Word

Sometimes at our church someone will go to the front during worship and share a 'word', or picture that the Lord has used to minister to them, and that may encourage others. This was given by my friend Linda and I thought I'd share. It has to do with trials and discomfort, idols, and GRACE! This can minister to many right now I bet...

Jonah 2:8 "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs."

What worthless idol are we clinging to that is causing us to forfeit the Grace that could be ours? The Grace that is freely given to us!
In chapter 4 of Jonah v6"...the Lord provided a vine and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade...to ease his discomfort and Jonah was very happy...vs 7...the next day God provided a worm that chewed the vine...vs8...God provided a scorching east wind the sun blazed on Jonahs head so he grew faint and wanted to die vs9...But God said to Jonah 'Do you have a right to be angry about the vine?'"
Are we only happy when God provides things to ease our discomfort in life? Sometimes God takes things away or allows trials-- He provides a "WORM" to help remind us not to cling to worthless idols and forfeit the Grace that could be ours.
He wants us during those difficult times, to cling to grace rather than the comfort of the idol in our heart. It's when our focus is off Gods provision, instead its on the comfort we want, we lose sight of God's Grace.

I believe God is asking us:
Do we have the right to be angry at our lot in life?
Does not God provide all we have?
Does not God provide grace during the difficulties of life?
GOD is calling us to let go of the idols we're clinging to in order to experience HIS AMAZING GRACE!

My Boon Spoon

Look what I found! I was at Babies R Us and was going to get a pack of the Gerber spoons, which were like $8 (for spoons??) , and saw this nifty gadget by Boon . You put the baby food in the spoon, squirt out as much as you like and feed the babe!! Great for on the go; just throw it in the diaper bag b/c there is a little lid for the spoon. I just checked out the Boon website and oh my! They have so many cool things. Thought I'd share....

Love The Blog Frog

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have a great Weekend

Here are a couple of cute pictures of me and Sweeters, we hope you have a great weekend ! Isn't her romper cute with the little green stars? $4 on ebay loves. Her eyes look kind of green in that first picture don't they? Oh, she had her 6 month checkup on monday and weighed in at 17lbs. 4 ounces! And 27 inches long. Her head was still in the 95th percentile, but height and weight kind of dropped a little from her 4 month stats of also 95th. It amazes me how big my babies are/were... I was always a bit of a runt. Skinny and small all of my growing up years- not the case for my offspring so far! She is starting to walk out to a crawl type stance from sitting. She really wants to go! She tries to get to Luke and kind of attacks him, it is really funny. Can't wait to see them play as she gets bigger. Some days she is the best baby, content to hang out with me whatever we are doing. Others she is high maintenance and fusses everytime I put her down- only happy on my hip. We love you Sophia!

Pray with me sisters...

Recently the Lord has been leading me to pray a lot. Last friday I went to our church's ladies prayer, a time from 12-1 to just pray outloud for lots of requests. It was a great time of prayer and I plan on putting it into my friday agenda.

If you can be praying with me... for healing of Wayne's headaches. He will still have weeks where he will have them 3 days in a row and not be able to do much of anything. This week has been better so maybe my prayers are working! He has 2 deals that have a potential to close in jan/feb. But with the market and financing lots of details have to fall into place for these developments to sell. So I am in prayer that one will close. This would really help us by replenishing the dip into savings of the last 5 months. And would free Wayne up to explore where God would have him next employment-wise.

God also opened the door for me to be accepted into nursing school! I have always felt my strengths lie in the medical field, and once I have my RN licensure that will open up jobs for me where I can work 3 days a week, and be with the kiddos a lot still. It is a 20 month program. They have me in the august class; but something tells me that a spot may open up for me to start in January. I would really like to get started. So I am praying for a spot to open if that is the Lord!

Thanks for "listening" and joining in prayer. Off to get cookie ingedients and make cookies for our ladies' group Cookie Exchange party tonight. Which entails taking two kids to the grocery store as Luke has been sick for 2 days with fevers and coughing. Wish me luck!

Best teether

Don't you think those big ring teethers are nice but too big for baby to hold onto by themselves and bite? I stumbled upon this great teether that is just a little bigger than a pacifier... the biter part looks like a raspberry and is soft with bumps that soothe those teething gums. Sophia loves this thing... she knaws at even the handle and leaves and can hold it and pick it up all by herself.
Check it out at Amazon ! Jess watch the mail- got one for Dayton :)

Organic Baby Food

So with some encouragement from my sister Christina... I have dove into making Sophia organic baby foods. And it really is doable! Here is my process:


1. Peel your fruit or vegetable... I am starting with pears, bananas, and sweet potatoes. You only need 2 or 3 depending on size to make quite a bit.

2. Cut up the fruit or veggie into smaller pieces and put in your steamer:

3. Steam for 11 minutes or so
4. Put the steamed stuff in my Magic Bullet (or food processor- I just don't have one). Now before blending you can add a half ounce of breastmilk, formula milk, or a little flax oil Mckmama style.
5. Pour into ice cube trays.

6. Pop out the cubes and put into freezer bags for storage. Just thaw what you need to feed your baby!

It is fresh and organic and so good for baby. I had been buying the organic gerber, but the shelf life on that stuff can be ten months old! And quite expensive. Do you all do this too??

I can't believe it, but I also ordered an all in one diaper from Three Monkeys on ebay. They are similar to Bum Genious which everyone seems to say is the best one; but 1/2 the price. And lots of cute fabrics too. We will see how it works.