Just wanted to share about my Mother's Day. Sarah and Hannah, my oldest two, went to the store with Daddy to pick out a stuffed animal for me. They thought that is what I would like best. I, of course, would love anything they got for me. Hannah thought maybe a box of band-aids would be better in case I got an "owee", but they settled on a stuffed dog which they helped me name Annabelle. They went shopping Sat night, and couldn't wait, so I got my present a little early. Then on Sunday Dave let me go out to get a coffee and catch up on filling in the girls' Baby Memory Books. I enjoyed the time alone to think about the last 5 years of being a mom, and all of the funny and exciting things they have done, as well as the milestones they have passed. As all of our company has gone home, I have 3 very wound up girls today, and even to take this minute to write about them makes me thankful for them despite the whinning, yelling and fighting. Hopefully by tonight they will be back to normal again, and I will be able to lovingly correct them until then.
I am mom to 4 little girls: Sarah 5, Hannah 3, Stephanie 2, and Annie born July 2006. We love learning and are learning to love. We are using Sonlight Kindergarten and a Pre-K schedule I put together.
Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us. We are pressured in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair; we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed. We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. II Corinthians 4:7-10
My Current Reading List
The Bible
My Favorite Books
• What's So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey
• Thing's We Wish We'd Known by Bill and Diana Waring
• Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Shepherding A Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp
Sarah's Favorite Books
• Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel
• Anything by Dr. Seuss
• Family Time Story Bible by Ken Taylor
• James Herriot's Treasury for Children
• My Father's Dragon
• Really, she just loves to read period
Hannah's Favorite Books
• Where the Wild Things Are
• The Rhyme Story Bible
• Bedtime for Frances
• Anything Richard Scarry
• Blueberries for Sal
• Curious George
Stephanie's Favorite Books
• Goodnight Moon
• Goodnight Gorilla
• The Big Red Barn
My Favorite Movies
• Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle)
• Wives and Daughters
• Charade (1963)
• Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremecy
• Lonesome Dove
• The Ghost and the Darkness
• Love Comes Softly and Love's Enduring Promise
What's Growing
• Lots of Peppers
• Lots of Tomatoes
• The herbs we couldn't kill even if we wanted to!
• Plenty of weeds
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