Saturday, July 26, 2008



We are addicted to ceramic dust! This is the kitchen mid-way. We are almost finished in there....PRAISE THE LORD!!!
This was taken in the late winter/early spring. The MAN calling......post more tomorrow!

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We discovered the world of facebook last night! The www is truly an amazing discovery. Where will I ever find the time to keep up with all of this?!?! The girls are joining today and are excited about that. We are working on scheduling time for everyone on the computer. We have two at the moment so it is okay............ We need a cyber cafe!

I printed off the rest of the NGJ coloring sheets, YAY!! The Sunday School children (as well as my own) love those pictures to color every Sunday. We are working on the translation so we will have it in Portuguese.

Incidentally, I saw that there are new herb lessons available also. I am going to get those printed off a.s.a.p. as well. They are so helpful and informative. We even use them as part of our "curriculum" for school.

We have a terrible time with dust! I am learning how to keep our house more dust free. (A great difficultly when we have no rain for 4-5 months!) I just recently learned that Eucalyptus oil gets rid of dust mites! Here are the three steps:
Add a generous amount to your washer with your regular laundry soap when you wash the bedding, spray a mixture of eucalyptus oil and water on your pillows and let dry in the sun, and wipe the matresses down with the same mixture on a towel. Watch out dust mites, here I come! We are going to put this to practice Monday! No more sneezing! ( I hope) We will let you know the outcome in a couple of days.

Kaira saved my post tonight! I could not for the life of me figure out how to get it out of the draft file.......... THANK YOU, Kaira! I have been so blessed by my cyber friends. Can't wait to meet some/all of you on furlough.

Have a blessed night!
Lisa

Thursday, July 24, 2008

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These are some of my favorites. Favorite room in the house and favorite kids.


Well, I finally figured out how to let you all comment and I got a play list up! This whole blogging thing takes some time and commitment!! I am not sure how often I will be able to update. But we are going to give it a shot.

My niece got married Friday! The first grandchild's wedding and all that....... I THOUGHT I was doing okay not being able to be there BUT, when I called to see if everyone was getting there safely and to pass our congrats along....... I started crying! Not expected at all. I wasn't necessarily sad, just chatting along with my Mom and all of a sudden I couldn't talk. She said, "Are you still there?" It just hit me all at once, I guess. It was a beautiful wedding and I will be getting pics soon. We are not planning on taking a furlough for another year. So maybe I will have another great niece or nephew to meet! We will have our first on the MAN's side this Oct. How exciting the birth of a new baby is!

The lasagna last night was WONDERFUL! We decided to do it again because the In-laws were craving Italian and were disappointed to have missed it! We didn't call and invite them because Grandma (mil) had told us they were cleansing. So, we got to have Italian two nights in a row. YUM!

Whiterock is inspiring me to cleanse! I am keeping up on her progress on her blog. Awesome job WR!

Have a great day all! Post more later.
Lisa

Wednesday, July 23, 2008


Well we finally got it up and running! This is just a test post to see how this is going to take off.
We are in the middle of construction! Again! I think we are addicted to ceramic dust. As soon as I figure out how, I will post pics of the process. We have some before and during that are good. We are finished with just one room out of all the many projects that we have started...........
On another note, we made a killer lasagna last night! The MAN had two helpings! It was such a hit we are doing it again tonight. I like it when a meal turns out just right. So gratifying. Well, for now I am going to close and see how this goes.
Have a great night!
Lisa