July 8, 2009
9 Years Ago Today…
And Today…
By God’s grace, even MORE in love than our wedding day!
Ephesians 5:22-23:
“Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. ”For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”
June 26, 2009
I know my blog has been pretty quiet lately. We are just enjoying the 
summer! I plan on our summer break being pretty short this year, so I am trying to fit a lot of fun into a short amount of time. Our school year ended June 12th, and I plan to start our new school year back up on August 3rd. I want to start a month earlier than usual so that hopefully I can plan some extra breaks throughout the school year when the weather isn’t so hot. And, after our whirlwind year this past school year, I am realizing how necessary it is to plan for the unexpected school interruptions, by allowing for more breaks throughout the school year.
A couple weeks ago, I talked a little bit about making a summer plan. Here 
is a link to my little plan for our summer.
Summertime Plans
It is flexible and nice for summertime. It works great for us. I have a list of things we would like to do for the summer, and on the opposite side, we can write down the things we actually did! I got this check off list idea from Brassy Apple. We have already been able to write several of these items down on our check off side, and we are making some fun memories for our 09 summer (even though it will be a short one)!
In other news, I am still going through a lot of doctor appointments, tests, and waiting for results. Still waiting to find out if my tumors are cancerous or not, if I will have to have surgery or not, if I will be able to have kids again or not. So much testing and waiting. I will soon approach my original due date with Corbin – August 3rd. I know I haven’t talked much about losing our baby this time. I have just been so overwhelmed with my health issues, that I haven’t spent much time grieving the loss of our baby - which isn’t good – because then the grief likes to sneak up on me and surprise me and try to overtake me. So, all I am able to do is continue to cling to God, to His promises, and to His word. I love Lamentations 3:16-33
He has made my teeth grind on gravel,
and made me cower in ashes;
my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness is;
so I say, “My endurance has perished;
so has my hope from the LORD.” Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
the wormwood and the gall!
My soul continually remembers it
and is bowed down within me.
But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
”The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,
”therefore I will hope in him.”
The LORD is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the LORD.
It is good for a man that he bear
the yoke in his youth.
Let him sit alone in silence
when it is laid on him;
let him put his mouth in the dust—
there may yet be hope;
let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,
and let him be filled with insults.
For the Lord will not
cast off forever,
but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion
according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
for he does not willingly afflict
or grieve the children of men.
June 17, 2009
When I got home from my Bible Study last night, I found these sweet flowers waiting on the table for me, just picked by my sweet kiddos! I think they get it from their daddy, who makes sure I always have new flowers ever week or so! These cute little flowers brought a huge smile to my face when I got home last night! 
June 3, 2009
I decided to join in on the fun little summer craft-along over at Brassy Apple!
I usually use patterns when I sew, and I hate using patterns! I would so much rather just sew somehting, and have it turn out wonderful!! :) But I always hesitate at actually attempting this!
Anyway, this first challenge was to create something out of a t-shirt. SO, I decided to create a new dress for Zoe out of one of her t-shirts that is starting to get a little too small for her!
I had SO much fun with this and was so pleased with how it turned out. I am going to do it in a couple of different styles with a few more of her t-shirts. She begs me to let her wear a dress every day, and rarely gets use out of her t’s and shorts anyway, so I think it will be great to take a few of those t’s that are about too small anyway, and turn them into something she would much rather wear!
Here are my before and after pics! I might try to write a tutorial for it later, although I have never written a tutorial before…but I might give it a try!
(Please excuse the little spider tatoos she had her brother put on her hands this morning) I know, I know, she loves dresses…and spider tatoos – go figure!
For more great ideas for what you can do with an old t-shirt, head on over to Brassy Apple
June 2, 2009
Do you plan out your summers? Do you schedule in fun activities, and daily routines to keep the time from slipping away, or do you drift along through the summer only to find yourself at the end of it saying, “where did the summer go”? I confess I am not usually very purposeful during this season. I normally tend to let the time just float on by, doing activities on a whim as they might come about. While I don’t think there is anything wrong with this…I think there is something to be said for being more purposeful in how we spend our time during the summer months. Scheduling out a summer plan can look different for everyone. Some might need only a general outline schedule to follow, while others might need a little more detail. It grieves me at times to think of all the time I have wasted and let slip away, by not being purposeful in each day God has given me, to (by His grace) glorify Him, and teach my children diligently about Him – and that includes the summertime!! I want to be purposeful in teaching my kids to treasure God in all things, and in all seasons!
Since I will be finished with our homeschool year next week, I am thinking about what our summer will look like. I would like to plan a new morning Bible study with the kids, since our school-year devotion time will be over. I would also like to plan special fun activites on our calendar, and maybe set aside certain days that we do certain things (i.e. swimming, zoo, park, museum, movies, backyard water activities, etc). I will post my summer plan soon. In the meantime, head on over to the Girl Talk blog for some more ideas and info about being purposeful in planning your summers!
