think of that.  His love...the value of me, to him

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be still my heart... via pinterest http://pinterest.com/pin/105412447497743782/ ...as if it needs explained... - because they are cute - becaues they come in aqua or pink or white with pink and red detailing.  (need i go on?) - because they have a KITTY ON THEM - because...well it's hello kitty!  hello??!!! - because i would grin sewing with it. - because it is not practical for me to have

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 a good weekend.  no rush  laid back... home chores,  youth movie party, christmas put all away,  basketball game with Nick "the rebound machine", embroidery, watched movies with the kids...cooked dinners and didn't go to a fast food place ONCE! (yea us!) at church Nick played the keyboard (not planned) and did a great job.  He amazes me how he can just play a song with out prep  or even "

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the paradox of parenting in the space of five minutes: one thanks you for looking out for him, absorbing advice, making your heart proud with a godly reaction while another throws your faults in your face without a backward glance or pencil-trace of remorse does the balm of one cover the sting of the other? or does the sting dry the balm to dust? a heart is worn thin with such emotional

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"We only are broken and this is beautiful: in brokenness, we are instruments in the hands of the Wounded Healer.  It means in our brokenness, we share in the sufferings of Christ, and this is communion. God, He calls His people to share – not out out any sense of perfection – but out of brokenness, patterning life after the God who broke Himself and gave." -from Ann Voskamp's writing today. 

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since he never looks at this blog, I think, here is a sneak peek of what the boys are giving their dad for Christmas.   These two photos will be mod-podged to canvas.   Cool huh?

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so much Christmas-ing going on...I will just have to hit the highlights: tree cutting up in Apple Hill: Nick chose one too tall for the house...but with a little alterations...we made it fit and it is all decked out. crafting: more sewing and painting and gluing, wrapping and secrets.   Olivia has been doing a lot of cross-stitch embroidery and Nick as 10 rolls of colored duct tape...wonder

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painting elf we had the best thanksgiving weekend...family, friends...fun,  food.... and then.... painting, sanding, gluing, glittering, sewing, decorating...the elfing has started!   part of our polar bear window...I have been collecting polar bears from thrift stores...and teal and pink ornaments...now we have our version of the North Pole.

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our annual "Christmas" photo shoot is done..by wonderful Sheree Clopton we had so much fun...and now are sifting through the photos..picking which we like best. more posted soon!

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from pinterest just sayin when something is bothering me or a challenge i feel i need to SOLVE NOW i become obsessive. nothing else seems tasty or interesting or worthwhile or pretty much even tolerable! i know i have issues i know i am emotional wish i had some snow and today I read this: 'now and then it is good to pausein our pursuit of happinessand just be happy'- guillaume

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my computer "broke" sometime in the night Friday night...so I had a whole weekend with no internet access: no netflix no email no facebook no blog no pinterest no..... and we all actually survived quite well. :) So I thought I would share a little of the past few days.... Thursday was a Veteren's celebration at my children's school, and I was quite proud of all four of them.   Only got a

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From Pinterest i know it is only the front edge of november... {i have been playing Christmas Carols sincemid-october} i know that fall is barely here {i still have pumpkinsand leaves scatteredaround, and turkeydecorations} i know thanksgiving, which i love is still before us.{we have been writing our blessings list on the chalkboarded back door, my oldest son's entry?  Algebra and Geometry}

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this weekend, as I was working on several projects, I came to a surprising realization how much I am like my dad. See, when dad works on my "honey do" list, I often hear exclamations of "Oh Man!, Gosh"...big sighs,  huffing and puffing.   I use to worry and ask mom, is everything think ok.  She would reassure me that this was just the way papa works, and we would both chuckle. This past week, I

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"Let's love those pumpkins like crazy and enjoy every single day we have been given."  -Angela Thomas a hobo, american girl, friar tuck, and a kitty in a very bad mood! but such is life...we still had a good time, at least most of us.

