Monthly Archives: January 2015

January 31, 2015 · 6:20 pm

Another Zentangle Class!

Today, I attended the Zentangle 601 class. We were working with the renaissance tiles, which are tan, sepia (brown) ink, black ink, white ink, and both white charcoal pencil and black pencil. I really LOVE the look of this!

Here are my tiles:

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Here are collage photos of the tiles all of the students and teachers made:

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Before we left, we had a group photo taken of all the students and the two teachers, Dennie York and her sister Karin Tarter.

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I so enjoy going to these classes! You can learn more about them, and zentangle in general, at Dennie’s Blog Dentangles

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January 26, 2015 · 11:47 pm

I Got To Meet a Fellow Crew Member! :-)

So, I fully intended to post this over a week ago, or at LEAST by last week sometime, but then I ended up down for the count with the flu, and didn’t get anywhere NEAR the computer. 😦 But, delayed nonetheless, it’s going on the blog now. 🙂

I found out that a fellow Review Crew member, who lives in Texas, was going to be in this area because of some family stuff, and we talked about trying to get together. Well, in the end, the evening before she was to return home, she came to our house for supper, and we had a lovely time, eating and chatting! 🙂

Here is a quick photo that my husband took of us . . .

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I definitely could have looked better, but that’s OK, it was so great to meet a fellow blogger and crew member! You can meet her too, just go check out her blog At Home: Where Life Happens! I think you’ll enjoy it as much as I do! 🙂

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January 13, 2015 · 2:49 pm

Ladies Bible Study

Well, our Ladies Bible Study started back up today, now that the holidays are past. Ever since I began participating, almost 3 years ago, I’ve attended the evening session, but my husband has changed shifts at his job to afternoons for a while, so I’m going to the morning session. It’s a whole different dynamic! In the morning session, there are several ladies who have been studying the Bible for MANY years, and just in the first session today, I learned a lot, and gained even more insight about what we studied this week.

I really enjoy having a weekly Ladies Bible study. It helps me to stay accountable to study on a regular basis, and really, I do learn a lot. We are working through “Changed Into His Image”, the book and workbook by Jim Berg. We are taking our time, too. This is our third session (semester), and it really forces us to look at ourselves, and think on the changes we need to make in our lives. I highly recommend this study. The fellowship with other ladies on a weekly basis is pretty good, too! 🙂

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January 7, 2015 · 10:51 pm

Who invented the term “Stay At Home Mom”?

I am a full-time wife, homemaker and mom. I am NOT, however, a “Stay At Home Mom”, who sits around doing nothing. In fact, I don’t know too many moms who are, especially if we are also homeschooling moms. Let’s see, just today, we had to go into the next town to pick up a written prescription at the doctor’s office, then drop it off at the pharmacy.

We then went over to a friend from our church to pick up some things that the boys had left at their house yesterday while she kept them for us so that my husband could go out for the day for my birthday.

We did our piano practice, we undecorated the Christmas tree so that my husband could take it down and put it away, and packed up the other decorations I had put out.

We are preparing to get back to homeschooling, now that Christmas and my birthday are done, and I’ve been picked for my first crew review for 2015.

Let’s see, what else? We have church on Wednesday evenings, so we needed to make sure that everyone was cleaned up and ready to go, that supper was ready early enough to eat and get there on time, and that my boys who are in the teen class had all of their materials ready that they are to turn in on Wednesday night.

Then, we were notified by the pharmacy that we couldn’t pick up the prescription, that the insurance company was refusing it. Well, the child who needed it is completely out, and needs it for tomorrow, so I finally called the pharmacy. Turned out that they entered it wrong. I got them to re-enter it, and was able to pick it up after church, along with dropping something off to a church member who is sick.

Did I mention laundry? Well, there was laundry (home ec?) to do as well.

We moms who do not work at an outside of the home job, we still work, and we are BUSY! We aren’t (at least, I’m not) sitting around, watching soaps, talking nonstop on the phone and eating bonbons. And guess what? f you’re a mom, whether you work a paying job or not, you are WORKING, and at something very, very important. Don’t stop believing that!

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