Learning Joy

This was taken a while ago – Nicholas was about a year old (?). He got into the laundry bag that was on my bed!!! 

Daniel dressed up as a fireman for Halloween. He does a great serious face! 

For God so loVed the world,

That He gA ve

His onLy

BegottEn

SoN

That whosever

Believeth In Him

Should Not perish,

But have Everlasting life.” John 3:16

The Seahawks are going to the SUPERBOWL!!!!!!!!!

Wooo HOOOO!!

This is a picture of Timimoto, who went on an adventure in a little rice bowl (he was a very small boy). Jonathan drew this after reading the story. He drew Timimoto and his rice bowl boat. 🙂 I will have to find the book report he wrote along with this picture. 1/13/06 

Ok, so I have been a fan of Gilmore Girls since late first season to mid-second season, I think. I am not really sure when I started watching the show. In the beginning, I loved it! It was fun, and quirky and homey. I loved that Rory was so good and liked to study & was still pretty. I guess I mostly liked the quirky-ness. 🙂 ‘Round about the fourth season, everything started changing. The show has progressed in its diminution and is now practically a soap opera! Now they have Luke, the guy Lorelai has been in love with forever, acting completely out of character & hiding an unknown daughter from her! Luke was never like that – he was always honest with Lorelai. Lorelai was the one who would lie or hide things from people. Grrr… I hate it when good shows go bad! And they turned Rory into a slut! It is terrible. She was so nice and then she just made these dumb decisions and for a while there she wasn’t even talking like herself. It’s so sad.
I don’t know if I want to buy the rest of the seasons on DVD (I have 1-3 so far). :o(

God is so good!!
I have three praise reports ~

* First of all, the people Jef worked for last paid us!! They paid us early! The invoice wasn’t due until the 14th and they paid us about a week ago. That was great because we needed the money!
* The second praise report is this – Wednesday (Jan. 4), I went to the pharmacy to pick up Daniel’s meds. Out in front of the pharmacy they usually have a table with some out-of-season stuff on it, or little things they aren’t carrying anymore. Well, there was a basket full of medicines. They were cough & cold medicines for kids & even some Tylenol (generic). The red tag said they were $1. So I got $17 worth of medicine (Children’s Triaminic, PediaCare Cough & Cold, and a big bottle of generic Tylenol) for $3!! Weird thing is, I have been waiting to go to the pharmacy because I wasn’t able to get one of Daniel’s prescriptions. They told me it was too early for that one to be refilled before. So if that hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have been back to the pharmacy & been able to get cheap medicine! God is good!! Everyone has been sick here; I think we are on the mend, though. The medicine helps!!
*Third, Jef was kvetching yesterday– it was Monday, so he has a hard time getting started. He starts to wonder if the business will really work & all. God has been so good & is constantly surprising us. Just after Jef kvetched, his cell phone rang. It was a guy from the place he worked last. He had spyware on his computer & needed Jef to come in and fix it. Yeah! So Jef is out working this morning. He’s so funny because he doesn’t always think it is a divine thing, sometimes he feels like God wouldn’t help because he hasn’t been doing his part very well.

Anyways, those are my praises! Hope you all have a great, God-filled, glorious day!

A picture of me holding Baby Max. 1/2/06 

Jonathan got to hold Max! 1/2/06 

For Vickie … a not-so-great picture of me. When the rain stops, I will have Jef take one outside. 🙂 We might even have professional ones done soon. 🙂 1/9/06