The Miracle Baby

I've written in the past about my friend's daughter and SIL who were told they could never have a baby but on July 17th Shane was born! He is definitely a miracle baby!!

I was finally able to get to visit them today. He is almost two months old. Apparently, from what his Mom and Grandmom said, he wasn't in a very good mood today...a little on the fussy side!! Don't we all have days like that?

Soul Journal - Part 4

For this part, we had to look for pictures from magazines for different categories. The hard part was finding magazines. We just recycled a bunch a couple weeks ago so I had to scrounge around. We could put the pics in any grid order we wanted. I chose to put them in the order of the list Sarah gave. That's just me!

1. A smile

2. Something beautiful - what's more beautiful than a baby?!

3. A chair

4. Something red

5. Something blue

6. Something comfortable - it feels so good to come home from work and change into shorts!

7. Something exotic

8. A leaf

9. A color you love - green

10. A pattern

11. A flower - I chose a picture of a water lily. I had one bloom in my pond this year.

12. A bird - one of my favorites, the American Goldfinch. If you don't know birds, the male is the one with the bright yellow color.

13. Something you want - I've always wanted a house with a wrap around porch.

14. Something you own

15. The letter R

16. Something that smells good - a beautiful camilla

17. Something that tastes good - nothing tastes better than Jersey tomatoes and corn

18. A circle

19. The letter A

20. An eye that's the same color as yours - blue

21. A hand

22. The letter T

23. A butterfly

24. A number

Have to go look for tape for the next step.

Soul Journal - Part 3

For this part, Sarah asked us to think of strength and protection and about what we turn to when we are "under siege". She also asked us to think about what our creative spirit needs more of and how do we keep all those critical voices from crippling us in our crusade.

The first thing that came to my mind was "The Armor of God". This is what I did to represent my strength and protection when I'm "under siege" and need help in silencing the critical voices. Even having a creative spirit comes from God. He chose not to give me as much creativity as others, but that's okay!!

Busy doing nothing

Do you ever get that way? Feels like you have no time to anything because you're so busy doing nothing!

Haven't worked on my Soul Journal since the other day. I printed out a bunch of the instructions and got a little overwhelmed plus I really haven't had a chance to do anything with it. I figure it's my journal so I can take my time and do it at my pace.

Last night I went to the movies with three friends to see "Mama Mia", which I saw a couple weeks ago with DH. I like it so much I didn't mind seeing it again when they asked. Afterwards we went to a local diner and had dessert. Now we all want to go see it on Broadway! Didn't get home until 11:30 and then couldn't sleep very well all night.

I signed up last week to do a Beth Moore Bible study online, "Believing God". It's a do-at-your-own-pace study so decided tonight would be a good time to start but then MIL wanted to go to grocery store. She doesn't drive any more so someone has to take her when she has errands to do.

When we got home I finally got to do the first part of the study. My DD from TN went to the study a few years ago and really had a life-changing experience. She has decided she, too, will do the online study. I'm looking forward to really getting into the heart of it!

After I got done with the study and while I was printing out the lessons for the next week, I went out and bowled with DH and DS on our new Wii that DH brought home today. I've been telling him that we don't need it as we have all those other game-things but he succumbed to the temptation. It is fun, though. I've never played any of the others but the Wii I know I will.

So, you can see, I've been busy doing nothing all evening. Now it's about time to go to bed. I did put some laundry away so it wasn't a completely wasted night! I will try tomorrow to work on the Journal and maybe make some cards.

God bless,
Linda

Soul Journal, Day 2 - Claiming My Journal

Today we had to "claim our journals" as our own. I wrote "This book belongs to..." and then repeated my name over and over. I used stamps, sharpies and stickers.This is my book!!!!!