Oh, have you checked this CD out SLUGS AND BUGS AND LULLABIES by Andrew Peterson???
What fun!!! Your kids will love it (and so will you). My kids have me play it over and over and over…….I was introduced to it through Underdog’s blog and it’s so wonderful and only 14.00 when you order from their website below. You can listen to two of the songs online by clicking here.
Have fun!!!
Leave me a note and let me know if you liked it….
JULIE
Archives for January 2007
A really great CD
A really fast week
This week has flown by. We’ve had a good friend of ours in for a few days and then my best friend is coming in tomorrow or Saturday morning. And I get to meet her new special someone. I can’t wait. This week has just flown by. My sweet baby boy (who’s really not a baby, he’s 5) bit through his lip tonight. He’s okay now but wow! what blood! Mouths sure can bleed. My friend Lisa also joined us for dinner with her 4 kiddos. And of course we ended the ngiht with a campfire and marshmellows. Speaking of marshmellow, I think that is what I’m beginning to look like.
Until later….
Rest in Christ,
Julie
Seven Wierd Things About Me
Following on the heels of Fish In My Hair’s blog and tag about Seven Wierd Things About Me
I thought it would be fun to think of Seven Wierd Things (just seven?) about me. Well, seven I’m willing to share with YOU guys.
So here goes….
1. Like Fish In my Hair I too, love to do laundry….REALLY. Not much makes me happier than an empty dirty clothes hamper. Washing, drying, folding….no problem. Now….getting them to the appropriate drawers? Problem!
2. I’ve got three different razors in my shower right now. Like I need any more CHOICES in my life.
3. I love my kids but also think duct tape would be the most appropriate parenting tool if someone would just give me permission to use it.
4. I listened to the Grateful Dead for years and still get a hankering for them every once in a while.
5. I wonder if I’d really enjoy the quiet and peaceful household my heart thinks it so desires.
6. I only wash my kids sheet when they begin to stink. No weekly routine of stripping the beds here.
7. When my husband gets out of the bed in the morning I love to roll over to his side of the bed to snuggle in his spot
for another 30 minutes before finallly dragging myself out of bed.
McGuffey's Eclectic Primer Readers
Not long ago I read on another HSBer’s blog about the luck she had with her daughter and McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer Readers.
Her daughter loved them. So upon her recommendation I ordered the box set. When I received them I was a little disappointed because they looked old, not colorful and fun like so many of today’s books. My son, however, noticed them on the counter and curiously asked, "What are these?". After explaining to him what they were he picked up the first book and began reading excited about the possibility of reading the bigger books. And that’s how I became a fan of the McGuffey Reader. It’s wonderful!!! My first grader is reading them too and does quite well with them. So yippee and thanks to whomever that was who blogged about their experience with the McGuffey Readers!
A cat who knows how to relax
Here’s a kitty who certainly knows how to relax…
on top of a pair of red silk PJs
on top of a pair of red silk PJs
More Ssccrraapin'
I promised more pages from my scrapbooking efforts on Friday so here ’tis!…..
Before
After…completed with the final embellishments
And all the rest of the pages….
Hope this helps give you some ideas too.
Hope this helps give you some ideas too.
SSCCrraappin' Again!!
I got the chance to spend 10 hours, yes that’s right girls, 10 hours, scrapping on Friday. It was the first time I’ve gotten a chance to work on my scrapbooks since before Thanksgiving. Here’s one of the pages I’ve almost completed. It needs a little more work. I hope to post more tomorrow!
IN HIM…julie
We are made for his pleasure
Made for his pleasure
by John Fischer
by John Fischer
“Because of his love God had already decided that through Jesus Christ he would make us his children – this was his pleasure and purpose.” (Ephesians 1:5
We will never get to the bottom of this: that God made us for his pleasure. We are much more likely to think of God as someone to obey, revere, and not offend. Our natural tendency is to think that God is out to get us. We walk on eggshells around him. We imagine him at best disinterested in our lives, and at worst, as one waiting to pounce on us over our next misdeed. But to gain pleasure from us? To have created us for his own joy is beyond us. That, by the way, is one reason why I know this is true. Something this wonderful could only be something God revealed to us; we could never have come up with this on our own.
Just what is it about us that brings him pleasure? First off, we are like him. He looks at us and sees himself because he made us to reflect his image. We have a heart, a will, emotions, and a moral conscience. Because of this, God can relate to us and communicate with us. God can have fellowship with us, in other words, and this is one of the main reasons we were created. Plus, we know from examples of men and women in the Old Testament that this fellowship can take on all the typical characteristics of human relationships – arguing, bargaining, cajoling, forgiving, even wrestling (God and Jacob – Genesis 32:22-32) appears to be a part of the human/divine relationship and something in which God takes pleasure or he wouldn’t indulge in it.
This is why we receive so much pleasure when we worship God outright through prayer, meditation, or music. We are doing the most important part of what we were meant to do. David’s greatest joy was to meditate on the law of God day and night.
But don’t leave out the rest of our lives that can be lived out as an act of worship. Paul encourages us to do everything we do to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). He wouldn’t have suggested this if it weren’t possible. That would mean that a host of activities and interests commonly thought of as “secular” could take on the quality and function of worship in our daily lives. And in all of this, God takes pleasure.
Try and live today within the reality that you are bringing God pleasure. We started out that way without doing anything, so consider how living with that consciousness can affect your choices, thoughts, and actions.
Vacation Time
This year our family is planning on a vacation with 4-5 other families from our church to Harbor Island SC. We’ve never done this before and I’m trusting the Lord to work it all out. We need a house we can afford and one that will allow us to bring our cute little dog in the blog entry below. Why am I telling you all this? So that you can pray for us. I am trusting God to provide what we need. Will you join me in prayer? I look forward to sharing with you what He does for us.
IN HIM,
Julie
Snoozing on a Rainy Afternoon
Snoozing on a Rainy Afternoon…
Could they get anymore comfortable???
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