Multiple Blessings

16. the song of the birds in the morning

17. sunshowers

18. Used Curriculum Sales

19. fears overcome (maybe my boy has softened my heart to the idea that not all snakes are bad)

Ring neck snake, caught in a jar and not killed, later released

That may not sound like a big deal to you, but in the past my opinion was that the only good snake is a dead one. I would quickly clobber them with a shovel or hoe, sending my son crying. I have a tender heart toward animals . . . and children. Therefore, I started to examine my evil ways. In the midst of learning to trust more, and abandon fear, while clearing leaf litter one day, I spied the familiar coiled . . . uhm, creature. Instead of doing my snake dance and screaming, I actually calmly asked Josiah to bring me a jar. He was so excited. With some help, we got our specimen into it's container. We observed it and researched it, finding it to be a harmless ring neck snake, which we released back into the yard. Another fear faced head on.

20. shade

21. berries from our own yard

Saturday Surprise and CCMA family picnic

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    After a long hard day of working in the yard on Saturday, we showered off the dirt and put on fresh clothes. Theron drove us to our new favorite asian restaurant, Fung Mei, where we enjoy the food and the atmosphere of three very large aquariums.
    After our meal, we head to the mall for a game of Neon Golf. We've decided that our new Saturday evening activity will be of the active sort now that the weather is more agreable. Last week, was my choice and we walked the Greenway trail in Lilburn (well, almost all of it). This week was Hannah's choice and since I had gotten a coupon deal (thanks to the Jordan family), I offered that as an option, which Hannah did not refuse. It was not an outside activity and we would have waited for a rainy day, but the coupon was due to expire soon. Besides we had been outside all day already. We all got "glow in the dark" necklaces to wear and marveled at how the "blue light" made parts of our clothing appear to glow as well.
    On Sunday, Josiah carried his bug habitat to church. In it was his prize catch from Saturday, a tree frog. He's been hearing them at night and wanting to go out after dark and find them. Well, I guess he got his wish and did not have to go out at night. He just had to climb a tree. On the way to church, he was talking about how amazing God has made each and every animal.
    Josiah seened so mature as he showed the younger kids the tiny creature he had found. At the church picnic, he covered alot of ground chasing moths and butterflies, and collecting trash. This is a fairly new "hobby" of his. He finds things on the ground that have been discarded by others as having no value and tries to invent somthing with them. One of his jobs around the house use to be gathering the household trash, until I found that he was retrieving items from the trash to use for his inventions. I've heard it said that one person's trash is another person's treasure. Well, it is definitely true for him.
     It was a great day for a picnic. There was a nice breeze and this park had sufficient shade to accomodate everyone. Thank you, Lord for a beautiful day.

Wordless Wednesday - Fun Math

Resurrection Rememberings

11. fast healing of a daughter
12. mother and child experiencing life, http://sojourningpeas.blogspot.com/
13. new life in Jesus our Passover Lamb
14. pleasant words
15. God's Word

Passover

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                       Passover

   For the past few years, we have celebrated with a simple seder at home. Last night, we had the privilege of celebrating  it with four other families in the home of our friends. I tried making a couple of new dishes that I had never tried before, a vegetable kugel and chocolate mousse cake (pictured above). The kugel was okey, but the mousse, mmmmmmm. I think it might become a passover tradition.

   I forgot to take my camera, so I hope Erin got some good pictures. It was lively with as many children as adults in attendance. How sweet it was to hear them read and take part in the seder. The young ones had their own table with a wooden seder plate.

   Grape juice was spilled and matzah was munched and we sang and thanked God for delivering us from our bondage to sin.

    Next year in Jerusalem! That's what they always say anyway.

   Now for a wonderful week of no leaven, as we approach the time to celebrate our Risen Lord.

Two Weeks Worth of Thanks

5. the gentle whisper after the storm
6. the song of Fire Belly Toads
7. two pairs of hands braiding challah together

8. Fresh breezes and boy with broom
9. Green growing

10. Grace that covers me

Bug Season - Bee Fly

Recently we found this at the Thrift Store for 50 cents.

With Josiah's interest in little critters, it was a must-have for that price. And yesterday, he was outside and caught something in his net. We put it in the habitat for observation.

Look closely. It is on the little "hut".

Another view

We looked through our Insect Book and identified it.

Bee Fly

The book says, "The fuzzy, squat bee fly lives in nests of bees, and it's larvae often attack and feed on larvae of the bees and other insects." I wonder if that includes yellow jackets.