Christine

Christine
by me

I see myself like her in many ways. My Momma said I started talking after a visit with her when I was a toddler and I never stopped! When I was with her we never ran out of things to talk about.

She read through the whole Bible each year. I will always remember her in a bathrobe with wet hair doing her Bible reading. No matter what was going on, she made time to spend with her Lord. Her deep love for Him was evident in her life, as was her deep love for people. If you asked her to pray for someone or something you could be certain she would.

I get my sweet tooth from her and Grandpa. When I stayed with them we'd have jam with breakfast, cookies and Mountain Dew with lunch, and cake with dinner. Of course there were always long walks in between to burn off all the calories!

She was a hard worker. She was always busy, always doing something. She didn't have a lazy bone in her body! Of course she could also be pursuaded to take a break to play a hand of 42 or to go swimming in the pond, or to take a walk down to the picnic area. She loved to do the work of the Lord, serving Him in church teaching Sunday School and Singing Praises.

I'll never forget her kisses at midnight when we arrived at the property for visits. Homemade icecream and blackberry cobbler, and especially persimmon pudding will remind me of her.

I'll never forget how much she loved Grandpa. The way they smiled at each other, you knew that no matter what, they loved each other. She always took care of him and he took care of her too.

I thank God for my Grandma. She is such a special person. I thank God for the godly example she has been to me. She wasn't perfect, no one is, but you could see Jesus in her life and I want to be like that too.

I am sad that her life on earth has ended, but I am happy for her too, she is with Jesus! I will miss her. I learned when Grandpa died that one of the reasons we are sad when a believer dies is not only that we will miss them until we too are in glory, but that death reminds us of sin. It is because of sin that death is in the world, but Jesus, through His death and resurrection, has overcome death! In that, we can rejoice.

Just before she passed away I told my son, "Grandma is tired and her body doesn't work well anymore, she has lived a good long life and has loved Jesus since she was a little girl, and now she is ready to go home and live with Him forever."

Although her body is dead, Christine is now more alive than she ever was while she was in it. Today, she began a new life in the presence of her Savior.

"For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then, face to face..."

Grandma, I'll see you when I get home! I hope it will be soon. Come quickly Lord Jesus! Amen.

Butterfly lapbooks 2

So M had a few butterfly stickers on his, and some extra facts about butterflies and moths. His cards have the picture of the butterfly on the front and the name of the butterfly on the back! He has memorized 8 butterflies by sight!

Butterfly lapbooks

The first picture is of Both the boys front covers. The next one is of the back of G's. Butterfly wings are symmetrical so we painted half of the butterfly and then folded the wings to get a print on the other side. He also did a color by number, flaps on what butterflies eat and what caterpillars eat, and drew some butterflies himself! The cards are a matching game.

I did it!

I got to bed at a semi reasonable hour! I was in bed at about 10:30 and asleep shortly after 11. Unfortunately I was woken up at 5:45 in the morning. I got a little sleep after that but I was up for good at 7:30. Sigh. Yawn, actually. I've been yawning all morning.

There is a possibility that I'll get to bed at a reasonable hour tonight too. Hopefully by 10:30 again. I know Dh will be tired, he got up before I woke up at 5:45, though I'm not sure exactly when. But he'll be working all day today cleaning out abandoned houses.

Its very cloudy today, that probably makes me feel sleepier than I really am. I am pleased that I got to bed so "early". I need to make a habit of it.

Waaaaaaa

I think my period is back already.

Mid last week I was 179 lbs. Today I was 181.2. If its just from water retention I should go back down next week.

No wonder I had such strong sugar cravings this last week!

Checking in

So this last week I had very little self control and ate something sugary every single day! Though not a lot, if I were shooting for moderation I would have been pretty much on target. But I was shooting for NO sugary foods so I missed the mark. I think for the month of Sept. I'm going to keep trying not to eat sweets but next month I think I will allow for some in moderation. My hope is that that way I will say to myself "no, don't eat that now, you can have it on Thursday (or whenever)".

I did meet my other goals however. Except one day I only did 10 minutes of strength exercises instead of 20 minutes. Oh and I obviously didn't do so well on listening to the Lord's leading.

I've been reading a lot about how hard it is to lose weight while breastfeeding (for some women). I think I might be one of those. In the past I lost all of my pregnancy weight rather quickly and then the excess weight I still had to lose didn't start coming off until my babies were about a year old.

I am going to keep trying to stick to my goals and re-teach myself how to be healthy and hopefully the weight will eventually start coming off. In the mean time I am hoping that I can at least lose a little and avoid gaining over the holiday season.

Goodnight

I'm going to try to make it to bed before 1 AM!