I played for over an hour today to find the best look. I love the pretty busy designs, but they are too distracting for me. I finally settled on this as the least distracting. As a child, blue was always my favorite color, but now I am more partial to green. I think it feels more natural and healthy.
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I am obsessed with packing lunches, because how else can a former homeschool mom show her kiddos she loves them while they are at school.
I have made:
M-Mixed bean stew with cottage cheese dumplings (yum!) and saltines
T-Chicken noodle soup with homemade cornbread muffins
W-Egg muffins (quiche baked into muffin shapes) with honey butter biscuits
Th-Chicken quesadillas
F-We buy our food because we eat with MOMMY!!
It is fun to go beyond sandwiches and it makes me feel like they know I love them when they open their boxes.
Can I admit though my lunch love hasn't been as appreciated by the high schooler? He said everyone thinks his lunch looks like "puke" every day, but he did say it was yum and he ate it all. Maybe that is all I can expect from a boy that yells No when I hug him.
I just finished reading this to the children:
It made me cry as I was reading it. It does deal with some matter that some wouldn't want to expose their children to (ie a girl dies, her alcoholic father is abusive, a boy is homeless, etc), but I thought it was a great book with a wonderful lesson about being open to love.
I am currently reading this myself. It is book 5. I have read 1-4. It is very much in the same vein as the Harry Potter. If you didn't object to the magic portrayed in the book, you would surely object to the portrayal of all adult characters as either evil or inept. But I do find them enjoyable light reading for myself at bedtime.
I have just discovered Netflix's "Watch Instantly" option. I watched this on and off for the last two days. I know it was intended to be a negative movie, but I was moved by the young children's commitment to God, even if they were slightly naive (what is childhood without a touch of naivite?). I would be sad to have to watch them changed by the world, because their motives seem so pure at this time.
Dh wanted to take the kids to see Clone Wars. I chose to go alone to see this:
I had no idea what it was about since the library's only copy has been out since I saw the preview. I was surprised that it was about faith. I found that the movie seemed to want faith to be the enemy, but I came away with a different perspective. I was surprised after doing a little wikipedia research to find that the author's intent wasn't to discredit faith. I look forward to reading it to compare and contrast what I saw in the movie.
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Fabulous giveaway for gorgeous children's clothes!
http://sixblessings.blogspot.com/2007/06/whats-for-dinner.html
Fabulous idea for dinner or even chore chart!
I love to wake up and look at this beautiful scene. Our fish tank is right beside our bed. The light is on a timer and it wakes me gently each morning. We have two perc clown fish (the orange), two clark clowns (the yellow), a yellow tang, a sailfin tang (striped), a blue dory, a blennie and a goby (sp?), multiple anemones, a red starfish, a choc chip starfish, 3 shrimp and numerous crabs and snails, including 2 emerald crabs. 
http://www.lainesletters.com/letters/private.html
Not just encouraging in my heartbreak of only having 3 kids, but encouragement to keep my "loose lips" shut.
There is a lot going on in my church and I find myself wanting to say something to stop what I see as wrong direction. My husband councils me to keep out of church politics. I am trying. I had hoped that what was true would be evident to everyone, but I worry that people are easily deceived.
When it comes to attacks on me, I pray and if I haven't wronged the person, I stay silent. I figure that people talking about me only reflects poorly on them and I don't have to defend myself when I haven't done anything wrong. But I feel that I have to say something when others are wrongly attacked- I feel I should at least give the attackee a heads up as to what is being said so that they can correct or defend themselves as they see fit. It is just wrong when this behavior takes place in a church. Of course it is wrong anywhere, but it is especially disheartening to see bad behavior by those who profess to love Jesus.
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