I know what you’re thinking…”Gosh, Mrs. Steen, when are you ever going to post pictures from the band trip?”  Well, think no more, rest those weary brains, here they are!  I’ll post a few on here, and the rest you’ll have to view via a photo show.  Because I’ve been covered up this whole week […]

So, it was Divine intervention that brought my laptop home a day early.  If it had come today, I would have been unable to get everything loaded before the trip.  You see, HP, who I have bragged on before, completely erased my hard drive.  So, EVERYTHING was gone–all of the programs that you have to […]

Let me begin by saying that I understand that not everyone who reads my posts believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who died on a cross to save us from a life of rules and regulations, and a life that would end in hell.  If you’ve ever studied the Old Testament, you […]

The new CIA Youth Newsletter is getting ready to go in the mail, but if you want to see it online, go to www.ciayouth.org .  Let me know what you think! edit:  Fed Ex just delivered the tickets for the Cherry Blossom Parade to me.  If anyone reading this has family wondering when they’ll get […]

Awesome! Oh Lord My God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all the works thy hands hath made…. So begins one of my favorite hymns, and this morning, I have beheld some of the beauty up close and personal.  The petals on flowers—they are each so different, so personal–just like we are.  And as I […]

What joy to finally have a break from the normal everyday routine.  I think it will really hit when Monday morning gets here, though, and we don’t have to get up for school.  Yeah, that will be nice. I’ve been sick today–on the couch all day.  Thank goodness for basketball tonight.  We watched LSU win […]

     “And when Jacob had finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.”  Oh, it was the end of our study of The Patriarchs, and I am sad, but to know all that Jacob accomplished in his life—don’t you know he was […]

Spring break…it’s almost here!  I’m so so glad!!!  I’m ready for the break from everything.  Aren’t you?  

Well, UNC and Kentucky are both out…bummer.  This has been the best tourney I’ve watched in years, though.  I’m going to help my mom pack some things up today.  I’m very excited that God is allowing us this time together.  I just keep praying, “God, let us step as you move our feet and not […]