Our pet squirrel

First of all let me tell you a little story.... I had left a bag of bird seen on the front porch. Someone had posted in another blog not to bring bird seed inside because moths like to get in it. I closed it up tightly and put it under one of the chairs on the front porch since I didn't want it be an eye sore. We have some clever little squirrels that made there way into the bag. The bag that was closed up tightly didn't stop them. They made a hole in the thing and there went the bird seed. Before I realized they had opened up the bag I saw a squirrel several days on the porch and it was the fattest squirrel I had ever seen. Tyler saw it one day as he was getting ready to leave for school. The squirrel was very slow compared to most squirrels. Yesterday, once I realized the mess it had made I cleaned it up then put it in a plastic container. I refilled the bird feeder and also put some bird seed down on the ground so the squirrel could still have some.

Randomness

Tatiana loves to play on the computer. She doesn't get to do it very often, but when she does she is focused.



Tatiana painting her C for Caterpillar from Confessions of a Homeschooler





Elise working on her Caterpillar

Love

I have recently started listening to K-Love. It is more contemporary Christian music. The local station here is 94.1, but I think they have stations all over. They have something called Make a difference Monday. If I understand it correctly it came from the group MercyMe's Mr. Lovewell. Then came the idea to do something nice for someone and it is your Mr. Lovewell by sharing the love of Christ. I've heard lots of stories about people doing random acts of kindness and making a note Love Mr. Lovewell. I love the idea and definitely need to work to do some Mr. Lovewell things myself.

While on the subject of Love, I was looking over some Bible verses about love and found this. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1752718/10_inspirational_bible_verses_about.html?cat=34.
Inspirational Bible verse on Love #1- He loved us first!
1 John 4:9-10
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins

Inspirational Bible verse on Love #2- He loved us first part 2
1 John 4:19
We love because he first loved us.

Inspirational Bible verse on Love #3- Love your enemies
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Inspirational Bible verse on Love #4- The Golden Rule
Luke 6:31
Do to others as you would have them do to you

Inspirational Bible verse on Love #5- The greatest is Love
1Corinthians 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is Love.

Inspirational Bible verse on Love #6- Above all
1Peter 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins

Inspirational Bible verse on Love #7- Love drives out fear
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

Inspirational Bible verse on Love #8- Love your wife
Ephesians 5:25
Husband, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Inspirational Bible verse on Love #9- Love bind with perfect unity
Colossians 3:14
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity

Inspirational Bible verse on Love #10- Love comes from God
1 John 4:7
Dear Friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God

Now a picture of the loves of my life.

Mother's Day gift

Our devotion tonight was about Easter. While reading Matthew 28:4 NIV "The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men". It made me wonder if that saying "scared to death" derives from this verse? Something to ponder. I have really enjoyed doing these devotions with the kids. http://www.heavensinspirations.com/childrens-devotionals.html.

I still need to wrap my Mother's Day (which is tomorrow) gift for my Mom. I'm going to go ahead and post a picture of what I made for her. I don't think she will be on the computer this late tonight so I'm going to go ahead and take my chances. I think it turned out really cute.

I got the idea from the inadvertent farmer. I shared this idea with My Mommies Group and at least 3 other Mommies decided to do the same thing. I searched for a frame with 4 openings across horizontally and couldn't find one. So, I just made my own. I thought it was super cute. Now, off to go wrap it.

Tomorrow at church we will be voting on a potential pastor. Afterward we are going to head to Raleigh to my cousin, Billie's house. Billie and Scottie's adopted daughter Anna Sophia will be having her baby dedication at their church tomorrow. Since we want to be at our church for the vote tomorrow, we won't be able to make her dedication but we are going to head there afterward for a cookout.

I think I might try to get in the bed earlier tonight. I have felt pretty tired today and still have some sinus or allergy issues going on. I was up way to late last night with the movie night then coming home to piddle around on the computer.

Pictures

This morning I picked up pictures from Photos by Jol that she had taken of us in April. They turned out great! I also had pictures made of me. She has already posted the pics that she made today and they are cute if I do say so myself. Love Lee Photography is just starting into some photography and needed an adult to take some pictures of. She asked me and I agreed. :) Now I have some great profile pictures for Facebook. Here are just a few...










Also, Tatiana and I went and ate lunch with Tyler at school. He enjoyed us being there and we may try and go back on Monday. This evening our church had a Mother's movie and game night. I really enjoyed spending some time with fellow Mommies.

A day off...

I have a few days off while the girls that I watch are in MA visiting with their MiMi. I took Tyler to school. He normally rides the school bus, so this is a treat for him. He also delivered his teachers their Teacher appreciation gifts to them. The kids were as excited if not more excited then the teachers to see what was inside. I made both of them clipboards using Mod Podge and scrapbook paper. See this previous post... http://tanya-alittlebitofeverything.blogspot.com/2010/04/mod-podge.html. I think I made one of his teachers feel a little bad. She said that she hadn't even got her daughters teachers anything and she was in the Kindergarten class next door. :)

This morning I took Tatiana to gymnastics which is our normal Thursday ritual. Since I didn't have the girls I asked MaMa if she wanted to come to gymnastics with us since she had never been before. We stopped by and picked up MaMa and Tatiana being her shy self wouldn't even speak to MaMa. We get to gymnastics and she is acting out of the norm. She doesn't want to go into gymnastics. Once I finally get her in there, today is picture day. They come to get me because she doesn't want to have her pictures done. I go in there with her and try bribing her with ice cream, Mc Donalds, etc., etc., etc.. Nothing would work. They also were working on their end of year routine for the awards ceremony. She didn't want to participate in that either. She is a very stubborn little girl. We leave gymnastics once it's over and MaMa didn't get to see her do any gymnastics.

It was an early release day for Tyler's school. After he got out of school we headed over to the park for a little while. It was really about too hot though so we didn't stay too long.

Tonight Mom and I had pedicures then browsed around Sephora. I found a new lotion that I'm going to put on my wish list, field of flowers by philosophy.

I really like the scent on me! Sephora is such a fun place to look around and they have some of the neatest things. Best of all, we haven't had a local one to just recently. They put one inside the JC Penney in our local mall.

I'm a Winner!

I am actually, lol! I entered a giveaway for a diy apron on a cute blog, Made and I won it! You can see a sample of what the apron looks like here http://dana-made-it-reviews.blogspot.com/2010/04/everyday-chic-diy-apron-kit-giveaway.html. I'm looking forward to getting it and putting it together!

On Wednesday nights at church we have been going over the book of James. I've been doing daily devotions with the kids before putting them to bed. Tonight I found it very interesting that our devotion went over the same verses that we studied tonight at church, James 2:14-26. God is trying to get something through to me.

The weather has been beautiful the past several days but we did get some much needed rain a few days ago. This was the craft that I did with Tatiana and Elise. Tatiana got most of her stickers on her frog. Elise was ready to do something else by about half the way through though. We'll have to finish her half done turtle at another time. :)