Celtic Hair-Do

I don't really like to "dress up" for holidays, but with St. Patricks

Day I did the most I could, for I had to go to work that night.

So with my red hair and the Irish look that I already have

it wasn't to hard. When I was thinking of what to do these are

I came up with... Celtic hair.. Flowers, twists and braids.

So with that I came up with this hair-do..

I really like this one! it looks cool through the mirror

From the side

Back view

Front view

The back again
It was fun doing something out of the ordinary.
As I was thinking of this holiday, I was reminded again
of how so many have lost the meaning of what we celebrate.
With that in mind, I was think allot of the life of St. Patrick
and howhe was a courageous man with a zeal for Gods word
and will for his life. And how he transformed the
hearts of the Celtic men but didn't change there way of life.
What an amazing example to us all.

"The Need of the Hour" Poem

Found this poem and I thought I would share it.

The Need of the Hour

By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What does our country need? Not armies standing

With sabers gleaming ready for the fight;

Not increased navies, skillful and commanding,

To bound the waters with iron might;

Not haughty men with glutted purses tyring

To purchase souls, and keep the power of place;

Not jeweled dolls with one another vying

For palms of beauty, elegance and grace.

But we want women, strong of soul, yet lowly

With that rare meekness, born of gentlenes;

Women whose lives are pure and clean and holy,

The women whom little children bless;

Brave ernest women, helpful to each other,

With finest scorn for all things low and mean;

Women who hold the names of wife and mother

Far nobler than the title of a queen.

Oh! These are they who mould the men of story,

These mothers, ofttime shorn of grace and youth,

Who, worn and weary, ask no greater glory

Than making some young soul the home of truth;

Who sow in hearts all fallow for the sowing

The seeds of virtue and of scorn for sin,

And, patient, watch the beauteous harvest growing

And weed out tares which crafty hands cast in.

Women who do not hold the gift of beauty

As some rare treasure to be bought and sold,

But guard it as a precious aid to duty-

The outer framing of the inner gold;

Women who, low above their cradles bending,

Let flattery's voice go by, and give no heed,

While their pure prayers like incense are ascending

These are our country's pride, our country's need

Birthday: Day 3 A Wolterdorf Celibration

With much difficulty I have finally been able to make this post :) On Sunday, of the weekend of my birthday, Dad and I, and the Hardy's went over to the Woltersdorfs for another celebration! We had pizza and cake, and spent time together!! Here are some pictures of the event.

My cake!

Smile!!
Before the dorf way of singing!

And after, I blew all of them out in one

breath!

Liberty!!

There I am enjoying my cake! :)

I have had a blessed birthday, full of fun, with my dear family and friends!

Thank you every one for making my 19th birthday special!

I am also thankful to God for another day of breathe and life.

I pray that He will help me become the women He has called me to be,

that this year would be one of growth toward being more like Christ!

Day 2: Tea Time

The next day Hannah and I went to tea at Myrtles Tea House! It was so much fun!! They had some good food and really good tea. Instead of explaining, here are the pictures Hannah and I took.

Well we never got a picture together, so here we are!

These are our tea pots, the black one was mine, I ordered Midsummer Peach

and Hannah's, the blue one, was Yellow and Blue. Which was

a blend of lavender, chamomile and cornflour.

Both were very good!!

This was our table setting, red flowers and pretty china.

The place was decorated for Valentines day.

Here Hannah and I took pictures of out tea,

mine is the darker tea.

After our strawberry sherbet, this was our lunch, as you can see

there were a few heart shaped sandwiches! All was very good!

The heart was a strawberry cream with a heart shaped strawberry! then in the bowl was a really yummy tomato herb soup, that was one of my favorite things on the plate!

Well I had forgotten to take pictures of dessert, but it was also good! we

were in a bit of a rush, for I had to be at work by 2pm.

While we were eating, Hannah gave me my presents between each course, it was a

hat box full of wonderful things, from movies to wash clothe and soap!!

When we were about to pay, in the gift shop I had to bye some tea, so I bought

Apricot Black Tea. I tried it later, and is very good!!

Well that was our time at the tea house!! We enjoyed it very much,

as it was our first time going there!!

Well I have one more post for my birthday, I should say my birthday weekend :)

Until then,

Rebecca

Day 1: January 28th The Big Day!

