May. 6, 2006 - I've Moved
Well I haven't, but my blog has. You can read my new blog at http://www.xanga.com/homekeepingheart
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Apr. 14, 2006 - Sadness, Settling, and Shopping
I am sad to report today that Gina Clark Jessee, the girl I had asked prayer for, went to Heaven this morning. She is in Heaven--she is not sad. But please be in prayer for her family--especially her husband, her parents, and her sister. They are suffering a great loss.
We are finally settling in a bit. We got all the boxes unpacked, some pictures put up and some curtains, and almost everything is in the general vicinity of it's place. It's not at all organized, but I have that to look forward to :-) I know. I'm weird.
Today the boys and I went to Old Navy to get new clothes for Easter. I very rarely buy new clothes for any of us, but when I do Old Navy is where I go. Their clothes are very nice and good quality and are also very affordable. They always have pretty clothes for me that are modest according to my own personal standards, which is a rare find. And the big selling point for me is that they have buggies (shopping carts for all your Northerners 
) so I can pile all my crew in while I shop around. Gotta love Old Navy!
I'm going to make tomorrow a big cleaning day because it looks like Saturday is going to be an all-day outing day and I need to get everything in shape before I neglect it for an entire weekend. I also need to cut the boys' hair before Easter. Gotta do that tomorrow! Hope I don't forget. Life is so frazzled right now!
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Apr. 5, 2006 - Still No Order
I'm still having a hard time getting settled in here. It seems like I only get the very basics done everyday and don't have time for anything else. I keep everyone dressed and fed and changed and keep the dishes washed and the laundry done and the floors vacuumed. When I'm done with all that the day is over and it was all a blur. I think back at the things I should have gotten done and the things I wish I had had time for and just want to cry. When will we get back to normalcy? Or IS this normalcy with 3 small boys?
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Apr. 1, 2006 - Please be praying...
If you're stopping by here today, would you please take a moment to pray for a few people?
The first is someone very very close to me--my aunt Beverly who raised me since I was very little has been battling pancreatic cancer for close to a year now and is winning the battle! She has never wavered in the belief that she will be completely healed--and neither has anyone else! Her amazing faith is contagious. So please be praying for her continued healing as she continues to undergo treatment.
Little Westin Dietz is the son of some family friends from my home church. He is 20 months old and is also battling cancer at St. Jude's. Please be praying for this little guy and stop by their site at www.caringbridge.org/visit/westindietz and let them know you are praying.
And finally please pray for Gina Clark Jessee. She is a friend of mine from church in high school and is battling cancer at Duke University hospital. She is only 26 years old and has cancer all throughout her body and is very very sick. Although they are not getting good reports, they have not given up hope that God will do a miraculous healing for Gina. Please pray for a miracle for her!
I am so glad my God is bigger than cancer.
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Mar. 31, 2006 - I'm BACK!
I can't believe how long I've abandoned my little spot on the www. Things have just been crazy since we moved and I just haven't had much time on the computer. Can you believe that? ME not have time for the computer! HAHA
We're living on-base now and I really like it so far. Everywhere I could need to go is right here--except of course Wal-Mart; so I guess I must venture off-base sometimes. I'm enjoying our new "house" very much despite the grocery store floors--they work for Wal-Mart, but home...not so much. But the good things outweigh the bad. Topping the list--a dishwasher! What a blessed blessed invention! A very close second is the garbage disposal. Add to that tons of cabinet space and closets, a nice play area in back, lots of windows, and many more things I love. So I'm happy we decided to leave the little cottage for the apartment after all.
We still haven't gotten everything unpacked and there are still no curtains up and I have at least 10 loads of clean folded laundry waiting to be put away, so I'm feeling a bit frazzled and unorganized right now. I've yet to establish a working schedule or routine for this house. The layout is drastically different than our old one so our old schedule will need to be greatly modified. I planned on working on that tonight but time has gotten away from me so maybe tomorrow.
