Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best!
Wow, what a great quote.
Can I tell you that I have incredible peace in the midst of my circumstance right now. When You do the right thing, even though it hurts beyond measure. Even though you will have some that won’t understand. Even though you might loose friends. If you DO what God asks of you, he gives you peace. When we walk through things in life. Sometimes we dont see the exact foot prints of God for us to follow. We have to listen for his voice to guide us. That means that we have to be even more in tune with what the Lord wants. If we are not IN TUNE with HIM, we could miss what he wants.
I just got the dishes done from last nights dinner. Started a load of laundry. Got two kids off to school. Fed 4 kids breakfast. Picked up a few toys. Got my little ones sitting in front of the TV watching Duck Tales. Working on my second cup of coffee. Ate a bowl of Lucky Charms. And I did all this by 9:18….big sigh of relief.
Today is another big day in our house with decisions. I wish I could write about them, but I can’t…not yet anyways. I am going to be starting a second blog. So you will have to stay tuned. I really hope that it helps people out, the way that I am hoping. The internet is full of so much information that is not correct, or that is not completely true. I am praying about the name of the blog, that is still undecided, but I know exactly what I am going to write about.
Today in all the decisions that will be made, I have faith. Not faith in my circumstance, but Faith in God, that even though I don’t know the outcome or how it will work out, that he sees the bigger picture. He sees one year, two years from now. He knows what I need. That even though a lot of this stuff we are having to walk through is painful… that he works, “even the pain of life, for our good”. I have to rest in that. And he wants me to rest in that. Be still and know that HE is God. That he has our life in the palm of his hand. His ways our not our ways. It is so good to know that our God never changes.
* A cold glass of ice tea or water with lemon.
* Cold watermelon
* The pool
* Hawaiian Tropic sun tan lotion
* Flip flops and tank tops
* Sonic Ice
* Gilmore Girls…me and my honey are trying to watch all the past episodes.
* Chicken Pesto Pizza
* Mowing the lawn and then a water fight with my kids afterwards!
* laying out.
* Hanging out with my best buddies.
* Making crafts with my kids.
* Barbecues
* Iced Triple Venti Vanilla Latte from no other than Starbucks
So this is the new member of our family: Maxwell. A Yorkie…isn’t he the cutest thing ever.
He weighs a whopping 2 pounds…
The girls excited that we have a puppy:
This is my oldest and all our kids and neighbor kids having a MUD fight. I do not know how long the water was running for, but I do know that they had a fun time getting completely dirty!
Hmmmm….I wonder how long the water was running in order to fill this up, and look at all the water draining behind down the ditch. I guess we will have to find out when we get our water bill.
The kids had a great first day of school. They were both so excited. And so cute. I love both there teachers so far. It has only been a day, but I am sure it will be great all year. They were so tired when they came home from school. We are going to have to start getting to bed earlier. Or we are going to have some grumpy kids!!! Okay I have to hit the sack, since Maxwell likes to get up early in the morning. He is so cute though I can’t be mad at him and he is only 6 weeks old.
So today…in about 3 hours we will pack up all the kids and go and get our friend. I would be lying if I said that I was not nervous. I am. Really. I am. I am nervous about a lot of things. So if you read this, and you feel like praying for us this weekend. You can pray that God’s will, will be done. That it would be clear what his will is. That when we know for sure what his will is, that we will know how to proceed from here. That we would have peace. That God would speak to Kim over the next few days.
Other than that not much else is going on around here. I finished up my classroom at school. And it looks good. I am very happy with it. Sunday we get to meet our class. That is always fun.
We met the kids teachers last night. I like them a lot. Bryce really likes his teacher. Chandler likes his and the fact that his room is western. Can you believe that school starts Monday. I cant. The summer flew by.
So I finally have a few moments here. We have been very busy since we got home. I worked on my room at school yesterday for quite awhile. And it is coming along really nicely. I am excited about this new school year. It is easy going to work when you enjoy those who you work with and have a good boss!
Chandler’s birthday party last night was fun. He was so excited about each gift! We had a yummy crocodile cake that I made, and we went on a family walk, and we rented Camp Rock. I LOVE THAT MOVIE. It was great! I want to get the soundtrack for it! My oldest loved all the music too! We had fun dancing around the living room. You should have seen us…it was HYSTERICAL!!! He woke up this morning and said that he needed his own room now, because he is 6 now. hhmmm…probably not going to happen right now Chandler.
So my trip home was so much fun. I realized even more what an incredible extended family I have. I really, really do. My kids had a blast playing with there cousins, being kids outside. I had fun getting caught up with old friends. Life is slow there. And I really like that. I honestly was having a hard time wanting to come back to Dallas. I missed Tony, but just the slowness of life there, and all the cousins, it made me a bit homesick. I am really blessed to have such a great family.
I am doing a new Bible study by Beth Moore, called Jesus. It is really good. She really makes you work. Lots of reading and thinking. Not that it is bad, I just need to make my mind work.
So our friend comes this weekend for her first visit since she left baby with us. I am nervous and excited. So many more big decisions will be made when she comes. Like if she is really planning on keeping baby. She will make that final decision. It is huge. So please pray for us this weekend. I am sure it will be an emotional one. This whole process has made me emotional. Made me more sympathetic. More understanding. Making me give more of myself, that I did not know existed. Basically God is stretching me to the MAX!!! Sometimes when you are stretched it is not pleasant. I have had to dig deeper into myself. Tune my listening ears better to the Lord. To make sure I hear from him and not my emotions.
It just seems like yesterday that Chandler was born. I went to the hospital to be induced and in 2 hours he was born. All 7 lbs 11 oz. He was such a good baby too.
He is the sweetest boy I know of. His little heart has so much compassion in it. He is kind. Loving. Caring. Gentle. Funny. Everywhere we go girls say, “Can you believe how long his eyelashes are?” and he says “I know, all the girls tell me that all the time!”
He has a great personality. He is a helper. He is very smart. (can you tell I am a little biased) His smile is contagious. He is detailed. A go-getter. And can you believe that he is 6. The years really do fly by.
I have cherished each memory that has been made with this little guy. I can’t wait to see what he will be when he “grows up”. I know God has a good plan for his life.
Chandler keep your eyes fixed on Jesus. He is the one who will sustain you through it all. He will guide you and be a light for you when you are having a hard time seeing. Mommy loves you lots!
has never felt so good. After being gone for almost 2 weeks. It felt great to sleep in my own bed. I did not realize how much I enjoyed it. Today we have been unpacking, and cleaning. We are getting ready for the school year to start. Chandler’s birthday is next week. Our friend comes home for her first visit. I have my back to work meeting. So we have hit the ground running!
Some of the things we did on our trip were:
Milk cows and feed baby cows
Toured Fantastic Caverns…One of 4 caves in the world that has a tour.
Hiked
Movies
Some shows in Branson
Silver Dollar City
Wedding dress shopping…my little sister got engaged and is getting married Nov. 1st!!!!
Lot of yummy restaurants
The kids had sleepovers
Visited the relatives
Barbecues
Do you see why I have so many stories to tell!
One quick story before we hit the gym. And I promise to tell more, but I promised the kids we would go swimming.
The other night we were talking about memories. And that we needed to hold onto all the good memories from our trip. Chandler said I cant remember stuff mom. I said, well ask God to help you remember at night. He can do that. He then said “I cant hear God at night mom” I was surprised, and asked why not? He said “because Ben snores so loud in the room mom!” I laughed so hard. It was so cute.
