Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Mar 27, 2011, 10:56 pm
** ** WARNING ** ** This is another post containing a tremendous amount of gushing from a very proud Momma! Last month I wrote about my daughter receving her 1st award in public school (they just started attending in January).  This month I am proud to say my son, Austin (1st Grade) has received ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Thankful Heart - Mar 21, 2011, 12:11 am
The winner of the FREE copy of "Winning Him Without Words" is Brooke!!!  Congratluations - I will be sending you an email to get your address so I can send you your copy.  And thank you to everyone who entered.  I love being able to give away books and will try to do more in the future.  I've ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Mar 15, 2011, 7:03 pm
Yesterday I posted on my marriage site, Thankful Hearts, about a wonderful book which I'm going to be giving away for FREE.  Thank you Lynn & Dineen for the extra copy to put into someone's hands who will be blessed by it.  If you don't regularly visit that site of mine, I encourage you to do so.Â...
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Angela S. posted an article on Thankful Heart - Mar 14, 2011, 2:00 am
I am so excited today to introduce two very dear friends of mine, Lynn Donovan and Dineen Miller.  These two women, who have inspired me, encouraged me and prayed with me have just had their first book published - "Winning Him Without Words: 10 Keys to Thriving in Your Spiritually Mismatched Marria...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Mar 8, 2011, 3:42 pm
I have a short drive to work each day and don't tend to listen to the radio much, but when I do I find myself tuning into Air1.  I love this station and often will listen to it over live streaming at work when I have more "brainless" work to do that does not require alot of concentration.  Luckily...
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Angela S. posted an article on Thankful Heart - Mar 8, 2011, 2:40 pm
I have a question for you? You don't have to answer aloud, but I would encourage you to really think about it and examine yourself for the answer to this question. If you are married, is your marriage a contract or a covenant? How are you living out your marriage? I've searched multiple sources for...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Feb 24, 2011, 5:59 pm
** ** WARNING ** **This post contains a tremendous amount of gushing from a very proud Momma! Today my baby girl received her first award in public school.  Shaun & I are so proud of her.  After attending private school for 2 years and doing the homeschool/co-op thing for 2 1/2 years she was very ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Feb 22, 2011, 1:22 pm
After two and half years of homeschooling (while working full-time) the Lord has put my family on a new path.  It has been bittersweet for me as I really did love teaching my kids and wished I could do so full-time.  And I had reasons I preferred homeschooling for my children, but God has other pl...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Dec 28, 2010, 12:12 am
A dear friend of mine recently sent me a book called "The Dream Giver".  The first part of the book is written as an allegory or a parable.  It is about Ordinary, a Nobody who lives in the Land of Familiar.  He decides to leave one day to follow his Big Dream.  I love "Pilgrim's Progress" and Ra...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Dec 12, 2010, 9:07 pm
We've discovered lapbooks this year and love them!  Tyler has done two for books she has read.  Our first attempt was with "The Courage of Sarah Noble".  I've included some pictures below.  One of the ladies in our co-op found instructions online for this one along with the templates. Tyler's Cu...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Nov 17, 2010, 10:25 pm
Dineen wrote an amazing post today over at Laced with Grace called "Thankful for Trials?".  Please take a moment to visit the site and read what she wrote.  I can personally attest to the truth behind what she wrote.  The Lord has proven Himself so very faithful in these things in the past weeks ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Thankful Heart - Oct 12, 2010, 2:57 pm
Last Friday, SUM broadcast their second installment for the Intentional Marriage.  Dineen led this webcast and did an amazing job.  The message was inspiring and encouraging and she introduced us to Mr. Wonderful!  Check it out.  It is a great message on how to love our husbands just the way the...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Sep 12, 2010, 11:41 pm
Lynn and Dineen over at SUM have just started a new project called Intentional Marriage.  I highly recommend checking out the post on SUM introducing this and watching the video that Lynn did for the first month.  I had the opportunity to watch it live, and it was wonderful.  Each month Lynn & Di...
