My wife teaches second grade and they have been raising butterflies in their class. She shot some video of it so I thought I’d edit it together and post it up. Let me know what you think.
Insect Lore Live Butterfly Garden
Luke
4-4-95
We are now on Daylight Savings Time. D.S.T. was started in 1918. How does this affect you? I get to go to bed earlier.
Anyway I wanted to write a little blog about what Luke and I have been doing to continue faithfully on this debt paying journey, but not completely isolate ourselves from friends, family, and well, frankly fun! As I mentioned before we plan in our (twice monthly) budget money for eating out, date nights, and personal “spend however you want” money, but there are somethings that don’t fit in any of those categories, pop up when we’ve already spent our budgeted money, or are just too expensive to fit in them. When that happens we have three choices: abstain from the activity, spend money that is supposed to go to student loans, or find it somewhere else.
We’ve made all three choices at different times. Recently we’ve tried to abstain when we need to…there was a specific Sunday a week or so ago where we had to say no to lunch with some friends after church and it SUCKED!!! But it was what needed to be done. So we sucked it up and did the RESPONSIBLE thing (I lecture 7 years olds daily on being responsible so I thought I should try it ;).
Read the full post on my wife’s blog.
Luke
1-3-95
Over the spring break I was able to stay with my grandma. My most exciting day was the day my mom tried to win me a car.
Luke
3-16-95
This has been named as National Poison Prevention Week by proclamation. What can you do at home to prevent accidental poisoning at home? Put the poison up high so little kids can’t get into it.
God is faithful!
Isn’t that awesome?!?!? I’m a little teary eyed over here… the exciting news hoped for last week is… we paid off another loan today! $8,000!!!! I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a lot to me! I had NO idea at the beginning of this year that come February 2nd we would have saved $8,000 to put towards paying off a loan. We had some of the money saved from the end of last year, but a good portion of it we saved from this last month (EVERYBODY that includes Christmas and buying our loved ones presents). How can this be? Oh wait… God is Faithful!
Check out my wife’s blog.
Luke
3-14-95
The birthday of Albert Einstein in 1879. He said “imagination is more important than knowledge”. What do you think he meant? He meant that imagination is important.
Luke
3-13-95
Today is the birthday of Percival Lowell. He lived from 1855-1916. He helped discover Pluto. The Lowell Observatory in Flag Staff, Arizona is named after him.
The name of the blog picks up right where this story left off. Maybe a minute after I agreed to trust the Lord and shared the news with Luke, I began to doubt…did the Lord REALLY say He would make it happen? Did He really mean $54,000? Is this all in my head? Wishful thinking? Does the Lord really tell us such specific things? Oh NO!!! What if I just thought this all up and God is up there thinking…this girl??? And they just kept coming…all the doubts over and over. I began to preach the gospel to myself and to pray about my word and trust just kept coming up, at least as much as the doubts. (See what I’m talking about preaching the gospel to myself and my word for the year here). And that is how the name Trusting in the Dark was born. It’s sometimes dark here…I don’t know everything the Lord is calling me to do, I don’t know if He has specifically asked me to trust Him for $54,000, but I DO know He has called me to TRUST HIM this year and He has asked me to ask Him to provide. So I am here, little ‘ole me, trusting in the dark, not able to see all the details, yet trying and learning how to trust through His amazing grace.
Check out my wife’s blog.
Luke
3-10-95
On this day in 1878 Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call to his assistant, Thomas Watson. What are the telephone rules at your house? Do not use the phone without permission.
