Oh Sew Nice: Stitching a Family together with God's Love.

What Lies Inside You! Mixed Media Art...

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:55:00 +0000

I love this quote! I am discovering my own artist within. The best part of painting is being able to make mistakes work or easily fix them. I have made so many mistakes that sometimes I just put gesso over the whole canvass and start completely over. I am finding this to be a very freeing experience.

My new idea and inspiration is from the book of Psalms. I found an old book of Psalms at the library for a dollar! I am going to paint around my favorite verses. Can't wait.

More Quilted Fall Items

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:49:00 +0000

I have been working on my goal of 15 items for the craft show. I am now at 6! I am working hard to use all my fabric that is in my fall drawer.

Mixed Media Art

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:43:00 +0000

Every night my husband and I paint. He started the project because he needed something to do that was relaxing and therapy like. So I joined him. It has become our favorite time of the day. I am finding the artist hidden within. :) Here are a few of my creations.

This one I used lots of scrapbooking paper scraps, stencils, gesso, gelatos, and artist pens.

This is actually my first one painted on a journaling page. I was trying to figure out how to use all the artist supplies my husband bought.

This one I painted on a piece of wood I found in our garage.

This was something I had drawn in my journal awhile back. I drew it again and painted it. I used acrylic paints, gelatos, gesso, and paper.

I found this girl in a National Geographic Magazine. She was looking at a dinosaur in a Natural History Museum. I loved her shoes and wanted to put her in more creative setting. I love how this turned out. I took the words randomly from the article that was written around her picture. It says, "Floated high up I watched Summer's end. "

I would love for this to be my kitchen window.

This one represents all the places we lived while in the army and today.
Home is wherever my family is...No matter how many moves we make!

This one I just painted with acrylic paints on gesso. After splattering paint around I saw this Native American Woman in it. So I did my best to bring her out. Then I cut out words from an old book that says, "Beautiful at the beginning of memory."

Craft Show Here I Come...With Riley Blake

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 06:34:00 +0000

Now that the sewing bug is back I decided to set a goal of making at least 15 items for this years craft show. The craft show is in November so I think I can get this goal met! It is still June too! lol I pulled out a box of fabric and decided to use everything in it that I could and if I couldn't use it all I would throw it away! GASP! I know! I have a hard time throwing the smallest piece of fabric away! But I need to because I have way too much fabric and not enough time. Ok! Instead of throwing it away, if it is still a usable amount, I will donate it! :)

So I have made 3 runners for Halloween. Actually I finished quilting and binding them today too, just need to take pictures. This is Riley Blake fabric from 2 Halloweens ago, but it is still super cute! I think they should sell and if not....I will gladly keep them. :)

4th of July Flowers Wall Hanging Quilt

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 06:11:00 +0000

I put this together too! I feel so happy to be quilting and sewing again. Homeschooling took more out of me than I could ever had imagined! It was also more rewarding too. And that is probably why we have committed to next year too. I am going to try to make time in the school day, somehow, to sew. For some reason that is more important to me than finding time for the gym. lol

Be True to Yourself....Create!

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 06:07:00 +0000

I am sewing again! I finished up our year homeschooling and found myself looking through old patterns. I had bought this pattern years and years ago. I thought this would be a good place to start to get myself back into sewing. I have always wanted to make this wall hanging and thought now was the time. The kids were at VBS all morning and I had the house clean and to myself. I had so much fun digging through my scraps. This was a fun pattern to follow and I love how it turned out.

Just starting the project and following the pattern!

I love my quilt blowing in the wind. Accidentally blowing the wrong way, but decided that didn't really matter. These are all scraps my Grandma had given me a few years back mixed with a couple from my stash. I will always remember how my Grandma taught me to sew and this quilt is a symbol of that for me.

Finished! Quilted! Binding done! Hanging in our school room! I hope this inspires the kids to always be creative in our homeschool classroom and their life.

Life Changes...

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:21:00 +0000

I posted last that I was moving on. For some reason that was easier said than done for me. I can't believe my last post was in November! I can't believe I am still not sewing!!! Everyone can't believe that actually! I am going to try to start picking up where I left off and hopefully work up until now. Then maybe I will have myself back together and I will be sewing again and have it all together again because right now I am hanging together by a thread.

Here is a picture of the kids when we first moved to Arizona! I think the sun made them grow as much as it made them tan!

