Akin family

I'm still here; I'm still here! After the last post I had some issues with the blog host and was not able to post for several days. ...

Nashville! Saturday was spent with Nancy, Carol, Debby and Melanie at the Nashville Flea Market. Wow! And let me say it one more time just...

Today is UFO day again. As soon as I finish vacuuming (shoot, I may just leave that until tomorrow!) I'm going to get cracking on a few...

A few quick thoughts.... We are home after a wonderful weekend of traveling and visiting with family and dear friends. We went to Sardinia,...

Please pray for Layla Grace. She is an 18 month old baby in Texas who was recently diagnosed with an aggressive stage IV inoperable neurobl...

Sweetened Condensed Milk? Long day, great Bible study, late night, long trip tomorrow. Soooo...quick post! Today I ran out of coffee cream...

Oh dear, Thrifty Mama just posted that Hancock's Fabrics will be having a HUGE pattern sale the rest of the month. I guess I just adde...

Oh dear, I've been out of the loop for a few days. Tomorrow (or even later tonight) I'll post some pictures of what all has been go...

Home Projects.... While a lot of home improvement projects that one finds in a new home are things that can be put off and done over a perio...

Sadly, I have no pictures of the Birmingham Flea Market. Sigh! I had a good time, after I found it (only I could get lost with such clear di...

Sunday was a busier day than our family anticipated. We wound up inaugurating our safe room! Storms were headed our way and we were tuned ...

With all that has been going on in the new house this week I have not updated the memory verse. So let me correct that now. If you are fam...

Wow. I finished that UFO already. Wow! I'm not thrilled with the way the piping looks; I'm definitely better at smocking than the...

Seen any UFO's lately? Right now I'm looking at more than an Alabama woman who moved out of the trailer park has any reason to admi...

This is a story for my friends Moses, Makenna, Noah, Tori, Rosie, Charis, Nicholas, Cameron, Jack, Nikki, Numero Uno, and the others whose M...

What do you do when you move to the country and discover that the garbage services in your county do NOT send a truck up your road? And you ...

While I have a couple of loads of laundry to do today (even after yesterday's laundry marathon), I was going to skip and work on other t...

We are Here! After a marathon week of closing, packing, cleaning, moving and cleaning, we are in our home and completely out of the apartme...

I'll be signing off for a few days; probably until Sunday or Monday. Tomorrow we pick up the truck and move as much as we can to the ne...

Welcome to Alabama! Another stormy evening in our part of the world. Mark and I are back at the apartment sitting and watching James Spann...