Mother's Day brings plenty of beautiful flowers
Red Roses
Lovely Table bouquet,
Beautiful Corsage
Bulbs for my summer pots
Flowers on Cards!
May Flowers
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
May Flowers
Just an ordinary woman, striving to be that "aged" woman of Titus 2..teaching the younger women good things: so that they may be sober, love their husbands, love their children, and to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands that the Word of God be not blasphemed.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Reasons to Celebrate
At our 2000 New Years Celebration, we had our church family and some other friends over to welcome in the New Year. About 120 folks! The evening was spent with good food, games, stories, ice-skating, hymn sing, Bible games, Devotionals and much more. One of the men who was leading some of the group games made a sign that said "Do We Celebrate enough? We kept the sign and often when we were in need of celebration of sorts...we would pull out the sign. Well, I am not quite sure what happened to that cardboard sign...but we still find the need to celebrate.
One celebration we do is 1st Day...the first day of the month is a new beginning, so we wake up trying to be the first on to wish every one else "Happy 1st Day!" Maybe we will have a special breakfast, a piece of chocolate from our Favorite chocolate shop, a simple gift, a special note...or even an adventure during the day...we Celebrate a new beginning.
Often we celebrate when things are finished: when one finishes a math book!, when one finishes "school", when Dad finishes a book, when a room is remodeled, when a quilt is made, when a poem is written when a scrapbook is finished and the list could go on for days.
Some times we celebrate when this begin: Big events: A birthday- the beginning of a new year, a wedding - the beginning of life together, a birth - the beginning of a new life. Also the beginning of smaller events: a driver's license, a new computer, a new tool, a new idea, a new kitten (we have a few coming!).
Just last month we celebrated the life of Corrie ten Boom, born April 15, 1892 died April 15, 1983!!
This month we will celebrate the lives of our mothers...we will give them honor for the love and care they have given to us.
So if you get stumped about something to celebrate just remember
May 15th is National Chocolate Chip Day!!!
This is a really great celebration day...chocolate cookies are a favorite.
I think you will find the history of this day a bit interesting. Chocolate chips were created in 1937 by Ruth Graves Wakfield when she chopped up some chocolate and baked the pieces in a batch of cookies. Ruth Wakefield ran the Toll House Inn in Whitman, MA. Her new cookie invention was called the "Toll House Cookie".
Think of all the ways you can celebrate this National Day!
- Make cookies for your Family.
- Since it is Sunday, invite others over for hospitality and share chocolate chips cookies!
- Take cookies to your neighbors and tell them to have a wonderful day!
- Take a can of cookies to a local shut-in
- Send a box of cookies to a newlywed couple.
Share -- Because we love to celebrate all the opportunities Christ has given us to love others!!
Just an ordinary woman, striving to be that "aged" woman of Titus 2..teaching the younger women good things: so that they may be sober, love their husbands, love their children, and to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands that the Word of God be not blasphemed.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
MassHope Convention
This year we went to MassHope once again. The very first Homeschool conference we went to was 22 years ago. ( It really only seems like yesterday. ) The one and only speaker at that conference in a Baptist church was Greg Harris, one of the leaders in the homeschool movement. This year Greg Harris once again returned to MassHope and was one of the Keynote speakers along with Mike Farris. All seven of Mr. Harris' messages were excellent. We always enjoy going and this year was just a bit more special for several reasons.
- Greg Harris spoke messages very applicatable in our lives.
- Mike Farris spoke about a parental rights advocacy group: ParentalRights.org
- Our dear friends: Greg and Linda Moore with three of their children, Pamela, Nathan, and Emily went with us.
- Our dear married children: Chris and Rebecca with their two little ones, Abigail and Stephen joined us also
- Friends from Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont...that we don't get to see often enough!
Just an ordinary woman, striving to be that "aged" woman of Titus 2..teaching the younger women good things: so that they may be sober, love their husbands, love their children, and to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands that the Word of God be not blasphemed.
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