Visit to Santa

Christmas

Christmas, what has it become? Getting presents, buying presents, wondering what to buy, the birth of Jesus, Santa, what is it to you? I so want it to be about the right thing, the birth of my wonderful Savoir, but it always ends up being about the presents or the lack there of. This year like most years we set a budget for each child. I just got out everything we bought for Alex and it seems like so little. As I sat here thinking it was not enough, I wondered how I had let the birth of my Savior become how much I had bought for my children. There are many children who would take a mom and dad that loves them over the gifts that I have bought. I am sad that I feel like it is not enough, that is not what it is about I know, but then why do I feel like I should some how do more? I hate what I have let Christmas become. I know there are many children that will only get only what is donated or nothing at all. My children have so much more than material things. I made the comment today that Christmas was a hassle, wow, that is just truly sad.

I've been Tagged

I have been tagged by Christy. I have to find 7 interesting things about myself, and find 7 people to tag. I am not sure I know 7 people she has not already tagged, but I will give it a try.

1. When I was 12 I got to ride in the Goodyear blimp, and I sat next to the pilot.

2. I can make my eyeballs shake lol.

3. I am married to my best friend, Terry was my best friend for years before we were
married. And, he still is my best friend after 10 years of marriage.

4. I Tivo Biggest Loser each week, if I am not home, and I usually eat junk food
while I watch lol.

5. I love iced coffee so much I learned how to make it at home. I have my own
espresso maker. Terry and I both have an iced coffee each morning, and it is
yummy.

6. I have one child in Kindergarten and one a senior. So, I have one starting and
one finishing.

7. I collect carnival glass I have about 10 pieces(I have the set in this picture) and if I had the space and money I would have much more.

Ok now for 7 people to tag.

1. Jared (before his mom does)He is one cool teenager so it should be interesting to see what he says about himself.
2. Kristen I met here at church, and I love talking to her at Walmart lol.
3.Candy, one of my best friends in the world, she knows all of my secrets, and is always there for me. The thing is she has not blogged since July lol.
4. Mandi my new blog friend that has the same name as me. She also shared her bible study with me.
5. Kelly, we worked together at the hospital and go to church together, and she is an amazing woman.
6. Tina, I love this girl, she is amazing, I love to hear her sing, and to talk to her always blesses my soul.
I can't think of anyone else so 6 will have to do.

Give Away

Many of you know I am involved in Safe Harbor Ministries. There is a giveaway on this site. It is a study for women who have had abortions. On Melinda's site she says this "Did you know that one in every three women has had an abortion? In fact, 43% of women of child-bearing age have this secret." Wow, so think of all of the women out there hurting. So, if you are interested in getting this for our chuch, go and leave a comment and a link back. I hope some of you do this and we can get this for Safe Harbor, it would be great to win this.

Rutherford Parent

I am becoming quite the celebrity. I am in this months Rutherford Parent. This is pretty cool because it is free advertising, and I did nothing to get it. The lady from the Rutherford Parent emailed me and ask if she could interview me for the magazine. God is so good, I give Him all the credit for this, and it is not a minute too soon. We need the advertising and we do not have the money to invest in advertising right now. I love how God just works everything out. Now I just pray I get so much business I have to post on here for help lol. Don't you just love the goofy picture of me? I am not sure what was so funny, but it must have been, maybe it is the beans lol.

Prayer

When you blog you end up following stories of people you do not know. So, I do not know this family, but please pray for them. Misty lost her battle with brain cancer. If you go and read you will see an amazing love story. Darren's love for Misty and God is truly amazing.

GNO

I love that I go to a church where you can sing Pat Benatar, and line dance. It was a night of fun. I went to dinner with my bff Kitty, and not once did I tell anyone to sit down and not do that, it was wonderful. Then I got to hang with a bunch of great girls, it was a great night. I should hang with my girlfriends more often. I love that my church does these kind of things for the women, and I love that I am not working nights anymore and I got to go.

