I got the call last week… and everything looks pretty good with the screening they did. There are a few more tests I have to do, so we shall see. But I know God is good and He’s go this and no matter the outcome- He will be praised.
So with that…
What do you think we are having????
BOY BOY???
BOY GIRL?
GIRL GIRL?
Without further adeu….
We are all super excited. Now to figure out names… Suggestions???
I have been meaning to post…. we found out about a month and half ago.
It has def been a heck of a month!!
I went into the ER a few weeks ago because I was bleeding and cramping. Everything turned out ok and I found out… WE ARE HAVING TWINS!!
I had a blood draw for genetics testing because I am geriatric (haha) and with baby b they saw something in the sonogram that had them worried. The gap between the base of the neck and the lining of the sac was bigger than it is supposed to be. With the gap the size that it is, there is a 50% chance that there could be something wrong. We go next month for a fetal echocardiogram to check on their hearts. I know God’s got this and no matter what everything will work out and He will be glorified.
So I will try and keep ya’ll updated, though I know I suck at it. 
PS. I am 15 weeks today!
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Today I surrender…
Today I surrender my worries. I surrender my insecurities. I surrender my all to my Lord.
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I find my strength in…
I find my strength in My Father God. Without His Grace every single day- I would be nothing.
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I am most confident when…
I am most confident when I am doing something that I love, something that I know what I am doing. I am most confident when I am being praised.
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I usually feel like quitting when…
I usually feel like quitting when I am overtired, which is quite often. I feel like quitting when I don’t feel like I am making a difference or that there is no point in doing what I am doing. I feel like quitting when I feel like I am failing at whatever it is that I am trying to do.
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Do I accept myself as I am? Why or why not?
Honestly, some days I do accept myself just as I am. Overall though, I do not. I am always wanting to improve myself in one or away or another. I am always changing my hair. Trying to learn more. Find new passions. Just changing myself overall and bettering myself.
Who am I living for and why?
I am living every day to please my God. I am living for my children to make sure they have a good childhood, have confidence, and to know our Lord and have a relationship with Him. I live for my husband to be the best wife I can be, to love him like Jesus.
When I think about love I feel:
I think about Jesus. I think about how he sacrificed His own life in the most painful and degrading way so that I can have a chance to be saved and be with my Father in eternity.
I think about my children. I think about my parents and of course, I think about my husband.
So I meant to start this on April 1st. But life is a little different lately and between having to fight my kids for electronics, internet cutting in and out, and trying to figure out how to do this new “homeschool” life… I haven’t had the time, motivation or brain power to think.
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So without further adieu…
When I look in the mirror I see:
I see someone who is aging quickly. Someone who can do better. I see someone who disappoints people every day. But I also see someone who is not going to give up. Someone who has God with her and is a sinner Saved by His grace. Someone who will be better tomorrow.
So I did get laid off. As of last week by hours were cut and this week pretty much am not needed at all. So I am home with my kids trying not to lose my mind.
Monday- honestly I had a class of wine by 430. The kids were just extra clingy. They all wanted to be on top of me. They all wanted to talk to me at the same time. They all want me to answer their questions at the same time. My brain just didn’t have the power.
Tuesday- I woke up and first thing I did was put some worship music on and went for a walk. Alone. That was the best thing that I could have done. It got my head into a better place than it was the day before. Even with no internet- I still was able to manage to make it through the day.
Today- I woke up- had some coffee- some time with God and went for a walk with the kids. It was really nice to be outside with them. It was nice to see and “meet” some of our neighbors. I really wish I could do this forever.
I know times are uncertain, and many of us don’t know what tomorrow will bring or how we will get bills paid, but maybe- we should see this as a gift from God. A gift to just stop our crazy hectic life and just be. Just enjoy each other. Just enjoy life. Just be.
As we were walking, I was thinking to myself that normally at that time, we all would be at work or in school. And even if it was a day off, I never would have gone for a walk outside when it was that chilly out ( I think its only like maybe 40deg today). I would have stayed my happy but in the house and stayed warm. But because I can’t just leave the house whenever I want to, because I am not leaving the house for hours and hours on end- I am enjoying the simple times of getting out of the house and being with my family. I am so thankful for this time.
