Humbled

If only we could all look at all of our trials and troubles this way. I read with tears streaming down my face. Please take a minute to read this post by Darren Leblanc, the youth pastor from NJ who just lost his wife Misty to brain cancer.

A sigh of relief

I had my 12 week sono on Friday. To say I was nervous would be a understatement. After losing my last baby at 11 weeks, I had been preparing myself for bad news. But God has been so good to me. What a wonderful thing it was to see my baby alive and moving! I had never had an ultrasound at 12 weeks before. I compared this photo with my 6 week sono. I had no idea how much development occurs in just 6 short weeks. Our Creator is AMAZING!

For My Nana

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We Elfed Ourselves!

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Here's my Flashback Friday!

Back when we were a one-child family, I was the friendly neighborhood Pampered Chef Lady. I love Pampered Chef products! I earned many for FREE or at half-price. I was miserable! It's not that I didn't LOVE doing the shows. I really got into the whole cooking show thing. I love meeting new people. I love sharing nifty ideas and cooking hints. I HATED depending on other people buying in order to pay our bills. And I really hated jumping into my car to leave as my hubby was walking in the door from work. "Bye babe! Dinner's on the counter. Have a good night!"



I'd come home and climb into bed and the question that always came from my half-asleep hubby was "How did it go?" --which translated into --"How much did you make?" To which I would usually reply "ummm....well...I got a booking...and I'm only at about $40 profit, but more orders might come in..." It just wasn't worth missing out on our nights together as a family. I am very grateful for the friends I made in the process, and for all the FREE baking stones and kitchen knives and cookbooks. But, I'm also so thankful that God later blessed me with my part-time job at our church. It really is my dream job and I can keep my family with me!

Irony

To quote another blog:

Innocent Victims of an Obama Presidency
by Marcia Segelstein

The good news out of Election 2008 is that all the predictions that racism would ultimately prevent Barack Obama being elected did not come true. There is, however, a tragic irony that may well also occur as a result of this election. James Kushiner, publisher of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, writes about it on the magazine’s website:

“[W]hile blacks have risen from the indignities and injustice of slavery in which their bodies were sold and consumed as property, and have endured segregation and second-class citizen status and racial discrimination, and have now one of their own elected to the highest office in the land, this very president-elect, Barack Obama, will increase the death toll among black human beings if he fulfills his promise to enact a Freedom of Choice Act, which will serve as a firewall around Roe v. Wade, the Dred Scott decision of our times…Discrimination based on the color of one’s skin is not now the burning issue of our time…It’s that we’ve forgotten the value of human skin in the first place.”

A Legacy

A year ago yesterday, an amazing and dearly loved man left this earth to be with his Saviour.

He was a loving husband...

and father.

"Pappy's" eyes lit up when any one of his grandchildren walked into the room.

His passion was hunting!

A woman couldn't ask for a kinder, more protecting and loving father-in-law.

We miss you so much, Pappy!