Back on the Plains

I got this CD for Christmas and it is some kind of wonderful. This is my favorite song. 

Today I went to the woods with three of my boys. Brother had to work, sadly. 

I don't know what it is about being outside, but tromping through leaves breathes life into me.

Ready or not, a new semester is here! And at the moment, I'm perfectly ok with that.

"And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, 

in paths that they have not known I will guide them.

I will turn the darkness before them into light,

the rough places into level ground. 

These are the things I do,

and I do not forsake them."

Isaiah 42:16

What a beautiful promise from the one who has ordained each of my days before one of them even came to be!

Lots of Free Time

Brother just bought himself an iPhone. I played with it and took a few very poorly edited pictures. So here's how I've been spending my life this Christmas break in pictures!

I made these letters in the first two days. This is my dresser in my room at home that now exists!

I bought WAY too many books. I think I got a little carried away. Oops!

This t-shirt quilt has taken hours and hours, but it's well underway!

Every time I quilt I get to know these people a little bit better... Criminal Minds is my new favorite show. One time the serial killer was targeting brunette college students studying child development who babysit.  Let's just say I didn't sleep so well that night.

I've been slowly (VERY slowly) breaking in my new birthday present.

I've looked for Jesus in the Old Testament. And found Him! Imagine that! :)

I was a counselor on the BYG trip to Gatlinburg. I went three times in high school, so the Riverside Motor Lodge was a familiar place, but I learned so much by going in a different context!

After that, I stopped off in another part of Tennessee for the last few days of a wonderful conference with wonderful friends. I got to hear John Piper live (twice!) and was really given a lot to think and pray about as I start a new year and new semester!