Patience Please!

Lord, teach me to be patient - with life, with people,and with myself. I sometimes try to hurry things along too much, and I push for answers before the time is right. Teach me to trust Your sense of timing rather than my ownand to surrender my will to Your greater and wiser plan. Help me let life unfold slowly, like the small rosebud whose petals unravel bit by bit, and remind me that in hurrying the bloom along, I destroy the bud and much of the beauty therein. Instead, let me wait for all to unfold in its own time. Each moment and state of growth contains a loveliness. Teach me to slow down enough to appreciate life and all it holds. Amen. 

Prayer Source: Unknown. http://acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2006/05/prayer-for-patience-in-accepting-gods.html

 There are so many things going on right now, family, school, work, and everything else...I can feel my patience meter is running VERY low, I am tired and get frustrated SO easily...Tonight is YADA at church and I FINALLY get to go-the past several times I have worked in the Nursery.  I am beyond excited!  I have also had to make a very difficult decision and to step back form working in the Nursery.  Right now, with so much going on, I have to work on my priorities list and with everything that I have going, I had to make some cuts somewhere and working the nursery was one of them.  I have had SO many weekend commitments that I have missed several of my days in the last few months and with my schedules this semester would miss more before Christmas.  I had to step back and re-evaluate things.  I want to get back in my routine of going to church when I am in town.  I need this for my Spiritual growth (and my sanity).  I also need this for my relationship with Drew.  This semester is going to be rough on us, we are both taking classes (me-2 online, and Drew-3 on campus classes) and he is on the next Chrysalis flight as an ALD so this means, lots of time apart this semester and I feel like that we are going to need our Sunday morning church time to keep our relationship strong!  I really hated to step back from the nursery, but I have to learn how to say no when no is the appropriate answer!  The prayer that I posted at the top was one I found this morning...I feel like I need to pray this about 15 million times a day right now.  Like I said before, my patience level has plummeted and I need to work on it!  

Here's to a renewed sense of patience and priorities! 

 

WIT

So...this week was NOT as positive and exciting as last week...I weighed in this week and actually gained 2 pounds-UGH! I know it's because I drank at the shower and at crappy food but it's still frustrating! Here's to next week-tracking EVERYTHING and NOT GAINING WEIGHT NEXT WEEK!!!!

Come on Fall!!!

I absolutely cannot wait for fall to get here-it's quite possibly my FAVORITE time of year...Growing up, I loved winter, but since Drew and I have been together, fall has started to creep right on up there as my favorite season! I love the colors, I love all of the holidays, (plus fall break!) I love the time I get to spend outside...I just LOVE fall!! Drew and I have a mini-vacation planned for the very last weekend in September to Chattanooga and I absolutely CANNOT WAIT! The anticipation for fall has also gotten me in the mood to change the layout again...so all-in-all, I am VERY excited for the seasons to change and fall to get here in full force!!

 

Thankful Thursday

I am so incredibly thankful for so many things-my job being one of those things, however; today is Parent-Teacher Conferences at the middle school and that means that I will spend more time away from the house than I will spend at home today...left at 6:40 this morning and won't get back until after 8:00 p.m. tonight-LONG DAY!! But even with the extremely long day ahead of me, I have to be thankful for the fact that I do have a job and it's a wonderful job with benefits and a future. I am thankful for the people I work for-in both buildings, I am thankful for my bosses at both buildings, I am thankful for the opportunity to grow and learn new things, I am thankful for each one of my students. In a time where a ob is a precious thing, I am blessed to have a full time job that I (most of the time) enjoy! 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says "Give thanks in all circumstances; for it is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."

WIT-Weigh In Tuesday

It's Tuesday, that means that it's time to weigh in at Weight Watchers again...we'll see how well I do today. I DID get up and walk this morning! I got up a little later than I wanted BUT still got in a good 10 minute walk and a nice long shower. I am still tired, but know that I will feel better knowing that I am trying. Drew and I have canceled our membership with SNAP and are rejoining the YMCA...in hopes of getting into this early morning routine so that I can go work out there in the mornings maybe 2 days a week and then I can get ready for work there! It's a further drive BUT they have a shower so that I can go in the morning and then shower and get ready for work-plus I can get a lock and keep a locker there if I want. I would love to be able to take a class but the schedule they have online (from March?) doesn't have one that starts early enough for me to be be able to do and then get to work on time...Without further adue...My weigh in information from this week-- HOLY CRAP- I lost 3.4 pounds this week, that makes 6.6 pounds lost in 2 weeks!!!! WAHOOOO!

2 Years

2 Years ago I was sitting in a hospital waiting and praying for one of my best friends.  She was going through something so scary and terrifying and she came through it with flying colors!  Dani, I know you don't read this, actually I don't think that anyone reads this, BUT Dani, I am so proud of you and so thankful for the progress you have made!  You have finished your masters, graduated, moved into your own house, and gotten yourself into great shape!  You look wonderful and I am so glad to call you my friend!  Plus you are much closer now-like grocery shopping together closer!  LOVE YOU!

 

It's FRIDAY!!!

It's Friday-end of the work week and I could not be more excited-this week has been an extremely long one even though it was a 4 day work week. Drew and I don't have many plans this weekend other than working on the house and the yard. We are hosting a wedding shower next saturday and need to get the backyard cleaned up (it's a couples cookout shower that will turn into a hang out session-i'm quite excited!) Last night I had regional meeting for adult ed in Huntingdon and that was LONG...went straight from work to the meeting and had the meeting until almost 8 last night and still had to drive an hour home. PLUS it started to storm again and the wind was AWFUL on the drive back on HWY 70. I have lots of homework to get done, lots of housework to get done, and lots of time with the husband to spend...I miss being able to just hang out with him and hopefully we will get to do some of that this weekend.

W.W. (Sort of...)

I miss these women so much!  Looking back on my days at Lambuth I wish that I had taken FULL advantage of what my sisters had to offer me-unfortunatly I did not and I regret this.  These women are my sisters and will forever be my sisters and I miss them greatly. 

 

Labor Day Lovin'

Labor Day fun at Pickwick with the ENTIRE clan! So many people in a smallish house, but full of so much love!