We're back! Did you ever notice how your house smells kinda gross when you have been away for a while. Last time someone didn't flush the toilet before we left (warm weather plus urine- you get my drift), this time it was not so bad- just smelled like cat food tins left in the laundry room by the cat sitter. Anyways, what a disgusting way to start my post after being away for a while. How about this instead- I missed you all. I am not going to catch up for a while. My blog reader tells me that I have almost 100 posts to catch up on. Wow, you all have been busy writing! I am not going to go into detail about our time away right now- we had a great time but are happy to be at home. You know it's time to come back home when you and your husband are not talking over a difference about how to get the rain water off the plastic 2.00 picnic table cover...
The first thing I did was head to the mail box as I knew that my new book Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers would be there. It was and I just opened it in anticipation of crawling into bed with it in a minute. One problem...it is in LARGE PRINT. My eyes hurt just glancing at it! What a goober I am. I am trying to think of ways to still read it. If I take my contacts out and put a music stand at the foot of the bed, then I might be ok. How will I turn the pages though? Maybe I will just save it till I am about 80.
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Welcome home! Missed you!
Have one of your children hold the book for you from across the room! :) Then donate it to the library; I know large print books are in hot demand by my neighbor across the street. Although he wants westerns...but westerns with NO Indians. Do you know how hard those are to find?
Yay - you're back.
You'll just have to wait and read that book when you're geriatric in about 30-40 years! hee hee
Welcome back! I'm glad you had a good time.
Don't wait until you're 80!!!! That is one of my absolute favorite books. Beautiful story, incredible analogy...love it. :-)
You're not 40 yet, are you?! I never needed reading glasses until a couple of years ago. I cannot read my bible without them because the print is so small. Some books I do okay, others I need my glasses.
Glad you are back. I've missed you!
*LOL*
Glad your back!
Good luck on figuring out the book reading issue. *LOL* I'd have to take my contacts out, too.
Love the songs you've posted!
Two of my favorites. You have good taste in music!
YOUR'E BACK! YEAH. I missed you and your posts! Sadly, I think large print would work for me. Once the contacts are out and I'm tired everything starts to blur together. It's really cut back on my late night reading. ~Karlie
I thought that I was the only one who came home to weird smells. :)
Glad you're back!
It is sooooooo good to hear from you again.I am gald you are home. Glad you had a good time. Glad you came home before you and hubby got to upset with each other. Just overall--GLAD.
Don't you dare wait until you are 80 to read this book. It is the best book I have ever read. Honest. The Bible is not just a book--so it is not in the same category.
It is fabulous.
As I read the book and thought about me as the female and the man Jesus. How could I not love Jesus all the more.
It is good.
Enjoy!
And once you read it you can tell all those other commentors what they have been missing.
I have bought a copy for several of my girls. My book has been through at least 5 people.
Welcome home, and yeah, after 2 weeks our house smelled funny too. Like rotten flowers, because I fought to dump out the flowers that E got for her birthday from her dad.
How did the soccer thing go?
Oh my goodness, the large print reading conundrum is so funny! Welcome home.
My beloved and I just had an ordeal with camping too. We were planning on driving across country from OR to IA - a good 40 hours, and the day before we left I overhear him tell his mom that we'll be camping every night and cooking over an open fire... um, I thought, this is something I need to know. Our next conversation didn't go well, matter of fact the whole trip didn't go overly well, because he REALLY wanted to be camping and I really wanted to NOT.
It rained the first 2 nights, so we got a camping cabin & slept in the car, after that we got a hotel - with a water park (woohoo), the one night we slept in a tent we realized that we didn't have a single source of light... not even a stinkin' flashlight! After that we just wanted to get home and drove straight through.
Here are our stats:
1)I'm 8 mos. prego and cannot stand to sleep on air mattresses
2)We were renting a car that barely held a normal family's amount of luggage and we had WAY too much stuff with us from having travelled by train to OR and then having stayed there for 4 weeks
3)I didn't know that we were going to be camping until the day before (in my opinion camping COULD be fun under the right circumstances... like especially with some anticipation)
4)I have 4 kids, 2 of which are deathly afraid of mosquitos.
Well, at every stop I thought it was funny and sad at the same time, that every couple around us looked like they were having about as much fun as we were. I actually thought to myself, man those people have it easy and they're still not likin' it.
I think camping is becoming more and more difficult for the average American, because we're all getting so comfortable in our WAY too easy lives!
Anyway, I found you from nsremom's blog, she told me you play soccer. Fun. I do too, except NOT when I'm 8mos pregnant ;)
Come on over to my place, anytime :)
Amy
somewhere between
Dubuque, Iowa
and
Trujillo, Peru
homeschoolblogger.com/amada
PS. Redeeming Love has some pretty steamy sections in it, at 80 you might just pass out. Maybe you ought to figure out how to rig up some page-turner-from-8-feet-away invention.
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