My mum is just getting ready to leave and we are feeling a little meloncholy. But I keep telling the girls to be grateful for the time we have had with her and not to dwell on the fact that she has to go home. I must admit it is hard to take my own advice though, so I turned to God's word for some comfort and of course it was there.
" The meek shall eat and be satisfied" Psalm 22:26
Short but to the point. When we are given blessing from the Lord (and we know they are daily) we MUST be completely satisfied with what we have been given and not search for more. Of course I would love my mum to stay but I will try to fill my thoughts with "I'm glad she came"
Praise God today for what you have today.
Thursday 17 March 2011
Tuesday 15 March 2011
The Encouraging Mother
I haven't been to the computer in a while because I've had my mum come and stay with us for two weeks. As we live so far away from each other we've had a lot of girl time to catch up on; Watching movies, late night chats, Hours of shopping and lots of laughs with everyone.
Each of my children has enjoyed 'nanny' tremendously. Teenage son has had quiet happy chats, first daughter has been reading to nanny, telling her jokes and constantly asking "can I sit next to nanny", middle girl is quiet and has probably had the most cuddles, youngest girl just wants to hold nanny's hand and baby runs around the house calling "nanny, nanny, nanny, nanny, nanny".
Husband has been lovely and not minded that I've been spending all free time with my mum, and I have enjoyed every single second of having her here.
I have been encouraged by her spiritually to continue to try to be a virtuous woman, and uplifted by her emotionally to stay strong even when I feel I'm being pulled in all different directions. I have been inspired by her creatively to accomplish all the things that I've wanted to get done. Things I always had on my mind but kept putting off because 'the time was never right', 'the children need me' or 'I need to make dinner'.
So now I've started on crafts and decorating around the house and now that my mind is switched on I'm full of ideas: tablecloths, curtains, seat cushions, re-upholstering and hopefully some home made shoe cupboards.
More fun activities for the girls has also been on the menu recently. My mum directed me to Anna's site imagination tree and we are all loving the fun ideas and coming up with some of our own too.
A few days into my mums visit I was thinking "what will we do when she's gone" but now I am filled with excitement and determination.
I am so thankful to God to have someone like my mother in my life and I know she is just as loving, frank and encouraging to me as she is to everyone she meets. She is in my mind fulfilling what the apostle Paul tells the 'aged women' to do in Titus 2:4-5.
... that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed".
I pray that God will send an 'aged woman' to all you women out there, someone to be an encouragement to you all. And may we all strive to be this for someone else ourselves one day.
Each of my children has enjoyed 'nanny' tremendously. Teenage son has had quiet happy chats, first daughter has been reading to nanny, telling her jokes and constantly asking "can I sit next to nanny", middle girl is quiet and has probably had the most cuddles, youngest girl just wants to hold nanny's hand and baby runs around the house calling "nanny, nanny, nanny, nanny, nanny".
Husband has been lovely and not minded that I've been spending all free time with my mum, and I have enjoyed every single second of having her here.
I have been encouraged by her spiritually to continue to try to be a virtuous woman, and uplifted by her emotionally to stay strong even when I feel I'm being pulled in all different directions. I have been inspired by her creatively to accomplish all the things that I've wanted to get done. Things I always had on my mind but kept putting off because 'the time was never right', 'the children need me' or 'I need to make dinner'.
So now I've started on crafts and decorating around the house and now that my mind is switched on I'm full of ideas: tablecloths, curtains, seat cushions, re-upholstering and hopefully some home made shoe cupboards.
More fun activities for the girls has also been on the menu recently. My mum directed me to Anna's site imagination tree and we are all loving the fun ideas and coming up with some of our own too.
A few days into my mums visit I was thinking "what will we do when she's gone" but now I am filled with excitement and determination.
I am so thankful to God to have someone like my mother in my life and I know she is just as loving, frank and encouraging to me as she is to everyone she meets. She is in my mind fulfilling what the apostle Paul tells the 'aged women' to do in Titus 2:4-5.
... that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed".
I pray that God will send an 'aged woman' to all you women out there, someone to be an encouragement to you all. And may we all strive to be this for someone else ourselves one day.
Wednesday 2 March 2011
Bird Watching
This is my very first blog , I'm not technologically minded at all and often get my 13 year old son to help me with the computer. But here I am, he's at school and I'm doing it all by myself.
So for a while now I've grown really interested in birds. We have have a much larger garden in this new house ( I say new is 6 months still new?) and I can't stop watching them, I'll be in the middle of loading the dishwasher and I HAVE to stop and see the Blue Tit or the Red Wing. I think I am a bit ill mannered at times as I'll be in the middle of an in depth conversation with husband and the next thing I'm not listening to a word he's saying I'm grabbing my binoculars and bird book and trying to figure out what new bird is in my garden.
I've got the girls interested too, I spent 45 minutes with middle girl, both of us bird watching from the bathroom window writing down how many of each bird we could see.
This hobby has turned into 'almost pets' as we have to buy the food and feed them but there is no clean up.
Now that I've started I don't think I can stop as I know they'll be flying to my garden to find food and using up their precious energy. So I have to continue, not that I want to stop they really do bring joy to the garden and my day.
Of course I know that they will survive without me. In the bible Luke writes in chapter 12:24 "Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have store house nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?" So as I marvel at these beautiful birds and how they are taken care of I am also amazed at how God takes care of me despite my sinful ways.
At the end of the day when husband comes home he is enthusiastic to hear about the birds I've seen that day despite my rudeness.
So for a while now I've grown really interested in birds. We have have a much larger garden in this new house ( I say new is 6 months still new?) and I can't stop watching them, I'll be in the middle of loading the dishwasher and I HAVE to stop and see the Blue Tit or the Red Wing. I think I am a bit ill mannered at times as I'll be in the middle of an in depth conversation with husband and the next thing I'm not listening to a word he's saying I'm grabbing my binoculars and bird book and trying to figure out what new bird is in my garden.
I've got the girls interested too, I spent 45 minutes with middle girl, both of us bird watching from the bathroom window writing down how many of each bird we could see.
This hobby has turned into 'almost pets' as we have to buy the food and feed them but there is no clean up.
Now that I've started I don't think I can stop as I know they'll be flying to my garden to find food and using up their precious energy. So I have to continue, not that I want to stop they really do bring joy to the garden and my day.
Of course I know that they will survive without me. In the bible Luke writes in chapter 12:24 "Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have store house nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?" So as I marvel at these beautiful birds and how they are taken care of I am also amazed at how God takes care of me despite my sinful ways.
At the end of the day when husband comes home he is enthusiastic to hear about the birds I've seen that day despite my rudeness.
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| The Elusive Jay. |
I think my favourite is the Jay as he seems to be quite aloof and only yesterday came very close for the first time - cue me whispering "girls, girls come and see". I don't know why I was whispering we are inside and the birds can't hear through the double glazed windows.
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