Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure;

where your treasure is, there is your heart;

where your heart is, there is your happiness.

-Augustine

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Meet My Siblings!!!

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.~Jane Howard

I love my siblings!!!!
I'm so glad the Lord gave them to me!

In honor of my siblings, I thought I'd put together a post that tells a little bit about them!

I don't think I've ever really introduced all of them! :)

This is my Special Brother....

He was adopted into this family when he was 2 and now he is 10!!!

I love his sweet smile and the funny songs he makes up.

He is an avid reader and has recently shown a interest in nature (as you can tell by the picture!)

Here is Little Man with Baby Girl......

I chose this name for him because that is exactly his personality!!

You can usually find him with a old cell phone in his pocket and other office supplies not to far away. :)

He has a great interest in becoming a firefighter and loves to draw pictures to cheer you up!

He is five years old.

Baby Girl is such a blessing to our family!

Her smile lights up a room and she has recently started to babble. :)

She just turned 8 months old!!

I really never thought I'd have a sister, but the Lord had other ideas!!!

This is Sweet Guy......

He has been my closest friend and partner in crime. ;)

He turned fifteen this year! Wow! I'm getting really old!

I really enjoy spending time with him (we set aside Saturday nights to do something special together)!

He has a love for books as strong as my own!

And is a great human spell check! :)

So, there you have it, a bit about my sweet siblings!!!

We all have bad days but in the end I can't imagine life without them all!!!

Here are some fun quotes on siblings I found:

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. ~Maya Angelou

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you,as you are to them.~Desmond Tutu

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. ~Sam Levenson

I thought the last one was good! :)

What do you enjoy about your siblings? Sometimes it they seem to be the hardest people to get along with. But I see it as such a great learning and growing experience for myself! Is there a special way you show your siblings you love them? Please share!!!!

Hope you are all having a restful day in the Lord!!

Blessings!!

Quote....

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark,

you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off.

You sit still and trust the engineer.

~Corrie Ten Boom

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My Favorite Quote

"There is no pit so deep, that He is not deeper still."

-Betsie Ten Boom

Spring is Here!!!!

Since everyone else is sharing their spring pictures, I thought I'd share mine as well!!

Mine is about my favorite thing to do in the spring and summer.......


Hang up laundry on line!!!!

Baby girl's clothes and cloth diapers hanging up.
I love the way they smell after they come off the line!

My laundry helper. :)


Isn't she a sweetheart?

I hope you are all enjoying the springy weather.
And for those of you still snowed in, spring will be there soon!


I found this quote today, it describes this day perfectly.....

"It was one of those March days when the
sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:
when it is summer in the light,
and winter in the shade". ~Charles Dickens


"The day the Lord created hope was probably
the same day he created Spring". ~Bern Williams

Blessings to you all!!!!!!

A sweet sister sent this quote by Amy Carmichael to my family. It’s really encouraged me as I go through hard struggles or even just the everyday things. I hope this speaks to your heart as much as it does mine!

“All that grieves is but for a moment.

All that pleases is but for a moment.

Only the Eternal is important. A trial comes. It will pass. In a few days, or months, or years, we shall have forgotten it.

But the way we face that trial—our inner attitude towards it—belongs to things that are Eternal. All that we are, all that will ever be, in us and in others, in the entire universe—past, present, and future—is effected for all eternity by how we respond to temptations, or trials, or victories, or defeats.
The issues themselves are irrelevant. The eternal—how we respond in our inner hearts—those are the only things that matter. All else will pass and be forgotten and trivialized by time and space. It does not seem so now.

We feel, ‘If I could only have________.

If only this problem would go away, then_________.”

Yet, we must be reminded of what we know…

The pleasures pass. The trials, though they seem long and difficult, are a vapor. If we could have what we desire, or shed what we disdain, we would, with that attitude, only suffer dreadful loss in the Eternal realm.

The scriptures say, “He gave them their [demanding, insistent] request, but sent leanness into their soul.” Let us look to HIM and invest in the Eternal, not that which only passes away.” ~Amy Carmichael

When one door closes another door opens;
But we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,

that we do not see the ones which open for us.

-Alexander Graham Bell