Here are some things I found interesting this last week that I thought you might, too:

I love this idea for etching your initial on a glass pan so that when you take it somewhere, it’s marked as yours and you don’t have to scribble your name on masking tape and stick it on. The article is based on using the Cricut to make a stencil, but you could use a pre-made stencil just as easily.

50 All-Time Favorite New Uses For Old Things.

20 5-Minute Centerpieces For Every Occasion.

My biggest parenting challenge.

The Church: Don’t Give Up On God’s Plan.

Food Ministry at Church.

Insignificant Is Beautiful, HT to Washing the Feet of the Saints. Quote: “The search for significance, especially if it requires changing the world, can blind us to the everyday tasks, the mundane duties, and the dirty work that is part and parcel of the life of discipleship.”

The Myth of Mother Teresa.

Hope you have a great Saturday!

Interesting things seen ’round the Web this week:

Do It Anyway from Lisa — just what I needed on the day I read it.

Billy Coffey versus the grocery store. Funny post of a man in unfamiliar territory.

Tin Eye, a reverse image source — a way to tell if any of your photos are being used on the Web.

Why a cake fails.

Cute fabric pumpkins and acorns and paper leaves.

I haven’t watched any of the coverage of the Chilean miners rescue except what people have posted on blogs or Facebook. I get most of my news via the radio and kept up with the updates. But I was blessed by 5 Lessons From Chilean Miners by Lisa and this video posted by Nannykim:

♫ Happy Birthday to me! ♪
I am now 53!
Not yet over the hill.
Alive and kicking still! ♫

(Graphic courtesy of Annie’s Place)

A Very Happy 26th Birthday to Jeremy!

I am so glad we could all be together for it!

Woot!

Well, the main desktop that I use isn’t connected because we need a certain cable. But my husband is letting me use his little notebook.

Still way too much to do to play for long, but it’s nice to know I can take a break online here and there!

The bathrooms and bedrooms are mostly set up and I am working on the kitchen today.

I just have to tell you this — the new house had a washer, dryer, and refrigerator, but we were going to bring our own from the old house, swap it out with what was here, and then take them back to SC to the old house for the kids to use. But when we got here and started to disconnect the washer and dryer here, we discovered the dryer was a GAS dryer! Somehow we had missed that before. So we swapped the other appliances out, but, of course, not that one! I didn’t know they made gas dryers. I also have a gas oven (yes I DID notice that was gas beforehand…), which I haven’t had since I was a kid, so that will take a bit of adjusting, but probably not much.

Going to a new W-Mart in a new town is an experience — especially when it is the TN tax-free weekend. That place was horrendous. Thankfully Ingles was laid out almost just like the one I was used to.

Looking forward to getting back to regular blogging…some day!

…at a hotel. All our worldly goods will be delivered tomorrow, Lord willing.

Everything went fairly smoothly in the packing and loading process. Pulling out furniture uncovers all of one’s housekeeping sins…and a few found items that we didn’t know were lost…

After the house was packed up, good-byes said to Jason and Mittu, 😦 and we pulled out of our subdivision in separate cars on our way to TN, Jim called me on his cell phone and asked if I unplugged the iron. 🙂

I told him I hoped the movers did before the packed it. 😀

Jesse and Jeremy saw the house for the first time tonight — they seemed to like it.

More…when I can….

(Photo courtesy of stock.xchng)

The movers come on Wednesday, and there are some things my husband wants to pack up himself before they come. Among those things are the electronics…like my desktop PC.

So I probably won’t be blogging for several days.

Over the next few days the movers will pack our things up, load them on their truck, deliver everything to our new house, and we will move Jason and Mittu to our house here  (the one we’re moving out of — they are going to live in it, keep the grass cut, do some repairs and painting to help us get it ready to sell. etc.) and move Jim’s mom into her new assisted living facility. Then, of course, we have to unpack the stuff in the new house. We won’t have Internet access there until some time over the weekend, but things will be pretty hectic for a few days anyway.

If I can borrow someone’s laptop during quick breaks here and there, I might pop in here or stop in over at your places. But if you don’t see me, know that I am thinking about you and looking forward to everything getting back to normal — or settling into a new normal — whatever normal is. 🙂

I so appreciate your warm thoughts and prayers during this busy, hectic, major transition in our lives.

So for now I am going to make like a tree and leave..

Or make like a banana and split…

See ya round like a donut…

Later, Gator…