In Need of Some Free Christian Counseling?

We made it back to church this weekend after being out for a couple of weeks and let me tell you how great it felt!! It was so awesome to be back and see everyone and listen to the awesome music and hear Keith's wonderful sermon. This is going to be another amazing series. It's about anger and so much of it just hit home when I was listening to his words and really made me think about my life. Scott and I haven't talked about it yet, but I know it affected both of us immensely. Keith just spoke so many truth's and it was like sitting in a counseling session almost. He has a way of doing that in a lot of his sermons, though. Really making you look at yourself and examining the way your doing it and what Jesus says about it and His way of doing it. I realize so much of the time that there is not an allignment there for myself and some pastors make you feel like it's almost impossible and very unatainable.....not Keith. He makes it seem so possible and so real and so reachable and I love that about him and our church. There is not one person there on staff that I would look at and say "Oh, I could never talk to them, they just wouldn't understand". Because they are all so REAL. And to me, that is what church should be about. I'm so thankful that we have Springcreek Community Church in our lives and our children are being exposed to what I think all churches should be....REAL. I have no idea who reads this blog, but if you deal with some anger issues (or you just want to check out how amazing the sermons are) please check out their website and you can listen to Keith yourself...all it takes is a little bit of your time.

Thanks to everyone at Springcreek.....you guys are always in our prayers!!

What an Awesome City - Now Back to Reality

We made it back from San Francisco and what a great weekend. Too short, but still great. I'm not much of a traveler and have not been to many places. So it really is incredible to experience something that is so different than Texas. And San Fran is definitely that! We had good weather Saturday (it was supposed to be rainy all day) and we walked and walked and walked the streets. We did a lot of driving too. We went over the Golden Gate Bridge and then drove into Salsalito....what a cool little town. Scott was so sweet, we went in shop after shop looking around. I know that is not his thing to do, but he did it anyway. What a guy! I think my favorite part of the weekend was dinner Saturday. We went somewhere that Scott's boss recommended, The Northern Beach Restaurant. It was Italian and wonderful. I've had Italian in New York and in San Francisco and it is quite different from Texas. Probably more authentic. We had a great time, laughing until we we're crying (at my expense, but hey, it was pretty funny....something to do with taxi's). Maybe the glasses of wine had something to do with it, too.

I think I'm ready to experience some more of the world. I'm tired of letting my fears get in the way of things! That fear being "flying". But the older I get, the less anxious I am about it. So maybe I will end up in Paris or Italy one of these days after all.

Ciao - until next time!

Stressed spelled backwards...

You got it, MEXICAN FOOD!! Not what you expected, huh? Well, desserts are not my thing and when I feel stressed, I want good 'ol comfort food. So that is exactly what I'm having for lunch today. What a day it's been so far and it's not even lunch time yet. Our office manager is in Japan for the next 2 weeks and I'm working full time while she is out. Needless to say, I'm doing lots of stuff that I've never done before, like travel for our employees and contractors. You say not a big deal, but I beg to differ with you. It is a full time job alone. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining....just trying to vent a little and then get back on course.

See that picture of the woman pulling her hair out? That is me, I had one of my co-workers take it a few minutes ago. Just kidding, that's really not me, but that is exactly what I feel like. Anyway, enough of the moaning and groaning. Who am I to complain, I'll be on a plane to San Fran in a little over 24 hours. So I'll just continue to think about that while I'm on the phone dealing with flights for other people and booking hotels.

The enchiladas are calling my name.....how sweet they sound, too!!

From San Francisco to Bonham, all in a week

This is where I will be Friday evening and I can't wait!! I have only been to California once and that was only for about 30 hours, so needless to say I didn't' see much of nothing. Scott and I will be celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary a month early in San Francisco. It's not Paris, but I don't mind at all!! I would prefer the shorter flight, anyway. Those of you who know me, know I do not like to fly.....AT ALL!! The weather is supposed to be cold and rainy, but I'll take it. I'm not afraid of a little weather, I'm from Texas!

You would think that after not blogging for so long, that the words would just flow to my fingertips....but not so. I think I'm having a hard time getting in the grove of it after not doing it for so long. I also think that so much stuff is going on, that I just don't know where to begin sometimes. My life is always busy and crazy and exciting and full and anything else you can think to put in there. With the kids being so involved in different activities and us being so involved in church, it's hard to slow down sometimes. I told Scott the other day that I don't know when I'm going to be able to breath in the next 2 weeks. Much less do laundry, dishes, clean house and all that other fun stuff. It's all good, but just non-stop. I mentioned our trip to San Fran....the weekend after that, we are trying to plan a camping trip with the kids for spring break. We went to lake Bonham last Nov. with some friends and had such a blast, so we are thinking about going there again. Plus my aunt and uncle live there and Scott wants to take his new shotgun and do some skeet shooting. They have an awesome place up there....100 acres with 2 ponds. They used to have cattle on it, but have since moved them to their other property of 60 acres, where my late grandfather lived for years and years. It really is beautiful there and every time someone from Scott's family comes to Texas, they have to visit my aunt and uncle's farm. Because they think that is how we all live down here. Most everyone in my family does, except for me. I'm a city girl raised in a country family, that's for sure. Just ask me about my cousin calf roping me when I was about 9 years old!!!

