The LIST

by admin on July 22, 2009 in Bits Of My Personality, Life Keeps Changing, My Listening Year with 1 Comment
My man and I started THE LIST today (the to do list that is). It is so different for each new home and I must say this is the BIGGEST one yet! And only growing! Our house may need a lot of TLC (do to rough renters before we bought it) but we are up for the challenge… well I think we are… sometimes… Phew, looking at this list makes me feel tired!

Each morning I have been happily practicing singing again. After my devotions I pick up an old hymnal we have and turn to a favorite. I feel so joyful as I sing them and today was a sweet favorite. I wish to share one line from FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH today. You should look up the rest! It is a lovely song to sing in the morning!

For the beauty of each hour
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale, and tree, and flow’r,
Sun and moon and stars of light,
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise!

TTFN

Our Little Bit Of Earth

by admin on July 22, 2009 in Bits Of My Personality, Life Keeps Changing, My Listening Year with 3 Comments
Thank You Lord For This Dirt!
The kids followed me around tonight as I fussed with my gardens.
At first, when we moved here, all I saw was the size of our yard… kinda small… now I feel like I keep finding little treasures. The side gate with the steps up to it is so adorable. It leads to my treasured alley garden. Our neighborhood has a habit of turning all the bits of grass in the alley into garden and my yard is no exception. There are perennials down the one alley side. I love this garden… perhaps the best… It is a bit wild and I refuse to tame it. This garden is in a spot meant to be forgotten. An alley is usual an ugly place… but someone took the time to spreed some seeds and plant some bulbs and allowed beauty to grow.I have always been a girl who loves the outdoors and never felt I had the opportunities in past yards… My hands love to dig deep into the dirt, petting my flowers and encouraging them to grow with water… ironically I found a bit of earth just right for that need in the big city. Me! A farm girl! Becoming content where Christ has lead her! In the CITY!

The hymn ‘For the Beauty of the Earth’ comes to mind! I will have to look it up and see if I remember the tune:)

TTFN

Daddy’s Make Their Daughters Dance

by admin on July 21, 2009 in Do I Call It Parenting Advice?, Mama Heart Mushings, My Listening Year, My Romance with 1 Comment

Attention from Daddy puts a dance in her step. She walks in a fluent joy dance and her face is a sunbeam.

My heart fills to bursting when I see this connection they have. I understand that feeling. I remember how it felt when my Daddy took my hand and when he talked with me.

I am so blessed to have a man who has a heart to really connect with his girls. Our girls will be better women for it.

Yesterday she came home from a date with Daddy and couldn’t hold still. She danced as she told me about their evening together. She danced more as he came in after her and stood next to her and she danced with all her heart as he smiled down at her and let her continue her story.

Today I remembered I can have that connection with my Abba Father God and as I danced and sang a few favorite hymns I remembered how willing he is to give me that direct attention, to talk with me, be with me and comfort me.

Just as I love my Daddy for loving me,
I will love my husband for loving our daughters,
and I love my GOD, for he first loved me!

TTFN

I’m A Water Baby!

by admin on July 20, 2009 in Bits Of My Personality, Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Mama Heart Mushings, My Romance with 3 Comments
“If you want to know how much I love you, count the waves.”

Had a beautiful weekend with the family, that included a trip to the lake. My man wanted a day at the beach with the kids for his birthday. Happy 31st birthday Garnet, LOVE YOU HONEY!

I adore being in the water! Helps my home sickness for the north be soothed, just a little…My favorite moment of the day was when my oldest son trusted me enough to ride on my back and swim with me. Both of us are water babies and swam together till we where frozen. The rest of the family might prefer the beach and just dipping their toes in but at least my boy and I have that joy in the water in common.Another lovely Sunday with my crew! We are really enjoying our new plan of making Sunday’s FAMILY ADVENTURE days.“Don’t grow up to quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach!”

TTFN

My Frequently Annual Ladies Tea!

by admin on July 20, 2009 in Bits Of My Personality, Domestic Damsel, Foodie Like Me, People In My Heart with 2 Comments
This years tea party was the biggest yet!

So happy to have it at OUR HOME! The patio worked perfectly. We rounded up some patio tables and had it all looking pretty with table cloths and flowers from my yard and my mother in law’s (thanks Deb!).Potluck style was how we pulled together the above feast! It worked out beautifully! There where home made chocolates, home made cheese cakes and plenty of veggies and fruit as well! The night before I was a little nervous as to whether I would have enough tea cups in my collection but it JUST worked out (phew). A good reason to find a few more pretty cups though!One of the finest moments of the day was when my big girl and a good pal of hers picked some treats from my gardens and went around offering them to my guests. I had to laugh when I heard them asking the ladies, very politely, ‘Would you like a raspberry or an onion?’ They where trying to convince ladies to try some very fresh chives of mine as well as the newly ripened berries!

(This is most of the ladies from the poker night we have once a month!)(My eldest daughter has been to each tea and this year she looked particularly mature!)
(This is only the second my younger daughter has been to and since is a bit of an introvert she spent much time avoiding the crowd!)(Now we don’t invite dogs, but since my sister Karla’s doggy was there and the weather was hot we had to let her have a cup of tea too!)

This was the fifth tea I have hosted, and as with each year, it is the big group photo at the end of the day that is my big reward! I look back at them when I add a new one to the collection and I always feel so blessed to have had all these wonderful women take part in my life story!

