Wednesday, June 29, 2011

My Favorite Things...

Every trail has a few puddles in it.

Faith

Every morning I try to start my day by waking up slightly earlier then I have to(not such an easy task anymore), stretching and maybe a few stomach moves followed by a cup of coffee/tea and my bible on my front porch. There is just something about being alone with God in his creation early in the morning. A friend of mine at church told me that she reads a chapter of Proverbs a day and has found that it has helped her be a better wife. I liked that. I know God shows lots of areas in the bible about Godly women, but something about Proverbs makes you check yourself.You don't have a figure to compare yourself to, it's aimed directly at you and the motives of your heart and mind.

There are also a lot of references to ungodly women in proverbs. I'm not sure but I almost feel like those outweigh the godly ones. Crafty ones, bent on turning men away from the right path. Or nagging ones where the bible says: "Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife." --Proverbs 21:19

And then there's Proverbs 31 that starts off in verse 10: "A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value..."

It's almost like God's giving us a choice. We can chose to be the nagging/crafty women that leads men to their doom(my exaggeration) or the woman of noble character who's husband lacks nothing of value. Albeit it doesn't seem to be a very hard choice, but how many times do we nag and not know it? Say negative things and not realize it because that's just the way we communicate. It says "A wife a noble character who can find?" How sad that the woman we want to be is so hard to find. Maybe because we're not looking in the right direction? We should be looking upward and inward. Not outward or next to us or at someone in the same room.

Just some food for thought I wanted to pass on from my Father to you. May we always strive to be better women then we are, in our Father's eyes.

 

Fashion

I love clothing collages! And I love even more when they tell you where you can find and buy the items in the collage. Like this one:Wild Things ♥Country Fashion Contest ♥

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Fashion/Beauty

I am loving these heels that Miranda Lambert wore to the ACM awards! I have been unable to find this exact pair for myself, but I did find a shoe similar at Model Citizen in Huntington Beach.

Edible

Easy Summer Drink Recipes

It's officially summer! And one of my favorite things about summer ya'll are the delicious and cool summer drinks. Here are a few just to get you started:

Honey Limeade Recipe

Ingredients:
  • One cup of lime juice
  • 5 cups of water
  • 2/3 cup white sugar
  • 2 tablespoons of honey
In a pitcher combine lime juice, water, sugar and honey. Stir until sugar is dissolved then chill in the refrigerator and you're done! Cool and refreshing drink made super easy!

Easy Raspberry Punch Lemonade

Ingredients:
  • One (12 fluid ounce) can frozen raspberry lemonade concentrate
  • 3 cups water
  • 3/4 teaspoon lime juice
  • One (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
  • One cup crushed ice
  • One cup fresh raspberries, garnish
  • 18 mint leaves, garnish (optional)
In a large bowl combine raspberry lemonade concentrate, water and lime juice. Stir in lemon-lime soda and crushed ice. Garnish each glass with a fresh raspberry and mint leaf.

 
I hope you enjoy these delicious and easy summer drink recipes. I'm looking forward to the Raspberry Lemonade Punch myself!