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I am ecstatic to let you know, Melissa of Mel's Charming Creations is offering smaller items like this framed chalkboard to YOU! If you live locally, you need to get the hook up with her larger items but because of shipping, those out-of-town should really shoot for smaller items.
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So a blogger friend acquaintance of mine {she's got a bazillion readers of which I'm just 1} is starting this really cool link-up series called "My Husband is Awesome" over at the Bohemian Bowmans. I love this because I LOVE my husband and don't get to praise him enough {via the net or in person}. Recently I noticed when reading other blogs {since 2-5 minute blurps are what I read if and when I read} that there are several women talking about marriage stuff/bettering their marriage or their husbands in general. I talk a big game and know that my husband is my best friend, my confidant, my biggest fan, and the person who treats me the most like Jesus. Many days I wish I could write about how-to better your marriage, love your hubs better etc...but I don't. Because...I don't. I'm aweful at 'working on' my marriage. Loveing my hubs in his 'language'. I get stuck in that same rut of kids, house, and my self-involved blogging business. I've always been bad about not trying unless I knew I was going to be successful at something. Even right now, I've been struggling with not trying in a couple areas for fear of failure.Thanks Jess for kicking me off the couch on this. Here's to trying!
This week kicked off with an 'interview' at 1Church so our new church family can begin getting to know us and our vision for The Valley church plant. Matt rocked this out the house! God's refining him into such an amazing communicator! Just listening to him Sunday reignited the fire to jump on board with what God is planning to do in Vilonia!
Monday morning, we had our normal routine of me and the kids going grocery shopping and Matt heading off to his office {aka the local McDonald's}. He even coordinated a Nanna Day for lil J {since he could do his normal awesomeness in taking him to the office with him for the morning} so shopping would be that much easier. When I returned home we informed me he had good news. SWEET! I like good news! "People are coming to view our house at 6!" Even SWEETER!!! As I began my plan of attack on the house in my head Matt quickly grinned and said, "Well, there goes my afternoon." I love this man! He whooped tail going rabid on the garage. He moved all his boxes from his old church office who had found a temporary home in the garage down to the basement. DANG! Such a hoss! Only breaking for the potty and give me smoochies, he was non-stop until it was amazingly organized.
Did I mention he's looking hotter and hotter every day because he's doing this fun 'couch to 5K' thing and is committed to training/running at least every other day. Oh, and he always plans his runs early in the morning or late at night as to not miss family time.
After the peeps that came to see our house didn't jump on making an offer, I did what every rash person does in my situation... I email the realtor that showed our house. hehe I just let her know I would love some feed back: likes, dislikes, concerns, etc. Sadly, she responded that they liked our house but were concerned with the flat roofed patio above the garage and the old water damage in the garage. When I let Matt know she'd actually responded to my insane plea to sell my house completely normal email correspondence with those concerns his pour face sunk. We both had high hopes of these being the ones! Then, he disappeared.
My man has installed a new drainage system in the floor of our patio! He is also planning to fix the quirks in his amazingly designed system before re-sheet-rocking the ceiling in the garage. Take that dis-satisfied potential home buyers! Oh, and I forgot to mention, he bought me 'new-to-me' patio furniture from Craig's List! 1st patio furniture Every AND I get to pick out new cushions!
These are just the new ways he's found to love me this week, added to the doing breakfast duty so I can shower, helping with my babes, changing ridiculous amounts of poopy diapers {ya know, since he can't smell. For Real}, and doing nightly bath/bed so I can do my 'chores'. I love my man!!!!
I know yours isn't ever gonna be as cool as mine but if ya wanna share anyways, comment below or hit up Jessica's link-up to share with many others!
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The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.
“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
So what does this parable have to do with 20 Days of Giveaways??? Well, it means if you are just hearing about this HUGE giveaway today, that's okay.
Day 1: Sarah Mae: 31 Days to Clean, How to Market and Sell Your eBook, and Frumps to Pumps
Day 2: Amy Bayliss' Pursuit of Proverbs 31
Day 3: Jessica Bowman's Raising Wild Things
Day 4: LeighAnn Dutton's 20 Minute Meals eCookbook
Day 5: Mel's Charming Creations' Antiqued Framed Chalkboard
Day 6: Little Diva's Bling N Bows $25.oo Gift Certificate
Day 7: Poppy Seed Projects $25.oo Gift Certificate
Day 8: V. Lynn James {local artisan} Owl Canvas Painting
Day 9: Diva's Faith N Frills' 2 Flower Hair Clips
Day 10: DaySpring Christmas in Aug Set
Day 11: Today's a Gift $25.oo Gift Certificate
Day 12: Avon {Personal Rep: Lori McCorvy} Strawberry White Chocolate Bath Set
Day 13: What's in the Bible? DVD Vol 1
Day 14: Union28 $25.oo Gift Certificate
Day 15: InchBug Set of Orbit Labels
Day 16: Mercy House {via We are THAT family} $25.00 Gift Certificate
Day 17: Thirty-One Gifts {personal consultant Jessica Colley} Large Utility Tote
Day 18: It Works! {personal consultant Danna Magness} $25.oo Gift Certificate
Day 19: Preservation Theory CD Tonight
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As a band, Preservation Theory has a strong desire to first put God above all things. As musicians, PT has a desire to lead people in worship of our God and to make themselves available for anyone who might need a worship band. They do not charge for appearances. This means that the smallest church with no budget can have them play an event for nothing. PT wants to be a ministry that goes where God calls them. If that happens to be a youth group of ten, they are happy to be serving the Savior in any way they are able.
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Here's a complete linked up list of the 20 Days of Giveaways! Click around and enter to win them ALL!
{All giveaway are live until midnight Aug 19th when they all close!}Day 1: Sarah Mae: 31 Days to Clean, How to Market and Sell Your eBook, and Frumps to Pumps
Day 2: Amy Bayliss' Pursuit of Proverbs 31
Day 3: Jessica Bowman's Raising Wild Things
Day 4: LeighAnn Dutton's 20 Minute Meals eCookbook
Day 5: Mel's Charming Creations' Antiqued Framed Chalkboard
Day 6: Little Diva's Bling N Bows $25.oo Gift Certificate
Day 7: Poppy Seed Projects $25.oo Gift Certificate
Day 8: V. Lynn James {local artisan} Owl Canvas Painting
Day 9: Diva's Faith N Frills' 2 Flower Hair Clips
Day 10: DaySpring Christmas in Aug Set
Day 11: Today's a Gift $25.oo Gift Certificate
Day 12: Avon {Personal Rep: Lori McCorvy} Strawberry White Chocolate Bath Set
Day 13: What's in the Bible? DVD Vol 1
Day 14: Union28 $25.oo Gift Certificate
Day 15: InchBug Set of Orbit Labels
Day 16: Mercy House {via We are THAT family} $25.00 Gift Certificate
Day 17: Thirty-One Gifts {personal consultant Jessica Colley} Large Utility Tote
Day 18: It Works! {personal consultant Danna Magness} $25.oo Gift Certificate
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The Valley Church was planted on Easter 2013. Our church was NOT destroyed by the tornado because the church is a people not a building. Our meeting space may be gone but we will continue to be a light for Jesus in this community!
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