Living as a Victorious Christian Woman

I am constantly reading - first thing int he morning when I do my Bible study, while I eat breakfast, a business book at work, usually a little when I get home after I get the puppies fed, and almost always at bedtime.  So when I only read six books in a month, I feel a little disappointed in myself. Yes, it's been a very busy few months, but I've been reading constantly, right? Yes, but to start the month of February, I dug through a 500+ page on the Pinkerton Detective Agency. It doesn't look like it in this picture, but James D. Horan wrote a multi-generational, doorstop-sized historic epic on Allan Pinkerton's efforts to fight crime. It is absolutely fascinating (I know I say that about books all the time, and I definitely mean it here), it just took ages to get through it. Having a Jesse James story right here in Ottumwa, that portion of the Pinkerton exploits was especially interesting, as were his Civil War connections. I highly recommend this book for anyone int...

Some of my favorite people ever were born in March, so I'm excited to start this brand-new month. Not to mention that two difficult months are now officially over. We'll celebrate the first day of spring, those special birthdays, and the start of several new projects around the house, and those sounds like great reasons to celebrate. I use the month-at-a-glance planner spread to keep track of my blog posts, so it's always fun to do a random splash of images and words all over these two pages. For March I used almost an entire sheet of St. Patrick's Day-themed stickers, full of shamrocks, pots of gold, and beautiful rainbows. Having a stash of seasonal stamps and stickers makes moments like this so easy. With all kinds of different sizes, shapes, and shades of green, I love the way these two pages turned out. Do you have some phrases and images saved up that would give them same look in your planner? Can you mix and match sets to create something completely new and diffe...