Anniversary Family Pictures

We celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary on April 11th. And every year as part of the celebration, we go and have our family pictures taken at a PROFESSIONAL studio. (My yearly splurge) This year the kids decided that we'd wear our favorite T-shirt and the name for the pictures would be "T-shirt". Yes, every year we have a dress code and a "name" for our annual family portrait. It's a tradition now. If you come to our home, you will see all the pictures beautifully framed and displayed on our dining room wall. I'll soon be running out of wall space. Every visitor to our home is asked to put the pictures in the correct chronological order. As I look at all the pictures, I am reminded of God's goodness and His Presence in our lives. His faithfulness endures forever.

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The Job Is Done

What started on April 1st as a small de-cluttering job turned out to be a MAJOR task of rearranging the furniture in our entire house. Not only did we clean up the sporting equipment that had multiplied in front of our front entry way (which was my original intention), my husband (with the support of my two kids) decided that it was time for them to be in their own room. For almost two weeks, you could not see the floor of our living room as everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) was pulled out of their room so that we can figure out how to give Abby a room of her own. We had to say good-bye to the guest/TV room.
What have we done with the "extra stuff"?
We sold it at our church flea market.
We boxed it away to sell to the "junk collector" who comes by once a month.
And our car is presently packed with it to donate to a church-run second hand store.
Were you hoping for a picture?
I'm too tired to take one.

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De-Cluttering

It's the First of April... and with the start of a very short Spring Break (which seems like the only break in which I am in Taiwan), my mind has gone into the SPRING CLEANING MODE. I want to de-clutter my entire house in 3 days!!!!! Okay, I must admit -- it's not going to happen... but isn't there a saying, "it's the thought that counts"... Well, I'm thinking it... will "it" actually happen? The above picture -- that's our study. I'm not going to tackle that just now. I can't seem to part with books. So, guess where I'm going to start? Yes, with the sporting equipment!!!!! And this is NOT an April Fool's Joke.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:"

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