Family Time in March!

Natascha, Joschua and Matthew Scott ~ Here for two nights!
Talking, playing games and lots of good food!
Caleb and Rebekah were here too....just no pictures here of them...smile!

Tante Hannah loves me lots and lots!

Me and my Grandpa....he is the tickle bug!

My Grandma gives me lots and lots of kisses everyday!

I like to play on the stairs......too much!

My Tante Hannah plays the piano so well and I want to play well too.....one day!

We enjoyed our two days of pure delight! Time goes so fast when we are all together!
Pictures of some of our fun ~

DayBook~

Random Photo of the Day!
Joschua (15 months old) praying before dinner last night ~ our Cutie pie!

FOR TODAY
Outside my window...it's raining and pouring and the grass is growing. Everything is soggy wet including Emma and Taffy as they come back in. Dreary outside, but sunshiny inside!

I am thinking...how much I have to be grateful for. My cup runneth over. Jesus is here, forgiving us, teaching us, and loving us!

I am thankful for...knowing the Gospel, being redeemed by the Gospel and realizing GOD is the Gospel!

From the learning rooms...no school this week! Hannah is on spring break and going to stay with her brother and family tomorrow as they travel back to PA.

From the kitchen...sticky buns fresh out of the oven! Spaghetti tonight for dinner--my favorite!

I am wearing...my new warm house shoes; I received as a gift from the kids at Christmas, black athletic pants, lime green shirt and black sweater and oh yes, a smile! Glasses instead of contacts and messy hair (becoming a Monday habit?)

I am creating...happy music as I sing and hum again (note to self: ask if my humming is irritating to those around me.)

I am going...to organize my pantry today with Natascha....she wants to help me---I love her! (she offered....she likes to organize...what a blessing she is to me!)

I am reading...not a lot today as we are having a fun family day or two!

I am hoping...my neighbors want to hear the Gospel again and again and again!

I am hearing...talking, talking, laughing and laughing and giggles from Joschua in the back ground!

Around the house...People.....Caleb even skipped classes to be here!

One of my favorite things...my kids visiting us often, the more the merrier!

Changes...No laundry day today, doing the pantry instead and I will do laundry tomorrow! Flexibility is a good thing, don't you agree?

A few plans for the rest of the week: ~Tues. I am going to work and hope to spring clean the office at Church. ~ Wed. I will go to work with my hubby and do Church work. ~The rest of the week is open for things the Lord has planned for me. If the sun comes out I hope to rake more and work in my gardens. Want to go look at paint colors and paint our master bathroom too soon!

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Saturday Labors~

Saturday Dave and I spent part of our afternoon working in our garden beds. What work, yet what fun and productivity~ Just a 'glimpse' of our work!

Red Plate Day

Many years ago when Rob, Nathanael and Matthew Scott were little, friends had us over for dinner. We had a lovely time. Marti, the Mom, handed me two red plates as I finished drying dishes and she finished putting the dishes away.

Take these two red plates for "RED plate day" at your house, Marti said. What? I haven't heard of Red Plate Day, Marti! On birthdays, Anniversaries, special school awards, loose a tooth day, or just because I love you day ~ you set the table and place the 'red' plate at that persons place setting.

Down through these many years later, we have just about worn out our RED plate. We had two but I have lost one through the years. I probably took a cake to someone on their day and never took it home. Anyway, all my kids know the tradition. They have at times even given my honey or I the RED plate to help celebrate.

It is a tradition at our house. It's fun. It is just one little 'special' way to make someone else aware of how special they are to us. Give it a try! Maybe one day your kind daughter or thoughtful son will give you the 'RED' plate!

Here is a website to order a fancier one than we have. Our is just a plain red plate.

Enjoy and celebrate someone in your family this week!

Digging in the dirt today for me! My flowers are lookin' good!

Delighting in Jesus, hugs, Lynette

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Random Thought Friday ~

~Random Thought Friday~

~ I came across a PBS series called "Little Dorrit" by Charles Dickens. It is full of characters and the heroine is just sweet as can be ~ very loyal to her father who is a 'lover of man's praise'. 4 DVD's with 4 episodes on each disc. It is on NetFlix. I have not finished watching it so I am not sure about the ending. Charles Dickens tends to be dark in theme.

~ Taffy and Emma are now pretty as can be with their short haircuts and purple bows on their ears. No more winter coats. I am not a dog 'lover' but Taffy and Emma has wiggled their way into my heart.

~ The Lady Bug invasion at our castle has not ended yet. We did some research (I must say Rebekah did some research!) and found out ant spray is the cure. With a hard winter comes lots of Lady Bugs. Both were true here this winter! I normally like them, for they eat aphids in the garden. But NOT thousands of them .....inside and out....especially in our garage!

~ We had our first bar-be-cue this Spring! What a riot! We did hamburgers on Dave's grill only to run out of gas for the grill 3 minutes into it. So he went to the shed and pulled out his spare, just knowing he had half a tank. NOPE! It too was empty! So he brought the burgers inside and plopped them on a frying pan and did them on the stove! They tasted just fine!

~ Hannah is going to New York City on Monday with Matthew Scott, Natascha and Joshcua for the day and then spending the week in PA with them. She is thrilled!

~ I like 'spiced jelly beans' and my family cannot understand why! Fat Free too!

~ I like my new coral journal. I can't believe how quickly I am filling it up. I not only am keeping lists of Books Read, Prayer Lists, Choosing Gratitude and I Spies; also keeping all the Sermon Notes from Sundays ! My daily journaling also with verses noted from daily readings.

~ Spring Cleaning MUST begin this week. Windows especially! I will wait for the Lady Bug infestation to be over to take everything out of the garage, wash the floor (after vacuuming the dead ones the broom cannot reach) and re-paint the floor with garage floor paint. It took a beating with all the snow boots, sleds, and tracking ice in.

~ I am not happy to admit the pantry is not in order yet! Maybe I will enlist Rebekah to help with that this week...shhhhh.

~ I know the Blue Bells will be in full bloom here soon. We plan on going to the Gunpowder on Bel Air Road with our camera and a picnic on a sunny day soon. I highly recommend it for one and all and especially families with children. It is just gorgeous! I'll let you know when peak is!

~ I am half way through Francine River's new book and I just got it from the library on Wednesday! Woo Hoo! It is a page turner too! Her Mother's Hope is the title.

~The other three books beside my Bible I am reading are: Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross (during quiet time)by Nancy Guthrie, Prayers of an Excellent Wife by Andrew Case and Relationships-A-Mess-Worth-Making by Paul Trip/ Tim Lane

~Yesterday I put up some pictures on my blog of our flowers in our garden beds. Here is the answer to the question I asked!

Jonquil, daffodil, Narcissus

Jonquil

Whenever people ask about the difference between jonquils and other
daffodils, I point out that the difference has nothing whatsoever to do
with the flowers. The difference is in the foliage. Daffodils with
rush-like leaves are all properly called jonquils. No daffodil with flat
leaves is properly called a jonquil.
There you have it! Daffodils and Jonquils are of the same class ~ Narcissus
It is the 'foliage' that is different!

Spring is HERE!

God's creative beauty in our yard! Are these yellow flowers daffodils or jonquils ? Check back tomorrow to find out!

Spring is HERE!

These pictures are of our front garden bed. Our home faces South, so these are the first Spring flowers to stick their little heads up through the fertile soil. God is so faithful and creative! Thank you Lord for beautiful flowers!