Pray for Haiti

This morning I was reading Aaron Iveys blog and I just want to ask every one to pray for the rescue mission in Haiti where there children are. Because of the storms they have no clean water. This sure makes me think about my life and what you have and what I whine about not having. My heart just breaks for these sweet children. I sit here and take oh so for granted the clean abundant water I have. I know this is hard for Jamie and Aaron, to be so far away from their children. So, today lets just lift them up.

Fishing Fun

Since we all had the day off today we wanted to do something fun and cheap. So, we went fishing. This kind of thing is not my idea of fun, but it turned out to be alot of fun. First we went and got fishing poles from Brian then Terry and Bri got there day fishing licence then we had a picnic and off we went to fish. Terry and the kids fished while I read a book and watched. Alex had a blast, we did not catch any fish, unless you count to tiny little one Terry caught. It was nice to just hang out as a family, and to just enjoy each other. I think this will be something we do again. Bri enjoys this kind of stuff she is not like me at all in that respect. My idea of fun is indoor stuff lol. I am not much of a outdoor kind of girl, but when you have kids you do things you normally would not do. And, like most times it turns out to be fun. Wonder how many other things in my life I miss out on because I do not think it is my kind of thing.

1st day of school

Well, today was the day, both of my kids had there first full day of school. It went well for both. Alex got to go to the treasure chest, so that is good. Bri is happy with her schedule. I think it is funny I have a Senior and a Kindergartner. It should be a fun year. I do have to say I missed them today. It was very quite at work, I did get lots of food made, there was no one to distract me. So, we are back to early bed time and getting up early, both of which Alex does not like. At least I don't have to worry about dinner :) I have that covered. You too could have dinners in your freezer ready for dinner, just come see me. (just a small plug for the business lol).

One down one to go

Finally, both of my children go to school this week. I just dropped Alex off for his first day of Kindergarten. He did Kindergarten readiness last year so it was not sad like last year. He was ready to go,and I was ready for him to go lol. I would post a pic but the digital camera had dead, so I had to take pics with my other camera, so I will post one later. And, Bri goes Wednesday (Woo Hoo), that sounds bad, but it is time for them to be at school and not with me at work, or at home fighting with each other. It is hard for me to believe that this is Bri's last year of high school, this time next year I will be helping her off to college, wow, that is hard to believe. Time just goes by so fast.

12 Years ago today

12 years ago today my sweet niece Kiera was born, and 6 short months later she was gone (She had RSV). In many ways it seems like it has been a hundred years, since I stood outside the door and heard her first cry. I was in love from the minute I laid eyes on her. She was such a sweet baby girl. She had a smile that would lite up the room, she was always so happy. She spent most of her young life with me or my mom, we adored her.
At the time she died I was not following God, I had a hard time with this. I was very angry with God, when my moms preacher tried to talk to me I was not very nice to him (I am ashamed of that now), but I just did not want to hear what he had to say. I would be lying if I said that I understood why God had to take her, but I do know now that there IS a reason and that one day I WILL be with her again. There is much more to this story, but today I just want to focus on the good not all of the ugly stuff. I have been very weepy today, I still miss her, she was only with us for 6 months, but she was my sweet little pudding. Happy Birthday Sweet Kiera.

My First time in the Paper

We had our first sampling last night, and Sara from the DNJ was there and she did a great article on us. I am not so happy that my picture was in the paper. I hate pictures of myself, but it was a great article and I pray it will bring business. So, I guess it is ok that there was a pic of me.

Update

He is out of prison. I talked to our attorney today and he is going to sent a new court date as quick as possible. I will keep you updated as I know more. Thank you for your prayers.

Random

I really don't have too much to blog about, just thought it was time to post something new. The business is going OK just slow, I feel like it is going to pick up. There are two new business opening next week in our complex, that will bring more foot traffic. I know that God has a plan for my business, but boy has satan been all in my head, making me doubt. It is a daily battle to fight him, I loved the sermon Chris gave Sunday, it has helped me, so everyday I put on my armor and go into battle. And, I can truly tell you it has helped me this week.

