The forecast is..

6 more weeks of winter!
Yes, all 3 of the most famous groundhogs saw their shadow yesterday and so we will have more winter...doesn't surprise you I am sure! Especially if you are here in Saskatchewan with us - I haven't followed what has been happening in Calgary, but there has been a lot of snow here, and the coldest of the 3 winters we have been here. It is cold...longer cold snaps than we have had in the other winters and colder cold snaps too.
Olivia was disappointed with the forecast and Grace was extremely happy!
She loves winter - probably because she is a sweater kind of girl!
I don't know how Greg will feel - he is working outside again, and apparently yesterday was ridiculously cold to work in, so we will see! I am guessing he was hoping the groundhogs would be on his side! Hee, hee!!
Anyway, we are supposed to be using a new schedule and it went really well yesterday - but we are already behind today. Partially because I slept in and partially because Olivia and I did our linked bible study today! It was fun!
We both got new bibles in recent months, and a I purposely bought myself a Women of Faith Study Bible because I had chosen the Young Women of Faith Study Bible for her. It was quite a hard decision.
She was given a bible when she was 6 by Uncle Blake. A real bible, now that she could really read! It was great! Anyway, she has used it well, and it has been duct-taped, packing taped, on the binding, on the cover, and even in Psalm 100 which is her favorite! So we decided to buy her a new one this year because she was in Junior Youth (new milestone right?).
So being the nice guy he is, Blake had let me pick out her bible when she was 6, and I picked her a very plain bible, with a few pictures, but no study notes or devotions to be distracting as she was just beginning to read. This time I wanted her to have one that had some other stuff in it - but not just stuff, good spiritual stuff! Things that would enhance her walk with God, not just be fluff to cloud the point.
What a nuisance! Especially when there is no Christian book store where you can browse. I looked online and after discarding a few because they might as well have been Cosmo for the content of the quizzes and 'devotions' inside (I use that term loosely) I found the write up for the Young Women of Faith Study Bible. After reading a few reviews and bios of the contributors to the text notes, I decided it was the one!
Then I realized that I didn't have an NIV of my own anymore either. I had bought myself a no-frills, no distraction NKJV when we went to Calvary Chapel (which I still love to read aloud from) but it is hard to use in Bible study or church, now that we are at an NIV church...so I decided I should get myself a new bible as well - and these two had 52 linked studies so a young woman and her mom could study the Bible together. How could that be bad, right?? So today was the first one...I liked it and I think she did too!
Okay, but I digress, we are behind on our new schedule for those two reasons and now a third that I am blogging and someone needs to watch their math DVD, so I gotta go!!