Middle of the Night Thoughts

January 9, 2009 Linny Saunders39 Comments

Been up since 2:45ish. This post-menopause thing has its perks (if you look for them). Can’t sleep? Almost kind of fun. Bear with me here – Everyone else is fast asleep and I get to wander around some sweet blogs to leave a few comments……Rach and Mr. Daddy (who live just feet from a river…

Thankful Thursday – Oldest Brother Meets Baby Brother and Baby Sister

January 8, 2009 Linny Saunders21 Comments

Thankful Thursday!! Today my heart is filled with Thankfulness as I write: Our oldest son is home on leave for four days. Yesterday he arrived home during nap time. He was pretty funny. He could not wait for the babies to get up. He kept walking by their door. Finally he walked by it enough,…

A Surprise Package

January 7, 2009 Linny Saunders13 Comments

Doesn’t everybody just love surprises? This is a blog about our family and when special things happen, well, it’s just extra fun to chronicle it so we can look back and see the special memories….. Our son-in-love Ryan is #2 of a dozen (sadly, little sister Rebekah went to be with Jesus a few years…

Morning Glow

January 7, 2009 Linny Saunders15 Comments

The other morning I was having my Bible study and the kids woke up and came a runnin’. I don’t know if there is anything more wonderful than snuggling with my kids when they first wake up. Dw was about to leave for work and saw me on the couch with all the little ones….

Ssenge Village African Hearts – A Sunday in Uganda

January 6, 2009 Linny Saunders13 Comments

After speaking at the Ssenge Village church we walked to the African Hearts Home in Ssenge Village. This home is part of the African Hearts ministry that our “sons” run and that has a home for older street boys in Kampala. They opened this home just this a few months ago. These are the boys…

Memorial Box Monday – ON MONDAY – woo hoo – The Mountain Lion

January 5, 2009 Linny Saunders14 Comments

I was talking to Amie the other day on the phone. (There is something very exciting in the works….more on that another day.) Anyway, our conversation rolled around to something in our Memorial Box and I thought today might be a good day to tell the story as well. I have mentioned that we sold…

Happy Snowy Sunday

January 5, 2009 Linny Saunders14 Comments

It has been so snowy lately. Snow can be so beautiful and romantic and makes me feel like hunkering down in our little log home next to the fire. Of course, I do not have the same sentiments when it is still snowy in March. =( BUT for now we are hunkering down, all snuggled…

Sweet Surprises of the Very Sweetest Kind!!

January 4, 2009 Linny Saunders9 Comments

Every now and then life seems to have little surprises that just make our day! The other day I had one such surprise. My new bloggy friend, Tina aka Waitingfaithfully (of One Blessed Nest – is that a cute name or what?) sent me a little comment that she had a surprise for me at…

The Trombone – Another Story 0f Africa

January 3, 2009 Linny Saunders3 Comments

LaToya and I talking and NO(!) I am not pregnant -that would be 3 passports and all our money Months ago I was blogging how Emma and Dw took a trombone and some trumpets with them to Africa this past July. A woman at church had asked Emma if she would rather have money to…

They’re On Their Way to You!!

January 2, 2009 Linny Saunders6 Comments

Okay, maybe not quite as exciting as Publisher’s Clearing House showing up at your door BUT none the less, the Christmas Eve presents I promised to over a dozen of you blogging buddies of mine were packaged and taken to the Post Office today…. For those of you unfamiliar with why I’m doing this: it’s…

Linny Lee Saunders

Place Called Simplicity

Month: January 2009