On another note, here is a update on the adoption, the bf is getting out of jail this month. I think it could even possibly be tomorrow. So, I have no idea where we go from here. Once he gets out he will not have a free attorney, and there is always the not being able to find him once he gets out. So, I have no idea what is going to happen, but I can tell you that I am through worrying about this. I can truly say for the first time I have given this to God and left it with Him, no more picking it up, no matter what happens. I can not do it anymore, I know that no matter what happens Alex is not going anywhere. I want so desperately for him to legally be my son, but he is my son, and I do not need a piece of paper to say that. I will keep you updated as I know things. Just pray, this has gone on for a long time now, and we just want it to be over.

Well for a post I said I did not have much to say it turned out pretty long lol.

No Court.....Again

We were scheduled to go to court tomorrow, but I received a call from our attorney to let us know that it has been put off again. They are now requesting a DNA test, are you kidding me. He is the one who would not sign the papers because he wanted to be a father. Now he is requesting a DNA test. I am so confused, just SIGN the papers and it will be over. So, I have no idea where this is going. I would do a happy dance in the street if he turns out to not be the bio-father. He is suppose to get out of prison next month, so that means he will not have a free attorney. And, he will have to pay for the DNA test, because I am not. So, that is where we are at with our long adoption.

I know this is a good thing. God has a perfect plan and I just have to be faithful for a bit longer. God is in control of this not judges, attorney, DNA test, only God. So I have no worries, just frustration and to be honest some anger. Thank you for your prayers, lets just keep them going. I will update when I know more.

Happy Birthday to my baby girl

Seventeen years ago I gave birth to my sweet baby girl. At that time I had no idea how blessed I would be by this event. Briana has brought such joy to my life. I am daily amazed by her, she is such a wonderful young woman. I am equally amazed that someone who came from inside of me is this amazing. Briana is a young woman that knows what she wants and is not afraid to go after it. She loves the Lord and seeks Him in her life. The proudest I am is when I go by her room and see her in the word. She truly wants God in her life, that is so different than where I was at her age. She is so much smarter than I was at her age, and that makes me so proud. I have always been honest with her and tried to tell her that a life without Christ is not a life at all, and thus far she has listened. I am a very proud momma today of a very special 17 year old daughter.

Kitchen 2 Kitchen

We have a website!!!!!! Go check us out. I am so excited, and proud of my talented husband. Terry has put lots of work into our new website and it looks great. He is not finished, but it looks great already. So, go check us out.
kitchen2kitchenonline.com

My mind wont be still, so I blog

Here I am sitting up when the rest of the house is sleeping. I do this alot, it seems like lately when I lay down in the bed my thoughts just go crazy. I can not turn them off long enough to go to sleep, any one else have this problem? I usually get up and go to bible gateway and read. Don't you think it is amazing how God can give us a word just when we need it? I love how that always happens, many times the same verse will come up in different settings, I just love how He speaks to me.

I have been struggling lately with faith, knowing that God is going to take care of everything, but convincing myself of this has been a battle lately. I feel like Peter and if I take my eyes off of Jesus I will sink and he will say to me "ye of little faith, why did you doubt" I know that doubt comes from satan, and I have to be careful not to let him have a stronghold on me, so I am trying very hard to keep my eyes on Jesus. I want to stay on the water walking towards Him. I do pretty good most of the time, but satan is persistent and he tries to get me at 1:45am. So I fight him by reading the word and right now blogging lol. I know the things we go through make us stronger, we mature and sometime even learn the things that God wants us to learn. I know that I am right where God wants me and that no matter the outcome of everything, the one thing that will with out a doubt stay the same is my wonderful God that I am leaning on and becoming closer to every day, moment by moment. OK I feel better, I am going to give the bed another try.

