Jesus, Lover of My Soul

Jesus, Lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bossom fly,
While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high.
Hide me, O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past;
Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last!

Other refuge have I none; Hangs my helpless soul on Thee;
Leave, ah leave me not alone, Still support and comfort me.
All my trust on Thee is stayed, All my help from Thee I bring;
Cover my defenseless head With the shadow of Thy wing.

Thou, O Christ, art all I want; More than all in Thee I find;
Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind.
Just and holy is Thy name, I am all unrighteousness;
False and full of sin I am, Thou art full of truth and grace.

Plenteous grace with Thee is found, Grace to cover all my sin;
Let the healing streams abound; Make and keep my pure within.
Thou of life the Fountain art, Freely let me take of Thee;
Spring Thou up within my heart, Rise to all eternity.

Words ~ Charles Wesley
Sung ~ Fernando Ortega

In the mood for snowflakes? I am.

Give Away

The young ladies at the I Don't Date blog (IDD) have a special give away!! Go check it out!

Content ...

I asked the Lord three times about this, that it would depart from me.

But He said to me, "My grace is enough for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." So then, I will boast most gladly about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may reside in me.

Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

~2 Corinthians 12:8-10 (NET Bible)~

Of new cups, pearl-ies, Monopoly, brother and sister

Sick of cup pictures yet? *wink*

Picture courtesy of Ethan (pictured above).Another picture by Ethan.

Apparently it was a scary part in the movie ...

Believe it or not little A, (three, almost four in this picture) was watching The Iron Giant. But, I guess it was scary enough to need the security that only hiding under a blanket can provide. But, honestly, when I watch movies and I think it's going to be a scary part I, too, hide my face (but mind you not my eyes, so I can still see the scary part *Rolls eyes, silly me*) behind either a pillow or the blanket I'm covering myself with. :) Anyway, I thought it was too cute to pass up.

It's a new Superhero!

Introducing ... *Drum roll please*

CAMO-BUG

Well, actually it's a cicada. But look at the "camo" on his ... er ... her ... ahhh ... it's *smile* back. It's so neat how God made it able to be "camo-ed" to the tree when they climb up and down on it!

"Huuuu ... yeah. Yeah, that's me. Look out. Here I come, world!"

As before "promised"

Here they are ... the pictures I mentioned in my previous post. But be warned ... there are many. (Click on the pictures to get a closer view.)

So ...

I know what you're all thinking ... *Gasp* It's a- It's a-a-a post!!!!

Honestly, I'm kind of thinking the same thing. What has happened to the last month (over actually) since I last posted!? Do you ever have those times when you get this GREAT idea of something to post, but you're not home, or at least not around your computer, and then when you actually HAVE the time to post you think ... "Why was I going to post THAT?!" ... Yeah, that's kind of been my story the last many, many weeks. I've even taken pictures to post and then when I look at them I think, "Aww, that's kinda dumb."

But, here I am. Finally posting again on this poor abandoned blog. I've missed posting and missed hearing from all you guys. Your comments honestly brighten my days! So, leave me some. What are you all up to? But most importantly, what is God doing in your life? I do check your blogs when time permits, but I don't always have the time to sit and read a lot. But I'd love to know, and since there is a comment box ... well ... I'd shaw be grateful ta ya iffin ya used it. *wink*

Yesterday evening I rearranged my room ... well, actually it started Saturday night because Leah was feeling rearrange-y and rearrange-ied her room which inspired me to at least try my hand at this rearranging and *gasp* could I honestly mean ... Decorating! My ideas of decorating consist of pounding a nail in a wall and putting a picture on it or tacking something onto a bulletin board. Thankfully Leah's idea of decorating is something more like this. One of her great ideas that she shared with me, when I was trying to beautify said bulletin board was instead of using pins or tacks to pin pictures up, use old earrings. And instead of just having a bookshelf, light it up with a string of lights intertwined within and around the things on the shelves (actually, I just came up with that one just now, as I was sitting here typing, but it sounds like a Leah or Katie decorating thing.)

Anyway. That was just a little unnessiscary up-date for all ya wonderfully faithful readers out there. :) And just so ya know, there will be pictures ... eventually. Yes, I AM going to try to keep up on the blogging again. We'll see how that goes! Thanks for stopping by!

Just give 'em away

So what do you do when you don't want to eat your veggies at the dinner or supper table? Well, you do what anybody else would do ... or at least what my little brother tried to do.

**::~::**Bath Salts and Bubble Bath**::~::**

Bath Salts
*2 C. Epson's salts
*1 C. Sea salt, rock salt (ice cream salt) or coarse salt
*Food coloring
*1/4 tsp. Glycerin
*Essential oil for fragrance, such as vanilla, lavender, citrus or peppermint

**Combine salts in bowl and mix well. Add a couple drops of food coloring and mix well. Add glycerin and essential oil (4 or 5 drops) and mix well. Spoon salts into jars and close them. Make a gift tag with the scent (if you used one) and suggest using 1/3 to 1/2 C. in the bath. Makes 3 C. of bath salts.

Bubble Bath
*2 C. soup flakes or grated soap (two 4.5 oz. bars)
*1 Gallon water
*1/4 - 1/2 C. Glycerin
*2 C. shampoo or liquid dish washing detergent
*Scented oil of your choice

**Mix the soap flakes, water and 2 Tab. of Glycerin in a pot and set over low heat, stirring occasionally until the soap has dissolved (this liquid soap can be stored in a covered container and used as an all-purpose soap or hand soap in the kitchen). In a bowl, add 2 C. of this mixture to the rest of the glycerin (4 to 6 Tab. glycerin), shampoo and add a few drops of your scented oil. Put into a quart container and store covered at room temperature. When you're ready to bathe add about 1 C. to your tub as it's filling. If the soup or bubble bath turns into a gel simply put in pan and melt again on the stove.

***My notes: I didn't use scented oil in the bubble bath, because generally the shampoo I use is already scented. However, for a stronger scent I would add essential oil.

Peek!

The puppies trying to crawl over the side of the "wall" now ... within a day or two we expect them to be able to get out. They are just too cute, so there are quite a few pictures.

Charlie

Gabe

Gabe

GabeLeft to right: Charlie, Tavy, Gabe

See above.

Left to right: Charlie, Gabe, Tavy.

Apples

Manly hands ...

... Making yummy pizza.Sorry this one is a little white ... believe it or not, all of these pictures were taken in a rather dark room and required the flash.