Baby birds

Outside the front door of our office, a bird has built a nest and filled it with little babies. I hear them "peeping" all day long. I quietly went outside and using the zoom on my camera got a "birds eye" view of them. You can only see one here, but I think there are about 3 or 4 in the nest.

What a wonderful, visible reminder of Spring and the newness of life that God brings forth every year!


Song of Solomon 2:12 - The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land

Hope you have a wonderful, spring-filled day!

Wildfires

If you have watched much of the national news lately, you may have heard of the wildfires raging in South Georgia. They are in our neighboring county. They really pose no threat to us (except for smoke), but we know people who know people who have lost their homes, etc. Several friends have been put on standby that they MAY have to evacuate, but the fires are still 5-6 miles away. We are in SEVERE need of rain. The forecasts show no chance of rain until the weekend and only a 30% chance then. The fire is approximately 40% contained, but more than likely the firefighters will not be able to put the fire out - except with rain. More information can be obtained at www.satilla.org

We have moments (days) of no smoke at all, and days where the wind blows it right to us. Saturday I went to Valdosta to groceries and on the way home experienced smoke from more than 20 miles west of Homerville all the way home. We had an inside weekend and had to cancel our church picnic on Sunday because of the smoke. Thankfully, we had rented several movies to keep us busy over the weekend. Posideon, Stranger than Fiction, RV, Over the Hedge and Happy Feet. All in all, a good movie weekend!

The girls are taking their standardized tests at school this week. They were actually quite excited about it and made a point to get up and dressed early. No one wants to have to sit in the teachers lounge when others are taking the test and make up the test during the afternoon fun-time after the tests!

Please, please pray for rain!!

Sweet Blessings

I have been an AWFUL blogger lately. I have tried several times recently to update the blog, but have had trouble logging in. I have decided I have to log into a post on one of your blogs then I can update mine. This is the 2nd time today I have typed this blog because I somehow lost the earlier version.

Anyway, above is a picture of my Cookbook, Sweet Blessings, that is being printed as I type (unless it is already hot off the presses!). They will be shipped to my publisher April 13th and I should have my copies sometime next week. It will not be nationally released until June but is available now directly from my publisher. http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-5988691-7-X

Heyward is in Orlando now enjoying a field trip with her gifted class. They went to Wonder Works yesterday and spent the night last night at Sea World. They had an "experience" there where they tour the park after dark and sleep outside of the shark tank. They will be home tonight! Can't wait to hear all about it.

We enjoyed a wonderfully quiet Easter with the newest member of the family, Frances Faith Campa.

She is so precious and sweet and napped most of the time!