Easter Weekend Recovery

What a wonderful weekend!

Saturday started out with Greg having to work, but I joined a good friend and her two girls at Home Depot for their free Earth Day Kid's Workshop!  Jacob loved building his flower box and of course his very own Home Depot apron! 

We then went and met up with another friend and finally (it has been months!) got our BJ's membership cards!  And of course had to shop! (BJ's is like a Sam's Club/Costco)  I got a ton of stuff for Greg's lunches and picked up a couple of books! 1000 Gifts for both Michelle and I, and then The Thorn by Beverly Lewis.  (I had done a review on The Judgement but wanted to read the 1st in the Trilogy!)

I then went and picked up Greg (he brought home a work truck Friday night, so he had to leave it Saturday night).  We went and picked up pizza and went home and watched the sixth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.  Well we watched about 1/2 of it before Greg fell asleep! :) 

We had a Sonrise service at 6:30 the next morning and it was beautiful!  There was fog, but no rain and no wind!  Then we came home, showered and got a prettied up for Easter service!  Which was a beautiful service as well!  I just love our church and church family! 

We joined some friends for an egg hunt (Jacob got a ton of eggs!!!) and then a wonderful dinner of friend turkey and smoked ribs!  I was starting to come down with a head cold, so we headed home and finished watching Harry Potter.

On Friday, sorry for the out of orderness, Jacob and I cleaned our whole house!  We have 2 sets of Resurrection Eggs (total of 24 eggs) and I made a deal with him that I would hide two eggs in each room and while we were cleaning that room, he could search for the eggs.  Then after we were done we would sit down and read about each egg.  We ended up reading the Easter story probably about 5 times that day!  And our house was completely clean! He was wiped by the end of the day, but was so excited about the Egg game!  I am going to put a list of what was in the Resurrection Eggs along with verses in our Crafts page.  We now have 3 sets (he made another one at Children's church on Sunday! and is going through them everyday and telling me what they are about!) so I will combine all of them and you can choose what you want to do for each one.  They are so simple to make and really don't cost much, if anything!  One of our sets is from FamilyLife, one is from a craft at MOPs, and the other from Children's Church, and they are all slightly different! 

The best part of my day Friday was as we were talking about how Jesus was beat, spit on, made fun of, etc. and how sad it was, Jacob told me "but Mommy, it's a happy story, because Jesus comes back from the dead at the end!"  He got it!!!  It is a happy story, yes these horrible things did happen to Jesus, but in the end, it is the happiest story ever told!  I hope that your Easter was full of celebration! And that your celebration continues on.

Wednesday...

Well I am praying for a good day today.  My little Chloe has so many teeth coming through right now that she is just not feeling well.  She has had a little cough all night, and well today is MOPs.  :(  She is sleeping now, and the selfish part of me wants her to feel better so we can go!  I look forward to this time for two weeks!!!  But then the mommy part of me steps in and puts selfishness in place and knows that maybe the best thing for Chloe (and the other kiddos) is for us to stay home.  We will see what happens in the next few hours. 

If we do not end up going... Hanna will be here at 9, we will do school work (our first full morning on the morning board!), play outside, and nap.  The kids aren't too excited about it, but our school work loads have increased.  We will start with our morning board and calendar, move on to letter practicing, number order, lesson on Easter (actually today I think I scheduled 2-3 readings..), and finish up with a craft or two. 

OK it is 6:40, I have been up since 4:15 (up a lot during the night too) and still have some cleaning to do.  I keep wanting the washer to hurry so I can throw my clothes in the dryer and then take a shower!! (The jeans I want to wear are in there...)  Well I am off for today.  We will see what God has planned for us! 

Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.  And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,  and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,  so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.  ~1 Thessalonians 4:9-12

Iron Women of The Word Blog Hop~ Sharing the Gospel with Jacob

My Slice of Sanity, The Gandy’s Home Base, Angela’s Pursuit of Life, ThoughtsandCreations from Here There and Everywhere, and Harvest of Pearls have joined together to bring you “Iron Women of the Word" blog hop. Once a week we will share about our time in the word and invite you share your time in the word as well.

If you have words of encouragement a devotion or other Christian related post to link up that would be awesome! If you are a "Iron Woman of the Word" and would like to find other Christian Bloggers --link up! Please grab the button to spread the word about our fellowship! I am looking forward to our fellowship. I hope we can all encourage one another each week!

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This Weeks Blog Spot Light

Mo's Place

A little about Mo's Place:

I'm a wife, a friend, and a daughter, what I am not, is a mother.

When diagnosed with infertility issues I became quite aware of what a taboo

subject this is among women. I scoured the internet for points of view and

ideas and possible fixes. I was desperate. What I came to realize as time

went on is that there were a lot of voices out there from a lot of different

walks of life on this subject but not too many were asking the question, 'as

a Christ follower how does infertility affect me?' I didn't have a lot of

answers but I felt a strong desire to create this blog in an effort to give

a truthful, raw, sometime not too Christlike view on how someone like me who

is a Christ follower handles these trials of infertility. I wanted to do it

out loud as a way to find healing and understanding for myself and as a

possible blessing for someone else just like me, who is lost by the news of

it all and is looking for a little perspective. God has a plan, He knows

what he is doing and remembering that on this journey has proven to be the
hardest test to pass.

Please make sure to stop by Mo's Place today.

This morning I am having a very hard time thinking of something very profound and amazing to type! :)  So I think what I will do is share our little conversation with Jacob last night about Easter and what it means and why we celebrate it!  I hae always been so nervous about sharing the Gospel with someone, just out of fear that I may not say the right thing, or something like that... You know those fears, right? 

Well Jacob got an ICB Bible for his birthday and one night I told him I would start reading some of it every night to him before bed... Boy has he held me to it!  Some days I will read 2-3 chapters, others (like last night) were only half of one.  But we are starting in Matthew and working our way through the New Testement.  We read the second half of Matthew 4 last night and some how we started talking about why Jesus came to earth.  Well the words just started coming... And by my surprise they were right!!!!  We talked about how we are all sinners (we have talked about this before and he completely grasps it and knows it!) and how God is just so perfect that He can't be with us.  And how He sent Jesus (who is God too~ still a hard one to understand 3 in 1?) to come and die for us so we can go to Heaven and be with God, but only if we ask Jesus into our life and heart. 

 
Jacob then said how he didn't want Jesus to die, but then we talked about how He came back to life! 
"How did He do that?" 

He just did, He is God He can do ANYTHING!  Then my favorite part...

"Pretty lucky for Him then." 
Straight faced...  Oh my love! 
 
We talked about how Jesus was in the tomb and the stone rolling away and Jesus talking to the "two sisters" and then his friends.  There must have been a lesson in Sunday School or Children's Church because he knew that part.  And we talked about how Jesus then went up to heaven to be with God and how one day He will come back again and if we have asked Jesus into our hearts, then we get to go with him!  All of us!

 

We have shared this before, about how to get to heaven, what you need to do, etc.  But with Easter growing closer and closer, it is just so perfect that this get "nailed" in to him.  I don't know if he is the right age to e this decision, but if he is God knows.  If he isn't then you know, I am doing what I am supposed to and teaching Jacob God's word and what it means to be a Christian and why we celebrate different holidays. 

If you haven't, take some time this next week and talk to your kiddos about why we celebrate Easter.  It is one of the most important holidays celebrations (I like that word better!) that we as Christians celebrate! Share with your kiddos, God will give you the words needed!   
 

"In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost." Matthew 18:14