Wallpaper!

Wallpaper wallpaper I hate wallpaper!!!! I just spent the evening attempting to remove wallpaper. I had a much brighter out look on life this morning. We went over to the new house and I pulled on some of the wallpaper that is (was) in the dining room, and much to my surprise it came right off. In fact...it came off in sheets. I was so excited!!! We were actually not going to paint this room and we were looking for an alternative to dealing with this paper. So I was thrilled when it came off.

BUT!!!!!

Tonight was a different story. Everyone says that it can be really easy to remove wallpaper or really hard. Well, guess which this one was??? REALLY HARD!! I finally just left and came home. I figured that my sanity was more important than a completed project. So tomorrow we will tackle it again.


Ok Ok enough about my boring wallpaper day. Let me tell you what else is going on in my life....
.....hmmmmm.......
....hmmm.......

...thinking........ wait.......it will come to me.....
NOPE..... nothing. Wallpaper is the most exciting thing in my life right now. So maybe tomorrow I will have a better tale to tell. So for now, Good night and God willing I will have the opportunity to do this tomorrow.

Contract

As many of you know we have listed our home up for sale. This has been a very interesting adventure with showing the house. As of today our home has been on the market for 3 weeks. But by the Grace of God, we now have a contract on our house. It came through Monday night and we signed off on it all yesterday. There are a few small bumps that we need to get past so please keep praying that everything goes forward with the sale. In the coming weeks I will post before and after pictures of the work we will be doing on the new house. We are so excited to be getting into a house with more space. I just hope we don't all kill each other on the way there. This entire process has been very tiring and stressful and there are times that I am not sure if we will make it through the day.

I am constantly reminded of how God always wants to take care of us, we just have to let him. I guess that is how I need to handle life's stress. It goes back to that cheesy saying "Let go and let God". But it really is true.

Blessed Be the Name!

WHEW!!! Today was a day and a half. Satan really decided to show up and crap on my day. Today was started a new children's curriculum at church and had some small programing changes. BUT... those small changes proved to be CRAZY! I haven't felt that stressed in a very long time. I cam home and told DH that I felt like a failure. Not specifically that I failed but more that I failed those around me. In my mind it hurts worse to fail others.

As I sat around the house and de-stressed (translation: I threw up all of my emotions all over hubby!) I began to see the bigger picture. #1 Being transparent. Allowing people to see that no one is perfect. We all have bad days. I think that so many times we want to put on our fake face just so that people can think that life is always great. But the truth is we all yell, we all get stressed, we all question what in the world God is doing. I think that we do more damage by faking it than if we are just honest about life. #2 It is not about me. I am not perfect only God is. The more I pretend to be perfect the more it distracts from true perfection. I can fail and fail and fain BUT, I must continue to give glory for everything to the God who created everything.

One of my favorite worship songs is Blessed Be the Name. Part of the sang goes like this:

Every blessing you pour out,I turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in,
Lord I will say...
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be your glorious name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say Lord,
Blessed be your name.



God really used this song in me when we went though all of our church "stuff" last year. It seemed like I would cry every time we sang it. So today, though it was tough, I must say, Blessed be the name of God. Who gives us great days and helps us through the bad days. I pray that every blessing that He pours out to you, you can turn back the praise. And when darkness closes in still you can praise HIM.

Back Home

After a looooooooooooooong day and alot of walking, I am back. Ikea was more than I ever expected. It was a blast. It was really fun to go through the store thinking of the house we are moving into. I didn't buy alot, because I definitely want to take the fam. up there.

It was great to get out of the house, eat at my favorite restaurant (PF Changs) and shop! What more could a girl ask for?

Ikea here we come!

We off! A friend of mine and I are getting a day out. DH is staying home with the angels so that I can enjoy some time to myself. We are driving up to Philly (about 2.5 hours) to do the "girl" thing....SHOPPING and Eating!!! In which ever order you would see fit.

So if you read this blog early in the morning, be praying for me to have a restful day away and pray for DH to have a great day with the kids! I am sure that I will write more after I return.

Since I have never gotten to do the IKEA experience, I am hoping they don't disappoint!

Spring Has Sprung!!

