Health and Contentment

 Thank you again for all your prayers and sweet well wishes. Every one in my family is doing much better! :-)

One blessing that I always find after being sick is a greater appreciation for health. I am so blessed with an abundance of health. And yet sometimes I find myself struggling with discontentment even with so much to be thankful for. I always seem to be waiting for something to happen and expecting something to make me really happy. Maybe a trip to the craft store to get more stuff, maybe anticipating a visit with friends, maybe waiting for an illness to subside, maybe waiting for an event to come or a package or letter to arrive in the mail. At any example, expectations seem to get in the way of my joy. But what I need to be doing is standing in each moment, and being happy in life right now, loving God in my life minute by minute. No matter the time, the trials, the circumstances, the expectations, "This time" is the time to be content and enjoy life.
Because God is with me next month, next week, tomorrow and now. Christ is the one where all blessings flow. How can I not be thankful with an awesome, loving, father like Christ?...

What are you thankful for? 

Update: Sick

Thank you all for your prayers! Unfortunately my Mom did get sick-Sam and Joe were almost recovered when she was sick thankfully- and I was planning on blogging yesterday that I had not gotten sick, but alas, before bed and all of last night I felt horribly nauseous. I threw up five times last night. But thank God I feel so much better today. My appetite is definitely not back to normal, but I am surprised that I even have a appetite.

This has been a very sick year for us. I really am sick of being sick. I think every one is slowly recovering. My Mom and Maggie felt sick, but neither of them vomited. Abby hasn't really gotten very nauseous. So, every one has gotten sick except Grandma.

Thanks again for all your prayers!

Prayer Request: Sick

Could you please pray for my family? We caught a stomach bug. John already got it, Sam and Joe had it at the same time and threw up at the same times every hour last night. My father is sick and my two sisters are sick.
Could you pray that neither my mom or me gets it? My mom is so tired from last night and it would make things a lot harder if either she or I got it. I know it's up to God. Please pray that my mom can gets some rest and my whole family recovers quickly. Thanks so much!
Hopefully this sickness will go away soon. :-)

Sickness, Craft Projects and Blueberries... Oh My!

                                        
 Eek! I have not written in a long while!
Our whole family got a stomach bug last week so we are now recovered and almost completely. :) In a big family sickness can hit hard on our schedule. Catching up on laundry, cleaning and gardening is a bit time consuming.

The weather has been almost unbearable this week. Very hot... well to what we are use to at least. Even through our sick week I was able to get my knitted purse done. (Yeah!)

                                             The purse!

Also I have been trying to finish a project I started I long while ago and haven't really been working on. Remember that doll I was planning on making? I never finished. Only started it. Now I am finally getting around to finishing it. I have the body done except for the head. That is the hardest part of a doll, because it is a big part of her personality. ( Especially her face.) I will hopefully show a picture of her as soon as I make her a head and clothes. Not sure when that will be. :)

                                             The book I have been using.

 And....
I am participating in Eden's Friendship Afghan Project! You can read up on it here!

I will be getting some yarn and knitting some squares for the quilt soon!!! I am looking forward to it. :D
I got two knitting books today, so that I can practice different patterns for each square. :D

We enjoyed going to our church's picnic on Sunday. Some of our friends kindly took us girls, because daddy was sick at that time. Maggie and I had fun whipping up some blueberry cobbler Tuesday. Abby, Maggie, Joe, and I picked some of our own blueberries from the garden Tuesday morning. Such fun!

Although we haven't been up to that much, I hope you all have been enjoying the warm weather!

                                                     1 Corinthians 13:1-3


What have you all been up to? :-D

Leah is sick!

Leah is sick with the thing that has been going around the family, but she will probably be able to post tomorrow. :( :( :( So look for her valentine craft post tomorrow!



Abby, Leah's sister