Category Archives: Journal
Dangers of Blogging
Blogs: Friend or Foe? Blogging is popular these days. For most, it’s a fun type of virtual scrapbook. A way to record how the children are growing and family activities. For a few it turns into a full time business! I love to read blogs and find it brings out the best and worst in [...]
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The Scripture Lady
After services each week, The scripture lady is always surrounded by children, eager to learn a new verse by memory. If she has more children than she can work with, she has older children teach the younger ones. She creates pictures like these to help the children get a mind picture for the words. And [...]
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Russian Orphans and Gingerbread Houses
I’m going to be a sewing maniac today, but first I wanted to share a few photos from the weekend. Friday night our family worship group gathered in my home to put together Christmas boxes for an orphanage in Russia. One of our member’s father visited there a few weeks ago on a missionary trip [...]
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Food Journal Week 2 Day 1
Combine a super busy schedule with not writing my food down and you get a total nutrition fail. But that is behind me now. The musical is over, soccer is soon to follow and we are carving out family time again. Last night we started our November tradition of reading aloud Stories of the Pilgrims. [...]
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Grant likes Pomegranates
The first time we tasted a real pomegranate was 3 years ago. My MIL worked in a local food pantry and several cases of the fruit were donated. None of the underprivileged would take them–at least there, they preferred cakes, doughnuts, and prepackaged foods. And often left the fresh fruits and veggies to rot. They [...]
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Fall Colors on a Missouri Drive–Plus guess the answer
Darren preached in Macon yesterday. It was a 3 hour drive. We left home with 3 kids in tow at 6:30 so I slept most of the way. My eyes popped open when we were 30 minutes out and I was overcome with how beautiful the trees were. I snapped sone pictures: Grant enjoyed the [...]
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More pictures from Front Sight
I can’t wait to go back to Front Sight Next Year. What an amazing experience! I was definitely not a gun person before I went out there. (I had only shot once and had never fired the gun I took with me.) Every time my husband asked me to go target shooting with him, my [...]
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A Woman’s Guide to FrontSight Take 2