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(for anyone interested in some of the history of this fall celebration..both good and bad, as well as our the religious community has stood on all sides of it over the years, surprisingly wikipedia has a good summary.)

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i discovered tumblr this morning and am going to use it for those pretty eye loving photos i see join me from time to time. my eye candy "we be" on the right --------------->

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From Pininterest...sew lovely. i want to go sew.... sewww  bad.... I spent this weekend doing an itty bitty bit of sewing....put trim and cuffs on 4 pairs of jeans.   FUN.  (Since I have finally succombed to my jeanness). I spent some other fun time, watching Stargate Atlantis with my boys while I "window shopped" at Pinterest.  oh my goodness.. I think I need an intervention.  I love it. 

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what was i doing a year ago today? Oct 11 2010, I as admitting I could not knit a sweater, reading Radical by David Platt, and feeling like the worse, most guilty momma/christian in the world. wow...a guess a year DOES make a difference. Still can't knit well, but can make a mean hat and scarf....   no longer feel guilty about Radical.... and realize my ministry is my four and I am good

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i got it. i asked for a Barnabas..an encourager, and I got it. I got it here, from Heather....my heart aching and her perspective shifting me and her knowledge shared as she repeats: "And when the story ends, we know Jesus wins, for his power cannot be stopped. Nothing ever can, nothing ever will overcome the Lord our God.-- Ross King"  And i got it here, BIG TIME, from Ann....reminding me

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after a night's sleep cut short, awakening to churning in my mind, trying to figure out ....EVERYTHING...that is piled up too high on my chipped plate, I knew I had to get some life in me or I would be "not nice" to my kids with the morning get in the car stresses... too many days running too fast and too dry, locks up an engine....  i grabbed my often neglected devotional series on Paul....

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A little newer than this one, but you get the idea I saw it.   aqua blue  with a rusted pantina one lane over in traffic.  I as pulled up closer I could see scraps of hay over the back bumper. a "bumper" sticker on the rear window read "I am inspired by horses". (Ah a person after Mary's own heart.)  On the driver's side door of the paint was worn smooth and thin revealing several layers from

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I realized it.... I am finally embracing it.... I knew it, but I guess I was trying to perhaps deny it..... or....perhaps I was not really cognizant of it.... but now I am.... I am a jeans girls.... I love jeans, live in jeans and think jeans are perfectly acceptable ANYWHERE...yea.... I know Emily Gilmore would cringe and Lorelei would cheer... but that is it. I am a jeans girl.  :)

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from my front porch {from a daisy-loving, lo-tech girl in a hi-tech world writing on her hi-tech laptop into cyberspace in the hospital waiting room - boy is life a jumbled box of contradictions} my heart ache-weep-longs as I read the opening lines of Amanda Soule's newest book, The Rhythm of Family: "Wonderful things happen in our family when we choose to move slowly through our days." I

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On facebook today I wrote:  "slipped into a conference room at work. {called a phone booth room...wonder if I will come out looking like super woman}..and just cried a bit. Sometimes my plate runneth over with tasks...and I do them all poorly, because I am doing too much. Now I have to wipe my face and facilitate a meeting..." in a teary panicky moment, I also texted a friend something along the

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{That thar be sprite, mateys} The birthday post.... yesterday, chatting about bacon and drums, I realized I had not posted the other three summer birthday events of my kids!  {nautghy momma!}  I have the fortunate blessing of my kids birthdays all lining up in a row:  June, July, August and September.  With three down and one to go,  this is the birthday post for the first three. :) the

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 now what do drums and bacon have to do with each other? It's all about Taddy and his 11th birthday right around the corner.  We have small birthdays, normally just family and maybe one friend, but we do play up the theme.  Pirates, Hello Kitty, Cowgirls...etc.  {distracting side note:  oh the dilemna of facebook vs blogging!  I was going to put links in the sentence above to show Nick's Pirate

