Kingdom Hoops

I recommend reading this great article from the Des Moines Register about our friends, the Sullivans, and Jake's Kingdom Hoops program and vision. They recently adopted a 6 year old boy from Africa. I love what God is doing in and through them!

Children of God

If you have five minutes to spare, this video is well worth the wait to the end of the video. It is powerful. It makes me cry out to God that our kids will understand what a beautiful picture their physical adoptions are of God's adopting them.

Inspired

Have you heard of this show? It is my favorite show on TV. I don't get to watch it much, but when I do, I love it! Nate Berkus is a designer and his show is all about decorating, design, organizing, painting, DIY projects, etc. Right up my alley! We don't have cable so it is the only design show on "regular" TV (Channel 13/NBC at 2:00p).

I have been inspired with many fun ideas from Nate that I'm hoping (if I have time) to incorporate into our new house. One of them is to try to re-upholster a chair and paint it a fun color (instead of black, like I would typically do).

Since we bought our house, I have become a regular at the ISU surplus sale (Wednesdays, 1:00-3:00p in the warehouse building back by Ag Leader off of Airport Road). This past Wednesday I picked up this funky chair for a whopping $3. I figured that was the right price to try a new idea on.

The more I look at the chair, the more I actually really like it. I wouldn't even mind leaving it brown, but it needs touched up in many places.