Avocado

Well I am trying to grow and avocado. And it is growing!

So nice

Derek found these beautiful dragonfly hooks for us. he put this up by the back door for me. Such a lovely place for little aprons or rain jackets.

Update

So, it's been a really long time since I felt like putting any effort into anything....
But because I know you care about us/me way more than I deserve or comprehend here's the news. :)
I am feeling really great these days!!!! My week of isolation went well. I was well cared for by our church family here and I had plenty to do to while away the time with packets of things to do for each day from Abbi and family and plus my host family loaned DVDs to me and the weather was such that I could get out and walk too.
The kids did really well here with their grandma taking care of them. They had tea party's and got to have a picnic even on a rainy day, in the garage.
We were also blessed to get to have Derek back sooner than we thought we would!
I had a scan this past week and all is well, there is no other cancer and the treatment did what it was supposed to do!
So, in short, God has blessed us in big ways every day. Thank you so much for your prayers!
Love to all, MJ

All dressed up

My three happy kiddo's!

reduce, reuse, recycle

Here are a few pictures of ways that I R-R-R. this top picture is of a small bag dryer I made from chopsticks and a pint canning jar. I put some dry beans in the bottom to keep the chopsticks in place.
This is an old hair serum pump that I rinsed out and put hand soap in.
this is a cream pitcher from a set my mom got as a wedding present. The handle broke off at some point so we glued it back on and turned it into a planter. I have another favorite cup that broke lately so it is now a small planter too.
This is one of my favorites. It is two things being recycled. The tin is a retired maple sap collecting bucket that is now my kitchen trash can. I use a small can in my kitchen so I can reuse all the bags I come home with every time I go grocery shopping! I have to take out the garbage from the kitchen at least once a day but I much prefer to run out side often then to have my kitchen smell like garbage.
I like to think of ways to reuse things. Things like the sandwich bags I don't think I'm saving that much money or saving that much space at the landfill. But maybe both together makes it worth my while.

Blessed

Philippians 4:19 +20
And my God will meet all your needs
according to his glorious riches
in Christ Jesus.
To our God and Father be glory
for ever and ever. Amen.

Last night I was feeling rather stressed about where I will stay when I am radioactive. And I was stressed about how everything would work. But my God saw my need and cared for it.
Derek called our preacher from church to ask for people to call and check on me in the upcoming weeks. Tom said that would be no problem and that one of the elders and his wife had volunteered their home for me to stay in while I was undergoing the treatment! Volunteered! No body asked them to share their home they saw the need and offered their services.

Lars

Here is our engineer hard hard at work with his new train set! This is the other toy we bought this month. It has been fun to watch him play with it. He mostly likes us to make the track and then he can drive his train around and around. He does build tracks too and is quite proud of himself whenever he does!