Ten Years ago today

Ten years ago today I married my best friend. I can not believe it has been 10 years. I will never forget the way Terry ask me to marry him. He took me on a trip to Gulf Shores on New Years, and under a beautiful full moon, at my favorite place, on one knee, he ask me to be his wife (and might I add with a beautiful ring). I remember being excited, scared and in shock. I had no idea, and if you know me, you know how nosy I am, and how hard that had to be lol. This was a second marriage for both of us so we talked about what we wanted and did not want. We decided against a big wedding(been there done that), we would just come back to Gulf Shores and get married on the 4th of July. We did not want it to be a big deal just family. We told our friends and everyone wanted to be a part of our day. So, by the time it was all said and done over 30 people followed us to the beach. We were going to get married on the beach, but the more I thought about the weather that time of year I decided it was a bad idea, and boy was I right it was over 100 degrees that day. We got married at the Gulf Shores Wedding Chapel, and it was beautiful. My mom gave me away and Briana stood beside me. I wish I had a pic to put on here(only have real live pics), it was so simple and so pretty. Everyone that was important to us was there. After we were married we went to lunch, and then that night we had a party at the pool and watched the fireworks, it was magical.

Over the past 10 years there have been many ups and downs, but I can tell you one thing that has only grown stronger and that is my love for Terry. Through everything that has happened the one constant person in my life has always been Terry. He has always been faithful, hard working and my friend through all we have been through. So many couples give up when it gets hard, it has only made us stronger as a couple. And, I am so proud of that. The most important thing that has happened in this last ten years is that Terry gave his life to Christ and I rededicated my life to Christ. We did not start our marriage seeking God, but we are daily seeking Him, and want to have a marriage that brings glory to Him.

Terry, I know you will read this(you are one of my few readers lol) and I just want you to know how much I love you and I am so blessed to have you in my life. Thank you for loving me and our children. Thank you for always supporting me, and being my very best friend in the world. And, most of all thank you for showing Briana how a woman should be treated, and Alex how a man should treat his wife. Thank you for putting up with my crazy self. I can not wait to watch you grow old since I will not be doing that (ha!ha!). I can not wait to see what God is going to do in our lives, I am ready for the ride good or bad I am going on this ride with you. I love you, happy anniversary.

My baby boy is 6

Today is Alex's 6th birthday. We had a great party at the splash pad. He had a few friends, it is hard to have a party this time of year, many people are out of town. But, his best buddies were there and we had a blast. He got lots of good stuff and we were able to talk about how blessed God has made our lives. I love when there are real teachable moments. Then we went and spent his money at the game store (his favorite thing PSP2), and had dinner at Ci Cis pizza (he got to choose). I am so blessed to have this wonderful little boy in my life. Alex is such a fun boy, he is hard headed, head strong, full of himself, and a full time job, but I would not change one crazy moment. I can not wait to see what God has planned for his life. I can not wait until all of the court stuff is over and he is legally my son. He is already my son, but I just can not wait till the day that I have a birth certificate that has my name as his mother and Terry as his father. We are having a party when that happens, so look for that soon (my biggest prayer). Please join me in this prayer. We are getting closer to the court date (July 18). I know that my God has this under control but my human self wants it all done now. I can not even imagine my life with out him. He is such a full of life, wild man, and I love him more than anything. I am a blessed woman to have a wonderful husband, a beautiful young woman as my daughter, and a live wire son. Thank you God for my family. Today was a great day.

Boy has this been a busy week so far. VBS in the morning and learning the business the rest of the afternoon. VBS has been fun, you know you are old when you miss the flags being marched in. But, I do miss the pledging of the flags and the bible. Don't get me wrong I have loved everything, and it is awesome to see my son learn about Gods word. And, the best part for me is to see all of the youth that have given a part of their summer to pour in to the lives of young children. This blows me away to see all of the youth up and at the church ready to go at 8am. It is one thing for an adult to give of their time, but for teenagers wow. I am proud of my daughter and all of the students there.
As far as the business I am still in shock, I can not believe this is my new business. I would be lying is I said I was not overwhelmed, but I am learning and I am so grateful to God for this opportunity in my life. Thank you God for being in control of my life and moving me out of the way and pulling me out of my comfort zone. This is such a God thing it has completely blow me away to see God work out things that I just knew could not work. That is what I get for thinking lol. Stay posted for more updates on whats to come.

