Busy Busy Bumble Bees

The WHOLE year I am never busy until it gets to December and January... it's like everything decides to cram itself all into those 2 months haha!

Sorry it's been so long... I can't believe it's almost been a month since I last posted! haha I feel lame!


Soooooo....

  I don't even know where to go to catch y'all up so I am just going to tell you about last night! A few of us went to a live "nativity" (it's not really a nativity it's more like a live Bethlehem in the time where Jesus was born) and it was soooo much fun! When we pulled up the line was wrapped around the block and I just knew it was going to great because of how many people showed up! We were in line for a while and when we got in to the place you could just smell fires burning and hay everywhere! There were animals all over the place and that was my fav part of course. They had camels, llamas, donkeys (who ever knew donkeys were so cute) sheep, goats, bulls, cows, and chickens!
  We made our way through the crowds and past all the animals over to the manger where they had tons of angels singing and dancing over the manger (pics to come). It was very awe inspiring! Kind of took my breath away! I definitely plan on making it a tradition to go back every year that I possibly can!


I cannot believe my beloved Christmas season is almost gone!! However I do have my birthday to start counting down to! It is a month away from yesterday!!! Please send all presents to ME!!! hhaha... I take checks!

I would love to go caroling tomorrow... maybe I can work that out some how!! hmmmm

well until next time (only God knows how long that will be from now haha) have a GREAT Christmas... enjoy your family and friends and don't forget that the greatest gift you are able to give is to be a light in some one's life when all they can see is darkness!!

Filled with CHEER

I hope you all (all 3 of you who read this hahaha) had an amazing Thanksgiving!! I definitely did!!1 I just can't say enough how grateful I am to have the Del Rio's and the whole gang in my life!!! We are grateful for them taking us as their own family and truly loving us and wanting to share memories with us! Thanks guys!!

Well, I did my black fri shopping! It was actually a lot more fun this year!! I am glad!! We were not in stores for ever and that helped! The longest wait we had was in Walmart and that was only an hour! Then I came home and slept for 6 hours and was up by 12 to watch Christmas movies. Then we started decorating the front of our house... please imagine my mother, sister and I hanging Christmas lights... I am sooo sure it was beyond hysterical to anyone who drove by!! Then it was dark time so we ate dinner and went to get our tree!!

my perty tree (minus ornaments and angel)

  Things I am thankful for:
- best friends
- Christmas movies
- Christmas music
- dog sweaters that have hoods on them
- Walmart's black Friday movies on sale for $1.96
- turkey sandwiches
- hot coffee with peppermint mocha creamer
- healthy animals
- COLD weather... and I don't mean in the 50's I mean in the 30's!!!!
- a roof over my head
- the job that I WILL have
- and last but definitely not least and should have been first, the Lord and his faithfulness and love!!!!

Have a good long weekend everyone!!!

I would love it if... haha

Well where to start...

Why does family have to be so frustrating! You know when people ask you to leave and THEN ask you not to come to a holiday it is kid of sad and yet my feelings aren't allowed to be hurt. WHo knows?? I just know it's frustrating!! But I have learned that when and if I get married I will definitely want our families to be together so we don't have to choose... never fun hurting people's feelings!!

Now onto the fun stuff:

I am excited for black friday shopping. I would have loved for it to be the usual black friday I usually have but it's still going to be fun because I won't have to cater to anyone elses needs, I'll jsut get to shop till my heart's content!! I plan on hitting up walmart, target, forever21, and even disney store. What are all of your plans? Favorite stores to go to?

My house is almost finished being decorated... just waiting on the tree and the outside lights! Pics to follow when everything is done!!!

Holiday traditions:

Today I would like to rant on family/holiday traditions!! haha

Usually for Thanksgiving we will go to our cousin's and spend most the day making our delicious foods (except for one year when everyone was on South Beach diet and they decided to make mashed cauliflower instead of mashed potatoes... did not make me happy!! don't mess with a girl's potatoes!). Then we will all sit around the table and stuff our faces. After we have eaten till we can eat no more we will go sit on the couches and half of us (my mom, Brian, and Amy) will pass out! haha Then we will, if we haven't already had one going, light a fire and watch a movie. We all usually go to sleep decently early because the next day is the biggest part of Thanksgiving! haha We then wake up around 4-5 and head out to walmart to hit the black Friday sales. Then we hit up Target and Old Navy. Black Friday is such a great Christmas shopping day!!! I will miss all of this this Thanksgiving! Unfortunately my cousin's are having the in laws over and I guess that means we are not invited :(!! Makes me sad because I look forward to that every year!