This was the day of my birthday. I am now 19 years old, the lat year of my teens has come. The picture below was what I woke up to, The flowers and card were from dad. The cake and sparkling cider was from Mrs. Hardy!

Because it was my birthday, I had to invite someone over to share my birthday with. I chose Hannah, for she had never spent the night before. On the day of my birthday, I was told that Hannah was coming over at 9am, what I didn't know was that she really wasn't coming over then, but Mrs. Hardy was coming to take me out to breakfast! And what a surprise it was!! We went out to Panera Bread. I had never been there before, we ordered some breakfast sandwiches. They were very tasty!

Mrs. Hardy then took me shopping in town. We went to a few different places, and the things I found where two skirts. The funny thing was that I said in the beginning that I didn't need skirts, and what was the only thing I found were skirts! :) Oh well I guess you can never have too many!!

After out shopping, we picked up Hannah and went back to my house. After the Hardy's left, Hannah and I went to some of the shops around my house. We had fun just hanging out together, riding the bus and walking around!!

Hannah and I on the bus!!

When we were finished with our fun, e went home and started watching some girl movies, like Since and Sensibility. We had food and cake and just enjoyed our time together!! We went to bed a little early, because we had the next day planned for more fun, But I will share more of that in my next post!!

My First Job

In October, I applied at Jo-Ann's for a part time seasonal worker. A week later I was called in for my first interview in my life, I was very nervous but I got the job. So I started to learn how to cut fabric, ring people up at the check stand and learned (still learning) were every thing went in the large store. This week I was asked to stay on past seasonal help!! And I gladly excepted!!

Now I believe that this job was directly a God given thing, for I needed to be able to save money, and the only place that I really wanted to work (if I had to choose out side of the home) was Jo-Ann's. The only place I applied for was Jo-Ann's and the job I got was at Jo-Ann's. God really had his hand on this. Though I do not believe that I will work there forever but only to occupy my young life and save money for the future. God was also really looking after Dad and my life, for this winter dad's work slowed down. Because of Gods providence I was able to help out with some of the things that we needed around the house.

I know that women are called by God to be mothers, homemakers and wives. But in the middle time of life, between children and wives, I think that we as young women do need to occupy our time with something. Going out and getting a job may not be for every one. But this is what I believe God has called me to do for the time being. With each day stepping closer to what He has in store for me in the future. God has a plan and a purpose for my life and I all I can do is pray that I will follow His guidance. "For everything there is a season, and a purpose under Heaven" -Ecclesiastes 3:1

Well this is my new news!! I wanted to share the news long ago but I got busy with work :) And so I thought now that I am hired on past a seasonal worker, I had to to tell you!! Oh and the pictures are from google!! :)

Until next time!

~Rebecca

Tea Time!!

I was very excited to hear that my good friend, Mrs. Hardy was coming into town. But I was even more excited, when she told me that she wanted to go out to lunch!! After a couple of tries to get together, We were able to go out this last Wednesday, and she told me that we were going to a Tea House. Well I got even more excited, for I have never been to a tea house before. So after a bit of a drive, we found the little tea house. Its name is The Lavender Tea House, As you can see below the name fits!

(Sorry some of the pics aren't straight, it was raining)

Here's the cute door!

And the sign!!

This was actually taken after tea but

I wanted it close to the top, they had the place decorated for Christmas

So at our table we had flowers,

and a candle

This is part of the room from were I was sitting,

You can see the entry way, through the door.

Here is the right side, from where I was sitting.

The place was so cute!

Then we ordered our tea and lunch, this was my tea, I had

Peppermint Candy, Which was like peppermint but sweeter.

Here is my cup of tea!

Here is Mrs. Hardy's she had Lavender Earl Gray,

Which was good I tried it

And here is her cup of tea!

Though I didn't use them, here are the cream an sugar

Now onto lunch, we had Cucumber Cream cheese sandwiches,

Chicken cashew sandwiches, a sweet bread with jam, and fruit!

Then for desert, we had a little bit different plates, for I had the Christmas one and Mrs. Hardy had the regular, So this one was mine, the tall thing was chocolate and orange cream, almond cake, fudge, sugar cookie, gingerbread man, and fruit cake. which was allot of desert, and I didn't eat it all.

Well we enjoyed the beautiful rooms, and the warm tea, but most of all, being

able to catch upon what God has done in our lives since we last saw

each other. And because of this fun outing I will be going to allot more tea

houses, in the future.