New Year Fun!

Kelli is hosting this "New Year Fun"
and I thought it would be fun to participate.

Post the first sentence
of your first blog post of each month.
You can also add a favorite picture from each month.


It sure was difficult to choose the photos!
Here are mine:


~ January ~
Yesterday we saw my beloved off to Iraq.


(receiving Daddy Dolls from Daddy before he goes)



~ February ~
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,
and to look well to thy herd."~ Proverbs 27:23
I love relating this Scripture to my role as a mother!


(photo from Daddy holding a picture that Will drew)


~ March ~
A few weeks ago we ordered a pattern
from Common Sense Patterns for a new dress for Ally.


(the children and I sitting in a church pew
during our trip to Colonial Williamsburg and Historic Jamestown)


~ April ~
When your child has been too weak
to play much piano but she has a good day
and decides to play around with a few pieces,
what's a mama to do??
Record it (without her knowing, of course)!


(enjoying our visit from Gramma)


~ May ~
Okay, I guess that should be the other way around...
A new hair cut and a new blog look.


(reading names on Memorial Day)


~ June ~
I am taking a somewhat unexpected
bloggie break for the next day or so.


(Ally baiting her own fishing hook for the 1st time)


~ July ~
Below is the song that Ally and I sang this morning
for our Independence Sunday service...
Bring Back the Glory...


(the younger ones found sleeping in my bed)


~ August ~
The years truly do fly by!

(Gotta share 2 pics for this month!)



(the children welcoming Daddy home for a visit)


~ September ~
Oh, for Okri...
Where I grew up, in the south and in the countryside,
my grandparents had a decent size garden.


(visit to the ocean during a tropical storm)


~ October ~
I recently received an email from a mama
that was distraught over difficulties
she is having at home,
particularly with a young, school age child.


(singing the Birthday Song to Beth with Ally's violin)


~ November ~
I hope y'all are having a good week.


(children gather around Ally and her guitar to sing
at our church's Thanksgiving fellowship)


~ December ~
Final choices...
(referring to family photos)




"To every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven:"
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1