My main goals for tomorrow are:
*Get up reasonably early.
*Get grocery shopping done before lunch
*Get all clean laundry put away.
*Unpack books and put on shelves.
*Get boys room straightened out.
If I accomplish all this then we'll be pretty much settled in and I'll be able to start the new week of the new month in my new home and get into a new routine. Pray I can get this done and establish some sanity around here!
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Mar. 18, 2006 - The Perfect Diaper!
You may think I'm pretty strange for being so excited about this, but I've finally found it! The perfect cloth diaper! I've spent a fortune trying out almost every single cloth diaper in existence in order to find the perfect one I'd love. Well, after spending all that I've finally found it--at the Salvation Army for 50 cents. And what gets me is that I'm familiar with the name of this diaper and yet I've never heard of anyone talking about it, using it, or recommending it. This is the diaper I had dreamed up in my mind that I said I was going to make when I finally learned how to sew.
It's an all-in-one. It's a pocket diaper. It's a fitted diaper. It's anything you want it to be. It's a Kushies Classic.
I have a Kushies--a Kushies Ultra AIO--and I HATE it. I assumed that was their best diaper so didn't look any more into the Kushies brand. When I found this diaper at the thrift store I assumed it was just a fitted diaper since it was soft and cottony on the outside. I really liked it anyway because of the stuffable sewn-in liner. Well the other day I was getting it out of the dryer and noticed that it felt and sounded like there was a waterproof layer inside it. So I put it on David without a cover to test my theory. Sure enough a few hours later, wet on the inside, dry on the outside. I got so excited. Looked it up online and read all about it and I was right. Now that I've found IT I'll be selling all my other diapers, including the pricey Fuzzi Bunz, Wonderoos, etc. and replacing my entire stash with the perfect--AND affordable!--Kushies Classic! www.kushies.com
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Mar. 14, 2006 - Homemaking Books
I collect books about homekeeping, homemaking, etc. The next few on my list to get are
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Mrs. Dunwoody's Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping by Miriam Lukken
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Treasury of Vintage Homekeeping Skills by Martha Greene
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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson
If anyone has a review of the above or if you have any other recommendations, please email me or leave a comment.
There is not much going on right now. I've just been trying to declutter, clean, and organize in preparation for the move. I'm so excited to get into our new place.
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Mar. 7, 2006 - Moving!
Well, it's official. We will be moving on March 23rd--only two weeks away! Now that it's decided I'm very excited. It's weird--I was so torn over whether I wanted to leave my "little cottage" for an apartment, but now that I am I couldn't stand to be here any longer than two more weeks. I'm so excited for a fresh new start for Spring. And I'm so excited for Spring! I hope it doesn't take too long. When it starts getting in the 50's here it feels really warm and Springy out. I love Spring! I can't wait.
Don't have very much time right now. It's already midnight and I still have to iron and pack a lunch. Have you noticed I always wait till the last minute to do those things? I don't mind them once I'm actually doing them, but it's one of those things that I keep putting off. Hopefully I'll have more time tomorrow!
And now for your enjoyment--the dancing carrot and broccoli.
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Mar. 3, 2006 - Snowbound in Canada and Maybe Moving
Wow--I finally start getting visitors to my blog and I stop posting! My absense is partly excused by a trip to Canada that got slightly lenghtened unexpectedly and partly by just not feeling well the past week.
Sunday after church Kevin suddenly announced that we should go to Canada the next day. We only planned to stay one night so it didn't take me long to pack everyone a bag and get ready to go. It was over 50 degrees here and we drive 8 hours north! Real smart! But it gets even better...We drove up to Edmonton, Alberta and found the last room in town. They were having some convention or something so all the hotels were full. Boy was it a doozy! It only had one bed on a concrete floor, no bathtub (which I NEED), no hairdryer (which I also NEED), half of the outlets did not work, and the heater was really old and weird and we froze. When I thought it couldn't get any worse, the person in the next room started banging on the wall. Now I know we have three small boys, but we were NOT being loud. The boys were quiet because they were tired and done-in and Kevin and I were talking in normal voices. So we just ignored the banging till we got a call from the office saying the neighbor had called and complained! I was already in a bad mood--now I was furious. So now we had to whisper and try to stifle the baby's every whimper because the only hotel room we could find was this dump with paper-thin walls.
