Faith and Family Books | December 30, 2009
I still don’t know how she did it, but she did it…she broke her nose. The stories have been conflicting … she fell off the box spring, face first onto the hard laminate flooring, no, she fell off our old antique school desk onto the hard laminate flooring… However “Blondie” did it, she broke her nose. [...]
Faith and Family Books | December 29, 2009
Robert’s mom ended up opting to go to Manor Care on Saturday for rehab since she was feeling unsteady on her feet and not quite ready to go home. By the time she was moved on Sunday to Manor Care and there about an hour, she was antsy and wished she had felt as good [...]
Faith and Family Books | December 29, 2009
We receive a newsletter from a local commercial farmer, who also happens to be a Christian. They do much in our community to raise awareness of Christianity. I liked the following quote he shared last week:
“The following is an excerpt from an article on contentment in the Lutheran Witness magazine; I think this says it all: ‘Our heavenly [...]
Faith and Family Books | December 25, 2009
We want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! We will be cooking and preparing things for Robert’s mom, as well as visiting her in the hospital. Or at least some of us will be. I am not too keen on having the younger ones in the hospital and exposed to the many germs [...]
Faith and Family Books | December 24, 2009
written December 23, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Robert’s mom is in ICU for the night. The surgery took longer than they thought it would since they found another artery that was calcified, so they worked on that one too.
Robert and his brother spent the afternoon and early evening with their mom, until she told them to [...]
Faith and Family Books | December 23, 2009
I know there are some readers who are homeschoolers may be interested in learning of a Homeschool Buyers Co-op. It is a group of 55,000 homeschoolers and growing strong who are a part of a co-op that organizes special buys of products that homeschoolers are looking for, but at discount prices. Membership is free and [...]
Faith and Family Books | December 19, 2009
Disclosure: I did receive free samples to do this review; however, that in no way affects my opinion of the product. Nor have I received any compensation from the company, other than the samples to write this review.
A week or so ago, I found a free listing to list our blog. This led to receiving [...]
Faith and Family Books | December 18, 2009
Here is an update: Robert’s mom is doing well after her procedure yesterday, which did not involve angioplasty. However, they did discover that the blockage causing her foot pain is in an artery of her leg and will require bypass surgery on that artery. This surgery is scheduled for the 23rd, two days before Christmas!
There [...]
Faith and Family Books | December 18, 2009
Most of you are aware that one reader notified me of the upcoming TV Guide special on the life of Susan Boyle. Well, we don’t have regular TV, cable or satellite. All I could do was hope TV Guide would upload it on their website or onto YouTube.
Due to Robert’s mom needing someone to stay [...]
Faith and Family Books | December 16, 2009
You all know that I have been working with a couple of businesses that are focused on offering fair trade products and practices. Both five ACCESSORIES and Mayu give back to their artisans, but in different ways.
While working on a blog post for The Fashionable Bambino, I came across another organization that gives back, Krochet [...]
