Friday’s Fave Five

Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts Friday’s Fave Five so we can share our favorite things from the last week. This has been a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God gives. Click on the button to learn more, then go to Susanne’s to read others’ faves and link [...]

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Flashback Friday: Back to School

Mocha With Linda hosts a weekly meme called Flashback Friday. She’ll post a question every Thursday, and then Friday we can link our answers up on her site. The question for this week is: Did your family have any back-to-school traditions when you were growing up? Were you generally eager or reluctant to start school? [...]

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Book Review: A Matter of Character

Daphne McKinley is a single heiress in 1918 with a secret: she writes melodramatic “dime novels” about adventures in the Old West based on true-life stories as told to her by a family friend. She doesn’t need the income, but she writes for the joy of storytelling.  She writes under the pseudonym “D. B. Morgan” [...]

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“David encouraged himself in the LORD his God”

This is a sentence that has intrigued me often, and I have been mulling over it from time to time for several weeks. That might have something to do with the fact that we’ve moved away from our two oldest sons, and though we keep in touch, it is not the same as hearing what [...]

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New House

Several of you have asked for photos of the new house. Some of these are from the realtor’s listing and were taken when the house was empty. I wish I had gotten more of them — there were several, but they have been taken down now that the house has been sold. It is now [...]

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The Week In Words

Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, [...]

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We have Internet!

Woot! Well, the main desktop that I use isn’t connected because we need a certain cable. But my husband is letting me use his little notebook. Still way too much to do to play for long, but it’s nice to know I can take a break online here and there! The bathrooms and bedrooms are [...]

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In Tennessee..

…at a hotel. All our worldly goods will be delivered tomorrow, Lord willing. Everything went fairly smoothly in the packing and loading process. Pulling out furniture uncovers all of one’s housekeeping sins…and a few found items that we didn’t know were lost… After the house was packed up, good-byes said to Jason and Mittu, and [...]

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Packing up…

(Photo courtesy of stock.xchng) The movers come on Wednesday, and there are some things my husband wants to pack up himself before they come. Among those things are the electronics…like my desktop PC. So I probably won’t be blogging for several days. Over the next few days the movers will pack our things up, load [...]

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The Week In Words

Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, [...]

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