Faith

I am in the last week of work. I can not believe this is happening. I have four days left at my job. I am definitely stepping out on faith. I start learning the business next Tuesday, and I will be in there from then on. I am ready to get in there and see how it all works. I will keep you updated on how it goes. Also, I want to remind those who read my blog to keep our July 18th court date in your prayers.

New Direction

Well many things have changed in my world over the past two weeks. God has truly changed directions for my life. Terry and I will be taking over a prepared food business in M'boro. Wow!!!!! It is totally a God thing how this whole thing has happened. I still have not wrapped my brain around this. But, it is going to happen. We will be taking over July 1st, it is part of a franchise right now and we are going to drop them and do it on our own. So, we will not have our new name until August 1st. We are going to be Kitchen 2 Kitchen, so every one needs to come and buy food from me. I will post more info later. Just pray that all goes through will no problems.

Random

Thought I would post, not much going on. Just work and sleep. I have been working alot. I am not complaining, I am thankful I have the ability to work and a job I enjoy. I work the night shift, so it is interesting, you would think old folks would want to sleep lol, but believe me they do not. I just love them any way.

We went to Briana's end of the year program last night and it was wonderful. I am so glad it all worked out for her to go to LCA. I was so nervous about her going back to school, we had been homeschooling for 4 years, but it has been a great year. She has done so well,I am so proud of her. I just can not believe she is going to be a senior next year.

Life is just going to fast, I wish somehow I could slow it down just a bit. I was reading on Jamie's blog about how she is leaving her twenty's and it dawned on me I am about to leave my thirty's, wow. I will be 39 this year, don't tell anyone lol. I use to think 40 was so old, not so much now. How did I get to be almost 40? I am sorta shocked by this, I was just 30. I don't think I like it, I am just not having any more birthdays after this year, can I do that? lol.

Alex

The court date that was suppose to happen today is not going to happen. We have been put off till July 18th. The court appointed attorney for the biological father asked for more time. I am a little bummed about it, I wanted it to be over. I think everyone that would read my blog knows the story, but here is the short version. We have had Alex since he was 18 months old and he will be 6 on June 21st. We have been trying to adopt and the mother (who is my sister) has signed off and the BF had to be notified and he was given 30 days to respond, five days before his time was up he sent papers saying he did not want us to adopt. When Alex was a baby I took him to see the BF and gave him my phone # and address, and he never made any attempt to contact. So, we are not sure where this is all going. I am just praying that Judge Corlew will see him for what he is. He is in prison and has been most of his life. He is only doing this because he is mad at my sister, and has nothing to do with Alex. I know that there is purpose in all of this and I am definitely learning to be patient. I know that God has had His hand on this from the beginning and that He is going to take care of this, but to be honest the waiting is driving me bananas. I want him to be my legal son NOW. OK I feel better. I am asking all my blog friends to pray, specifically for Judge Corlew.

Prom

Last night was my baby girls prom. She looked so beautiful. I can not beleive how fast the years have gone. She had a wonderful time with her new boyfriend Matt. They made the cutest couple. We had such a good time yesterday getting her ready. I need to make more time to have just me and Briana days, it was a blast.

Nursing school

Well, I found out this week I did not get accepted into the nursing program. I am bummed about it, but I know it is not Gods time for this, or I would have gotten in. I talked to someone in the nursing department and she told me that I was very close. Sometimes I think it feels better to not have a chance than to be told you were a few points from getting in. It makes me feel like if I would have tried just a little harder. But, then I stop and realize, how well I have done and how far I have come. When God placed the desire in me to seek my nursing degree, I was terrified I could not do it. And, here I am 2 years later with a 3.6 GPA. Wow, if someone would have told me that when I started I would have told them they were crazy,and I give God all the glory. So, I am looking at this as a good thing.
This whole thing has been God driven, I never had any desire to go into the medical field, but God knew where I needed to be and that is where He has placed me.

