Flashback Friday

Hey you guys! I am starting to REALLY want to come back...seriously...I am...
I know you have heard it all before...but...:)
Here is a flashback for ya to help you get ready for my return...

Two years ago in October we went to Sea World for a family vacation. We had so much fun! Enjoy a few of the pics!

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now...

This is a quote from Maya Angelou, and most days I feel this is very appropriate for my life. I find as I look back even five years that I am a different person. I almost don't even recognize her when I see her in pictures. This could be because I have gained and lost a few pounds in the last few years, or the fact that my hair style change a bit every once in awhile, or it could be that I have grown.

I like to think I have grown, matured, become wiser, and all those other wise adult things to say. I was walking this morning in my favorite little green belt by the kids' school and thinking that my life is really pretty great. Recent events have reminded me that I am truly blessed.

As I talk through the last three weeks, I am amazed at how much you can see God's hands in all that has happened. If this opportunity had presented itself at any other time in the last five years I would have had to turn it down. Perfect timing. God has perfect timing, and He knows where you should be, whether you believe it or not.

No matter where I have been, or where I am going I know that God is always right beside me being the perfect Father that I need Him to be. He is leading me through this journey of life, and I will tell you....I wouldn't take nothing for my journey now. No matter how hard it has been or is going to be in the future. It is my journey, written only for me.

Craziness...

So the last week and a half has been down right crazy! We have been going non-stop, and the transition from one job to the next is also a little crazy. My last day is Friday, and my first day is the 17th. Ten days in between. Lots to do...lots to think about...

All of that was to explain my lack of posting. I need to post, I love to post, but I am just too dog gone tired to do it. Soon I will have lots of free time, yeah right, so it should be easier for me. Those of you who follow my other blog, my goal is to finish up the story I am working on next week and start a new one...SO lots of post coming for that.

Love you all...will post soon...I promise...don't give up on me! :)

Flashback Friday...or not so much...:)

SO...this is a flashback...but to Em's birthday party...

She had her party at Pump-it-Up...I am still sorting through the 100's of pics that her daddy took...but here are a few and more about her birthday soon!

I became the favorite slider of the day...so much so I think I went down the slide with every kid at the party, AND I got a blue streak on my butt!!!

We had so much fun!!! I really did enjoy putting on my socks and playing with the kiddos! Thanks to everyone for coming and I will get thank you's out soon, and more pics to come!

God is Good and other random things... :)

So...are you ready for my news????????


Drumroll please....
I got a new job! A part time teaching position at a private preschool! I start on the 17th of August, and my last day in the publishing world is August 7th! I am so excited. I feel like this is a gift from God. I have been praying, along with everyone I know, for a way to be home more and still bring in some money. I have been praying for God to be VERY specific with how it is going to happen. In the past two weeks he has made it VERY apparent to me what I need to do. It seemed like everything really started happening after I shared my secret/story with all of you here. Could that have been what He was waiting for me to do? Tell the world so to speak, come clean, and be truthful? I am not sure. But I can tell you that I feel forgiven. I feel like I have been set free, ladies! Truly set free. Not just from a situation that is less than perfect in my work life, but truly SET FREE!

He has taken off my chains, and He has set me free! I am so thankful! I can't tell you how much my heart is rejoicing, every minute of every day...now the trick is to keep this feeling.

Someone told me once that God will have His way, you are either living in plan A or plan B. I feel like I have been in plan B for a long time. A VERY LONG TIME....now maybe I have come full circle back to plan A and now I can attempt to stay there for awhile.

Now on to other random pieces of business...Vickie...I have not forgotten your dress.... and Kristi I will send you your giveaway stuff in the next day or two...I am finally able to focus on my blog, my business, my Bible study that I lead, and my life....YEAH! Please forgive me for not posting for so long...tomorrow will be about Emily...her birthday was Monday and I have yet again won the mom of the year award for not posting about her on her birthday! YEAH me! I don't know where I am going to put all those awards I am running out of room on my mantle!

Remember Me?

Well, I think I am ready to come back and get started on this stuff again. I made it through the week and now I am waiting on answers. I am sorry to be so cryptic about all of this, but please know it is nothing bad. I am just not ready to tell the world about it yet until final decisions have been made and we are moving forward. It is very exciting and I can hardly stand it that I can't tell you, but for once I am going to do what my gut tells me to do. That gut is hardly ever wrong! :)

Here are a couple of gratuitous pictures of Emily. She is turning 4 on Monday, I can hardly believe it! The first year seemed to take forever, but every other year has just flown by! Ben is starting kindergarten in 4 short weeks! Then in a year she will go too. They are just getting SO big! They are not my babies anymore.

Okay...sniff, sniff....let's move on! Emily had dance camp with Lilly this week and I have a few pictures that I can share with you. I only got to go on Monday because Ben had an eye appt and got his eyes dilated. I took the day off after the dilation and he and I went up there at the end of the class, and then out to lunch with Tracy, the girls and the twins. Five kids is ALOT with two toddlers running around! Anyway...here are the pictures...

MIA

So I totally suck, and there is just no other way to put it. I have not posted since I put up the giveaway...that totally bombed, but I know that has something to do with exposure...right? :)
Anyway I have been wrestling with some serious personal issues. Nothing like I have been posting about, but serious none the less. I will fill everyone in very soon, but please just pray for me to have God's wisdom and love. Thanks everyone, I will post soon. I have several in the works just no mental energy to get it done. Sorry! :)