Wow – we had some more snow Sunday night. I had meant to post these earlier – but it’s fun to look back at those pics now…

From my littlest Valentines…

You definitely know it’s a special rare Alabama snowstorm when the snow is still around the next day! Check out these pictures and video from the fun yesterday and today.

We woke up to temps in the mid 30s and dry as can be instead of a nice layer of school canceling snow. But a few hours later, during the middle of teaching my class, I looked out the window and it was snowing very heavily. I let the students out a few minutes early, kitted up, and headed home for a fun bike ride through the snow. Then shortly after I got home, Kristine, Josiah, and I headed out through the woods to pick up Analise and walk her home. Josiah’s friend Jonathan was outside playing in the snow so he stayed with them while Kristine and I went to pick up Analise. Here’s all the pics…

It’s looking like it might actually snow tomorrow! Winter storm warning with 2-4″ predicted. The heaviest snow is going to be just north of Mobile, AL on the gulf coast with up to 8″ of snow!

Brian and I have found a fun Scrabble game to play ony iPhone, called Words with Friends (and it’s free!). One fun advantage is that you can essentially place “try” various combinations of letters, click ‘submit’, and you might find yourself lucky enough to have created an actual word that you’ve never heard of. For example, “readorns”, “baud” and “beefy”. Can you believe “beefy” is actually a word?!?

Brian tweeted this photo of Josiah, saying he was teaching him to play Words with Friends. Just what we need… a 3-year old learning real-but-not-normal words. Before I know it, he’ll be beating me at Scrabble!

Thanks to procrastinating, today I’ve got a whole list of things that I really don’t want to do.  My house needs some serious cleaning, and we’ve got our Life Group coming over tonight.  Before I dove into the tasks, I sat down with my tea and the Word, and a prayer that God would guide my every moment, task and thought today. (Have to admit that the Word sometimes doesn’t come first, and if it doesn’t, I’m lucky to get back to it during the day.  But today, of course, I welcomed something better to do!)

I’m reading through Luke right now, and the end of Luke 10 (today’s chapter), happened to be a very timely message.  I love God’s perfect timing with His Word!

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!””Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

I’m definitely a Martha.  I desperately want a Mary heart.  I read an excerpt from a book called “Having a Mary Spirit” by Joanna Weaver (sort of a sequel to “Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World“).

Jesus didn’t want Martha to be so caught up on kitchen service for Him that she missed out on the joy of living room intimacy with Him… His disciples were a good example of this.  As they received Jesus’ teaching, they learned the balance between a soul at rest and a body in motion, between working hard for Christ and sitting at His feet.

Ahhh… I’m pretty much speechless as to how well this applies to me.  Off to my tasks, with my heart’s prayer that I would choose what is better and keep Him at the forefront of my service.

Brian’s now on Twitter, @BrianToone, as am I, @beautifulwife. (Sidenote: my username was actually kind of a joke… it was how he directed comments at me on Facebook, and he dared me to see if it was available on Twitter.  It was, so the name stuck!)

He’s tweeted about some Topocreator.com maps he’s created on his website for the season’s first big pro cycling race, the Tour Down Under.  He was excitedly telling me this evening that he’s even got a follower on Twitter from Australia.  I chuckled and told him it was probably a spammer, just wanting to get followers from being on his follower list.  He puffed up and said, “I’ve only got 19 followers, and they’re all important to me.  Don’t you talk bad about any of them!”

I promise, if you follow Brian on Twitter, he will appreciate you!

It’s crazy – I just looked at my blog post about Josiah pulling the toilet paper all the way out into the living room, and I posted it because it was so funny to me at the time yesterday morning – but it almost made me sick just now after clicking our blog link in such close proximity to reading a BBC story and video about possibly more than 100,000 people killed in the earthquake there and an email from Compassion International about the 65,000 compassion children (1/3rd of which live in the Port au Prince area) whose lives will never be the same – if they are still even alive. It puts everything in perspective.

Jesus we don’t have $50, actually all we have is a massive debt so here it is anyway…
http://www.compassion.com/

Well – this is what happened when Josiah went to the bathroom by himself while I was making a taco for lunch. He unrolled the toilet paper all the way into the living room because he couldn’t tear it (well, at least that’s what he said!)