Our church service this morning was so great and everything that was said was exactly what I needed to hear but there were a few questions presented that have me really thinking....
**How is God using my current circumstances to show himself through me?
**What is going to be 'different' about me and how am I going to choose to be different?
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Super excited!
Yay! So I found out some things that I have coming up that I'm super excited about!
One of my best friends from high school is in seminary in Kentucky and I got to see her today and rarely get to see her. Another one of my best friends from high school, Angela, and I are going to take a weekend road trip to go see her in January! She lives in a tiny tiny town but it is pretty close to Lexington but the three of us have always made everything fun. I love going and visiting people!
It was soooo good to sit and talk with her today and learn what the Lord is doing in her life.....I just love hearing about stuff like that!
One of my friends from college always has a 'Holiday Movie Extravaganza' at her house in Chicago every December and every year I have had a conflict i.e. family Christmas, staff party, etc. and this year I can go! Yay! There was a group of us that all lived together for a few years and there's like 17 people in this group and they were/are so much fun!
I signed up today for the mini marathon in Indy for this upcoming May! I'm excited about it and the process of training for it! I debated whether it was the right decision to focus my energy/attention onto that because it's really easy for me to become obsessive about training for things and that's unhealthy but I'm going to be intentional about making sure this time is way different because ultimately the Lord wants us to be healthy and active but not obsessive about those things....it took me a lot of years to figure that out and I regret it so much.
The low part of break was I discovered that I have to have a very expensive part of my heating/cooling system replaced and it will be replaced as soon as the company can get the part in.....ugh the unexpected joys of home ownership. I was going to decorate outside for Christmas......but due to this expense I decided that wasn't a responsible decision and so my great dad gave me an outside Christmas tree that is super cute and kind of big so that I had something outside because it seems like all my neighbors all going all out with lights/decorations. :)
One of my best friends from high school is in seminary in Kentucky and I got to see her today and rarely get to see her. Another one of my best friends from high school, Angela, and I are going to take a weekend road trip to go see her in January! She lives in a tiny tiny town but it is pretty close to Lexington but the three of us have always made everything fun. I love going and visiting people!
It was soooo good to sit and talk with her today and learn what the Lord is doing in her life.....I just love hearing about stuff like that!
One of my friends from college always has a 'Holiday Movie Extravaganza' at her house in Chicago every December and every year I have had a conflict i.e. family Christmas, staff party, etc. and this year I can go! Yay! There was a group of us that all lived together for a few years and there's like 17 people in this group and they were/are so much fun!
I signed up today for the mini marathon in Indy for this upcoming May! I'm excited about it and the process of training for it! I debated whether it was the right decision to focus my energy/attention onto that because it's really easy for me to become obsessive about training for things and that's unhealthy but I'm going to be intentional about making sure this time is way different because ultimately the Lord wants us to be healthy and active but not obsessive about those things....it took me a lot of years to figure that out and I regret it so much.
The low part of break was I discovered that I have to have a very expensive part of my heating/cooling system replaced and it will be replaced as soon as the company can get the part in.....ugh the unexpected joys of home ownership. I was going to decorate outside for Christmas......but due to this expense I decided that wasn't a responsible decision and so my great dad gave me an outside Christmas tree that is super cute and kind of big so that I had something outside because it seems like all my neighbors all going all out with lights/decorations. :)
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Check out this horrible story... It makes me think a lot about where our priorities are and apparently they aren't in line with what they are supposed to be.......:( It makes me just want to buy everything online and stay out of the stores.....
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aviWbQ4bOa1w&refer=home
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aviWbQ4bOa1w&refer=home
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Mmm...vacation!
So it hit me today that I'm really ready for Thanksgiving vacation! 3 days!!!!! In my family Thanksgiving is relatively low key because we start having family Christmas parties in two weeks. But I'm so looking forward to just spending time with my family and doing the random things that we do like go shopping on Friday. Every year we claim we'll never do it again but then for some reason we show back up.....:) I'm almost done with my Christmas shopping (I'm a planner to the core) so I just go for fun! :)
Friday, November 21, 2008
Hilarious!
So I have the funniest kiddos in my classroom! The past few days we needed a little break from 'routine' so another teacher in my team and I randomly came up with the idea of "Thanksgiving Carols". We decided we would have the kids pick a Christmas Carol as a model and then write a Thanksgiving Carol instead..... They sang them today and some of them were SO funny.
At school yesterday someone else in my team discovered this AWESOME new website called
www.wordle.net
It is awesome! It basically makes a collage of words that you put into the text box and the more times you enter a word the bigger it becomes. You can play around with the fonts, colors, sizes, etc. It's fun!
At school yesterday someone else in my team discovered this AWESOME new website called
www.wordle.net
It is awesome! It basically makes a collage of words that you put into the text box and the more times you enter a word the bigger it becomes. You can play around with the fonts, colors, sizes, etc. It's fun!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Thankful Thursday....
So it's been a rough night but it's been a rough few weeks......things can only build up for so long before they hit you all at once and that's exactly what happened. But I'm going to focus on the things that I am SO thankful for today....
**My AMAZING group of girlfriends and our Thursday night bible study. Tonight we talked a lot about vulnerability as women and I am so grateful to have girlfriends that are in a similar place in life with their walk with the Lord that I can be vulnerable around and they know where I am coming from because they know my heart. So often, I don't like being vulnerable. I love other people being vulnerable around me and I love listening to other people but for some reason it's hard for me to do it on the other end.
**The Holiday Season! I love how when I went into Courthouse Coffee today that Christmas music was playing, there are Christmas movies on tv, and my beautifully decorated Christmas trees in my home. It makes my heart happy!
**That weeks are cyclical that we get two days off work each week for a reason so that we can start new. It is a even more definite reminder of how the Lords promises are new every morning....
**The BEAUTIFUL SNOW! :)
**A warm home.....it's amazing what we take for granted
**For a friend from North Carolina visiting this weekend!
**For having an awesome Thanksgiving dinner at my house next Tuesday evening with a bunch of really really great friends
**My AMAZING group of girlfriends and our Thursday night bible study. Tonight we talked a lot about vulnerability as women and I am so grateful to have girlfriends that are in a similar place in life with their walk with the Lord that I can be vulnerable around and they know where I am coming from because they know my heart. So often, I don't like being vulnerable. I love other people being vulnerable around me and I love listening to other people but for some reason it's hard for me to do it on the other end.
**The Holiday Season! I love how when I went into Courthouse Coffee today that Christmas music was playing, there are Christmas movies on tv, and my beautifully decorated Christmas trees in my home. It makes my heart happy!
**That weeks are cyclical that we get two days off work each week for a reason so that we can start new. It is a even more definite reminder of how the Lords promises are new every morning....
**The BEAUTIFUL SNOW! :)
**A warm home.....it's amazing what we take for granted
**For a friend from North Carolina visiting this weekend!
**For having an awesome Thanksgiving dinner at my house next Tuesday evening with a bunch of really really great friends
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Life Changes....
Today must be the day for going to the doctor......I have countless family members and friends that had serious doctor appointments today... so many that I just spent nearly three hours talking to people and finding out how they all went. Needless to say, none of them were too great. Granted they could have been worse but they could have been a lot better. For all these people in my life their health has turned completely on them in the past month. It's amazing how life can change all of a sudden..... I feel so burdened for all these people because I love them so much but ultimately there isn't anything I can do for them except love them and make sure that I'm as emotionally filled as possible so that I can give as much of myself as possible. Sometimes when it rains it pours...........
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