This year we went to two pumpkin patches. I went with my son with his class to Honeysuckle Hill Farm and then we went to Christian Way Farm during fall break. I really liked both of these places, probably better than Riverview Mounds where we have been in the past.
Here are some photos from Christian Way Farm! I really liked how the farm was laid out and my kids seemed to have a ton of fun there. Christian Way Farm is about an hour from Clarksville though so a bit of a drive.
My boys LOVE the Lego store. Drew will talk your hear off about it. Since I knew that the Lego store in Downtown Disney was pretty big, we planned a trip there. Unfortunately we had to wait until one of the last days of our trip which was kinda hard for Drew. But it was worth the wait.
Now I knew that the store was two stories but I didn’t realize one story was just a play area but the boys didn’t seem to mind.
I love Disneyland and I knew we couldn’t go this trip. Daniel begged me to go and said, “Can’t we just go on one ride?” I kinda wish it was still like that but of course I had to tell him “no, it doesn’t work like that.” I am hoping I can take them when we are out again in February/March.
I don’t talk too much about my faith on this blog. Maybe a post here or there. Maybe a mention about church every once in a while. The main reason for that is although I am a Christian, this isn’t a Christian blog. I don’t assume everyone who reads it has the same faith that I do. I am like that in person too. I have my faith but I don’t assume everyone else believes like I do.
Another reason for that is that I don’t consider myself a “Conservative Christian.” Don’t get me wrong, I have a VERY strong belief in Jesus, God and the Bible. I was raised in a Christian home and have gone to church pretty much my entire life. The only two times in my life I didn’t go to church regularly was when I was a senior year of high school and a lot of the time in Germany because of being without a husband and not fully connecting with the chapel services. Although in Germany I was pretty active in PWOC.
I was raised in a Presbyterian church. Ben and I are members of a Presbyterian church in California. We now attend a United Methodist church. These two churches are where I feel most at home at. I feel torn on the predestination issue which is one of the biggest differences between Presbyterians and Methodists. It also has to do with location a bit. Where we lived in CA the Methodist churches are pretty liberal. Too liberal for us. In Tennessee it isn’t that way and we also couldn’t find too many Presbyterian churches here.
I feel like for the last few years I have been searching. Not searching for Jesus, I have already found him. But searching for what it really means to be a Christian. Searching to know what I need to believe about X. Y and Z. I have seen a lot of crap happen in Christian churches. Stuff that makes me sad and feel icky inside. Stuff that had my own personal faith not been so strong, I probably would have walked away.
A few months ago I came across Rachel Held Evans blog and was amazed! I can relate to so much of what she says. I read her first book, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
and found it SO interesting. So when I saw on her blog they were asking for bloggers to review her newest book and be apart of a Facebook group, I applied. I wasn’t sure if I would get in or not. I wasn’t sure how many other people would apply or what type of people they were looking for. But I got in! I was so excited! I AM so excited to be apart of her book launch.
You can purchase A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master”
What is “biblical womanhood” . . . really?
Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn’t sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment—a year of biblical womanhood. Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles in the home, Evans decides to try it for herself, vowing to take all of the Bible’s instructions for women as literally as possible for a year.
Pursuing a different virtue each month, Evans learns the hard way that her quest for biblical womanhood requires more than a “gentle and quiet spirit” (1 Peter 3:4). It means growing out her hair, making her own clothes, covering her head, obeying her husband, rising before dawn, abstaining from gossip, remaining silent in church, and even camping out in the front yard during her period.
See what happens when a thoroughly modern woman starts referring to her husband as “master” and “praises him at the city gate” with a homemade sign. Learn the insights she receives from an ongoing correspondence with an Orthodox Jewish woman, and find out what she discovers from her exchanges with a polygamist wife. Join her as she wrestles with difficult passages of scripture that portray misogyny and violence against women.
With just the right mixture of humor and insight, compassion and incredulity, A Year of Biblical Womanhood is an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation. What does God truly expect of women, and is there really a prescription for biblical womanhood? Come along with Evans as she looks for answers in the rich heritage of biblical heroines, models of grace, and all-around women of valor.
