Wednesday Hodgepodge

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1. Do you like your name? Were you named after someone? If you have children how did you settle on their names?
I didn't like it when I was younger, but I really don't mind it any more.  It's just plain, old Cathy and I'm okay with that.  As far as I know I was not named after anyone and neither are my kids.  we just liked the names we gave them.

2. How do you define success?
 Making it home to heaven and hearing Him say, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant."

3. Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy?
Wheel of Fortune...love this game.  Not so much with Jeopardy.  I don't think I'm smart enough for Jeopardy.

4. If you could own any single object that you don't have now, what would that object be?
Lifetime free pass to Disney World (that covers everything).

5. What is something that inspires you?
Seeing God prove Himself faithful in my life.  He's been doing that a lot lately.  Actually, I know He's always been doing that, but lately He's been showing me so I would see Him.

6. Meatloaf-yea or nay? If its a yay how do you make yours?
Yea but I don't make it.  Hubby does. Could be why it's yea.

7. Which is more admirable-the ability to organize and be methodical or the ability to adapt and make do?
Both make life a little easier.

8. Insert your own random thought here.
We're supposed to get lots of snow tomorrow.  I am so ready for this to be done.

Siesta Scripture Memory

Beth Moore at her blog is hosting the Siesta Scripture Memory Team again for 2011. On the 1st and 15th of each month they make a post and anyone who wants to participate can leave a comment with the verse you plan to memorize. By the end of the year we should all have 24 verses memorized. I think that's pretty cool and I think it's something I can handle doing. I don't know about you, but I've never memorized 24 verses in a year before. But I'm on #2 starting today.

My verses are:

1 - “From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done.” Isaiah 43:13 NLT

2 - “Only I can tell you the future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to pass, for I do whatever I wish.” Isaiah 46:10 NLT

As you can see, I've also put them in my sidebar so I'll see them every time I come to my blog.  So if you want to participate, go here for Beth's directions and go here to post your scripture for week 2.  I think it's going to be pretty neat to have this much more scripture hidden in my heart.

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Saw this story on FB and just had to share it.

52 Weeks, 52 Letters in 2011!

I first saw this challenge on my friend, Rebecca Jo's blog and then I saw it on Sara's blog and she directed me to MiMi's blog.

I have never written a lot of letters, but I do send cards from time to time.  I like to make cards too.  So I think I'm gonna try this challenge.  I know I love to receive letters and cards and I know other people do to.  So hopefully, I can give someone some joy or maybe encourage someone every week this year.

The details from the blog in her post were,

“One piece of “real” mail sent out each week. It can be a letter, a postcard, a care package, a thank you note, handmade art, etc. I’m searching for all of the cards and stationary I have collected over the years and gathering them into one place with pens, envelopes (regular & padded), lots of stamps (.28 & .44), a glue stick, unlined index cards (great for making postcards), and a few USPS Small Flat Rate boxes. Oh, and I’m updating my address book.”

So, now I think I'm going to join in and see if I can accomplish this.  I think this is going to be such a rewarding goal for 2011!  I know I'm starting late, but I just wrote my first letter (before I posted this).  It's to my Compassion sponsored child.  So one down and 51 to go. 

52 Weeks, 52 Letters in 2011!

I think I'm gonna like this challenge. Who knows, if you e-mail me your address, I may even send you a letter or card. Or... Why don't you join in with us?

God Gave Us The World by Lisa Tawn Bergren

 It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books.  A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured.  The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between!  Enjoy your free peek into the book!

You never know when I might play a wild card on you!

Today's Wild Card author is:

Lisa Tawn Bergren

and the illustrator:

Laura J. Bryant

and the book:

God Gave Us The World

WaterBrook Press (January 11, 2011)

***Special thanks to Staci Carmichael, Marketing and Publicity Coordinator, Doubleday Religion / Waterbrook Multnomah / Divisions of Random House, Inc. for sending me a review copy.***

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lisa Tawn Bergren is the award-winning author of nearly thirty titles, totaling more than 1.5 million books in print. She writes in a broad range of genres, from adult fiction to devotional. God Gave Us Love follows in Lisa’s classic tradition of the best-selling God Gave Us You. She makes her home in Colorado, with her husband, Tim, and their children, Olivia, Emma, and Jack.


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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR:

Laura J. Bryant studied painting, printmaking, and sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She has illustrated numerous award-winning children’s books, including God Gave Us You, Smudge Bunny, and If You Were My Baby. Laura lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Product Details:

List Price: $10.99
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 40 pages
Publisher: WaterBrook Press (January 11, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400074487
ISBN-13: 978-1400074488

Also Available:

God Gave Us You
God Gave Us Two
God Gave Us Christmas
God Gave Us Heaven
God Gave Us Love
God Gave Us So Much – a limited three book treasury


AND NOW...THE FIRST FOUR PAGES...press the pictures to better view them:

My Thoughts: This was a really cute book about a little bear learning that there are all kinds of bears, who look all different ways, and eat all different kinds of food. So she got to learn just because they were all bears, they were all different and in some ways and the same in other ways. Very cute and nice illustrations too.