On Another Note

Ok on anther note, I can't believe my baby girl is possibly about to start K-4. We find out for sure next Monday but we are pretty positive that she will be able to go. I am so excited for her and I know she is excited. I may be more excited than she is. Well it will be a mixed blessing for me. I feel like we need a break from each other even if it is only for 3 hours a day because we clash so bad and she is so stubborn and hardheaded (She got that honestly from her momma and her daddy). On the other hand I will miss seeing her for those 3 hours a day. Cody and I will get to have some momma son time but we will definitely miss sissy being around.

Self Reflection

So why is it so hard to overlook other people's downfalls and shortcomings when you know you have some of your own you need to work on. I guess when you deal with the same issues on a daily basis that never get resolved it is hard to look at the bright side of things. And knowing that Christ forgives us for our sins against Him and other people it is also so hard to forgive others when they disappoint you constantly? I guess when it feels like you are the only one trying in a relationship is easy to pick out the faults of the other person. I just wish is wasn't so hard focus on the positive rather than the negative. It seems like an impossible task, but I know with  God's help I can try harder. My mind says well he needs to change first before I should have to try to change anything, but my heart says," No maybe if you try to change your attitude towards him even if you feel it is unwarranted and try to work on your shortcomings and sins then he will see that you really are trying harder and then maybe he will try  harder to make some changes." So, here's to looking at the positive rather than the negative and I know I can only accomplish it with God's help and not my completely on my own.

LIfe

I have 3 more blogs on Wordpress but am not going to transfer them. I am enjoying being a stay at home mom and thankful that my husband is willing to work hard to make that happen. It gets tough financially sometimes but we try to make it work. I thank God every day for being able to stay at home with my babies.

I definitely learned a life lesson in the last two weeks. People in your life will wrong you and hurt you, but the best thing to is to forgive them even if they don't ask for forgiveness and just let it go. It's not worth your time thinking about it constantly and letting it fester. I have been through the same scenario many times, but I guess I never learned my lesson or I just forgot and God needed to remind me again. Trust in Him and let him take care of the situation. He will see you through it.

Please pray for my family. I have a cousin who is in the hospital and an Aunt that was in a car accident. Also, keep praying for Travis. He is still praying about going back to Bible College. There is one issue that we are dealing with it, but I believe it will work out for the best. God will open the doors if it is meant to be or close them if it's not.

My life verse is Romans 8:28-29 "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethern." I know that if Travis is called into ministry God will give Travis peace about it and that no matter what people say about it or think it is up to God not anybody else. Whatever needs to be done for it to happen we will do it.

Thank you Lord for one more day of life, good health, safety of my entire family and friends and for all of your many blessings. I definitely do not deserve all that You do for me.

hello world

I started blogging back in March. I decided to try Wordpress after I had started making a profile on blogspot. Now I am going to try out blogspot. This is the first blog I posted on Wordpress.

OK so a lot of my friends have started blogging so I thought I would try my hand at it. Since i am a stay at home mommy I get very little "adult talk time" even after Travis gets home. He comes home from work and just wants to relax and not talk about much. I know typical guy right? So here goes. I just wanted to share a couple of things on my mind.

First of all I just want to thank God for all He has done for my family. He finally blessed us with two beautiful children. We tried for nearly 6 years to have a baby and after much prayers if finally happened.

I would like to ask your prayers for our family as we are entering a new chapter in our lives. When Travis and I met at BBC, he was going to school to be a pastor. Well life happened, he quit going to classes and got put on academic probation. So that fall he went into the military and served our country for 6 years. When it was time for him to re enlist his job field was closed to reenlistment so he applied to cross train. He prayed and asked God open doors for him to re enlist or to close the doors if he wanted him to get out. Well God closed those doors so Travis felt like God still wanted him to go into the ministry. Life happened again he hadn't done anything about going to school. Now six years later after much praying and spending time in God's word he still feels like God wants him to be a preacher. So I said all that to say that he will be going to Bible College. The good news is that he will be able to do about half of it online so we can stay put until he has to go to the campus to classes for his degree. So we we will have to get adjusted to Travis working and then doing school and not seeing him as much as we would like. It will be a big transition, but we will get used to it in time with God's help.

With that said, please pray for me that God will prepare me for becoming a pastor's wife. He has a lot of work to do in both of us but it can be done. I started going to a Bible Study on Wednesday mornings with a friend from church and we are studying 1 and 2 Peter and the study is amazing. It is helping me get back into studying the Word. After I had Mikayla it got harder and harder to do daily devotions every day like I should and it really got harder after I had the second baby. I have to make time to do it when the kids are napping or after they go to bed.

We were in Amarillo this weekend and we visited Central Baptist Church and he preached on prayer. I have been hearing quite a few messages on prayer lately and it has been really convicting. We as Christians don't depend on God as much as we should to supply our needs as He promised He would. He says if we ask, seek and knock it shall be given to us. I myself have not been trusting God enough to supply my families needs like I should. I am a worrier and instead of going to God in prayer when a need arises I sit and worry. Then I think duh!! God is my Father and He said He will supply my every need!!

The last thing on my mind is I am so thankful that after nearly a year and a half of potty training, my sweet baby girl is finally potty trained. It is a huge burden of my shoulder. I thought it would never happen. She is so stubborn and she knew what to do. I think it was a control thing. It was one thing she had that she could control. She went pee pee perfectly fine in the potty for a while now and she did #2 a couple of times but it was with a few month in between each instance. So finally about 2 1/2 weeks ago, we were at McDonald's and she said " Mommy I need to go poo poo." I was sitting there thinking that she would go get on the potty and then say "It won't come out!!" like she had been doing. To my great surprise she went and has been going ever since. She has only had 2 accidents since then which is normal I believe. She will even go to the bathroom by herself when we are at home.

So any way, I have all this stuff on my mind for awhile now and finally wanted a way to channel it. Forgive me for this first post being so long.