A visit with Jan Brett

This past week I accompanied the first & second grade kids to Village Books to see Jan Brett, one of my favorite children's authors. The day was beautiful and we were able to get an excellent photo standing in front of her bus which had been totally decorated to advertise her tour and especially her latest book "The 3 Little Dassies". Jan is an incredible artist and she spent some time showing us how she drew a dassie and talked to everyone how she came up with the idea for this new book. We waiting in line with some of the kids for her to sign their books. I bought her new book to add to my slowly growing children book collection.

Grow where you're planted... or not?

This past week has been busy and I've tried to find time to clean up my veggie garden. This summer has been the first summer where I can honestly say I was a failure at gardening. Everything I normally plant and harvest in abundance would not grow this summer. The only thing that I can be proud of is the carrots - and I put those seeds in just to get rid of them. We don't really like frozen carrots but I guess we'll learn to love them because that's about all I will pick from my garden this year. I finally had a day to putter around the house last week and I walked past this lonely sunflower growing in a pot that was supposed to be empty... Not sure what that tells me - it's contrary to the saying "grow where you're planted".

This past weekend I went to a Women's Retreat in Agassiz, BC where we had a wonderful time together listening to the wise counsel of Joyce DeHaan. It was good to be reminded of the lies we believe about ourselves and how God made us and loves us regardless - God's grace is enough. It was encouraging to listen to her and be with other wonderful women striving to live lives to God's glory!