I Have Had A Realization

I do not like flying.  Although I did a great job today and only had one small panic attack on the plane, which by the way had lots of turbulence, overall I just do not like it at all.  Oh did I mention that this is the first time I have flown all by myself?  Yeah, that demands major kudos!

I do fine with take off and get totally excited with landing (because I know I am getting ready to get off)  I don’t like the being in the air, cruising above the clouds, it just plain scares me.  The end result is awesome though, getting somewhere quickly, but I am just saying the whole process scares the mess outta me!

I am sitting here, mostly people watching waiting for my next flight.  For those who may not know, because as of late I stink at blogging, I am heading back to the Dominican for a few days to go back into the community where we were in June.  I have the awesome opportunity to go to church there Sunday, the church our group help to build and to also work some on the goat project.  While I am there I will also be scoping things out for a possible place to live.  I am super excited, a little scared, a tad anxious and overall pretty happy (happy dance happy) to have the chance to love on the people of La Cumbre.

I hope to take some time each night to blog about my daily activities, but I am not promising that I will have cell reception to use the internet, so I will have to wait and see.  Please be in prayer for this trip!    Thanks!

Lead Me

My husband is awesome, my rock, my love, my best friend and I love him more and more each day.  Yesterday at the alter it took everything I had not to lose it…he said the most beautiful prayer and prays for me in a way that leaves me speechless.  Prays for the things I don’t think about praying for.  He know me so much more than I think I know my self at times!   I am so in awe that God blessed me with such a loving and supportive husband!

This morning coming to work, they played this song on the radio, it’s not the first time I have heard it and not even the second, but this morning I focused intensely on the words.   It made me realize that this song is just not for husbands, but for  all of us…listen to (or read) the lyrics:

“Lead me with strong hands
Stand up when I can't
Don't leave me hungry for love
Chasing dreams, what about us?
Show me you're willing to fight
That I'm still the love of your life
I know we call this our home
But I still feel alone”

I can not get the words out of my mind and it has encouraged me to be there for my husband, the way he is there for me.   To be the mother to my boys where they will never doubt that I am there, leading, loving, fighting for them no matter what and I will never leave them alone, ever.

I hope this song will encourage you today as it has me. 

Things To Do & Things To Come

I mentioned in my last post that life has been a little crazy and was enjoying my weekend free of obligations and nothing to do.  Well there was lots to do, but we took the rare opportunity to relax and watch movies instead.  In true Monday fashion, my feet hit the floor running and there looks to be no stopping in sight.  So what is keeping me so busy these days??

Yesterday the realtor came out and discussed what needed to be done before we listed the house.  To our surprise there was not much that needed to be done!  The big things were to finish the kitchen cabinets and to paint the porches.  Of course we need to de-clutter the boys room and get the bonus room looking lie a bonus room!!  So it looks like a busy weekend lies ahead for us!

I leave for the Dominican Thursday so that means that I have to get things ready for the hubby and kids to live 5 days without me.  As most moms know, the things that I will do are probably unnecessary, but falls in the category of “mom’s list of to-do’s” before you leave anywhere.  It the things that they don’t see or realize that get done, but it does.  Then comes the packing of the suitcase and the learning, or trying to learn more Spanish.  In my husbands defense, he is awesome at household chores and I am truly blessed that I do not worry about the kids being fed or laundry getting done, because he basically does all that anyways…yeah I know, he’s Mr. Wonderful!

There has been so much going on this year that I think we are just tired of running and doing.   It’s all part of the bigger plan and we just keep telling ourselves that it will all be worth it in the end.   This time next year, only God knows what our life will be like and where we will be, we just keeping trusting in Him each day to keep us moving forward in doing His will.

Yeah I Know, It’s Been A Long Time

Honestly I have been pathetic as a blogger.  I have so much going on, that when I actually try to blog, something happens to where, once again I can not find the time.  Tonight I find the rare opportunity while the husband and boys are watching a movie, I am sitting here with laptop in lap determined to blog! 

For the first time in a few weekends I have been blessed to have two days that were obligation free…no where to be, not a single thing to occupy my thoughts!!  It was a wonderful weekend that started off with a Bunco game at my house!  We had a cancellation at the last moment, but Wes come to the rescue and filled in!  Not only is Wes our  fantastic go to tech guy at work that can fix any computer issue but now he is awesome at Bunco!!  Here are a few pictures of our game…

   

During our Bunco game, the college kid came home for the weekend…After three weeks at college, he still looks the same and still hates to have his picture taken!

After the party wrapped up and we were ready to turn into bed, this is what we found…I can just imagine them thinking that they called the bed first, and we should retire to the couch for the evening…but to their horror they got kicked to the foot of the bed!

       

The rest of the weekend really did not get too much  more exciting than that!  Aww, pure bliss I tell ya!  So that pretty much captures that past few days of our life…there is so much going on in the next few weeks that I my head will officially start spinning tomorrow when I wake up!  But for right now, I will enjoy the last remaining hours of quiet!!

Reporting In With Not Much

It’s been pretty quiet on the home front with not much going on.  When I say much not is going on, actually lots has been going on, but nothing too blog worthy…if ya know what I mean.  So I will hit some high points of life as of late with a wonderful bullet list!

• We have been working on the house to get it ready for the market and when I say we, it’s more of the hubby doing it!  :o)  Yep, I have not been much help.  He made a list of things to do and bless his heart, he has been the one getting them done, but I have been crossing them off the to-do list, so maybe that counts for something!  The big task for me is to finish painting the cabinets and then put the knobs on.  I am having a hard time finding the motivation to actually do it, but our date to have it done is quickly approaching! 
• Our oldest is settled in to college.  You would think that he would send me pictures of his dorm, dorm mates, daily life stuff or anything….but no.  So I assume he is living the high life.  I have taken a good friends advice of not calling and trying to wait for him to call me.  I did send a text message and got a really short response.  I guess as soon as the money gets low enough in his bank account, we will get a call.  From the looks of it, that should be any day!
• The other boys are enjoying life as usual and they never missed a beat with their brother leaving.  Another day to them.  Basically there is nothing exciting going on in with them…which in the life of teenagers, is pretty great!
• I am leaving to go back to the Dominican on the 30th of this month and I am pretty super excited.   It will be a quick trip to work on some goat stuff.  I will be staying with the pastor daughter of the church in La Cumbre and will actually get to spend Sunday there in the community to worship with them…YAY!!  Also while I am there, I will be checking out some places to live.  Again, I am super pumped.  The only sad thing is my husband and kids could not make the trip and we really wanted to show the kids where we will be when we get there.
• I got a new camera!  Mine broke so I started is using Bradley’s and then his broke.  I finally whined and complained to Jeremy enough for him to break down and get me the one I really wanted!  He is so super awesome!  The newest member of the family….

I have not got to use it much, but the few picture that I have taken are beautiful!  I will do a post on them soon! 

I guess that is all for now.  I would hate to keep on going for the fear of you falling asleep and the chance of you bumping your head as you fell out of the computer chair to the ground!  HA!