Lisa Notes: A May day

A May day - 2013

I am excited...that Jenna comes home today for the summer!

I am praying...for her to find a job for the summer and a new roommate for the fall

I am thinking...and planning for our next memory challenge. Details soon!

I am wondering...how someone could live without internet for a year

I am thankful for...this sweet & happy great-niece showing up at Casa Blanca for lunch

In the kitchen...sauce will be simmering soon for lasagna tonight

I am resolving...to cook more this summer since Jenna will be home

I am going...to Outdoor Church this Saturday, rain or shine, so they say

Around the house...are lots of blooms! I planted annuals this week and several perennials are also flowering

I am looking forward to...results from our reader survey at Do Not Depart. Want to take it? It’s here (and it’s short!)

I am reading...these and library books. I was so proud of myself for returning The Education of Little Tree when it just didn’t interest me, but I checked out five more books on impulse while I was at the library—oops!

I am pondering these words...“Lord, in my zeal for love of truth, let me not forget the truth about love." -Thomas Aquinas

I am hearing...the audiobook Enemies of the Heart by Andy Stanley, last month’s free selection at Christian Audio (this month is a biography on A. W. Tozer)

A picture to share...although I was sad when the tornadoes ripped out my weeping willow two years ago, my azaleas once underneath it have flourished with the extra sunshine they now get

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outsidemywindowinsidemyheart 38p · 625 weeks ago

Lisa, I found it interesting that you shared a link about someone going offline for a year because Amazon recently gave out as one of their free books for the Kindle a book which tells how to detox from social media! It is hard to believe that Jenna will be home for the summer already. I know as a mama it has probably seemed like an eternity...one year behind you both for now! YAY! I know you will enjoy your summer!
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Lisa notes 103p · 625 weeks ago

Was the free book "Unfriend Yourself"? That's a freebie I got awhile back and read. It was actually pretty good. Finding the right balance with the computer can be an elusive thing for me. Just when I find a new rhythm that works, something disrupts it. ha. My schedule will have to adjust again with Jenna back home! But that's a good problem to have. :-) Yes, it is hard to believe that it's summer already.

Praying you have a great Friday and weekend. Love you!
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outsidemywindowinsidemyheart 38p · 625 weeks ago

Yes, that was the name of the book. I just started it on Tuesday and didn't have time to do much outside reading yesterday. I'm looking forward to finishing it up. Thanks for the heads up on it!

Have a WONDERFUL weekend!

Love you!
Dianna

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Tam · 625 weeks ago

Nope. I don't think I can live without the internet for a year. I've managed four months without Facebook, though.

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Lisa notes 103p · 625 weeks ago

I could only live without the internet it if I HAD to. Thankfully, I don't have to live without it. :-) Four months without Facebook? That's a good test. My daughter finally disabled her account because she kept getting on it too much. I thought that would last a few weeks, but it's been about two years now. I miss her not being on, but I'm proud of her for sticking to what works for her.
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Renee · 625 weeks ago

LOL I so could live without internet,but with me Homeschooling my teen son, it does come in handy :)

Blessings,Renee
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Lisa notes 103p · 625 weeks ago

When I first started homeschooling, I didn't use the internet for hardly anything. But by the time my last daughter graduated last year, we used it all the time. Times have definitely changed! I continue to find it comes in handy more and more to the point where I can't imagine being without it. When we were without electricity for a week two years ago, I did live without it though, but it was very sweet to get it back! :-)
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Renee · 625 weeks ago

Yea I know what you mean, with Jacob being in the 10th ,he uses it all the time,and for his drivers ed.
Brrr, we here in Texas got into the lower 30s last night,just the other day it was 80 lol.
I hope it did not kill Jacobs garden,and my flowers :/
We started going tho this church Last Wednesday :)
I will miss my friends at the old church, we went there 16 years but it was time to leave, after much prayer for a year I kept being drawn to the church we are going to now.
:) After all these years (16 years since being saved) I am finally going to start Sunday School,a Woman's Bible study group,and going on Sunday nights,and Wednesdays nights.
Last time I went to Sunday School I was about 8 so I can not wait.
I did not go much when I was little,and I only went Sunday Mornings when I did Regularly start 16 years ago, I was so happy to of gone this past Sunday night,and Wednesday night :)

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Lisa notes 103p · 625 weeks ago

I'm in Alabama so it sounds like your weather is what's headed our way. :-)

What a blessing that you are enjoying this new church and see so many exciting venues ahead. I pray that it will be a place of spiritual growth for you and your family as you dive in! Going through major changes like that is rarely easy, but the benefits can be huge. I thank God for the way he keeps drawing me to himself as I attempt new things by his grace. His presence sustains us.
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fsamons 60p · 625 weeks ago

Good for you to have your youngest home for the summer! Funny how the flowers bloom when they couldn't as well before. That is a close analogy to our lives, isn't it?

I just got off the phone with an ATF agent that recovered a gun that was stolen from me in 1997... weird...

And now I must find food... the lasagna sauce has brought my stomach into the mix...
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Lisa notes 103p · 625 weeks ago

I hadn't considered that important analogy about the azaleas blooming, but I will think about it now. Thanks for the prompt, Floyd.

That's a long time for something to go missing and yet finally make it back home. Maybe there's hope I'll find my marriage license again! I lost it years ago. But we know we're married so that's good enough. ha.

Hope you'll get to hear the story behind your gun. There must be a good one!
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Barbara H. 65p · 625 weeks ago

How exciting to have Jenna home!

The lasagna sounds good. Haven't had that in a while.

It's hard for me to set aside a book, but sometimes it is the better thing to do. I haven't been to the library in a while for that reason - I have so many books piled up already, but I know I'd find ore I want to read there.

Gorgeous azaleas!
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Lisa notes 103p · 624 weeks ago

I don't go to the library near as often as I once did either. And for the same reason--too many books here I need to read first! Nonetheless, sometimes I cave and g to get a particular book, which leads to browsing other shelves, which leads to checking out more books. But that's really okay. :-) I enjoy it and always learn new and often unexpected things that way.

Praying Jim is continuing to steadily improve!
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Ann · 624 weeks ago

Love your azaleas! I really need to plant more in my yard. They are so pretty this time of year. As for the Internet... no way I could live without it! I'm not on Facebook though, so I'm living without that no problem. :)
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Lisa notes 103p · 624 weeks ago

It's really funny how much I'm noticing the azaleas this year; we've had them for probably 10 years at least. ha. But the willow tree that had been over them just overshadowed them terribly until it got blown away.

It's hard to go a day without the internet, which probably is NOT a good thing. There are just so many things I use it for. I do have Facebook but thankfully it's not very addictive to me. But if you can live without it, keep doing so. :-)
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jerralea 29p · 624 weeks ago

I adore your azaleas! I've always wanted some but my yard is not right for them...

I could live without the internet for a year - but I don't want to! I do spend a lot of time on it, but it's not all play. I study a lot, too.

My, my, Lisa, I do believe I've met someone who reads more books than I do! You are always a good source of what to add to my library.
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Lisa notes 103p · 624 weeks ago

I hear you about the internet. I feel like I use it for useful things too, including reading blogs. That counts as useful, right? :-)
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