"...And so it often is....

....Faith, prayer, and obedience are our requirements.  We are not offered in exchange immunity and exemption from the world's woes.  What we are offered has to do with another world altogether."

Sleep

...been up since three....or something of that nature....

daughter coughing a lot.....

hot tea is good.....made granola......my hair dryer exploded.....myles still asleep...of course he is.

YESSSSSSS!

I have four followers!  That officially makes me popular.

Love and Marriage

It's too bad you don't figure out how difficult marriage is until AFTER you get married.  Only I had a chance prior ...I just assumed that since this husband wasn't abusive, unfaithful, an alcoholic or addicted to cocaine that it would be easier....Nope.  Just a completely different challenge even with the good ones.

Back by popular DEMAND........

Yes yes here I am.  I've been busier than usual simply because not only did my long lost sister from deep in the hills of Hollywood take time away from her eventful life to come visit but I also have been trying to complete some long over due house projects.  I figured I shouldn't have to wait on Alex for something I'm fully capable of handling.....of course none of them will turn out how he had envisioned but that's what should be fun about being married to me.....I have to go on about how exciting it is to be married to me because he won't.  

Today is Myles' first birthday...however since we had a giant party for him last Saturday I almost forgot.  We won't really be doing anything for him today since he's only one and doesn't know any better...I may squeeze him more than usual or bite off his feet some more...other than that...he's getting the same old apple sauce for breakfast.  He is fortunate however that apple picking just happened to be planned for this evening.  However he probably won't be much use there either....maybe he and I can just munch on some of the apples that overflow from the buckets while Finnegan and Sydnea do all the fun work.  I would hate to miss out and spend my time eating but as a mother I'm used to sacrifice.

The day

Today 

*Had coffee with my buddies

*I finished  making my second baby hat

*Cut my thumb with scissors

*learned about coniferous forests (again.)

*learned that I detest dealing with home insurance representatives and their silliness....I'm so sure you're gonna try and tell me you mailed us the check two weeks ago and act like it's normal that we haven't received it yet.  whatevs.

*started another argument with my husband over one thing simply because I'm irritated by something else, only to realize what an idiot I am and have to call and apologize for what seems like the 730th time in these last almost couple years of marriage

lost

*lost my other half on facebook....but only on facebook...she's still alive and well and that's what matters

*realized that it's okay not to try and fix things...sometimes I just have to understand there are instances in my life where it IS completely up to God...my only job is to be faithful and prayerful.......

*In that same moment I realized how often I fail at consistent prayer...or remembering to pray for certain things at all.....

*found out I didn't need a tapestry needle to sew a pom pom onto a baby hat but also learned that Gayle was right to my own humble discovery...the pattern for my pom pom baby hat is NOT the right one and indeed too square.......stupid 

*Decided that Amber better start having lots of kids so I can start getting rid of the baby hats I'm making for no good reason

*Forgot to call Brenda (crap...sunday is fast approaching)

*Forgot we're approaching Alex's birthday for probably the 20th time this week...hopefully tomorrow I remember...when it matters.

*Realized that my whole evening is thrown off simply because Alex didn't come home to say hi real quick before he went to the auction but at least he did go to the post office......but was it worth the sacrifice?  No.  Next time I won't make such a big deal about something getting mailed that very second.

*Understood that no matter what I have GOT to learn that I should be pleasing God not man....or woman...or child for that matter....and that when I try to be pleasing to God just deal with the fact that at times it's not pleasing to man...woman.....or child.....

*Kept the banister ledges cleared ...SWEET

*And had grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner and that was pleasing to child, woman, baby, and surely God because we made good on the food He's provided for us. (I left out pleasing to man..because man is at auction where he gets a free meal and it's probably ten times better than what I just made....oh well. to each his own.)

Expertise

and let me just say I have no idea how people are setting up these fancy pages...I was just scrolling through blogs  most of which held no interest for me pretty much like mine holds pretty much no interest for most people...anyway....I don't get it...I've gone to ever tab and can't figure out they're setting all this up....I mean it pretty much took a lifetime for me to just get this far.  

This site is not very user friendly at all. That's a complaint.