The sun is shining in Yakima,  and I have rid myself of that ghastly winter pallor! We are enjoying being outside everyday. I have been letting the goats all come out to the side of the garage to eat down the grass and weeds, (saves on mowing!) and putting my sons in charge of being the "goat herders". They even have staffs! They sometimes pretend to be King David. It's all a great deal of fun.
Nothing's boring around here! Ask Catherine Love! She reminds me once in awhile!



The goat kids are cuter than ever and are so friendly. I have people inquiring all the time about buying them, the trouble is I just don't have enough to go around! My husband was so nervous when we first got goats; he thought for sure we would be stuck with all the kids every year and nobody would want to buy them. Ha! I can't keep up with the demand.

This weekend I am taking my daughter and going to the Above Rubies retreat in Olympia. Praise the Lord! This is going to be so much fun. We are carpooling with Tara and Michelle, both bloggers here, but I don't have time to do any linking- sorry! I am busy cooking and packing for the trip.

I had written to Nancy Campbell yesterday about the time when I was diagnosed with "Housewife Syndrome" by a young, body pierced, "medical professional" P.A. feminist who was blatantly also a lesbian. I felt pretty sure her nurse was her "really close friend". I also sent Nancy the article on my website I had written after that whole experience, which you can find on my blog, entitled, "Just a Housewife". I didn't expect anything, but thought it might bless somebody. It was written poorly and quickly, but she contacted me a few hours later to say she would like to meet me this weekend at the retreat and talk about it perhaps fitting in the next issue of Above Rubies magazine.  Oh My! I was just so blessed! I always feel so unworthy and her response somehow made me feel accepted and liked. (It was a personal written piece.) I have been asking the Lord to show me His thoughts about me (and you) in His Word, and His promises to me along with their conditions, and mainly asking for confirmation to my heart that what He has said, that I am loved, accepted, forgiven, blessed, chosen, adopted, and redeemed, was all true for me, wretch that I am! I know it and choose to believe it, but it gets cemented when I dig it out of His Word for myself. If yu want to record those things too, email me and I will send you some Word Docs I made up for keeping records.

He is so gracious! This verse is mine for today:

"For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly." Psalm 84:11

Not that I have any righteousness of my own! But I have Christ's! I am covered, and have the righteousness of Jesus, which makes me the righteousness of God. If you are saved, you too! Praise the Lord! Amen!

I plan on having a blast this weekend with my sisters in Christ, including my daughter! Hoping also to get the opportunity to meet some of the young ladies who were adopted from Liberia, as we are praying about adopting, too. The Lord will have to work out alot of details for that to happen, but I know He is able if it's His will.
I think it is; we shall see!