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...
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Our First Cruise Experience
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...
Ever-changing...Progress In The Making
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...
Oh my....I'm sitting here yelling at myself OUT LOUD during prayer. It's Monday, January 12, 2015. Last night's sermon at church was so on spot. Brother James talked about how we should go about doing our daily jobs. We should use our jobs to glorify God and praise Jesus. We should not brag about our salvation and relationship with Him, and we should not lag in our performance and should do our best no matter what, and we should not sag as in go back to our old ways. Well, this morning as soon as I awoke I reminded myself of the sermon and reassured myself that I was going to do my best to put it into practice. So, when I got started I did two easy, quick jobs and then had time to read 5-6 chapters in my bible for my morning daily reading. I was all set, ready to rock the Monday out with a good attitude and what I thought was a clean heart. Boy, was I wrong. Call it pride, call it ego...call it whatever , but whatever it was, i...