{Happy Homemaker Monday}

The weather in my neck of the woods:


Things that make me happy:

Shane and Maddie playing so I can have 30 min of peace!

Book(s) I'm reading:

Not reading much right now, just crochet patterns

Bible

What's on my TV today:

not sure

On my To Do List:

Clean the house and laundry

In the craft basket:

bag for mom, some hexagon’s and some soap savers

Looking forward to this week:

nothing out of the norm

Tips and Tricks:

learned how to take a screen shot of my phone.  Push the center button and the hold it down as you push the lock top button.  Thanks Lecy! 

My favorite blog post this week:

Haven’t done much reading lately

No words needed (favorite photo or picture, yours or others you want to share):

Lesson learned the past few days:

No matter how hard you try to teach your kid something, they will only learn it when they are ready!

On my prayer list:

so many!

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:

“Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.” Genesis 28:15 (NKJV)

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The weather in my neck of the woods:

 

OK… seriously, this heat can stop!!!  It was 113 the other day!

Things that make me happy:

my family

coffee, yarn, material

quiet time with the Lord

Book(s) I'm reading:

1-2-3 Magic for Christian Parents: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 by Thomas W. Phelan PhD and Chris Webb MS MA

What I'm enjoying on TV:

Some kid movies we recorded for Maddie

New Recipe I tried or want to try soon:

?

On my To Do List:

laundry, mop kitchen, vacuum, you know the usual stuff. 

In the Craft Basket:

crochet mermaid

african flower hexagons

eye makeup remover scrubbies

Looking forward to this week:

hmmm… some cool weather would be nice but that isn’t in store for us.  Just looking forward to the weekend so we can have some time together as family

My favorite blog post this week (Mine or other):

It’s a tutorial that Craft Gossip shared…

Plenty of Pockets Tote

No words needed (favorite photo or picture, yours or others you want to share):

Lesson learned the past few days:

To not always take offense to what people say.  They don’t always mean it to come out wrong and most the time it has nothing to do with you, even if you take it that way.  So… you just have to do your best to brush it off!

On My Prayer List:

some friends,

our family,

our church and pastor

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. ~Proverbs 24:3-4 Pin It

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The weather in my neck of the woods:

not looking forward to the upcoming heat!!!!

Things that make me happy:

Maddie sleeping in! 

yarn & material!!

Book(s) I'm reading:

The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman

 

What I'm enjoying on TV:

19 Kids and Counting

 

On the menu for dinner:

Turkey Burgers and salad

 

New Recipe I tried or want to try soon:

nothing new, everything involves the oven and with 100 degree weather that’s not happening!

 

On my To Do List:

Finish organizing some stuff and cleaning Mad’s room

laundry

 

In the Craft Basket:

a shirred dress for me

something for Mad

owls 

 

Looking forward to this week:

getting my dress done

hanging out with family on Sunday.

I have a cousin that has a birthday on the 2nd, my uncle’s is on the 3rd and mine is on the 4th.  Will prob be celebrating them all

 

My favorite blog post this week (Mine or other):

A Sizzling Summer by Kim at

The Imperfect Wives

can’t find the direct link but it was written on Wed. June 22

 

No words needed (favorite photo or picture, yours or others you want to share):

dress I made for Maddie on Friday

 

Lesson learned the past few days:

Make sure you have enough thread when you are starting a sewing project!  Not fun running out mid project… had some that matched fairly close though

 

On My Prayer List:

some friends,

our family,

our church and pastor

 

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:

So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up. ~ Galatians 6:9

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And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.~ Romans 8:28

Took this on our vacation last week and for some reason this verse seemed perfect for it.  Beautiful picture!! 

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The weather in my neck of the woods:

Things that make me happy:

Today is our 13 year anniversary.  Been a rollercoaster but I wouldn’t change anything!!

Book(s) I'm reading:

My devotional and the Bible

What I'm enjoying on TV:

when I get to watch been watching some old ‘Little House on the Prairie’

On the menu for dinner:

who knows?

New Recipe I tried or want to try soon:

Nothing really for this week

On my To Do List:

Laundry, clean and clean some more!

In the Craft Basket:

A couple of kitties,

finish up a pig and ladybug

Looking forward to this week:

getting some orders done

My favorite blog post this week (Mine or other):

didn’t do much reading this past week.  sorry….

 

No words needed (favorite photo or picture, yours or others you want to share):

 

Lesson learned the past few days:

Getting work done is always great but sometimes you just need to take some time for family!

On My Prayer List:

Patience, wisdom, strength, knowledge,

our church and our family and friends

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:

⁴ Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. ⁵ Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. ⁶ But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

⁷ Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

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~Happy Homemaker Monday~

 

 

The weather in my neck of the woods:

Things that make me happy:

ALL of us going to church,

Maddie laughing,

yarn!!

Book(s) I'm reading:

My devotional and the Bible

What I'm enjoying on TV:

nothing much…

On the menu for dinner:

not sure yet

New Recipe I tried or want to try soon:

Garlic Pita bread bites

I’ve made Pita chips before and love them so I am sure these will be just as good!!

 

On my To Do List:

Get things organized and check the list for things we need for up coming vacation

In the Craft Basket:

hearts,

whatever else hits my fancy

 

Looking forward to this week:

Mad is staying with my mom this weekend.  On the 16th is our 13 year anniversary so we will be celebrating it that weekend!! 

My favorite blog post this week (Mine or other):

Square a Day-May 5th by Mary

She’s the one that got me back into crocheting. She makes some really gorgeous stuff!!

No words needed (favorite photo or picture, yours or others you want to share):

Lesson learned the past few days:

that there is nothing like prayer….

