Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Thought Provoking

I absolutely love the new mom's of grace website! It is exciting to be able to meet and interact with other christian women! I've been spending quite a bit of time over there being encouraged and encouraging.

They have an online bible study going and I am looking forward to really being involved in it.
We are discussing "Grace" and the question was posed, "what is it to be a mom of grace". It truly is humbling to think that God has given me the greatest responsibility to raise my children to love and serve Him. To point them to the Savior.

I have been challenged this week by the public school system and I will not be defeated.
I have struggled for a while about homeschooling or public. My husband and I were both public schooled and turned out just fine. We're even in the ministry. We figure we are strong natured and so our kids will be too.

But as mom, it is and has been my responsibility to nurture, train, .... love my kids. Sending my 4 yr old to 4k was hard but I knew he needed to learn the structure environment of schooling and I did not have the patients to mold him into that. I wanted to be a happy mama, not the crazy crabby mama from long days of disciplining for school. But that's another post another time.

Anyway back to the challenge. They want to teach my child about "touching" and "good and bad feelings" and on down the road. You get the picture. We went to the parent meeting and they assure us it's age appropriate. And yet, I am very sickened and uneasy. It is my responsiblity to teach him morals and circumstances.... and to know when he is old enough to handle this kind of information. So we are having a planned vacation the week of this "teaching". He will love to be absent and we are looking forward to going to Lousiana with daddy for the week.

But all this to say, that again I was reminded of the incredible responsibility God has given me in raising my children and I am very inadequate without His grace and knowledge.
Thank you Lord for giving me discernment and wisdom! Amen.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Light Bulb!!

I guess blogging late at night is something I should avoid.

After going to bed around 2am last night my husband and I were discussing the bloggy world and I told him about the "tool" icons, when it dawned on me that only I see them when I am signed into blogger. It's not for the whole world to see on my site. HAHAHAHAHA. (or do you?)

We had one of those deep belly laughing fits after that one. I haven't done one that good in a while. Needless to say it took a while for us to calm down and actually fall asleep. Causing this mornings wake up call a bit tough to move.

(I think I bumped something cause now I think you can see them?) Uhgg!!

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Just a side note. I'm laughing at myself and lack of knowledge when it comes to blogging set up and all that techy stuff. I like the color and start of my site, but those tools on the side bar as little ditty's! They make me laugh, cause I'm not all tool like of a gal. They're just monkey wrenches to me.

My husband asks for a phillips and I say, "the cross or straight one"? Or when measuring on a tape measure it's "3 inches and 2 short lines".

Gotta love it.

New Beginnings

Ok, so it's been a while.. I've been stuck in a slump trying to decide what it is that I want to blog about and why?

It's hard for me to really put my heart and soul out there for others to read. And yet, I know that this is only the begining if I will just allow God to use it. I told my Hubby the other day that I don't even share real intimately with him let alone the whole world. (or those who might trip upon my site) My own insecurity I need to overcome.

So just as it says on the top of my site, It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it.
God has been showing me that I need to "get up and go". No more waiting for something spectacular to happen but to make something spectacular happen.

I'm ready to start reaching out and find what there is to grasp on to. Life is to short and I don't want to miss any more of it.

I've gotten extremely busy lately with church easter/drama/musical practices along with keeping the home front in some sort of order. We have all major repairs finished on the new years disaster, now just the lingering minor repairs in order to put the house on the market.
Busy people get things done! I hope this is true. 'Cause I'm feeling mighty busy lately.

I discovered a new site www.momsofgrace.net . I am so excited to meet new people and discover more of this blogging world of friends!

So look for me more often here and come on over to moms of grace and check it out.