I will be the first to admit...I'm haven't organized very much this week. Organized naps, perhaps. And normally organizing and simplifying is more about something going OUT than something coming IN. But after this week and all the sick time, I have learned the importance of having a stash of tissues and cough drops and pain killers on hand - BEFORE you need them. I ended up with a touch of whatever Ryan has had, and there I was, at home all congested and still down from surgery. It was great that as Ryan went out the door, he could pull out a stash of all the stuff I'd need to get me through the day. So my challenge this week is to make sure you have not depleted {in these long sick-laden winter months} all your supplies that you might need if sickness descends. Because you know when it does...you won't want to go out then!!
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Mandy from Biblical Homemaking has been building a house. {Well, not her PERSONALLY, but her family.} She showed pictures this week of their kitchen that she drew out on paper, and she talked about how she used to mentally design her dream house {as a kid} by perusing through catalogs. I DID THAT TOO!! Did you? I used to rip out pictures of bedrooms and imagine which one I would have....ahhhhh how fun!!
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Earlier this week, there was a newspaper article written that really cast a bad light over the school system Ryan and I grew up in. I am not even going to link to it here because I don't find it necessary to do so. Long story short, it accused the system of forcing Christian values on students. There are so many things I could say here, but this isn't a place for argument for or against. I just want to go on record saying that for as hard as the formative school years were, there is NO OTHER SCHOOL I would rather have been raised in, and Ryan feels the same way. We were loved, we were cared about beyond our grades, and we were free to be who we were in the safety of the school walls. If Ryan and I were ever going to have kids, that would be the ONLY school system we would consider sending them to. The outpouring of support for the system has been a joy to watch this week, and I just wanted to go on record saying I'm a proud Eastern graduate and I fully support the values they teach and the genuine investment the teachers make.
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You all know that Angie Smith is one of my favorite authors...and she is about to launch her first Bible study, geared for teen girls. I thought I'd throw this out there in case you work with teen girls...I can imagine this would be a great study!!
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Apparently I have a twin. One of my friends sent me this...it's near her house. I'm not going to lie. Kinda freaks me out!!!
4 comments:
Apt living means little space, but I always make sure I have tissue boxes and basic cold meds on hand!
Whoa!! That billboard!
Tamar - Always good to have those, right? Especially with as much snow as y'all have gotten!
Tia - isn't it freaky?
Our medications is one thing I am consistently on top of. I go through them about once a month to make sure we have enough stock and that the expired ones are thrown out. I think having little kids helps. I don't want to be doing a 2am drugstore run because we don't have children's Tylenol!
And yeah, that twin thing is freaky. Are you sure you don't have a second career as a model or doctor?!?
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