W'e're off to see the President

At least Luke thinks and hopes so. We are off on our 2nd every family vacation. 2 days in D.C. and then on to N.J. for a wedding. I'll post pictures if we have any extra time while we're gone :)

Oh and I will post dress pictures when we get back :)

Don't miss us too much! We'll be back on the 9th.

arggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week life has been crazy isane busy and stressful. I think I shall scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Teaser Camp Pictures

o.k. well... it is taking forever to sort through, resize and upload camp pictures. So, here are a couple teaser pictures. I will post more tomorrow :)

Raising the Flag

Goofy campers


And let us run with patience the race that is set before us...


Choir time (do, do, do, do, re, me)

Quote of the Day (Cole) and a couple camp pictures :)

To observe nature closely is to follow the finger of God.

~Thomas Cole

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Prayers please

Hi everyone,

I'm just posting quick to ask for prayer. I woke up yesterday and my eyes hurt and where swollen or something. I light hurt them, and for a while anyway I had to fight to keep my eyes open. They got better as the day when on but where red and hurt again this morning. They are definitely better but I would still appreciate prayers. I'm not sure what caused it in the first place. I'm believing that it is not allergies or anything like that.

Thanks!

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That better? :)



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Then I cropped it a little:

Then a little more:

I remember when...

Gas went up 25 cents today! To $3.25. 25 cents a gallon!!! That adds up terribly quickly. What happened to the good ol' days when gas was .79 a gallon.....

The Rapid Decline of Social Graces

I don't know it is the summer weather or what but recently I have been noticing a definite lack of social graces. "Please" and "Thank You" are no longer staples, but have become wayside words. People want what they want and they want it now. No waiting patiently, no please and thank you, no nothing, just disrespect. People pull up to drive thru and holler hello before you even have a chance to reach for the talk button... It's very disconcerting. What happened to the the common courtesy people use to show to one another? What happened to tipping your hat at a lady when she walked by (I know guys don't wear hats as much....) What happened to saying please and thank you because you truly meant it? What happened to just plain being politeness? I don't know for sure what it's been replaced by. But personally, I don't like it, let's go back to the old way, the polite way. The way that makes other people feel appreciated and respected.

Quote of the Day (Winston Churchill)

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.
~ Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day (Jane Austen)

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years meet with somebody more generally unexceptionable than anyone you have yet known, who will love you as warmly as possible, and who will so completely attach you that you will feel you never really loved before.
~ Jane Austen in a letter to her niece

O.k. so this isn't exactly a something to think about quote, it just struck my fancy. Jane Austen, the woman who wrote so much about love is giving her niece advice about it :)

Quote of the Day (C.S. Lewis)

These quotes have to come with an explanation :) About a year ago Dad put in the movie Shadowlands.It is an excellent movie about the life of C.S. Lewis. Anyway, I didn't watch all of it, I came in about half-way through. But right away the following lines caught me ear and had me thinking for a few hours.

We read to know we are not alone. Do you believe that?
~C.S. Lewis

Experience is a brutal teacher, but we learn.
~C.S. Lewis

Why do we love if losing hurts so much?
~C.S. Lewis

Quote of the Day

To love is to allow hope into your life.

To hope is to allow uncertainty into your life.

To be uncertain is the essence of learning to trust God to bring only the disappointments He deems best.

~Gretchen Louise Acheson

Music Quotes (Quote of the Day)

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

~June Masters Bacher

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

~Sir Thomas Beecham

Where words fail, music speaks.

~Hans Christian Andersen

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

~Victor Hugo

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

~Henry Ward Beecher

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

~Thomas Carlyle

Music is love in search of a word.

~Sydney Lanier

Quote Of The Day!

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, I believe the Bible is the best gift God has given to man. All the good Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for this Book we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it.


~Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the day

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Questions.....

When life gives you questions what do you do? I'm curious, so post/answer away!

And please post more than just pray or ask God or something like that. What else do you do? Do you think and agonize about it? Do you put it on the back shelf and put it out once a day to get new thoughts? What do you do? Does this even make sense????

Dear God

Dear God, I've had a happy day;
I've tried to do my best.
And now I thank You for the night
When children all can rest.
Amen.

So....

I need a new profile picture,... any ideas?


Or shall I just sew something and then have Steph snap a few pictures :)

Material!

After waiting, entirely too long! I finally got to go to JoAnn Fabric's and buy material!!! I'm going to finally get around to sewing again!!!
Here are pictures of the material I got.

This is a pink flowered material. It was on clearance for $2 a yard! I LOVE clearance!!
The Home School group is doing a Civil War day this fall. So I will probably use this pattern with brown accents and a brown sash. The 2nd picture is a a better idea of what color the material really is..

This material we got for Lydia. We are making this pattern

Except we are making her jacket out of this brown material.

This material I bought to reproduce a shirt I saw at Maurice's. I will be putting sleeves on my shirt and I am going to make it in a regency dress instead. The shirt I saw had white underneath, but I liked the green better :) The white material was $13 a yard, but it was 50% off. But! When they rang it up it was only $2.49 a yard!!!!!! YAY!!!!!

I love shopping for material!!!! And sewing!!

Now, I just need a new sewing machine... :{