So, then we have Christmas... for me Christmas is not just a day... it is a season! lol I make it start and soon as possible and last as long as I can!!! lol We have a "family" Christmas with all of our cousin's and aunt and grandma. Where it is usually just like thanksgiving except each person draws names (about a month or so before) and buys them a present! I LOVE presents!! On Christmas day we usually will open presents at our house... I LOVE to sleep in as long as I can so I make everyone else wait haha... and then we will gather the troops and head to my cousin's again! My cousin's are like brothers and sisters because of them moving in with us when we were younger so it just feels like the way it should be!

  My traditions for Christmas are to get the tree ASAP and then put up my Christmas village! I love setting up the Christmas village... mostly because it grows every year and I used to love seeing people have them up in their windows! It's my fav!

what are some of your traditions??

Watching the tides go by...

Not sure why I titiled this that but sounded cool! lol

My ribs are feeling better, can I get a hallelujah?? I still have pain when bending over, sneezing, coughing, laughing, or hiccuping haha but over all I can move and breathe!! I am very thankful for that!


I have been listening to Christmas music every day and it is making me so happy! We are supposed to decorate our house this week but we'll see how that goes! My family is not the motivated type and it is , most of the time, AGGRIVATING!!!! Especially when it comes to Christmas stuff haha!

I made beef stew tonight in the crock pot. Recipe for Al:
        Browned beef stew meat with whole wheat flour, kosher salt, fresh ground pepper, and italian seasoning mix (I LOVE this mix from trader joe's) in some EVOO (extra virign olive oil). Then I dumped onion, carrots, red potatoes, 2 cloves garlic, and meat in the crock pot with a half cup water. In the pan I browned the meat I then added a mccormick beef stew mix with some water and just soaked up all the goodies from the browned meat and dumped it in the crock pot. Let it cook for 7 hours stirring every so often. And serve over white rice! It was delish!! It really made my night SPECTACULAR!!! lol

 Thinking about life tonight and how much I enjoy it! I am grateful to be able to live freely with no one forcing me to do things their way, because we all know that wouldn't happen haha. And I love that I can be my self and the Lord STILL uses me! It's great!!!

Stupid towel!

I wonder why they chose to name their fast food joint "Jack In The Box"?? Is it something like being in the closet? Or have they been keeping Jack in his box his whole life and so now he knows no better?? I don't know why I am pondering this but it was bothering me today... guess I should not eat it anymore because it OBVIOUSLY messes with my mind!!


  Watched the CMA's last night and I was sooooo beyond impressed!!! There are some country artists who love them some Jesus!!! There were a few times when Sette and I felt some Holy Ghost moving through the tv!!! LOVED it!
   I have always loved country music but I think I have more of a respect for country artists after watching that last night!! In fact in made me want to start a country band... don't judge me!!! I was having some issues with some of the outfits... Miranda Lambert's first dress was AWFUL!! Reminded me of the gladiators!! And her second one wasn't much better but at least the top looked cute!! But I tell you what, them male country singers, oh goodness, they are some hotties!!!!! WOOT WOOT


This one's for you Shig:
    So, I have been taking hot showers everyday to help ease the pain of my ribs. Well the day before last I went to get in the shower and I screwed up my ritual of shower taking... what is that you wonder?? well here is my ritual: 1) place my towel on top of the toilet, 2) remove bath mat from where it hangs to dry and place it in front of shower, 3) remove my mother's towel from hanging over the shower and place in bathroom sink, 4) turn shower on to heat up, 5) use the restroom, 6) flush and CLOSE toilet lid, 7) get in shower!!
   You may have noticed how I capitalized and bolded close... that's because that is what I FORGOT to do and regretted it when I got out of the shower!! I went to reach for my towel because water was in my eyes and it was not where I had placed it. So I wiped my eyes, looked down and darned if it wasn't sitting in the toilet bowl!!! Dear Lord, why did this have to happen?? haha So I ran through my house naked to get to my room where I proceeded to cuss out my towel and ask it why it jumped... I was, again, obviously not in my right mind! lol Stupid towel!!!

Confined

Last I wrote I told you I had hurt my side somehow... well I am pretty sure I bruised my ribs! This has been one of THE most painful things ever. I am hoping the heal up quicker though because I don't know how much more I can take of being in bed or sitting all day long! DRIVING ME CRAZYYYYYY lol

I didn't go to church yesterday and this was the third week of not going because last week we went to our cousin's and then the week before that I got sick... blah blah blah! I feel so yucky when I haven't gone to church! I remember living in Cleveland I never went to church on Sundays but I didn't feel bad because I was connected in other services and ministries throughout the week. Although I LOVED being in White House, TN on Sundays because I just loved worshipping the Lord with all of my McGregor family! I do miss them so!!


