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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Ministry of Ordinary Places

I feel greatly blessed to have been chosen to be part of the launch team for this book. this is the third launch team that i have been part of.

i have followed Shannan on Instagram for a while and i read her first book Falling Free

Here is a little about the book (taken from the books website)

Popular blogger Shannan Martin offers Christians who are longing for a more meaningful life a simple starting point: learn what it is to love and be loved right where God has placed you.

For Christ-followers living in an increasingly complicated world, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure of how to live a life of intention and meaning. Where do we even begin?

Shannan Martin offers a surprisingly simple answer: uncover the hidden corners of our cities and neighborhoods and invest deeply in the lives of people around us. She walks us through her own discoveries about the vital importance of paying attention, as well as the hard but rewarding truth about showing up and committing for the long haul, despite the inevitable encounters with brokenness and uncertainty. With transparency, humor, heart-tugging storytelling, and more than a little personal confession, Martin shows us that no matter where we live or how much we have, as we learn what it is to be with people as Jesus was, we'll find our very lives. The details will look quiet and ordinary, and the call will both exhaust and exhilarate us. But it will be the most worth-it adventure we will ever take.

I posted a review of the book here on Goodreads.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the book.

just know that there was so much more thank what is below.

You can pre-order a copy of the book here.

you can also read the first chapter of the book in the link above.

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Blessings

I love seeing Gods hand work in things.

We sure can meddle and want to control.

There was so many questions with school and 5th grade.

This year was the first year for the 6th graders to move to middle school so there was a lot of shuffling around of teachers in the elementary schools.

There was so much i wanted to know and questions that i wanted answered. We just had to wait and see.

When we got his teacher assignment the day of open house, I had no idea who she was. We met her at open house and all seemed okay.

Then the first few weeks of school went by and more changes happened to the 5th grade.

There were a few changes for Golden boy but his home room class stayed the same.

After hearing from her and all the other 5th grade teachers on curriculum night I am convinced that he has the best teacher for him. She is his home room and first block teacher, which is reading. She has a love of reading that seems to have rubbed off on my boy.

i love how God works in the details and when we give over that control we tend to have.

Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Looking Back August Edition

this was the month of cookie making

teeth loosing

fresh starts

new beginnings and adventures

date night with friends

this post on how I finally finished out my coffee station

we took the kids to see Christopher Robin.

I wore my red shirt to show some Winnie support. It wasn't a crop top (sorry, not sorry)

she lost another tooth. this one she pulled all by herself.

new game we bought and sat down to figure out how to play. Ticket to Ride Europe.

More Cookies

popsicles the day before school started.

a new adventure in dance for this one

water park day with a friend while the kids are in school.

first football game of the year.

they are falling out by the handfuls.

cheer camp. a new experience for her.

started this book and helping with the book launch. I still have not finished it but know that it is wonderful and you should really preorder it here.

work night out with some of the girls from the office and friends.

the week after the cheer camp the girls that attended were able to go to the first football game and do a cheer for before the game.

oh yeah they are still falling out.

Books I read this month:

Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately by Alicia Cook

Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

Come and Eat by Bri McKoy

Discipline that Connects by Jim and Lynne Jackson

Horseradish by Lemony Snicket

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Baskets

I posted this back in January when i was trying to figure out what i wanted to put above the coffee bar.

i started collecting baskets when i saw some basket walls on Pinterest.

I asked my hubby what he thought and he wasn't all the crazy about it.

he wanted to do another Bible verse sign and liked one that i showed him that i wanted for above the piano.

the one i wanted for above the piano was one that i would have to make and it was large scale. i didn't want something that large here but thought i could make it smaller and was fine with it for above the coffee station even though i really wanted to hang the baskets and had them.

i started talking to him about the size of the signs and the look and he said you know what, just do the baskets. i see you have them so just go with that.

sweet, i was going to get my baskets after all . yay!

I laid them all out of the floor and then started using small nail to hang them. i sent this picture to my mom to let her know that i was getting started on it.

i hung that small basket and towel holder first (to the right of the coffee pot)

a different angle and more added

after i got all of them up i realized that one of my favorites was sitting on the table and i missed hanging it up.

I asked little girl to hold it for me to so that i could send the picture to mom and my sister for thoughts.

mom said that she thought that it was too many baskets. she didn't realize that i so many collected.

i stepped back and looked at it and tried to start rearranging.

we went though a few moves until i got to where i liked it.

my grandmother was visiting my mom so mom showed her the photos and she gave her suggestions too.

i landed here with all of them and mom said that she thought i should put some space between all of them. to keep them in the same places but spread out just a bit.

i spread them out and sent her this picture. she said it looked great and then came back with well maybe the long one needed to come down a bit. by that point it was later in the evening and the kids were asleep and i was ready to chill so i waited.

the next morning i pulled it down some and snapped a picture and sent it to her.

Perfect!

yay for finally having something over the coffee cart and i am still loving it a week later.

Friday, August 10, 2018

Dance

Decades ago I took dance. I took it for years and then stopped and in high school made the dance team all four years. I wondered if having a girl would mean dance. I never enrolled her at 3 or 4 or 5 and by then she had her own thoughts and ideas of what she'd like to do and we were fine with that. Just this year she asked about dance. I was thrilled but had to remind her of the commitment that it was. We spent the whole summer asking if she was sure and every time she came back with, Yes. She was.

Of course she also wants to do art and piano and baking/cooking. One thing at a time little girl

Side note: she wanted a new bag because mine had my name on it. I told her it was now hers. I'd put her name on it and it was "vintage"

She saw it today with her name in silver paint pen and loved it.

I love that my mom saved special things from our childhood. Sometimes I don't know what to save.

Can I just box it all up and save forever?