A Blessed Mess Blog

I can't express how blessed I feel to be able to have my days free of medical transcription, y'all.  Every morning when I return from school drop off I have time to sit down and actually read my bible...not just a chapter, two if I'm lucky, but actually read and study .  There's even a new passion to do my Sunday School "homework" whereas before I just plain ole didn't do it.  I'm in Romans right now and it's almost like I'm reading it for the first time even though I've read it hundreds of times over the years.  I'm working on my third entire consecutive read-through of the bible.  When I finish reading it all the way through I just start over and do it again.  I want to keep God's word fresh in my mind and forever in my heart.  There may come a day, sadly, when in America it's illegal to keep a bible or perhaps all bibles will be destroyed.  I want to have as many verses and scriptures stored safely in my heart where no one ...

Wow, I don't even know where to begin.  So much has changed since my last post.  And so much that I can't even remember all of it.  The most major change, I'm guessing, is that I am no longer working as a medical transcriptionist.  Actually, I cannot remember what all was going on when I last blogged, but I am pretty sure I was still slaving away as an MT, making those measly cents per line, working every single Sunday while my family had Sunday time between church services.  It always bothered my husband, Travis, that after morning church I had to work until just about evening church.  The constant "shhh" and "be quiet" from me was quite annoying to them all, I know, but he hated the fact that our Sundays were ruined because of my work schedule the past three years.  When I first got the warning in January that I was on probation because I couldn't pass my audit I was scared, worried, terrified...I felt like I was becoming obsolete in a career that ...

It's been 10 months since my last entry and I have to wonder why...why has it been so long?  Maybe it's because life just gets so busy that I really can't find the time to sit down and type for pure release.  Yes, my regular job is a typing job, one that I've been doing for 20 years come this May (except I took a year off to sew my oats and work at Mother's Day Out and help my awesome husband with his home inspection business), but all in all, I've been typing over half my life now!  It's a job, so there are days when I literally hate to sit down at this computer and put my Beats on.  And, depending on what doctor comes up first thing in my morning, I'm either ready to snap someone's neck or I can actually squeeze out a little smile on my face because it's not a fast talker, foreign talker, food eater while he/she dictates, one who won't correct their obvious mistakes while talking...I can go on and on here.  But, the point was to emphasize h...

As I sit here and reflect on the morning's events I can't help but smile.  Oh what a difference a day can make, right?  I'm coming off one terrible Tuesday morning we encountered yesterday.  That morning was filled with tension, frustration, venting of feelings, and just pure misery.  Before I made my Facebook post about it, I was certain that I was the only mother out there who ever experienced such mornings and that perhaps I was just a really bad mom and that it was all my fault and something I'd just have to deal with.  However, after the response I had to my comment on Facebook, I no longer feel alone, that I'm the world's worst mother, but that I am a member of an organization of mother's who struggle daily to make their kids' morning routine one where all leave the house alive and somewhat mentally intact.  Thank you to all you ladies who responded and showed me support and shared my feelings.  Some of you are currently going through the same t...

Spring break finally arrived and boy, were we ever ready for a break from school and work and just the busyness of life.  Appointments, meetings, this program, that program...after a while it gets to you and makes you crazy and you start counting the days down until you get that much needed, much wanted break.  For the past several months my family has been counting down the months, weeks, and finally days to spring break so we could experience our first adventure aboard a cruise ship.  I'll be honest...we were a little apprehensive, Travis and me, about taking one because we'd never been on one before and you know how it is with the unknown...we just weren't sure that taking a cruise was the right thing for our family.  At least on this one we'd have friends to help us figure things out and friends for Sophie to hang out with.  As the time got closer for us to head to New Orleans I admit I started getting excited.  Many times I got online and checked out t...

You know, it's funny how you can hear or read something at a certain point in life and get a specific thing from it, but when you come across the same words later on in life, you get an entirely different message from those same exact words?  That's what happened to me this morning in my morning bible reading.  I'm going through my bible in it's entirety for the second time now and I'm all the way into Hebrews.  My morning read brought me to where it's being explained how Jesus' dying on the cross took the place of how back in the days of Moses and before Jesus came, the high priest once a year went into the temple and sacrificed for the sins of the people.  For a moment I wondered what it would be like to have lived back then...how people were constantly having to sacrifice animals on the alter for their sins.  Would there even be enough animals alive for me to sacrifice for all my sins?  I think of how many times on a daily basis I sin and I truly do won...