S.H.M.I.L.Y. for 30 days of prayer

I will be joining the S.H.M.I.L.Y. 30 Days of Prayer for our husbands. It starts tomorrow. S.H.M.I.L.Y. stands for See How Much I Love You. We will be reading and praying through the prayers in The Power of a Praying Wife.This is my second or third year doing this, I think. I will be blogging along the way but probably not daily, weekly at least. There is still time to join us, especially if you already own the book. If you don't own the book the hostess has the list of chapter prayer topics on her site. You could just use that guide to pray your own prayers. I will be writing him a weekly note to tell him what I have been praying for. This will be my gift to him for Father's Day. Money it very tight. Prayer is FREE. Praying for powerful change in my husband's life, my life, our marriage, and our family in the coming month.


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Think Back Thursday ~ Visiting Historical Sites

As I said yesterday, if you saw my reminder,

I am featuring my kids at Antietam National Battlefield

We visited there

May 13, 2003

Rachel was 17

Jessica was 14

Nathan was 8

Christopher was 6

Here are a couple of links for you

they will open in a new tab so you won't loose you place here.

Antietam National Battlefield

Antietam

Now for the photos

Bloody Lane

The observation tower is in the distance

I thought I had photos of us in/from the observation tower but I can't find them.

Rachel, Jessica, Christopher (in front), Nathan

Recreating the battle

on Bloody Lane

Burnside Bridge

CHARGE

Oh, no, causualties

 (close up)

It is fun to play war.

Real war is not so much fun.

I hope by visiting historical battlefields and studying about war that my boys, especially, will understand that.

During this vacation we visited

Baltimore Aquarium

Harper's Ferry

Antietam

and Gettysburg

I hope, someday soon, to revisit some of these trips we took. 

Christopher doesn't remember much from these trips because he was so young.

 Next week's theme is
Animals
 could be visiting a zoo,
a farm,
or meeting an animal in the wild
wherever your family has come into contact with an animal
oh, this includes birds, fish, mammals, reptiles... everything

Now it is your turn

Here are the Rules for participating:

The purpose of Think Back Thursday is to link up a post about something from the past. You can reach back all the way to your childhood and bravely post pictures of you in your wild clothes and hair styles or post something from last year and tell us about it. I'm not picky. Hey, even yesterday was the past... LOL My posts will mostly be about events that happened prior to blogging, as a way to share those things with the world.

• It can be about you, about your kids, about your parents, about whatever. For ideas check out the other posts in my label Think Back Thursday. 
• Link up below. Please use a permalink that sends readers directly to the correct post. If you are not sure what that is click the word permalink for an explanation. 
• Mention my blog and offer a link back. This is a requirement to take part and a kind gesture to me your hostess as well as your readers--they will know where to join in the fun, too. You can put the Think Back Thursday button on your site and in your post. You will find it on my right sidebar. Please use it to link to my site, to spread the word about my meme. Using the button will help others know how to find me and how to join. Tell others to click on the button in your post to find us here.
• Leave me a comment. First so that you can let me know what you think of my pictures and secondly so that I will know a new post has been linked up and I can come visit your blog and comment on your photos. 

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