Instructions to myself: 1) Praise the Lord and Give Thanks for all he has done 2) Remember the Lord is leading me 3) Take time to listen to where the Lord is leading me 4) Enjoy life! Cherish every minute. 5) Just do it! Strike a balance- Be a good steward. Commit and stay with it. (Don’t procrastinate!) 6) Be Positive! Stop complaining. Life is what it is- Accept it 7) Grow! These are the instructions to myself. Things that I want to live...
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Last weekend, we attended the adoption orientation for our Pride Courses. We start the six weeks of Pride courses next weekend (Sept 9th). It was a funny feeling as we completed this step. . . we’ve passed another step and we seem closer yet so far away. We did get a few questions we had answered. One of those was about beds and the homestudy. We will have to have enough beds for the number of children we plan to adopt before the...
Last month, we watched this guy Travis Pastrana do a double back flip on a motorcyle- like on purpose- way up in the air! It was the first one ever done and it was so wild!!! But, he knew he could die attempting it and that meant that he had to ensure his parents knew that he loved them and that he wanted to make sure that they knew he was happy. After completing the insane trick, he apologized for putting his mom through it. As I watched, I...
DH and I went on the church campout this weekend. We really do enjoy camping though we’ve always argued about our “definition” of camping. You see we grew up camping- but in two different camping worlds. For me, it was always camping in a 5 man dome tent. For him, it was a pop-up and then a full travel trailer. Each of us joke that the other is not really camping. But, alas we can’t afford a pop-up much less a travel...
A White Space begs for color. . . A white space begs me to scrapbook in vibrant colors and try so many of the inspirations I get from others who aren’t afraid to include some white space in their layouts.