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all the colors of the rainbow all the shades of beauty look around our world.. -from leaves of 100 shades -flowers in their boldfaced display -birds from rich brown to shining green-blues -fruit ripe with too many hues to count -the multi-layered white, grey, pink, orange, purple golden texture of clouds -azure to green to clear to dark stormy slate of ocean waters -the broken beauty of Mary's

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I had fun today {Olivia too} with some sweet peaches from my friend Beth's back yard.  She dropped by a bag....and we made..... yes..peach perserves!  YUM!   I love pretty jelly jars full of sweetness.   I am going to drop one by Beth's desk at work tomorrow....shhhhhhhhh !  Don't tell. Since I had never made peach perserves before I watched Paula Deen's little video {she has a friend

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This enamel dish photo courtesy of LovelyHomeVintage on etsy.com "...take one long, deep breath and just relax. Abide. Because it’s never about your capabilities. When you’re in covenant with Christ, it’s His responsibility to cover your cracks, to be all your competency and completeness. Inabilities, in Christ, are made all-sufficient, just-right abilities. Abandon worries — and wholly

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it really is a gift...  if I would just unwrap it with a thankful heart. I pick up the water gun, wooden sword, deck of 49 cards {its number dwindling daily} for the ##th {double-digit, lost count} time and I actually grinned. They are here.   They are still here.   I still have opportunity in ways that I will not have in years future...to love on them.  Godbit them. I am still learning,

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...without something of "oomph" inside. My intentions often end up as dusty empty bottles on a shelf.  Ann says: "Who of us isn’t busted?" And isn't that the truth?  I read her words today.  Her need for brokenness-forgiven, I echoed my own need. Good intentions to be different, act different, react different... do not happen fueled only by desire.   A moment, circumstance, action,

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 it came.... the first day of school finally arrived... all excited, what a blessing school is.   my girls were very nervous, my Nick could not wait, and Tad,  well, he is just along for the fun. :) Mary hardly slept all night, which means momma hardly slept all night...but here we are. I love school.   sharpened pencils, blank notebooks...all the excitement to come.   I am praying my kids

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I thought it was over.  this last day of summer.   just finished with this and that..and ready to call it a night.  then I read Ann's words tonight  and realized it was not quite over: "Unless we make it a habit to give thanks, we habitually give our family grief. Unless we consistently speak praise, we consistently speak poison. Unless we are intentional about giving God glory throughout the

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 rocking and talking on the front porch...mom, friends...I needed that. organizing the sewing room {thank you papa} nanny and {reluctant} sons washing the mini-van nicky driving the car for the first time {in the drive way into the carport} hot chocolate chip cookies and lemonade served to kids singin in my garage bbq ribs for dinner playing cards with Mary on the picnic table the

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 This print came from Ann's post on homeschooling today  home:  The place where a person lives, a family living together in one place.  (Websters) school:  a place where children go to learn, the activity or process of learning or teaching. (Websters) Ann states "Education is the atmosphere we breathe... held by the gravity of our daily habits." I know the term "homeschool" has a

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sometimes "silence is wiser than speech" {quiet my mind ....and my fingers....| and praying is a better use of time than writing a long blog post. i am going to spend some silent time today travelling my world on my knees. and seeing those gift blessings from God tucked in this day.

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{You can purchase these vintage books on etsy.com from A Pretty Book} ...be thoroughly equipped for every good work.  2 Tim. 3:17 I am currently doing a new job function at work, filling in for an employee who is on sabbatical for two months.   I am on a BIG learning curve as I am learning new programs, who's who, how this new group works...  In this new function, as I learn new skills, I

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I read a line in Ann's post today: "travelling the world on our knees" and it reminded me of something that happened in church a few weeks back.  At prayer time, siting with my mind packed with all my concerns, the thought hit me, why aren't I praying more {at all?} about these things? Several verses came to mind..about being a person of unclean lips among a people with unclean lips...{} and

