Sometime last week the pump died on our clothes washer.  We do three to four loads a day so this was not a good thing. Not at all.  We made do and tried to conserve on towels while we waited on the new pump to come. We were able to make it two days […]

  Quote of the Week “Worry is looking to our own resources and feasting on them.  Prayer is looking to God’s resources and feasting on them.”  Stuart Greaves The Bookshelf     Safely Home is a fictional story based on true stories of the persecuted church.  One thing we really liked is the eternal perspective […]

  Quote of the Week   “There is a power in delight that releases everything in your path. You can completely debilitate the enemy by having a sense of wonder because he can’t intimidate you, he can’t make you fearful, and you affect everything he’s doing just by being there. Sometimes you don’t even have […]

  Quote of the Week   Unbelief is safe because it takes no risks and almost always gets what it expects. [Faith] grabs hold of an invisible reality and won’t let go. I may not always feel that I have great faith.  But I can always obey, laying my hands on someone and praying.  It […]

YAY! Our room is finally done! Daddy was able to remodel it this year. *happy dance* So…here comes all 2,300 and 5 pictures..ok, not THAT many These are the pictures before it got tore out…mold, torn wall paper, no insulation, it wasn’t much fun to live in.  A few winters ago when it was really […]

  Autumn Sunrise Over the Barnyard by Anna Quote of the Week    My Precious Gem in a Crown, Beloved, when you see a garden, do you see the heat, the storms and the weeds of summer as a punishment for inadequate growth from the plant? Why then do you believe the refining in your […]

  Yay!  It’s canning time again   The season of tired feet, stained fingers, sticky floors and oh so yummy food filling up the empty shelves in our basement again!  Every year when the ‘firstfruits’ of the garden come on (which is usually the green beans), we groan because we know that it’s that time […]

  Quote of the Week   Bear not a single care thyself, One is too much for thee. The work is Mine, and Mine alone, Thy work to rest in Me. Unknown     The Bookshelf   Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World’s Greatest Hymn Stories   Videos of the Week   More […]

  A few weeks ago, we went to the blueberry bog to pick our annual 100+ lbs. of blueberries.  On this particular trip we got about 40 lbs. if I’m remembering correctly We got to take Benton, Campbell, Graham and Boden along with us, the four extra kids we get to babysit   It has […]

  Boden…the adorable little baby that we get to babysit every week-day.  Isn’t he just so sweet?   Quote of the Week   That’s the problem with calling.  Too often we think of it as something we are meant to do.  But really it’s something we are meant to be. God may have seemingly random […]