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Sunday, August 21, 2011
Sunday snippets...
Big doin's around Granny's House...by this time next week we'll have a really full house with the Slaughters, Weltys, and Longenbaughs pouring in for our Fun Family Week, complete with family portraits and the inevitable 9 siblings pics and games and good food and drink and
This is also the week when we bring on the school year almost full-force. The boys have already started their co-op, and this week Caleb will start his classes at NWV (community college) and we'll start math here. We'll leave the start of history/church history/philosophy (Tapestry of Grace) until after the Labor Day weekend and reunion. We've got all our school supplies, backpacks, textbooks and a pretty empty checkbook :-)
Looking forward to seeing "The Debt". And "Sarah's Key". The latter was a book I very much loved.
Finished The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. I always enjoy David McCullough's work, but I was afraid that this one might be a bit too narrow to keep me on board. Not so. I was very surprised at how he was able to take a sliver of history (Americans who visited, lived, and worked in Paris from the 1830s to the 1920s) and weave in enough other world events to keep it enthralling. This one probably does have a smaller audience, but I'm really glad I picked it up.
I've read lots of history this summer...think I'll look for a couple of good novels for the fall.
I've clearly caught the sewing bug again after many years of doing nothing but mending. Starting in the 7th grade, I spent every summer making my whole wardrobe for the coming school year, and then I made nearly all my girls' clothes until #4 came along. Still I managed to do Easter dresses and special things for a while, but as my homeschooling load increased and responsibilities as a pastor's wife and then a commander's wife were laid over all that, not to mention being a pregnant and/or nursing mom for so many years, the sewing melted away. But look out, I'm back.
Our yard is so sad. And about half of the money and work we put into landscaping last fall has been flushed away. No, bad metaphor...it's been burned up. Rain? Please, God?
Clear sign that you've done a good job of educating your kids: you have to struggle to beat them at Words With Friends. And sometimes you don't.
I hate buying a new iron. Not as much as I hate buying a new computer or a new vacuum cleaner, but still...
LOOOOVE Pinterest. Oh man.
Nathan and Cheyenne have set their wedding date: January 21st! We are rejoicing with them and enjoying seeing the plans take shape...can't believe we'll soon have five married kids, and our first daughter-in-law!
Time to start thinking about all the Christmas shopping ahead...
And I'll end this week's post by sharing the lyrics to a favorite hymn.
As pants the hart for cooling streams
When heated in the chase,
So longs my soul, O God, for Thee,
And Thy refreshing grace.
Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
Trust God, who will employ
His aid for thee, and change these sighs
To thankful hymns of joy.
For Thee, my God, the living God,
My thirsty soul doth pine;
Oh, when shall I behold Thy face,
Thou Majesty Divine?
God of my strength, how long shall I,
Like one forgotten, mourn,
Forlorn, forsaken, and exposed
To my oppressor's scorn?
Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
Hope still, and thou shalt sing
The praise of Him who is thy God,
Thy health's eternal spring.
When heated in the chase,
So longs my soul, O God, for Thee,
And Thy refreshing grace.
Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
Trust God, who will employ
His aid for thee, and change these sighs
To thankful hymns of joy.
For Thee, my God, the living God,
My thirsty soul doth pine;
Oh, when shall I behold Thy face,
Thou Majesty Divine?
God of my strength, how long shall I,
Like one forgotten, mourn,
Forlorn, forsaken, and exposed
To my oppressor's scorn?
Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
Hope still, and thou shalt sing
The praise of Him who is thy God,
Thy health's eternal spring.
Amen. Have a great week!
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