We are truly happy to be home with family again! What an amazing experience to go to the doctor alone or with the one sick child because you have your mom to watch the other ones. I have never had this before. I used to have to juggle all 4 in the tiny doctor office. It is so much easier to sit in the doctor office with the one sick child! I am feeling blessed because of just this!

We loved the time we spent living with my parents. Most days the kids found their way to the pool or spa! They couldn't get enough of swimming, I, on the other hand, found myself becoming sick of it!

We spent 4 months living with my parents. We moved into our new home in October. I actually can't believe it, but we don't have any pictures of our new house! I will have to take some soon! I love our new house. I think we just wanted to get in and unpacked as quick as possible so we could start relaxing and moving on. We still have boxes and closets that are a mess 4 months later, but we don't feel rushed to finish. We plan on being here forever and when we move it will be on our terms. It is such a strange feeling to know that this is our house for as long as WE want to live here! We are loving this feeling.

What I am most thankful for is that I feel like I am getting my husband back. He is home more than ever and he is finally there for us. We are working through a lot of baggage and junk that the army put on us, but we are getting through it. I guess we are unpacking mental baggage right now instead of unpacking our household stuff. With 5 surgeries in a row and loosing many physical abilities he finally admitted to depression. Some changes are really hard to accept and make.

So we got a puppy. I think our other dog is happier because of this little puppy we rescued from the pound and we are happier too. She makes us smile and is great at cuddling on the couch!

So that is a good catch up and I hope to get a picture on here of our new house and what else we have been up to. I have been putting all of my creativity, energy, and myself into my kids and homeschooling them. That will probably be the direction my blog will be going to now. Life changes...

Moving On

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 03:01:00 +0000

Then we had kids! And traveling and life changed. We lived in Germany for 4 years total and had 2 babies, first a boy and then a girl. Such sweet memories.

Then we moved to South Korea.

And while living in South Korea we had one more baby. We lived there for 2 years. The first year was culture shock, but the second year we really enjoyed ourselves.

Then we moved back to the States! We spent the summer with my parents in Arizona. It took some time to get adjusted to American life again.

Then we moved to Virginia where my husband worked in DC. And there we had our last baby, a boy.

And this was us living in Virginia. We lived there for four years. This was our first real home too. I miss it terribly there.

Easter in Germany

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:44:00 +0000

I loved Easter in Germany. I loved the way everyone decorated their trees and bushes with eggs. Flowers were just starting to bloom and the bare trees were covered in brightly painted eggs. I loved it!

Cooking in our tiny kitchen was always an adventure!

I really miss this view!

Living in Germany Before Kids

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:37:00 +0000

The first year we spent living in Germany was without kids. We were able to travel quite a bit that first year too! Sometimes it is good to remind yourself of all you have done. I forget very quickly these days because my days are mostly filled with laundry, dishes, and schoolwork!

Remembering our Military Life

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:24:00 +0000

I have had a long break from my blog. We have been living with my parents for a few months and just moved into our new home last weekend. (This is not a picture of our new home!) We finally got our internet hooked up on Monday. This is the home we hope to never move from. This is the home we hope to grow old in and raise our children in. All of this feels so final to me from having been a military spouse for 11 years. I am having a hard time understanding we may never move again. In our 11 years in the military we moved 8 times. We moved from Arizona to Germany for 4 years and within Germany once, then to Arizona for 6 months then to Korea for 2 years back to Arizona for 6 months and then to Virginia for 4 years back to Arizona with my parents for 4 months and then into our new home. I am counting the times we moved for just a few months because that is still moving. The hard part about those moves was that I was usually alone because my husband had to go to training.

So all this has got me reminiscing. This picture is of my husband and I when we first moved to Germany. We were so young! We were only 23! We got married at 22 and then 2 weeks later he went to Basic Training for 6 months while I moved in with my parents. Then from Basic he went to Germany without me. I had to wait until the army recognized we were married and he found housing for us. I then had to get all of our belongings into a storage and schedule a shipping date, get passports and the dogs ready for a long trip to Germany. This wasn't a vacation trip this was a trip to live there. It feels much different saying goodbye to everyone, your mom and dad, when you don't know when you will be back. I was so excited to start my new life with my husband in a foreign country, but it was still very hard to say goodbye to my parents. I did feel prepared to move to Germany though. I had taken German in high school for 4 years and had been there as a foreign exchange student twice and once for vacation. So that made it all a little less scary.

