Tip to Save Money

I read this in Woman's World, July Issue and thought I would share it with you.

Cut your water bill by 40%

Amazing but true: $4 out of every $10 of your water bill goes toward toilet flushing! Conserve water and save money by filling a plastic bottle with water and placing it inside thae tank. The extra space it takes saves up to two gallons per flush! A 16 oz. bottle is too small, so try to find something alittle larger! We found the Propel water bottle to work well.

Pray More

Charles Spurgeon wrote: "Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom. Ask, and ye shall receive. It is a rule that never will be altered in anybody's case. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the elder brother of the family, but God has not relaxed the rule for Him."

"If the Royal and Divine Son of God cannot be exempted from the rule of asking that he may have, you and I cannot expect the rule to be relaxed in our favor. Why should it be? What reason can be pleaded why we should be exempted from prayer? What argument can there be why we should be deprived of the privilege and delivered from the necessity of supplication? I can see none: can you?"

"If you may have everything by asking, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is, and I beseech you to abound in it."

Our provision comes from asking God. Our wisdom, strength, understanding, and perseverance comes from asking God! His continued hand on our lives comes from asking! The welfare of our families and the needs of our friends comes from asking! James 4:2 says: "You do not have because you do not ask God."

Hope this encourages you to Pray More!!!

Homework Fun

Last night Nathaniel's homework assignment was to find items around the house to sort and classify into different groups. I was thinking for a while of what items to choose, then I remembered saving all my buttons from clothes, dresses, and even saving some from my mom's clothing. I had a ton of buttons in my little sowing box. I got those out and one little boys homework assignment turned into an entire family project that lasted about 45 min. We had different groups going on, buttons with out holes, buttons with 4 holes, 2 holes, buttons made with material, and so on... It was so much fun! Start saving your buttons now!!! I lie not, while I am typing this my daughter Kayla just walked in this room and asked, "Mommy, where's the buttons, please mommy I want to play the button game with you again." I can not believe it!!! She read my mind. Too bad I loaned the buttons to Nathaniel's teacher to use as a class sorting game.

Another Reason

Reason # 2 for starting my new adventure out into the blogging world. Lately, I have been reading some things that have been so encouraging. I sat and prayed "Lord thank you for sending these people my way, you sure know how to speak through others." Then I thought Why Not Join??? So here I am a "blogger" (lol)

Thank you for your wonderful ideas and encouraging words. I loved the cleaning tips! Thanks Mary, I am going to come up with a weekly calendar for myself. I loved the one about Praying for your Children!!!!! Somthing I have started to do more of since reading that blog!! Thank You!!!

Hello

I don't know who will be reading this, but I wanted to take my first blog and introduce myself.
I am 27 years old. I am happily married to my handsome husband Roy. We have been married since June 4th, 1999. (you do the math...lol...) I have two children, Nathaniel age 6 and Kayla age 5. I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, then moved to South Florida, where I lived with my family for 23 years. Just about one month ago, we moved to Tennessee. I have been a Christian since I was 5, but am still growing in the Lord everyday. I think the reason I am starting to "blog" is so that I can journal things that have happened in our lives as a family. I want to leave something for my children to read later on in life. I want them to know all the cool things God has done. I may send daily clips of what we've done that day, like a photo album of memories, or I might go back to past things in my life. For example, how did I come to know the Lord at the age of 5. It is a cute story, I can't believe I still remember it...lol...But it is a story I think my kids would enjoy reading about. So there may be no date order to my blogs and at times it may be something that doesn't even interest you. That's ok, skip it and maybe the next blog will be right up your alley.