I know God has a plan through all of this and everything will turn out alright. No matter the end result, even if its the worst thing I could possibly think of right now, it will be ok. I am saved by my Father’s Grace.
With the Corona Virus going around and so many things shutting down this is a time of uncertainty.
You don’t know day to day what else will be shut down. Many people are laid off from work and don’t know when they will be going back. They don’t know how they are going to be able to pay their bills or feed their families.
One certainty during this time- If our Father. His Love. His Salvation. His Promise.
I still am having to work. Our company is considered essential because gas fireplaces are a source of heat. I have mixed feelings. I am glad that I still have a job but then I am scared because I am more at risk being around people and my techs are even more at risk because they are going in and out of many homes during the day.
Today is my late day. I work 2 other jobs and a couple days a week I go into those jobs in the am and then my reg. job in the afternoon. I am working from home this morning and my kids are in exceptionally wonderful moods this morning <- I am being very sarcastic. They are arguing over everything possible. Who gets to sit next to me. Who gets to play with the dogs. Who gets to hold the remote. Who gets to sit on the couch. They all need to go back to school!! lol.
Anyway- I need to go tend to my pack of wolves and listening to them scream is making my mind turn to mush.
Prayers for all of you. If you have anything specific you would like prayers for, please feel free to comment or use the contact me form.
The other night I woke up around 3am. I couldn’t fall back asleep. I felt God telling me to get up and go read His Word. I was so comfy, I didn’t want to get out of bed (mind you this is Feb in Ohio and its freezing). So I made a deal in my head, I would stay in bed but look up His Word on my phone and read it that.
I read a few different devotionals, some scripture and then I felt Him telling to go to my laptop and write. My brain was swirling with all kinda of ideas to write about. What did I do?? I layed there in bed. I made a deal- If I didn’t fall asleep in 10 mins, I would get up. Then it was in 15mins… needless to say, I never got up and now I have no idea what it was that I wanted to write about.
Why couldn’t I just listen? Why did I let my selfish desires get the best of me? I have been kicking myself ever since. How many times in life do I have to make the wrong choice and not listen to God before I start doing what God is asking?
I know the devil is using my constant tiredness to keep me from God and honestly I let him. I give him that control. I need to take that control back. I am struggling with that in every aspect of my life. Not letting my tiredness be the control.
What are you struggling with? What are you doing to overcome it?
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From top to bottom… this is my hair and how it’s changed in a little over a year.
The top picture is from March of 2018. The rest are from 2019 and the last 2 are from just a few days ago.
Right now is the shortest my hair has ever been… and I love it!! Its so easy to do and take care of!!
It has been a rough weekend and I haven’t been in the best mood.
Saturday morning I woke up extra tired. I just wanted 10 more minutes of sleep. Just 10 more minutes, but of course I needed to get to the church for bible study and work. I woke up to find that the babies were into a bunch of my work stuff. I repeat myself multiple times every single day that they are NOT to touch ANYTHING THAT IS NOT THEIRS. I feel like no matter what I say or what punishments I give, they just don’t think or care if it feels like. I know that it is good that you are curious and all of that… but they also need to learn right and wrong. I don’t know what else to do to implement that into their heads.
Then, my teenage son, I feel manipulated me this past weekend. That made me very angry and very hurt. I am still feeling that way. I am just so tired of how he acts and treats everyone. I am tired of always being a mom and loving to him. I am tired of always trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and him always proving me wrong and everyone else right. I see so much potential in him though I am sure every mom says that about their child even when they are messing up everything in their life. He is hard-headed like me and has to learn life the hard way but making the mistakes himself and learning from them… I need to let go and let him do that. He will be 18 in May and hopefully graduated in June. At that point, I honestly have no clue what his plans are or what he is planning to do if anything different than what he is currently doing minus the highschool part. I just keep praying every day for him, for his mind, his heart and his future. God has a plan for him.
