Sense and Sensibility Patterns

Jennie Chancey at Sense and Sensibility now has e-patterns!  When you find a pattern you like, you can download it immediately.   The wonderful thing about this (Jennie says on her web page), is you can alter the size of the print out.  If you’re really creative and you want to make a doll dress to match your daughters dress, just print out the pattern at a reduced scale.  How great is that!

Check out her website for ALL of the details!

Wednesday’s Wonders

From my yard

My first rose!

Isaiah 40:6-8

All flesh is grass,

And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

The grass withers, the flower fades,

Because the breath of the LORD blows upon it;

Surely the people are grass.

The grass withers, the flower fades,

But the Word of our God stands forever.

 

 

 

 

 

My Son, the Writer

My Son is quite the young man!  He never fails to make me laugh.  Do you remember his Algebra plea?  Well, here is his latest!  Today as I was looking over his English paragraphs, this caught my eye. . . . . .

When the Cat’s Away the Mice will Play

Occasionally, Mom will need to run an errand during studies, leaving us kids at home.  My sisters and I promise to do our work, and Mom leaves with serious doubts.  As soon as the garage door closes, my sisters run off to play while I resolutely pick up my pencil and start to do my studies.  I finish quickly and plead with the girls to get to work, and yet, all my efforts are in vain.  They refuse, so I shrug my shoulders and start washing the dishes.  A half hour later, as I’m vacuuming the house and the girls play jigsaw puzzles, the garage door starts to go up.  The girls rush to pull out their school.  Mom’s doubts slowly fade from memory as she sees her beloved children working.

My girls would like me to add a disclaimer stating this story is completely false, just a figment of my son’s wild imagination!  Children, aren’t they a blessing?

 

Excitement!

Don’t you just love children’s excitement?  It amazes me how the atmosphere around an excited child changes!  You can feel the excitement of a child penetrate your whole being.  Recently we’ve had several things happen which have made my children literally shiver with excitement.  They were so excited they couldn’t stand (or sit) still.  For instance, I really got a kick out of my son the other day.  He was sitting down and a thought crossed his mind.  I could see the excitement flow through his body.  It started in his smile (yellow banded braces and all!).  Then his eyes lit up!  Next he began to wiggle in his seat. . .  and finally his hands could no longer remain in his lap.  They flew up clinched in fists trembling!  Of course, I began to get tickled, because usually my son is fairly well reserved.  He is just a happy-go-lucky boy and nothing moves him too much in either direction.  This was definitely not the case in this instance!  This type of reaction has been repeated numerous times over that last few weeks with all of my children!

The more I thought about this natural reaction that my children were having, I realized all too often we, as adults, loose that sense of excitement.  This is almost depressing to me.  Sometimes I long for the giddiness I had as a girl.  Do you remember the anticipation waiting for something wonderful to happen?  Or even better, when something unexpected happens that you cannot help overflowing with joy?  Why does this have to end?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Or does it?

A Month of Chaos

This month has been so busy, I’ve felt like I could hardly slow down to read blogs, let alone write anything on mine!  Here is how the month started out.  We started our school year wonderfully.  All of us are really excited about the new subjects we’ve incorporated into our studies.  I was also really excited about my new software for planning and tracking our school.  That is until our computer was taken over by aliens       began to surf the Internet alone     rebelled against it’s user died.  After a couple hundred dollars and a stressful few days trying to do school without the use of the software to track everything, we are going full force again! 

Next, a horrible human being   a person without a bit of compassion someone dumped a dog at my husband’s work.  And of course he fell madly in love with this animal.  He wanted to bring it home the first day, and called me hourly to tell me about her, but he didn’t in case the owner had a change of heart.  My husband was off work the next two days, but spoke of and thought of the dog which he had began calling “Sugar” often.  When he returned to work after his weekend, lo and behold Sugar was still there.  Needless to say, here is our new dog.

