Thanking Him For The Twist

Today I choose to be thankful for our Princess Chewy. Yes! I am thankful for a hamster.  To us she is a wonderful pet and a perfect addition to our family.

The blessing here is that my super allergic kid has always wanted a pet and God provided him with the perfect pal. He wanted a pet he could take for walks and play with.

God provided us the perfect hamster in Princess Chewy. From day one, she never seemed to mind them playing with her. She loves living in their pockets and going out with them on their skateboards.

Now she seems to know when they enter the room and climbs to the top of the cage expecting to be taken out. I realized we have quite a remarkable hamster, which can never be replaced. I am also thankful that My Boys realized that God blessed them in the choosing of this pet.

Isaiah  45:7 God tells us

“I cause light to shine. I also create darkness.

I bring good times. I also create hard times.

I do all of those things. I am the Lord.”

Just a reminder, no matter what God creates we should be thankful. He created both super allergic kids and perfect pets.

Thankful Thursday

Women Living Well Wednesday
Thought Provoking Thursdays
Word-filled Wednesday

Saying Goodbye

Wordless Wednesday

10 Noteworthy Sayings

Here are 10 quotes worthy of thought:
1. Life is about prospective. The grass is never greener on the other side, grass is grass.

2. How often do we do this? Instead of choosing to wait for what we really want, we just accept what is available at that moment. Live life with out regret. Wait for what you really want.

3. I remember being on a 16 hour flight and having my then 9 year old son start throwing up. It was not convenient, but I was grateful to the flight attendant who very nicely addressed the unkind remarks of the gentleman in our row. "He is just a sick child, you don't need to be unkind about it." He was just my sick baby very far from an emergency room and very sick.

4. How true is this? We invest a lot of time worrying about things that do not matter. Right now we are planning our move, or at least planning leaving our current home. Daily I think, I am trusting God to work out the details, He knows what our family needs. 

5. Yes, Yes, Yes, there is always, always, always something to be thankful for. Even lesson learned are reasons to be thankful. Today I caught my first grasshopper. I was thankful I did it, I was also terrified. Not a bug friendly person, but I made my son's days. Yeah, Mom!

6. Truth be told, I am weird and proud of it but I like this quote. I am most definitely a limited edition. God made me an extra special limited edition.

7. Here is a good de-cluttering guide. 

8. How easy it is to forget that un-forgiveness is a prison of our own making. Burn the past and set yourself free. 

9. 

10. Errors are learning opportunities. 

Top Ten Tuesdays

Week in Review 6

Welcome to my day of review and planning. The countdown continues with 21 days till our pack out. 

1. For the next 21 days, I will be focus on all the projects I need to complete before the movers come to pack our house.
A. Finish de-cluttering our home
B. Finish my photo album project
C. Pack the children transition items
D. Work through my cleaning list
E. Remove all wall hangings
F. Separate the current school year books so I can find them first on the other end
G. Decide what I have to take with me, (Still no housing arrangements).

2. Continuing school till September 9. Yeah!

3. Keeping on track with my reading for the Bible in 90 Days/ Blogging through the Bible in 90 Days challenge. I lost my lead this week but I am up to date with the reading. I have a lot going on in my head. It has been very hard focusing with so much to do. Continues till October 8, 2011, requires an hour of daily bible reading.  

4. Write a daily blog post.  

Blog I posted:

1. Random

2. I Love That

3. Great Books

4. I Will Choose

5. Wordless Wednesday: Princess Chewy

6. Ten Prayers From The Book of Psalms

7. Week in Review 5

5. I am still Maximizing my mornings. I begin my day at 5 a.m. with pray and bible study. I would like to start keeping a time journal to see how effective my scheduling is. When I do, I will share, how is helped.  

6. I have many books I would like to read during this process. I will try to read or more a week. The list will follow so I can cross them out as I go.

7. I will be a contributor on Homemakers Challenge. In September we are having a 31 Days to Clean challenge.  

Now your turn: let me know what you have accomplished or plan on finishing ….........

Random

Saturday 9: I Fought the Law

1. Have you ever been on the wrong side of the law?
Never!

2. What was the last thing you described as either “surprisingly good” or “surprisingly bad?” 
I Guess, Princess Chewy. I was surprised how right having a hamster feels and by how much I am enjoying it.

3. When was the last time you unintentionally surprised someone else? 
I live a very planned life. 

4. When was the last time you deliberately surprised someone else? 
Not a fan of surprises. 

5. What was the last really funny movie you watched? 
The Bird Cage.

6. What is something that you've never done that you secretly are dying to do?
Own a tea cup anything.

7. What do you hope is different in your life by August 2012?
Life changes every day, I like to live in the present.

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8. Who is the last person you greeted at your door? 
One of my girl friends.

9. If you could live in any ancient city during the height of the quality of its society and culture, which one would you choose? 

I guess Rome, I love Socrates and Plato.

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." 

Socrates 

Saturday 9

I Love That

I love that My God created me with the freedom to choose.

Today I choose to brag about how awesome He is.

I love that God will fight for me, especially when I cannot fight for my self.

I love that God is always patient with me, no matter how often I mess up.

I love that God is the same today, tomorrow and yesterday.

Brag on God Friday

Great Books

Sometimes I feel like the only person I know who finds reading history fascinating. It’s so full of amazing-yet-true stories of people driven to the edge and how they reacted to it. I keep telling friends that a good history book (as opposed to some of those textbooks in school that are all lists and dates) does everything a good novel does–it grips you with real characters doing amazing things.

