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♥ Daddy and his girls ♥

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It's snow, not sand. ;-)  I played with the sand/snow setting on my camera.  What do you guys think?

Projects from Mommytography's 365 Project

Mommytography has a BUNCH of really neat challenges on their Mommytography 365 Project blog. Here's one I'm going to be joining:



The point is to find a creative way to display the particular shape for the challenge. This one is a heart. :)

 Yes, that's hair. ;-)  Katie just loves the Valentine's Day heart hairstyles we get from different places.  (This one is from Adopt A Do, very cute stuff over there, and even a YouTube Channel for tutorials. :))  She asks me to do them all the time, and today was the perfect day for one. :) 


The next project I'm going to feature is Literature to Life.



OK, this is actually a pretty heavy passage. If you read it from the beginning of the chapter, it's talking about the blessings we receive when we are obedient to God.

If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on eary.  All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:

You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock--the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

Deuteronomy 28:1-6

OK, so that's the context.  The next question is:  What does this verse mean to me?  

Does it mean that my life will be one of ease, if only I'm obedient?  Of course not.  Christ was obedient to the Law, the only One who ever was, and His life was far from easy.  So what is God telling me here?

I've been pondering this all week, and today I had to go grocery shopping.  As I was unpacking my groceries, I was praising God for the ability to buy them.  A few months ago, we seriously didn't have a dime to our name.  My beloved had been laid off this past summer.  He was working with a man we knew, contractor work, but wasn't getting paid much, for many different reasons.  We had to suck up our pride and go on food stamps.  It was a heartbreaking decision.  We were on SNAP for 5 months.  We were humiliated.  But, we were also humbled.  Things that mattered SO much before, didn't matter at all now.  It was no longer that we couldn't afford a new TV, new mattress, video game system.  We couldn't afford toilet paper.  We were seriously that broke.  

So, what does this verse say to me?  Not that times will be easy, but that God will provide, through my obedience to Him.  We might not have had a dime to spare, but we did have food.  And shelter.  Because we had been convicted to become debt free, we had bought our tiny little trailer on contract, and it was paid off shortly after my husband lost his job.  Trust me, people are much more willing to help when your expenses are as low as they can possibly be already.  Our van was also paid off, and we were already living very frugally, trying our best to become good stewards of our money. 

Eventually, God provided a new home, a new job, and a new community for us.  And the following photograph represents how much God has blessed us, how he's refilled our basket and kneading trough.

We have been blessed enough now that we no longer need food stamps!!  We never renewed our benefits, and we're paying for all of our own food now. :)  All of our bills, all of our curriculum, all of our...everything!  What a blessing to be self-sufficient!!  

And God, in His goodness, even provides a little bit extra.  ;-)  When He fills your bowls and troughs, he doesn't just fill them, he makes them overflow!!  Notice the Sonic cup?  Not a necessity, but just a little treat. 

My King is just amazing!! 

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OK, so I wasn't exactly going for this... I was trying to get one of my sweet twins hugging and kissing on each other like they love to do (when they're not throwing things and beating on each other, that it...)  But, they weren't having it tonight.  Instead, Delaeney wanted to investigate my camera up close and personally, and this is what we ended up with.  Ain't she a doll??

365-40/Wordless Wednesday

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The first of my Mommytography photos!   (Yes, I realize I forgot yesterday.  Had eye doc appts for 3 of the 6... took MUCH longer than I thought it would!!)

One of my 6 favorite subjects... Liam!!

Mommytography 365

 I am participating in the 2011 Mommytography 365 Project! For this year long project I will be posting an image a day, to get me out shooting, using my camera and learning new things with it daily. Anyone interested in photography can join, no need to be a Mommytographer. We have teens to adults, male and female, as well as people from all over the world. Come join the fun!

With our tax return, we decided it would be much more cost effective to get me an awesome camera than to keep trying to afford family pictures done professionally.  Plus, then I'll have an awesome camera to take pics for my blogs (another one of which will be starting soon, so stay tuned!).  So, we got ourselves a Nikon Coolpix p100, and I'm off!!  Downloading software, playing with effects... I'm having fun. :)  So, when I saw this, I thought it looked like tons of fun.  Come back and see my pics every day, starting tomorrow!