In the Nook...Mother's Day was so special for me this year! It wasn't just mother's day for our family, it was mine and my husband's 5th wedding anniversary. We went to the town we got married in and spent the afternoon with my closest woman friend Carol. We have been close since the day we met in August 2000. We had chinese cuisine from the buffet restaurant and then went to the mall and walked off all the calories! It was so much fun because I hadn't spent much time with my friend Carol in a while. We're only a 90 minutes apart but there just hasn't been that much time for me to go down to visit her and she's been very ill, so I wouldn't ever ask her to be away from home during such a hard time.
Yesterday was also the first time we've ever had our picture taken together, so I'm posting that too. My face is really red in the picture because it was soooo hot in the restaurant and the sun was coming right in the windows where we were sitting. Our crazy weather here has had us freezing one moment and burning up the next. After we returned home from our trip we had to build a fire because it was raining terribly and with the wind being so hard it got really cold. I think our high was the few minutes we were at that restaurant, the rest of the day was wet and very cold!
I'd like to ask that you please pray for my friend Carol; her health is not the best and she's been going through a really rough time with Dr. visits, hospital time and her husband is also in ill health. Carol is a wonderful artist and she loves to paint and make all sorts of little craft things (that's why we are such good friends, I suppose), she also has written several books that are mystery novels and children's books. I'd like to get her books into ebook format and sell them online for her to have extra money to pay all the doctors and hospital bills with.
I also got beautiful white roses from my husband for our Anniversary and a love letter that he wrote on a piece of wood that was cut from a tree! I gave him a wooden coat rack that I engraved our family name on and painted. My daughter gave me a really nice craft box to organize my art things and now I need a few more of them for sewing, paper crafts, and my calligraphy supplies.
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.
