Thank you to those who sponsored our girls in the Walkathon for St. Judes Children’s Hospital. Together, they were able to raise several hundred dollars and our extended family raised about $1,000!
We had only 5 entrants in the drawing and 5 Geneva Bible prizes promised, so the only question is who gets the bookmarks and who gets the entire page.
Drumroll….

And the winner of the 400 year old authentic Bible page is…

Dana

Come on down!

and bookmarks will be going to :
Kel
Portrait of Peter

I’ll be needing mailing addresses for all of you. Send to call her blest at gmail dot com (no spaces). Dana, if you would like I can email you a spreadsheet of all our pages that are currently available.

“It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost him crucifixion… You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse… You can shut him up for fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God.” —C.S. Lewis

You probably remember that Hubby’s birthday was Saturday, March 31. Did you leave him a birthday comment?
You probably don’t remember that he was gone for nearly a week with his birthday right smack in the middle of that week.
That’s ok. You don’t remember because I didn’t tell you.
Now that he’s back, he has seen his surprise and I can tell you more about the ups and downs. Here’s what is up: new shelves. They’re also down: suspended from the beams and floor joists under our house.
The girls and I did the entire project from start to finish. We may not have cracked a math text, but our kids learned a lot about building in the past week!

• We planned the structure and supports.
• We consulted my uncle to make sure the plan was solid and get advice on maximizing strength while minimizing expense and weight.
• We calculated the best lengths of lumber for our project to produce the smallest amount of waste.
• We shopped for materials.
• We discovered that you can slide 14′ pieces of lumber in the back door of a 15 passenger van all the way up under the front seats and still close the doors.
• We measured, and revised the plan to meet unexpected irregularities.
• We marked, measured, and cut the lumber using Uncle Dave’s super spiffy, very heavy Miter Saw.
• We drilled, leveled, hammered in stubborn cross-supports, drilled some more, and worked as a team to square up a slightly out-of-square structure.
• We cleaned and categorized all the misc. stuff that lives under our house, sorted fasteners, and made the loaded shelves look a lot better than the pile of junk on the ground had looked.

We had a great time working to surprise my husband and even the littlest ones were able to serve their daddy in this project. There were chubby little hands passing me screws and holding boards in place, picking up tools and scraps, running the drill batteries to and from the charger, passing out popsicles and ice water.
The bigger ones did all this and more, rotating between house duty and amateur carpentry. I felt like the foreman of a construction crew!
You don’t get the full effect without seeing a “before” photo but you’re out of luck. If those pics exist, we’ll burn them and deny it.

Hello. Today is not Wednesday.
Just thought I’d clue you in, in case you’re having a long week and laboring under the delusion that Wednesday is already here.
I thought it was.

Our golden retriever will be expecting puppies!
She is due from tonight ’till Friday, I can’t wait!
I love all puppies so much, they are always precious.
I don’t really mind the noise that much, unless
it keeps me awake for a very long long time
at night.
When they are born I will post a picture of them.

Readers note this is not a actual picture
of our dog.

OK, so I’m boring. I didn’t pull a single prank on a single person. But I’m really curious – did you?
I’m going to try out Mr. Linky for the first time. Inspire me for next year: what great prank did you play? Or what did you hear about too late and file away for next year?
Leave your link and help me out with ideas for next year. Please? Cuz I really need the help.

What’s up:

• Hummingbird feeders: 2 of us were dive bombed by an angry redneck, so we took that as a hint that it was time to hand the feeders.
• Hubby’s birthday present that I can’t mention yet cuz he doesn’t know.

What’s down:

• The dog’s belly: she is due to give birth sometime in the next few days, and her belly nearly drags the ground.
• My blood sugar: I had a blood sugar crash on Friday, something that happens frequently when I’m pregnant. I honestly don’t suspect that I am, but does anyone want to bet that I’m wrong?
• Another little surprise for Hubby. Can’t tell yet.
• My chocolate supply. Running real low.