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LET YOUR LOVE GOD COVER ME UP TODAY!!!  Let IT cover the multitude of sins... the ones in my life.... the ones that have been done against my life...  AWAKEN ME TO YOUR LOVE so I can love others the way You love me!

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                               Our precious Grand-Prince was born October 5, 2012 - Zion Daniel!

Zion: HIGHEST PLACE or point.  

Daniel:  God is my Judge.

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My 2 Oldest Grand Princesses

got their pictures in our local paper -  "The Lynden Tribune"
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Middle of life... middle of the road... middle of somewhere

Riding on Mt. McClure by our place in Twisp, WA

Dan is living one of his many dreams! We've camped and hunted around the area where our place is on the Methow River for 30 years. My Grandpa has gone to this area since the 40s. Each time we go over to our home there I wonder what it'd be like to live in a different place. You see, I've never moved from the county where I was born.

I'll be 50 next spring and my extrovert personality has done a 180! A friend who has has a "life-coach" certificate, says that around mid-40s we practically switch to the opposites of the personality traits we endeared. She said that when we hit our 60 & 70's we balance out the two differences rather nicely. It's probably just because we obtain more wisdom...

So my love to live for being with people is now the opposite. I love to be alone. I love to have time-outs!
I wonder if it's from always being surrounded with people & children... busy-ness of life which I've now come to know as the barren of busy-ness!  For me the constant pull between being a Mary & a Martha... I'm so torn!  I love to serve but I love to sit in stillness & worship my Father - Author who began my story & will be the Grand Finisher of my Faith-walk!  He is still writing this adventure God-tale!

Mama to 5... ( really 7!)

Danielle & her family Oct. 2010
Ted and his 2nd buck. It's been 13 years since his 1st.
April w/ the girls at Molbak's Dec. 2010

Keeps me too busy to blog... so pictures of my 5 will be it for today.



Grace is 15, Isaiah 13 1/2 and Ezekiel is 9 October 2010

Identity... who am I?

Child of God's
wife
Redeemed
mother
Saved from hell
pray-ER
teacher - homeschooler
friend

Identity. Identify with.
Who am I?
Who do people think that I am?

Today while showering (again when I could blog my best thoughts,) I was thinking about how my last 3 children know a different mom than my first 2. The above list hasn't changed much over my almost 30 years of being a married adult. But when I think of who I was and to who I feel I am today - it just has a totally different look.

I used to love to move furniture, paint a room, wallpaper a wall, lead worship, stencil a border, sew a dress, bake cookies, host a party, do the music at a wedding, add an extra family to the dinner table, babysit an extra child, teach Sunday School, clean the house in an hour and on a weekly basis, and so the list could go on! A changer and a doer ... I was.

I used to be such a multi-tasker. When I got a great idea - I did it. Today when my ideas begin... they may not even go any place further than my head or heart.

Today, what a different woman I am. When I know what I need to do, what I have to do, and what I want to do... I come and sit at the computer and don't get any of it done.

These last three will know me as quite the shopper, Gramma Candy, Gramma Kiss, reader, computer sitter... seems like I've become quite the vegetable in my aged years.

But at least that first list hasn't changed and what God sees me as - His Own - I am not my own, I was bought with a price (I Corinthians 6 and again in Chapter 7) - I want to honor God in ALL I do! So I better get going today and DO it!

Grace is 14!

Where did the years go? Just a moment ago I remember walking into a very small community hospital in SanClemente - peering thru the crack in the curtain window - KNOWING that this little princess in the plastic bed was our daughter! The joy and excitement are indescribable! To ponder God's full purpose is in her life brings me to more excitement over His gift to us in her... His Grace is Amazing!

Family Pictures

THE BOYS

THE GIRLS

THE SCRAP





What a precious time with our family! Stephanie was awesome and patient and the perfect photographer for our family!
http://stephaniestremlerphotography.blogspot.com/2009/07/dan-cris-family-session.html

My GRAND Princesses

April 2009

Simple Pleasures in Life...

RiceKrispy Treats & hot air popped popcorn (with REAL butter) ... &

nothing is better when having a GRAND-daughter help you make them and EAT them!