Seven Years Ago Today!

Our earliest photo of D:

Please say a prayer for his birth mother!

God is Great!

Please read this story about some friends of ours. The car was totalled, and the only unbroken windows in the vehicle were in the back seat, where the kids were!
http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=14815

Confetti Pizza

When we have pizza for lunch I make a veggie one for myself. D makes a tomato pizza, and E makes a pepperoni pizza. In an attempt to get them to eat more veggies, last week I made a pizza with little pieces of pepperoni (already cooked and de-greased), snap peas, scallions, tomatoes, baby corn, carrots, broccoli, red pepper, and whatever other vegetable I had on hand. The kids asked what kind it was and I thought quickly and said, "confetti."

Confetti pizza is now a request from everyone. Wish I'd tried that sooner!!!

Frosty and ... Frostine?

Thank you...

... to those of you who didn't think I was the type to read People. It is (was) my dirty little secret. I used to get a copy now and then at an airport when I traveled for work. After I became a domestic diva I'd get a copy at the grocery store on occasion and I guess it served as an escape -- everyone in there is from another PLANET as far as I'm concerned. I got it so much the subscription was more economical, and I looked forward to delivery every Friday. Now Eddie won't have to compete with People for my attention when he walks in the door late Friday evening....

I Did It!

Our church small group (and about 50% of our church) are participating in a book study of One Month to Live.

Last night I shared that one thing I wanted to change was how much time I spend reading magazines compared to books -- how I've become a slave to my many subscriptions. Someone asked me to be specific, and I listed the magazines and the ones I was going to let go, the ones I never read. To put it kindly, the group got after me for saying I'd let National Geographic go before People magazine.

But I read People magazine cover to cover ever week. I look forward to it on Fridays. No article is more than 5 minutes long, and most are 15 seconds, which allows for interruptions. It's been my guilty pleasure, and my secret (until now....)

And I fall asleep before finishing any NG article these days as much as I love it.

But after everyone left I realized that I spend 52 hours in a year reading a magazine that has no real redeaming value in my life. Do I learn anything in that magazine that I can teach my children? Does any part of it help me in my walk of life? No.

I had my answer. So today I bravely did it -- I cancelled my subscription. The freedom of those extra hours in my life is AWESOME!!!

Onion or Scallion

E says she doesn't like onions. I'm making lunch while she is watching Veggie Tales with a chair pulled up to the little tv in the kitchen. Scallion is a character, so I decide to give her a piece of the one I'm cutting up. She ate it with no complaints! Should I tell her a scallion is just a type of onion?