Music Monday: Scripture Memory Songs for the WHOLE family!

“WARNING: This product contains songs that may result in the listener unintentionally MEMORIZING SCRIPTURE. Furthermore, those who learn these words may find themselves inexplicable recalling and/or applying them to real life situations, as the Holy Spirit leads. USE WITH CAUTION”
Finally Scripture Memory Songs done right!
 
Are you driving more than 15 minutes with children this holiday season?
Are you [...]

Turkey Lurkey

Turkey Lurkey was a crowd pleaser last year and we are going to make him again this year!
Isn’t he just too cute?
And check out that long hair my girlie had! 
We used a cantelope for the body
Pear for the head
raisin eyes
bell pepper beak & beard
cheese & grape feathers
attach with wooden toothpicks & skewers
sit in the middle [...]

Usta-llelujiah-booekejue

Some days there are no words to describe a feeling or event in your day.  You do your best to put words on it but you find that every combination of words falls short and fails miserably at describing your moment.
It’s in these moments that yes, you must make up your own word to fit [...]

I Want to Dig a Hole to The Other Side of The World!

Since I was 8 I have always wondered, if I start digging a hole to the other side of the world would I end up in a Chinese back yard?
Well after all these years,  Thanks to this google maps mashup, I found out I would end up in the Indian Ocean!
However if I were in [...]

Royal Mail

We are waiting on royal mail or email we don’t care!  We just want to know… will we leave for England next summer or not.
A twisting turn of events; husband updated his resume’ and sent it to scouting agencies.
If school does not work out, he has contacted head hunters to locate a job for him [...]

Family Night Extended Edition: Bad Hair & Nations Nite

Our Thursday Family Nights have become a highlight in all our weeks.  My favorite part is that on family nights we all cook in the kitchen together.  I love it and the kids do too; in fact they come into the kitchen a lot more these days and  some great conversations have been inspired over [...]

Good Dog–Bad Dog?

Crunching: Warning This is a Terrible Post

So, you are still reading.  Well, consider yourself warned about this terrible post.
In you clicked on Life As Art blog hoping to be inspired with a breath taking portrait, or complex thought then I urge you to turn off your computer right now, or go to orangehouses blog and skip this post.
This post will depress [...]

I’d Like a Joyfilled Latte’ Super Size That Please!

There are two ways to be strangled.  One is in the natural where someone puts their hands or an object around your neck and squeezes the windpipe so that you are not able to catch air and breath; and if you can’t breathe you won’t live so you die.
The second is figurative.  It’s when you [...]

Your Guide to a Hard Core & Socially Responsible Christmas

My daughter wants an American Girl doll for Christmas.  
She doesn’t usually want much, and this doll is about to be archived in the
if you don’t buy me now, you’ll not have another chance for 80 years great marketing closet of
someone’s idea on how to manipulate parents into spending $100.00 on plastic with hair attached. 
It [...]