  She is the sweetest thing!  We are all in love with her now, BUT she is still a puppy.  The vet estimated her age at 7 months old.  What do puppies do?  They do this  !  But she is housebreaking wonderfully and she doesn’t stay in trouble very long.  We’ve only had to get this out once!      I mean with a face like this, how could you stay angry?    Here is what she does all day while we are doing our studies . . .

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Now if you throw in a case of the stomach flu, a fishing trip, a shopping trip, overnight babysitting, church, yard work, gardening, and life, you can almost imagine our month.

Updating my Blog

     

Ho hum, I’ve been reprimanded, and told to update my blog.  So without further ado, here goes. . . . . . .

Ok, now what?  I’ve been getting ready for school what seems like continually for the past 2-3 weeks, so all my mind can think about is Math, Science, Grammar. . . nothing much there to blog about.  I mean you don’t want to know when and how we are going to diagram sentences, do you?  How about the algebraic method to cleaning the house?  Or maybe the scientific formula for obedience?  The history of the dust bunny?  Nope, nothing to read about there.

Something to blog about, something to make you stop and think, something that makes you want to come back to visit this site,                                      (blank).  Nothing there, I can’t think of a single thing to enlighten you.  Nothing to make you rush back to see what I’ve posted next. 

Oh well, at least I’ve accomplished one thing, I’ve updated my blog!

Graphic from Art.com

Prayer Requests

I have a few prayer requests I’d like to share with you. 

1. Isaiah Medley, a 21 month old, who has a “diffuse intrinsic brain stem glioma”, a tumor on his brain stem.   Isaiah has no feeling in the right side of his face, his right eye has no peripheral vision and his left left leg has lost some reflexes. That’s not to say these are permanent losses they may be caused from the tumor on the nerves once the tumor is gone, they may come back.  There is apparently only 11 children under the age of 3 that have this tumor, out of those,  5 of them are still alive and doing well.   (This is my sister-in-law’s nephew.)
2. My husband.  He’s having a REALLY bad week.  First of all he’s been dealing with is acid reflux/trouble swallowing really bad.  He can no longer sit through a meal without having to leave the table.  Usually he cannot finish his meal.  Next week he is going to have a scope to try and find the problem and solve it.  And second, apparently this has been taking a real toll on his body because last night we ended up in urgent care. . . his shingles are back.  He’s in a lot of pain and in just a general uncomfortable state!

You’ve gotta see this!

Independence Day

Have a wonderful Independence Day!

Graphics from Art.com

I’m finished!

Yesterday was my LAST day delivering newspapers!  Yippee!!  I’m so ready for a complete night’s sleep.  Today, like clock work, I woke up at 2 a.m. waiting for that dreaded phone call.  Guess what, it didn’t come!  It will probably be a few days before my internal clock remains on snooze!

After throwing my final paper yesterday, the following phrase kept running through my head . . .”It is finished.”  I know that my 4 1/2 month stint with throwing the newspaper and Christ’s crucifixion can in no way be compared, but nevertheless, the comparison kept running through my head. 

Yesterday we were celebrating the Lord’s Supper at church, so all week we were to be reflecting on exactly what Christ was going to be going through following the Passover and what the elements represent to us today.  “It is finished” sums up Christ’s earthly life so completely.  His work on earth was to do the Father’s will.  The Father’s will for Christ was to die a horrific death on a tree for sinners such as I.  The job the Father had given the Son was complete as He uttered His final words, and the job was done perfectly, no mistakes.

My job was to deliver each customer a dry newspaper every day.  Each morning as I would pick up my newspapers, I would receive a printout.  On this printout would be any missed papers, any complaints, or any positive feedback.  I would be devastated each day there would be something I had done wrong.  There were many days the pages were blank, these days produced satisfaction, I felt I had done well.  But I did not do a perfect job.  All of my human effort was not good enough to earn the praise of all my customers nor could it save one person from destruction.

What did Christ do a few days following his perfect job?  He ascended to the Father.  What will I do?  I’ll sleep peacefully, knowing Christ’s work on the cross was sufficient for me to.