Awaken the Dawn

Yeah, I'm a big Getty fan. When my friend blogged the Psalm, "My heart is steadfast..." I could hear this song. YouTube was given permission to post this as a preview for the Getty's album. I bought it and it comes with this extra DVD of this interview. Enjoy!

What a wife!

It's not me, really. But it's what I aspire to.

So what was my inspiration to write? A couple of things. First off, Dennis always kisses me goodbye in the morning when he leaves for work. Sweet. This morning I thought how blessed I am to have husband who, after 30 years, STILL loves me. I am so amazed! Knowing me.


The second inspiration was a quote I saw on FB this week. It was just something silly, but is still an underlying belief among some people. (I was going to say non-Christians, but I think some Christians believe this.) that "Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams---If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore."


I thought about that. Careers can be pretty insidious. They demand everything, and what does one get in return?
I went to Proverbs 31. That woman isn't the 50's woman who was bored playing cards, sitting around and home watching soaps and ONLY cleaning house and making meals and taking care of children. This woman is a business woman! And she's not lazy. Nor does she misuse her time. She's dealing with men in the marketplace, buying, selling. She's looking for deals. I don't think our girls need to think the Christan wife cannot be a business woman, but I think that she can be an "excellent wife" by following her husband's godly lead.


I love these verses: "An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life."


I've got a ways to go. But I pray that always I will do him good all my days.

No Title

I think half my problem about blogging is trying to come up with a title. And a picture. Just words on the page are not very interesting. My life is full of titles and pictures, but just the one I want or need is hard!
I have to say, every time I come to my blog page I sigh. I just LOVE this photo! This is a marvelous place!
Maybe I'll think of a title and write something today....

Irritating pests!

Pests! Wintertime insect pests! They are are driving me crazy. I thought once it got cold outside they would disappear, but they seem to multiply. And when we kill them, they STINK! I think I killed close to 20 on our sliding glass doors yesterday.

They are multicolored Lady Asian beetles, ladybugs, I suppose. I got this photo from an Iowa State website about insect pests in Iowa. I guess they migrated up from New Orleans where they think they arrived on some ships. The article also says there really isn't anything we can do about it. They don't really respond to normal household insecticides. We can try to seal around our doors and windows. It just amazes me that even after days of subzero temps, they still show up! They must be living somewhere where it doesn't freeze.

So I just get out tissues and squish as many as I can find. The cat takes a bat at them every once in awhile.

Life's Simple Pleasures

Sunshine. Sunshine on plants. Sunshine on warm cat and carpet. Sunshine.

What's that noise?

I was sitting in my quiet corner this morning with the cat curled up next to my legs when all of a sudden she jumped off and ran in to the kitchen. I could hear some rustling, very slightly. She can hear Dennis coming up the stairs before he even gets to the stairs. I sat there waiting and listening. The wind is blowing so I figured it must be something against the house. I went in to the kitchen. I could hear the noise DISTINCTLY. The cat was crouched on the countertop facing the middle of the floor. She just looked at me and didn't move.
I got down on the floor and listened. Oh, my, goodness, SOMETHING is under the cabinet floor or the stove! How did it get there?
Wait. Now we hear it ABOVE the stove. Must be in the attic. Sounds bigger than a mouse.

New Car

I'M not getting another new car, but Will has hit another milestone or rite of passage. To be fair, he did research and buy the last one, but I think Den went with him, and it was a cheaper, private party purchase. This time he went to a dealership. He researched, bargained for and finally purchased this car. It's been fun to get online with him while he showed us different cars. He's phoned us and talked about test driving. He's called the bank and filled out loan papers only to find that the dealer's bank, unbelievably, will give him a better rate. We've talked about money, financing, payments. But he did it all on his own. It's so tempting for parents, even parents of adult children, to want to "help", but it's so much better when the "child" does it on his own. Makes us all feel good!

So sometime today I'm going to take him to the dealership to pick up his 2008 Mazda6. He's pretty happy about it.