I have been busy...to busy for this I am afraid. We have just about finished the princess' new room. My beloved is working on the trim (which he is having to do cutting down and glueing to accommodate rounded corners.) We have already moved her in as it is just the ceiling trim and he can work around her bed.
In the meantime, I have effectively turned my dining room into a greenhouse preparing for a spring garden. I have been researching square foot gardens and how to make our garden a success. I am choosing this because it will help with water use. (of course, this will need the blessing of God first)Now if I can figure out how to keep the deer out of it.
In moving the princess into her new room we are making her old one into a small office. I have been sorting paperwork, figuring layout, and today I am picking up paint as she has been in that room for years and a coat of paint is needed.
676. A 9 year old girls joy in her pink room with tinkerbell and flowers.
677. Little hands carefully placing seeds in soil with hope they will grow.
678. Excitement and new growth comes from a dead seed.
679. Taking a moment to show the children how that dead seed was us before Jesus and how Jesus takes our dead selves and turns us into beautiful growing living people.
680. watching these plant grow, the opportunity to nurture them. Realizing the impact my nurturing the children has on them and how they relate.
681. Desire to feel soil in my hands, hope for spring.
682. Longing to hear the sound of the meadowlark welcoming spring.
683. My beloved who is accepting of my desire for a huge garden this year.
684. Seeds coming in the mail (Jerusalem artichoke and hardy kiwi fruit!)
685. Kids picking out the berry bushes they want to try to grow. Princess picking strawberries, 11 year old, blackberrys and the 7 year old want to try grapes.
686. DH job, this is a struggle today as they have him working today and tomorrow.
687. With this job comes health insurance, for which I am grateful for, dh has a basal cell carcinoma that will be removed in May.
688. That God pushed hubby to go to the dr. regarding the strange growth on his face.
689. Assurance that this will be removed sucessfully.
690. The thrill of a 7 year old as he looses a baby tooth!
691. A 11 year old striving to be a man, but still not willing to give up being a child.
692. A fog that surrounds our house. I don't know why, but today I find this very comforting, as if God is wrapping His arms around us.
693. Dh going gopher shooting with his friend.
694. My beloved has a "Jonathon David" type of friendship. Two men committed to eachother as brothers in Christ.
695. For my beloved standing with his friend as his wife is slowly consumed by the the cancer that eats at her body.
696. For my friend, she has taught me so much of God. She has shown strength and courage in a 7 year battle with this disease. The doctors can do no more...
697. For each day that I am healthy.
698. For knowing that my friend will be held by Jesus...
699. For knowing that God is with her every step of this final journey.
700. Peace
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