Inescapable by Nancy Mehl

Inescapable by Nancy Mehl

Road to Kingdom - Book 1

This book took me a little while to get into the story, but once I did - I couldn't put it down.  There is some mystery wrapped up in the pages of this Mennonite story.  

This book is about a young mother named Lizzie.  She grew up in the Mennonite community, but left this lifestyle to give her daughter a better life.  

5 years after leaving the Mennonite community, Lizzie feels like she is being followed, and has been receiving threatening letters.  When there are problems that cause Lizzie to loose her job, she feels she has nowhere left to go, but to return to her hometown.  As a single mother, Lizzie wants nothing more than to settle into a routine that gives her daughter stability and love.  

Upon returning home, she has to face all the people she ran from when she left Kingdom.  After re-uniting with her mother, Lizzie is directed to a small restaurant and its owner, Cora.  Cora helps Lizzie with a place to stay, and a job working in the restaurant.  Lizzie is beginning to enjoy working at the restaurant and finds herself liking the small Kingdom community, that she ran from years ago.  Back into her life walks Noah, a good friend, and Clay, the father of Lizzie's little girl.  

Forced to seek God's direction on the relationships with the men in her life, and the future of  her daughter,  Lizzie learns to seek direction from her heavenly Father.  

This book has great characters, and also a great story.  I enjoyed this book and look forward to the next book in this series.  

Thanks to Bethany House Publishers for providing a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.  

Kitten Adventure

It has been an extremely dry summer.  The first weekend in August, I volunteered to help at an outdoor event.  I took the kids along with me, as they would also be able to "help".  

Well - it was a rainy Saturday morning.  We certainly didn't want to complain about the rain - as we were very much in need of it!  

The kids and I were standing outside our car under umbrella's during this event.  The kids thought they heard a kitten me-owing.  Well - a little later they found the kitten crawl out from underneath our car.  It was one of the kittens from our house.  This little kitten must have crawled underneath the car to get away from the rain.  

It rode about 15 miles there and stayed safe.  

Of course it couldn't ride back home in the same place it rode to our destination...so - the kids found a bag and some cardboard to help keep the kitten contained, and also protect in case of an accident.  Allyson is a pretty good pillow to this kitten.  It slept most of the way home - until about 4 miles from home, then it was ready to get out and run!  It made it home safely.  

35th Birthday

Thanks to all my family and friends that helped to make my birthday a special day.  

I enjoyed Chinese for lunch at work and then went out for Mexican with the girls for supper.  

Dana treated me to a pedicure after we ate.  

Hotel Getaway

We were only home for a day and then the kids and I were off again - only this time to Des Moines for a work meeting.  The kids went along and stayed in the hotel with me and had a blast swimming.  

 We even had some visitors during our stay - so fun to see Reese and Piper and play with them in the pool.  

The Color Run Minneapolis

This July, during our weekend vacation to Minneapolis, we included plans to participate in this run.  

I started training in March, as I am/was not a runner.  

Running went well.  I had run 2 previous 5k's already this summer, so wasn't too worried about the running.  

Dana and I went to pick up packets the day before.  Wow - what a lot of people.  

We woke up early to get to the Minnesota/St.Paul Fairgrounds - the location for the run.  

We were signed up to run in the 8:00 time slot.  We found out at packet pick up that they would sent 1000 runners through the start every 5 minutes.  Wow!  

 Here is our group of gals - all nice and white before the start of the run.

 A packet of color to throw at the end.

 Look at all those people - we were in wave 2!  

 Getting a little colorful!

We did it - look at all that color!  So much fun! 

Our group all colorful!  

What a fun experience!  It was so much fun!  I am glad I decided to give this adventure a try!  It was fun to train (yup - you read that right - fun!) and I am still running!