Laurel Wreath’s Reflections

China earthquake kills thousands
China Quake Kills Thousands, Students Buried

Myanmar cyclone toll passes 22,000
Death toll soars in Myanmar cyclone
10,000 Dead In Single Myanmar Town

These are all headlines just from a simple google search.

So many gone in the blink of an eye.

Want something more close to home?

Families across Missouri, Oklahoma, and Georgia spent Mother’s Day searching through their damaged homes and beginning the long road to recovery after a series of severe storms and tornadoes ripped across the central U.S. on Saturday. Media reports indicated that twenty-three people were killed by the storms, and at least 150 more were injured. Red Cross

Click here to read updated from Samaritan’s Purse the one titled “Staff in the field” is touching.

My heart is heavy this morning, I am praying for all. But in reality I don’t really think we can comprehend thousands of people gone in the blink of an eye.

How are you living your today?

Can you help? If so go here

Red Cross
(my personal favorite) Samaritan’s Purse http://www.samaritanspurse.org/

But at the least….PRAY!

As I laid my head on the pillow at night, the tears began to flow. Did I even tell my children that I love them today? Did they hear anything but yelling from me throughout the day? Sure they were acting up and pulling on my last nerve, but do they know I love them? CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST

Tags: Laced With Grace, Motherhood

Paper and elements from Southern Days Kit
by Teri Hanson

Tags: Family, Mothers Day

BUT there are OVER HERE. But if you don’t want to enter I totally understand =))

Kelli over at Living In Grace has this contest going on:

I giving away FOUR! FREE! starter memberships to Netflix. You will get a one month subscription to Netflix, and can rent up to three movies at any time. So, if you play your cards right, you could watch between TWELVE! and SIXTEEN! movies FREE! at home.
Without loading up the kids, driving, or paying a dime!

But wait! there’s more!

Netflix also lets you watch movies on your computer! Instantly!

But wait! There’s even MORE!

The winners will recieve a Movie Goodies Box from me, full of yummy treats to indulge in while watching their movies!

Head on over there to read more.

Tags: Contest

Do you know Joy? I love Joy’s blog, just her blog’s name makes me feel welcome. She makes me feel like a normal Mom who struggles through every day things, and Joy for full disclosure I had to clean off my table just so I could take the picture and right in the middle of this post my dog decided to poop in the living room =).

Anyways look what I got in the mail from Joy….can we say CHICK FLICK WEEKEND. And my BOYS cannot argue because it is MOMMY WEEKEND. Thanks Joy for sending this at the perfect time, now I can slip away and enjoy my Mother’s Day weekend. (I won a contest on Joy’s blog)

If you have not visited her, now would be the perfect time she has such sweet pictures up today.

THANKS JOY!!

Tags: Contest

Many of us cry out for God to save us, and when he doesn’t (or at least like we imagined) we seek friends or circumstances that will help. In the end we become a non functional moth….(click here to read more).

Tags: Laced With Grace

Just some newsy update stuff. When I was gone for a week I did a lot of thinking about the blogging aspect here. I greatly enjoy it, but life has been very hectic. When I had a chance to stop everything and get away for a week I did not even take my laptop (which is a biggie for me). I thought about where my full energies should be focused. I don’t want to give up blogging, and I don’t plan to, but I plan on scaling back a lot.

I will be popping in to let you know when I have a new Book Buzz article up. This summer is going to be big, I have some awesome interviews (like the one I have with Amy Wallace in this months edition of CWO). Next month is another interview you will NOT want to miss if you have children, it is one of the more important interviews I feel I have done.



I am still currently writing for Laced With Grace at a minimum once a month. I greatly enjoy the ladies there and what the site has to offer.



I have three boys going in three different directions. School is out in a month, and to be honest summer is a CRAZY time in my household. Besides soccer and basketball, we have now added high school football conditioning (basketball ends very soon, so the basketball and football are just overlapping for a week or so). But all of the above plus upcoming summer camps, my sister having her baby, Laced With Grace, Book Buzz, laundry, cooking, cleaning etc… is where my focus will be for awhile.



During your summer months be sure to visit my book review section (located uder the tab on top) for some suggestions. On the 15th, I will have another awesome book suggestion, and a chance to win some stuff. But until then…I will still be around reading your blog, feel free to email me or use my contact form above to say “hi” or let me know anything I can pray for.

Tags: Blogging, Book reviews

Or some just call it Target. Go here to enter and read all about it…

now how can you pass that up?

Tags: giveaway

What you did not know I was gone? Well I admit I had my posts predated, set to post this last week. I got to run away from home (sans kids and hubby) for a week to love on a new baby. I am now trying to find normalcy….BUT in the meantime look at the new edition of Christan Women Online.

Tags: Family

Getting so big

For more WW visit here

Tags: Wordless Wednesday