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Truthful Thursday – Matthew 28
Posted on: October 1, 2009
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“Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20
Intentional blogging
Posted on: September 27, 2009
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I’ve been wondering how to “launch” my blog into reaching out more. I connected with BlogHer, but haven’t done enough to really get into that community. When I did sign up, though, it asks you to categorize your blog. While doing that, I wondered what makes my blog stand out. What is one unique feature?
For several months now, I’ve been thinking how to make Truthful Thursday into a Wordless Wednesday or Menu Plan Monday.
So, this week, I am taking a leap of faith. I am asking all of my usual readers to post a Truthful Thursday. Here are the rules:
– Write a truth (mine are Scripture based)
– Link your post to my blog via Mr. Linky
– Post a comment in my comment section, leaving your name and blog link.
– Make sure to mention TT on your post, with a link to that week’s TT
We’ll see what happens!
Truthful Thursday – Habakkuk 3
Posted on: September 24, 2009
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“Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!” Habakkuk 3:17-18
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I never thought I’d stay at home with my children.
Truth be known, I never thought I’d have children.
I always thought that women who stayed at home were, well, lame. I couldn’t understand why someone would want nothing more than to be a mom. In the movie Juno, Vanessa says “Have you ever know you were just meant to do something? I was meant to be a mother.” Even after being a mom, I couldn’t fathom that quote. Meant to be a mother. Meant to be a mother.
Yesterday, while having a conversation about an upcoming business trip, Jonathan said that his boss has a lot of respect for me. Honestly, I didn’t really believe it. I believe it, because Jonathan said it, but not because I believe it. And I asked myself, “Why? Why don’t I think he would/could respect me?”.
And I realized, that is a loaded question.
Until I became a mom, I didn’t have a lot of respect for SAHMs. I figured I’d juggled college, work, extra curricular activities, minimal sleep and high stress situations, raising kids can’t be that hard. In my mind, SAHMs meant mini vans, soccer practice, cleaning house, and shuttling kids off to school. Then Julia came along. And like so many other things, I realized I was wrong. Being a mom is hard. Being called to die to self is hard. Facing your sins in the face, daily, in order to train someone else is hard. Knowing that you’re the first example of God, of the world, of everything to this one little being, who relies on you fully is hard.
And hard work does deserve respect.
What I do: wiping butts, cleaning up spilt milk, laundry, grocery shopping, doesn’t seem like much. And when paired against, I don’t know, brain surgery or rocket science, it really seems quite easy. But what I really do, training children into God-fearing, people-loving, perhaps even brain surgeon adults is respectful work.
To all you moms out there: Bravo! You are doing a marvelous job and I respect you so much!
To my daughters: My earnest desire is that you might grow up to say “I was meant to be a mom” and know, beyond all doubt, that your job is as important, hard and respectful as any CEO or doctor.
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Mental health that is.
And within the context of traveling with a potty-training toddler and a nursing infant.
We got back from Tennessee in one piece. We had a blast, but I was glad to be home and so were the girls. I never realized how challenging it must have been for my parents (i.e. my mom) to travel with 4 kids back and forth from Tennessee to Texas every year. Oy. I’m just tired thinking about it!
Highlights from the trip:
– seeing my best friend from junior high for the first time in 10+ years.
– going to Dave’s exhibit opening for Seven Deadly Sins.
– eating at Shoney’s with my brothers.
– eating a hot fudge cake at Shoney’s. All. By. Myself.
– having lunch with John.
– deck time.
– watching Julia run around half naked. All week. 😉
– going to the private opening of Twilight Visions – which is all about Paris.
– spending 24 hours with my best friend.
– having the best trip home in a long time.
Julia on the front porch with my family's dog, Buddy. You can't tell, but she has on no pants.... 😉
Dave has this skeleton for a shoot he's doing. Julia didn't bat an eye at her "lunch mate", except to get a little mad that he was in her usual seat.
Omi and Hannah. Beautiful.
For whatever reason, Hannah didn't sleep very well while we were gone. But, towards the end of the trip she started sleeping on Omi's bed and loved it. Must have reminded her of being at home on our bed.
Truthful Thursday – Amos 5
Posted on: September 17, 2009
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“It is the Lord who created the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into morning and day into night. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The Lord is his name!” Amos 5:8
Truthful Thursday – Psalm 4
Posted on: September 10, 2009
“You can be sure of this: The Lord set apart the godly for himself. The Lord will answer when I call to him.” Psalm 4:3
It’s that time of year again
Posted on: September 3, 2009
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Time to renew my Southern Living magazine. You might remember the sad, sad day I cancelled my subscription last year. And then the happy, happy day I got it back.
Well, August was my last month, again. Jonathan said I could renew if I could get another good deal. Lo and behold, the next day I got a card from SL asking me to renew for $1.03 an issue. Not quite the deal I had last time, but I’ll take it.
I called Southern Living.
Because I couldn’t find the card they sent me in the mail, they wouldn’t give me any deals on my renewal.
So….
I googled “Southern Living Promotional”.
Found an amazing deal on Amazon.
$14.97 for 2 years (plus two extra issues over the holidays!)
Coming to a whopping .57 cents per issue.
Take that rep lady!
This girl knows how to get her magazine!
And the best part?
This time next year I don’t have to go through this again! 🙂
Can’t keep a Southern woman down if ya try!
Truthful Thursday – Psalm 4
Posted on: September 3, 2009
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“In your anger do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent. Selah” Psalm 4:4
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Quite the title, uh? 🙂
Since Mabel was born, she’s had cradle cap. We had it under control for a while last Spring, but since her hair has gotten longer I’ve just sorta stopped caring. It’s a little gross nowadays, cause at this point it looks like dandruff that’s flaking off. Well, last night I figured I’d give it one more go and bought some lotion just for cradle cap. I tried it this afternoon, and it worked pretty well. It took off a majority of the scales and I’m guessing if I keep up with it, she might actually be “flake free”.
This week I started spin/yoga and Body Attack. I took my first spin/yoga class on Monday. Can I just say I had my butt thoroughly worked, literally! It was good, but really hard. And then tomorrow night I have Body Attack. The name alone scares me. 😉 But, I’ve heard it’s really good and a great way to lose weight and tone muscle. I’m all for it then! I’ve got about 5 pounds to pre-baby weight and 15 to my “goal” weight and then 20 to my “ideal goal” weight. Wish me luck!
As for Hannah – I am still impressed with how far she can spit up and poop. Changer be warned if that girl poops while your changing her diaper. You will find that not only does she need a new change of clothes, so do you, the changing table and most likely the wall and carpet. Woo. And the spit up. Wow. It can fly five feet from where I’m standing. It’s pretty impressive. I wonder if they could make an Olympic sport out of it, cause for sure she’d get a gold metal!
We’re heading out to Tennessee this week. Wanna know what? Packing is a big ole pain. Having to pack for myself and two kiddos for a week long trip; making sure the house is clean, we don’t forget anything, we have all necessary toys/blankets/videos/etc to survive is a tad overwhelming. Not to mention that I’ve put off doing much of anything for the trip, making, I am sure, the next two days a little crazy. Ah, alas, that is life.
*Edited: I should also add, that God has really been teaching me to lower my expectations. This is really hard. I am daily having to learn (and re-learn) that having a toddler (who doesn’t nap consistently or well) along with an infant, simply means that nothing productive will get done during the day. I will start lots of things, but they will never, ever actually get finished. Like writing a blog – my average blog writing takes 3+ days. Crazy, I know, but true. I start a blog one day and finish it sometimes several days later.
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