The Yellow Room

Susannah’s room is painted a wonderful shade of sunshine yellow with murals covering three walls. Hold on, I am trying to find the pictures I took of the room.

Well, I will have to find them at home. Don’t you hate it when you think you have your photos organized to a point where you think you can find anything?

I think I have them somewhere else on another portable hard drive.

{edit, hours later}I found them!

Anyway, this room is going to be Susannah’s room if we stay in our house while she grows up. We may very well stay here. We love it in Portsmouth. The neighborhood we bought our house in has great character. Our neighbors are like the neighbors of old. We talk to each other. The neighbors across the street from us just had a little boy and so they are very kind in offering any kind of kids bedding or a swing or a bassinet. We have used that bassinet a whole lot. Susannah sleeps in our room for now, but we will soon get her used to her own bed and her own room. The yellow room. She will love it!

Loss of a loved one

It is never easy to lose those we love. I have been through it with my birth mother in 1979 when I was an eleven-year-old boy, and I have been through it with my father in 1997 when I was a thirty-year-old man, and it is never never never easy.

Our next-door neighbor lost one of her three sons this week. He had recently gone in to have a blockage removed. He struggled with his oxygen levels for a couple days, but he wanted to come home. The doctors chose to honor his wishes. Two days later, he was with His Savior. We and many others offer not only our sympathy gifts in the form of flowers and donations to his church, but most importantly, we offer our prayers for his surviving mother, brothers and sister. They are great folks who love the Lord.

Time Just Keeps Ticking

I remember the day I graduated from high school in June 1985. I had turned 18 in April and life seemed boundless. I was so excited to get out of high school, move out of my parent’s house and move forward with my life. I had grandiose schemes to lay out and conquer the world before me.

It is now 2007 and I will turn 40 in April, and time has moved on. I am at the halfway point of my life and I can hardly believe where the time has gone, yet I still find it hard to imagine me being somewhere else five years down the road. I think to remind me of how rigid time truly is, I need to buy a grandfather clock for our house. I am not sure how Susan feels about them, but I know that you can get them for under $12,000. Whoo hoo!

Super Bowl XLI and Furniture

What does Super Bowl Sunday and furniture have in common? It seems that if you go to someone’s house for the Big Game, you get the tour of the house. That includes the good, the bad and the ugly furniture. Furniture with character. Furniture that holds sentimental value.

And we are always looking for ways to fill our homes with quality and good-looking purchases to make our house a showcase and a home, right? Check out Powell furniture.

Christian Paintings

I like to surf the net and find interesting places to spend my money. Ok, our money. Well, I may not spend a whole lot, but I like to find interesting sites to point out to others.

Check out this site for christian gifts. They are still selling Christmas stuff, but, hey, you may be able to get some deals for next Christmas!

In the art section, I saw a few prints of Christ that brought me back to my childhood. There is one painting of Christ praying in Gethsemane. I remember that etched in stained glass at my childhood church, the Cadillac United Methodist Church.

Do you remember the painting by Sallman entitled “Christ at Door” or “Head of Christ”? Those are at the above site as well. Ah, memories.