8 Day Walk With Christ

We had an awesome Easter Lesson (Thanks Desi!) yesterday and our teacher challenged us to take an 8 Day Walk with Christ, and i thought i could share it with you so that you can do it as well.   i will post Day One here, and Day two in another post, and so on. 

First we got this nifty little package, tied with twine.  When you untie the twine, there are labeled envelopes on the bottom, one for each day. 

Then when you open the box, you find that there are 8 Easter Eggs inside, each labeled with a day of the week and a description of what that Day means.

In order to take this Walk With Christ, you open one egg and one envelope every day. 



Yesterday, Easter Sunday, was Day one, Day of Recognition: Today I will think of Christ more often and make my prayers more meaningful that I may come to know Him better.  The slips of paper inside the Day one Egg said:  "Jesus Christ rides through the city gates at Jerusalem and is greeted by followers, waving Palm Fronds as a welcome to their King.  He visits the Temple. 

Read Matthew 21: 6-11 

Thought: Would we be one of those who cheered as Christ rode into the city or would we have been one of those who asked, 'Who is this?'  How well do you know the Savior? 

Day One Envelope: What it Means to Know Christ

A man passed away and was resurrected and waiting in a room to be interviewed.  Another man was ahead of him.  The door opened, the man entered, the door closed.  The interviewer began, "I want you to tell me what you know about Jesus Christ."

"Well, He was born of a virgin in Bethlehem; He lived thirty-three years, spending the last three in His ministry, organizing His Church, choosing His apostles to direct it, giving the Gospel to direct our lives."

The interviewer stopped him and said, "Yes, yes, that's all true, but I want you to tell me what you know about Jesus Christ."

"Well, He was tortured and crucified that we might have eternal life.  Three days later He was resurrected that we might return to our Heavenly Father."

"Yes, yes, that is true, but i want you to tell me what you know about Jesus Christ."

The man, a little perplexed, began again: "Well He restored the Gospel in it's fullness to the Earth through Joseph Smith, reorganized His Church, gave us Temples wherein we might do work to save our dead.  He gave us family prayer and Family Home Evening where we might unite with our families.  He gave us the Priesthood to heal the sick and personal ordinances for our salvation and exaltation."

The interviewer again stopped him and said, "All of what you have said to me is true."  The man was then invited to leave the room.  After he left, the door opened and the second man entered.  As he approached the interviewer, he fell upon his knees and cried, "My Lord, My God!"

The Boy Who Lived....

On a warm, windy April morning, i found a unique "package" on my front doorstep.  Who knows who left it...  Who knows how long "it" had been sitting out there before i found it... 

Inside this "package" i found a sweet little boy, wrapped in blankets, with a lightning scar on his forehead and a Hogwarts Crest on his blanket.  Beside him in the basket was a envelope bearing the Hogwarts Crest with my name emblazoned on the front.

Inside the envelope was a letter also emblazoned with the Hogwarts crest, reading: 

"Barbara Hawkins,   You have been entrusted with the care of the child Harry Potter until he come of age.  Lily and James Potter have been murdered.  I cannot express the sorrow and regret I feel that they have been taken from us.  They will be greatly missed.  As his only living relative, Harry will be placed in your care.  There is a magical protection that will be placed upon this house when Harry is adopted.  There are potential dangers which could befall Harry and your family if Harry is to leave the house before his seventeenth birthday.  You must protect him and care for him as if he were your own child.

Albus Dumbledore

i am assuming that this is an April Fools joke played on me by one of my Friends...  And her name is the color of the font in this post!!  =)

The EVIL of Popcorn Ceilings....

Sometimes i actually DO take "Spring Cleaning" to heart and actually clean.  Sometimes i blink between March and June and Spring has come and gone and so i shrug my shoulders and say, oh well, there is always next year. 

Well, apparently this year the "Spring Cleaning Bug" has bitten.  i have cleaned my Laundry Room, Dining Room and this week my ScrapRoom. 

And all i can say about my ScrapRoom adventure is that the sick, twisted person who invented POPCORN CEILINGS should be taken out and SHOT!  Seriously, do you realize how much junk gets caught in all those sharp edges and gets stuck?  We are talking dust, dirt, dust bunnies the size of young pigs, cat hair and i don't even want to guess what kind of stuff blows in through my AC/Heater vents!!

Well this week i tackled them, it took me two Swiffer heads and a total of two hours, but you know what the ceiling is clean (after 6 years of living here) and so is the fan and everything underneath...  i kind of didn't have a choice in that one...  after cleaning the fan and ceiling, everything underneath those were covered in yuck!  But hey, it is DONE!!!!

13 May 2007

Brennan (8 years old) had a couple of really nasty mosquito bites on his right arm that i noticed during Sacrament Meeting because he wouldn't stop scratching them.  So i took him home to coat them in Calamine Lotion and cover them in band-aids so that he would leave them alone. 

While i was gone Ashlyn noticed that Brennan and i were gone and she asked Aunt Lou where we were.  Lou explained where we had gone and after thinking about it Ashlyn leaned over and said, "I wonder if he is on METH?!" 

Apparently Ashlyn had just had her "Meth Class" at school that week and learned that Meth addicts hallucinate and scratch sores on their skin.  Needless to say, i had a hard time keeping a straight face during Church after i heard what Ashlyn, then 11 years old, had said!!  =)

Gonna Be A Bear...

Today while clearing off my ScrapDesk, i waded through a pile of school memorabilia from Ashlyn's 6th & 7th grade years of school.  After completing the pocket pages for this memorabilia, i starting tucking items into the pockets only to find this "story" written by Ashlyn when she was in 7th grade.  It is titled, "Gonna Be a Bear" and here it is.


In this life, I'm a woman.  In my next life, I'd like to come back as a bear.  When you're a bear you get to hibernate.  You do nothing but sleep for six months.  I could deal with that.


Before you hibernate you are supposed to eat yourself stupid.  I could deal with that too.  When you're a girl bear your birth children are the size of walnuts while you're sleeping, and wake to partially grown, cute, cuddly, cubs.  I could definitely deal with that.


If you're a mama bear everyone knows you mean business.  You swat anyone who bothers your cubs.  If your cubs get out of line you swat them too.  I could deal with that.


If you are a bear, your mate expects you to wake up growling.  He expects that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat.


Yup!  I'm going to be a bear!

This made me giggle myself silly!!!  =)