Archive for February, 2007

I’ve been tagged for a meme!

4 years ago

by Lundie in Reflection

A friend from MOG, Cheryl, tagged me for the following meme:

The question is: Give 5 Reasons Why I Blog.

I have three blogs, so there are three separate reasons to start with. This blog – I started this blog just to have something to do. Somewhere to write and play and share with family and friends.
J5′s blog. (Invitation only). I blog on this one to share pictures and updates on our little goofy-toofy’s life.
Lundie’s Quest. I blog over there to write about spiritual things. Struggles and inspirations. That one is a little “heavier” than my random wandering fare.
To feel involved. Being a WAHM, I am isolated from people in general. Blogging makes me feel like I’m at least reachable. The blogosphere is huge and has it’s own sense of community.
To clear my head. I can gather my thoughts and tie them up in a nice little post. I have always journalled, and journalling online is more fun – you can link, and highlight, and format to your hearts content. And if you are lucky, people will write back to you!!

I’m also supposed to tag others so. So…Amy (MySpace), Tina (AM), and Shannon.

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Going through a time of physical testing with this cold. I have not been this sick in YEARS. It has been a quiet time with God, and that part is good. Am currently reading Eastertide: Prayers for Lent through Easter from The Divine Hours, by Phyllis Tickle and Get Out of That Pit by Beth Moore.

Gleaning some good stuff. Will write about what I’m learning when I can think straight.

Hope everyone out there is feeling well! I hope to return soon.

Reflection

One Thousand Gifts – Part 29

4 years ago

by Lundie in Blessings

251. Puffs Plus with Lotion
252. The fact that J5 is such a contented boy and doesn’t require a lot of hands-on attention all day long while Mommy is sick.
253. This verse from my K-LOVE daily email:

“We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.”
2 Corinthians 4:7

I have been in such a physically weakened state for the past week that the idea of me being a fragile clay jar is not so hard to imagine.
254. The good feeling of finishing another book on my book list
255. My Bible

Book Review – Danger In The Shadows – Rating: 9 out of 10

4 years ago

by Lundie in Book Reviews, Reflection

Danger in the Shadows, by Dee Henderson

This book is a prequel to The O’Malley Series – some of the best books I have ever read. Ever. Now that I have read the prequel, I’m going to have to read the series again…

Content: 9
Writing Style: 9
Re-readability: 9

Content. Dee Henderson’s books are a wonderful blend of mystery/suspense and personal development. There are a lot of Christian Fiction authors out there who seem to put chunks of spiritual dialog in the midst of an otherwise secular book in an attempt to make it a “Christian” book. This kind of religious-izing a book is more frustrating than anything. And that kind of book is NOT what you get with Dee Henderson.

There’s nothing I enjoy more than when there’s an arc of characters tying a book series together, and the O’Malley series is no exception. It was funny, as I just finished this book, with my fever-addled memory, I was flipping through the front pages to see if there were any other books I had missed, it dawned on me again (though I know I KNEW at the time I purchased this book) that this was a prequel and how the brother of the main character is the main character in the first of the O’Malley series. Somehow, knowing that the character’s story doesn’t end with this book always makes me feel better.

Writing Style. Just awesome. Hers is the best style of writing. Conversational, descriptive, sucks-you-in.

Re-readability. Absolutely. As I said, reading this prequel made it imperative that I find the rest of the series that I know I own (just called my little Sis and made her promise to send them with Mom next time she comes up to visit), so I can go through the series again.
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[Edited to change from a 5 point to a 10 point system. Way too many books were getting 5 stars... ]

Christian Fiction

How I know my husband loves me!!

4 years ago

by Lundie in Blessings

About a week or two ago, I came to the realization that I desperately needed a Dust Buster. I don’t know why it took so long. If you know me, you’ll realize that I’m not a gadget buyer. I don’t like to shop (hate it, hate it, HATE IT!). J4 and I are the epitome of practicality.

So, it was pretty big when I declared this need for a powerful Dust Buster. I think it was about the 479th smooshed goldfish cracker into the play mat that triggered it.

Anyway…a couple of days later, as I was heating up the oven, AGAIN, for two measly chicken nuggets for J5, I realized that an appliance that would significantly increase the efficiency of my life would be a toaster oven. I have never owned one. I wasn’t even sure if I would know how to use one (but was certain it would come with directions in so many languages that I would not fail!)

Well, starting last Friday, J5 got sick with the sniffles. I got hit with some sort of tummy flu-bug. Then J5 got a fever. We got him drugs. Then after recovering from bug #1, I started to come down with the stuff J5′s had. The last two days have been sheer misery.

This afternoon, while J5 was taking his nap, J4 offered to go out and pick up some emergency groceries and some soup.

As if that wasn’t wonderful enough, my amazing man came home with these:

Does that not just scream “I love my wife!!!”? He heard me say what I really wanted / needed, and he not only went out and found both items, but I certainly could not have picked out anything better! He spent quite a bit of time looking at different models (that “hell” better known as “shopping”) and based on what I’d described as my needs, picked out precisely what would do the trick!

People, this was better than a dozen roses and a box of chocolates!!! I kid you not. I just had to share. I am seriously the luckiest woman in the world.
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