This has been a wonderful week in which the house has been sparkly clean, I have made time to read books, I have spent some lovely time with my mom who is officially out of school for the summer (she teaches second grade), Grandma Betty is here visiting, Drew has been talking and mimicking non-stop (that can be good and bad, yes?), I discovered Veet (which makes the hair on my legs WASH RIGHT OFF - oh my goodness, my husband is going to be amazed at the constant smoothness), I rediscovered my love of using Comet to clean, we decided this week to plan a trip to Baltimore in August, we had an amazing night at FPU this week in which I brought Mexican Chip Casserole and Fresh Strawberry Pie, and I finally decided to stop battling the bottle with Drew and I am changing course on the subject (and I’ll write about it soon) so that means less battles with the tiny person who can shriek your ears off when he’s fussy. So, a great week!

I’ve also been keeping a random list of articles I wanted to share when I got the time to sit and blog and here they are:

- An attic renovation for a little girl’s room. When we were in the midst of multi-generational living with my parents, my dad came up with the idea of renovating the attic for Drew’s room and play area when he got to be a few years older. Dad, Daniel and I crawled up in the attic to take a good look around and daydream about what we could do with the area. Although we aren’t sharing a home with my parents any longer, the fact remains that we might indeed be there at some point again in the future (perhaps a long time down the road, who knows) and these pictures of this particular attic renovation made me start daydreaming again.

- I listen to The Dave Ramsey Show pretty often and he occasionally mentions E-Mealz. The site is ran by two sisters and each week you receive a brand new meal plan (for dinners) and a complete aisle-by-aisle grocery list for your particular store. It’s a great idea!

- How to answer 23 of the most common interview questions. Although I’m a stay-at-home mom now, this is good stuff to know. When I worked in HR, I would have been extremely impressed had most of the folks I met actually knew this information.

- After listening to Mark Minnick (one of my former professors at BJU) and Mark Dever discuss the case for the Fundamentalist doctrine of separation, I found Mark Dever’s comments. His last statement is “I want my separation from the world to be more pronounced than my separation from other Christians.” That sums up exactly what I feel right now in my journey of faith and to be honest, the even mention of “biblical separation” turns my stomach. I have not heard it used compassionately AT ALL. And I was also encouraged that Mark Minnick and Mark Dever both seemed to be comfortable with each other although they do have differences. I hope that I can have that with folks I love but who think biblical separation is more important than I do.

- Mercy Me did a great cover of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.

- Over 150 ideas for family summer fun. It’s really helpful to see a list like this. I’ve already made note of several things to add to our schedule.

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I hope you all have a great weekend! Do you have any plans? I think we are staying around here so I need to come up with some indoor crazy ideas so we won’t get bored.

Oh, please. Like we could ever get bored with watching Frasier. ;)

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