The next morning we headed out to West Edmonton Mall--the largest in the world. It was amazing--an amusement park, a waterpark, a skating rink, two hotels, and a bazillion other things (I'm too tired right now to list them all). It was amazing. Next time we visit we plan on staying in one of the hotels and spending our whole vacation in the mall--that's how big it is and we're not even shoppers.
When we came out of the mall it was beginning to snow and we started out on what we thought was the trip home. But the storm quickly picked up and dumped 8 inches of snow on the roads, closing down highways and making travel impossible. We did well to fight the storm to find another room. We found the last room in Leduc--a Travelodge that the other hotel made look like the Ritz-Carlton. So we were snowed-in in Canada! And had a nice time that night, cozy in the hotel room watching American Idol! (Go Chris and Katharine!)
The roads were still bad in the morning and I begged Kevin to delay the trip another day, but he insisted we go. It was a very scary ride to say the least. But once we got to Calgary things were much improved and things went smoothly from there. We plan a return visit in the Summer.
On the way home we got a call from the housing office that they had housing available on base for us. We assumed another move would be out of our pocket so didn't plan on taking it, but we were told everything would be covered. I went and looked at the "house" yesterday and was disappointed to find it was actually a townhouse. I really liked it excpet for one major thing--the floors. Not only is there no carpet, but the entire apartment is done is this institutional-like tile--you know, the white with gray specks, slick and shiny, UGLY floor you might find in a school or grocery store. Yeah. Yuck. When I first saw it I said, Nope, not moving. I told the guy at the housing office what I thought about it and what he said made me have second thoughts about my quick decision. We'd only be in that apartment for a year before we were moved to brand new condo-like housing that are currently being built and that are, in his words, "REEEEALY nice". So basically we'd only be there waiting for our new house to be built. And this was probably our only chance. I was so torn. I went home and made a list of pros and cons of each house--our house had 5 pros and 9 cons--the other house had 13 pros and 6 cons. And the more I thought and prayed about it, the more I started leaning toward moving. I finally got to the point where I said, "Ok--I want to move, so now it all depends on Kevin and all the details working out." When Kevin got home he hardly asked anything about it (he wasn't able to see it) before he said, "Well, I guess we'll take it." So I knew I had made the right decision. So now all we're waiting on is our landlord to give us the ok to leave a month before our lease runs out. Kevin talked to him briefly today and he said we could work something out, so it looks like we will probably be moving! I'm really excited. It's always fun to move into a fresh new place. I'll miss my little house, but now that I'm leaving I see it for the old, delapidated, poorly built, run-down house it is. And I couldn't have stayed here forever anyway.
Whoa! This has gotten way too long! If you're still reading, God bless you! And good night.
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Feb. 25, 2006 - Are they ALL yours??
Today started with Isaiah being pretty sick this morning. He was coughing and gagging and was so stuffed up he couldn't nurse. His fever had gone up and he would just sit on my lap and moan--not cry--moan. It was so heartbreaking! I contemplated taking him to the clinic since he's due for a checkup anyway, but as the day progressed he improved, praise the Lord. He's still coughing quite a bit, but his fever has gone down and his nose has cleared up a lot.
