Peacemakers

Our home church in California sent us and our Spanish church this wonderful gift for helping our little church be peacemakers. We have hopes for these materials to do their work in the body. I downloaded it on my KINDLE too (which I LOVE) and we’ve shown several of the DVD’s to our leadership at [...]



I got my KINDLE in hand!

wow, I mean WOW. Yep, I love it. It’s like having a library at your finger tips! I have versions of the Scriptures, books I’m reading, dictionaries… love, love, LOVE it!! It’s so comfortable to read, I sometimes reach up to turn the page! Crazy! Check it out! Amazon.com Widgets



Freedom of Simplicity~FREE~just ask for it

After re-reading this great book by Richard Foster; Freedom of Simplicity, I’m trying to see things in a new way. I never want to feel bogged down by stuff, and it overwhelms me to walk into one of our rooms and see trinkets and ‘too much stuff’. I actually started thinking about this more seriously [...]



A Free Book!

I recently read this Sara Palin book and then on the way driving to France and back I read it aloud in its entirety once again to John. We both enjoyed it very much. Now, it’s time to pass it along. If you would like to have it, FREE of charge, please let me know [...]



Kindle .99cent & FREE deals

I don’t have my Kindle yet, but I’ll be able to get it in September.  It’s at my daughters house now and she has been kind enough to load some books on it for me and I can even do that from here and it takes less than 1 minute! It’s the most marvelous thing. [...]



Boundaries~ a selection from the book

About a month ago, my sister Sue, sent me a book called, Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend. I first heard about this book listening to Dave Ramsey and it has some really good thoughts in it. In the chapter called Boundaries and Your Self, there are some really interesting a good [...]



The Banking Dilemma continues

Finally after one full month of waiting, we are able to access our funds. Imagine that you got paid today, April 7th but you were not able to cash your check until May 7th! Well, that is what we are now subject too in Spain… a one month holding of funds. Praise the Lord we [...]



The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia M. Child

What an interesting little book this is: Originally published in 1832, this extraordinary manual for the homemaker of modest means is far more than a mere “cookbook.” Here is a quote: “The true economy of housekeeping is simply the art of gathering up all the fragments, so that nothing be lost. I mean fragments of [...]



100 things about me…

58 years old this week… Our friend Ted, after reading my blog remarked that he was learning new things about me. That got me to thinking that I could tell y’all 100 things you may or may not know about me (and probably don’t care about… me either for that matter). Yep, this month is [...]