Lego Man

I have all these ideas, but just finding the time to set down and put them into "blog format"...  Some of my "stories" have to wait...for the right time.  I do have "drafts" just waiting to be posted!  I can't wait to share some of them!   I know I keep saying I'm going to do better at this, and I truly hope I do, because I want to do this!  I want to share my experiences...God has been so good to me!  For today though, I am going to "backtrack" to my youngest's past birthday.

Lego Man!  This child LOVES his legos!  For his birthday this year I "done" his room.

 Curtains, rug, quilt...

 I was a little excited...I made up the pattern for his quilt all by myself!  (Pat myself on the back...lol)

 My first attempt at a no-sew rag rug!  So easy!  Have a feeling this will become a new favorite thing to do with all my "scraps"!

 Not my best cake ever, but hey, it tasted good and he liked it...so that's all that mattered!

 

Blow, blow, blow!  Just like at CF clinic...try to see how long you can blow!  Lung Function...blow all the candles out!

 

Oh let them be little!  Where oh where does the time go?!  My baby is 13!  But he still enjoys his legos, and I'm not going to make him "grow up" any faster!

 

I will enjoy him while we are still,



What must God think?

36 years ago...

I would love to see this now wouldn't you?! NO HATERS!!! (you can't be hatin') And for all those complaining about the cold...you will be happy this summer when the bugs aren't bad! Cold kills germs and bugs! And besides, its much prettier and energizing to look out the window and see God's beautiful white art work than to look out and see all the brown and mud and "dreariness"! 

 Slow down a little and enjoy your family! Break out a board game, read a good book, do a craft...scrapbook...quilt...something...Be thankful! Because it sure is beautiful out there, and in just a few short weeks you will be complaining that's its too hot! What must God think?   Sometimes I can't help but wonder...these people down here...complain that its too cold...too hot...too dry...too wet...Doesn't HE, the Creator of all know what we need?  Doesn't He hold the Keys to the winds, rain, sun and...well...all weather?  I don't know about you, but it gets wearisome to me to hear the constant complaining.  Just find something to enjoy about it.  There is not a thing you can do to change it so why be so miserable? 

Thank you for listening to/reading my vent.  I do get so tired of all the negativity.  Life is too short to sit around and complain about the weather!  Get up and go do something you enjoy...or else go back to bed and let the rest of us wallow in our optimism! :)  I will build a snowman for you while you sleep...then when you get up, I'll have a bucket of snowballs ready to throw at you! LOL  :)

 Love you all!

It might be the sled riding hill, but we are still,

Who done it?

Our family likes to set down sometimes in the evenings and play a good game...sometimes that game is Clue.  Who, where, and with what?

Today, my husband and I came home  from the grocery store, and it looked like someone had viciously murdered the loaf of zucchini bread I had just taken out of the freezer that morning!  There was only about 1/4 of the loaf left, and there were literally crumbs EVERYWHERE!  I was like, seriously?  Well, I know WHERE...Kitchen, and I'm pretty sure on the WITH WHAT...large knife laying beside sink...but now the WHO? 

(Mom thinking)...Hmmm, hubby was with me.  Oldest son is at college classes...that leaves Sons number 2 and 3.  Do I even dare ask which one of them it was?  (Although , I'm 99.99% sure I already know.)  But then again...wait just a minute!  There is someone I completely forgot about!  Of course!  It wasn't son 2 or 3 either!  How could I forget this most important creature!  He has lived at our house for 17 1/2 years!  But yet somehow I always forget to blame him!  I always take the long way around the board, go through every single room, blame every single person, when it would just make my life SOOOO much easier if I just went to him FIRST!  You all know him well!  At least you should if you have children.  Because I guarantee he lives at every single one of your homes as well!

WHO is it?  Why None other than......

 NOT ME!!!  Of course!  Shew!  I'm so glad I remembered to blame him before going through the others first!  Sigh...clean up the crumbs...close the bread bag...and go on with my day!  I suppose one of these days all too soon he will leave my house and I will miss him something terrible!  So for now...I'll (try) to enjoy having him around. ;)

 

We are still,



Reflections

Looking back over this past year and all I can say is "Hitherto, the Lord hath helped us!"  Yes that is today's Streams in the Desert's devotion, but it is so fitting for our family this year!  But such a blessing to be able to go out of the year and still have Victory in our souls.  No matter what has happened throughout the year, physically, financially, mentally, materially, temporal, or any thing else...what happened spiritually is the most important.  Although it has been rough in all these other areas, I have to say, I do believe we have gained spiritually! 

