Book Review

Ok, a while back I auspiciously mentioned a whole list of books I was going to read and let you know if I liked. Yeah, um, here I am months later finally almost through with the first one. Ok, "Passionate Housewives Desperate for God". I really like this book. It is pretty convicting when they talk about dying to yourself, living for God and selflessly serving your children and husband. They are a little more extreme in some things than I personally am, but most controversial subjects (i.e. amount of children to have) they have left to your own personal convictions. They do go into how much our society, and even the Christians, have been influenced by the feminist movement. We are all subject to swallowing something that appeals to our selfish nature, when we know what the Bible says about selfishness:

"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should not look out for your own interests, but also for the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as Christ Jesus: Who, being in the very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death even death on a cross!" (Philippians 2:3-8)

Whew, I always feel terribly convicted whenever I come across this passage. It takes away all of my "but I's". But I am wasting my college degree. But I am just not getting my "me" time. But I am tired. But I worked hard all morning and I deserve for these kids to take naps! Etc., etc. All of these were running through my head as I was reading some of the passages in this book.
I recommend "Passionate Housewives...." But, as always, remember there is only one Bible.

Caffeine Buzz

I think I should stop drinking caffeine. It has affected me weird since I was expecting Mae. Like tonight, I had a Coke Zero with supper and now here I am typing away when I should be sleeping! Oh, well.

Let's see to update, M's birthday bash was a success. All relatives arrived safely, seemed to enjoy themselves and got safely home. Tom smoked a brisket for the main meal and it was delicious. M loved her birthday cake it was white cake with red letters and strawberries. She very methodically crammed her piece of cake in her mouth and loved every morsel! -- Shameless plug, I love Blue Bell's Strawberries and Homemade Vanilla ice cream. It is the official 1st birthday ice cream of our family!

After the birthday excitement abated we decided to take a "mini-vacation" to one of our local hub-towns last weekend. We got a two-room suite at one of those extended stay places. It was great to have a microwave and a refrigerator in a kitchenette for feeding M. R asked at one point why we weren't cooking in the room and I said we were on vacation. She said, "Oh, so we have to eat out?!?" Exactly. We enjoyed plenty of Chick-fil-A and Pei Wei and had a good time. Although, I must say that R caught a cold on the day we arrived and M wasn't sleeping good due to either getting shots, or teething molars or just being a one-year-old, take your pick. So, I describe the trip as "Fun, but not relaxing". =)

Ah, yes, we are a 2 guinea pig family now with the addition of Shy, "Dottie's sister". She looks just like Dottie in the face so we couldn't just leave her there, now could we? So far she lives up to her name, even after being here for a week and a half now she still dives into her box whenever we walk into the room. I decided "Shy" was a better name than "Terrified". :)

So, never a dull moment around here! I am signing off to play freecell until the sandman finally shows up!