Does anyone else feel like the month of March has just been going by like crazy!?! I mean… there has been so much happening in this month, I feel like I have experienced so much but hardly been able to keep up… especially on the blog.
March Madness: Nature Declares His Glory
It’s Good Friday, and my daffodils are blooming! I happened to get a huge bag of bulbs on sale last fall at Lowe’s and planted these in the azalea garden in our front yard. They bloomed so beautifully in front of our picket cross.
I absolutely LOVE how this perfect daffodil sprang up in front of the cross just facing completely out in all its beauty. But the best part is the picture below…
Would you look at that?!?! All Creation Sings of His Glory!! I admit I totally got teary eyed looking at the 4 daffodils completely turn to the cross with the one daffodil in front of the cross facing out. How nature declares His Glory! Amazing!
March Madness: Bath Time Madness
I have to admit… I have been a slacker when it comes to Tot Trays this month…. and switching out her toys. Things have just been so wacky with spring break, beautiful weather, and lots of time spent outside of our home walls. But we did have some fun doing some sensory bath time, which was new 🙂
I put green food coloring in the bath one afternoon and removed all the other toys. I had the plastic eggs on the counter and when Sweet Pea saw them she got so excited! She easily spent 45 minutes playing in her Easter bath! She was a total prune when she got out.
Our first Painting in the Bath sensory time was an epic fail. Here is what I learned from my mistakes:
- Wash child first before bringing paint into the bath. (saves water and time)
- Do not put the pan in the water even if it starts to float… child will put something in the pan, which will then sink, which in turn dissolves all your “paint” and destroys the bath water. (This was my big fail.
- Hold the pan the entire time.
We tried this again a few days after the failure, and it was a much better experience. By the way, the paint is just shaving cream with food coloring added in. Washes the walls well too! Double Win!
March Madness: Declaring His Glory in My Bible
After seeing nature declare His Glory in my front yard, I had to journal about it to my girl in her Legacy Bible. (Want to know more about why I am doing art work in my Bible? Be sure to start here and click on “Bible Journaling” in the LABELS section.) I have been listening to Gungor Radio Station on Google Play Music for the last month… AWESOME worship music! It just makes me want to dance, create, and sing for Him!! As I looked at the daffodils in the yard, this song came into my mind which you can play below…
So I listened to this song as I created the image below for my girl. It’s completely made of scrapbook paper and washi tape. You don’t have to be a “fine artist” to create for the Lord. He loves the fact that you are thinking and worshiping Him while you create whatever it is to bring Glory to His Name!
I journaled this on Psalm 148 which talks about the earth and all its creation praising the name of the Lord. Please feel free to click on the picture below to read what I wrote to Sweet Pea.
This month, I also received the new Illustrated Faith Devotional Kit: You’re Beautiful by Valerie Weiners… amazingly awesome artist and devotional written by her. She is so transparent and has challenged me in looking at some well known passages with a new light. Such as Genesis 3. I am hoping to write a post later specifically addressing this entry in Sweet Pea’s Bible but until then… please click on the pictures to see up close.
Just more scrap book paper taped into her Bible. Sweet Pea loves when I do these in her Bible. Even though she can’t read or understand the words yet, she loves to flip these at 20 months old and look at the pictures I have created for her. It melts my heart to see her loving her Bible and wanting to flip through it.
March Madness: Getting a Garden Ready
My parents came to visit the first weekend of Spring Break bringing with them 4 tomato plants and 2 pepper plants…. which naturally meant we needed a raised garden bed (which I had been begging my man for for about a year). So after he and some friends got done working on the church grounds mowing, he came home and dug a 4×8 hole next to our drive! I needed it in a place that not only got sun, but a place I looked at everyday… so I would water it and not forget that we have plants. I was so proud of my husband! We have had these landscape timbers in our shed and so with much elbow grease and sweat… he created the raised bed below!
$10 worth of rebar and who knows how much dirt and we have beautiful bed ready for some plants!
4 tomato plants, 1 pepper, zinnias, basil, and 2 rows of zucchini are planted in the garden! They are still alive despite the weather getting quite chilly!
March Madness: Seeing My BFF
This is Cory and her daughter Adeline. Cory is “my person…” you know the one who knows every piece of you and loves you just as you are… It doesn’t matter how many miles are between us (6 states) or how long we haven’t been able to talk on the phone (months…) but when we see each other, everything is just normal and peaceful. Souls click. Best Friends Forever. And we better be… we do have matching Spice Girl tattoos….
Life with kids is such an adventure!
March Madness: Lumberjack Basketball
So I did it. I got on the bandwagon, but I think it will last forever. How could you not? Did you read some of those articles…I felt like the whole nation fell in love with our team. Heart melt…Man those Lumberjacks did an amazing job and brought such pride and dignity to the game of basketball and to the town of Nacogdoches. Yes, I know they lost to Notre Dame… but this small sleepy town got to scare the big bad boys of basketball, and they showed that it really doesn’t matter what name you have on your jersey… its the true love of the game. Love you Jacks! You sure did bring a heavy axe down, and I am excited to see what the future madness holds.
March Madness: Comes to a Close
That was the last 2 weeks of March… my life in pictures and fast events. There is much more that has happened especially in the more recent days, but this is what I have captured in pictures.
Easter is in 2 days; it’s Good Friday, but Sunday’s coming!
