Happy Reformation Day!

It's a beautiful day! I am here to challenge you today to do a little church history brush up! Today, October 31st, commemorates the day that Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenburg Castle Church.

You can start here with the basic overview of the Protestant Reformation and then head here and read Martin Luther's 95 theses for yourself. If you consider yourself Protestant you need to know where your beliefs came from, if you are Catholic you need to understand your church's history too! My challenge today is, look it up and read for yourself! Choose your beliefs based in God and the Bible -- not on just what someone told you!

Hey! You might even decide to dress up like a monk today! ;-)

"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works so that no one may boast." Ephesians 2:8-9

In Case Your Having a Bad Day....

This is a picture of our garage door today. Drink fell over when I stopped in the driveway. Took my foot off the brake -- must have thought it was in park, who knows. I was too busy making sure the drink didn't spill all over the van floor, when I heard, my oldest darling holler, "MOM, your hitting the garage!". Nice. It was a character building experience, and now it seems rather funny. The van is totally fine, Tom said the bugs all over the front of it kept it from scratching! Just thought I would share the real story of our lives!
Oh, and did I mention we just had this garage door put in a little over a month ago? ;-)

"General Lee"

Thanks to our great friends in Mississippi, we now have a new family member! His name is General Lee and we call him Lee. Our other dog Sallie is elated to have a playmate once again since we lost Belle last winter. He is being a great puppy and living up to the lazy hound dog reputation -- except during his photo shoot this morning! ;-)

Attention Moms...

I just found an interesting website for Moms of small kids. I found this out of a magazine and they say starting today they will have drawings for toys for Christmas gifts. All this may do is put you on every mailing list in the country, or it may actually get you a cool toy for free, who knows. I thought I would pass it along and you can decide for yourself! The site has some cool stuff on it anyway! ;-)

http://www.goodyblog.com/

Have fun! I will be posting pictures of our newest family member soon!

From the mouths of...oldest children.

So we are sitting at supper last night and Tom is trying to teach the girls some basic math. He was using cookies ~ always an attention getter. Our oldest was working the if-I-yell-louder-then-it-must-be-right theory, and was doing pretty well. 2+2=4, 3+1=4, etc. Tom finally asked what does 1+1=? So, my mind starts wandering (it often does when math is involved) about how 1+1 in life equals 3. And how sweet the kids are and so forth when she yells, "1+1= "I". Hmmm....how true.

Laundry

Wow! The move and subsequent birth of Mo has brought on an onslaught of laundry! And I haven't even started using cloth diapers yet! It seems Daddy's new job working outside, playing outside with Sallie, potty training, babyhood, and hard work, makes for tons of laundry! I think I have done 10 loads in the last 2 1/2 days! Ahhh!

So, the blog has to wait. Until I can get a handle on things! I only have approximately 2 more loads to do.... Then I can get to the housecleaning! Sigh....

Video

I found this in a round-about way via the internet. I thought it was cute and touching! My disclaimer, however, is I have a very touchy relationship with YouTube as every time one of their videos is recommended, I cringe hoping that it will be appropriate for watching! Eeek! This one is great! All of you Moms and Dads will appreciate his predicament!
Enjoy!

Pachelbel Bedtime