I really feel like writing all of this down right now so I wont forget and so my children will know and understand all we went through in our early years. It was a challenging time, but also amazing and I never want to forget.

This is the little village we called home for the first 2 years of our time in Germany. I loved it there. I would go for 3 hour walks with our dogs and not see a person or a home. It was way out in the country. It was beautiful, but it was lonely. We also did not have T.V. or a radio. I definitely went a little crazy at first trying to adjust to this new way of life. I was reading a couple books a week and my house was too clean. I felt alone and started to hate it.

Then I met our German neighbors who spoke very good English! They adopted us into their family and we had tea, coffee or wine quite often with them. I began to not feel so alone in my little German village.

Here is a view of my village while on one of my walks with my mom.

Walking back to our home.

My view from our living room window.

Our bathroom. You could barely stand up in this room!

Our kitchen. No dishwasher and a tiny stove and oven.

Our eating area.

Our living room. That little T.V. was given to us by our landlord. We loved watching American cartoons in German. We could almost understand what was being said.

This is Bamberg, the main city where we were stationed. It was beautiful there!

Every day I would like to write a little bit of my memories. I hope I never forget these experiences and I hope I am able to make new great ones here in our new forever home and life.

House is Sold!

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:16:00 +0000

We sold our house last week. I now have lots to do to get ready to move. In the middle of all of this I also have 3 birthday parties to plan and carry out. We had Kylie's last Saturday and the next two are in June. Such busy times. I am not even sure how I should begin the packing process. I am thinking I should start de-cluttering and take trips to the thrift store drop off. The army is moving us, but they are only paying to move 13,000 pounds of stuff. I am afraid we have more than that. That seems like a lot of stuff to be carrying around. How do we accumulate so much stuff over time?

Honey for a Chid's Heart

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:30:00 +0000

"Oh, the beauty and mystery of words! What richness can be conveyed by those who master them!"

I love this quote from this book. I love words too and reading. I love learning and trying new crafts. I also love bible studies and being in the Word of God. I have always wanted to be a writer of amazing words that communicated meaningfully with others. Mostly, I believe, my words come out a bit jumbled and simple, definitely not worth quoting. The author of this book, however, is defiantly worthy of quoting and remembering. I highlighted something on almost every page of this book!

This book promotes family reading time and is full of great reading lists. Board books, early childhood books, Special Occasions, Christianity, poetry, and young adult are just a sample of that list. We need to make time for what is most important in our life, and that is our children, and what better way to show them their importance to us than to read to them. Parents are the ones who decide the quality of family life their children will have and they decide how much time to invest into their literary world. There are lots of pressures on parents to be able to provide everything for their children these days and our culture has a lot of influence on the choices we parents make. But all parents must make that choice on how to raise their children and decide what is best.

"What I am saying is simply this: As parents we are concerned about building whole people--people who are alive emotionally, spiritually, intellectually. The instruction to train up a child in the way he should go has enormous dimensions. It is to teach a child to think, to influence character, to give high ideals, and to encourage integrity. It is to proved largeness of thought, creative thinking, imaginative wondering. How large are your goals for your children? Why have a small world when you can walk with God into the larger place that is his domain."

The question about how large my goals are for my children really made me think. How about you? This whole book was very thought provoking for me. It had me contemplating the types of books we choose to read to our kids every night. It had me contemplating the books read in school. There is an amazing world of reading out there and I was beginning to realize we have only experienced the tip of the iceberg. For example, why do we choose to read the Disney version of Little Mermaid when the original version is so much better? We read the Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson as soon as I found it on my ipad. There weren't a lot of pictures, but the imagery from the words was breathtaking. We didn't need pictures. And the story was so much more than Disney ever offered.

"Underlying all of this discussion is my thesis that parents who read widely together with their children are going to be those who most influence their children, who have the largest worldview, who have an uncommon delight in what is good and true and beautiful--and an uncommon commitment to it. Sharing and feeling and talking together will come naturally. Books shared with each other provide that kind of climate. "

I hope you get a chance to read this book. If you need a good list of literature for your kids it is a good reference to turn to. I also hope this makes you think, like it did for me, about reading widely together with your children.

