Well, we got home from our vacation about nine o’clock last night, and my living room looks like a suitcase bomb went off since Hombre had to leave for work at six this morning.

So, while I’m busy putting everything back together, here’s some reading for you… There’s a bunch, so no fancy intros today, just titles!

Gender stereotypes   (love this!)

Creative Creation-Lovin’ Kids

Nope, I don’t think I fell.  I walked right into this.  (REALLY loved this)

Connecting at the Playground (been thinking about this same thing a lot lately)

Redemption

I’ve Changed

Just let it go  (I always get in a crazy purging mood after living out of a suitcase for a week.)

How I found God’s will in a sinkful of dirty dishes (this is exactly what I feel like God’s been showing me lately)

That’s it.  Have fun! 

Come back next week to see a photo recap of all the fun

Hi everyone!

I didn’t forget you.  I’ve just been off vacationing in the land of cows.  We’re having a lot of fun, and enjoying lots of ”slow” time. 

I just wanted to let you know I have a guest post up over at Sorta Crunchy if you’re interested. 

And if you arrived here from there, Welcome!

I’ll be back next week with all kinds of glam pictures of ranch life…hopefully including a few of Hombre on a horse.

Have a great week!

Let me start out by saying that the following is taken from a work of fiction.  I’m not sharing it as a doctrinal concept, just a sweet idea…something fun to contemplate about one of those big mysteries that awaits us.  I just had to clarify that because I get real grumpy when people take works of fiction and decide to “preach” them.

I was browsing through old journals today and found this:

What seemed when they (the saved) entered it, to be the vale of misery turns out, when they look back, to have been a well; and where present experience saw only salt deserts, memory truthfully records that the pools were full of water.  …

Heaven is reality itself.  All that is fully real is Heavenly.  For all that can be shaken will be shaken and only the unshakable remains.  …

That is what mortals misunderstand.  They say of some temporal suffering, ‘No future bliss can make up for it,’ not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into  glory.

~C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce

I can’t wait to look back!

For Today… June 1, 2009

Outside my window… sunshine!!! I’m not holding my breath…the clouds have taken over everyday for the last two weeks.

I am thinking… a good night of sleep is an amazing treasure. Don’t ever take it for granted.

From the learning rooms…math is finished for the summer.  Concentrating on spelling and reading now.

I’m thankful for… summertime…it’s my favorite.

From the kitchen…not exactly from the kitchen…more from my head.  I had a dream about feeding the girls curds and whey (I think maybe from looking at this last night).  I wonder what curds and whey really is?  And do people really eat it? 

I am wearing… I feel like I’m wearing children…could they crowd any closer?

I am reading… well I should be reading Through the Looking Glass, but I don’t know if I can do it.  I barely survived Alice…

I am creating… birthday gifts that I can’t yet disclose…eighty percent of our extended family birthdays are in May and June.  It’s a little stressful to Hombre.

I am hearing… the usual pleas of “I’m Hungry!”  It doesn’t matter how early I get up, they start instantly.

Around the house… need to get back outside…only spent one day in the yard last week, and with all of the rain, the weeds are coming in quick. 

A few plans for the rest of the week… softball game tonight, hanging out with a friend tomorrow, summer kids movies sometime…oh yeah, and leaving for Oregon on Friday!  I think it will be fun.  Mostly I’m happy because Hombre is really ready for a break.  And there’s no place like the land of cows for slowing down.

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you…

All the girls can talk about is meeting Lucy (my sister’s dog).  Hopefully they’ll decide their new cousin is equally exciting!

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