He took a good long nap this morning and when he got up he was doing considerably better, so I decided to go ahead with our trip to Wal-Mart I had been planning (Saturday is our outing day) to get the week's groceries. Now of course while in Wal-Mart I get my share of, "You have your hands full!" and "Are they all yours?" I find the latter remark to be pretty amusing since I only have three childen and I know people with many many more. But I guess the general population isn't used to seeing more than two--especially three so close in age with such a young mother. Well, today this little old lady approached me and said, "Wow! You've got quite a load! Are they ALL yours?" Being somewhat used to the question I just smiled and said yes they were. Well, she then proceeded to COUNT OUT LOUD my children! "One, two, THREE!" Well, I never expected this to come so soon! I thought no one started counting till at least five! But her next comment was what really got me: "My mother had 20 you know." What? You're one of 20 and you're freaking out over my 3?? I thought it was just so funny. I wish I had thought to ask how many she had.
It was a sad day for me as David's mommy today. I gave him his first big boy hair cut with the clippers--clipped short on the sides and back. At first I was really upset, but after he had a bath and washed and combed his hair I was really pleased with it. It was time. 
He's still as cute as ever as you can see on my avatar. That pic was taken today :-)
Well I have some ironing to do yet and it's already going on midnight. I don't know if I'll ever stop being a nightowl. More on that in a future post.
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Feb. 24, 2006 - Sickness still at our house :-(
Well I've had a sudden surge in hits to my blog (well for my stats anyway) so I figured I better get with it! When my days are so mundane it's sometimes hard for me to think of things to write about.
Everyone still hasn't gotten over the flus and/or colds we've had at our house. Isaiah has it now. He has a runny nose, a terrible cough, a lowgrade fever, and wants me to hold him every waking hour. And that IS every WAKING hour--when he gets sleepy he still wants his bed. He's one of those babies I used to hear about but didn't believe existed--when he wants to go to sleep he does not want to be nursed, rocked, or sung to. He wants his own bed and he wants it NOW. It has been a blessing for the most part although I have missed all the nursing, rocking, singing hours I had with my others. When we're at home it's great, but if we're out it becomes more of a problem. If he gets tired at church or Wal-Mart or anywhere else, there's no explaining to him there's no pack-n-play with his own blankets and teddy bear in the next room. He wants his bed and he lets everyone know it. And of course *everyone* else knows what's wrong with him: "That sounds like a hungry cry to me." "That baby is teething! Do you have anything for his gums?" "I think he feels a little wet, dear." 
WHY can't anyone believe that his own mother knows what he wants? The child wants his bed!
Well, now that I've gotten THAT off my chest...
I did another crisis cleaning today and I'm still not satisfied. There are still three rooms that have not been touched in this process and I really want to get things semi- under control before I start implementing any type of system again. If I could just be without the boys for ONE day I could get it done. I love them dearly, but they won't let me do anything! Justin is actually a good helper and David is learning. Zay on the other hand is the one keeping me from any progress. But he IS sick. I guess I'll let him off the hook this time. ;-)
I can actually think of a lot more I want to share tonight, but don't want this to be too long, so I'll save it for another day. Good night!
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Feb. 20, 2006 - Clean house!
I had such a nice day today. I actually made it out of bed by 7am which is amazing for me. I was aiming for 5am, but dozed for two hours after the alarm went off. I thought it was only a few minutes.
I sent some pictures of the inside of my house to my mom yesterday and after seeing them I realized what terrible shape it was in--dirty, messy, cluttered. It was embarrassing. I'm a HOMEmaker, huh? Not much of a home. So today I did a crisis cleaning from the FlyLady site. I got so much accomplished that I had been putting off. I worked all day and I can really tell a difference, but I only put a small dent in the overall problem. So I'm going to try to do crisis cleanings for the rest of the week till the house is done. I guess I'm Spring cleaning a little early. February IS almost over. (Woohoo! I'm sure glad it's the shortest month!) Once I'm finished I'm going to start implementing the Large Family Logistics plan in my home again. I used it while Kevin was gone before Isaiah was born and it has been the best system I've used thus far. I'll put the link in my sidebar. I mostly put stuff there for my own convenient reference.
Kevin and I just watched "March of the Penguins". Well, he fell asleep halfway through, but who could blame him after working for 14 hours. I was expecting to be bored, but it was really good. The almost human behaviors in the penguins with their mates and their babies was amazing. I wanted to comment to Kevin, "Now if a PENGUIN can be that tender toward his wife..." But I held my tongue.
