Pancake Breakfast

We Has a Pancake Breakfast.....

Thankful Thursday: My Date With My Grandson,Terrific Tony

Tony and I have a standing date to visit the local Library and finish off with a cone.  This time we added dollar tree to our date.

When I first went to the library,I was so surprised from when I was growing up and than my then when my children were going. Back in the day, when you had to be as quiet as a mouse . Don't even think of talking. The librarian can hear what your thinking!

The shock I experienced was a good one.  It is so family, student friendly. I took Tony into the children's section,to find people talking out loud. Train table was the drawing card for Tony and others. There was a section for toys and a fort, also set up.  There was comfortable chairs  and tables.  And books on the book shelves.

When I went into the adult section. People are talking in normal voices and visiting with  friends and strangers too.  Whatever you need was at the library. You could research for information. There was a computer lab.  I may be returning for many dates here.  It brought back so many good memories of time spent in the library.  I would highly recommend the Josephine County Library.  

We got to see our beautiful cousin Ivory and had worlds largest ice cream cone

Wacky Holidays but in this case, needful

Clean Up Your Room Day

Date When Celebrated: Always on May 10

Clean Up Your Room Day is a day parents eagerly await........... and kids dread!

If you've got kids, it is very possible that their rooms are a vast wasteland, completely filled with "good stuff". "Messy" is too kind of an adjective to describe the conditions. Its impossible to walk through the room. Every dresser and shelf (and under the bed), is packed with everything imaginable. Dust has been piling up as long as your child has been around. Comfy, cozy, and quite livable to the child, its an everyday source of frustration for the "folks".

To mom and dad's delight, and every child's chagrin, Clean Up Your Room Day arrives every May 10th. Get out the shovels. Call in an industrial sized dumpster. Its time for everyone to clean your rooms!

Note to Kids: Clean Up Your Room Day also applies to your parents. You may want to inspect to assure that mom and dad practice what they preach!

 http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/May/cleanuproomday.htm

Looking Back:what Kind Of Friend Are You?

This was first written in 2005...

What kind of friend are you?

Pro 18:24 .... and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

My husband tells of a time a dog attacked him when He was a young boy, resulting in several scars on his face. He tells of how the kids at school would laugh and call him names. He had one friend, that he had grown up playing with. But as they got to a larger school, He discover that friend didn’t treat him the same way anymore. When the boy’s new friends were there, He would ignore him. When they were not there, then the boy would treat him like they were still good friends.

It brings to mind, our friendship with Jesus. Do we find our self guilty of only being his friend, when no one else is around? Proverbs reminds us that Jesus is a friend above all friends. Jesus said greater love hath no man than this, that a man lays down his life for a friend. Jesus did that for each of us. Why? He felt we worth it.

In Matt 26, we read how Peter denied Christ 3 times. He had told Jesus that he would never deny him. Things got tough for Peter and he was put in the spot of making a choice. He was depending on his own strength rather than God’s. Things can try to get between us and Jesus. We don’t plan it to happen but our eyes can get off the friend above all friends. We need to take steps to make sure our friendship with Jesus stays strong.

Spending much time in prayer will strengthen our relationship. We need the strength, we gain through prayer. Jesus takes time and waits for us to find that time to spend with him. The more we communicate with our Lord, the more He communicates with us. The more we praise and thank him, the more He blesses us.

 Situations come up when there is not a lot of time to pray. We can rest assure that at the name of Jesus, He is already stepping in to help us. Once I heard someone say, they never say amen because the prayer goes on all day long. The channels to heaven are already open. You already have the ear of Jesus.

Read God’s word and memorize it. This will ground you in your relationship with Jesus. David tells us how he hid the word in his heart that he might not sin. The Bible is a very powerful weapon. It will cause our enemy of our soul to be rendered useless when we use it.

Psalms 119:105 tells us that God’s word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. Just like a lamp will guide our feet down a dark path. God’s word provides encouragement. Help when we don’t know which way to go. It gives us examples of others who have had tough choices to make . It is full of victories.

Let us not be a friend that pushes Jesus aside, when our other friends come. But instead let the beauty of our relationship, cause others to seek after Him too