(All quotes are by Gladys Hunt from this book)

Old Winter Pants Turned Into New Spring Skirt

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:37:00 +0000

I went through all of my daughters clothes a few weeks ago to bring out the summer stuff and put away the winter. Quite a few of their pants were full of holes like this one. They still fit in the waist, but look terrible in the knees. I thought this year I will try making them into skirts. And I did it! It was so easy. Just cut the pants below the pockets and then cut the seems in between the legs. Use the material from the leg to fill in the open triangle. Then make some ruffles and add them to the bottom of the skirt. I added some flowers to dress it up a bit. Took maybe an hour. The hardest part was hand sewing the flowers on.

Earlier this week my daughter, Haley, picked this book out at the library called, "Super Simple Art to Wear."

She really wanted to make everything in the book and I agreed if we could go over some of the steps a few times for one of the projects we would make it. She picked out the felt purse project. Here are their purses, both of my daughters made one. We did have to buy the felt and felt glue, but had the ribbon and velcro. Everything is just glued together so they were both able to do most of this project on their own. However, I don't know how long these purses will last and I may have to go back and sew everything together. This is a great book and all the crafts are simple enough for young kids to do with a little help.

New Twirly Skirits!

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:41:00 +0000

Haley's Twirly Skirt!

I took my daughters to the fabric store over the weekend and had them each pick out the fabric they liked most for a new skirt. Here is what Haley picked. It actually turned out really cute. She reminds me of a little Senorita!

Here is my little Jacob patiently watching and begging for his turn to say cheese. He is still in his pjs, but still super cute! It really is only 10 am so it is kind of ok that he is still in his pajamas. :)

When Kylie came home from school she quickly put her skirt on too. She has always been great at coordinating color. She has been dressing herself since she was 2 and has always managed to have everything match and look well together. Her skirt is a great representation of her matching ability. She picked this fabric out and put it in this order with no help. When she sets her mind on something there is not much arguing. She is becoming such a young lady, she didn't even run around the yard twirling this time. Kind of made me sad.

This is one of my favorite skirt patterns. It is so easy to make and so fun for the girls to wear. I got this pattern from the book Little Girls, Big Style. I love this book! It truly is the only one I use for making clothes for my girls. I don't have much confidence in my clothes making abilities and this book is written so well I can easily walk myself through any of the patterns. Definitely a must have book if you are interested in learning how to make clothes or if you already know how and want some more cute patterns!

Homeschooling Week 2

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:53:00 +0000

This is my second week of homeschooling Haley in Kindergarten. I am taking this really slow and just working on phonics and writing. We are using the Veritas Press Phonics Museum curriculum and loving it! I am also reading lots of books and the bible with her and we are working in the garden together and talking about plants. I should get a picture of the garden she planted; she planted peppers and tomatos.

For the last month I have been reading so many books about homeschooling from the library. My first favorite book was The Imperfect Homeschooler's Guide to Homeschooling. I loved reading this book and I think I got through it in 2 days. It made me feel confident in myself that I could do this and helped me decide on a unit based study. Out of all the books I read from the library that was written by a homeschooling mom I felt this one was the best. I definitely recommend it to those who are thinking about homeschooling. She even talked about how to set up your house and if you are looking to buy a new home what to look for in a house set up for homeschooling. And that is the exact situation we are in, moving and looking for a good house that will fit our family.

The next book I read that changed my ideas for homeschooling was The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home. This book is huge, but full of great information. It will really change your thoughts toward how you teach your children in the home. This book I will actually buy because it is a book you can constantly go back to and read again and again. I then found myself on their website and really interested in giving my children a more classical education. I went to one of their sites called Peace Hill Press and started shopping! I have now found myself trying to figure out how I can give my children a classical unit homeschooling education.

Which then brought me to another book I must recommend reading: The Core from the Classical Conversations Curriculum. Another book I think I may have to buy and brought me to the Classical Conversations website in search of more information. I can't wait to get started homeschooling!

In the meantime, I am taking it slow with the 2 I have at home. I am just trying to figure out how to teach Haley her short lessons while keeping my busy 2 year old Jacob occupied. Here he is playing with his sensory buckets. This time he had no trouble touching everything and throwing it around the room. Progress is being made for him too.

