13 Questions about YOU!

Be creative and have fun!

1. What is the perfect number of kids to have?
2. What is the first thing you want to do when you are in a really bad mood?
3. What's your favorite way to relax?
4. What would you like to do?
5. Where would you like to go?
6. Who would you like to meet?
7. What's your most embarrassing memory? (come on! Do tell!!)
8. What's your BEST memory?
9. What would you like to do over?
10. What is one thing that life has taught you?
11. What would you consider one of your strengths?
12. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
13. Who (besides Jesus) has been a major influence in your life and how have they influenced you???

Besieged!

I have been studying and meditating on Psalm 139 for the past couple of weeks so I thought I'd share one of the treasures that I found. Verse 5 says:

You have enclosed me behind and before...

At first glance I would say that this verse speaks of how God keeps us and protects us. And I do believe that is part of what it is saying. But I think God showed me more about this verse. As I searched and dug into it I discovered the word "enclosed" is literally translated "besieged". That really intrigued me!!! And so I looked up the word besieged and part of the definition was - surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender. That was a powerful picture for me! Again, I see God fighting FOR me in a huge way!!! How desperately I want to be wholly surrendered to God and yet I continue to hold back! BUT, God will do what it takes to accomplish it in me!! I don't stand a chance!!

Everytime I think of this verse now I smile and sometimes I even laugh!!!

The next time you are feeling frustrated with yourself for failing yet again... Remember! God's got you surrounded!!

A GREEN Thursday!

In preparation of St. Patricks Day, I'm dedicating this Thirteen Thursday to GREEN! Many thanks to Heather for making this project so easy! ;)

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1. John Deere GREEN!

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2. Cactus are GREEN! This one is a BEAST!!!

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3. Grasshoppers can be GREEN! Isn't he cute?!

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4. This is Heather's purse. And wouldn't you know... it's GREEN!!!!

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5. Markers can be GREEN! Of course you can also find GREEN crayons, GREEN pencils, GREEN paint, and GREEN pens too!!

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6. Lifesavers can be GREEN! YUM!

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7. Heather's favorite sneakers are GREEN! (Big surprise.)

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8. This is what Heather looks like after dissecting a starfish. She was just a bit GREEN! LOL. Hey! Her favorite color! Maybe she should dissect starfish more often!!! What do you think???

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9. Money is GREEN! No wonder Heather's favorite color is GREEN!

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10. Frogs are GREEN. And this one is sitting in GREEN slime - YUCK!

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11. Lily pads are GREEN! Maybe the little GREEN frog, sitting in the GREEN slime should move over here.

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12. Yoyo is GREEN! Do you think He just dissected a starfish????

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13. The grass on the other side of the fence is always GREENER!!!! At least that's what they say....

Where's Turtle?

I got to go over and take pictures of a friend's turtle today (or was that yesterday now?! I really SHOULD be in bed!!!!). It's for a book project I'm working on called "Where's Turtle?". Already I can tell that this project is going to
s-t-r-e-t-c-h me. But I think I might have gotten one page done in spite of several obstacles I had to overcome. How do you like that for confidence?! LOL.

Emergency!

We ended up in the emergency room AGAIN last night. Jessi's eye swelled up. We noticed it around 6 pm. Below her left eye it was quite red and we could almost see it swelling right before our eyes. So, I called the doctor and she said to take her in to emergency. UGH! By the time we got to the emergency room the bottom of her eye was looking some better but above her left eye was now quite red! As we were sitting in the emergency room I watched it move from the upper left eye to the upper right eye! It was sooooo weird!!! By the time the doctor saw her the left eye looked almost normal - but the right eye was swelling and moving from above to below. And by the time we left, around 10 pm she looked fine! It was totally bizarre! The doctores claimed it was an allergic reaction to something and gave her Benedryl. I've never seen or heard of ANYTHING like it and I didn't feel like the doctors took me seriously at all. Of course, had I been the doctor and not witnessed what I just witnessed, I doubt I would have taken me seriously either!! I was just another 'nut-case' mother over-reacting to a slightly swollen/red eye!! But really, I'm glad it was nothing serious (just would like to have not spent 4 hours in the emergency room and another $50 for them to tell me that!!!!) and that we didn't have to stay two nights this time!!! And Jessi is thrilled to have yet another personalized bracelet which she wore proudly to church today. (And I had just convinced her to take the last one off! LOL.)

Flowers

Though my favorite pictures usually have a face in 'em... I do take pictures of just about EVERYTHING! I'm always trying to stretch myself with my photography. That means taking pictures that I wouldn't necessarily normally take and trying to make them interesting! So.... because everyone is in the springtime mood, I'll share a few of my flower pictures.

One nice thing about flowers - they don't run from the camera!!!

ENJOY!!!

Bleeding Hearts

My neighbor put a BEAUTIFUL garden in a couple of years ago. I've taken a few photos over there - this being one of them, but I tend to get side-tracked from all the lovely flowers to take pictures of ugly insects! LOL. Or possibly of her adorable little daughter....