
My Baby Leaves the Nest Well we took our firstborn off to college yesterday Left at 4 00am didn t get home until after midnight she probably didn t either ha This daughter is the designing type so we d given

could go wherever whenever all during vacation so long as they reserved the whole of Thursday for me So from morning until night all my babies were under our roof and it was so very nice Our college student was home and we all missed her so she received lots of extra attention as you can see The middle child isn t mad she just looks that way because I caught her with her

Back in the Saddle I took a wee little break from the treadmill about a 4 month break and got back in that saddle this morning Ohmygosh My legs were stinging and burning within the first 8 minutes

Our daughter had an assignment in her art class to make collages of well known stories So she did one true story and one make believe Can you guess what they are 1 2

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vol 2 hosted by Detroit s Purple Gang s Young Famous and T Flame will drop June 29th Make sure to look out for it HOT stuff Check the back for the tracklist More infos will follow

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Battle of the Bands My 17 year old plays drums in a band and they tried out for a Battle of the Bands competition at the high school They were one of 5 bands chosen to compete and tonight is the night I m not

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Upon closer inspection it has this huge growth inside that has berry looking things

Photo by deeAnne T Pictured is the European Window Box Cage

Photo by deeAnne T Pictured is the European Window Box Cage

My Other Daughter Our oldest daughter has a childhood school chum that has been more or less a fixture in our house for over ten years We call her our other daughter She ended up going to a college way up

Congrats To Our Winner Congratulations to Kathleen A in Minnesota for winning our last contest She graciously sent us a photo of her favorite reading spot along with a really sweet note as so A hot cup of

Winter We have had an unbelievably beautiful winter in Houston this year Cool nights with warm sunny days My study is actually a sunroom that has L shaped wall to wall windows They have been

floodgate had been lifted virtually finished pieces sometimes when the gush slows to a steady flow I sit back and view the harvest wondering from whence it all came Deeanne Gist Deeanne has a true entrepreneurial spirit She has worked as a freelance journalist ran a home accessory and antique business and served as CFO for her husband s business And she is a

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Title Deep in the Heart of Trouble Author Deeanne Gist Publisher Bethany House Publishers

Awards for Fiction Novels After mentioning the Rita awards yesterday I thought I would spend the next couple of days telling you about some of the other awards out there for fiction novels That way if you are in

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boys from our very own university Texas A M We were so happy to see them though we d never met them and boy did they give us a hard time for being so hoity toity in ignoring them We went to dinner with them at a French cafe Everyone in France takes their dogs everywhere The waitress even came to our table to get our order with her red lab at her feet She picked

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Last Call Last call for the newsletter this quarter anyway It will go out on Monday so if you haven t signed up for it click here

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Of all those places my favorite is the backyard assuming it isn t too hot The only problem is how to get my rolling bookshelf out there All we have are steps down to the deck Do you think my man would build me a ramp Would that be too much to ask do you

We ended up keeping the black and white one If you want to guess what his name is enter our contest

Amazing Grace I m trying to find a traditional recording of the hymn Amazing Grace I d like it to include vocals as opposed to instrumental only I went to our local Christian bookstore but had a

Pups Open Eyes Being a city girl I kept trying to figure out which were the girls and which were the boys They all looked the same to me and I knew that wasn t right I ended up having to ask the Vet

Austria almost After catching the train from Norway to Denmark to

helping We listened to Christmas music and laughed and worked really hard The only thing we didn t get to was the tree in our family room and I ll have the kids hubby help me with that

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this year see yesterday s post Well last week I sat our college student down in the middle of her room and dumped out all her drawers everything out of her closet everything out of her bathroom everything off her shelves and sat there with her while we seperated into giveaway piles trash piles piles to take back to college with her and piles that needed to go back on

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Chris Well Live and In Person Chris Well author of Forgiving Solomon Long the book we ve been discussing this week in case you re just popping in has graciously accepted my invitation for a short interveiw and then a

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architecture and every sculpture has a special significance Best of all you had but to walk into the cathedral to feel the presence of the Lord I could have spent hours and hours there Paris also has a miniature Statue of Liberty It is about 35 feet high and mounted next to the Pont de Grenelle along the banks of the river Seine No visit to Paris would be complete without

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Associate Pastor Chaplain JIM MILNE is both an assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel on the Georgetown Divide and the Deputy Senior Chaplain for Placer County Law Enforcement Chaplaincy

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