Am I REALLY the only person who feels this way? When is the last time you read a history book? Historical biography? You know, something that took place in the past but was REAL.

Home-schooling mom here! I teach history through literature, these books are amazing. When you read a book about an event and it is written by someone who was there, from their perspective, the journey is amazing. I especially love reading Asian history books. I enjoy sharing these books with my children. 

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I Will Choose

By way of explaining, yesterday I saw this picture on the blogs although I had seen it many times before it got me thinking.

Today I will Choose ……………..

Wow we are free to choose. What a blessing it is to choose each day? 

I will choose, love

I will choose, Laughter

I will choose, peace

I will choose, to find the beauty in all that I see

Is the list not endless?

I am thankful everyday for choice.

I am thankful I have a choice.

I am thankful that God gave his son, so I could have choice.

I will choose to follow Christ.

I will choose to accept the things I cannot change, knowing God Can.

I will choose to ask God for wisdom.

I will choose to live one day at a time.

I will choose to surrender to the will of God for my life.

I will choose to thank Him for my many choices and pray that he guides me home.

What will you choose today?

Links:

Thankful Thursdays

Princess Chewy

Wordless Wednesday

Ten Prayers From the Book of Psalms

As I read through the book of Psalms. These are some of the verses that reminded me what I needed to pray for. These are some heart felt and meaningful words to God.

1. Psalm 19:14 May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.


2. Psalm 51 10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.


3. Psalm 119: 28 My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.

4. Psalm 119: 33 Teach me, LORD, the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end. 
34 Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart. 
35 Direct me in the path of your commands, 
for there I find delight. 
36 Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. 
37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things preserve my life according to your word.

 5. Psalm 119:66 Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I trust your commands.

6.  Psalm 119:144 Your statutes are always righteous; give me understanding that I may live.

7. 139:23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

8. Psalm 141:3 Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips. 4 Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds 
along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies.

9. Psalm 143:8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. 
Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.

10. Psalm 150: 1 Praise the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens. 
2 Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness. 
3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, 
4 praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe, 
5 praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.

6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.

   Praise the LORD.

Dearest Lord;

God you are wonderful and amazing. 

I thank you for all you have done in my life. 

I thank you for my husband, for my three boys and for the blessed life you have given me. 

I pray that my life with honor you and that I continue to strive to follow you. 

God please allow my thoughts and words to be pleasing in your sight. 

Give me a pure heart and a steadfast spirit when I am weary with sorrow. 

Strengthen me by teaching me your laws. 

Give me understanding and good judgment to obey you with all my heart. 

Direct my path, turning my eyes and heart away from worthless and selfish things. 

Search me, because you know my heart and see if there is any offensive way in me, so you can direct my heart in the way everlasting. 

Keep my heart from evil, show me the way I should go and let the morning bring me word of you unfailing love for I will trust in you. 

Amen. 

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Heart it on Sunday

Week in Review 5

Welcome to my day of review and planning.

1. For the next 27 days, I will be focus on all the projects I need to complete before the movers come to pack our house.

A. Finish de-cluttering our home

B. Finish my photo album project

C. Pack the children transition items

D. Work through my cleaning list

E. Remove all wall hangings

F. Separate the current school year books so I can find them first on the other end

G. Decide what I have to take with me, (we have not found a home on the other end).

2.This week my major focus will be starting school. We will be continuing school till September 12. Yeah!

3. Keeping on track with my reading for the Bible in 90 Days/ Blogging through the Bible in 90 Days challenge. Continues till October 8, 2011, requires an hour of daily bible reading. My verse for the week is:

4. Write a daily blog post. A good goal for a blogger…  

Blog I posted:

Feelin

Learning From Job

Easy Reading Fluff

Give Me Wisdom

First Pets (Photos)

First Day of School

Week in Review 4

5. I am still Maximizing My Mornings. I begin my day at 5 a.m. with pray and bible study. I would like to start keeping a time journal to see how effective my scheduling is. When I do, I will share.  

6. I have many books I would like to read during this process. I will try to read or more a week. The list will follow so I can cross them out as I go. 

7. I will be a contributor on Homemakers Challenge. In September we are having a 31 Days to Clean challenge. This week challenge is to make a Developing a Realistic Weekly Schedule. I will check my schedule against this article and blog my finding.

Now your turn: let me know what you have accomplished or plan on finishing ….........

 

Feelin

Saturday 9: You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'


1. In a relationship, have you ever hung in even when you knew for sure it was over?
NO! It is always better to get out as soon as you know.

2. If you had the ability to perpetually alleviate any pain on your body, what would it be? 
The pain in my head. I have really bad migraines, sometimes it seems like my head never stops hurting. 

3. What place would you visit if money were no object? 
I guess I would go around the world, spending a few months in every country. I could not pick one place and if money were no object I would not have too.

4. What is one thing you would love to change about yourself? 
I love me, so there is not one thing about myself that I would change. Life is about learning and growing, which I am about doing.

5. Do you think your parents were too strict growing up? 
No!

6. In general, how many old friends do you have that you talk to at least once a year?
Since we all joined Facebook?



7. What was the last compliment you received? 
I honestly cannot think of one.

8. Have you ever told someone you loved them but didn't really mean it? 
I take the words I say very seriously, so no.

9. In your opinion, would it be harder to lose someone close to you more as a child or harder as an adult?
I do not think it matters. It really depends on the depth of the relationship. I have lost people from both groups and it really depended on how close we were.

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