I am not normally eager for time to move on, it moves so quickly, but I am happy to see 2013 come to a close.  I do hope 2014 is a bit of a better year for our family.  But in my reflections this morning, I still have a lot to be thankful for, and that is my focus today...not focusing on everything that has gone wrong this year, but for everything I still have to be thankful for:

~the health that we DO have.
~the home that God has provided us.
~we are not starving.
~we are (mostly) warm.  (lol...this house is a little harder to keep warm...)
~we still have freedom to pray, worship, sing, go to church (don't want to take this for granted...I fear we will all too soon lose this freedom!)
~We still have God...
~Prayer...oh I'm so thankful for prayer!!!!
~it is snowing...right now...as I type:)
~Coffee!
~Clothing
~a place to put my weary head at the end of the day
~a vehicle to get me where I need to go
~friends & church family that care so much about us!  They have truly become a part of my family/life.  I can't imagine my life without them!
~Most of all that we still have each other, me...my husband...and my 3 sweet boys...and God! 
~So very thankful for God...for Jesus!

There is so much more, but as most of you know when you start counting your blessings, there really is no good stopping point!  I just wanted to end 2013 being thankful!

This song has been a blessing to me this year...I want to share it...I would say this would have to be my song for this year!

 

It's gonna be ok, because the potter knows the clay!  I'm holding on to that!

 

Hope you all have a very blessed 2014!

 

Still,



Revilings

Hi!  I seriously WANT to do better with this whole blog thing!  I WANT to do it!  I just get so busy!  (Imagine that!)  Last week we had a Campmeeting at our church and as I was helping the dear Older lady in the kitchen I joked about being lazy.  She laughed and laughed...and said, "Now that's funny right there!"  I love her DEARLY!!!  She means more to me than she will probably ever know. 

This has been a CRAZY year!  I am not going to get into it just now, but I hope that someday (sooner than later, I HOPE)  I will be able to blog about it!  But I do want to share something that just recently happened to me/us.

Last week, our family was verbally attacked in a way like never before.  I mean it was TERRIBLE!  Lies, twisted events, vicious things were said about us, called all sorts of things.  Thursday was the worst of it.  We received email after email after email.  By the afternoon I was feeling pretty miserable.  I had a major headache from crying, and the devil was having a party in my mind!  (Mind battles are the worst!...and I am determined to crash his party btw) Our Campmeeting was starting that night and I had company coming to stay with us, and I didn't feel like any of it!  Actually, I felt like I had been beaten and left on the side of the road...wishing for my "good Samaritan" to come along.  I was struggling with, "am I really this horrible of a person?  Are my children really this disrespectful?  Am I so messed up that I can't see this?"  We got ourselves together, got ready for worship, I put a smile on my face, (b/c that's what I do) and headed to church.  I took my desserts for the weekend into the dining hall.  I told the lady in charge, "I have more at home, if you need them just let me know."  She hugged me and said, "You are so precious!"  I came unglued!  She still has no idea why I started bawling, and she stood there rubbing my back and said, "You need to let those tears out my dear!  Tears are a language that God understands."  (My Good Samaritan had come!)  If she had any idea I had heard nothing but the opposite of that all day...all week long!  When the minister got up to preach, the very first scripture he read was Isaiah 51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. I thought I was going to lose it!  I was crying...again...but this time b/c...The first day of the meeting and God cares so much about ME...little old ME that he would send an entire message of encouragement to ME!  More scriptures were read about being not afraid of men...and on and on.  I looked up the word revilings...it means  "to assail (attack) with abusive language"!  SERIOUSLY!!  I did still seek some counsel about the issue the next day because the enemy was attacking me so forcefully I needed some peace of mind, but I am still amazed at how this took place!  That God cares that much for ME!  The entire weekend was such an encouragement to my family!  Even this week when the enemy has tried to come in like a flood I have gone back to this scripture for a reminder!  The next day I was told "Your boys are some of the nicest, respectful boys I have ever met."  Oh I know they are not perfect, but being told they are disrespectful...was a little hard to swallow...after all we have tried to pour into them?

