Watercolor wonder

Construction paper: $1
Water colors: $2
An afternoon of quiet to prepare dinner in: priceless

Hiding places

Under the tree became one of Maggie's hiding spots. Perfect for little feet to carry her to & hard for mommy to get her out of.

O' Christmas Tree

O' Christmas tree, How lovely are your branches. Okay so I'm late, ridiculously late, bordering on why am I even doing this. So why am I doing it? I want to give Charlie a peek into what Christmas was like for us this year. How my first desire to do pretty much of nothing for Christmas was met with unmistakable peace & God given cheer. And the promise of what a Christmas home will be like for him.

The weekend of Thanksgiving while Maggie napped, the Christmas carols played & I let Emma & Nathan decorate the tree.

This of course is one of my favorites.

While Emma & Nathan napped I re-decorated & wondered how I was going to pull that phase of Operation Decorate Christmas Tree off next year.

The littlest princess

It amazes me how little girls have the innate capability of being, well girly. Maggie in all of her 13 month old girliness, brought me a skirt, necklace & wand, cooed & grunted until it was translated that she too was worthy of princesness. And voila, meet our littlest princess.

Thankful trees

Right before Thanksgiving (yeah, I'm a little behind!) the kids & I worked on "Thankful trees." They were each given 7 leaves for me to write what they were thankful for. Out of 14 leaves, 12 of them mentioned being thankful for daddy. I was glad to receive 1 honorable mention, thank you! But the overwhelming consensus was how thankful they are & how much they adore their daddy.

Pilot humor

Only pilots & their wives will find this funny. Because we all know people who really think it's true!

This is a "cause" on Facebook.

Sleep with a pilot.
Improve our society's gene pool and save the world.

Positions: Save the world!

Category: Human Services - Youth Development

Description:
Have you ever met an idiot? Odds are you have. In our society, more and more people are having to cope with being born with inferior genes. These people, being idiots breed with other idiots, and the problem gets worse. Our society, not having enough intelligent people to provide competent labor, is declining at an astonishing rate. Millions of idiots are flooding the gene-pool with inferior genes. Soon we will experience another severe depression like that of the thirties which will cripple the world. I am offering a solution. Not everyone is an idiot, but pilots are naturally born with every advantage from being abnormally intelligent to being exceptionally good looking. These pilots, or super people, if you will, have genes that when mixed with other attractive "normal" people or other good looking pilots genes make model offspring that, if produced in large numbers, can completely fix our gene pool. The new society of superior people will be able to solve world hunger, make world peace, fix global warming, and will enter a new age of prosperity. If you are an attractive person, it is your duty to your country and the world to sleep with a pilot today. Your children will thank you for it. For anyone who is a pilot, good looking person or an idiot who supports this cause, join today.

The rest of victory

There is nothing - no circumstance, no trouble, no testing - that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God & past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no trial will ever disarm me, no circumstance will cause me to fret - for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is! - That is the rest of victory!

Alan Redpath

The Few, The Proud

The Marines.