Well, the third little result of an occasional tenderness
is crying to me from his bed. Better go get that sweet bundle.
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Feb. 18, 2006 - Yucky Winter!
I do try hard to be content under all circumstances and be happy and joyful to be wherever God has me at the moment. But living in Montana in the Wintertime has tempted me to give up that pursuit. We are in a cold spell right now and it has gotten as low as 30 below zero! That's without the wind chill. Think about that. If it warmed up 50 degrees, it would still be only 20! 20 is my limit. If it's colder than 20 I just don't go out. I don't go shopping, I don't go to church, I don't go out on the porch!
So right now we are living out of the pantry and freezer till it warms up a little. But even if it were warm we wouldn't have been out this past week. The old stomach virus has been to visit us. Thankfully not all of us, but Justin and David were hit pretty badly with it--David the worse of the two. They were both contstantly throwing up or having diarrhea, runny noses and eyes, nagging coughs, no appettite at all. When they weren't causing some gross substance to come out of them they were sleeping or lying awake with their eyes barely open, panting as if dying. It was terrible! I prayed and prayed for my precious boys and let the severe cold be the deciding factor for whether or not a trip to the clinic was necessary. Then I mostly prayed for Kevin, Isaiah, and myself, that we would be protected from it. And so far we have, praise the Lord. I don't know how I would have cared for them had I been sick.
Someone shared an incredible article with me today. I love reading things like this so much because they so encourage me in the things I believe and inspire me to keep going in them despite persecution or hardship. I KNOW I am in the center of God's will for my life in every area--whether it be in regards to being a wife, a mother, a homemaker, a home educator, or anything else. There is no greater peace than that, friends. Persecution only validates my lifestyle choices to me.
Here is the link to the article. http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/2/62006mc.asp
Here are a couple quotes that really stood out to me.
"if people want to limit the size of their families, they should wait until their child is two years old and then decide whether to kill the child. "There would be very little limiting of families, you may be sure, on that basis," said Rice. "Nearly every child is its own proof that it had a right to be born. The love and joy and pride that come from a child proves that God was giving an infinite blessing when the child was given, and that it would have been a foolish sin committed against their own happiness for the father and mother to have prevented the conception of that little one which later turns out to be so precious,"
"Every reason for one child is a reason for other children," he said. "If one child brings happiness, more children bring more happiness."
How true!
When I look at each of my precious boys I shudder to think of what if they had never been? If I followed to typical way of the world, none of them would be here! What a dreadful dreadful thought! And along that same line of thought--if and when God chooses to bless us again (or again and again!) I will one day look at that child and think the same thing. I will look into that precious face which is that of an eternal soul and say, "HOW did I ever live without you, my little treasure?" Oh, nothing causes me to praise God more than my children. They truly are the greatest blessings He gives. By far. By far.
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Feb. 13, 2006 - Cheeseburger Soup
We had this for supper tonight from Menus 4 Moms. It was SO good.
Cheeseburger Soup
- 1 lb. browned ground beef
- 3/4 C. chopped onion
- 3/4 C. shredded carrots
- 3/4 C. diced celery
- 3 T. butter or oil
- 3 C. chicken broth
- 4 C. diced potatoes
- 1/4 C. flour
- 8 oz. Velveeta cheese
- 1 1/2 C. milk
- 1 t. basil
- 1/4 C. sour cream
- salt and pepper
Saute onion, carrots, celery and basil in large soup pot about 5 minutes. Stir in flour and add broth, potatoes and beef. Cover, reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes. Add cheese, milk, salt and pepper. Cook and stir until cheese melts. Remove from heat and blend in sour cream. Serve.
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Feb. 11, 2006 - David is TWO!
