gratitude = grand parenting times 4

Easter Break was spent in Dallas Tx this year loving on my three granddaughters and new grandson Jacob Michael Jr. tagged now on instagram as #threesistersandamister. It was the best trip ever to visit Jacob, Carrie and the kids.

You can see by these pictures that these 3 big sisters are loving this new brother. There were so many highlights of this trip I am not sure where to begin however I will say that a 3 hour late night time hearing my daughter Carrie's heart and my early morning time reading and listening to the Word during Holy Week with Eden were a couple of my favorite times .... Thank you Father for the gift of children their spouses and grandchildren. 

I am so Blessed.

gratitude = grand parenting # 1113-1120

1113. 27.5 degrees outside in Minnesota

1114. extended time to read and write

1115. 23 days until I arrive in Texas

1116. the gift of hearing the train in the background

1117. an opportunity to pray

1118. family and Friday night pizza

1119. clean clothes fresh out of the laundry

1120. a new grandson Holden Arthur Pederson

Journal # 16 Wednesday 2.10.89

Carrie, 18 years old today .... this is hard to believe. I thank You Lord for her. She has grown into quite the young lady! 

My prayer for her ...

Divine Protection

The Holy Spirit to guide her heart and mind

Wisdom

Show her your will for her life

Help her to know and love you

February 10, 2015

It's fun to look back on the prayers that were prayed for my children years ago and see how the Lord has heard and answered ... thank you Lord for hearing and answering prayer.

My prayer today is for a very Happy Birthday and a blessed year ahead. Continue to give Carrie wisdom as a wife and a mother ... help her to know and love you deeper each day!

Happy Birthday Carrie

I Love you more, mom 

Tradition, Tree, and Truth

Glad my intention more than 4 months ago was a loose intention to blog on Mondays. Since my kids set me up on instagram I have been using this more than blogging however it is still important for me to write and post pictures. Blogging presents itself an opportunity to write more than the brief things written on instagram.

Christmas Tree Cutting 2014

So .... as I was looking back at pictures I found the below picture and compared it to the above picture!

Christmas Tree Cutting 2013

It's how we start the beginning of our Christmas Season. Tree Cutting. It's often about family, traditions ... things we love to do and things that bring us together as family! 

The tree cutting then leads to advent, which leads to Luke, Chapter 2 and Unwrapping the Greatest Gift ever, Jesus! It's how I was raised (me above on my dad's lap) and how we raised our children and how our grandchildren are being raised. 

So grateful for the lineage of my family and the 

lineage of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Unwrapping the Greatest Gift Ever, Jesus!

Dear Eden

Dear Eden,

Even though your birthday was just a week ago I have been thinking about the letter I would write to you now that you are 5. I am surprised how quickly the time has gone because it seems as though it was just yesterday when you were born. I think about you often and am reminded of you each day as I look at the art work on my fridge ....

It's such a good picture and an even better reminder for me to eat healthy even though I forget at times. I am so proud of the young lady you are and how you love to share and be kind to your sisters. You will always be the "middle" child and your mommy knows just what that's like as she was a "middle" too. I am looking forward to the months ahead when God brings a new baby to your house weather it be a sister or a brother I know that you will make an excellent "big" sister. I am certain that you will want to help in many ways because you are a good helper! I want you to know how much I miss seeing you because you live in Dallas but how often I think of you and pray for you. Hoping this year of being 5 years old is a great year for you. You are a gift from God! 

Happy Birthday Eden. Nana loves you more 

however Jesus loves you most!

I'm Glad Nora is 3!

Today I am glad and rejoicing that God has made this day, 

this birthday, 

October 20, 2014

This 3rd Birthday to celebrate 

Nora Lynn Davis

Happy, Happy, Birthday Nora

Nana loves you more however

Jesus Loves you most!

May Nora be built solidly on the foundation of Jesus, and grow in Your grace with a conscious sense of Your presence. May she continue to be built up with Your wisdom, favor, truth, love, life, faith, strength, and thankfulness.

personal devotions at the keyboard

Dear Father,

I do thank you for the fun had with the grandchildren last night and for the good night's rest for all, bumpa, nana, Sid, Pru, Lenny and Beckett. I am so grateful that many of our grandchildren are close by and I pray this morning for each one of our grandchildren, the Texas girls the Mpls kids and the two new grandchildren to be born. Please Father, I pray that each of them will come to a saving knowledge of you Jesus. Protect their little lives spiritually, physically and emotionally.

Only His is enough, “His divine power had granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us.

 2 Peter 1:3 a

This morning as I read the word and have my quiet time before the children arise I will spend some time in 2 Peter 1:3-11, Galatians 5:22-23 and John 15:4-5. Father, give me understanding and I will keep your law and obey it will all my heart, direct me in the path of your commands, make me the best wife, mother, grandmother that I can be today!

Father, I thank you that you "call and elect" me according to 2 Peter 1:10. You have called me to faith, goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness and brotherly kindness. I am so sorry for times when I have neglected not only your word but what you have called me to ... Please forgive me.

In Galatians 5 I learn today again about the fruits of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Father, this is my prayer for Tim and Nancy, Mike and Denise, Aaron and Alisa, James and Kathleen, Ken and Ginny Kim Le and Teresa: as you have called them to be missionaries. Father on the harder days would you remind them that they are filled with the Spirit and can depend on You! Remind us today to take spiritual inventory ....

Add goodness. Do what you know to be right.

Add knowledge. Study the word. Pray without ceasing.

Add self-control. Control your will and operate in the Spirit.

Add perseverance. See His tasks through, even when it’s hard.

Add godliness. Let others know to Whom you belong by your conduct.

Add mutual affection and love. Give your time, talents and life for others.

  ~ taken from She Knows Truth

Autumn

 Autumn ... pumpkins ... hot cider ... and leaves, maple, oak they fall, they fall then the leaves are raked into the street and raked into the street and burned in the street in front of the house at 3804 Thomas Ave So

No longer being burned in the street in Minneapolis but rather raked and piled up, and raked and piled up for the then littlest, only child at the time to jump into at the house in Minneapolis
6025 4th Ave So

No longer being raked up in Minneapolis but rather being raked up in Maple Grove and the littlest only girl, now the oldest is joined by the younger sister and brother and they rake and they pile and they throw the leaves in each other's hair all the while the mom watches from the deck at the house off Sunnyslope Drive

Then finally the dad and mom come help in Plymouth after the now older children all five from the littlest to the oldest rake the leaves and throw the leaves to bag the leaves, and bag the leaves and bag the leaves will the job ever end? after the trees shed their leaves and shed their leaves only to bag the final bags of leaves. 

The bags are then dragged by the children to be put around the house to keep the cold of winter out at the house on Nathan Lane


This was the piece I wrote at an Explore Spoken Word night at New Hope Church

Let's All Be Brave

Jumped over here today in hopes of reading another good book by blogger and author AnnieDowns

http://www.incourage.me/2014/10/a-lets-all-be-brave-giveaway.html