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"May Jesus himself and God our Father, who reached out in love and surprised you with gifts of unending help…"   2 Thessalonians 2:15 this verse quoted by Ann today, and she reminded me...again....of the unnoticed gifts...every day.   I may have noticed only the folded edge of something nice when it happened today, but now, with Ann's reminding, I look back on today, and I see them.  -

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this might sound slightly odd but.... {first a couple quotes: "It’s only forgiveness that gives a future.""He is mine, the one that God purposed to give, and to me, and that makes him a gift. Can I accept him as a gift? Sometimes the child tenderly parents the parent." "Because it’s always in the forgiving that wrongs begin to right." “What kind of monster says things like that?”} All of

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summer wearing outkids clothes toosunflower heads droopy-drying in the end of summer heatpencils sharpened, school supplies stacked and waitingplanning schedules, boys dreading haircutsmiddle of the birthdays...2 gone 2 yet to comeno hint of fall in the air, anywhere...but the longing of fall in our hearts. Come on summer, wrap it up... I am ready. are you?

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Summer is winding down.....but my "to do" list is in high gear!   All four of my children have their birthdays in the summer or almost summer months....(June, July, August and September)...and we have a birthday celebration nexte week.  School is18 days aways, so we have been doing TONS of things to get ready for school...supplies, clothes, books, backpacks, lunch boxes, and organizing. Our

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It was a normal day.  In fact, a good day.    Walking into Starbucks this morning with mailbox flyers to read in line...looking at new beds for the boys, maybe a new coach, JJILL catalog under my arm...waiting for my latte.  Feeling good.  Then on the way out, the front page of today's new York Times grabbed my eyes.   I read the byline beneath the photograph. 500,000my stomach lurched, my eyes

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Thanks to Ann I saw the cutest site with freebie printable pdfs of all sorts.   Just had to share.

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Thar's snow on them thar moutains! (Lake Tahoe in July) Have you ever thought about the pace and nature of this journey we are on with God?  The majority of the time I feel like the progress of my journey is excruciatingly slow, if there is any progress at all!  I was reading this morning, (in a Beth Moore devotional: PAUL 90 Days on His Journey of Faith) about Paul's conversion on the road

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 I know it is the middle of summer..more or less..but.. I CAN'T WAIT FOR AUTUMN!~ {my favorite time of year} With all the rush of summer and juggle of schedules and busy busy busy....I forgot there is an autumn until today.   Running an errand at lunch I slipped into Starbucks and ordered an iced coffee and a slice of pumpkin bread. As soon as I popped a piece in my mouth crossing the parking

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This morning, as my heart was struggling with the decision I made yesterday, and to be honest, I was feeling sorry for myself...sorry for my kids.....  I realized something {hard}: I am the "victim" of my own choices.   ...the consequences of the choices I have made in life have changed options, circumstances....for me...AND {the part that hurts} for my children.  I don't need to wave my finger

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I recently heard a speaker share some great things.... one of the little side notes she shared was about a new message or series she was working on that she wanted to call, "I DO HARD THINGS". That phrase really stuck with me and I am sure her messages will be striking as well.  And tonight...I thought....after a hard decision I needed to make, that I FINALLY do hard things. Look at this

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Well there is a new girl around here!  (me)....and I don't know how much I can blog about it, because I have to leave in 28 minutes to take my daughter to a doctor appt, BUT...I will write as long as I can. Isn't that picture gorgeous.  I took it with my phone this weekend at a women's retreat with my church in Lake Tahoe.   I have been to quite a few women's retreats in my years, but I have to

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Is He always calling, but I don't always hear? Today,  in a low moment....quietly "hashing it all out" with God....and my thoughts....  a dear friend texted me the content below from a book called Jesus Calling. It was just what my soul needed at that moment.   (Thank you Cyndi)   ....I thought I would share it with whoever happens to read this. :) From July 5th, Jesus Calling by Sarah Young

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Today is my parents special day...and my four and I had fun sneaking over their house and leaving flowers, sweets and a homemade card on their front step. Happy Anniversary!   We love you!!!