Well, my baby David Wesley is now two years old as of last Thursday. It is sad that he is no longer a "baby" but I am happy that he is growing and learning so much. We didn't do much for it--we just had cake and ice cream and a few presents, but he thought it was the most wonderful party ever! Honestly, I'm glad my children know nothing of big extravagant and expensive parties with 30 other children (and many more presents). They are ecstatic over our simple family parties and I pray it stays that way.
Kevin has been off for a few days and begins day shift tomorrow. We will all have to adjust to this new schedule--he'll have to get up at 3am so I feel for him. I'll also have to completely redo my own schedule, which needed some changes anyway.
Little Zaiah also had a birthday today--he turned FIVE MONTHS OLD. Each one grows quicker than the last! I have just been trying to cherish every moment of his sweet baby-ness--the feel of him, the wonderful baby smell, the way he cuddles me and the way his eyes light up when he sees me coming to lift him out of his bed. All too soon he'll be blowing out birthday candles too and his baby days will be only memories like the others. I can't imagine knowing he was my last and I'd never have another baby. How can people stand it! Bring on the babies! Isaiah is a joy to the entire family.
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Feb. 6, 2006 - Improvements Needed
Today wasn't that great of a day honestly. It was Kevin's back to work day, so of course we had the usual rush rush before 4 o'clock and then his car wouldn't start because he let it run out of gas. But that's ok...I do stupid stuff too 
. So he had to take the van, which normally would have been fine, but this time I had my shoes on and the boys mostly ready to go out. So change of plans. But it worked out for good since I ended up developing a pretty good (read bad) headache and all my energy just drained out of me. Justin wasn't feeling well either--he must have had what Isaiah then David had last week, which may have been what I have too. Justin took three naps and I know I wanted to.
I know everyone has things they want to improve about themselves, but I just feel like an utter failure at the end of the day. You know, I just want to go to be feeling proud and satisfied with myself, but I don't. I usually go to bed so discouraged, going over the list of my failures--I slept too late, I didn't spend enough quiet time with God (if any), I didn't spend enough time with the boys or I got on to them too much, I wasn't a good wife, the house is a mess, I was on the computer too much or I watched too much TV--the list goes on. I always say, "Tomorrow is going to be different! I'm going to get up at 6:00 and have an awesome devotional time with the Lord, be showered and dressed before anyone wakes up and have a hot breakfast on the table!", and then add 20 resolutions on to that. And then they never happen. I want to be different SO badly. I've read every book, took every online class, prayed and prayed, sought accountability, and been so determined. I don't know how to actually follow through. As strong as my desire is, it's not enough. This is my last year of having no children of school age. HOW am I going to fit homeschooling in if I don't even have time for anything else? Are my standards too high?
I really really think the key is getting up early, but I just can't. When my alarm goes off in the morning I really don't know what I'm doing when I turn it off and go back to sleep. And when I AM aware I think of a very good excuse to do it that is totally rational at the time.
As I was typing this I had an idea. I think I'll leave a note to ask Kevin if he will wake me in the morning when he comes in and have a time of Bible reading before he goes to bed. That way I'll have to wake up early and open my Bible and once I get up I'll be awake. Hopefully Kevin will agree to help me with this. I really need help. I don't want to go on feeling like every day was wasted.
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Feb. 3, 2006 - Spiritual Gifts and Eschatology
Haha! Don't I sound so spiritually knowledgable?
Nope I won't be posting any deep theological discussions today--just two quizzes for ya! Have fun and tell me what you got!
The first tells you what your spiritual gift is.
http://www.churchgrowth.org/analysis/intro.html
Mine was teaching which comes in handy being a mother--and a homeschool mother at that. This is part of the analysis that really blew me away with how right on it was:
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You love the Word, enjoy reading, may be a little shy of strangers, are creative and imaginative, and prefer teaching groups over individuals. You are generally confident, self-disciplined, and sometimes technical. You probably love charts, graphs, and lists. You would sometimes rather just do research, but "must teach" because others would not teach it the way you would. The use of a verse out of context upsets you and you question the knowledge of those who teach you. You are organized and enjoy studying. You are so concerned with accuracy that you often dwell on the trivial, giving others the feeling that you give too many details. Some may even think you are boring. Be careful that you are not critical of people who differ with your doctrine and that you do not measure other people's spirituality by their amount of Bible knowledge. Be willing to listen as well as talk. Don't hesitate to read directions and work on developing tolerance for others' mistakes.
