Story Cubes

If you have never played story  cubes, you are missing out on life. Not really... but you're missing out on a really fun game. My friend k- brought it over to my house today and we had lots of fun. Basically, you make up stories from pictures off of little cubes. Try it sometime! It's the perfect way to spend an afternoon with friends.

With love,

~Cherry~

Praise the Lord!

I am so excited to tell you that I am now an official Nursing Assistant. Praise the Lord!

~Cherry~

For you my dear sister...

The Queen + Hats = Good

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Summer thoughts...

School is almost over and I can't help but think about summer. I'm ready for long bike rides, good books, walks in the woods, swimming, sunshine and picnics. Anyone want to join me?

With love,

~Cherry~

BOOKS!

I just received my new book in the mail and am very excited to finish it (that sounds funny to say instead of start it!) I am already eyeing some of the other books in the collection. They are a little expensive, but amazon has them for quite a bit less. Hmmm... I have such a weakness for pretty books and it helps that I like to read!

You can find more editions here or search under penguin classics hardcover for all of them.

Happy reading,

~Cherry~

It Must be Spring

Current Reading

I have been wanting to read Middlemarch by George Eliot for quite some time now. It is quite long, and I wasn't sure if I wanted to invest in it and then find out I didn't like it, so I passed it up. However, when I saw an audio copy on the shelves at the library I decided to give it a go. It has turned out to be one of the best books I've ever read (well sort of read). I decided to keep the CDs in the car and only listen to it on the way to and from school, but because it is twenty five discs long at an hour apiece there is no way I am going to finish it before school is out. So last night I decided to go ahead and buy the real book. Now that I know I like it, it's totally worth buying it!

 If you are a faster reader than me, or if you would like a challenge, get it and tell me how you liked it!

With love,

~Cherry~

Easter Baskets

When my sister and I were young, we would sometimes go on scavenger hunts to find our easter baskets. Usually our baskets consisted of useful things like underwear and tooth brushes but we were just as happy to find those things in our baskets as a new toy. Now that we are older, we don't get easter baskets any more, but we do sometimes get another little surprise at the breakfast table. This year we both got two new patterns! These are the two I got. My sister even topped the day off by making a dress that she got the pattern for... the WHOLE dress. I mean, Wow, she's cool!

With love,

~Cherry~

Suday

HE IS RISEN!

I hope you have a wonderful Resurrection Sunday rejoicing in our Savior. He indeed is risen.

 The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office,  but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.  Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Hebrews 7:23-25

Seder

Yesterday we had a Seder dinner with our church. It was a good reminder of how the old Covenant God had with Israel was just a shadow of the new Covenant we as Christians have with Jesus Christ. After we got home I read this passage from Hebrews 9 as a part of my reading plan.


But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)  he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.  For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,  how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God,purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.


It was so neat to read this after such a special service.  Hallelujah what a Savior!

Baseball is Back

Congratulations Tigers!

Yesterday was the Tiger's first day back after a short (long) winter break. I'm so glad to hear the sounds of baseball once more. Oh, and thanks for winning too!

~Cherry~

Today's Psalm

1 Blessed is the man

who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,

nor stands in the way of sinners,

nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,

and on his law he meditates day and night.

 He is like a tree

planted by streams of water

that yields its fruit in its season,

and its leaf does not wither.

In all that he does, he prospers.

 The wicked are not so,

but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.