Friday's Five Things

1. Marcus’ laughter and dance this morning over finding the poptarts in the pantry all by himself, “Oh yeah, who’s the greatest? Oh yeah, that’s me! I’m takin’ over the world!”
2. Delivering God’s word with cookies this week.
3. The giggling of the children as they watched “Shaun the sheep”.
4. Dinner date with the love of my life and good adult conversation.
5. Reading to the kids each morning this week.

Happy New Year --Five Things
My new year’s reso-- (not really resolutions, but just reminders)
1. Listen more, speak less.
2. Encourage, uplift, edify.
3. Obey God right away, all the way, and with a good heart.
4. Communicate the five second gospel –1. God loves us. 2. We blew it. 3. Christ paid for it. 4. We must receive it. Use words if necessary
5. React less, plan more.

Five Things (Books this time)

Five Things (I try to post my "Five Things" on a semi-regular basis so if you see "five things" in my label list, some interesting things may turn up.)

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The five books closest to this computer are:

EsEssentials of Strategic Management (school book for Ryan)

2. 2. Love Wins (Liberal Theology)

3. 3. His Thoughts Toward Me (uber devotional)

4. 4. B-I-B-L-E (Real Theology J

5. 5. Clep guide to Algebra (for Ryan’s school)

Weird, there were no kids' books in my five….

Okay, five books that are in the library bin.

1. Biography of Charles Lindbergh

2. The Prince and the Pooch (Wishbone’s take on the classic Prince and the Pauper)

3. Crab Cab (Can you say learning to read?)

4. The Periodic Table of Elements (Yep, that’s science)

5. Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig (By the way, Mercy really is a pig)

summer 2010

Five things to love about summer

1. The feeling of toes in warm sand

2. The smell of suntan lotion

3. The sound of sprinklers

4. The taste of ice cream on a stick

5. The smiles of my children

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Five Things on my “To Do” List
1. Pick up Ryan’s pants.
2. Bathe the kids.
3. Get wedding card and birthday card
4. Make cookies
5. Check Email

Five Things on the “I Did Today” List
1. Cleaned a spider out of a spy scope (Hot water works best).
2. Made a high chair from waffle blocks (It takes 9 blocks).
3. Sang like a pirate.
4. Shared the Thanksgiving Day story of when I sat in the blueberry pie (twice).
5. Found out “crayons aren’t born, Mom. They are made in factories.”

Five Books on my End Table

1. The B-I-B-L-E, that's the book for me..
2. The Power of a Positive Mom by Karol Ladd
3. Little Boys Bible Storybook
4. Before Five in a Row (yes, it's curriculm)
5. Photos and Events 2009 (photo album)
What's on your end table?

Five things four year old boys can do.
1. Break light bulbs from ten feet away!
2. Fling sand twenty feet
3. Remove all the sand from the sand box and deposit it in front of the steps (yes, on the
would-be grass) in less than 20 minutes.
4. Plastic seats on tricycles are not good. Packing tape is good.
5. Flood the bathroom by plugging the sink and leaving the water running. Mom, there’s a
FLOOD!!
6. Go through 3 pairs of pants, and wear a hole in the top of one tennis shoe all in the space of
three hours.
7. Speak very loudly very early on Easter morning, "Happy Easter! Mom, the stone was
rolled away! Happy Easter!"
8. Give great big hugs and say, “no, no, no, I love you MORE!” oops, that’s eight.

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Five things to love when you can't move without pain.
1. Good friends
2. Kids who bring you things
3. Muthle relacther (Muscle relaxer)
4. Personal massage therapist (yes, my Daddo)
5. TV that pauses, (and times how long it takes you to go downstairs and come back up)

Five things to never do.
1. Never throw out your back (you may need it again someday)
2. Never pick up the four year old
3. Never pick up two four year olds in a row, as in "Up into the van with Marcus, now Lucas, back down out of the van Lucas, now Marcus." Repeat at three stores in a row.
4. Never be afraid to ask for help
5. Never forget to pray for healing.

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5 reasons to love the internet
1. We are reading Swiss Family Robinson and have looked up most animals (just to see their picture or video, plus words we didn’t know.)
2. There are VIDEOS about how to unclog your toilet! (This seems to happen when Ryan isn’t home.)
3. I can find out what my friends and family are up to without even talking to them (except for grandma of course. My kids love getting picture slide shows in email.)
4. You can copy pictures for use in your own albums or blogs. (I saw a shoe-tree while on a northern Michigan trip with Ryan and it was so strange, I wanted to take a picture but we were on the highway. Online, I found a photo of the same tree and added it to my album.
5. You can order Christmas and birthday presents, or hard to find books without leaving your home.