Yep! That's me! Every word of it.
The second quiz tells what your eschatology is. I was really interested in seeing the results of this one because honestly I'm unsure about this one. http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=44107
You scored as a Premillenialist.
Premillenialism believes that there will be a rapture and tribulation before Jesus returns and overthrows the antichrist and establishes his Kingdom. Current events are spoken of in scripture.
Premillenialist Dispensationalist Moltmannian Eschatology Left Behind Postmillenialist Amillenialist Preterist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Feb. 2, 2006 - The Hard Time is Over!
Each time I have had a baby, there's a period of time that I refer to as "the hard time". It always seems to begin around 3 months and end around 5 months. During this time I wonder how I'm going to make it through my life--I get overwhelmed, I go through a time of dark depression, my hair falls out in shocking amounts, my house completely falls apart, and I just don't feel well. I think this third hard time has been the hardest of all. Maybe it's because I'm up here on what seems like the other side of the world, removed from everyone and everything I know, in a land where it seems like Winter will last forever. Why couldn't we be stationed in Florida?
The good news is that Isaiah (who I usually refer to as "Zaiah", "Zady", or just plain old "Z" and sometimes "Zeetie my Sweetie" I'm so silly!) will be five months old on the eleventh and I think I'm finally coming out of the hard time. I realized it today as I was looking at the little delights I call my boys, and I thought, "I LOVE having an almost-four-year-old, an almost-two-year-old, and an almost-five-month-old. This is perfect!" And I realized I loved this mommy thing again, my house had actually returned to some sort of order, I was totally in love with my husband, and I looked forward to tomorrow and the next day and the next day. I am so HAPPY again. Yes, I do believe the hard time is indeed over. Praise the Lord for all His blessings and for bringing me through this yet again!
It's after going through a hard time, that you really appreciate the good times.
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Feb. 1, 2006 - Sleepy Boy
I'm getting kinda worried about Isaiah. He sleeps ALL THE TIME. He'll take a two or three hour nap, stay up for an hour, and then want to go back to bed! And when he wants to go to bed, he wants to go to BED--no nursing, no rocking, no singing, none of that good Mommy stuff--just bed. This child is almost five months old! He shouldn't be sleeping like a newborn. Should I be worried or just enjoy the free time while it lasts?
The bigger boys and I have been going through Leading Little Ones to God before they go to bed at night. It doesn't quite keep David's attention so he just looks at picture books while I read, but Justin really loves it. Every day it has a reading introducing a new biblical concept about God, then has question, a memory verse, a Bible passage to read, a hymn or song, and a prayer. It appears to be pretty old, but still very very good. We're enjoying it a lot and Justin is learning so much. He's full of questions about God these days.
I think David has what Isaiah had a few days ago--slightly feverish. lying around, not much of an appetite. He wants me to sit and hold him all the time which is not like him at all. He's extra sweet though.
Can you tell that I'm totally addicted to this blogging thing? I know not many people read it and it's not very interesting, but it's so much fun! I'm spending way too much time on it. But I'm just learning the ropes, so I'm sure it'll get better! So keep visiting!
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Jan. 31, 2006 - Where the Title Comes From
Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest; Weary and homesick and distressed, Then stay at home, my heart, and rest; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Home-keeping hearts are happiest,
For those that wander they know not where
Are full of trouble and full of care;
To stay at home is best.
They wander east, they wander west,
And are baffled and beaten and blown about
By the winds of the wilderness of doubt;
To stay at home is best.
The bird is safest in its nest;
O'er all that flutter their wings and fly
A hawk is hovering in the sky;
To stay at home is best.
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