Anniversary

Oh how I wished I had kept a daily journal of the last 37 years along with a yearly Anniversary photograph of my husband and me.

 I regret that we didn't have a yearly professionally~looking photograph of us taken through the years.  The hair style, glasses and clothing would have recorded the era and our maturing faces would have suggested hinted that we are growing older...grins.  

Hinted....that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I love my Husband very much and when I look into his face I still see the guy I fell in love with many years ago, but in my heart I know that he has changed for the better.

We've been married Thirty Seven Years 

this August 31st.   

37.

Holy Matrimony is a blessed institution.  

Someday I will write a book about how God healed our marriage.  

SAVED it...actually.

It's a miracle.

MIRACLE.

I personally found out for myself 
that God is in the MIRACLE WORKING BUSINESS.

I'm a witness.

HaPpY ANNIVERSARY

to my Boaz
my Sweetheart

my Soul Mate

my Lover

my Best Friend

my Husband

37 YEARS and counting.

~Deanna~

PS

Honey, I love you.


PSS
My 84 year old Daddy is scheduled to have Gall Bladder Surgery August 31st as well.
Thank you for praying.
God Bless.

Lemon Meringue Pie

Our PRIMITIVE KITCHEN IN THE WORKS has not STOPPED us from making yummmmms.

You know that saying if there's a will there's a way?
Well.........we have a degree in that.

God bless and may your day be all that it is suppose to be.
Sweet dreams and will power,
~Deanna~

decorating on the prairie: remodeling the family room

~Welcome to Home Haven~

This is our humble abode in our 126 year old native Cottonwood Limestone House nestled in the Kansas Flint Hills.

This is our attempt to glamor~ize an oldie but goodie 2 story house 

in need of tender loving care.

Please come inside and take a look around 

as we're DECORATING On The PRAIRIE.

THE MESS CONTINUES....

~Remodeling the Family Room~

As Decorating On The Prairie continues...here are some pics off the internet that my husband drew and shared with me concerning our hopes towards what will go up along one wall in the Family room by the Dining room door and the stairs leading upwards.  I liked it so much that I got really excited seeing this room completed on paper and in my head!!!

What does the Bible say about taking an idea, writing it down and running with it?  We're running with this idea.  
King James Bible says in HABAKKUK 2:2  And the LORD answered me, and said, write the vision, and make it plain upon the tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Beaded Board is going up.  Hubby will build a Book Shelf to store our books, videos and stereo in the Family room.  I'm foaming at the mouth waiting for this to come forth.

Some Board has already gone up.  In our old stone house with the plastered walls over the stone, it isn't as easy to hang photos and pictures without damaging the walls.  I'm very excited that on this beaded board I will hang many Family Pictures to enjoy.  They'll warm the room and look like somebody actually lives in this house.

As for the color of the walls...I have bounced around all over the place changing my mind.


Ridiculous how I cannot decide.

I have a coffee mug about the same color as my daughter's outfit and when she came home from work...I thought...you know....I like this color you're wearing....i like this color.  I like this color.....I mean I really like this color.  Looks like we're leaning toward a lighter shade of this blue for the walls.  The throw pillows I have on the sofa have this color in the print.

Happy and thankful that work is getting done on the Family room.

So Decorating On The Prairie continues.....and as life would have it...it will continue for quite some time.

The room is morphing right along.  

Pictures to follow.

 It's a work in progress...kind of like us as people.

To the left of the Dining Room door and behind the File Cabinet is ancient wallpaper on the walls that will be covered by a built in book shelf.

We're inching along.  When it's completed...I will be soooooo happy I will CRY.

FROM THIS..............

TO THIS..........................can we do it?

Let's HOPE so.


Thank you for stopping by Home Haven.
God richly bless you,
~Deanna~


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