Is there a spring?

He is quite a lap dog, really.

Happy Easter, belated, to everyone.  I hope that you were able to have a great weekend.  We had a wonderful time.  We ventured into civilization and headed south to CT.  It was a really great weekend.  We got to see my friend Donna and her family in the morning for a little while.  That was really nice.  Then in the afternoon we visited with Sharon and her family.  The time rushed by too quickly as we had such a nice time.  We then rushed to Grandma and Grandpa Perreault's for a wonderful dinner of pizza (we polished off 2 pizzas) and a quick time to visit.  Of course this visit included brownies and comics for the kids.  They are so happy when Grandma and Grandpa save the comics for them.  They chuckle for days and reread them constantly.  Very funny.  Then we all crashed at Tom's brother Doug and his family.  We brought the dog, of course, and were a little worried on how he would act around the cat.  He is notorious for chasing the cats.  When he goes on his "vacation", my friend Julie always mentions that the cats move out when he shows up.  But we had no problems at all.  There a moment when he felt a little spunky and began to sniff the cat's tail.  I could tell he was thinking of mischief, but he was so good and was very obedient.  But enough on the dog.  You all know how much I love him but moving on.  We spent the next day with Doug and his family, always a lot of fun.  We were blessed to go to church with them.  Always love going to Wintonbury. We then had a lot of food and the kids had an Easter egg hunt.  Let me qualify kids.  Logan and his cousin Christina are really the only eligible contestants, but there were other cousins from Nichole's family.  We were so blessed to be able to hang out after and just have good conversations.  The kids were playing a killer game of Ninja in the basement.  So it was a really nice weekend.   

The house is continuing to come along nicely. Tom just finished the wooden panels downstairs.  As I was leaving today to come to the library, he was working on cutting floorboards.  He bought me a nice rug to put under our chairs.  It really looks kind of cozy.  We are trying to make it a home.  It really is, but it doesn't look complete yet. A couple of weeks ago Tasha set up her room to have some privacy.  It is really quite cute

Natasha's future room

The outside right now is a great big mess.  We are in what Vermonters call, Mud Season, and yes it is quite muddy.  After our weekend in CT, we came back quite late on Sunday and Logan sunk into the mud and partially lost his shoe.  Poor kid.  He was half way asleep.  Well, he woke up quickly when he stepped into snow and lost his shoe. I want to mention that, even though the calendar proclaims it to be spring, it is not.  32 degrees today!!! 

I have been quite busy.  Tasha and I have done a lot of traveling in the last two weeks.  Natasha has a really good friend in Pennsylvania, and she was missing that friend a lot, so the weekend before we took an impromptu trip (about 5 hours) to their house.  We decided not to let anyone know, but made sure that they didn't have anything going on.  So, early, early on Sunday morning we set out to PA.  We got lost!!  And then we got lost again!! But all in all, we made great time.  We were there pretty much on time and didn't really disturb church too much (other than Tasha and Esther running out of the sanctuary screaming in delight).  We spent two days with them and the girls had a wonderful time.  They were able to talk in person, not just on the phone.   Natasha did get to drive on the way home and we didn't get lost.  She did great!

Dancing to Britt Nichole

Tasha can move!!!

I feel the need to encourage those of us who are walking according to what the Holy Spirit is telling you, who are walking in Christ.  I don't know why. This morning Logan and I were reading about the adulterous woman.  I just love that story.  To me it is a most encouraging story.  I love how Christ doesn't even really acknowledge the Pharisees, who are trying to trick Him.  I love the way He, the I Am, takes the woman to a new place.  A place of complete forgiveness, complete rest, peace.  He has forgiven her and restored her.  What a wonderful thing.  He just asks her to do one thing.  Do not sin!  Do not separate yourself from Me!  Logan and I talked about that for a while.  A person, who is personally forgiven by Christ is not going to go off and sin, i.e. separate themselves on purpose, when Christ has made them whole.  I just love that. This is one of my favorite verses in the scriptures:
Romans 8:1

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

I pray that you are strengthened and encouraged by this.  Enjoy the week.  Send me a line if you feel like it.