Someone else beat us to viewing and taking the home we were hoping to be able to rent. This is really beginning to stress me out ... I'm so disheartened over the failure of finding a new home ... starting to make me afraid to try for anything now, afraid of it ending up with us back at square one all over again. Now that I've shed my tears and wallowed in my sorrows, I will pick myself up, praise my Redeemer and thank him for the blessings he has sent my way, and continue to pray that God sends us a home soon.

My daughter's 9th birthday is Oct. 1, and I've been searching online for ideas for a birthday cake/cupcakes ~ trying to come up with something easy to make, yet something that doesn't look like it just been slapped together at last moment.