Tomorrow should be GREAT!

Tomorrow, Annabelle and I will be making cookies! White Chocolate Chip cookies! We are taking them to one of Phil's injured coworkers. Then THEN we are supposed to go to IKEA! WhoooHooo! We are getting rid of some dishes and using an old set that is clear glass. BUT we don't have any bowls in our set. But Ikea has some clear glass bowls for 99 cents each. So we can actually afford some!

I got a new set of knives yesterday, they are wonderful. The knives led to the switch out of and getting rid of the old dinner sets.

On another note, I worked on my song for the kids today. We made headway. The biggest issue is learning to sing with the track. Pitch isn't really the problem, hitting all the notes on the notes in the track is. It is proving difficult. But I will get it! I have until Wednesday to get it, think I can do it?

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I love my mother in law, she thinks I'm organized! She's super! Love you Gail!

Feeling good today

I got in my workout today! I worked through the kids nap and did all my math homework and most of tomorrows. I was really excited to get to workout, it is really hard right now to find the time. But I have decided to try as hard as I can to make the time to do it.
I am going to start working on my song for kids worship and choir, tomorrow. I don't have to sing until next Wednesday, but I think I need to go ahead and start working on it now, since I can't practice everyday. I also need to get busy with my vocal lessons.. and guitar lessons. Need Phil to commit to at least one day a week to help me.

I need to sit down and make a comprehensive list of my goals and aspirations. I have been told it is easier to meet your goals if you list them out in a reasonable, realistic manner. I think I need to. I have so many things going on in my life, and so many things that I want/need to do. So, I may work on that tomorrow as well.

Anyway, it appears that something foul is descending on my house. Gwen didn't feel good today, and William hasn't seemed to be feeling well for the last couple of days. And they were all in bed by 5:00 today. And not a peep after. So, I hope that Gwen and William feel better tomorrow. Keep them in your prayers, please. There was no school today. We watched a movie and some cartoons, and that was about it. Gwen spent most of the day in bed and William was in my lap most of the time. Annabelle seems to be feeling just fine. She made get well cards for Gwen today. She's such a sweet little girl. They are all very full of love.

Needs a break.. fo sho

It's bee so crazy around here. Running around, school work, choir, church, kids, house work... it just seems to keep piling up. I can't seem to find time to do much of my house work, trying to squeeze in my schoolwork during the kids nap and at bedtime, then trying to get the kids to color or play quiet while I do vocal practice and choir and worship practice... then we have church three days a week, and ballet on Fridays. I really feel stressed and need a break. I don't know what to do.

I didn't do as well on my Psych test as I wanted, and I'm hoping that I did a decent job on my math test today. I'm doing the best that I can, but I feel like I just can't keep up. To all you Momma's who do all this AND have a job, you have my applause! I can barely keep up staying home!

I am praying that God is using all of this to do something great in my life. Or even something moderate. I hope that He shows me what it is, or gives me a hint. I feel like I've done what He wanted me to, with starting to lead kids worship at church and joining the choir and all, but it seems like ever since then things have just gotten more and more chaotic. But, I will keep doing what I feel He wants me to. Cause that's what I have to do. :) Just say a little prayer for me, ok?

This week...

This week is going to be looong. I have a math exam at the end of the week, so I will be spending LOTS of time studying, because I am not really that good at math. Hopefully I will do well enough and make a good grade. Pray about that would ya? I still have psych work this week, but just reading. So that makes life a little easier. I also will be leading kids worship on Wednesday and will be working on all of that this week, and one song for Sunday morning worship. Then you add choir in and the kids, it really is a lot to deal with. May not sound like it, but it is. So, keep us in prayer please. Thanks my friends!

How is YOUR week shaping up? Leave me a comment and let me know!
Hopefully I'll be able to post more for you later!

Did you know?