As you can tell be the pictures..... we had some fun outdoors today!!! It is great to see how well all 4 kids play together. It was such nice weather that it was hard to get them to come in. As the little ones grow into being 2, they are wearing me out. I have never been around two kids with more energy. Our day ended with Bear falling off one of the front steps and getting a pretty nice cut over his eye. Thank the Lord it wasn't bad enough for the ER. After he quit crying Dad and the big girls went for a walk, and Bear decided he wanted to go with, so he went out the door, down the steps, and up the drive way (without us seeing him). Thank the Lord (again) That Steven was close enough to get to him before he got to the street. Sometimes I just don't know if we are going to survive!!! Boys are definitely a different breed than girls. I am just thankful that we were taught a lesson without something tragic happening. As I held him tonight before putting him to bed I cried, and prayed, and cried and prayed, thanking God for every single moment that He gives me with my children. Knowing that any day could be our last and each second is a gift.

God is Good!!!!

Hunter Invasion

This weekend we had a rare opportunity to visit with some very dear friends of ours. Daryl and Jenny (and kids) got to fly in from Ky. and visit with us. Now, for those of you who have seen our home, you know, it isn't big. I am sure that you can imagine just how wild this weekend was. Daryl and Jenny have 2 sons. One who is 3 months and then another who is the same age as Pey Pey and Bear. So if you do the math, that means that the adults were out numbered. 2 adults (Jenny and me) and 8 children (you can guess who the other 2 children are) Occasionally the numbers even out a little better and the big boys decided to be adults, but not usually.

We had a blast. Each morning we would get up to watch the almost, 2 year olds have a WWF match. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3442648006163379315 and each night we would listen to them yell and play from their beds.

We met Daryl and Jenny when we all moved to FTW,TX on the same day. Our friendship bloomed over countless Thursday nights watching Survivor, CSI, and ER. After many, many moves and a handful of kids God has allowed us to remain great friends. You know the saying is "You can count your best friends on one hand" Well they take up two fingers.

Boy am I tired!

Wow! It has been a long couple of days. As most of you know, we are selling our house. That sentence alone should explain 99.9999% of it. It is a little rough keeping the house clean and then having to leave so that it can be shown to potential buyers. But God willing, it will sell sooner than later. Otherwise I am not sure that my sanity is going to hold out.

Yesterday we spent a while looking at furniture and appliances. Only to come home and look at them some more on the computer. When I lay down to go to sleep I dream in colors and appliances. My dreams go something like this....

Tan couch,click, brown couch, click, green couch tan pillows, click, same pillows different couch, click, click, side by side refrigerator, click, with crushed ice in the door, click, black refrigerator, click, click, glass top stove, click, with warming drawer, click,click, click, black refridgerator with micro suede green pillows and a glass top with the kids sitting on it doing home school while Pey Pey is yelling," Hold GEE mommy, Hold Gee! (translation: Please hold me mommy)" And Bear is throwing oranges across the kitchen and a realtor is at the door to show the house. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Didn't I say something earlier about my sanity.


But...God is So Good!!!
We are so blessed to have all that we do. Another blog I read talked about how we say, " That's not fair". One of the things that we teach our children is "Life is NOT fair." After DH's recent trip to Guatemala, we were reminded again of how unfair life can be. The Guatemalan people are so financially poor. Living in homes that we would consider unfit for our dogs. I am sure that the Guatemalan people would look at us and say "That's not fair." I am sure that they would see us as emotionally, and spiritually impoverished people, and they would probably feel bad for us. So "Life is Not fair", but I am not sure to whom lives in the fairest conditions. Not to discount the hardships that a 3rd world country face, but just to make us aware. I hope that today you and I will take the time to be to be thankful. And that we will take the time out of our crazy day to serve someone and make a difference in their life. Being the hands and feet of Christ!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

Moving Forward

So as we all keep moving forward with technology and the ever changing world, I too will be stepping out into the new "BLOG" world. I hope that you enjoy reading what is going on in our lives as much as I enjoy expressing and myself and telling you. I will preface all that I will write and you will read by an apology.....

I apologize that my spelling stinks.

I apologize that I type at a different speed than my brain works.

I apologize that I write like I talk.

So that all being said, please always keep in mind that I love writing, I love sharing and I love making you all apart of us. I hope that as I journey through the ever changing world of parenthood, marriage, and my shifting sand like faith, that you will some way be able to understand the craziness, that I call my life.