January

Multitudes. The whole point of documenting these multitudes is to realize how small and special they are. They aren't anything huge or significant. Just the little splashes of happiness that touch our every day lives.


Sometimes this world looks pretty bleak. Depression, grief, and fear cover the sky like the heavy banks of gray clouds that cover the January sun.We don't see the tiny blessings. The little flashes of glitter in our lives.

What are some of your multitudes? Please join me in this!

~ Heat

~Sweet friend who created a sweet gift for me and my kitty.

~ Home.

~Craft supply stores.  (Ah bliss!)

~Panera Bread's Bread.

~ Little girls doing puzzles

~ Piano keys


~ Snow

~All you who are reading along on this months book!

~A Cat who chases her tail, then when she notices that she is being watched drops down and pretends to be the epitome of dignified cat-hood.

~ Late Christmas gift from my sister (a tiny "pocket watch" pendant on a necklace. :)

~ Giggling with my siblings as we all turn every last pocket in hopes of finding the one last quarter needed for the vending machine. :)

Want to join me in listing multitudes?  Just leave them in a comment below or send me a link to a blog-post you have written. :)
Amanda

Fine Print: Images are mine. But you knew that right? 

January~ A Book Worm's Calendar

Dear Fellow Bookworms,

I hope no one has had to survive even a day without something to read. I know I have been busy savoring my Christmas books. But I do apologize for waiting until now to announce the book for this month. 

This month's book is one of my top ten favorites. 

Esther Ried by Isabella Alden. 

Esther Ried is tired, overworked, and discontent. But when she visits her wealthy cousin her life will change, forever. Spiritually Esther had been asleep, apathetic, but  her awakening brings her to a new realization of her task in life. How will Esther find ways to serve God in her busy and exhausting world?

I can think of no better book to start out a new year with than this. It's a well written fiction story that will open your eyes and wake you up. If you like old fashioned stories, inspiring stories, and simply delightful stories you will enjoy this one. I cannot recommend it enough. :) 

And one of the great things about this month's book is that you can get it completely free. 

Find it here on Project Gutenberg (one of my favorite book places), read it either online or download it into your computer or e-reader. 

Are you like me and too busy crafting up a storm to actually read a book? Fortunately for you this book (and the rest of it's series) is on Librivox, excellently read, and completely free. 

But, if you would prefer to actually have a tangible book in your hands. Get it here.

Please tell me if you plan to read along this month or any other time. Have you already read this? Let me know what you think! 

Happy Reading

~Amanda 

Fine Print: Images not my own. And, yes, if you buy this book from the Amazon link I have provided, I will make a commission. Feel free to do so. :)

New Year Multitudes

Multitudes of Blessings ....

I've missed documenting them here these past few weeks. Did you know that when you forget to remember the small blessings in life, your view of life gets crooked? Slowly it begins to seem as if your world is nothing but black clouds and frigid winds.

I forget to see the little rifts of sunlight shining behind the clouds, the rainbows in the rain.

This week: 

New year fresh, bright, new. 


Thick snowflakes lazily dropping to the ground. 


Birds flocking to feast at our bird feeders. 


Family times.


Last of the Christmas carols dying away. 


New journal to fill.


Winter starlight.


Ping Pong games with siblings. 


Falling asleep to quiet music.


New books with stiff spines. 


Crafting while listening to audio books. 


Discovering this month's book. (Coming soon! ) 


Don't forget to look for the blessings!
Amanda

Fine Print: Images not mine. Linking up with Anne Voskamp and her Multitudes for Mondays.