Do you {force}ythia

 

Photo by GHOSH

We’ve lived in 3 houses since we’ve been married and we’ve been fortunate enough for two of them to have forsythia bushes.  I’ve long heard that forsythia was easy to force indoors…one of the earliest plants you can have bloom indoors…even in the winter.  And every year I remember that right about [...]

How Quickly a Year Goes

 

January 2009

April 2009 

July 2009

October 2009

January 2010

What a difference a year makes!  Our sweet girlie has grown so quickly and learned so much!  We’re so incredibly thankful to have her as part of our family & can’t wait to see what the next year{s} hold!  Love [...]

Time to Love Others.

Jesus summed up God’s law quite simply:  “…’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’  The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no commandment greater than these.”  (Mark 12:30-31)

By now we’ve all heard about the awful earthquake [...]

Review – The Sweet By and By

Over Christmas break, I received The Sweet By & By from Thomas Nelson to review.  I don’t read a lot of fiction…not because I don’t enjoy it {I do}, but mostly because I just don’t have enough time to read as it is.  {I had hoped to read 18 books last year as part of my [...]

Clutter Battle – No More Paper

If you’re like us you have plenty of crap stuff around your house.  Having home-based businesses can make it 10 times worse.  Our mailbox looks like a paper mill threw up on most days.  Tack on top of that all the magazines you get, technical publications, newspapers, endless piles of to do lists and notes, and [...]

Goal #1 – Reading through the Bible in 90 Days

Last year I decided to make 2009 Goals instead of New Year’s Resolutions…I haven’t fine-tuned my goals for 2010 completely, but #1 is ready to go.  When I heard about folks reading the Bible through in 90 days last fall – I thought it was awesome…but our fall was so jam packed, I knew there was [...]