Welcoming Spring in a New Vineyard!

My new vineyard being the WordPress blogging community. I was just needing something less “fru-fru,” especially since I post about my men most of the time. I’m loving the template I have and the pic in the header was perfect! Although I think the branch in the header might be bearing more [...]

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Contentment

I’m praising God right now because He allowed me to actually SIT under the teaching of Pat Palau today at our annual ladies conference! Why is that something to praise Him for? Notice SIT being capitalized…for the last few months, sitting has been quite painful due to degeneration in my SI (sacraliliac) joint. You’ll [...]

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My Nest is Half-Empty

Or should I be positive and say it is half-full? Either way, Samuel has been living on his own for almost 4 weeks now. I am doing fine. Once the initial milestone emotions hit me, I was able to deal with it and move on. I’ve been learning to keep my [...]

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Blog Challenge: 10 of Life’s Simple Pleasures

One of my sweet friends has challenged myself and others to a weekly blog challenge. I for one NEEDED the kick in the butler to get caught up. So here ya go!
1. Spring Breezes
2. Waking to hear the birds sing
3. The smell of homemade bread baking in the [...]

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Growing Pains; Finding the Balance

I must admit, I’m not doing a very good job of finding that balance. Samuel is 18 and will probably be out of the house soon. He wants his independence badly. I totally understand. In his quest for it though, it feels like he is pulling away. He doesn’t need [...]

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Dean

Of all the NERVE! Some dude named “Dean” has put MY Samuel on his LIST at NC State! For cryin’ out loud! He must think he’s something special, to have his own “list!”
From January 11, 2008

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God’s Faithfulness

Once again, we are astounded at God’s faithfulness and loving kindness to our family. Of course, whatever the outcome had been, He would have STILL been faithful! But He isn’t done with Samuel and Andrew yet! But He IS done with Samuel’s car!

Samuel and Andrew were driving to NC [...]

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Men In Black

Samuel and Andrew have been wanting a suit since they knew what a suit was! They have been turned down, year after year, by Kenny and I who didn’t want to spend over a hundred bucks on something that they would outgrow in a year or less. “When you stop growing, we’ll get [...]

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Thanksgiving/Catch up on my blog Day!

It’s 8 p.m. and Thanksgiving Day is almost officially over. Unfortunately, by tomorrow morning, very early for some, the thoughts of Thanksgiving will be gone and Christmas will be the foremost thing in the minds of most people. We usually put up our Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving, but I’m not sure [...]

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This is the Lord’s Doing; It is Marvelous in Our Eyes

Psalm 118:23 speaks much of how we felt, as we went through Samuel’s graduation ceremony, June 2, 2007. I asked Samuel to share things from his perspective. I will follow up after that.
“Graduation day was very busy. Much cleaning was still to be done along with two SAT Subjects tests that [...]

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