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Not me. lol.  (Well maybe the second P, but not the first one!)  From Post Road Vintage, Check out her blog.  Pretty:  I added a new lovely blog on my list of blogs I like to read.   Just gives me a breath of fresh air and eye-cand: Post Road Vintage.   Go check it out  Lovely: Peeved:  No fun to be had.  Anywhere.  Seriously....    I feel sleep deprived, stretched thin, perplexed,

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Over at  Waiting for Olivia:

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Nuture needs structure....  that is what I am learning right now.... How about you?   What are you learning? (I think I may be becoming a "non-blogger"... and I think I am ok with that.  :) )

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 Bye Bye Vacation!

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Last night all four of the kids were in a play/concert at thier school.      Taddy sang and had some lines... Olivia dancing Nick had an acting role Mary had a Solo  Olivia singing and dancing  Mary in the red chinese blouse ....singing heart out. "Senator Will Speaks" speaks! applause It was a great night with lots of family and friends there!    Thank you for coming

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 Illustration by JAGO from "The Jesus Storybook Bible" by sally Lloyd-Jones  "Because the Fairytale really does come true." - SLJ A good, {aka: moving, stirring, heart-throbbing, hope/wish infusing} love story makes my heart ache. Is it because we were made for more than we often experience in our after-Eden curse-impacted world? That eternity, God, true love is set in our hearts, and

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We lost our kittens! Momma kitty had them tucked away in a basket on one my fabric shelves...until this morning.... Such cute little black furr-balls.   I think we may have peeked and petted one to many times for momma-kitty's tastes.     This morning they were gone! We searched every shelf and cranny of fabric and yarn.  We searched the garage..we searched under the porch and more or less

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  our kitty, originally named Amore, changed to "Shredder", when her true personality came out,   was been walking around with a belly-full-of-kittens...for a couple months now. with in the last couple weeks, though, she has looked different.   We keep asking her where her babies are???!!   Last Sunday the boys followed her all around the yard, and garage, trying to discover her hiding place. I

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I need to play this over.. again and again and again..  to get it to remember it "now is all we have."                   for now.  that is all we have. the gift of now. tattered torn kinda wobbly, but good.  still good. the gift of now. yes, we will have a then. but for now, "now is all we have." Katie made me think. (once again. :) ) thank you

Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-38473521751650696482011-04-12T09:26:00.000-07:002011-04-12T09:26:10.806-07:00

Sorry about the bad photo...you can see it better here.   But isn't it the cutest sweater EVER??!!!! I usually put my knitting needles away in the spring/summer and pick them back up for fall.  but I may have to break that rule. I just love this....maybe I need to make it for myself AND my girls... I really have TONS of sewing plans right now, with all my cool thrift store fabric finds...

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I love you!!! and you.... and you.... and you!

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Sometimes you blow it so big...it doesn't feel like it can be fixed.... unfixable.... so you do what?  through salty tears of regret let time wear it thinner and thinner until perhaps it disappears? or coat it over and over with so much, that maybe it will be forgotten underneath? I don't know.  today I don't have answers.   I only have unanswered questions partnered with unanswered prayers...

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I have this list on the side of my blog.   A handful of other blogs that I read, these cyber threads into other's lives, thoughts.  Some I read every day, some from time to time.   Depending on my mood, and free time,  I skip one, read another.... but it never fails..... If I take the time to read Ann's blog, God ALWAYS uses it to speak to me. How can the struggles and triumphs, wishes and

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it felt like this! early evening, sun setting, cooler than it has been.  dinner done and dishes washed.  one in the tub, one drying, one at the computer.....I wander outside seeking the fourth. i find him in the driveway beside the garage with a not quite pumped basketball in hand.  a sheepish smile.  with a ball too flat to dribble,  shooting baskets into the open trashcan.  a moment alone...1:

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You know how much I LOVE the book 1000 Gifts.. by Ann Voskamp. Well she posted on her blog a precious little gift journal....that her son designed..  It prints on an 8 x11 sheet of paper, then you do some magic (almost origami) folding and cutting to make the cutest little pocket journal. so sweet.... and free as a gift from Ann and her son. Here is the pdf file (or go to her blog)..and here

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Taddy, 2002 time for bed at last....   is there anything better?  

