Surviving the Winter

My daughter and I love to grow herbs (among other things) in pots, and ours are surviving the winter-which makes us happy, happy!

This is a close up of the creeping thyme (my daughter's). I am secretly envious of this one!





The one pictured above is mine. It has garlic chives, parsley, and rosemary. I cook with these and just run outside the back door and snip off what I need!

In the close up of my rosemary above, you can see it is not only surviving--it's blooming!

My daughter's huge rosemary plant!




These pansies are among the survivors not in pots, these are in my front flower bed. A gift from my dear friend Lisa! Thanks Lisa!





This is some parsley I have growing in my front flowerbed. Sometimes I run out the front door and snip this for spaghetti sauce or something...

And, last but not least, my daffodils are coming up.

Hope these pictures put you in the mood for Spring!

This is an awesome video clip about public school, below is a link to get the whole cd set!




http://www.americanvision.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1790

Phil's Birthday!

Well, tomorrow is my true love's birthday! I made his cake today and we did a mini-celebration as tomorrow we will be busy with church--although we are going out to eat after church--that's what he wanted for his b-day. Eat at Cracker Barrel...(which is nice because it's not far from the church. :0)

And so, another year will begin in his life. My prayer for him is that it would be a happy year, full of wonderful memories! That God would find him faithful, and that we could show him how much he is loved and appreciated. He is one special man!

Happy Birthday Dear!

(Above is the 2 of us at Christmas--below is the birthday boy when he was 9 months)

Still hoping....

Ok, it's the end of February, and we STILL have not had a significant snow fall here... But, I am still hopeful! March can sometimes be snowy too!
The things I love about snow....

• it makes everything look magical, fresh and clean
• it even makes everything sound different-quieter
• it gives us a reason to stay home and snuggle down together
• gives us an excuse to make hot chocolate!
• it gives us an excuse to go out and PLAY! (I love this--especially if we get to go tubing)

So, I'm still hoping! The kids are too--but not the Papa! He doesn't really like snow too much. :0)

But he puts up with us Snowlovers anyway! Hee hee!

Thoughts on my Devotions

I am currently reading through Deuteronomy and today I read chapter 28. I couldn't help but think of America as I read through this passage concerning the consequences of disobedience.
This nation is thought of us such a blessed nation (which we are!), and such a powerful, "self-sufficient" country. But I believe that we have forgotten why we are blessed, and WHO has blessed us!
I believe we are beginning to see that the Lord may be withdrawing His hand of protection and blessing on us due to our disobedience to Him. We are allowing false gods into our nation and being told to have tolerance. (In fact, everything, and everyone is tolerated, except those that worship the One True God--did you notice that??)
Some thoughts that I had as I read were: in verse 16 b,17 that God will curse the field (food), have you read about wheat and other food lately?
Vs 18 is about the beasts (think of the quality of our meat), vs 20 it talks about these cursings coming because they have forsaken Him.
Hasn't the USA done the same? Then it lists many, many more curses, then says in vs 45 they overtake them because "thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord they God, to keep his commandments and his statues which He commanded thee:" (It's practically illegal here to even display His commandments!) There is much, much more listed there, but I just listed a little bit.

Then I am also reading through Psalms, so I turned to Psalm 67 and read : O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously and govern the nations upon the earth. Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

Pretty simple, disobey-be cursed; Obey, be blessed.

And so you see, we have a choice as a nation, and we're choosing wrongly. God is a just and righteous One, and He cannot bless us if we choose wrongly.

I pray that America wakes up--before it's too late!

Sunsets!

I do declare! For city slickers livin' in the 'burbs, we sure do get our share of gorgeeeooouuusss sunsets!

The top two were taken by my son the night before last. The bottom one may have been my daughter's pic, taken at the end of January. :0)

God is some artist!

Oh, I almost forgot!

I am testing the "ebay waters" by selling some things this week.
If you're interested, you might want to stop by and check out my listings:
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsnapzshotz

If that isn't your cup of tea, would you mind saying a few prayers that the Lord would:
A. Show me if this is what He wants me to do
B. If so, that He would bless it

Thanks a bunch!