The following posts are what I wrote at home and saved to my thumbdrive until I could access some internet time.

There are pics at the bottom...so keep reading!

   Musing (NO date--forgot to look at calendar)

Well, this is just wonderful and does not happen often (if ever) around here. I opened the dryer this afternoon and there were a handful of already dry things. Just a little handful. So, realistically thinking, I made a note to myself that as soon as I finished my kitchen work, I'd head upstairs to fold that huge pile....I made it upstairs about 10 minutes later and guess what! There was NO pile!!  What would you think if this happened to YOU? I immediately got excited over the idea that I might actually GET to start working on that other pile of clean laundry that met it's near-demise with a purple crayon!!

          I had to laugh at the fact that I was excited about finally getting to that "project" and that there are people in the world who would shake their heads and tell me that I "need" to get out more!

TRAINING UP A CHILD. June 14

 Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov.

 I was just standing in my kitchen munching on microwave popcorn while meditating on this. I am not a Bible scholar in the sense that my shelves are filled with Greek and Hebrew translations ( However, I do have an unfinished copy of Spanish in 10 min. a Day!), but I love the Lord and want to know Him more intensely and desire to be more consistent in my part of our relationship. I have heard that this verse means to train a child according to his bent (or, what he is made up of.) I am not completely sure it's translated well all the time.How about training up your child not according to his own little bent, but according To God's word??

    Okay, there is a place for that "bent" thing...I can venture to say putting the littles on the narrow path is one thing, keeping them there is another. Very few will walk in the center of that path..they are more likely to stray to one side or another. Also, I am not the strictest Mama in the world and sometimes a bit permissive in the eyes of some, especially when they read the next part. I honestly do not have a problem with how my children stay on the path as long as they are moving towards God continually and as close to the center of that narrow path as possible, oh... and also keeping their eyes fixed on HIM the whole time. They can run, walk, stroll, tiptoe, March (in reverence that is), skip, hop....etc...I guess that is where the "bent" part comes in. I think that too many put a bigger emphasis on the "bent" than on the actual path.

I might be wrong about this. You are free to set me straight.

Isaiah is Disappointed.

June 15

"I am very disappointed!" is what he actually said. "All of my cars go under the hutch and I can't get them out!"

So, big deal...Jen's kid is disappointed...I guess the funny thing is that he is only 3-and-a-half and he said it with such gusto.

This would be a good place for a soundbite. Wish I had one.

Also, two wonderful friends of mine and faithful readers of this blog is coming to Idaho soon ( I hope) because Nancy's "baby" is getting married. I am so looking forward to seeing you again Nancy and Jessica! Her "baby" happens to be engaged to a girl that my little guy ( see above story) is head over heels for himself....sigh...

Did you get all the way through...okay...here are the pics I promised!

Faith with her two week old sunflowers!

Now they are 4wks old! Watch out big sister! They are catching up!