Thursdays…

 Here we go!

April Books…

 Here are the books for the month of April:

I enjoyed the reminders and thoughts in this book. It has been recommended and it was a good read! In The Lifegiving Parent, the authors explored eight key principles—heartbeats of lifegiving parenting—to shed light on what it means to create a home where your children will experience the living God in your family. The authors have learned that the key to shaping a heart begins at home as you foster a deep and thoughtful God-infused relationship with each child and wanted to share what that can look like with their readers. Filled with biblical insight and personal stories, The Lifegiving Parent desires to equip you with the tools and wisdom you need to give your children much more than just a good Christian life. You’ll give them the life of Christ.

This book was recommended to me by my sweet sister in law. It’s a historical fiction about an army nurse in the Vietnam War. The main character, Frankie, is an amalgam of multiple real life nurses that the author had researched. It was POWERFUL! Kristen Hannah grew up with many of her friends dads serving in the war and what their return home was like. I thought it shed light on and brought awareness to our veterans who gave so much and experienced such hell fur our freedom. I don’t know very much about Vietnam so even the historical aspect was very enlightening. I would recommend it.

I really enjoy this author. This historical fiction book parallels a modern day playwright (Mel) with her female ancestor poet and playwright (Emilia) in the time of Shakespeare. The story plays on the conspiracy that Shakespeare did not write his own work and in this story it’s Emilia’s life experiences that she writes about then sells to Shakespeare while her modern day descendent Mel tries to get her play produced under another name. There was so much more to the story line, I know I’m not doing it justice. It had steamy scenes and some crass language but I enjoyed the story line.

post Easter traditions..,

 The week after Easter, our tradition is to make the egg salad sandwiches that we used to eat in our college days. In those days they called it squaw bread but now it’s called prairie bread. We felt so silly when we were first trying to remake these and NO ONE knew what we what bread we were talking about… Anyway…   

By taste, it’s a combo of mayo, mustard, salt, pepper, celery and we had the hot and sweet jalapeños from Trader Joe’s as a topping. It’s a favorite.

past weekend plans…

 It was my weekend. I’m so thankful for this job…

Easter 2025

This last weekend was a BIG one and was incredible in SO many ways, but it took a little bit for us to get back in the groove. Our Grandi and Monkey Papa came Friday to be with us for the weekend. We attended our Good Friday services:

On Saturday, we played with our bunnies and the new chicks that our grandparents bought and dyed eggs:

Our bunny was not sure about the chicks…

We went to our Saturday family celebration at church and the kids helped with the children’s area and bounce house:

On Sunday morning, Kit and I did baptisms as well as the set up tear down of the services. We had over 3,000 people share in in the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection and we 44 people were baptized! It was amazing!

After church we hosted the Rosie’s, our Mia and Papa, Ryan and his family, Grandi and Monkey Papa and megan’s sister and family. Kit was our taco guy, we had an egg hunt and had sweet treats to celebrate Grandi’s birthday.

Family Shots:

It was an incredible weekend. We are so thankful for all of our family and community, for the memories we made, but mostly that our Savior is ALIVE and risen INDEED!

A beautiful weekend ahead!

 We are ready for a full weekend ahead, celebrating Easter and that our Jesus is ALIVE!

It’s our biggest weekend of the year and we have SO much planned. I will tell you all about it when we resurface from the festivities!

Greetings…

This is the image that greets me when I get to work… It’s a beautiful greeting coming into my hospital!