Cosmos in Chaos

A Princess and her Super Hero

I'm very proud of my pumpkin --

and happy to say the princess and her superhero sidekick had a great night of trick-or-treating.

Home:

the beauty of the home is order

the blessing of the home is contentment

the glory of the home is hospitality.

Thinking a lot recently about living more simply.

Yes, I'm going there.

It stuns me how many young evangelicals I know are choosing to ignore the "telltale scratching" and vote for a candidate who charms them with his "mellifluous articulation."

I for one, am fine to be a single-issue voter this election.

"Jobs, highways, schools, economic growth—none of these matter if we're willing to sanction murder to get them. Perhaps my mentality is a recipe for political isolation for Christians, for the losing of elections, and maybe even a loss of national greatness. I worry that the alternative, however, is to lose something far greater, which is our ability to discern good from evil, and to act accordingly." Tony Woodlief in WORLD.

Senator Obama is found by Princeton's Robby George to be "the most extreme pro-abortion candidate to have ever run on a major party ticket." 

Biblically, abortion is one issue I find to be black and white, and I can not vote for a candidate who so strongly defends the right to kill innocent life. Even if McCain gets everything else wrong, I know he believes in the sanctity of life and will appoint judges who possess the ability to discern good from evil.

Ummm...

who stole my baby and replaced him with this little boy?!?

Just another Sunday morning...

One of my dearest

friends lost her mother yesterday. I cannot imagine what that must feel like, and I pray God's comfort for her and her family.

It made me thankful yet again that I live near my mother and get to spend time with her regularly (like our frequent trips to the zoo)  Love you Mom.

I just read

if you take a mouse to school for the thousandth time. it tops the list of kate's favorite books to read right now, i think mostly because she loves the part where the mouse sees some building blocks and "builds a little mouse house." she spews the phrase out before i can even think it, let alone read it, every time.

and back by popular demand - a little kate video to tide you over :)  her funny factor increased dramatically recently.

seriously. be excited. he's not just regular people - he's Jesus.

Seriously, this gig

over at {we are} storytellers just keeps getting better and better. one of my favorite designers, liz of Paislee Press Designs is the guest designer this month, and her first kit out at {wst} is gorgeous. it inspired this layout -

journaling: for almost two months now, i’ve been attempting to achieve the perfect curl. it’s true what they say - you always want what you can’t have. my hair is neither straight nor curly. to make it straight, i have to straighten it and to get curls, i never knew quite what to do. but after much practice, and experimenting, i’ve found the way to achieve curls for my curl-challenged hair. it’s just one more
little dream, come true.

ever since i edited these pictures of the olson family, i've been coveting shauna's curls. so i told her she had to tell me **in detail** her process - which she did. which i then did and continued to practice for the last two months, desperate for the perfect curl. (shauna - i know you're wishing i would put as many hours into some new Vanilla Bean Art - it's coming, i promise. and it will be ready for our first ever craft show at the end of the month - i promise.) thank you for helping me find my inner curl.

An interview with Kate...

Denied. Via my FLIP Mino.