Link to Blog Giveaway...

This is to Loreana's giveaway of Puritans on Adoption. If you're interested, run over to her site and site up: It's free!:)

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord...

I found this passage in my Bible Study homework but only up to vs 6. How beautiful is this full passage?!!! God is so good!

Jer. 17:5 Thus says the LORD,
"Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind
And makes flesh his strength,
And whose heart turns away from the LORD.
6 "For he will be like a bush in the desert
And will not see when prosperity comes,
But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,
A land of salt without inhabitant.
7 "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD
And whose trust is the LORD.
8 "For he will be like a tree planted by the water,
That extends its roots by a stream
And will not fear when the heat comes;
But its leaves will be green,
And it will not be anxious in a year of drought
Nor cease to yield fruit.

My First Born is Five...

We celebrated by throwing her a birthday party, complete with tons of friends, presents, cake, ice cream, party bags and balloons coming out her ears. I know she had a wonderful time and I, other than being tired, was completely at ease. I guess that's what comes of following the old KISS adage: Keep It Simple, Stupid! The girls all showed up in Princess dresses and we took tons of pictures. Then we ate (chicken tenders and cheese puffs), had cake and ice cream (chocolate butter cream and Italian ices). We beaded necklaces with fun, colorful beads and opened presents. In between, we had lovely princesses running around, playing upstairs and having a good time! I wish that my only job had been to take pictures so that I would have some tres jolie pics for you but as Mom-in-charge, my responsibilities prevented it.:( Where is Aunt Liz when you need her?!!!:)
Bryan, my dad, his dad, AIJ and my nephew took off for the afternoon. I decided that Bryan made the right decision as I KNOW that the screaming during the event would not have gone over well! They all went putt putt golfing instead: Bryan won. Apparently AIJ and nevvy tried to follow the rules for the first three holes but then keyed in on the "get the ball in the hole" rule and would run down, place the ball next to the hole and knock it in! My dad retaliated for this stroke of genius by giving them a 5 stroke score on every hole.
Thank you Lord for my lovely family. I am blessed everyday to be a part of what You are doing here. You are so good.

"That's what you call ironic"

Do you ever have one of those spiritually ironic moments? Today I was praying for the ability to love my children and not be selfish and in the middle of my prayer, the kids start yelling about "poop" and "Ilsa" and "ew"! and I'm afraid I have to say that yelling on my part commenced. How frustrating!
Anyone else have a spiritually ironic moment they'd like to share?
In HIM,
Noelle

Words, words, words...

I'm sitting here, nursing a cup of coffee and nibbling on the chocolate chocolate chip cookies into which I forgot to put flour (I'm too absentminded to make it in a professional cooking/baking environment), trying to figure out what I should write about. The only thing that comes to mind is how intimidating it is to write about anything in the face of so many wordsmiths. See Mollie's blog here for an example of beautiful word working.
At any rate, I must practice what I preach. When Emily says something is difficult or that she isn't good at something, I say "Then what do we do?" and the answer, of course, is "practice". So, this is me practicing.
I will have to think of topics for myself...

My REAL first blog...

I think I should've put this blog ahead of the homeschool giveaway one but the reason I MADE this blog is because of the homeschool giveaway. So, maybe it's in the right order after all...
But, it would be a neat place to practice writing if I can ever get any thoughts together.:)

Until such time, God bless as you serve Him,
Your friendly neighborhood chocoholic

Homeschool giveaway...

Check out this science book giveaway at: Homeschool Hollow
Enter and see if you get it!:)
Luv,
Noelle