Happy Mother's Day!

I hope everyone had a beautiful Mother's day! I'm very blessed to have the mother I have- She's so many wonderful things, but the most important part is that she is a faithful Christian! Everyday I'm seeing more and more how rare that is. My I constantly be learning and growing to be a good mother myself some day Lord willing!

"Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised."

Proverbs 31:30

“I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.” Abraham Lincoln

Happy New Year!

"Jehovah bless thee, and keep thee: Jehovah make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: Jehovah lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace."

Numbers 6:24-26

Have a wonderful New Year!

Holiday Memories, Part Two

This holiday season last year I was sitting pretty cozy in my house in Arkansas, with a lovely fire and hot tea. This year we are sitting in our nice house, with the windows open and the fans blowing! With iced tea! Well, I still drink my hot tea, I know...I'm a strange old bird! ;)

You see, the Trinis spend their Christmas Day at home, with their families, and since we spent Christmas Eve at home as a family we took advantage of the almost clear streets and went to the almost clear beach! It is very difficult to find a beach that is not swimming with indecency, so it was a treat to go and enjoy a rest.

(This is a photo I found online) We went to Maracas Beach on the North edge of the island. It's a beautiful spot.

There was a rain cloud that kept chasing us and it was so lovely coming over the hills. Have you ever seen the ocean during a rain shower? It's beautiful. Especially when your dry towel and clothes are sitting high and dry under that yellow life guard station! :)

The waves were boisterous and fun to play in and mesmerizing and lay-out-on-the-pallet-and-veg-izing too!

Mmmm....Have I mentioned how much I love the ocean, how beautiful it is?

Here's what Nathan did for the longest time...his finished work was really quite impressive! I helped by digging a hole for him, which he turned into a lake. Playing in the sand must be a universal joy.

Silas enjoyed himself, he was the last one out! But he's more the stay on the edge, closer to the beach type. I just loved watching him play. :)

We had a delicious local sandwich for lunch. It's called Shark and Bake- a fried shark in a flat naan type bread. It's part of the whole Maracas beach experience, so they say!

After lunch we headed back home and had a nice evening relaxing. It wears you out having a nice break at the beach! What a fun day and a great memory! I'm thankful we had a safe trip...we'll be treasuring those memories for the future!

I hope you had a great holiday yourself!

Holiday Memories, Part One

Our first Christmas holiday in Trinidad was so much fun! As I mentioned in a previous post, we each made a gift for the next younger person. So that made Anna my gifty person. And let me tell you, I had fun making this! I was a little afraid she might not like it, but she loved it! :D

I made a camera strap sleeve! It was very simple, in essentials, but you can really dress it up and make it neat! I didn't go for the ruffles, Anna just isn't ruffles! She loves black and white so this is what I ended up with! I did little tiny one inch black and white blocks, just like you'd do a quilt block.

Merry Christmas Anna! She's a great sister, she's a great photographer and I love her! :)

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Every one did such a great job! Emily made me a tiny tatted tea cup! It's precious! Nathan made Naomi a woven wall hanging and it's so beautiful! Definitely hope chest quality. And he's making me one too! ;) Maybe, well, I wish! Hehe!

All the gifts were great, but more importantly, we had a good and fun time together as a family.

And that was only Christmas Eve! I'll be doing the next post on what we did on Christmas Day....

Ohhh the weather outside is frightful...

...and a fire would make me have heatstoooooke...but since there's no place to go...let it snow, let it snow let it snow (in the areas of the world where it can!) Ha!

Happy Holidays from Trinidad! We are usually very low key around this time of year, and this year, we've done things very simply and we are loving it! Here is how we did the presents this year: Mom made Dad's gift, Dad, Emily's, Emily, mine and on down the line to Silas making Mom's! It was so much fun! All the little secrets and don't looks and please go to the other part of the house and don't look in that one closet! :)

We brought one of our outside plants in and decorated it just a little...it was cute and nice, even if it was a little pathetic! Hehe...I love my family, it's not about things being perfect, it's about being close and making do. :)

We're making a yummy dinner this afternoon: we found a turkey so we are having a turkey and dressing dinner! :)

Merry Christmas, friends! Have a wonderful day and enjoy your time with your family. :)

25 November 2010

Last Thursday was Thanksgiving holiday. As I spent that day here in Trinidad with my family I got to really thinking about how much I am blessed. And how far from an accountability of blessings people are becoming. I felt myself feeling ill when I read the phrase "gobble till you wobble". So I looked up the definition and then I explored some of Paul's "Thanksgivings". Read them, let them sink in-

thanks·giv·ing

–noun

1. the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgment of benefits or favors, esp. to god.

2. an expression of thanks, esp. to God.

\ˈthaŋk-fəl\

1: conscious of benefit received.

First, I think my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. Romans 1:8

Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 7:24-25a

I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus; that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge. I Corinthians 1:4-5

I thank him that enabled me, even Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to his service. I Timothy 1:12

I thank my God always, making mention of thee in my prayers. Philemon 4

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20&21

Of what are you truly thankful?