January 2012 – Page 4 – Write From Karen

Saturday Stuff

One Sentence Saturday – Line One

January 21, 2012 Karen

It doesn’t matter that he’s a 19-year old man, he’s still my baby driving on icy roads for the first time.

Life

I Think We Need a Little More Brown … Don’t You?

January 21, 2012 Karen

BEFORE

AFTER

I KNOW. It needs color.

I know this. I’m just not sure what to DO about it.

Yet.

We’re working on it.

But we have our wood floor and we LOVE it! It really does go perfectly in our “rustic” room. Our hardwood floor is a hand-scraped oak and this is another one of those projects we’ve been talking about doing to this house ever since we moved in (a mere 19 1/2 years ago!!).

I want to buy a round/oval (but more round, I think) rug to put in between the chairs. The rug must have color … maybe a russet or a maroon color (?). I’m also on the hunt for tiffany floor lamps.

I KNOW. I really dig the tiffany shades. But they’re going to be expensive. At least, the little I’ve shopped for them online tells me so.

We also plan on hanging a TON of family pictures on the wall, which will also add some color to the room. (It IS a family room after all).

That sliding glass door you see in the “before” picture? I’d like to buy some cloth-ish russet/maroon shades as well, adding more color to the room.

So yeah. I KNOW it’s brown. We’re earth tones sort of people (comfy – soothing – blah). And we love it. As usual, our floor guy did a spectacular job. He was in and out in five hours.

So our family room is back together again – somewhat. We just need to tweak it a bit.

Next?

Our bathrooms. The construction guy gave us a day – Thursday. As in THIS COMING THURSDAY. He’s estimating that it will take about two weeks-ish, to get it all done. I’m hoping he’s being conservative. At any rate, we’re mentally preparing to being majorly inconvenienced but hey, it’s a small price to pay (actually, it’s NOT – ha!) to get what you want.

Stay tuned … things are about to get messy around here …

random stuff

Our Soldiers ROCK …

January 20, 2012 Karen

… literally.

Seriously. HOW can you not love these guys? They’re freaking awesome. R.E.S.P.E.C.T, ya’ll.

Oh. And it’s Friday.

THANK GOD.

Twitter Messages

Tweet of the Moment …

January 19, 2012 Karen

https://twitter.com/#!/writefromkaren/status/156018654801166336

Abundant Life

Audio Teaching: Character Counts

January 18, 2012December 28, 2011 Karen

by Dan Gallagher and John Schoenheit
Far too often Christians fail to understand the significant role a person’s character plays in life both now, and as the basis for rewards at the Judgment. God is so concerned about our character that he has filled His Word with character instructions and lessons.

In this teaching Dan Gallagher and John Schoenheit together define character, demonstrate its value, and show why God is concerned about our character. They also illustrate that everyone’s character is under their control, and if we do not like the way we are, we can change. Every Christian has a gifting given by God, but God does not reward us because of our gifts. He rewards us based on what we have done with our gifts, which will depend on our character. In closing, John and Dan provide 4 powerful steps to evaluating and changing our character.

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