I know all of this is leading to what Amy ask us in women's Legacy the other night. She told us to think about what our passions were,I don't think I have ever really thought about what my passions are, out side of my family of course. Every time I thought about what am I passionate about I would think of all the pictures I have seen on Crystals, Jamies,and other peoples blogs I do not even know. I sit and watch videos of the children in these countries and I just cry. My heart breaks for the poor children who die from disease that are curable or from just not having clean water and food. To see the hopelessness in their little eyes just rips my heart out, I so want to love all over these sweet children, and in some way help to bring them some comfort. Look how God can use something as simple as blogging to stir something inside of us. So, this is what makes me passionate,and now I have to prepare myself for how ever God wants to use this passion. I know that it is not time for me yet, I just want to be ready when He calls to say "Yes Lord I am ready to go". And, for those who do not know me this is out of my comfort zone for sure, I am not the kind of girl who likes to rough it. My idea of roughing it is a Holiday Inn. So, the thought of going into countries that have no water and electricity scares me to death. I really like my showers, but God has a great sense of humor, and puts desires on our heart that scare the bejevers out of us. So, for now I wait on God to prepare me for His plans. I can not wait to see where God takes me.

Under Attack

Do you ever feel like you are being attacked by satan? Boy, does it feel like that is what is going on. Many things are going on that we have no control over. Some have been pretty bad while others could have been worse. Terry said to me today that God must have something big for us if satan is spending so much time trying to distract us. Wow, he can be so smart, I was not looking at this that way at all. Briana has also shown me what kind of a woman she is becoming, at one point this week I had a melt down and was very upset and she laid on the bed with me and told me God would not put more on me than I can handle, a 16 year old girl was holding a 38 year old woman up. How stinkin cool is that, she really steeped up to the plate this last week. I do not want to go in to detail on here what is going on, but just pray for us. Pray that we can praise God in this storm we are in. None of it is life threatening so we will live through it all. I am very blessed to have a wonderful husband and children. Together with God we can get through anything.

This is the words that God gave me when I was desperately seeking Him, God is so good.


James 1:2-8 (The Message)
2-4Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.

5-8If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought.

Flip Flops and Rain

Yesterday as I was leaving to pick Alex up from school, I stepped on the first step of our porch and I was on the bottom step on my rear. It happened before I knew what was going on. It took me a minute to wrap my brain around what had just happened, as I sat there in the rain, I was trying to figure out if I was hurt, but on the other hand I had to go get Alex. So, I jumped up and off I went, I got up the road a bit and I thought I was going to puke. I did not puke, but boy did the pain start. So, my advise to all is to not wear flip flops in the rain. I am not majorly hurt, just a possibly broke toe , big time bruised butt and bruised arm. I am very thankful for a fat butt, because without it I do believe I would have broken something lol.

"Are My Roots Showing"

Tonight started out like most Mondays, wait till last minute to take online test, hurry and cook dinner, and off the Safe Harbor group. When I got to group only one person showed up, normally the others would call and let me know they were not coming. If they had I would have canceled group,glad they did not call.
We started talking and decided to go down to the sanctuary and listen to Tina Hutchison, she started her bible study tonight("Are My Roots Showing"). When we got down there we saw they were registering and we knew we could not commit to the 6 weeks so we left. I got in my car and headed out of the parking lot and something told me to just go and slip in the back and listen. So, that is what I did, I sat in the back all by myself.
God spoke to me about many areas of my life, and I had real clarity on somethings that I need to do. I want to be the woman He wants me to be,on the inside, and the outside. Tina did a great job, you could see God shine through her.
I am going to do Tina's bible study from afar, I am going to stop by on Mondays and get the paper work. Thank you Tina for your obedience to the Lord, you are truly a woman that God is using in mighty ways.

hehe. mommy doesn't know :]

Hello. This is Briana, Mandi's daughter. I hacked on my mommy's blog thingy. This is what you get when you go shopping and leave your blog open. lol. Anyways, I was going to get on my myspace and when I got on here I saw my mom's blog just sitting open so I thought I would leave a little something :] My mom is my rolemodel. She is one of my bestfriends and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always here for me when I need her and always knows what to say.I don't tell her that I love her enough. Some people don't have mom's or there mom's just don't care and I take mine for granted. She is a very busy woman and does so much for our family. I know it has to be hard to work crazy hours and then have to take care of us also while doing school. She is an amazing woman and I look up to her. She is my Chrisian rolemodel. I love her so much and I need to tell her more. I love you mommy :] you are the best!!!
love your daughter,
Briana :]