On My Prayer List:

our church, our family, my mom and grandparents, our soldiers

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:

"Her children rise up and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praises her: "Many daughters have done well, but you excel them all." ~Proverbs 31:28-29 Pin It

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1 Corinthians 2

¹ And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. ²For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. ³ I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. ⁴ My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, ⁵ so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.

 

God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

⁶ We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. ⁷ No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. ⁸ None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹ However, as it is written:

   “What no eye has seen,
   what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
   the things God has prepared for those who love Him—

¹⁰ these are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit.

   The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³ This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. ¹⁴The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ¹⁵ The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, ¹⁶ for,

   “Who has known the mind of the Lord
   so as to instruct him?”

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Most of you know that I just love this photo, that she was my main banner for so long.  When I was looking for an image, this one I found and she just looked like I felt and still do.  So happy, so carefree so loved, a new woman!  The daughter of Christ, dancing for her King!

The verse I have always loved.  This woman went through so much for so many years, and the fact that her faith was so strong.  That she knew that if she just got close enough to Jesus, to just touch His robe, that she would be healed.  This is such a wonderful, powerful, comforting verse to me too.  The fact that my faith has healed me from so many things.  So many days I have felt like Jesus was saying this to me!!

Then He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you.  Go in peace” Luke 8:48

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The weather in my neck of the woods:

Things that make me happy:

family, hearing Mad’s laugh, finding new patterns and learning something new

What's on my TV today:

Little House on the Prairie

On the menu for dinner:

Salad, spaghetti and garlic bread

On my To Do List:

a shawl for our vacation the end of this month, and whatever else pops up

In the craft basket:

shawl, hedge hog, the turtle from last week.  Made a pig last week instead of the turtle.

Pattern I want to try soon:

Goddess Shawl

Tips and Tricks:

Can’t remember if I used this one before… If your daughter is wearing a white skirt and spills red Kool-Aid on it and it doesn’t come out after bleaching it, just make up some more Kool-Aid and put the skirt it in so you will have a pink one!  Worked pretty well!!

My favorite blog post this week:

Penny by: Gourmet Amigurumi

No words needed (favorite photo or picture, yours or others you want to share):

my latest project

pattern from the one and only Mamachee

 

Lesson learned the past few days:

I need to be more like Maddie and enjoy the little things in life and stop stressing over the small things.  Just find happiness in whatever it is I am doing!

Prayer list:

Our family and church, and the rest on our prayer lists.

 

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:

‎I said, ‘Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that He may come and shower righteousness upon you.’

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The weather in my neck of the woods:

Things that make me happy:

getting things organized. 

Maddie actually cleaning her room without complaining!

Book(s) I'm reading:

If God is in Control, Why do I have a headache? Bible lessons for a woman’s total health

What I'm enjoying on TV:

Celebrity Apprentice

Army Wives

On the menu for dinner:

not sure yet

On my To Do List:

Finish up some orders

laundry

In the Craft Basket:

Robots

Owl

Trinket container

Looking forward to this week:

Nothing much.   Just spending time relaxing and playing at home… Hoping and praying that Ms. Mad’s attitude will change a little

No words needed (favorite photo or picture, yours or others you want to share):

 

On My Prayer List:

Our church, church family and a few other friends

 

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:

“I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.”

John 17:9

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from Life Application Study Bible

Theme: Confidence in God’s eternal love.  God’s love is unchanging in the midst of changing situations.  This gives us security. (italics by me)

Psalm 118

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.

Let Israel say: “His love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say: “His love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say” “His love endures forever.”

In my anguish I cried to the Lord and He answered by setting me free. The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.  What can man do to me?  The Lord is with me; He is my helper.  I will look in triumph on my enemies. 

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.  It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes. 

All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the Lord I cut them off.  They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the Lord I cut them off.  They swarmed around me like bees, but they died out as quickly as burning thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off.

I was pushed back and about to fall, but the Lord helped me.  The Lord is my strength and my song, He has become my salvation.

Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous:  “The Lord’s right hand has done mighty things?  The Lord’s right hand is lifted high; the Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!”

I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the Lord has done.  The Lord has chastened me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

Open for me the gates of righteousness; I will enter and give thanks to the to the Lord.  This is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous may enter.  I will give You thanks, for You answered me; You have become my salvation.

The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes.  This is the day the Lord has make; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

O Lord, save us; O Lord, grant us success.  Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.  From the house of the Lord we bless you.  The Lord is God and He has made His light shine upon us.  With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up to the horns of the altar.

You are my God, and I will give You thanks; You are my God, and I will exalt You. 

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.

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He will feed His flock like a shepherd, He will carry the lambs in His arms, holding them close to His heart.  He will gently lead the mother sheep with their young.  ~ Isaiah 40:11

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Happy Homemaker Monday

The weather in my neck of the woods:

Things that make me happy:

Our church & Family

yarn & finding new crochet patterns

What's on my TV today:

Have no idea, whatever’s been DVR’d and I couldn’t even tell you what that is!

On the menu for dinner:
nothing big, prob just taco salad

On my To Do List:

clean

finish up some crocheting

look over next week’s Sunday School lesson

In the craft basket:

Crochet hippo, ladybug, bee,

egg cozies (that I have just closed up and stuffed usually)

and maybe something new

Tips and Tricks:

Nothing really for this week… sorry!

My favorite blog post this week:

Didn’t do much reading this week so I will go with one of mine.

His Word Friday

No words needed (favorite photo or picture, yours or others you want to share):

Lesson learned the past few days:

That your words and looks can mean so much!

Prayer list:

Our family, our Pastor and our church family and many many more!

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:

I said to myself, “I will watch what I do and not sin in what I say. I will hold my tongue when the ungodly are around me.”

Psalm 39:1 NLT

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