A Mile in My Shoes: Gardening

Quotes

“Our Master has never promised us success. He demands obedience. He expects faithfulness. Results are His concern, not ours. And our reputation is of no consequence at all.”
~ Amy Carmichael ~
“Faith isn’t the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It’s simply taking God at His word and taking the next step.”
~ Joni Eareckson Tada ~
“Write it over all your difficulties. Pen it across all your disappointments. Inscribe it on all your fears. Post it over all your troubles: ‘God is able.’”
~ Hudson Taylor ~
“Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees takes off his shoes. The rest sit around it and pluck blackberries.”
~ Elizabeth Barret Browning ~
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
~ G. K. Chesterton ~
“Four things to learn in life; To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.”
~ Helen Keller ~
“He who restrains his anger overcomes his greatest enemy.”
~ Roman Proverb~

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Flowers here, flowers there, flowers everywhere!

The three day weekend afforded us some time to do something we've been meaning to do for years.

Plant flowers in the front of our home.

We've done it in the past, and have intended to do it even more often, but it always seems to get pushed to the back burner. Years of inattention left our flowerbeds looking more like a Prairie Restoration Project, much to the dismay of our neighbors, I'm sure.

Well, this year not only did we plant flowers, we Weed n' Feeded our lawn! It doesn't look spectacular, but at least it looks like we care!

3 flats of Impatiens and 4 garbage bags of Llama "beans" later...

We have this. Yippeee!

And then all the flowering going on outside inspired me to get some flowering going on inside. I came across this craft online a couple times. I even ran into it at Michael's. (Have you seen the new line of Martha-inspired craftiness there? Be still my heart, I can't believe the woman didn't start this sooner.) Now I can run into it every time I walk between my living and dining room.

Aren't they pretty? I think I need to make a matching table arrangement....

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Who's Amy Lu?

Let me introduce myself! I'm a 30-something stay-at-home home-schooling Mother of two (one by adoption, one by birth). I love to craft, I love to cook, I love to knit, and I can't keep my house clean to save my life. I've been married to my college sweet-heart since 1995. I've lived in the Midwest all my life and just in case you didn't know, Lake Michigan is my lake.

July 2008