Hey there everyone, welcome back to our Good Morning Mondays Link Up and our new year 2017.
How was your Christmas and New Year?? We spent time with our family and as always it was a great time together. The children are growing up and we bought them a trike and wagon to line up with our daughters desire for less stuff. It has worked out a great gift and they use it often.
Our lovely no 1 daughter made me some really nice new oven mitts as mine were pretty bad and raggy. These ones are inspirational as well and keep my mind focussed on God’s word, and I have used them even though I struggled to not want to get them dirty.
We’ve been to the beach a couple of times and have enjoyed the cool water. We got together with our daughters family and had a great time with the grandies.
Our chickens have been growing and needed a new pen and this is what my husband and no 2 son came up with. They did a great job and the chickens have much more freedom now.
I’ve been busy sock knitting and completed a pair for a friend for Christmas and then this pair for my husband. I am keen for him to wear and wear them to see how they last, so far so good.
The vegetable garden is going well and the weeds are growing quickly. There are tomatoes on the bushes but they are a long way off turning red.
The tomatoes in the aquaponics are booming and we picked our first one this past week, we are looking forward to many more.
We’ve just been to our annual home schooling conference so we’ve come back ready to get started again, so this coming Monday is it. We will have plenty of music practice to catch up on and book work to do. There will also be time for weeding and managing the garden as that’s very important too.
What have you been up to these past few weeks, I would love to hear??
Okay, onto our link up…
Thanks to everyone for linking up last time and I’m looking forward to seeing what you all have on offer at the moment.
I’m looking forward to the new year and new things to learn.
May God lead you and guide you as you focus on the New Year, may your plans be His plans for you.
Numbers 6:24-26 “The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.”
You will find me linked up at some of these great blogs.
Thanks most sincerely for hosting, sweet friend, and happy new week to you and your fabulous family !
Sending blessings across the many miles
Xx Daniela
Thanks Danny, have a great week and may you be blessed. xxx
Thank you for hosting! I will begin sewing some outfits for my granddaughters and have started working on our VBS decorations, lessons, etc. for this year. Have a good week.
Wow Debbie you sound busy and organised, hope you are well and I’m looking forward to seeing your posts again this year. Blessings
Yay!!! I’m glad you are back!
So good reading about your home
Praying you have a great year. Hoping to read more of your faith articles.
God bless
Thanks Ifeoma, you have really encouraged me and I appreciate your prayers. Thanks also for the prompt to write more, I really needed it. God bless you too.
A blessed 2017 to you and all the lovelies at Darling Downs!
Thank you so much Michele, you are such a blessing to me, have a great week my friend. xxxx
Happy New Year! It sounds like you had a wonderful holiday. Thanks for sharing it with us here and for hosting. Blessings to you and yours!
Thanks Donna, hope your mum is going okay. Blessings
I do love more family time around the holidays, too! It’s also a little sad when it is over, even though I like getting back into my normal routine. Glad to have you back.
Hey there Lisa, thanks for your kind words. Yes I agree it great to have a break and enjoy our family but I also enjoy getting back to normal. Blessings to you
It is good to have you back. I hope your holidays were grand and want to wish you and yours a Happy New Year.
Patti
Thank you so much Patti for your kind words, you have really blessed me. We had a great holidays and the same blessings for a great New Year to you and yours.
So great, the joy that you were able to have with the grandchildren!
I understand not wanting to get such beautiful and meaningful kitchen mitts dirty!
And yes, it is so necessary to keep up with those weeds! They seem like an endless task, kind of like the constant task of saying no to the various temptations that assail us. On that subject I wrote a post during our summer:
https://plantedbylivingwater.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/that-annoying-sin-weed/
Hi there Ruth, thank you so much for sharing with us this week. I’m sorry I didn’t get to read your post due internet problems but I really appreciate that you stopped by and linked up. I’m looking forward to seeing what you have for us this week. Blessings