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Sometimes God just works things out in your life.   Currently, I am following God’s direction on a big decision in my life.   It has been a very slow process that started way back in September and is just now coming to fruition.   During this time I have questioned this calling.   I have been presented with multiple opportunities to go away from the direction that God was leading me.   During this time of waiting, it has been hard for me to stay focused, instead I have been pursuing other avenues, I have been questioning my calling and going down different paths.   God is so good to me, He is so patient and He has no problems SLAMING the door in my face either, which I needed a couple of times. Recently, I was presented with 2 opportunities to go a different direction than what God is leading me both through friends of friends.   Both opportunities I investigated but felt no peace about and both opportunities ended up not being what I thought t...

The past few days I have had a stuffy head, aching body and bad attitude.   At night I have been snoring so loudly I wake myself up and yell at my husband who laughs at me and is so patient whenever I have a cold.   This morning, I dragged myself out of bed to let our dogs out at 4:15, their chosen time to start waking up lately.   Shivering, cold and congested, I climbed back into bed and covered back up.   Lying on my left side sniffing, I felt the warm body of my husband next to me.   His arm reach over and slip around my waist to warm me up.   As my body changed temperatures I thought to myself, now this is love.   He didn’t even get in the house until well after 9:30 last night, then cleaned out our new chicken box, took care of the dogs, was kept up all night by my obnoxious snoring and he still cared enough about me to warm me up.   I can’t tell you how much I love my husband.   He is the one who I want to tell when something ...

Have you ever felt like you just can’t do anything right?   Ever had a day like this… your kids misbehave; your dinner burns; the dessert undercooks and is nasty; you are late to school, meetings and anywhere else you might have to be that day; the house is a mess, and even if you have the majority of it clean, the person you least want to find the mess will, and get upset about it; the car wont start; the dogs/cats mess in the house; you realize you have nothing on your to-do-list accomplished for the day and you just feel defeated…   Although not all that happens everyday, a lot of it happens more often than I would like to admit.   There are days where I just feel defeated, my body hurts, the house is a mess, I didn’t get anything accomplished that meant anything and the things that I did accomplish got messed up, sigh…   Those days are usually the ones that didn’t start out quite right, I didn’t take time to give God my day and set my attitude straight. ...

More and more women, men and children are being expected to take on more and more responsibilities.   Due to worldly pressures, women think they have to have a spotless house, while working a full time job or being a stay at home mother, all while raising perfect children who they do activities with daily, and also have perfect homemade meals prepared and having meals stored in the freezer/ pantry etc…, while also volunteering at church, school, for girl/ boy scouts etc…    Men’s pressures are just as high, they have to be the ultra romantic man who works full time at a high paying joy, but still devotes his entire heart to children and finds time to take his wife out, when he is off he is expected to clean the house and bring breakfast in bed to her.   Children are to be in multiple activities (that their parents inevitably have to drive them to in addition to all their other chores), do their homework, have 1 hour structured play and 1 hour unstructured play, s...

How often do we sit down for just a few minutes, and then an hour later realize that nothing that we wanted to accomplish that day is done?   I struggle with that, with being lazy and not managing my time very well.   I am not a lazy person, I just get distracted easily…   oh look, a plane….   I have always seemed to get a lot more accomplished when I have a goal in mind.   When I have a list made out and my priorities set for the day or the week.   I never thought that I would be a list maker!   Don’t get me wrong, many days, my list is ignored, or adjusted, but making myself a list seems to work better.   I talked about how I made my list for myself and for my kids the other day.   It has worked wonders!   I can’t tell you how much more patient and loving I have been.   Here is my basic daily list: Daily activity with the kids Kitchen cleaned before lunch and after dinner Sweep and mop ONE floor Make the bed On...

I am terrible about keeping up with things.   I have great ideas, and self-motivation to get them started, but I have terrible follow through.   I would like to have a clean house all the time, and I know what it takes to do it, I just don’t always have the follow through needed.   I know that I shouldn’t loose my temper with my children, but on some days, I just do…   My kids are the same way.   They will be very excited about an idea, but then lack the follow through.   My oldest daughter is in a 4-year-old kindergarten.   In this class, they get a prize every time they fill up a chart for being well behaved.   So what did I decide to do?   Why I made charts for home.   Only instead of doing just basic good behavior, I pin-pointed the types of behaviors that I wanted my children to do:   make the bed, clean the toy room, put their clothes away, wake up and get dressed without complaining…   When they fill up one column th...

The Lenten Season is upon us.   I feel so sorry for the people that decided to give up chocolate and then Valentines Day be the very next day!   YIKES!   This year for lent I was thinking about what to give up.   What is something that will bring me closer to God?   What is something that takes me away from His presence that instead of focusing on it, I can focus on God.   God spoke to me though my red-headed four-year-old yesterday.   It is amazing how often times, He speaks through children. A few weeks ago, I scored some major deals at an amazing sale, while there, I bought gifts that I could give to our girls as valentines.   My youngest daughter has been asking for a tea set and my oldest for a drum set.   YES, a DRUM SET for a 4 year old.   Finding both of them at the sale, I purchased them and waited with anticipation for Valentines day to arrive.   What I expected was to hear giggles and shrieks of joy, but instead I...