Don't Give Up

I was starting to have one of those days where nothing seemed to be going right. I woke up after over sleeping and I felt like I had not slept at all, I had a splitting headache and my oldest son overslept too causing him to miss the bus.  I woke up my husband (which I hate to do since he does nights with the kids and I do mornings) so he could drive our son to school. He did. The morning continued with getting my middle son and baby girl up and ready for school. My headache increasingly getting worse and my growing thoughts of the day’s activities were contributing to the increased blood flow to my brain causing a deeper ache in my already pounding head.  I have lists, lists and more lists of things that need to be done, things that have not gotten done from the day before and things that need to be done before the end of the week.  If these lists are not enough to consume my already full brain I decided to ride the thought train all the way to Depressed Ville.  I ...

I never thought I would be so excited about having pet chickens. My husband and I talked about it for several years, but I just figured we were only talking. Between our three children ages 14, 12, and 7 our two dogs, five cats, five fish, a guinea pig and my almost 83 year old grandmother that lives with us I assumed we had enough to feed and clean up after.  Apparently I was wrong. My husband has this unique way of getting himself out of trouble when he buys something or does something he knows I may get disgruntled about.  He says, “But we talked about it.”  I have learrned that when I am talking about something with my husband that to him this "talking" is the okay to go ahead to do something or buy something.  I have also learned over the last 15 years of marriage that when my husband and I are discussing something that may cost a lot of time or money that I have to throw in the disclaimer, “Now just because we are talking about this does not mean we are go...

As a Christian do you ever find yourself in full on pout mode when you feel like you are stuck in a rut? I know I used to be the queen of pouting...or at least my husband said I was entitled to the crown. Haha! I mean, we still believe in the Trinity, we believe in God and that He can do all things but we are stuck in state of nothing happening and therefore we start to ask a lot of questions. Mine always centered around what am I hear for and what's my purpose. This story centers around a time that I had been contemplating my purpose, what was I here for, and why hadn’t I experienced a great encounter like Moses or Abraham. I am serious when I say I would go outside and wait for a bush to catch fire and talk to me.  I would sit in my bedroom and talk out loud to God and then wait for Him to show up in the physical.  I would stubbornly tell God that I wasn’t going to move until He came to see me and then suddenly my three kids would barge into my room and I was forced t...