tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48083604070531655842024-03-13T10:58:31.998-07:00This Blessed NestElle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-59719566400163707442011-10-13T09:17:00.000-07:002011-10-26T10:26:01.998-07:00A Little Catch UpI haven't posted much here because...well because my house looks like I should be on an episode of Hoarders. We've been gathering donations for our yard sale fundraiser this Saturday and it is truly amazing how much wonderful stuff we've been given. <br />
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All of my energy these days is funneled directly into homeschooling, trying to stay afloat with household chores, adoption paperwork and fundraising. I've been posting on our adoption journey blog at <a href="http://www.ourlostcoin.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">www.ourlostcoin.blogspot.com</span></a><br />
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Although this blog has been on hold, life is just barreling right along. My parents took us to Kansas at the end of September. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was a wonderful visit with my grandma, aunts and uncle, and cousins.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I miss them all so much!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gracie has her first day of volcano class and choir. She is having so much fun and it is such joy to watch her blooming and interacting. Although my heart squeaks a little. Didn't I just hold her in my arms, <strike>while she cried incessantly for 6 weeks</strike>, yesterday?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The twins turned 3. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Their birthday was really special in that two sets of grandparents were there to celebrate.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They are so big. So sweet. So everything good. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just love my family to pieces.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So that's what's been going on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh, did I mention that Sophie is obsessed with babies?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here she is, wondering if this is what heaven is like:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-23130615340490231752011-08-25T18:15:00.000-07:002011-08-25T18:15:06.271-07:00My Blog is now Carbon Neutral<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.kaufda.de/umwelt/carbon-neutral/how-you-can-join"> <img alt="carbon neutral shopping coupons with kaufDA.de" border="0" height="125" src="http://www.kaufda.de/umwelt/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/carbon-neutral-white.jpg" title="This blog is carbon neutral. Yours too?" width="125" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is so cool. By writing this post, and displaying this button in my sidebar, a tree has been planted in the Plumas National Forest for me. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">A typical blog emits about 8 lbs of carbon dioxide a year. A tree absorbs about 11 lbs of carbon dioxide a year. Now that's some math I can do!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And now my blog is carbon neutral!!</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-85776917688218767402011-08-24T16:32:00.000-07:002011-08-24T16:32:51.901-07:00Homeschool Begins!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRReuMIL8fNNl8eZ7joDBE5pqyXJT2kptb2tIKE29N7RPqhON8jqOwSqO2SFOK18dA4bZ2_byNhdTooNgqdtve_SfEeNpU1bLTZGpWPd5e6MG4BiCXsHzm15xVlk9jpR8cCiWtm0bKbTEe/s1600/JPEG+Image+%252835580%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRReuMIL8fNNl8eZ7joDBE5pqyXJT2kptb2tIKE29N7RPqhON8jqOwSqO2SFOK18dA4bZ2_byNhdTooNgqdtve_SfEeNpU1bLTZGpWPd5e6MG4BiCXsHzm15xVlk9jpR8cCiWtm0bKbTEe/s400/JPEG+Image+%252835580%2529.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Homeschooling is in full swing now and it could not be more fun! Grace and I make a great team and her enthusiasm keeps me going. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">We start off the mornings with our "morning board".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVeo0MyrON6HjFMfazqt-8xlzWrsmQ5slO3HBbOChuyigWBO1j3FJ3zoU46mf1CEgTegt_I4_vOCUNKq4oZpkWT-giDpm3p1Vd81NV_dw41oOh3r6P66nPNrlr4mZu7oOO0sY_B_c1MefK/s1600/homeschool+005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVeo0MyrON6HjFMfazqt-8xlzWrsmQ5slO3HBbOChuyigWBO1j3FJ3zoU46mf1CEgTegt_I4_vOCUNKq4oZpkWT-giDpm3p1Vd81NV_dw41oOh3r6P66nPNrlr4mZu7oOO0sY_B_c1MefK/s400/homeschool+005.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's a great start to our day. We say a pledge to the bible, recite our memory verse, write and make the time on a foam clock, make the date with coins, write and color in the thermometer for inside and outside temperatures, explore the season and the weather and go over what day it is, what day it will be tomorrow and what day it was yesterday. Calendar and time ideas are abstract concepts and it's clear that daily repetition is needed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then I give Grace the option of starting with Language Arts or Math. She usually picks Language Arts because she loves reading. I love our math curriculum too. It's called Early Bird--definitely not a traditional approach, which is wonderful. After those lessons, we usually quit for a while. She'll play with the twins or go outside.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">After lunch, the twins nap and we either play a game like Memory or Alphabet Bingo. Today we decided to do a puzzle of the United States. Yesterday we completed a Charley Harper art assignment. Later next week, we'll start a science unit on adopting a tree. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In October, Gracie will start two in-classroom classes at her charter school: a class on volcanoes (she's going to LOVE it!) and choir. They are both on Tuesdays, so that will be our out-of-the-house day. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The twins are awfully interested in what Big Sis is doing these days. Sometimes they disrupt us, but mostly they just want to watch what we are doing. There are some things Grace needs to concentrate on, but there are other things the twins can join in on and all three of them can learn together. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">As for me, I am finding that homeschooling is one of the greatest delights of being my children's mom. I had some second thoughts early on, but it has become abundantly clear that this is what I was made to do. It really is so fun to be doing this as a family. The loudness, the messiness, the light bulbs going on here and there--it's such a blessing to be in the middle of it all! The kids' joy really brings it all together for me too. If they weren't having so much fun, I wouldn't be either. </div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-6000401297713451402011-07-07T10:00:00.000-07:002011-07-07T10:00:16.920-07:00Perfection<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 16px;"><br />