Five things to love about Christmas

1. Celebrating the savior's birth
2. Time with family and friends
3. Yummy treats --fudge, banana bread, homemade oreo truffles
4. Christmas lights
5. Did I mention the truffles?

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Five movies I like (for various reasons)
1. The Mummy (I’m a …LIBRARIAN)
2. The Prestige (I Never guessed this ending)
3. Ghostbusters (Hey, where do these stairs go? They go up.)
4. Sixth Sense (I never guessed this ending)
5. Ransom (Love for a child revealed)
6. Matrix (Spiritual parallels abound)
7. Schindler’s list (may we never forget)
Oops! That was seven.

October Events
1. Ryan and I see the bridge and hang out in Mackinaw for our anniversary.
2. We travel to Wisconsin to see my cousins and Aunt. I get to go to a baby shower for Baby Girl Wheeler. 
3. We go trick or treating from Great Grandma Doris’ house. The bee and the bear only last one street. Raggedy Ann made it farther, but the Soccer Player and his Dad went the farthest. Weather was perfect.
4. Ryan turns 40 and hangs out with friends and family at a small surprise party.

Five things to love about Sundays

1. Worship with other believers (yes, I am not alone in my walk with Jesus0.

2. A Sunday School class that is a blessing. (we did the book Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World, by Joann Weaver. I highly recommend this book if you want to discover balance between work and worship in your life.)

3. Children's Sunday School --where Godly people patiently pour God's word into my children.

4. Sunday afternoons at my Grandma's house.

5. Watching my husband interact with the children. There's something incredible about seeing the man you love LOVE the children you love.

Five things that taste good

Root beer floats after a hot afternoon
Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting
Cool cherries from the cooler when you are at the beach
Desert my husband brought home for me
Hot food

Five things I love about camping

1. Telling stories in the round by the campfire.
2. Biking to use the "porcelain potties".
3. Hearing the waves of Lake Michigan at night.
4. No TV, no radio, no washing machine, no telephone....
5. Spending time as a family.

Five wonderful smells
1. Baby shampoo
2. Freshly made no-bake cookies cooling on wax paper
3. The perfume that came on the honeymoon
4. Candles
5. Fresh summer morning

Thank you, Lord, for the sense of smell. This blog finds me at home once again. My wonderful husband (with outside assistance from a good friend, thank-you!) has provided me with a working computer. (No more blogging at the library). The whole gang is in bed, and I have finished much laundry and many dishes this evening. No idle hands tonight. God Bless you all and good night.

Greetings friends, neighbors, and anonymous blogsurfers (you know who you are.)
If you are unable to reach me via my regular email, I apologize. We are still without a home computer. Yes, I am still blogging at the library. Even now, strange sounds are emanating from the children's corner where a rather unique flying puppet show is being performed by two small unruly twins. (I wonder where their mother is. probably blogging at the computers...)
So, without further ado, five things.
Five children's books I adore. (I am at the library, after all.)
1. Diary of a wombat.
2. The library lion by Michelle knudson
3. A rooster named BOB! by Tracey Pearson
4. Mary had a little lamb -HOberman
5. 10 Fat Frogs --read this one really fast, in a dimly lit child's room while you are have asleep...very funny...

Those are my preschool/picture book favorites. My older kids list is much longer but I must go. The kids are holding two kids and a librarian hostage.

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Five Things to be grateful for:
1. Summertime
2. Thunderstorms
3. Gardens
4. Patience
5. Children's books

Our Computer is Down and Out

Yes, I am typing this at the library while my children are hopefully playing. I can't see them good from here so if I leave suddenly, you'll know why. (Hee, hee). According to our local and extraordinarily talented computer guru, our computer is in need of a mother. You know, everybody needs a mother. Someone to love, comfort, guide...wait a minute! I didn't mean mother, I meant motherboard. Sheesh!
Anyway, here are my five things. (thank you God, for...)
1. Library internet access.
2. Children who come when called. (Hallelujah!)
3. A sleeping child.
4. A good friend to cry with. ( she makes great coffee, too.)
5. Puppets at the library

Five Things to be Grateful for

1. The sound of your grandma laughing.
2. The sweet smell of chocolate no-bake cookies Grandma makes.
3. All the old photos you can look through with Grandma and find out who people were.
4. The sight of my children hugging Grandma.
5. The taste of hot coffee while sitting at Grandma's table.
(Guess where I went today).

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Five Things to Be Grateful For:

1. Children who love to play outside.
2. Little boy kisses. (Lucas likes to kiss first one cheek and then the other. He will manually turn my head to do this. It's quite entertaining.)
3. The patience the Holy Spirit provides me.
4. Going to the bank with Tim to look at an actual $100.00 bill to check if Ben Franklin is really on it. ("Mom, why don't we have $100.00 bills?" Hee, hee.)
5. A husband who ministers to others.