In the Nook...
As much as I love visiting my oldest daughter and grandchildren I am sooo happy to be home again! It felt like we'd been gone forever! Yesterday we've been playing catch up and today we're all just doing our own thing, well, between loads of laundry, cooking dinner, and going through my new products for review. Last weekend, March 7-9th we were in Indiana all weekend at the Girls of Integrity conference with RebeccaIngramPowell ,her daughter and her very best friend and phenomenal young woman of God. The conference was wonderful and the Holy Spirit definitely filled this place!
I had promised myself and my daughter that we would definitely find a way to go and though we encountered some very bad weather we made it. We had about 4 inches of snow at our house when we left that morning around 10:30 and the roads were clear for close to 100 miles but then we got to Louisville, KY and it hit us like 10 tons of bricks! We kept driving slowly and watched carefully for other drivers and we made the 3-hour drive in about 8 hours...an hour of that was stopping for some lunch after we got through the worst of the storm. I wasn't too nervous about it because I knew I had my daughter and my husband with me and the good Lord watching over us to keep us safe. I kept thinking if we had waited to leave another hour we would not have gone at all. Have you ever seen those discount books at rest areas or gas stations on the interstate, they have all sorts of hotel, motel, lodging place coupons in them? We found one of those at the Denny's where we had lunch and ended up paying only $39.99 a night for our room, which was very nice with the exception of the very small full-size bed. My husband was such a great asset to the conference by helping out with moving tables and preparing food for lunch on the full-day of the conference. All the men that came stayed in the gym for the most part and no boys from age 12 and up were allowed because they would have been a distraction to the girls attending...truly, I don't know if they were NOT allowed but they weren't preferred...LOL. We had a great time, my daughter, on the other hand, gathered some great information and met lots of nice young ladies, even some homeschoolers, and she enjoyed seeing Mrs. Rebecca, Danya, and Misty Rae again. I have a few pictures from the singing part of the conference and from the lobby of church that is painted like an enchanted forest complete with a real waterfall.
Kelsey sitting in front of the painted wall
Here is the waterfall
Here is another view of the waterfall ~ you can see where the painting starts
The conference auditorium ~ the stage area. Rebecca told the girls everytime she said "average" they were to shout out this phrase! It was fun to hear them all in unison.
Danya Powell and Misty Rae singing worship music
I have more pictures but I'm not posting them because this is enough to see what all was going on. That's all I have to write about right now, so I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Right now, I'm backing my template up...there were some really funky things happening to me on HSB this morning and considering I've lost three blogs in the past I think it's safest to back it up again...besides it's time to do that again anyway.
The photos didn't show here, but I'll go over to the lounge to check them out. The conference sounds like it was REALLY good. I love the pics of Kelsey. The mural behind her is so lovely, too. Glad you're back safely. Peace, Leinani
p.s. I'm sorry about the party not starting "on time" last night. I set it to post at midnight, but I must have messed it up somehow. Well...it's posted. You may still have a chance to be the first commenter.
I made a little change with my Friends List. It's on the left side and to open it just click on the word "Friends" and it pops out! Neat, huh! To close it click on it again! Thank you
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Seven Steps to Raising Godly Children
Principle - Impart God's word on your children and live in a way that you are their greatest example of what a Christ-abiding parent should be.
Pattern - Teach your children a pattern of prayer; when to pray, how to pray, and why prayer is important.
Persistence - Don't ever give up...teach your children to always have faith and not to give up when things get hard.
Participation - Our children crave our attention! The way our children see us is the way they'll see God in thier lives.
Praise - Encourage children, praise them when they do something right and help them when they have a hard time.
Prayer - Teach your children to pray and then to TRUST God for the outcome.
Priority - Make God the Head and Heart of your home and let them live with God's desire coming first in your lives.
