One Sentence Prayers

Jesus, let me receive your grace.

I love Christmas Music!

You stole my heart

Dear Brett,

I just wanted to tell you that you stole my heart the other day. Granddad came over to help you work on a project in the shop. As he was leaving you told he how pretty the Christmas tree looked and how each ornament has a memory and meaning behind it. You then picked out a few of your favorites to show him. Thank you so much for doing that. It means so much to me that you love our “random” tree. Although I think a better name for it is our memory tree. I am so excited that we will add to this tree every year. The ornaments will represent our memories as a family. I love you so much and I just had to tell you that you stole my heart.

Love you dearly,

Jill

I love Christmas Music!

We took our cat on a walk

I am not joking, we took Tiger on a walk this past weekend. I carried him down the driveway and up the street just a bit. Then I set him down and he started to follow us. There was no leash at all. He walked with us all the way around the block. He would stop to sniff some yards and he found the sewers very interesting. Some times I think he is more of a dog than a cat.

But he might be people cheating on us. All day Sunday we didn't see Tiger. Finally about 5:00 pm I got worried. My fear was that he fell down into the sewer and couldn't get back out. So we went walking down the street looking for him. After a bit he came running home. I picked him us and snuggled my face in his fur. What did I smell but another woman's perfume!! I think he found a sweet lady down the street . . .

One Sentence Prayers

Holy Spirit, lead me into the truth and keep my lips from lying.

I love Christmas Music!

A great give away!

This is my first time to post about a give away and this one is GREAT!!

Hop over to Totally Together Reviews and check it out. You are going to love it.

Stephanie has this to say, "How would you like to have an absolutely PERFECT cup of coffee or mixed espresso drink without having to grind beans, do any measuring, or steam any milk? The Tassimo will make you your perfect coffee-house quality drink when ever you’d like and you don’t need to ever leave the house. Or your office. Or your pajamas."

I agree 100%

What a wonderful weekend

Brett and I had a great weekend at Petit Jean state park. Some of the highlights were good food, good movies, the hot tub, beautiful weather, great hiking, finding 11 geocaches, and celebrating one year of being married.

Pictures to come soon.

I love Christmas Music!

One Sentence Prayers

Make me a tree of life and water my spirit.

Trying some thing new . . .

My mom and I are going to try some thing new over Christmas break. We have two couches in the living room. One from Brett's Nana and one from Brett's parents. The are in great condition, but the fabric is out of date. So mom and I are going to try to recover them.

We will start with Nana's couch. It has straight lines and a simple frame. The fabric is a dark brown diamond pattern with a khaki dot at the points of the diamond. I'll try to get a picture of the fabric up here soon.

Wish us luck!! I'll post pics later to show our progress.

We said good bye to more debt

The final payment is in the mail for our mattress. When we got married we both had full size beds. We very quickly upgraded to a queen with a pillow top. We lovingly call it the cloud.

When we bought it we got a year and half interest free - same as cash. We took advantage of the offer and have paid it off in full before the interest kicked in. I would recommend this method of purchasing big ticket items - as long as you know that you can pay off the full amount before the interest takes effect. The interest rate would have been 27.99% that is $500 extra!

We also bought our washer and dryer this way. But we got two full years to pay it off. It was an amazing deal that Sear offered for about two weeks. I think the plan is to pay this one off even earlier and then we will be debt free!!! That is a wonderful feeling!

I encourage any one who is in debt to take action to pay down your debt. It is possible to live debt free.

Christmas Shopping is Finished*

Yes that is right I have finished my Christmas shopping. Ok well almost finished. I have one cousin left. I am waiting for suggestions from the parents. But it feels so good!! And as a bonus I have more than half of the presents already wrapped and under the tree.

AND . . . The outside of the house is decorated and the tree is up and decorated. And I only have two more boxes of decorations to go through.

Now I plan to focus on the real meaning of Christmas - Christ's birth. And not be stressed out and overwhelmed.

I love Christmas Music!