What God has been teaching me

Dependence on Him, not myself
Prayer
Faith
Love-unconditional
Selflessness
Understanding
Patience (dare I say it)
Being cautious of my attitude


I have had this tab opened on my computer for a full 24 hours now...I think I will post this and elaborate later. Praise the Lord both children are sleeping (mainly Maddie) so that may mean that I will get some sleep tonight and function like a normal human being!

hard times

It seems that life has been hard the past 2-3 months. It also doesn't seem to be getting any easier. I wonder how much it has to do with the lack of sleep in my household. Just curious. Most days are really good and the lack of sleep isn't bad but when it finally catches up with my body, not good. I don't feel like I'm in control of my body and my emotions and things just go crazy. I know sleeping will come back and Maddie will eventually be in her own bed with Emma...I just keep telling myself that over and over. :) Everything is for a season and we just have to push through this rough season of child rearing with the least amount of damage as possible. Prayer does amazing things and it gets me through the down days. It's comforting to talk to God and know that I don't have to explain myself or give Him background info on what's going on in my life. HE ALREADY KNOWS!! He also cares more than anyone else. I can just let go with Him and listen for Him to whisper, "it will be alright" into my heart. How comforting our Lord is!!!

To Sleep or Not To Sleep

Sleep...that seems to be something that I would love to have and yet seems unobtainable. Why? Because I have kids :) Maddie (who is now 7 months old) is teething. Emma just had 1 or maybe 2 sleepless nights and that was it. I can count on 1 hand with some fingers left over how many sleepless nights we had with her. However, Maddie is different. She has had almost 2 weeks of less than usually sleep kind of nights. She sleeps for a couple of hours then shes up and then sleeps for a couple of hours and shes up again. We figure out that it is because we weren't giving her the right amount of Tylenol. Poor girl was hurting!! I feel terrible and yet overly excited all at the same time. I finally get to sleep for more than 3 hours at a time!!! My life (hopefully) will be radically changed!
It may not sound like a big deal to most people, or those people that have forgotten what it's like to function on little sleep but I am truly excited. There are many things that I have wanted to do during the girls nap time but haven't had the energy to do them. One of them is workout!!! I got some Wii workout games for Christmas and have been dying to try them out! I just am so excited! Do you feel my excitement!
I also have wanted to crochet more (almost anything would be considered more because I haven't done very much since October :)).
I received a Kindle fire for Christmas and my birthday and have loved it! I have read a book a month on it (thanks to Amazon prime membership). I am also looking forward to doing more reading on my little guy!! PS- if you have any suggestions on books, leave a comment and I may check them out :)

That's it for now. I'm going to go watch a movie with the hubby and then going to the 16 cities concert tonight at the Jack Wyrtzen center!! Gonna be a teen again :)

Negative on the book review thing

So the book review website denied my application because I don't have enough activity on my blog :( They obviously don't appreciate the fact that I am still a little bit sane with having 2 girls :) HAHAHAHA

So, I am going to try to post more often!

I don't have anything fun or quirky yet, so I will wait until later on to post. Maybe after my nap. I am sure a nap with help with  my quirkiness!!!

Book Reviews

So I just filled out an application to start reviewing books. Thank you Amy Wallenwine for the info!! I am super excited about it. I got a Kindle fire for Christmas/birthday and have picked up reading again. I have read 1 book/month (thanks to Amazon prime) and have really enjoyed it. Maddie is getting a little bit better about sleeping more through the night (meaning only waking up 2ish times to feed) so I have a little bit more energy to do things (like blog and laundry :)). Therefore, I should be more active on  my site!!!! God has really been moving in my heart in the past couple of weeks and I'm looking forward to sharing. He has lit a fire under me and I'm excited to see what He does in me and through me. One word that He has impressed upon me is sacrifice. What does it mean to you? Tell me your thoughts on the word!

Picking it up

I have decided to pick up the blogging thing again. It's fun to get out my humor that has gone on throughout the day. Prepare to be amazed, and laugh a lot :)

Quiet Time

So nothing too major happened today but I just did my daily quiet time and it was hilarious. I will copy and paste it and then go into more detail.

Psalm 127
   ¹Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
   ²It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
   ³Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
   ⁴As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
   ⁵Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Here is my response as to how to apply it to my life. It pretty much says what it needs to :)

Hilarious! God gives us sleep and a bunch of kids. That makes me laugh out loud. It also is a realization that we need to trust in the Lord for everything, including sleep when it seems impossible. Children are my heritage. I need to pour into them as much as possible to leave a good heritage. I must train them up to trust and love the Lord AS I DO (I need to be the example). What an undertaking!! Praise the Lord and pray to the Lord that I do what He guides me to do. PS, still laughing about the whole sleep and kids thing.