In Pursuit of Words: May 2011

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

the rainbarrel bandit {and a link to a few great posts}

really??

Mom said it best.

:)

Read here...

But we are really OK.

God is good and we are laughing~

Kaye

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Do Everything

Love this new song by Steven Curtis Chapman.

“Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you…”

We drove a ways one day and while we were heading home, this song came on the radio.

Well, of course we all started singing along as soon as we picked up tune, and it has become my favorite song (so far) for the summer.

But I can’t find a video or download of the song to share with you.

So instead, until the album comes out on August 9th, we just have to read the lyrics.

Enjoy!

Kaye

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

today…

I’m over here!

just head on over to

http://www.birdhousesandbandaids.blogspot.com

Thanks!

Kaye

Monday, May 23, 2011

Blessings…

counting todays and yesterdays and last weeks blessings

#409- 431

gardening with Mamo

the garden center

walking the aisles and smelling the plants

R and M riding the mowers

knowing where things go at work

old prom pictures all lined up on the pharmacy counter

a lady on the phone telling me I had a nice voice

thunderstorms

tornado missing our old house by 1 mile

boy and girls in mucking boots

this new adventure I started- come take a look!

mud puddles in farm fields

friends with us in the woods

‘shopping’ and laughing at prices and styles with Hannah

ice cream sundaes

gardens underwater

6 inches of rain in 2 hours

barefoot through the squelchy ground

these clouds here!

trees blossoming in the parking lot

the strawberry planter pot

Mamo’s bleeding hearts in bloom

our gardens coming together

Blessings!

Kaye

Friday, May 20, 2011

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The Power of Words

The Power of Words video has come through my inbox for the first time, and I LOVE IT.

Care to watch?

click here…

Words have the ability to either build up, encourage, help, and strengthen, or tear down, take apart, and ruin.

This video was a poignant reminder to me that Christ calls us to only speak and use words that are “helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”

which is exactly what this video shows.

A girl who takes the time to use words to build another up and benefit those who can read them.

please take the 2 minutes to watch this.

It is amazing.

Kaye

the “Top Hat Society”

It started last fall when me and R would stay at home while the other two went to class with Mom as the chauffeur.

First, it was the band, then the transportation.

Well, no one came to our auditions this last round, so we decided to take another approach and start a club,

The Top Hat Society.

You know, like the Red Hat Ladies?

We decided that the official members would start with a few of our closest friends.

Mr. Topham Hat himself… arriving in his airplane.

Black-and-White Cow looking very dapper in his hat…

Brown Bull arriving as well, with his hat precariously balanced between his horns…

with the Blue Eyed Boy as president.

I was named the official “Crazy Big Sister Photographer”.

We started with some introductions…

Shaking hands and exchanging names.

Then we moved on to the serious business of discussing who else would be invited to join our Top Hat Society.

It was decided that Buzz Lightyear Lego Man should also be invited. Mr. President ran upstairs to get him and let him try on his new hat.

however, we soon found the Buzz couldn’t be admit to the Society. His head was too small to fit into the Top Hat.

Soon we had grown tired of all the hat trying ons and requested that we adjourn for the most important part of the day-

lunch.

Until next time then!

Cheerio and good day to you!

Sincerely,

Crazy Big Sister Photographer and Mr. President

of the newly formed Top Hat Society

Monday, May 16, 2011

“I am not, in my natural state, nearly so much of a person I like to believe: most of what I call ‘me’ can be very easily explained. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give myself up to His Personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”

From Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

counting blessings of being me in Christ…