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Angela S. posted an article on Thankful Heart - Sep 12, 2010, 11:31 pm
Dineen and Lynn just started a new endeavor over at SUM called the Intentional Marriage.  I was fortunate to be able to watch their first live broadcast and it was amazing.  I'm so excited for this new project.  I believe God's fingerprints are all over this and it will bring hope and inspiration...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Jun 20, 2010, 8:39 pm
About a month ago I did a post called Accountable Kids - The Journey Begins.  We are now just a little over a month into the program - we have implemented 3 of the 4 phases.  I originally decided to try this program because I have friends who have raved about it.  My children are not bad kids b...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Jun 12, 2010, 5:31 pm
Verse 3 of the first chapter of Ephesians talks about us being blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ.  I found this interesting, these are not just blessings that we are given, we are given them in Christ.  Through verse 14 Paul talks about a handful of things that are ours in Christ.  ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Jun 10, 2010, 11:57 pm
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms, with every spiritual blessing in Christ. ~ Ephesians 1:3As I read the first chapter in Ephesians, verse 3 stands out to me.  We are blessed in the heavenly realm with spiritual blessings.  I began ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Jun 8, 2010, 12:49 pm
While studying the Armor of God, I recently dug up some old notes I took a few years ago when I studied Ephesians with my home church.  In with these notes I have quite a bit regarding Ephesians 1 which I want to share with you over the next week or so.  I was greatly encouraged while re-reading t...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Jun 3, 2010, 10:06 pm
I came across this blog today and felt it was worth sharing with my friends.  This is a blog written by four teenagers who are taking a stand for unborn children in our world who do not have a voice of their own.  I found this site so inspiring, not only because of the stand they are taking but be...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Jun 1, 2010, 7:08 pm
Below is a great article I found by Norm Wakefield regarding the Spirit of Control.  This is the second of a three part series, but I'm referencing this one here because it deals with parent/child relationships.  I found this article very enlightening.  I will definitely be approaching the raisin...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Jun 1, 2010, 1:54 pm
"There is something in human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world - and that is a world at war." ~ John Eldredge I am a huge Te...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 31, 2010, 9:16 pm
Now that we've looked at the different pieces of armor and what they mean to us, it is helpful to understand exactly how do we put on this armor.  Knowledge alone does not do us much good.  Throughout these verses we are called to be active v. 10:  be strong, v. 11:  put on...take your stand v. ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 29, 2010, 5:52 pm
As their last History assignment this year (and our last sample to be turned into the charter school) I had each of the kids write about their favorite person in History from this year.  Tyler had read a book about Helen Keller and absolutely fell in love with her.  So of course her paper was on H...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 29, 2010, 1:53 pm
At the time when the letter to the Ephesian church was written, they would have been very familar with Roman soldiers and the armor they wore.  Below are notes on each piece of armor and how important they were to the Roman soldier wearing them and how this relates to us in our battle. One note bef...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 29, 2010, 12:14 pm
We have begun to discuss spiritual warfare at 1Peter3 and of course these verses have popped up as part of our conversations.  A few years back my house church went through the book of Ephesians together and we spent a good deal of time on these verses.  I've dug up my notes from my studies on the...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 28, 2010, 9:46 pm
This week was the final week of our Friendship with God series at SUM.  Below are links to Lynn and Dineen's posts this week - I highly recommend reading them.  I love both of these women dearly and have been honored to be part of this series.  It has been an amazing experience. I Am THAT Woman b...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 27, 2010, 10:46 pm
Last year our garden met with catastrophe.  The only thing that survived were Shaun's jalapeno peppers.  We were invaded by mice.  Shaun said it was like a flashback to the Secret of Nimh only with mice under a tomato plant rather than rats living under a rose bush.  There were many evenings I w...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 22, 2010, 12:39 am
Below is an excerpt and link to my third submission as a guest poster at S.U.M. this month for the series Friendship with God.  I've also include a link to a post written by Dineen this week for the series.  These are all wonderful and it is amazing how God is working through each of us to create ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 21, 2010, 8:36 pm
Below is an excerpt and link to my post last week for the Friendship with God series at S.U.M.  I apologize for being negligent in keeping up here.  I'm linknig below to other posts last week in the series written by Lynn and Dineen.  I recommend checking them all out!  I will add another post...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 14, 2010, 9:48 pm
I have recently started something new with my kids called Accountable Kids.  I'm usually pretty skeptical about programs that say they can "give you a new kid in days" but I have a friend who raved about this and after checking out their website and watching the videos I was impressed.  It is a t...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 7, 2010, 9:21 pm
I've been asked to be a guest contributor at S.U.M. for the month of May.  Our series this month is Friendship with God.  Today was my first contribution to this series.  Below is an excerpt and a link to the full article. If you like this please check out the other posts made by Lynn and Dineen...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 5, 2010, 11:36 pm
Today is our youngest son's 4th birthday. A couple of days ago Shaun asked Jesse what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday.  The response was, "Strawberries and blueberries and whipped cream and sprinkles!  Oh . . . and Pears!" Shaun tried to convince him that pears would not taste very good ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - May 1, 2010, 10:56 pm
Yesterday Austin turned his Spiderman sandwich container into a bug catcher.  He spent the day gathering grass, stick and other things for his bug's new home.  I've not actually seen this bug but based on how much stuff he's put in this container - I'm sure there is more than one in that thing. We...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Apr 21, 2010, 2:43 am
I picked up a little book the other day called "The Invisible Church - A Journey into the Future of the UK Church".  I'm honestly not sure why I grabbed it other than it was very inexpensive and sounded kind of intersesting.  It is in fact an interesting read, although at this point I would not y...
