Dear Mrs. Oke

Dear Mrs. Oke,
Bless you, bless you dear lady for sharing your fantastic works of writing with the world! I am thrilled and amazed that I found your books, and especially at this time in my life.
My name is Jayleigh. I am 36 years old, and live with my husband in the parsonage of the church [...]

Rose Colored Glasses

This song, Rose Colored Glasses, is one I remember from early childhood. It’s by John Conlee.
“These rose colored glasses that I’m looking through
show only the beauty and hide all the truth.”
I got my little heart broken today. Or yesterday, maybe both.
I guess I have one question to ask. Just one.
I won’t judge you if you [...]

What I Want

The Lord promises in Psalm 113:9 that he will settle the barren woman in her home as the happy mother of children.
I am claiming that promise in the name of Jesus. Amen.

I want to be settled.
In my home.
As a happy momma.
Of CHILDREN. (plural)

Yesterday buoyed my spirit. We played 2 hours of “would you rather”….
To Stormy, [...]

Merry Christmas 2008

Every single thing is changing. Nothing is left out. But the Lord is still on His throne. He will provide. He alone is my strength and salvation. Praise to His name. Amen.

Piano Video – Great is Thy Faithfulness

It’s me again, tearing up the keyboard! No, it’s not that great, but watch it anyway. Have I made ANY progress since last December?

 
Great is Thy faithfulness oh God my Father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou changest not, Thy compassions they fail not
as Thou hast been, Thou forever wilt [...]

A Life You Can Hang Your Hat On

A Life You Can Hang Your Hat On

 

You don’t need to make a million
Just be thankful to be workin’
You can do with what your able
And putting food there on the table
And providing for the family that you love
That’s something to be proud of
And if all you ever really do is the best you can
Well, you [...]

http://grosgrainfabulous.blogspot.com/2008/10/grosgrain-mini-store-opening-and.html
This woman is amazing. I’d so love to win one of her giveaways!

Love Is All Around

Tonight we watched Love, Actually. It was sweet, but I don’t believe I’d watch it again. I was glad when Stormy left the room because, HELLO, embarassing. We never have rated R movies in this house, so I wonder how this one filtered through the Netflix Queue. Hmm.
It was a great day today. Stormy had [...]

Good Weekend!

Mindy is such a blessing–truly. She will be 18 at the end of October, and Stormy is 15. Stormy soooo loved meeting Mindy yesterday that when Mindy asked her to come and work at the Haunted Woods, Stormy said, “Pleeeeeeeeease Rob and Jayleigh can I go with her?” And we agreed, saying we’d pick her [...]

Literary Anguish

I am about 1/3 the way through Peony in Love. And I am in MISERY!!!!!!! I won’t spoil it for anyone, but geez. I mean, I knew “the big thing” about the book. But I didn’t know the thing she found out RIGHT BEFORE the big thing, which is what she’d wanted for MONTHS!!!!!!
My heart [...]

House Rules

One of my dear blog-friends (I don’t remember who, so please ID yourself if you recognize this) posted these House Rules on their blog a while back. I digi-scrapped them for my hubby last night. He was very pleased and I will print it at work tomorrow. Check it out!

This Would Be….

And this, Nastia Liukin, would be why I so love to watch gymnastics during the Olympics. I am a “landlubber” who doesn’t move gracefully or beautifully, or flexibly like this.
And as my momma always says when I express jealousy of someone else: You just don’t know what their problems are like or what they’ve had [...]

Perfect Submission

I sat down at my computer about 45 minutes ago, my heart disquieted. My head is so clouded sometimes that I can’t gather my thoughts enough to even pray. I wanted to write a post. I wanted to pray for Rob in his ministry, his schooling, and one other thing on [...]

Tata Undo

I have had a crappy attitude lately, and today I see the Sun / Son!!!