That's my girl...

She came home from co-op, had some dinner, and dove into her Lit. reading.

That's my girl.

A Thousand Endless Gifts!

81.  watching the Holy Spirit at work in her heart.

82.  giggling in the car on the way to co-op!

83.  inside jokes between my girl and myself.

84.  crazy foreign accents only understood between friends!

(or mothers and daughters)

85.  patience that only the Holy Spirit can impart.

86.  learning to sing my frustrations away, and the one who encouraged me to do so.

87.  the hope of melting snow and ice!

88.  a weekend with precious neighbor baby and the comfort that comes with holding him tight!

89.  the blessing of teachers that look after my yahoos when I am not there to do so...

90.  learning alongside the one you dearly love...

Wordless Wednesday!



God's LOVE...

Today we met and the question was,
"Have you experienced God's love?"

HAVE you REALLY experienced God's love?

DO you experience God's love?

REALLY?

And of course, we chatted about the day we "met" HIM, that day where the blinders fell off,

and the light streamed through,

and we knew the love of Christ fully, completely.

But in the day to day, HAVE we experienced God's love?

Can we say that we have?

Do we really KNOW HIS love?

And I smiled, because I knew, just when.

Yes, I have.

Yes, I do.

My mind went back to 15 years ago.

Do you see him?

See his face?

See him looking at me?

The one in the corner.

That fresh, handsome face?

When I walked through the doors,

And started down the isle,

and saw that face...

I knew.
I saw His love, in his eyes.

Those eyes followed me all the way down.

They never wavered.

They never wandered.

They stayed right with me all the way down.

And I knew.

Those eyes have been with me ever since.

Through all the good stuff.

Through all the heartache.

All the illness.

All the joy.

All the tears.

They have never wavered.

They have never wandered.

And every day I look into them.

I know I am loved.

By the ONE who made him.

Just for me.

Yes.

I have REALLY experienced God's love.

Endless ways...Endless gifts...

71. his eyes

72.  his permanent smile

73.  Wedding photos that record the memories

74.  Monday afternoons with Patty

75.  Grandmas and Grammies and Nanas

76.  My favorite sweatshirt

77.  Birds chirping even though the winds blow

78.  last minute offers to babysit 

79.  Family Bible Study

80.  voice mails from my favorite buddies

I can see it...

The ground.  It's peeking through.

The warmer weather has melted away most of the Blizzard of 2011.
Spring is almost here, my friends.
Before you know it, we will be seeing these...

smiling back at us...greeting us once again.
One more month!

A Little Love...

Yesterday we received a big envelope in our mailbox.

It was full of little love notes and stuff for the yahoos...

And even a little something for Jeff and I...

Yum

Thank you, Nana.

Blog Hop!

I've thought I would try the February blog hop from Bloggy Moms!

So many lovely blogs to check out and enjoy!

Under the Trellis: February

This is the trellis Jeff built for me for our 5th wedding anniversary.

Yep...It's ten years old.

Cannot believe we have been married that long.

15 years.

Mac took this pic last week.

I wanted to take a pic of it at least once a month.

To keep a record of the changing of the seasons.

To document the life that comes and goes around that trellis.

I forgot to post January's pic.

Here it is...

Pretty quiet.

It was a typical cold blustery January Day.

You cannot tell right now...but as the weather warms up... lot of action takes place around that trellis.

The yahoos tend to hang out right there...for lots of different reasons.

Here's Mac and Mae playing dress up.  They were having a tea party.

I invaded the fun and had them pose for me.

They seem so little, don't they?

The yahoos tend to hang out right there..

They like to chat with the newlyweds...or play fetch with their dog across the gate.

The trellis turns into a makeshift garage for all their "vehicles."

Or it might be home "base" for a game of tag.

It will be fun to document the comings and goings on around:

The Trellis!