Baked German Pancake

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:27:00 +0000

This Sunday my husband and I were really tired. We really wanted a nap, but instead we decided to have an afternoon cup of coffee. We don't do this very often. Then we decided we should have some sort of yummy dessert to go with it. So we made this delicious German Apple Pancake that tastes more like an apple strudel or maybe a German version of flan. With ice cream and coffee it is the perfect afternoon pick-me up!

Baked German Apple Pancake

Pancake Batter:

1 cup self-rising flour

6 eggs

1 cup milk

1/2 teaspoon salt

Apple mixture:

4 large apples, peeled and cut into slices

1/4 cup butter

Topping:

1 cup brown sugar

2 tablespoons cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Spray lightly a 9x13" pan with nonstick spray. Place the butter into the pan and put into the oven to melt. After butter is melted, add the apples to the dish. Bake for 20 minutes.

While the apples are baking, combine flour, eggs, milk and salt in the blender. Blend until smooth. When the apples are finished baking, pour batter slowly over the top. Combine cinnamon and brown sugar and sprinkle over the batter. Bake for 30 minutes.

Enjoy with ice cream or plain! We also reheated this the next morning for breakfast with a little syrup, yum!

Letter A Art

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:20:00 +0000

This is Haley's first art project for the letter A. I thought she did such a good job I framed it. I said it should be in a museum. So each time she colors her museum art I will frame it for her in this frame. This week we are learning about the letter A and the artist Levi Wells Prentice. Here is one of his original paintings framed. Looks like Haley's don't you think?

Scrappy Star Quilt Finished

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:29:00 +0000

Last night I finished putting on the binding of my Queen Scrappy Star Quilt. I have been working on this quilt for 4 years. I started it when I was living with my parents for a summer in Arizona. All the fabric is a mixture from my stash I brought with me, my mom's and my Grandma's. When I look at all the different fabrics memories come to me about what I made using those fabrics originally or who they came from. Yes, I do know who or where I got all those little squares of fabric from. My Grandma let me choose from her very old stash that she is quickly trying to use up. My mom's fabric is more on the large floral yellow and blue side. Mine is the bright stuff with mostly pinks and purples, at this time I was sewing for baby girls. This is a special quilt to me.

Kindergarten Day 1

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:53:00 +0000

Here is my Kindergartener! She is only 4, but I know she is ready. She finished the preschool curriculum I made up for her using some ideas from Sonlight. Haley has her own style of dressing and I love it. Every day she comes downstairs it is a surprise. She also loves to color with lots of color which just fits her personality perfectly. We are using the Veritas Press Phonics Museum to teach her to read. I am loving it so far and so is she. Great material! When my older two join us for homeschooling I will then include her in their curriculum for all the other subjects.

My New Adventure of Homeschooling

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:46:00 +0000

We are making a huge life changing choice for our family. We have decided to homeschool. There are so many reasons why we came to this conclusion, but the number one reason was because I know God put it into my heart and moved me to this choice. It is all very personal to me. I then told my family that I felt that God was leading me to this decision. My husband has never been on board for this idea and he asked me why I thought God was leading me to this idea and not my own desires. There are many reasons someone would never want to homeschool if it was about own desires. I will be loosing my free time, my quilting time, my gym time, my clean house, possibly my sanity...homeschooling is not something someone chooses for selfish reasons. We discussed all of my reasons and I asked him to just pray about it and think about it. I knew that if this is what God was calling us to then only He could change my husband's heart and mind.
A few days later my husband prayed during family prayer that he was thankful that homeschooling was put on my heart! I couldn't believe it! I never thought I would hear him say those words. He said I could research it all and ask around about it. After I read every book from the library on homeschooling I started to come up with my ideas on how I wanted homeschooling to look for our family. This is going to be an adventure! It is a whole new world! And it is all a bit overwhelming.
We picked out a curriculum from Alpha and Omega called The Weaver Curriculum. I love the idea of unit studies and including all the kids in the learning. I am letting the kids finish school here until we move. I still don't know when we will be moving, only God does. Maybe now that I have our homeschooling stuff in place and we are prepared to start schooling any time our house will sell. Maybe...
Last night I started to think about my blog. I named it Oh Sew Nice because I wanted it to be all about my sewing and hopefully to get into a business of it. Then my life started to change because of the health and speech issues of Jacob. I have put my sewing aside. I still love to sew. I still think about all I could be sewing and creating, but it can wait. It will still be there when my children are grown. My children are more important to me and they come before me and my sewing! I hope I will still be able to sew here and there, but this blog can no longer be only and all about sewing. This blog is going to have to be about crafting with my children. About teaching my children. Life changes and I hope blogs can too. I was thinking about the name saying Oh Sew Nice: Sewing together a family with the threads God gives us. Or... Oh Sew Nice: Sewing up family bonds through learning. Just some ideas. What do you think?

