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Ain’t nothin’ quite like a big jar filled with chocolate chip cookies. I took this picture yesterday and they’re half gone today. (It’s our favorite cookie recipe!)
Another treat has been that record player we picked up at the thrift a few weeks ago. After a minor repair (thanks, dad!), borrowing records from friends, and finding more records while thrifting, we’re pretty giddy about our new little player. And the dancing that goes on in this living room. Oh boy. Old bluegrass records seem to be the best for dancing, just in case anyone else felt like gettin’ groovy.
Here are some angels, as promised.
Sweet Charlotte. She loves her kitty shirt. And performing interpretive dances to The Oak Ridge Boys records.
If anyone has any ideas on how to teach children to sew (with a real, full-sized machine) I’d love to hear them. Ivy is ready, for sure. She and I stood in the thrift store today, and had a lengthy, serious, very grown-up conversation on what fabric we should choose for quilt-making. Her best friend is apparently going to “make a quilt”, and Ivy wants to give her some fabric to help. She knew exactly what kind would be good to use, and how much she would need to get. (And yes, it was a pretty great moment.)
Asher is trying to decide if he should be a cowboy or a pirate when he grows up.
He went to a rodeo while he was at Gramma and Grampa’s house, and now he wears his new cowboy hat all the time.
Pirate…cowboy…pirate?…cowboy?… Life can be tough, I know.
“Don’t worry, Mommy. I won’t be a bad pirate. Just a good pirate, who loves God and shoots bad men.”
I whipped this up last week, as a gift for a friend.
The pattern is McCall’s 5153, apparently out of print. Note the “Easy” written in bright red, which you must ignore. This was one of the most difficult patterns I have ever sewn. However, the results were worth it: pretty cute, don’t you think? This was also the smallest size in the pattern, size newborn, so that probably didn’t help with the difficulty level.
And, don’t you love this pretty house? One of my favorites…it’s near our house and it always looks so lovely and comfortable.
(it is hard to get a good picture from a moving car. maybe someday I’ll stop in and meet the owners, and get a better picture…)
From Knowing God.
“…[W]e are able to apply to ourselves the promise that all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to his purpose (Rom 8:28). Not just some things, note, but all things! Every single thing that happens to us expresses God’s love to us, and comes to us for the furthering of God’s purpose for us.
Thus, so far as we are concerned, God is love to us – holy, omnipotent, love – at every moment and in every event of every day’s life. Even when we cannot see the why and the wherefore of God’s dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always, even when, humanly speaking, things are going wrong. We know that the true story of our life, when known, will prove to be, as the hymn says, ‘mercy from first to last’ – and we are content.”
Ten years ago today, I waltzed down the aisle and he slipped a ring on my finger. I didn’t know then how happy we’d be as man and wife ten years later, and how much I would change being married to this wonderful man.
I love you, Scott. Your children and wife adore you. You have made the past ten years the happiest in the world for me. Here’s to fifty more together.
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith “A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!”
-Robert Browning
So, sometimes we have trips to the thrift store that are ho-hum. You know: a couple of paperback children’s books, and a pillowcase thrown in just to make it worth it.
But today. Today was not one of those days.
Now, let me just type a little disclaimer here: this does not happen to me very often.
I promise.
Love this book. It’s oversized, and the illustrations are absolutely wonderful.
Check out this roller coaster!
Next thrift store visit, we’ll be scrounging around for children’s records.