</b>“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Isaiah 55:8</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All I can say is, thank God for that. My ways are rotten. My thoughts are flawed. But God is perfect.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perfect way. Perfect purpose. Perfect timing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“As for God, his way is perfect: The LORD’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.” Psalm 18:30 </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-17122858413929263872011-07-07T09:19:00.000-07:002011-07-07T09:19:39.962-07:00Our Fourth of July<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had two new recruits for shucking corn this year!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The day's menu consisted of watermelon, kid-shucked corn-on-the-cob (which is way better than adult-shucked </span>corn-on-the-cob<span class="Apple-style-span">, in case you were wondering), barbecue chicken, baked beans, and flag cake. There may also have been root beer floats made from the Root Beer Party Keg from Costco. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I can neither confirm nor deny this. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of course, the slippy slide and blow up pool were out and the kids played in it most of the day.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then we had a few fireworks to watch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1pDpu0m-TVgwd5CDAK4y9Abm0IRPAFyBywV-X5k0_6R6CQRvY1Cuz97M5o42pK5VZu5RGm4kTg_tG9E35Q31POgdtzhBMJmkehb6G1qpfyC2ZcKzbyVF_Kkk4q-LbFKr17K1FvP8hTRxV/s1600/4th+of+July+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I can't believe I let my kids hold fire. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was a late night for my normally-early-to-bedders.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sophie even let it slip that she was "pretty tired, Grandma". </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But it was a special night. And we all slept in the next morning... </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you call 7 am on the dot sleeping in. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And just for the record, I don't.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Yawn.)</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-63510209862775836322011-07-07T08:33:00.000-07:002011-07-07T09:46:24.688-07:00Summertime<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's hard to believe our summer started out like this:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But here in California we are sure making up for it now!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The 100 degree temperatures melt me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But I'm keeping the kids supplied with homemade popsicles and lots of slippy slide time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(And lots of air conditioned house time for me!)</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-57038402278939148412011-07-06T09:30:00.000-07:002011-07-07T09:31:04.173-07:00Storytime is Always More Special...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...with Grandma!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sometimes I add on Doony. As in Buster-oony Doony.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Frequently that accompanies "high five a-roonie-doonie". </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As in "high five a-roonie-doonie, Buster-oony Doony!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And that's only when we're not calling him Buster-eeno. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Buster-eeno Deeno.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yep. (crickets chirping)</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-8945834127978250172011-05-22T11:29:00.000-07:002011-05-22T11:35:08.615-07:00Sophie For a Second<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's harder to get pictures of Sophie because her first response is to be a goof-ball.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Her third response is to stay still and smile for one single solitary second so that maybe I'll let her go play. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But if I'm not ready in that one second, you can forget it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-14207396883717231322011-05-22T11:02:00.000-07:002011-05-22T11:02:08.407-07:00Thinking About Strawberry Shortcake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gracie will humor me the longest, enduring long photo shoots.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm grateful, because I could do this all day.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm trying to choose a favorite to order in an 8 x 10 for our family photo wall.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But I can't!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Can you help me?</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the next two photos I told her to think about strawberry shortcake.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes, I'm still giggling about it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And...yes, that's the same shirt he was wearing yesterday. Well? It was only mildly soiled.</div><div style="text-align: center;">My life is a laundry pile, you have to cut me some slack. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-13627645851546055912011-05-21T15:59:00.000-07:002011-05-21T15:59:47.726-07:00I Am Sorry Tristan...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUj-fkggl5UzDgXdVIrxFidjIbNZ8F4wQJUPc2_ZKkO8F69hts5MPZ2WKb4L8U4ofNpIU0V03nPUqrjnTYqiPM0XQllOTi3SG1_hWEBfwGc6yt9La2b-aFn2uLKWMELBWIGG66aw-pG7IF/s1600/tutus+001+ps.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUj-fkggl5UzDgXdVIrxFidjIbNZ8F4wQJUPc2_ZKkO8F69hts5MPZ2WKb4L8U4ofNpIU0V03nPUqrjnTYqiPM0XQllOTi3SG1_hWEBfwGc6yt9La2b-aFn2uLKWMELBWIGG66aw-pG7IF/s400/tutus+001+ps.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That I have to document all the things you might regret later. Heh!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And yet, I have to admit...I'm not really <i>that </i>sorry...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCg9hRm1AVhNTPG6opjXnPrzdJhZfUVQdGVI9RMss1TB9NggLsD2RmhjH0dmPdg6yC70mOE3Oaw_l66QmI30IcuDzz1Cxns5gjVnp-nXbvSmHILzCTCaNb21sQ3ufXTKpGUAHmwnKWaZjY/s1600/tutus+005+ps.