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Angela S. posted an article on Thankful Heart - Apr 15, 2010, 10:37 pm
A dear friend of mine shared this article today and I wanted to repost it here because I thought it was very pertinent to the purpose of my blog.  This is a short read, but very thought provoking for someone already married or someone who plans to get married someday (even if they don't have their ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Apr 14, 2010, 1:36 am
This year we seem to be getting a better hang of this homeschool thing and getting more creative regarding different projects.  Here are a few that we've been working on the past few months. Weaving - I found a nice little bag at a book fair that comes to my work.  For $15 I was able to get Tyler ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Thankful Heart - Apr 12, 2010, 12:47 am
Today I am thankful because I am loved by my Lord.  I am his princess, His greatest love.  I am his favorite.  And guess what?  So are you, and so are each of my beloved family members.  My kids and my husband.  Knowing that you are so loved and that your entire family is so loved by such an a...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Apr 7, 2010, 1:23 am
My favorite picture of Daddy & Me July 1975April 7th is a special day. Why you may ask? Well, it is because today 55 years ago the Lord put a very special man on this earth. He was just a little wrinkly, squalling baby held in his mother's arms that day, but God knew the plans He had for that baby. ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Apr 6, 2010, 12:23 am
I have my house to myself tonight - no kids, no husband - so I pulled out a DVD that I bought months ago called "Fruitcake and Ice Cream - An Unlikely Collision of Friendship and Grace".  In it Louie Giglio  shares the story of a young college student named Ashley and her "fruitcake" roomate.  Wi...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Apr 3, 2010, 10:42 pm
I've made resurrection cookies 2 years ago with my daughter, but this year I decided to be brave and do so with all three kids.  We made it through and they actually all paid attention quite well and really were excited about it.  I must say I was a bit surprised when I asked what happened to Jesu...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Apr 2, 2010, 1:18 am
I've been looking up verses regarding fear recently.   God is dealing with me on the issue of fear and how it affects my trusting Him.  One verse given to me was Deuteronomy 20:1-4.  At first I glanced over this verse, quickly dismissing it.  After all, it is all about going to war which doesn'...
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Angela S. posted an article on Thankful Heart - Mar 25, 2010, 11:26 pm
I've not done this in quite awhile, in fact I've not been blogging much at all lately.  But this evening as I sat here trying to wind down after a crazy and stressful week, knowing the same is ahead of me I started thinking of all the things I am thankful for today.  I decided it is better for me ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Mar 25, 2010, 10:42 pm
When I picked up the boys from daycare today they were playing with a big plastic bat and ball.  You know, one of those huge ones that look like a flimsy plastic caveman club from the Flinstones.  As one of the older boys took the bat I warned Austin to back up so he did not get hit.  Of course, ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Mar 22, 2010, 12:41 am
Yesterday was a day full of risks for me.  Please don't judge me as being too pathetic. Lunch at a non-drive-thru restaurant with the family:  Yesterday was Opening Day for Pony Baseball.  Our middle child is playing t-ball this year so we all piled into the Tahoe and headed over to the ball park...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Mar 8, 2010, 9:36 pm
Wow - it has been awhile since I've posted on any of my blogs.  A few reasons for that are... well, many of them honestly are just excuses. Work has been crazy - we just acquired a new company and that has things a hopping for me right now. Kids - of course, they are always keeping me on my toes. ...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Mar 8, 2010, 9:36 pm
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Jan 26, 2010, 12:45 pm
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Jan 26, 2010, 12:45 pm
I wanted to share today two songs that have become anthems for me right now.  The first is a song that became my song a few months ago.  David Crowder Band's "How He Loves Us".  And recently they put a video for it on You Tube.  Now if you are not familiar with David Crowder Band, please don't l...
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Jan 25, 2010, 12:59 am
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Angela S. posted an article on Ang4him - Jan 25, 2010, 12:59 am
God's timing is amazing - the way He will give you a word in so many different ways.  Isaiah has been popping up alot for me lately, so I've decided to start reading through.  In the past when I've tried to read this book it has honestly almost put me to sleep.  I just could not make head or tail...
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