Peace

This was on my computer yesterday, and I am not sure where it came from, kinda weird. So, I figured I would share it because it really spoke to me.
This has been a crazy week here at our house. I work PRN at Vanderbilt, so I work one night a month, in addition to my full time job, and last night was the night. You would not think one extra night of work would make such a big difference in your week, but boy did it. I am wore out, it also did not help that the kids were home all week. It is easier to sleep when you are home alone, but it was nice to have them home even if I was asleep for most of it lol. I can not wait till I am through with school.
So, you can see why the saying that mysteriously was on my computer really hit home with me. It is cool how God uses all things to speak to us.

Easter

I hope everyone had a great Easter. We had a great day. To start the day we had our traditional scavenger hunt. Since before Briana could read the Easter bunny has left plastic eggs with clues all over the house that leads to the Easter baskets. Now that she is older she reads the clues and Alex finds the eggs. This is so much fun. I love watching them run through the house trying to figure out the clues. This year the baskets ended up in the bath tub. Then it was a mad dash to get ready for 1st service, we usually go to Sunday school 1st hour and it does not matter if we are a little past 9:00, so we had to get it in high gear. But, we made it and it was a great service and it was nice to worship together. Briana usually goes to 1st service and serves 2nd, so it was nice to all be together. As we were worshiping the thought of those who have to hide to worship came in to my mind, and I am so thankful that I live somewhere that I can worship God openly and freely. Then me and the boys went to Olive Garden (Briana went to her nenes) for a yummy meal. Then we went home and all three of us piled up in the bed and slept for 3 wonderful hours. Then it was off to work for me. So there you have the account of the Reeves Easter. Days like today remind me of what a truly blessed woman I am that 1st off I have a husband that wants to go to church,and loves the Lord and children who want to go as well. So many do not have this. And that I can raise my hand and praise the ONE and only God and not worry that I will be persecuted.

Procrastination

I am sitting here at work studying my safe harbor lesson, that I have to be ready to teach tonight. It struck my as funny that the lesson is on Perfectionism and Procrastination, and that is exactly what I am doing, procrastinating. That is what I do most times, I am the worst at putting things off till the last minute. Many times I have thought this to be lazy of me and other times have no idea why I do this. In my lesson it said that procrastination is a symptom of being a perfectionist. I laughed out loud, I am far from a perfectionist. Then it went on to say "procrastination is not doing something for fear of not doing it right. People procrastinate usually it is from uncertainty or lack of confidence." It also said that the root cause of this negative thinking that leads to procrastinating could be from previous failures, or abrasive or abusive comments from people around you or in your past. Many times I think I am getting more out of leading this class than the ones I am suppose to be leading. Just when I think I have dealt with most all of the things of my past God shows me another area that still needs some work.

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me" (2 Cor. 12:9)

School Play

Tonight we went to Brianas play at her school. It was so funny, she did such a great job.(Maci Shingleton needs her own show she was so funny.) This has been a great year so far. We were so nervous when the year started. We had been home schooling for four years so it was a little scary to go back to school. But, it has been a good thing so far. Briana has done so well. I am so proud of the young woman she has became. I can not believe she will be graduating next year. It has gone way too fast, I am not ready to let her go off to college and leave me. It just seems like last week she was a little girl. I am so glad God has blessed me by letting me be Brianas mom.

First Blog

Lately I have enjoyed reading others blogs. So, I have decided to create one of my own. Not sure what I will put on here, but with the life I have I am sure I can come up with all kinds of stuff to write about. With a 5 year old, a 16 year old, a husband, a dog, a job, and school, lots goes on in our lives. Don't get me wrong I am not complaining. I love my life I am very busy but very blessed.