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCg9hRm1AVhNTPG6opjXnPrzdJhZfUVQdGVI9RMss1TB9NggLsD2RmhjH0dmPdg6yC70mOE3Oaw_l66QmI30IcuDzz1Cxns5gjVnp-nXbvSmHILzCTCaNb21sQ3ufXTKpGUAHmwnKWaZjY/s400/tutus+005+ps.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After all, this is what it is to have naive fun when you're 2! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You love the attention from your sisters, and they love you beyond reason!</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-71238911055253835802011-05-18T08:06:00.000-07:002011-05-18T08:06:19.844-07:00Happy Birthday Gracie!<div style="text-align: center;">Yesterday you turned 5. I couldn't be more proud of you. I couldn't be more blessed by you! My baby, my firstborn, we love you so much!! </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">PS. Is that loose tooth ever going to come out?!</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-58909844068251842712011-05-13T10:50:00.000-07:002011-05-13T10:50:00.465-07:00Old Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, CA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Isn't their enthusiasm remarkable?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I mean, who wouldn't be energetic after a long and restful night like this?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ah, well, nothing a little face-painting can't cure.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Sophie really was enjoying this, she just takes her responsibilities very seriously.... </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And then I proceeded to douse the kids in hand sanitizer. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But we don't need to talk about that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The End</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-20359009429490311832011-05-12T10:40:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:40:42.407-07:00A Single Step<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A journey of a thousand miles</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">begins with a single step.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Jeff and I just need to take a single step, not complete the journey in one day or one thought or one action. All God's asking for is a single step...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Since walking closer with Jesus, I've kept one ear closed. Very scared I might hear Him calling my name. Very wary that He might like ask me to actually, like, you know, <i>do something</i> to further His kingdom. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">What exactly is He asking Jeff and me for? When exactly is He asking it to be done? If you know, please tell me. But for now, I'm doing my best to be obedient. To not be relaxed in my comfy American life. And to be <i>still. </i>To draw near, so that I'll be ready when that first step is made clear.</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-56872193488054049672011-05-07T16:26:00.000-07:002011-05-07T16:28:13.180-07:00Bittersweet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I feel "five" coming fast. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She's not a baby anymore. It makes my heart do funny, wistful somersaults. But her path is just sheer beauty unfolding in front of me. Even the mess-ups and the mix-ups. It's all beautiful. It's an honor to be a part of it, a blessing to help guide her.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Grace doesn't yet understand what a "boyfriend" is. Call me overbearing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She doesn't yet have an attitude. She wouldn't even know the first thing about putting her hands on her hips and rolling her eyes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">I take one look at her, see her thriving, see her so in love with God, and I think--am I missing something here?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">For heaven's sake, let them be little! I guess you can call me conservative if you must, but I'm really not.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There will be plenty of time for all the concerns of a young woman later.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But for now, she can just be whoever she wants. She can be a precious little girl who found out<i> on her own</i> that she likes dresses and snails and climbing trees (while wearing dresses!) and her rock collection and fuzzy black spiders and flowers and tea party gloves, without a TV commercial telling her so! Imagine that! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Anyway, right now, she's too busy building a relationship with the first man in her life, Jesus. The one who will never leave her, never change on her, never fail her and never stop loving her. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Oh, and yeah, you can call me a Jesus-freak any time! Thanks for the compliment!</div>Elle Beehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15802857137836550901noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4808360407053165584.post-71362352827844084572011-04-30T19:35:00.000-07:002011-04-30T19:41:42.312-07:00Daffodil, Tuyip and Wosie Wed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is one of the cutest videos ever taken!! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just love to listen to her voice and see her wiggling around.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Reasons to love it:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1. All the L's are replaced with Y's. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2. Shoulders that just won't stay put.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">3. Sheer excitement over who knows what!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had been praying these unorganized, anxious prayers that only a mother can come up with.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">A mother who has forgotten that her children were created for Him, not her.<br />
A mother who needed to know that the burdens He puts on a her heart are not to be pushed aside, but heeded and embraced!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Then God sprinkled a friend across my path to ground me, to reassure me, to challenge me.<br />
A beautiful friend. Who prays with me, sings with me, listens to me, and laughs with me. Who understands me...maybe not <i>all </i>the time, but loves me anyway!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> He always knows just what I need, and His timing is impeccable.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I guess that's not surprising, being the creator of the universe and all...!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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