I ♥ Snow Days!

I am currently enjoying my third snow day in a row. Since I'm assuming it'll be the last (for now) I'm planning on enjoying it! Actually I now believe that all snow days should come in at least threes! One day to be lazy, one day to clean and catch up on home duties, and one day for projects.  Hopefully I'll be completing some projects to share on my blog real soon.  So in the main time, while I'm off to craft and paint and cut, I'll leave you with some pictures from snow day 1 of lazy sledding.  

 Punk

 Jess

 Michael Love

Punk and Mom

Beyond the Grave

Browsing through Obituaries morbid past time? the other day, I stumbled across a portion of one that really got my attention. 
      
Born June 17, 1925, she was saved at a very young age in an old brush harbor meeting in --------, and was still a member of ----------- Baptist Church, founded by her husband. She loved sewing and helping others. She was a faithful pastor’s wife, as he labored to pastor several churches in East Tennessee. As a wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother and great-grandmother, she personified Proverbs 31 (KJV).


What a testimony.  I loved it and It really got me thinking about what my loved ones will write about me.  What will yours say?

Maybe I should write my own now....

Only a teacher can appreciate....

I know you could care less....

I'm naive.  But even I'm not naive enough to think that you care about what books I read last year.  This post is simply for me.  I'm taking my 2010 Book List off the side of my blog.  So when I'm sitting around in a couple of years wondering what I read in 2010,  I'll have documentation.


2010--Book List

1. When the Heart Cries By: Cindy Woodsmall

 

2. Black and Blue By: Anna Quindlen

3. My Soul to Keep By: Melanie Wells

4. The Preacher's Daughter By: Beverly Lewis

5. The Englisher By: Beverly Lewis

6. The Brethren By: Beverly Lewis

7. This is your Brain in Love By: Earl Henslin

8. The Daily Five: Fostering Literacy Independence in the elementary Grades By: Gail Boushey and Joan Moser "The Sisters"

9. The Last Sin Eater By: Francine Rivers

10. When the Morning Comes By: Cindy Woodsmall

11. When the Soul Mends By: Cindy Woodsmall

12. The Time Traveler's Wife By: Audrey Niffenegger

13. The Midwife's Tale By: Gretchen Moran Laskas

14. Rachel's Tears By: Beth Nimmo and Darrell Scott

15. A Virtuous Woman By: Kaye Gibbons

16. A Lesson Before Dying By: Ernest J. Gaines

17. Thru the Bible Commentary Series: Ruth By: J. Vernon McGee

18. A Merry Heart By: Wanda E. Brunstetter

19. The Proposal By: Lori Wick

20. The Shunning By: Beverly Lewis

21. The Cafe Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment & Instruction By: Gail Boushey & Joan Moser

22. The Confession By: Beverly Lewis

23. The Reckoning By: Beverly Lewis

24. The Redemption of Sarah Cain By: Beverly Lewis

25. Ready, Freddy! Going Batty (for a second grade reading group activity guide) By: Abby Klein

26. Little Women By: Louisa M. Alcott

27. The Help By: Kathryn Stockett

28. A Place Called Home By: Lori Wick

29. The Wishing Jar By: Penelope J. Stokes

Pigeon Forge Trip

     In between Christmas and New years, Michael and I spent an afternoon in Pigeon Forge.  It was his mom and dad's thirty fifth wedding anniversary.  We met them for dinner at the Apple Barn.  I only had my small camera. 

     


After dinner Michael and I went on to Dollywood and had a freezingly wonderful time.  No photos.


    And on the way out we swung by the Smokies stadium to watch the light show.  My picture doesn't do it justice!

      I love sweet date nights with my babe!

Our Christmas Photo for Two Thousand and Ten

     Michael and I have celebrated five Christmases together. For each year I have a framed photo of us. Here's the pictures that I'll be choosing from for this year.   I realize to the untrained eye they all look the same...

My favorite. 

The last of my Christmas extravaganzas posts!

    We left the snow covered McDonald and headed to my mom's around lunch time on Saturday.  As usual the house was packed with family. 

     My extremely cool papaw ruppe has a box of used shot gun shells.  He puts a paper into each shell to tell what he killed with it, the date and the time.  Looking at this kept the boys busy for a while.  

 

 My sisters

 Our little family

 

    Most of the cousins.