Happy Easter 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:49:00 +0000

This was a very relaxed Easter for me this year. I did not sew any dresses, purses, skirts, or make any baskets. I haven't actually been sewing at all again. I really don't know why I go through these spurts...anyways. Our Easter was a very special day for our family and I hope it was for yours too.

Here is my beautiful daughter, Kylie. She got a bible study in her Easter basket and went right to working on it. She wants to sit right next to me while I do my bible studies. I hope she always has a hunger to learn more about God and grow a relationship with Him.

My little Haley is growing up so fast! I feel the toddler in her fading very fast!

Such sweet sisters and friends!

My boys! I don't think Jacob's hair will ever behave...fits his personality completely!

The Easter Egg Hunt:

Had to be indoors because of rain, but it was still lots of fun.

Busy Mamas Colossians 3 Bible Study Book Review

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:21:00 +0000

Welcome to my first book review! I have always had a passion for reading books and have always loved to do bible studies. I have been actively involved in group bible studies for about 10 years now, and have even had the opportunity to teach a few. I have, however, had some challenges in this lately, specifically after my 4th child was born about 2 years ago. I began struggling on so many levels that I often felt amazed that I was even functioning most days. I had a deep desire to get back into the Word of God; not to be a part of a bible group, but to feed the hunger that my soul was feeling. I knew deep down that it was God’s strength that was going to get me through my difficult days. During this time I stumbled across a study through Doorpost Ministries entitled “Thirty Days of Bible Study for Busy Mamas.”

I was instantly drawn to this study. The author, Pam Forester, gently leads you through each day with reassurance and true joy. She encourages busy moms through manageable 5-minute studies that can be taken at any part of the day. Pam Forester uses chapter 3 of Colossians to help invigorate and inspire a busy mom through God’s word. This is also a wonderful way to lead into precept study because she challenges you to think about each word you are reading by marking them and studying them in their context. In just 5 minutes a day, you can start to feel God’s word awaken your soul and you will start yearning for more!

What really spoke to me about this bible study is the way it not only leads you through God’s word, but allows you to include your children as well. I am always looking for ways to include my children in what I am learning from God and this study was perfect for that.

This study also does a great job in giving you the freedom to dig a little deeper into God’s Word. There are many opportunities and optional assignments, should you find you have some more time or feel really drawn towards the Word, to explore and continue learning. This makes this bible study really fulfilling because it can adapt to you, and it also allows you to do it more than once without being repetitive.

This is a beautiful book and study. I would recommend this to all moms whether you are busy or not!

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher for my honest review.

Easter Beginnings

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:53:00 +0000

These last few weeks have been busy. Trying to sell a house with 4 kids living in it is not easy. My free time for the computer has been used up by extra cleaning. It still has not sold either which means I must keep cleaning. We have also had a lot of snow days which makes cleaning even harder. But I know God has a plan for us and this house. In His perfect timing it will sell. I am learning to be patient...again.

Here is Jacob, my 2 year old who is now a Puggle in AWANAs. He loves it and is always so excited to wear his shirt. This was also hat day. So proud of my little Jacob. He is really coming along with speech therapy. He consistently uses 2 word phrases now and is able to move his tongue more and more. He has very low muscle tone in his tongue and just in January was not able to touch the roof of his mouth! Now he can and he can stick his tongue out! I have to remind myself all the time about these great improvements he has made for himself and not worry about how long of a road we have ahead.

We did manage to find time to paint our Easter Eggs. Thankful for those snow days!

We also had the neighborhood kids over to make our Resurrection Rolls. They all really enjoyed the bible story, making them, building lego soldiers, playing with friends and eating the rolls they made. Great memories!

Scrappy Star Quilt Quilted

noreply@blogger.com (Oh Sew Nice) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:06:00 +0000

I had my Scrappy Star Quilt finally quilted and now I am working on the binding. Here is a peek at it. I can't wait to finish binding this project and have it on the spare bedroom bed.