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 Oh, this sunny weather is giving me a gardening bug.    My little Garden of Eatin' last year, was just a feeding station for the deer who visit our little place! I SOOOO  wanted to be a successful gardening and was such a dismal failure.  sigh..... I think I just went too big, and under estimated the power of deer.  I was over a friends house today and saw her itty bitty garden, very very

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(side note...OH my goodness, I am in Starbucks listening to a new rendition of Nights in White Satin -remember the Moody Blues....as a teenager, I thought that song was Knights in White Satin..and that it was a noble thing...like Knights riding out on chargers and a suit of armor, with a white satin scarf around their neck.  How disillusioned I became when as an adult...I found out, that just was

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And He knows what to do.   One of the hardest things (if not THE hardest) about being a working mother, is summer time with school age kids!  Once they are past the year-round preschool age....and still too young to be on their own all day.....  It is a total conundrum. In years past I have: Had a sabbaticle, and taken the summer off. Adopted and taken the summer off. Adopted again and taken

Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-60195941908180360972011-03-26T17:54:00.000-07:002011-03-26T17:54:38.153-07:00

 a 1898 copy of Intra Muros.....the book by Rebecca Springer of her vision of heaven.....    I had read it years ago...a newer copy from my mom....and am always peeking at the older books in thrift stores.   Was delighted to find this one...and read it again. :) (A bit more uplifting than Wuthering Heights...which I was reading last night, then switched over to watching the PBS version of the

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A 1939 copy of Wuthering Heights I found at a thrift store Thursday. :)I love old book and I love old stories!

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Just you wait!!!  (to my boss)  and I DID IT!   To my self.   what a work week...and it is only Thursday??!!  How can that be"?  (And by the way, is this northern California weather wild or what???)

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 Do you know about Etsy.com?  There is this cute little shop on Etsy.com...called This and That from Japan.  The owner, Lisa,  is in Southren Japan.  She is donating 15% of all of her sales to help Save the Children Japan. You can read all about her and what she is doing on SouleMama's blog.   (Soulemama even has a code to get a discount at This and That from Japan, and a giveway...so worth

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If I could but see, could grasp and remember, that truly...this life is just the rim....   We are on the rim of eternity.   Each dip and crack in my current existence, is used by Him, and just on the rim of the real to be.... I Peter 1: 3-9: Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus

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"Raising your own flesh and blood is this exercise in seeing how dirty your flesh is — and how direly you need the blood of Christ." - Ann Voskamp Ann- You speak my words today...my ways, too often. my soul, tonight, feels like nails on a chalk board.   hear it?   I could enumerate the reasons, but they really do not matter.  The fact is, I know it  AND  I know the remedy {He who is the remedy

Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-79560540666420619522011-03-14T22:28:00.000-07:002011-03-14T22:47:35.373-07:00

Lately,  I have been attracted to and found my self collecting an odd sort of sundry things. vintage children's books and poetry books...this one I have from 1943.  The pictures are so cute.   Olivia chose it off my shelf and asked me to read it to her tonight.   Tucked in my bed under the comforter, with my teddy...we read about the Bellamy family and the Mother's desire for a mantle clock and

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If you have seen the movie Shrek, (the first one)...remember when Shrek was trying to explain the complexities and layers of an ogre to Donkey?  Shrek used the example of the layers of an onion (while Donkey tried to persuade him to change his analogy to a layered parfait). I was  reflecting and grateful today, how God reveals in layers, and leads us with baby steps. (And what a great model for

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Just last night, I read chapter 7 of Ann's book, for the second time.  Fresh in my heart. Tonight, I sat at the kitchen table, boys at youth, Olivia sitting close....me typing an email.  She starts telling her story.   Her brother.  His "friend".  Words and actions over heard and interpreted at the playground. I'm typing. At first I do not realize I am on holy ground, unwrapping a gift from God

