Goals for July and August

These are my goals for the next 2 months.
1. Finish bag for the tote bag swap
2. Read Take Four by Karen Kingsbury
3. Enjoy 4 days on Cape Cod with hubby for our 20th anniversary
4. Walk 10,000 steps a day
5. Clean at least one room of the house-purge junk
6. Eat sensibly
7. Spend time in the Word every day.
8. Enjoy my children and look for things to praise them about.
9. Work on quilts for the boys-finish scrappy border
10. Look for a job.

A Guy's Guide to Life: How to become a Man in 224 pages or Less

A Guy's Guide to Life: How to Become a Man in 224 Pages or Less is a teenage guy's handbook to becoming a man with a healthy mind, body, and soul.What does society want of teen guys? To be independent, tough, and macho? To be a sensitive, caring metrosexual? To excel in school and sports and business? The challenges are many, and we haven't even mentioned the most important-and most frightening-topic of conversation: girls. The road to manhood is a perilous one.Guys need a guidebook, one that asks and answers the questions they're reluctant to discuss. They need a book that addresses the myths of manhood with a straightforward approach teenage guys will appreciate and absorb. Author Jason Boyett understands what many fail to realize-that somewhere between the awkwardness and braggadocio, the goofiness and the developing body, there is a real person struggling to make his mark on the world.
Mr. Boyer covers a lot of ground including peer pressure, dating, grooming, sex, sexting and relationships.He writes from a Christian perspective and advocates pre-marital abstinence from sex and encourages young men to be respectful and responsible in all areas of life.The book is divided into three main parts--Mind, Body, and Soul--each of which contains five chapters.The mind deals with peer pressure, communication and dating among other topics. The body chapter deals with grooming, health and exercise a, sex, etc. The soul chapter deals with family, friends, your faith,
The book is probably helpful to young men in their early teens. I would have liked the author to have more spiritual principles in the book. Faith seems to be a little wishy washy. Also the slang could be offensive to some readers. etc. I am not sure i would give this book to a young man to read without some guidance. There are good practical advice in there on how to shave, how to tie a necktie, etc. I see a need for this time of book in today's society. I would just like to have seen more Biblical principles.
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Quilt Top Puictures

Here finally are the pictures of my quilt top. I am not sure yet how I will quilt it. Probably something by hand. I have never really tried quilting by machine before...hence a lot of unfuinished quilt tops. I had a little trouble with the border but i am very happy with the

quilt in general.