TTFN

Comfort (think’n about it)

by admin on July 16, 2009 in Bits Of My Personality, My Listening Year with No comments
to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to relief in affliction; consolation; solace a person or thing that gives consolation a cause or matter of relief or satisfaction!

I realised today that most of my morning routine is me seeking COMFORT. Weather it is the lack of sleep from another baby interrupted night or the shocks I find in the morning (baby’s freshly pooh-poohed bedding) or the attack of mommy pressure (get stuff done, so much to do today)… I don’t know for sure but I know I feel in need of comfort as soon as I leave my very comfortable bed.

I have a wrap that I quickly put on. It is soft and cut to a perfect fit so it doesn’t fall off as I do the mommy things each morning. I automatically walk to the stove and put the kettle on because my morning date is always a milky warm ‘earl grey’. My regular breakfast of organic honey and cinnamon toast is definitely comfort food and always makes me put my feet up and sigh as I eat it. It is comforting to have the same routine each morning and always eating the same breakfast is a comfort due to familiarity.

(I could curl up around my cup of tea and stay there all day just surrounded by my thoughts…)

Quiet time with my Lord is the best comfort (kinda goes without saying) and yet I am so typical… I have trouble getting there… getting to that quiet place to be still and know that he is Lord…

I don’t wanna talk about that, admit that, not because of shame… but because it is so common and often talked about without conclusion… I have read plenty of blog articles about this topic and I always skim through them looking for a hopeful, joyful, powerful solution for Moms… sadly I haven’t seen it or realized it and so I am now adding my blog about this topic to the collection…

Often I open my Bible lately and don’t find the comfort in it… I WANT TO LISTEN and yet I don’t settle enough for it… I am that conflicted person, like Paul I am crying ‘oh pitiful person… why will I not do what my heart wants and instead do what I don’t want to???!!!’

I could use more comfort in my daily life… can’t we all?

TTFN

Couldn’t Keep Them Out:)

by admin on July 16, 2009 in Four Little Eggs In My Nest with No comments

It is summer, after all! The water might have been as cold as ice and the wind chilly enough to keep my sweater on but it is JULY! My kids felt there was enough sun to warrant a swim and so in they went on our second trip to the park today. Big boy got so wet she shivered the whole way home and has already fallen asleep for the night.My girls where chilled to the bone but I had to insist it was time to stop at four o’clock in order to get them out. Here is hoping we will have some much warmer days for our next afternoon at the pool!

Hello summer! Come to stay!
Heat for swimming and dirt with which to play!

TTFN

Give Me Some Summer!

by admin on July 15, 2009 in Bits Of My Personality, Four Little Eggs In My Nest with 1 Comment
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson

I am not one to complain about mild weather (because I have trouble handling the REAL HOT STUFF) but I have felt very sorry for my kids lately.

While I am happily digging in my garden beds, in spite of the rain, they are staring at me from the kitchen window with big sad eyes. All they want is a SUMMER! It has been pretty gloomy in our province this July. We haven’t had a nice enough day to hit the kiddy pools ONCE!The kids live less then a block from a kiddy pool and it is just killing them that they can’t use it. My four babies and I adore to swim, and since we live in a practical desert land, we have to accept the local wadding pools as our only option most of the time… so when they are out of the question my kiddos get pretty blue. We did what we could with visits and crafts but they got pretty tired of watching a happy mommy fussing with her gardens all day PRETTY QUICKLY!Specking of my gardens!!! I have gotten them all weeded and believe me that was no small task as they had weed TREES from being ignored for a year or so. I also planted almost 100 irises (thanks ‘E’)…. she must have been reading a previous post of mine when she thought that up as a house warming gift… I have all the over grown grass mowed nicely and even wrestled the giant horse radishes out of the ground… they had taken over the back garden. I found raspberry bushes, strawberries and even an apple tree (hidden behind my cedars!!)!! I now plan to plant more trees in the front yard (found some baby trees in my flower beds that need to be relocated), collecting rocks to make a path and a more rustic look to the front yard and keeping the weeds down so there is hope of a veggie garden next summer!

(Our Park!)

Today is SUNNY so we are off. Mommy’s garden gloves are put aside and her flip flops are ready for walking to the park, running after kids and filling up with park sand! I plan to spend the whole day outside for their sake.

(The Park Was Very Mucky Today.)

TTFN

Find me in the River

by admin on July 13, 2009 in Uncategorized with No comments

FIND ME IN THE RIVER

by admin on July 13, 2009 in Music Flavor, My Listening Year with 2 Comments
We spent Sunday walking along our river! Thanking the Lord for his creation, obviously:)Find me in the river
Find me on my knees
I’ve walked against the water
Now I’m waiting if you please

We’ve longed to see the roses
But never felt the thorns
And bought our pretty crowns
But never paid the priceFind me in the river
Find me there
Find me on my knees with my soul laid bare
Even though you’re gone and I’m cracked and dry
Find me in the river, I’m waiting here

Find me in the river
Find me on my knees
I’ve walked against the water
Now I’m waiting if you please

We didn’t count on suffering
We didn’t count on pain
But if the blessing’s in the valley
Then in the river I will waitWritten by Martin Smith ©1995 Curious? Music UK
TTFN
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