Garage Sale

I had a thought this morning as I was cleaning some items I am getting ready for a garage sale this weekend. Jesus told the young ruler to sell all he had and follow Him.  Now I know I may be stretching my idea a little far... but every time I collect a bunch of stuff to get rid of, I always have the thought wouldn't it be nice to try to sell it first and see if we can at least collect a few dollars for it?  Now, I know the story of the rich young ruler is trying to show the cost of following Jesus and what it means to be a true disciple of His...but the idea I had this morning was Jesus didn't tell the ruler to "get rid of" his stuff, He told him to "sell" it. So maybe it's not such a bad idea after all not to just donate our stuff but to try to get money for it...

Just food for thought...

Relationships

It's already been a week since I posted...crazy how fast time flies. This morning, I spent some time getting ready for my lesson tonight with my group of 8th grade girls at church.  Had some good thoughts to pass along to them...they are going to be reading a lot of Scripture this year, I can already tell! :) We are learning about Relationships this year - how first of all, the most important relationship we will ever have is with God through His Son, Jesus Christ, and then how when we have that relationship in order, all other relationships will be in order, as well.  It's going to be a good year with them. So excited for tonight...

Okay, I think I found it...

So I think after all this time that I finally figured out how to post a new blog on here. So we'll take it from here and see how it goes! :)

Praying

My mom called earlier and alerted me to the fact that there are multiple tornadoes in north Texas, where we used to live. I'm watching live tv online and praying for you all who live there.

Weather

Today there were some pretty awesome clouds associated with the flood warning in the mountains. Thought I'd share the picture.

No way!

No way it has been seven months since I last posted! My sister laughed and said, "Still potty training?!" Well, actually, yes! I took off a few months to give Zoe a little bit longer to "grow up," and have started it again just recently.

A little over two years old now, Zoe is talking in complete sentences, responding well to commands, and growing so big! We are weaning her off of her "passis" (i.e., pacifier), and she is doing alright with potty training. We enrolled her in the library reading program two weeks before it finished, so we read three more books than we would have, and she received two prizes (a toy train and a new Scholastic book). She was pretty excited to go with her cousin to do that. Next year, I'll sign her up at the beginning of the summer. She's becoming familiar with her ABC's and can count to ten forwards and backwards quite well. She likes watching PBS in the mornings and loves finding movies in our room and opening them up to show me the disc inside. She is such an adorable little girl and our lives are so blessed to have her in them!

We have been living with David's mom and stepdad since the end of March while we waited for our tenants to move out of our duplex, and we have been spending three months cleaning it up and getting ready to move back in. We should be ready to move by the end of next week. Having all three of us living together in one room has given me a new perspective on just how little we need to get by and survive (rather happily, I add!), so I plan to go through our stuff and have a garage sale so that I can start out fresh in our "new" place and not worry about all the time and effort it takes to keep things cleaned and organized. Like Ecclesiastes says, what good are things we accumulate except to look at them? (Okay, that was a paraphrase. lol)

So I hope to post more often and keep this updated a little more often than every seven months. lol! See y'all later!

Potty Training

So it is now Day Two of our big adventure (for the first time around?)... potty training our nearly 21 month old daughter! Such fun! Okay, to be honest... it's a little discouraging, but everything I read says not to give up and to keep a sense of humor. She has only gone once in the "big girl toilet" in two days, so when I'm mopping up yet another mess in the kitchen tile or on the living room carpet, I remember that if I keep at it and keep reminding her to "go in the toilet," she will eventually catch on and be a big girl. :) She is so excited about those M&M's sitting in the red plastic heart on the sink... maybe that will be the motivation she needs to go. More posts to come...