Scraping Off Crud
This week my heart felt like gunk. I can easily be discouraged which is odd because I find it so easy to encourages others.
This week I tackled missed deadlines, family sickness and cold weather as I tried to get my heart up and running. I needed to give my gunky funk a tune [...]
Hating God
While driving in the car with the kids one day Ry and I had the following conversation:
Ry: I hate God.
Messy Jessy: thinking…..biting tongue…..praying….
Ry: I hate Him because I can never see Him.
Messy Jessy: Ry I can’t make you love God and I can’t make you see Him. But, if you ask Him, He’ll show [...]
Popcorn is regular snack in our home. Neat Pete can make popcorn in a heavy pan on the range. I usually just end up making micro-wave popcorn. We have the special popcorn bowls but sometimes we just eat it right out of the bag.
Lil’ Miss Molly seems to think that she needs to taste every-one’s [...]
Sometimes I feel over run with good books.
Study guides, self-helpers, pretty books and spiritual books.
All good. But there really is only one Good Book.
The Holy Bible.
The Bible, Book of 1Peter, Chapter 1, Verses 24-25
All men are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the [...]
Our new over-the-door towel hanger was a score from a local after-retailer home goods store for only $7.99! [Yes we are still working on pulling together the bathroom.]
The diamond cut knobs are my treasures. It is like a pretty crown offered up to soften our deep brown painted walls which will have deep blue accessories [...]
Sunflower Gate
The first sustainable living: seeds, wind, soil, rain and sun.
Holy Bible, Book of Genesis, Chapter 1, Verse 11
Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so.
Posts
One of the perks of being an singleton: Storage Space.
In my family I was able to keep my must-haves year after year under one condition…I had to sort, purge and label toys, books, clothes and memory junk upon H.S. and College graduation and marriage.
My Sticker Book has made all the cuts.
Oh yes, I coveted, traded [...]
As a Mom I find it is second nature for me to encourage, build-up and compliment my kids. Yes, I also find it second nature to growl, snare and fuss at my kids but that is for another blog post.
I credit my parents for raising me with the ability to express verbal praise. They loved [...]
