Mini Posts

With my schedule being a bit crazy right now these mini post just might be all I get out right now. I wrote a really long one last night that was raw and honest but couldn't push the post button. When I ramble in deep true honesty I usually end up second guessing whether I should actually post it. It really was a jumbled mess. So instead, you get this...

Sooo exhausted I could cry. Need sleep ASAP. And yet it is not to happen anytime soon. Coffee isn't cutting it right now. What is your afternoon pick me up of choice? It was such a long night last night and a very early morning to start. I am willing to bet that I crash hard tonight. But in the mean time there are these little short people who keep calling me Momma who need me. At least their cute ;)



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I'm scared

I have to take all three of my kids with me to work tomorrow. Please pray I don't lose my ever loving mind! Dread this sooo bad!


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Music Monday: The Band Perry

Music Monday: The Band Perry

If I Die Young

I have this thing about me where I get in my moods where I want to listen to Country music and will wear it down or suddenly so sick of it I refuse to listen. Not sure why but I go through my stages. I am actually in a mood where it's not what I am listening to but I love this song! She reminds me of Taylor Swift and I am definitely an adult who loves her! My girls love this song too, they yell at me to turn it up anytime they hear her voice.

Playing Around

Love this!!




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Stream of Consciousness Sunday: The Dead Brain Cells Edition

All Things Frada brings us....



I have nothing today. Nothing. I guess that is what happens when you spend your entire weekend doing absolutley nothing! Spend the day with the hubs on Friday but mostly posted on that yesterday...read about our day here. I spent the entire evening last night playing and figuring out the ipad....LOVE IT!! I slightly miss my kids but really I am enjoying some refreshing time away from them too. Now, I think I miss them most in the mornings when they aren't there climbing in my bed. I love our morning time! My husband only has 3 months left of school, I am stoked! And he passed his biggest exam of he semester with flying colors last week! I am so proud of him. He is amazing. I discovered this week how much I enjoy working again. I have been a stay at home mom for so long that I forgot how much I love feeling productive and being around other adults. I don't regret staying at home at all because those are years that you never get back but I am kinda looking forward to the Fall when Miss Squeaky is in school too. I am considering taking on a position where I am helping out at right now, it would be a perfect position to work around my fall semester at school and make it to where I could be home with my kids when they get out of school. I call that a win! I am suppose t take 15 hours of school in the semester though so not sure if it will all be too much. We will see. My rambles are pretty lame today. Sorry, the laziness has got ahold of my brain too apparently!

Have a beautiful Sunday!

Lazy Days of Summer

I have been having log in issues all week with blogger. So frustrating! I have been wanting to post about several things but haven't been able too. We watched God work in our life this week in an awesome way...can't wait to share it! Will share it when I can get logged into to my main computer.

My kids are camping with the grandparents and the husband is at work so I have an entire day of doing what I want to do. It's lovely. I worked a few hours this morning then had lunch with a friend I haven't seen in years. Now I am home playing around on the iPad and being lazy!

The husband was so sweet and bought me the iPad yesterday. I have been wanting it for school to use while on campus and been thinking about it for awhile. I just wouldn't buy it, I have a hard time buying anything like that for myself especially when we are both students trying to get by financially. So he took me to a store yesterday and said we will walk out with one. I said no we won't, he said yes we will. He had the finances all figured out for us and we landed an amazing deal because the store was out of stock of the one he wanted so now I don't feel guilty about it. He had worked it all out just for me. I thought it was incredibly sweet.

With the kids being gone we had an amazing time of enjoying each other all day. I kept looking at him thinking how lucky I was and so glad he's in my life. We laughed all day and I can't tell you how much we needed that. It a was perfect day.

He has us in His hands

....when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.

For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance

has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is

fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.

James 1:2-4


Our pastor said a few weeks ago how when you are going through struggles you can either choose to have joy through the struggles or you can curse them. He went on to say either way the struggle is still there so why not choose to have joy over the struggle. It doesn't make it easy or necessarily go away but atleast you know you are choosing to find the joy around you and celebrate that. That we can trust in God to take care of us no matter what the situation is. It's not a guarenteed card that says, "because you believe, life will be easy" Nope. We didn't get that card for sure. But I did get the card that says, "there is joy all around, find it through the good and bad."

Today has been a true test of that.
Over the last few weeks little things have happen to try to damper my spirit like I spoke of on my post Sunday. The schedule we are maintaining is tough but it's been other things like the air conditioning going out, husbands car breaking down and needing a new engine. Those things tend to beat you down but we did good in finding our joy through it.

Then came today. Husbands car breaks down. again. And with what happen it might be that the engine was damaged in the process. REALLY??? I mean COME ON!!!!!!!! That is what I have been thinking because at this point we NEED his car and we don't have the option to go out and buy a new one or at this point spend the money AGAIN to fix it. So, needless to say, we were feeling beat down. But I just kept running through my head what our pastor spoke on and that he did an entire sermon Sunday morning over having faith and not being discouraged and once again, finding the joy. I came home and found that scripture and just read it. Then held on to my Bible, which might sound silly, but, I just clung to it. Needing to just hold on to Him in the best way I could in that moment. Because I WILL find my joy in this struggle. I will be a encouragment to my husband who is feeling defeated. I will be his shoulder in this moment because he is feeling beat down. And I can do this today for him because I know that I have my strength and joy in the Lord. And when hubby wakes up in the morning, I am sure he will find his again too but sometimes we all feel beat down and need to borrow strength from others to remember that God has us all in His hands.