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It has been a challenging few days....and I must admit I have  not been focusing on counting it all as gifts.   I have been laid low by a cold...and not out of my pajamas for two days.    I have felt physically horrible and not sleeping well.  My kids have been good little troopers...and caring for momma.   I have had some hard lessons this week, as well. Has not been fun, in the least bit, which

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There are many ways to live the single life.   By single, I don't just mean: the one life we live (that too), but I mean a life unattached...not married or romantically involved with another.  You know....single. I have lived my single life (65% of my life has been a single life) in many different ways.... seeking/aching, footloose and supposedly carefree (may have been couple months in there)

Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-18177733713186099512011-02-27T20:22:00.000-08:002011-02-27T20:27:03.101-08:00

 ...I want my hands open to accept all the gifts he gives...to see Him in every one ...to know and trust Him for who He is.... to love Him so well, and love my children so well, that they will know the love of God and love Him and each other in return. on my list: - enough snow for Olivia's first snow man - Taddy running down to the front fence with a cloth bag to fill it full of snow in a

Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-19378374709204836202011-02-23T13:21:00.000-08:002011-02-23T13:21:56.862-08:00

to see you, hear you.  recognize you in the eyes of my children, in their hearts strung too tight sometimesin the tell-tale antics that speak of something lost or never known, that secretly whisper love me, see me, beneath the frenzied throwing of arms and barbs. in the ache of brokennessin the joy of you using brokenness in the beauty of prayer, my breath whispering to I AM, his breath

Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-43431341792058522212011-02-23T10:21:00.000-08:002011-02-27T19:57:42.811-08:00

This "group" consists of 10 to 14 year olds!   My son wrote the last (third) song....our next generation....rising into position....to carry on the Kingdom. Words to We need a King: We Need a King A little girl cried in a corner cause she’s been told that there is no God Her mother said that it was just a tale She was crushed, it broke her heart Now that girl, she’s all grown It’s been years

Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-48587016743323086292011-02-21T11:55:00.000-08:002011-02-21T11:55:02.720-08:00

I had the great blessing yesterday of listening to my son (12) sing a song in church that he wrote.  As I listened to the words, I thought...yes....how does a 12 year old get this? The chorus of the song goes like this: There are so many lost that need to be foundSo many lives that need turned aroundThey need a Savior, They need a KingCause they may not look tired,they may not look wornBut

Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-76031746276448398882011-02-17T22:55:00.000-08:002011-02-17T22:55:17.374-08:00

"I am a hunter of beauty" - Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts, p. 71 (I am late to the table on completing chapter 4, but I am here.) The practice of being fully attentive in any one moment, is not an easy one.  There is so much we feel, think, are pressed to do....our stress list. After all, if I don't do it, who will?  The practice of hunting for the gifts God gives  all around us, in all

Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-5800830139743001312011-02-17T10:25:00.000-08:002011-02-17T10:32:48.027-08:00

in a hushed whisper he said, " mom, he's out there saying bad words." somehow, by the grace of God, in that moment I was able to focus on the fact that pain can cause bad words.  he did wrong.  his pain then made him say wrong. but he also may have been provoked.  my stern words did not help.  did not heal. I got up slowly walked through the house into the laundry room to walk out the back door

Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-60388752148965127642011-02-14T00:44:00.000-08:002011-02-14T00:44:23.651-08:00

many times a day, He whispers I love you, but I am too busy, or __________ (irritated, frantic, discontent, tired, preoccupied, looking elsewhere) to see  slow down to see   choose to see I need to focus to see.  to pay attention to see.   what I magnify, make larger, more prominent, more noticeable, by my attention, is what I see..and what others see. "What will a life magnify? The world's

Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-81875893394860704452011-02-12T21:54:00.000-08:002011-02-12T21:54:03.549-08:00

What a wonderful papa you are!

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