That craft?

Yeah, that craft I was making??

uhhhhh, I never got a picture of the finished product.




I'll get back to you about that soon!

Sorry!

Year of Doubt Book Review

Year of Doubt is written by Dorcas Good.  It is copy-right 1989 by Rod and Staff Publishers.  You can purchase it online at rodandstaffbooks.com or by phone at (606) 522-4348.

The book is set in Green Hill, Indiana.  It is set in modern-day time.  The book covers one school year, from fall until spring.

The main character is Lois Ann Owen, who is fourteen and the oldest of seven children.  She is nervous about starting a new school and she has a bad attitude about moving all together.  She doesn’t like her big family (!) or how poor they are.

The main theme of the story is how Lois Ann thinks she can be good enough in her own strength.  After struggling for awhile, she becomes a Christian and has to work to change her attitudes. Another theme is Hilda, the rich girl who is mean to Lois Ann and constantly teases her and tries to get her into trouble. Once Lois Ann becomes a Christian, she must learn to deal in the Christian way with Hilda.

Then Lois Ann’s Mother gets sick and must be on bed-rest for two weeks!  How can Lois Ann take charge of everything; laundry, cooking, cleaning and mothering for that long? And the garden is getting ready to harvest! What can Lois Ann do? Does she rely on God for her source of help? Or does she try to do it all her way?

Year of Doubt is a very real book. I really enjoyed the comparison between Lois Ann as a Christian and before she was a Christian. I learned more about how to have a good relationship with God. I also learned about how to be thrifty with what we have and to thank God for it no matter what.

The author did a good job describing the places in the book. You could see Lois Ann’s frustration when she didn’t have enough chocolate to make cookies and you could see the shabbiness of their house. The author also made Lois Ann’s struggles feel very real. You could relate to her and what she was feeling.

This is a great book. I read it almost nonstop on the way home from Florida. You should read this book to find out what happens and discover again how it feels to accept Christ through Lois Ann.

~LindseyMarie

Play Dough Recipe

Do you know someone who would love to play play dough?? Well, I have a good recipe for it! Although I can't boast it as delicious or low in calories, I CAN boast that it feels amazing on your hands!

Play Dough

1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of salt
1 tble of oil
1 cup of water
A few drops of food coloring

Add all the ingredients into a pan. The amount of food coloring should depend on how deep a color you would like the dough.

Now heat the ingredients on the stove at medium heat. Mix. The liquid will start getting lumpy and yucky, but keep mixing. Mix until the mixture is doughy. At this point I sprayed a small part of the counter with cooking spray and dumped the dough on it. Now you knead the dough until it's cooled down. The dough will become really smooth and feel great on your hands! I love new play dough!

And there you go, new, homemade play dough! Have fun!

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!

~Lindsey Marie

&

Emily

Any Guesses???

I had a great time tonight making up ________! Any guesses??

More coming soon!

~LindseyMarie

I Love this picture!!!

I took this picture last Saturday while making Oreo Truffles. Recipe coming soon!

Rearrange!

I like to rearrange things until they're perfect. And then a few months later, I rearrange them. Again. And again.

Lately I've kept my room pretty much the same way for a while. I might get in a cleaning streak and clean and organize for a day, but I've been pretty happy with where my furniture lay. But then my room started getting really messy. Clothes on the chair, on the bed, a few in the dresser, on the floor, papers everywhere, but I'm sure you've seen a messy room!

That's when I get in a rearranging mood! This last time, I had three siblings, (ages 8, 6, and 2), in my room getting into things while I moved things. Moving a mattress by yourself with a two year old playing hide and seek around it, is HARD!

I moved my bed to a whole 'nother spot, the dresser across the room, stereo on the dresser, chair to a different corner, and my room looks AMAZING! It looks huge! I took a few more minutes to straighten up and organize, and it is so refreshing to walk in my room!

It's amazing how rearranging your room can make so much difference! Not only does it look bigger, but it somehow makes it easier to take the extra time to put things away. It feels great to lay in bed at night with a whole new view of my room and feeling like I'm in a whole new place, only with all familiar stuff around me!

So to sum it all up, I give you a designing tip of rearranging your room. A room. Something that needs to be livened up or needs a new look!