On that note, I'll get back to my busy, crazy, hectic, wonderful, full, non-breathing life!

Roses Smoses

Yes, it's been a long time since my last post. Not having a computer at home is killing the whole bloggin experience. Our computer crashed a very long time ago and I will not let Scott format the hard drive without at least attempting to get all of my kids precious pics from it (no they were not backed up). We could have had our computer fixed the day after crashing, most likely. But I just can't allow it. Thus, the hard drive sits in our amoire awaiting to be examined by a professional and my random thoughts will be few and far between, on the blogsite anyway!

Back to the title....I'm guessing there are a few ladies out there that feel the way I do about Valentines Day. It really is not a big deal to me. Yes, I enjoy getting flowers and yes, I definately enjoy going out to eat and yes, I love jewelry and romantic gifts. But it just seems too fabricated to do this on Valentines Day. I would much rather my hubby send flowers to me on just any ol' day of the year when I'm not expecting them. Or wisk me off to dinner unexpectedly. As far as the jewelry goes.....Scott has covered that pretty well with all the jewels he has given me when he travels out of the country. We had a very nice romantic Valentine's this year....he was at school until 10:00 and I was at home watching American Idol (favorite show) and playing with Cassie. I baked chocolate chip cookies and ate left over mexican food from Blue Goose (favorite restaurant). At least I was up when he got home from school. So we did spend some quality time together talking and eating cookies and just enjoying each other's company. Can't wait until next Valentines Day! Love ya, honey!

Until next time....and who knows when that will be.

Three in a row....

Well, day #3 and I'm still blogging. We'll see how long it last. I wish I had a computer at home that worked, so I could actually sit and type real thoughts. Instead, I'm sneaking in a minute here and there at work.

But here we go....some real (random) thoughts:

Why is marriage so difficult sometimes, shouldn't it be easy with the one you love?
Why is it so difficult to get myself and family to communion once a month?
What would life be like without mexican food? (3 weeks ago, I would have said Dr. Pepper)
Who would have ever dreamed that I would be drinking water instead of DP...not me!

Speaking of DP....my habit is really like smoking. When I get stressed.....want a DP, when I'm excited.....want a DP, when I'm depressed.....want a DP. You name it, whatever mood I'm in, whatever kind of day I'm having, I WANT A DR. PEPPER. How insane is that? Are they really that addictive? The other morning, I was so stressed out with my 4 year old, I stopped and got a DP and a package of ding dongs and you would have thought I was a drug addict with a needle in my arm. They imediate relief and and the instant feeling of calmness came rushing over me....it was a great day! That is the only slip up I've had in a little over 3 weeks, so I'm pretty proud of myself. Now we have to figure out the whole food addiction thing and I think that will be a little harder. Would love to lose 20 pounds before my high school reunion, but doesn't everyone want to do that?

Enough rambling for the day, until next time......

This could be really addictive

I called my 18 year old son yesterday and told him that I signed up on blogger.com. He told me I should sign up for myspace instead. That it was much cooler. So I checked it out today while trying to get some work done and it's pretty cool if your a teen or if your single, but I signed up anyway. Reason being, that I found my 18 year old's myspace and couldn't send him anything w/out signing up and also found my nephews in NY and wanted to shock him and send him something as well. So I went from being totally out of touch to being pretty cool in a couple of days, if blogging and being on myspace makes you cool! I think it is going to take much more in my case, though. All that is left to do is add some pics of me and my wonderful family to both sites and I'm good to go......go where, I'm not really sure.

It is interesting to read other peoples thoughts....sometimes they are so random and sometimes they are really deep. Sometimes you just flat don't understand anything. But I love that I can go and listen to my son's music at any time.....he has them on his myspace and they are really good and I'm not just being mom. I love music and I love his music!

Until next time.....

I can't believe I have my own blog site

This is really silly for a almost 40 year to have a blog site....isn't it??? You tell me. I find myself reading others occasionally and it's really interesting. Like reading someone's diary, almost. But probably not quite so personal.

I really thought this would be great for my small group to start doing. We currently have journals that we share with each other. But this would be cool, as well. We could share our thoughts at any given time. My small group is WISDOM (women in search & discovery of more) and I just don't know where I would be today without each one of them. Thank you Carey, Shari, Michele and Stacey....I love you guys!!!!

Speaking of being old (back to my first sentence)....I received an email today about my 20th high school reunion this year. YIKES!!!!! 20 @*$&* years ago I graduated high school from South Garland. Doesn't seem possible. What have I done in 20 years......that is a loaded questions. I could write a book, let me tell ya! Career wise, I haven't done much of nothing and that is kind of sad to me. I still ask myself "What do I want to be when I grow up?" I don't have a flippin' clue. I think I better move on before I start getting depressed! :)

Well, I'm going to sign off and figure out how this whole blog thing works and let my WISDOM girls know about it and hopefully they will sign on, too.

Until next time......