Mother's LO challange

A challange was given of Faith Sisters this week. It was doing a LO about your mother. I just cringed and put it off as another LO I would not be involved in. You know what, it is the first full-page challange I have done in the 6 months I have been there. It seemed to be a small part of my healing process. Here is my LO and short story:

http://faith-sisters.blogspot.com/2008/04/focus-on-mothers-challenge-winner.html

I always have a hard time doing anything related to Mothers. I realize that the phrase "abusive home" get used a lot, but I grew up in one at the hands of my mother. We have always had our differences. We verbally fought to the "death" and I was hit with a board on a sometimes daily basis. I left home when I was 18 never to return. God has chosen in the last 10-15 years to start working on this relationship. I do not think our relationship will ever be good here on Earth, but in Heaven there will be no sorrow---I am looking forward to hugging my mother in Heaven and not having all the pain associated with it. God is a gracious God. My mother and I have done a lot of talking---not quite sure how much listening---and have come to an unspoken conclusion--we have my son in common and we have to start there. I tell her what I go through as a parent and we somehow find common ground on that. My heart breaks when I see other daughters getting along with there mothers. I so long for that. I am holding God to His promise of Heaven.

Winter, Winter, Winter

Oh my goodness, will winter ever end? Ok, I know Spring is March 20, but it normally does not snow this much in March. The last 4 weeks we have ended up with snow delays and cancelations. AAAHHH!!! Anyway, I have a few pics of this weather and what we did to bide our time.

A few things to thank God for during this time:
*Friends who have big trucks to pull you out of a ditch.
*A safe car to drive into a ditch with and be totally safe.
*God's hand in my friends safety during the past 4 storms.
*A wonderful son who takes care of his mom when she is sick.
*A neighbor who loves to use his snow plow.

You cannot see Jacob very well, but you can see the snow drift outside his window. Around 41/2 feet high. He is currently making 2-inch snowboards and is going to have a competition leaning out his window. He is very creative. I will have to get pics of that.

Peace--Week 6 Faith Sisters scripture challange

These are some of my favorite Christmas pictures of Jacob. He is 1 1/2 years old in these pics. The pics were taken at our family Christmas get together. I love using ribbon and this was my first try at wide ribbon. I love the look and think I will use it often. I also used my Big Mouth Crop-o-dile a lot for this project--very easy to use.

Jacob is 13 months old here. He had to get tubes put in his ears at Bellevue Hospital. Afterwards wewent to Cedar Point. We had a lot of fun, but Jacob was tired. I have just started to use flowers. I love the flowers in the LO's above and under this pic. The flowers above are all cut out from cardstock.
I wanted Jacob to eat his yogurt. He decided I should try it first. He finally did end up eating it.

Wait (FS--challange week 4)

When I heard the word this week was WAIT, the first thing I thought of was clock and time. I tend to be an impatient person when it comes waiting to hear what the Lord wants. I so want to be someone who is patient and can wait for the Lord's answer--In His time--he makes all things beautiful. Amen!

Beauty (FS challange--week 3)

I thought the word beauty could not be better defined but by the cross. He had no beauty or majesty that would attract us to him, nothing in his appearence that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and WE esteemed him not.

Please back up your computers

My computer recently crashed. I lost about 6 months of pics--Birthday, Holidays, School, work. I am so disappointed. Please remember to back up and save your pics. I have found a few pics here and their on different sites, but nothing compared to what I had.

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This is Jacob and his new kitty K.C. (short for Kitty Cat)

Kindness (week 2 FS scripture challange)

Week 2 of FS scripture challenge. I came up with the verse for this because of a conversation with my son. I asked him what he thought kindness meant. He said "Well, kind means being nice, if you add the "ness" doesn't that make it an action word?" I found Ephesians 2:4-10, if not for the expressions of God's kindness to us through sending us His son, we would not have eternal life through Jesus Christ.

I love the Brad Christmas trees and had been wondering how I was going to use them.
I am sure some day Jacob will get upset about his very bad hair day this Christmas morning. I also love our new cat, KC (short for Kitty Cat) she kept rummaging through the paper.
Notice the floating/glowing Christmas tree
Jacob and his dad--his first car building days
Never leave a tissue box alone with a toddler.

Faith (week one FS Scripture challange)

I have read a lot of scripture during the week for the challange. This one stuck out the most. To have the kind of faith to follow Jesus no matter how much pain you are in, no matter how long it takes you to get to Him, even if it's just to touch Him for a moment. I want to see Jesus look at me personally and say, I see you, I love you, and I will heal you.

Christmas Day 2007

Merry CHristmas all.

Get Your Free Christmas Countdown

This is a picture of my grandpa and I about 3 years ago. My grandpa died last Monday, October 22 at 1am. I was supposed to spend the day with him in Toledo just holding his hand. he went to sleep Saturday and never woke up. I spent last week with my brother Ken working out the final details of the funeral. I feel like a generation is forever lost in our family. I love my grandpa. He was so much fun. I remember he used to show me all of his pennies whenever we came to his house on holidays. He and grandma made lots of crafts together. I have a green chair that he made. I also have a yellow plant hanger grandma made as well as many other little items. They will always be treasured. My grandparents were married for 64 years before grandma died December 3, 2000. I guess grandpa is walking around in Heaven holding grandmas hand right now. I wonder if he is talking with my dad--or maybe his daughter, Beverly, which he has not seen for 43 years.

I sang at grandpa's funeral. In the Garden and Blessed Assurance. I hope he liked it. He would stand next to me in church and put his ear close to my mouth when I sang next to him. He said he loved to hear me sing.

I miss him.

I love you grandpa!--Your Casey Girl

A lot has happened in the last month. Jacob has finally learned how to ride a bike. It took him about 15 minutes after his dad and I convinced him it was OK to ride. He has always been so worried about getting hurt. He was too scared to ride. He is so proud of himself. Him and Marcus ride together to the park now. It has given him a little more self confidence and independence. I am so glad Jacob has a friend. They have been friends for 2 years now. They may argue a little and they are completely different in size and personalities, but they enjoy being together. They like to spend the night here. They play their Gameboys, video games, cars, baseball, kickball, and watch movies. The other day they carried on our tradition of a potato chip party on Friday nights. Jacob and I started having these little parties when I was working evenings at Flat Rock Care Center in 2005. I would come home late on Friday night and we would sit on my bed and spread different kind of potao chip on the bed and we would eat and watch movies. We had so much fun. So now Marcus has joined the circle of potato chip partiers.

I have a few scrapbook pages to post. These are some of my favorites.

This is a picture of Jacob and his dog He named him "Dog". He tried to get away from "Dog" by hiding in the ice chest. Dog climbed in with him.

Jacob wanted to take "Dog" for a walk. Dog was not helping. He tried to put the leash around Dog's neck. Finally Dog bit the collar and Jacob draged Dog around while he was biting the color.

Well, we know where the tissues went.

Jacob's first try at baseball. It was in the Spring of 2003. He had a lot of fun, even though he got frustrated and quit after about 20 minutes. He still likes baseball now. Cleveland Indians is his favorite team.

Jacob was very happy when he turned 8 years old. He got a Bible at church from Pastor Andy Winters. He also had a birthday party at the race track in Bellevue.

Well, I hope this picture came up. This is our new house. We moved August 29, 2007. I hope to buy this house in the next year. I am so excited because we can paint our rooms however we wish. I love that Jacob has a room and I have a room of our own. We have lived in a one bedroom house for 2 years. I feel like I have accomplished something. God is good though. We could not have done this with out Him.

Hey, I did it, My blogger life has started.