So much I could write about, so many times I think to blog something but w/o handy internet at my beck and call – I seem to forget! So, will use a word document to hopefully rectify that. I do enjoy having to walk up to either: one of my best friend’s house or sit …
My outside office!!! Can it get any better? So enjoying being a country girl again! Had started the following post awhile ago. Finally finished Bonhoeffer!!! Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas This is one of the books I’m working though…it’s taking me a long time on this one. A quote from the …
My dear friend’s Dad posted this on facebook. I read Francis Chan’s books Crazy Love and Forgotten God and thought they were excellent. This link reminded me of my journey when I first moved to Alaska and was working at Subway. I was surrounded by strong Christians that lived and walked their life. Most of …
You know my sewing machines are packed – wow I have more free time! 🙂 Thought these quotes were appropriate for now. Put them in my book when I first moved to Alaska. “The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life, the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. It …
Ahhh…yes, our last Sunday in this house. We are sore, at least Christopher, myself and C1 from loading the POD yesterday. I told Christopher, I can’t imagine moving in 20 more years when we’re even older and crispier than now!!! These bodies that fail us. I was thinking about all the changes we have seen …
This is our second to last Saturday in the first house we bought. We’ve lived here a little over 10 years now, and have seen many changes. We moved here with C1 when he was about 2 1/2 and now we have an even half dozen of Blessings from above!!! Next Saturday begins packing of …
So…my Dad and Mom crack me up. Ever since I took a trip with my Dad out West ,when I was in about 7 or 8th grade, I realized my Dad was an eavesdropper. So bad, that he would shush me when we were in a restaurant, so he could “listen” to the table behind …
This movie sums up part of my journey I have been on for several years….. Divided the Movie
16 years ago I was beginning my Alaskan Adventure. Over the Labor Day weekend that year, I traveled to the Kenai Peninsula for the first time. I had the weekend to decide if I would be a nanny to 2 year old triplets in Anchorage or stay on the Peninsula and rent from a friend. …
1- Give something away (no strings attached.) 2-Do a kindness (and forget it.) 3-Spend a few minutes with the aged (their experience is a priceless guideline.) 4-Look intently into the face of a baby (and marvel). 5-Laugh often (it’s life’s lubricant.) 6-Give thanks (a thousand times a day isn’t enough.) 7- Pray (or you will …