Here is a video about the book…
I am on chapter two and it is pretty interesting so far 🙂
I will be blogging about it here and there over the next few weeks 🙂
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I was able to review the book, Now You Tell Me! 12 Army Wives Give the Best Advice They Never Got: Making a Living, Making a Life by Sheridan Scott (Author), B.K. Sherer (Author) and Donna Lyons.
It features all different kinds of Army wives, including the wife of Retired 4 Star General Peter Chiorelli as well as the wives of wounded veterans and isolated moms. It will be published on November 1, 2012.
This book is a great collection of stories from real Army Wives. From their experiences marrying a soldier to deployments to helping children through the Military life. There is a lot of great advice in this book from those who have been through all sorts of challenges with the Army. Each of the wives have a different background and different experience as an Army wife. I liked hearing the different perspectives. Some of the info they gave I could relate to and others I haven’t experienced myself but I know of others who have.
The book is broken down so each wife gets her own chapter. This makes it easy to read and I like that the first part of each chapter included a picture of the person telling the story.
Living as an Army wife can be a challenging experience for a lot of people. It helps to know we aren’t alone and hearing others and their stories helps make the journey a little easier.
There are also some charts in the back which can help you understand rank, size of the different units, abbreviations and even military time. This book would be an excellent gift for a new Army wife and even encouraging for a wife whose husband has been in a few years.
You can purchase the book on Amazon 🙂
* I was provided a free copy of the book to review.
When my husband deployed for the first time my oldest son was 23 months old…click here for the rest of this post 🙂
My latest post is up on Militaryfamily.com called, Planning a Baby Around the Military. Go check it out 🙂
I had the opportunity to review some yummy snacks for toddlers by Happy Family Organic Superfoods. With a toddler in the house I am always looking for new and fun foods for him. I am lucky in that he will eat a lot of things his brothers were too picky to eat at his age.
We tried the Happy Yogis Yogurt snacks for babies and toddlers, Happy Munchies canisters and Crocs, Happy Tot pouches, Happy Tot Plus pouches, Happy Tot toddler meal bowls and Happy Times snack packs. I have to say that Baby J’s favorites are probably the Happy Munchies and the Happy Tot Plus pouches. He just gobbles them up! I love the pouches because they are easy to take with us places or pack in a lunch for him. The yogurt snacks and munchies are perfect for a little snack in the morning and afternoon.
You can find Happy Family products at the Commissary Publix and Target…at least around here in Clarksville.
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Their products are allergy free with all organic, 100% natural ingredients.
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I also wanted to share that Happy Foods is hiring on these Military Bases/Posts-
Camp Pendleton
Fort Lewis
I wanted to share a review of the album “Hear Me” by Kyle Sherman. Kyle was a full-time worship leader at Lifechurch.TV at their campus in Fort Worth, TX. He just released his first album on October 9th! “Hear Me” is an eclectic and authentic mix of rootsy, southern soul.
I found his album to be a great addition to my worship cd collection. His music is catchy and full of soul. It is an album I would like to listen to while in my car or on my ipod. I thought his music was relaxing and uplifting.
Album Bio
Fort Worth-based singer-songwriter Kyle Sherman recently signed on as the flagship artist to brand new label RayLynn Records, an opportunity that presented itself during a time period when a record deal wasn’t even on his radar.
“It’s crazy how God works,” Kyle says. ‘Five years ago, I pushed pretty hard to do my own thing as a singer-songwriter, but every well I approached would dry up. It clearly wasn’t the right time.” So Kyle continued on a path of leading worship, taking a full-time role as worship leader at Lifechurch.TV’s Fort Worth campus under the leadership of renowned pastor/author Craig Groeschel.
Just 3-years later Kyle made it back to Nashville, pouring his heart into a microphone at Sony studio with veteran producer and country singer-songwriter Mark Collie making his first album. God is faithful. Hear Me, the result of those sessions, is an eclectic and authentic mix of rootsy, southern soul.
Website: http://www.kyleshermanmusic.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kyleshermanmusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KyleShermanTX
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/RayLynnRecords
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* I was provided a copy of this CD for review.
