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It’s that time of year again for the Pick One Spot Contest. Actually, we keep changing the time of year we do this contest, but this year it is that time of year.
Same prize: $100 to your favorite home store (Target, Home Goods, World Market, Pottery Barn etc.)
Same instructions:
1. PICK ONE SPOT in your house that is in dire need of some TLC
2. Take a “before” picture
3. Proceed to give said spot some TLC
4. Take an “after” picture, and
5. Send your pics to us for a chance to win some prizes.
Same time to complete: 2 weeks, so you must submit your entry by Friday April 27
Same email: send entries to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Same judges: yours truly, and you can check out past winners to get an idea of what it might take to win (2011, 2010, 2007)
Looking forward to some great entries again this year!
5:28 p.m. Ever feel like you’re losing your mind? Yup.
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Like many of you, the four of us are at home and feeling very together with the children during this T4G week. Between the eleven kids we’ve had eye infections and bathroom accidents and nap boycotts and broken birthday presents and for some reason the days just seem longer when Daddy doesn’t come home for dinner. But even though we can’t be there we are thrilled that our husbands are receiving amazing teaching and encouragement. And I’m excited we can listen to the audio here. First up on my ipod: Dad and Kevin DeYoung.
This morning my husband sent me a message from the conference that he knew I would be excited to hear: Apparently Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ grandson took the platform to announce that they are now making all of Dr. Lloyd-Jones’ sermons available online for free. Spiritual Depression, Studies on the Sermon on the Mount, and Faith on Trial—all MLJ sermon transcripts turned books—have been some of the most influential teachings of my Christian life. You can bet I’m going to get started right away on listening to all 1600 of these free sermons. That’s a lot of scrubbed toilets and emptied dishwashers.
And a few great articles for moms popped up this week by Rachel Jankovic and Gloria Furman , so be encouraged all of you who are laboring with little ones for the gospel.
3:14 p.m. Afternoon Tea
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2012 at 3:46 pm | by Nicole Whitacre
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Motherhood
I too have been thinking a lot about Grandma lately, whenever I make egg salad sandwiches. They are Jude’s favorite. He asks me every day around 11:35 a.m.—“Egg, Mom?” It is very hard to resist those beautiful brown eyes too many days in a row, so we’ve been eating a lot of egg salad.
I didn’t know how to make egg salad until a few weeks ago. I never cared for it as a kid, so I wasn’t inspired to include it in Jack and Tori’s regular lunch menu. But in an effort to find something Jude and Sophie like besides plain peanut butter sandwiches, I’ve been trying all kinds of things. (By the way, tuna fish was a winner yesterday—further evidence that a spoonful of ritz cracker helps the medicine go down. Maybe if my mom had made me meatloaf sandwiches on ritz crackers instead of whole wheat bread I would have liked those too.)
So I asked Mom how to make egg salad. “Mayonnaise to hold it together,” she told me, “and as my mom always used to say, ‘a little mustard for color.’” I can hear Grandma now, instructing my mom on how to make egg salad, telling her the same thing she had told her a hundred times before, as if it was the first time. A little mustard for color.
My grandma never met Jude and Sophie. She passed away only weeks before they came home. But before she died, my aunt added their picture to the collection of grandkids and great-grandkids by Grandma’s bed and she repeatedly said how happy she was that we were adopting them.
Jude won’t meet Grandma until heaven, but her life has shaped his. Because in God’s providence, the only reason I’m in the kitchen making egg salad sandwiches instead of chasing my own elusive glory is because I had a mother who taught me the value, dignity, and glory of motherhood. And she first learned it from Grandma.
A little mustard for color. It may seem an inconsequential lesson. After all, we only have to click on Pinterest these days to find out how to make gourmet egg salad cut in special shapes for kids. But this little tip holds a wealth of meaning for me—meaning about faithfulness in motherhood and the enduring effect of a mother’s teaching. Thanks, Grandma. Oh, and Jude thanks you too.
9:46 a.m. Why my kids like the UPS man.
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Thank you for the many entries you submitted to our 52home at Your Home contest. It was tons of fun getting a peek into your lives through your lenses. And let me tell ya, it made choosing the winners quite the challenging task. But in the end we narrowed it down to three ladies that we thought demonstrated both a variety in presentation as well as creativity.
So, without further ado, congrats to our winners- Jennifer from Roanoke, Virginia, Kelly from Louisburg, Kansas, and Katie from Greenville, South Carolina. Their images will be featured on 52home over the next three weeks. Each winner will receive a print of her choice from the 52home collection. We begin this week with “52home at Jennifer’s home”. I know you will all enjoy!
I was having my devotions yesterday morning when I got an email from my sister to all our siblings—“I miss mother but…how happy I am to have you.”
And it hit me again, just how much I miss my mom. I could tell you all the things I miss about her, but that’s not really the point. I just miss her. I miss her being here.
It’s Easter morning and I am sobbing. I suppose it is normal to grieve more for loved ones on special days. And yet the Easter holiday also brings a special comfort. Because of Jesus’ resurrection, my mother’s sins were forgiven, she was given power to live a faithful life, and now she is with Christ.
As much as I miss my mom, I don’t wish her back. This Easter she is experiencing the power of the resurrection like never before.
“The sainted dead dwell in life; beholding the king in his beauty; “shining as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars forever and ever.” They fade no more, nor realize pain. A wealth of love is theirs, a heritage of goodness, a celestial habitation….We may feel sad because they are lost to us, but while we weep and wonder, they are wrapped in garments of light and warble songs of celestial joy. They will return to us no more, but we shall go to them and share their pleasures…We would not call them back. In the homes above they are great, and well-employed, and blest. Shadows fall upon them no more, nor is life ruled with anxious cares. Love rules their life and thoughts, and eternal hopes beckon them forever to the pursuit of infinite good….Heaven comes nearer to us, and grows more attractive, as we think of the loved ones who dwell there.” ~Jonathan Edwards
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Hey y’all! Thanks so much for the many entries you have sent in for our 52home At Your Home contest. If you would still like to enter you have until midnight tomorrow (Saturday) night. The winner’s images will be featured on the blog and the winner will receive a print of her choice from our 52home collection. For rule reminders click here.
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