Home life... so fun!: May 2011

Friday, May 27, 2011

Our interesting garden.

Last March we put in our spring garden as a family project. Mid April, Daddy brought in some sweet peas. Now, we didn't plant sweet peas when we put in the garden! It seems that Daddy was carrying a open seed package, and dropped it! The seeds took root, so we enjoyed a snack of fresh, raw sweet peas. I had never overly-liked peas before, but these were soooo good!
A little while later he brought in some lettuce. Already? No, this was volunteer lettuce from the lettuce that had flowered in the beds last year! So, for awhile we were eating food that we didn't plant!
Finally we were able to eat the lettuce from our new spring bed. Then, Daddy brought in celery (We planted those last year, and their just now coming up!?). We're hoping to get broccoli, and we're pretty sure we'll get some onions, too. And blackberries. Those were there when we moved in, so we didn't plant those either. We did plant the blueberry bushes that are producing this year, though. The ones in the pots will give us berries at least... not sure about the ones in the ground though... even though those should be the strongest...
So, our garden this year is much better then we hoped... and MUCH, MUCH better then last year, since half of this years harvest will be from last years plantings, and this year we're not using the "cucumber" seeds that gave us cantaloupe...

Friday, May 13, 2011

~ Psalm 19:14 ~

"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer."

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Happy (belated) Birthday, Bethi!!!

Bethi turned six on May first!
Bethi was busy this year growing and brightening our lives. She lost her first two teeth this past year, learned to read, found that she likes to work with numbers ("That clock says two twenty. It's two twenty one now! Oops, it's two twenty three, I missed two twenty two!) and tried to write a seventh Moody book!
But most importantly, Bethi got saved by the blood of Jesus during this past year!!! While reading the Moody books, book six, Mommy and Bethi fell into a conversation about baptism, and Bethi asked the Lord Jesus into her heart!
We love you Bethi!!!
Happy Birthday!!!
Some cute Bethi-posts from my Mom's blog:
whereyourtreasureisblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/one-of-those-moments-that-makes-you.html
A Third of her life ago...
Bethi has pictures done
And Bethi praises her Lord

Romans 14

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written,

“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,

and every tongue shall confess to God.”

So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Do Not Cause Another to Stumble

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean. For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died. So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves. But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

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