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this and that

blessings, Family, Foster, homeschooling, Jonah, Katie, memories, Parker, Theodore, Toddlers April 29, 2012 1 Comment
What a mess Parker makes EVERY time he eats!

Foster’s baby brother getting a little help.

My baby brother with his new toy.

Theodore’s showing his karate stance.

Using everything not nailed down to create a fort.
Katie after her first softball game.

Moments to Remember was developed as a simple way to look back on our week as homeschoolers and find photos that encompass the memories we want to remember.
The week may have been tough, there may have been more bumps than smiles, but in the end these are the moments that keep us going, the ones we need to remember.
Link up with Homeschool Creations and share your moments!

3 beautiful things

Family, God's goodness, memories April 29, 2012 1 Comment

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Nana’s Roses

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True Love

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Final moments

 

These are in my heart.

As we remember the loss of Nana this week.

As we think of the loss of Gigi.

As we prepare to say goodbye to Pop.

As we imagine a beautiful reunion time.

More beautiful than a rosebush in full splendor, spilling over with delicate red blooms.

Pop

Family, memories April 21, 2012 Leave a comment

We went as a family to visit with Pop this past week. He is the kids’ great-grandfather on the Grubb side.  He is the patriarch of the Grubb family and is suffering from the onset of Parkinson’s and other age-related health issues that have caused him to need to move into a nursing home.

His daughter and sons have tried to make it nice for him. They chose a fishing and hunting décor, something that he’s always enjoyed with his boys.  Foster loved one of the signs hanging above his door that said “FISH HUNT HUNT FISH Nothing Else Matters”.

There is another picture hanging in his room. This one is a truer testimony to Pop’s legacy. It is a multi-picture frame filled with pictures and drawings of one of his many trips to Brazil and the chapels that have been built there.

What anyone who’s ever met Glenn Alvin Grubb, Sr. can tell you is that Jesus is all that matters.  He has spent his life as a preacher, missionary and witness for Christ.  His almost 84 years have been dedicated to helping others find their way to Jesus. 

WW: progress

baby, Jonah, memories, Wordless Wednesday April 18, 2012 Comments: 3

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Linked up with Wordless Wednesday.

We huntin’ us some bears…

Foster, homeschooling, imagination, memories, Parker, Theodore April 14, 2012 Comments: 2
One of my favorite memories from the week…
 

On our nature hike, Parker, Theodore and Theodore’s best friend picked up some sticks to pretend they were hunting bears in the woods.  This was awesome to see because of the chain of events.
First, Foster said “Mommy take a picture of me – I’m Davy Crockett!”
Then Theodore and his friend had to find their own “guns”. 
Then Parker joined the hunting expedition.

36

blessings, Family, friends, memories April 7, 2012 Comments: 4

I turned 36 today.  My celebration was perfect for me. It was a day filled with peaceful, routine tasks and with sun and cool breezes. It was filled with the helpfulness of my mom and the thoughtfulness of my husband. It was filled with handwritten notes, hugs, kisses and smiles from my children.  It was filled with good food, outside conversations, laughter with all my favorite people. It was filled with sweet gifts.

War

Foster, homeschooling, Katie, memories March 17, 2012 Leave a comment
Foster and Katie doing math (practicing addition facts by playing addition war).
For more fantastic game ideas, check out my friend’s post here.
And then link up here and share your moments to remember!

the time before…

blessings, marriage, memories March 16, 2012 Comments: 2

Chris was 21 and I was 25 when we married.  Our whole dating and engagement was about 15 months long. To us that was a LONG time to wait. You see we were striving to really wait. In all the ways that we felt God wanted us to – physically, financially, not living together.

Spiritually and emotionally we had so much to work through.  We both had relationship junk from our pasts and we decided to seek out a Christian counselor for our pre-marital counseling.  We ended up REALLY going.  I know some couples see their pastor or minister for a couple of sessions but we went to this counselor for months.  We would cry and yell and laugh and question why on earth we thought we could make this work. 

What we started to learn in the time before we were married and what we know now more than ever is that no two people can make a marriage work.  I know why the divorce rate is so high, I understand why marriages are breaking up right and left.  Because people put either their wife, husband or kids on the throne in their marriage. 

I’m not sure if it was during pre-marital counseling or just in a message when I heard it described like this :

  1. That to have success in marriage you need to draw a triangle.
  2. Your husband and yourself are each at one base corner.
  3. God is at the top point. 
  4. As you individually draw closer to God, then you start to grow closer to one another.

This is probably the biggest lesson that Chris and I have learned over the last 10 years and one that we are continuing to learn. 

Well, that and I shouldn’t comment on his driving or parenting and he shouldn’t comment on how clean the house is or whether dinner is ready on time.

I look at those pictures and see how skinny and young we both were but I wouldn’t go back for anything.  We have put a lot of hard work into being able to enjoy where we are now and we are looking forward to all that is to come!

Monday Memory: 2002

marriage, memories, Monday Memory March 13, 2012 Comments: 2
Ten days from now we celebrate our 10 year anniversary.
Chris surprised me with a sweet card and also brought me a vanilla iced coffee to Monday Fun.
His card said I get more surprises over the next 10 days. He’s so sweet.
In preparation for this big anniversary, I drug out the box labeled “wedding memories” (that’s as far as I got, putting a post-it on a cardboard box, I know all you scrapbookers are jealous).
Tonight we brought out our wedding photos.
When we got close to the back of the album and saw this picture Chris said “Yessss…”

Engineering

children, homeschooling, imagination, memories March 10, 2012 1 Comment

Theodore and his friend building a ramp for their army tanks, trucks and cars. It was quite windy that day so they had to figure out a good place to put the ramp, how to keep it from blowing away, and the hardest problem – how to keep the little brother from destroying all their hard work. 

 I’m linking up today with Homeschool Creations.
Check out all the great moments from this week!

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