the flu

Well, the flu has made it to our house. Devin had it first Wednesday night until Thursday afternoon, I had it all day Saturday, and now Cameron has it. Please pray that we do not keep passing it around.

spring=flowers, gardens, and cleaning

Well everyone, spring is here. It looks like more than the calendar says so. With spring means spring cleaning. I started yesterday. I am trying to do the easier rooms first because the other rooms such as my kitchen will take a few days to do. We, Devin helped, did our steps and upstairs hallway. Like cleaning the walls, and shampooing the carpet. Unfortunately, I am unable to do to much today.

We took our mommy cat to get fixed this morning. She is home and has to rest. So we had to put her in a room to be separated from everyone else, including her babies. We were told to give her rest for two days. Everyone else will be taken care of in May.

We are also starting to plan our vacations. Hope everyone is enjoying spring.

Happy Easter

Hi Everyone:

I just wanted to say on this snowy day before Easter that I wish everyone a very happy Easter. We will be spending the day with both of our parents tomorrow, so I probably wouldn't have a change to blog.

First day of spring

Well, this is the first day of spring. Devin and I worked in the yard, like raking leaves and things like that. We are trying to get ready and patiently waiting to spring like activities, like plant flower bed, and garden, and mowing.

A Little News

Well, our kitties are growing. They are walking all over the house. It's weird that we have to watch where we walk. We are adopting one. It is the orange Tiger. We named it "Tigger". It is so cute. Well, they are all cute. They will be 4 weeks old tomorrow, so we will be looking for homes for them in about two weeks. We will be having Angel fixed at the end of the month so Kim this will be the last batch.

Now a little news about me. Some of you may know that I am now a diabetic. It runs in the family on both sides that I knew that getting it was pretty much the status quo. I trust in God and know that I am walking with him in this. I saw the heart doctor yesterday. She said that everything heart related look good, but with all the problems that I have been having lately, it seems that my congestive heart failure is progressing. If you read this, keep me in your prayers, please.

Trust in God

Today is one of those days that I have to look back on a remembrance stone and remember what happened 19 years ago. It doesn't seem that long. When I remember it, it is as if I'm there. I was 19 years old, pregnant for the first time. I was living with a boyfriend at the time, and I got pregnant January 1989. On March 12, 1989, I miscarried. It was the scariest time in the world for me, and the most upsetting. My grandmother told me at the time that God had a plan for this. At that time I wasn't a believer, and I didn't understand.

Today, it is different. God does have a plan, and I trust in that plan. Two years later, I had Devin. I also raised Devin on my own for 6 years, so God knew what was down the road. Now, I know that I was too young, would I have gone the road God knew that I was going to cry out to him. My life would have been different if I were to have a child then.

So, I look at today differently, and I go about it differently. I Trust in God.

contentment

Well, the last few weeks the teaching has been on contentment. Or maybe that is what I am struggling with that is what becomes the focus. I am sorry to say this, but there are days where I am not content. I think to myself that I remember the days of working and how I was out with people everyday. I was out of the house for eight hours, and then I wanted to go home. I enjoyed coming home.

Now, I am a stay-at-home mom and I want to get out of the house. Yes, I think that doing laundry and housework are menial and boring. I mean, how hard is it to clean a toilet. I have a degree.

Oh, how selfish I am. God put me in this position. He knows what is better for me than I do. He knows what is further down the road than I do. If I am not content in my life, then I am saying that God does not know what is good for me. I have to continually talk to myself and say that not only am I serving my husband and son, and showing Devin what to look for in a wife, but I am serving in the Lord. Not just serving, but joyfully serving.