Did you know that God loves you? Did you know that He who created EVERYTHING loves YOU the most? YOU are His greatest most treasured creation? The God who made everything and could have anything, wants YOU? Just like you are? It's true.

Did you know that even though God has power over all things, He won't force you to love Him back? He will call to you, love you, even if you won't love Him back? God will never force Himself on you, that wouldn't be love. God has given us all the choice to love Him, but no matter what we chose, He loves us. Always. Forever. No matter what.

Can you imagine what kind of power it takes to speak the universe into being? Now can you imagine that God wouldn't use that same power to force us to bow down and worship Him? Can you imagine that He who has always been and always will be, stands at the door of your heart and knocks, but would never break down the door and force his way in? But, why? Why does God not just make us love Him? Because forced love isn't true love. Only love given freely can be called true love.

Jesus loved us sooo much that he left his rightful place in Heaven and came down to live as a man, with us, GOD with US. He suffered and died and was separated from his Father, for us, for YOU! Jesus defeated death, hell and the grave, for YOU! And he won't force us to love him back. Can you imagine?

But He wants you to love him. He wants you to trust him. He desperately desires you to come to him and let him into your heart. Jesus calls to us, gently, romancing us to come to him, to let him in and to love him. The creator of the universe wants nothing more than for us to love him and obey him. And when we do, there is the great reward not only of Heaven someday, but of knowing that the Master of the Universe is with you, loving you, holding you, seeing you through every tough time you will ever face, and making it all work for the good of you, the one much loved by God.

YOU are MUCH loved by God.

missing

I am missing playing my guitar. So what if I'm not that good at it, I miss it. I has this ability to make me feel better. But right now I just can't find the time. I spend most free time I have now doing homework and after the kids go to bed there is more of it. Plus it wakes the boy up. What's a girl to do? I really could use some time with it... maybe tomorrow?

Guess what?

I led Children's Worship last night! It was pretty intimidating, but fun too. They were a tough crowd, and they had never seen me before, but I hope that they still enjoyed it. Now they want me keep doing Wednesdays as well as Sunday. We'll see, as long as I can get some time in church, I think I'll be okay. Thinking of taking the last week of the month off so I can go to church and rest.
I also had my vocal team audition last night. I didn't make the team, but we will reevaluate in three months or so. However I was told that I have a nice voice and good pitch, so I'm going to just be happy with that. I need to work on not being so darn scared when I have to sing around people, so my choir director told me to try some vocal tracks and to audition for everything in choir. So that's what I will try to do. Hopefully doing the kids worship will help. Maybe they will let me sing there....

SO, all in all last night was emotionally tough, and I think is the cause of my glorious migraine today, but it was really good and totally worth it. Now, hopefully God will bring me that chances to sing and be bold that I need to reach the goal that He has given to me.

Overwhelmed?

Yes, yes I am. There is soooo much going on right now. I don't understand why events can't be spaced out over time instead of all just falling on top of each other at one time. I am taking two classes online, homeschooling the kids, learning about leading childrens worship, choir, vocal team audition, guitar lessons,taking Gwen to ballet once a week, three nights at church, helping Gwen learn her lines for the play, and now we are looking at joining a group at church with others looking to start a new church. Just reading it is overwhelming.. I need a nap. Honestly none of it it truly hard, ok, the math class is, but really, nothing else is truly hard. It's just soooo much. Especially when you factor in house work and the rest of life that gets tossed in. It's all good stuff too. I just wonder why it's all happening now. Hopefully we will find out, but I guess I'll just be busy until then.

We picked up our summer supplement books yesterday! Each girl got a new summer workbook to help them get ready to move up a grade. Annabelle is going to restart her lessons now that I KNOW she knows her letters. So no more excuses from Doodlebug! We got William some dinosaurs to put up on the walls. He loves them, especially the T-Rex. He just calls them all "dinosaur" even when you tell him the real names. Oh well, I'm sure that soon he'll learn to say Triceratops. Right?