Dolly Days Friday!

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Ever since I saw the first "dolly days" post on Little Jenny Wren, I knew I wanted to post!  I have a very special Cabbage Patch Kid doll that I want to share about with you.  Back in the year, what was it, 1982?  CPK's became incredibly popular.  As usual, we paged through the Sears and JCP catalogs, circling what we wanted for Christmas.  Well, I wanted one of those dolls.  My Mom thought I was crazy and ignored my wishes, since I'd never been one to really want a doll.  Before long, they were impossible to find anywhere!  My Mom ended up getting on a waiting list at our little store in town that carried toys.  For my birthday that year in February, she gave me a card with a cut out picture of a Cabbage Patch Doll.  If I remember correctly, I finally got my doll in May.  Her name was Emmalynn Freddie.  Here she is now in the same original outfit.

It turns out that close to 18 years later, we named our first child, a daughter, Emmalynn.  We didn't keep the middle name Freddie though.  Hope sounded like a better choice.  So she is Emmalynn Hope and here she is at age 11.

I still think Cabbage Patch Kids are adorable and they probably contribute to my current love for Waldorf Dolls!  Love the cloth skin and yarn hair!

Bible Study Helps

I am joining with a small group of women this spring and summer in an Email list called Good Morning Girls.  It is an accountability and encouragement group.  The idea is that each day during the week, we send a short note to each other via email about what we read or studied during our morning devotions (or sometimes afternoon or evening devotions!).  It has been so great to share with each other and be able to pray specifically for each other.

Today my verse was Luke 6:40, The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.  Now if we used the modern day definition of perfect that makes the verse a little more difficult to understand.  For we know we will never be "perfect"!  However with using the Webster's 1828 Dictionary we can find that the word perfect means finished, complete.  Christ wants to make us like Him, conform us to his image.  We have to submit to that willingly or the process is much more painful!

I love having the 1828 dictionary.  The definitions are so much richer and deeper!  AND, scripture is used to explain definitions!  It has been a great help to us in our bible reading and studying!  You can find it online at various places if you don't have a copy at home!

Weekend plans

Good morning!  I am not doing so great yet with the blogging world am I??  I need to plan a regularly scheduled post I think.  That way I can work it into my schedule and actually have a plan for what to write out!  I am spending most of today preparing for our church's little ladies meeting and luncheon tomorrow!  This is the second year we have had it and I have been looking so forward to it!  Angie Ruckman, wife to Pastor Ruckman of Glory Bound Baptist Church in Hoven, SD will be speaking.  We have a delicious lunch planned for afterwards and fellowship of course!  My girls and I are going to be finishing most of the cooking prep today and also making up some more pretty tissue paper flowers to decorate the tables.  This evening we will be going to a youth meeting in Chamberlain.  We are of course excited about that!  We do love going to church!

I had hoped to have my pink and gray shawl finished in time to wear this weekend, but it doesn't look like that is going to happen, I just haven't had enough time to work on it this week.  I did try to put together a new skirt last night to wear tomorrow, but I had a few issues with that, so not sure if I will get to wear something new tomorrow or not!

I hear my family beginning to wake up and I'm sure they will be looking for breakfast soon!  Here is a picture of the shawl at the beginning.

Here is my new "Little Jenny Wren" doll.  She is wearing the little dress that I knit for her.  I think she is so cute and she will sit on the shelf with my other special dolls!

It's a rainy morning here in South Dakota!  Chilly too!  The furnace was turned off a week ago and with no warm air or sunshine out this morning, it's a tad cold in here! 

We all slept late today.  The past two nights have been late ones with revival meetings at Calvary Baptist Church in Chamberlain!  Good preaching and fellowship!  Two of my favorite things.  I sure am burdened right now though for some friends and the trials they are going through.  Just all the more reason to pray earnestly.

I received my doll from Little Jenny Wren yesterday.  She is such a cute thing!  I will get a picture up of her later.  Everyone ooooohed and aaaaaahed when I took her out of the package.  She traveled all the way from Tasmania to get here!  She was given the name Immy by the dollmaker, but that sounds too close to Emmy, so we are trying to come up with a different name for her.

Well, my coffee up is calling me from the counter and children are begging for breakfast, so I'd better get to that now!

What do you think of my lovely new blog?? My Dear friend Nataly, whom I have known online for quite some time, is doing web/blog design and I won the drawing on her blog for a free blog design! I love it!

The Gumbo Lily is the name of the business I started a couple of years ago to sell my handmade items online. I haven't pursued that recently, but am considering giving it a try again soon.

Meanwhile, since I have such a lovely place to post my thoughts now, I just may try to do more blogging again!