I am just on the edge of being burnt out I feel. My full-time job has become very overwhelming. I have to bring work home with me every night…. most nights I don’t even get to it because I have so much at home that needs to get done. I feel like I am failing at my full-time job and it is affecting my home life and my other jobs because I am constantly trying to do as much as possible as quickly as possible so I can get as much done as possible. I am two months behind on my homework for my class. I need to get that caught up and completed this week before my next class this weekend. Life just feels like its never-ending. I just need a day- a full day to myself. No kids. No jobs. Just me… to stay in bed, read, meditate, have time with God. Something needs to change. And even right now as I am writing this blog, I feel like I should be working. I should be doing something else.
But the only thing I am going to do now is head to bed. I am exhausted. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better and my mind will be more settled and focused on what it needs to be done.
I ended up waking up late this morning and missing church. I hate when that happens. It doesn’t happen a lot thankfully but it’s like by Sunday’s my body is just done from the week. Sunday morning comes along and I have to force myself just to get up and moving. Then as soon as I get home from church- it’s right to bed for a couple hour nap. That is my Sunday tradition. A Nap. Without it I don’t know how I would make it through the week… and sometimes the alarm just isn’t loud enough on Sunday morning. Then I have a struggle dialog in my head throughout the rest of my day. I should have gone to church. I feel guilty. I feel discouraged. Then the other side is telling me, I must have needed that extra sleep, that I needed this time at home, that I can have my time with God that I haven’t had in a very long time. I miss it so much.
I feel like I am stuck in a slump. Like there is so much I want to change and it’s like no matter what I do or think or plan…. I just can’t get any of it accomplished.
I want to start getting up early so I can have time with God before work… morning comes and I am so tired, I just want “5 more minutes”… until its the absolute last second before I have to leave for work and I run around like crazy trying to hurry and get ready.
I want to go to the gym after work. It is literally 5 minutes from my work, right on my way home… and I have my clothes and shoes in the car for the last 2 weeks so I can go straight after work… and yet I haven’t been once. I want to, but then I start thinking about all the people. Looking at me as I walk in. Judging me as I try to figure out what I want to do and how to do it. Laughing and whispering to their friends about me. And I know none of that is true nor does it matter, but in my head, it’s very true.
I just keep thinking if I get this done, I will have more time. If I get caught up with laundry, I can do more things I want. If I… If I… If I… The “if I’s” never seem to work out.
It is a daily struggle.
This song has helped me the last couple of days with just getting my mind and spirit centered where it needs to be.
I need to get back to where God is at the center of everything- not just when I have the time or the energy. He needs to be the center of my being.
Check out the song and let me know what you think!!
This is what anxiety looks like to me.
Its standing frozen in one spot continually biting the skin around my finger- not able to move forward with anything until that little piece of skin on my finger feels just right.
It’s feeling like there are ants with needled feet crawling up and down your entire body but on the inside.
It’s feeling like I can’t sit still but I also can’t get up and move.
It’s shaking my entire body trying to get rid of this feeling over and over again without any relief.
It’s just wanting to curl up in bed and never leave.
It’s that constant nagging fear that something is wrong or is going to go wrong or I am wrong but not really knowing why or how or what.
It’s clicking on your mouse at different links but never really reading anything.
It’s doing everything but what you are supposed to be doing.
It’s thinking that if I do this or that I will feel better but again- no relief.
It’s feeling like my stomach has joined a gymnastics team and thinks they are great… but really they are not.
It’s taking an extra dose of Prozac and not getting any relief.
It’s wanting your hubby and kids to love on you but not wanting to be touched either.
I know it will pass. I know I won’t always feel like this… but in it, it feels like it will never end.
I feel like my mind is just a big blob at the moment.
I can’t think right.
I have so much to do and yet, I am just sitting here staring at everything.
I have work to do, blogs to write, a website or 2 to get set up and hopefully running… I have a business that I am trying to start that I need to get details figured out.
And my brain is in overload/shut down mode. I can not concentrate on one single thing..
I just need to get started. Just start with one thing, but honestly, I have no motivation.
God is with me though. I feel His presence next to me. It will all work out.
