Thursday Thots Reborn

Please excuse the lack of posts but my only Thursday Thot (or any day for that matter) since we returned from Mexico has been.....

Why oh why am I not still on a beach reading a book with my only two cares being.....

1. Do I have enough sunscreen on?

2. Which buffet should we eat at tonight?

I must say it's taken quite sometime to come back into reality!  You know.....the reality that sunscreen will not be needed till at least late July at this rate and that the Berube kitchen is certainly NO buffet!

Well alas....here I am....back to it......

* Did you know that camels have THREE sets of eyelids so that they can be protected from desert sandstorms?  I kinda wish I'd been a camel on that terribly TERRIBLY windy day a few days back in that gas station parking lot with gravelly sand whipping around!  

(A permanent "water bottle" on my back would be nice too :)

*Did Jesus Wear Blue Jeans?  Book of Bible questions kids ask that we are reading right now.

*Pretty sure I could never live without my glue gun.  Oh how many times it's come to my rescue!

*I'm a homemade granola hogger.....there I said it!  I make a batch (or a double one) and just cannot make myself share it with the kids!  Partly cause of the expense of making it.....party cause of the time to make it.....partly because I'm not a big fan of any other kind of cereal and partly because it's SOOO good I have a hard time parting with it :)

*If you have girls 7-16 ish who are into jewlery, they might like this little craft!  Super fun and easy and uses up the stashes of old nailpolish - score!  My girls are certainly enjoying their new bling!  Thank you Pinterest.  

http://pinterest.com/pin/71353975318423123/

 

*Why is it that my devos the last two days had to be on the topics of Orderliness and Patience.....the two things that try as I might, I just can't master?  Oh that I would understand it's not a checklist.....my type A personality likes to cross things off a list and say "DONE!"  Living by the Fruit of the Spirit is daily work.....never fully done.

*Girl Guide Lemonade Cookies.....have you tried these???  Oh I may have left earth for a minute!

*Still praying for : a treadmill and my 30 year old friend Karen who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

*Thankful for: new $100 garage sale couch.....and Lysine pills for my nasty could sore!

*"You may not want to hear this, but raising safe Christian kids is a spiritual disaster in the making."  Tim Kimmel's book Grace Based Parenting has certainly challenged me in many areas of parenting - a thought-provoking read.

*Excited for Jonah to be done with whole milk.....it's the little things when you are a stay at home mama :)

*Done whole milk = 2 years old - not my baby!  That part is less exciting.....:(

*Starting a new Math with Abbigail (From Abeka to Math U See) - I am determined to "get" math this time around and maybe even enjoy it a tad?  

*So thankful for all the women in my life who have "gone on before".  Love to learn from them.

*I do believe it's closet purging time again.....yes Hub.... the college shirts are going this time!  Yikes! 

* So blessed that my kids know three of their great grandmas!  It was really special to be able to visit them all this last week.

 

*Here's a little checklist for the week!

Romans 12:9-

-Don't just pretend to love others - really love them!

-Hate what is wrong

-Hold tightly to what is good

-Love each other with genuine affection/take delight in honoring them

- Never be lazy but work hard serving the Lord enthusiastically

- Be patient in trouble

-Keep on praying

- Be ready to help those in need

- Always be eager to practice hospitality

-Bless those who persecute you and pray for them

- Be happy with those who are happy

-Weep with those who weep

- Live in harmony with eachother.

- Don't be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people

- Don't think you know it all!

- Never pay evil with evil

- Do things in an honorable way

- Live in peace with everyone

- Never take revenge

- If your enemies are hungry/thirsty, feed them

- Don't let evil conquer you but conquer evil with doing good

*Lastly it looks as though we are all the same.....Adam and Eve hid their shame in fig leaves....Jonah hides his in duct tape! 

 This pic does not do the mess justice but he found a bag of toilet paper beside his crib at Uncle Curtis' and proceeded to rip it all to shreds instead of napping!

God's grace extends to us all.....Mommy's grace didn't come quite so naturally!

There is always tomorrow.