God is SOOOO good!  Despite all that we have been through, I cannot...do not want  to live my life without Him.  Others may come and go, but I NEED HIM!  It's so difficult to think about all the millions of people in this world, yet He still knows right where I am and just what I need!  I love Him so much!


Yes, even though the road gets rocky and steep at times, we are still,

Thanksgiving

While a lot of us will reflect over the year and our "thankfuls" today.  I want to share.  I have not played the thankful game on FB this year, but that does not mean I am not thankful! 

It is these holidays that I miss my mom the very most.  Holidays are just not the same anymore...not as fun...  Time for new traditions, a new kind of fun. 

But I am thankful for what she instilled in me...for my heritage.

I am thankful for my husband.  I am so glad that God put us together.  I cannot imagine...don't want to imagine...life without him.  He has helped me through so many of my insecurities.  He knows when I am uncomfortable in a situation and why.  He is my sounding board (bless his heart), He truly completes me.  I am forever thankful for him.

I am thankful for my 3 wonderful boys.  They each have their strong points that makes me appreciate them on an individual level.  I love all my men! ;)

I am thankful for a home, warmth, roof, food, clothes, shoes...everything that God has given me.

I am thankful for Jesus.  Where would we be without him?

I am thankful...SOOO thankful...for my church family.  There have been a lot of "voids", this year especially, and they so have filled in those gaps!  I think this has been the most difficult year of our married life (and I don't mean between David and I, just life circumstances) and my dear church family has been right there beside us, encouraging us and helping us along...when others have forsaken us and left us behind in their dust!  I cannot express what they have come to mean to me!

I am thankful for a place to get my soul fed...that lives what they teach!  Oh I could go on and on and on.  There is just so much to be thankful for.  And once you get started it's kind of hard to stop! 

I truly have many blessings to count today!  Don't you?  Have a truly blessed Thanksgiving!

Still,

Waiting...

When you are I am waiting for an exciting shipment from UPS and they don't come and don't come and don't come...and you have "waited" all day...(Like I am doing right now)  Sometimes it gets frustrating, and tiring just waiting.  It's like "Ok, I know it's coming just come already!"  I want to unpack the package and organize it NOW, not at supper time...or bed time! 

Now, what am I waiting on?  I am waiting on an Uppercase Living order for one thing.  But I am also waiting for my new shipment of LuLaRoe skirts/leggings! (You can like my Facebook Page here.)

 But back to the topic at hand.  When you know something is coming you are like why can't it come already?  Well, lets see...there could be different reasons...
1.  Maybe, just maybe there are some deliveries before me.  I have to wait my turn.
2.  Maybe the delivery got delayed by unforeseen issues...and accident that tied him up, a lonely little old widow talked to him for an hour.
3.  There are a million things that could happen, but I don't want to just surmise...

Bottom line...I know the package is coming.  The Tracking Number tells me it is coming today...it's on the truck for delivery!

Now let me retell this story...

 

When I am waiting on an exciting answer/delivery/package from God and it doesn't come and it doesn't come and doesn't come...I have waited all day...week...month...year...whatever the case may be.  (Like I am doing right now)



Sometimes it gets frustrating, and tiring just waiting.  It's like "Ok, I know it's coming just come already!"  I want to enjoy it now...I don't like the unknown...I WANT it NOW, not at supper time...or bed time...or tomorrow...or next week.  I KNOW it's coming so come already!

Now there was a KEY word in this scenario...KNOW  When you KNOW it's coming.  When you know something is coming you are like why can't it come already?  Well, lets see...there could be different reasons...
1.  Maybe, just maybe there are some deliveries before me.  I have to wait my turn.
2.  Maybe the delivery got delayed by unforeseen issues..."Satan hath hindered me."
3.  Some things had to be worked out over "here" before this could be worked out over "here".
3.  There are a million things that could happen, but I don't want to just surmise...

Bottom line...I KNOW the "package" is coming.  God's Track Record tells me it is coming ...I have to be patient...maybe just maybe it's on the truck for delivery today!

So I will just keep waiting! In the meantime I will Keep,