Sorry for the lack of posts! We took a trip to Indiana to visit some family and were gone from Thursday morning till Saturday night.
I’ll update you all later today…I might be able to find some pictures to share.
See you soon!
As we honor the brave men and women who have served our country, I thought you’d like to read these wonderful Memorial Day posts.
Tait and Lauren are a Christian couple that just had their first son. They were excited about his birth, but had no idea how quickly it would come. At 27 weeks along, the unexpected happened, baby Tait Jr. was born. He weighed 2 pounds 9 ounces and measured 14¼ inches. The family is doing well, but have enormous medical bills.
Here is their situation…
“We are currently attempting to raise $51,644 by June 3rd. If we do not raise that amount by the 4th, then our bill will be turned over to collections, and will skyrocket to the original total of $186,769. With God’s blessing, work on our part, and the help of the body of Christ, it can be done!”
Let’s all do what we can to help this sweet family. Thank you.
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38 & 39
Here are the new prints for May! Head on over to Nesting Place to see the post that Nester wrote about them.
(You can get these prints as shown or order them all in one color.)
Ready to have some of your own? Visit my shop, L. Herbert Designs to get yours today.
Wool Dryer Balls From Good Mama
My Mother in law just gave me some wool dryer balls that my aunt made. I’ve been wanting to make these for a while, but have never taken the time to do it!
I used them on the mountain of laundry that I washed yesterday and they worked really well. My aunt said that when she uses 8-10 of them she is able to cut her drying time in half!
Saving money and having no static cling… naturally, that Works For Me!
If you want to make your own dryer balls, GoodMama has the instructions!
Be sure to check back on Friday for the latest L. Herbert Design prints that will be featured at Nesting Place!
Want to win a free print from my store? A High And Noble Calling is hosting a giveaway!
My husband and I have had busy weeks lately and we were feeling very drained. So, we stayed up till 1 am.
Seems like the perfect solution, right? If you are really tired, just get less sleep. Uh, no. Why did we stay up so late?
Because we were doing something we needed more than sleep….we were laughing.
We snuggled, watched funny You Tube videos and laughed until our sides hurt and there were tears in our eyes. After laughing and enjoying being together, we felt like the weight of the world was off our shoulders.
” A joyful heart is good medicine, but depression drains one’s strength.” Proverbs 17:22
Do you need some refreshing too? Here’s one of the videos that we enjoyed. Have fun!
“So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective.”
After I read about the health benefits of sprouting, I started to sprout my grains and beans before using them. It is SO EASY!
* Sort your dried beans, removing all stones and shriveled beans
*Rinse the beans. Put the beans into a bowl and cover with water until the beans are about 3 inches under the water. Cover and soak overnight or 8-10 hours.
*After soaking, drain the beans in a colander and rinse. Leave the beans in the colander and rinse at least twice a day. The beans will sprout in about 1-3 days.
*When the beans have a very small sprout you can store them in the fridge for a few days or cook right away. These cook up faster than un-soaked beans and are much more nutritious. You can use them for your favorite recipes, our family likes them in chili.
Stephanie at Keeper of the Home has a great post about freezing all those beans you just made!
Check out Fight Back Fridays at Food Renegade to see more food tips.
Do you have any good recipes including beans?
My Dad emailed me this funny story…hope you all laugh as much as I did!
“Clutching their Kohl’s department store shopping bags, Ellen and Kay woefully gazed down at a dead cat in the mall parking lot. Obviously a recent hit…no flies, no smell. What business could that poor kitty have had here?’
murmured Ellen. ‘Come on, Ellen, let’s just go.. ‘But Ellen had already grabbed her shopping bag and was explaining, ‘I’ll just put my things in your bag, and then I’ll use this tissue.’ She dumped her purchases into Kay’s bag and then used the tissue paper to cradle and lower the former feline into her own Kohl’s bag and cover it.
They continued the short trek to the car in silence, stashing their goods in the trunk. But it occurred to both of them that if they left Ellen’s burial bag in the trunk, warmed by the Texas sunshine while they ate, Kay’s Lumina would soon lose that new-car smell.
They decided to leave the bag on top of the trunk, and they headed over
to Luby’s Cafeteria. They went through the serving line and they sat down at a window table. They had a view of Kay’s Chevy with the Kohl’s bag still on the trunk. BUT not for long!
As they ate, they noticed a woman in a red gingham shirt stroll by their car. She looked quickly this way and that, and then took the Kohl’s bag without breaking stride. She quickly walked out of their line of vision.
Kay and Ellen shot each other a wide-eyed look of amazement… It all
happened so fast that neither of them could think how to respond. ‘Can you imagine?’ finally sputtered Ellen. ‘The nerve of that woman!’
Kay sympathized with Ellen, but inwardly a laugh was building as she
thought about the grand surprise awaiting the female thief. Just when she thought she’d have to giggle into her napkin, she noticed Ellen’s eyes freeze in the direction of the serving line.
Following her gaze, Kay recognized the woman in the red gingham shirt with The Kohl’s bag hanging from her arm. She was brazenly pushing her tray toward the cashier. Helplessly they watched the scene unfold. After leaving the register, the woman settled at a table across from theirs, put the bag on an empty chair and began to eat. After a few bites of baked whitefish and green beans, she casually lifted the bag into her lap to survey her treasure. Looking from side to side, but not far enough to notice her rapt audience three tables over, she pulled out the tissue paper and peered into the bag.
Her eyes widened, and she began to make a sort of gasping noise. The noise grew. The bag slid from her lap as she sank to the floor, wheezing and clutching her upper chest. The beverage cart attendant quickly recognized a customer in trouble and sent the busboy to call 911, while she administered the Heimlich maneuver.
A crowd quickly gathered that did not include Ellen and Kay, who remained riveted to their chairs for seven whole minutes until the ambulance arrived.
In a matter of minutes, the woman with the red gingham shirt emerged from the crowd, still gasping, and securely strapped on a gurney. Two well-trained EMS volunteers steered her to the waiting ambulance, while a third scooped up her belongings. The last they saw of the distressed cat-burglar was as she disappeared behind the ambulance doors…………….the Kohl’s Bag perched on her stomach!!”
