I posted previously that my Uncle was diagnosed with lung cancer. Great news!! He is in remission. Many thanks for all of your prayers for him!

Hey all!

Would you all mind sharing one thing (or more) that you do during the day to keep your sanity and your house clean?

Beth

Today I am joyfully, through tears, praying for a dear friend who is entering the Sisters of Reparation.

Jaime is one of my best friends, if not my best. She was my maid of honor, she is my daughters godmother, she is the one friend I feel totally comfortable cyring in front of. We have been through many things together, both joys and sorrows, gains and losses.

I will have to get out the paper and pencil to write letters to her now. No more email, no more facebook, no more text messages.

So,if you have a moment, please remember Jaime today in your prayers!

Hello! I am posting again! I am enjoying a nice quiet evening at home. The two older kids are in MI with my parents so Joshua and I are down to one kid this week. Before you start saying anything about romance, let me tell you what we have been doing all week.

Joshua built a wall! We now have a wall sectioning off part of the “middle room” to make more of an office for him. The “middle room” is the room that used to be the kitchen before the addtion was put on. It isn’t big enough to be a dining room and had an awkward layout to be useful for much else, so up a wall went. Now there is room for the desk without it hanging out in the middle of the room.  He has been busy taping, mudding, sanding and soon we will paint the room “Plymoth Blue”.

I have been busy chasing C around AND taking the wall paper down in the kids’ room. Seven layers of wall paper, with a layer of paint to boot. Nice. So the kids will be moved in to the pink room until I get that project done. I didn’t realize it would take this long. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to get the rest of the paper off  then wash the walls. After washing them, Joshua is going to tape and mud them  as well as add a plumbing access for the bathtub. Then to paint. I haven’t totally decided what to do yet with the room. I think I am going to do a dark color for the bottom half of the wall then a lighter color for the top. I would like to do a stencil print across the very top, in Latin.

While I am excited the kids are coming back this weekend, I almost wish my mom would keep them for another week so I could get it all done with out them underfoot!

+JMJ+

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Summer is speeding by here in Central Ohio.  The garden is growing, the kids are growing. We have a new roof over our heads, literaly.

C has two bottom teeth and has learned to clap, crawl, climb the stairs and poop only when her diaper is off. M is getting big and has gone TWO WHOLE days without having an accident. 🙂 That is big time stuff. I am going to go shopping with her to pick out a new dress for my sister’s baby shower. K is learning to tinker around the house. He likes to help me in the kitchen (as does M) and likes to quote Star Trek or other various movies.

The Logues went to Ethiopia for a few days to pick up Martin Muse, so we have spent time getting to know him. He is about Karol’s age and they get along swimmingly. I love Martin’s laugh. He looks just like Brian too! 🙂

That is about all for now…more later.

….said the old nosy neighbor lady to the two tweeners trying to break in to the house across the street.

Okay, I didn’t SAY that to them, but I did break up their litte fun fest and now I have a story to share with you:

The house across the street was recently purchased. It had been foreclosed, so it was vacent for a few months before the couple bought the home. They are working on it before they move in, so sometimes they are there,  sometimes they are not. Today I didn’t see them at all, so I found it odd when I saw two young girls run up on the porch and start playing around, pulling the screen door and trying to open the front window. I watched for a moment, then went on about my business, only to discover they were attempting to open the screen door with a stick.

At that point, I walked outside with C, under the pretence of showing her some roses blooming. I checked the situation out a bit more and realized that they were still trying to get in to the house, so I took C back in the house and told J what was going on. I went back outside to tell the girls to knock it off only to hear “Get off that porch” boom from the house next door. Okay, parents, albiet not to with it, are on the ball. (sort of).
After about another 3 or4 minutes of this, I finally had enough, as they were still trying to get the door open with a stick. They had gotten the screen door open and were moving on to the storm door. I went, first to the house that had issued the “get off that porch” command just moments ago. I very politly told the woman and the man that I don’t know who is who in the neighborhood, but that there were two girls on the front porch trying to break in to the house. After asking me if it was “so and so and such and such”, I said “I don’t know names…” Then I headed over to the house myself to tell the girls to hit the road.

The girls told me that it was thier cousins house. That it was okay that they do this. Uh, sure, I believe you….not.

The man from the house next door came over to see what was going on and said “Oh, it isn’t my daughter, it isn’t a big deal”.

The girls eventually left, but I think I should have called the cops.

But I do know now not to leave ANY doors or first floor windows unlocked. I actually locked the screen door today on the front porch, then the lock on the storm door then I deadbolted the lock for the main door to the house.

I  thought this was one of the nicer neighborhoods in this town. I never felt this unsafe living in Lafayette on 10th Street with the Steve Perry Methlab clone guy living on the opposite corner from me.

The final words to our national anthem.  I was struck by them this weekend as we sang them at the MH graduation.
I thought “How can we be the “land of the free and the home of the brave” when we allow abortion?

Babies are not free to grow and to live. Woman are not free from being coerced in to having an abortion. Men are not free to keep that child if the mother decides on abortion.

Brave? How can we be brave if our society thinks abortion is an option? Brave? Bravery would be facing a difficult choice and picking the harder road. The harder road would be single parenthood, postponed dreams or giving your child up for adoption. Abortion is a temporary fix for a “problem” that could very well be the best “problem” born.

and may the Perpetual Light shine upon her.

Baby Faith from: http://babyfaithhope.blogspot.com/ passed away over the weekend. If you get a chance to read through her blog, you will see an awesome story of a miricle baby and her strong, wonderful, faithful mother.

Well, it looks like Bishop Blair needs our prayers! He is doing good things up there in Toledo! We all know the devil likes to attack those who try to teach the truth.

Edited to add this website. That ministry that Bishop Blair said no to is not good.