AT&T (who is our cable providing, whom you read me ranting about earlier) decided that we needed HGTV and FOOD network taken away! I almost went ballistic. Those are the 2 channels I watch the most!!! I LOVE me some Paula Dean and House Hunters... I usually watch House Hunters while falling asleep at night!! So of course I,  being the bossy one that I am, told my mother we needed to switch cable providers ASAP! lol Luckily for AT&T they decided to give us back our shows or else there might have been some blood on my hands! lol

Well, I have to clean my room but I can't bend over or walk that much and so I sit here in a mess! I also have to do laundry but I can't do that either! BOOHOO Anyone want to come be my maid for the day?? I'll give you some gold fish crackers! ha ha

I'm so boring today! sorry... I've been confined and thus nothing exciting is happening! lol

Life, but a speck of dust in the wind!

This blog might be a little sad at first but I'll pick it up in the end:

Death just seems to be everywhere right now! I hate these times in life where people pass away and all you can do is sit around and think of how short life really is. A friend of mine lost her husband yesterday in a car accident! They have been married for a year and have a beautiful baby boy together! I cannot even imagine going through that as a newly wed let alone with a baby! My heart breaks for her every time I think about it. However, it causes me to sit and think about all the people I know in my life and whether or not they know the Lord. It stirs up an urgency in me to reach my family and friends.


Ok , ok enough of that I know!


So Wednesday night my family went to Cheesecake Factory for my mother's birthday! The food was amazing and dessert was even better! Then I came home got in my pajamas and went over to the bff's house and watched "Definitely Maybe". Super cute movie! After the movie was over we just sat and talked for hours... I didn't get home till 3 am... which leads up to my next story. I was driving my corolla (mind you I have not been driving this car because it is so low to the ground) and when I was leaving her house I kind of just through my whole body into the car... wasn't smart! I pulled on to the freeway an immediately started having these horrible pains in my right side... my first thought? Jesus please don't let it be my appendix, I don't have insurance!! haha I got home and got in bed only to wake up every 20 mins in pain! Finally I was able to sleep a bit around 8 am! When I woke up it hurt sooo bad to walk! But it was a throbbing pain not a sharp pain! We assumed that I must have pulled a muscle or something! So I stayed in bed with a heating pad on my side for most of the day/night. Why is stupid stuff always happening to me?? haha

Last night I freaking had call customer service at ATT because our cable and dvr were being absolutely ridiculous... this is not the first time it has happened though, so I finally got fed up and called! Can someone please explain to me why they ask you what the problem is and then proceed to talk to you about something that is completely opposite of the problem? The lady was trying to have us unplug our internet and phone cords... now I am no genius about such topics but I am pretty sure your cable does not come through your internet! haha Finally I had reached my boiling point, I had already missed my Housewives show because it wasn't recording and I was about to miss another show. So I hung up and rebooted the entire system myself... guess I'm smarter than I thought because I got it all to work again! lol

Last but not least, tonight we are going to our family friend's house to have a game night with our crew from the old church. miss these peeps! Glad we get nights like this to remind us why we are all friends!! So off to straighten my freaking hair (it literally takes 2 years!!) and then to get dressed!! Oh btw I made a 4 layer bean dip for tonight! MMMMM

Voting...

As I type my best friend and I are on the phone discussing the ridiculousness of politics!! Of course on this voting day there are a lot of issues at hand to be thought over. I just really despise politics!!! It didn't used to be this way... I remember when I was in Jr High and High school and how into politics I was... but something shifted over the years! I no long find enjoyment in voting simply because I have to vote for the lesser of 2 evils on everything and I don't want to vote in any evil. It makes my heart sad and stirs up my intercessory heart!!!

I was telling Sette about how sad that fact is that what we are voting for now is only temporarily pushing off what is to come in the future. For example: it's bound to happen that people's retirement funds are depleted and abortion is made legal.... why? because then further we move on in life the closer we are to the coming of the Lord and how much harder do you think the enemy is going to fight to tear us down if he knows he's about to lose for eternity? Of course I am not saying we should just give up, roll over and play dead but I know that things are only temporary! Thank the Lord that in the end the Lord has already won the victory and there is no greater peace than that!

OK enough of my ranting on politics/end times ha ha... those are such encouraging things huh? ha ha

So tonight for dinner I am making pork fried rice! I am very excited for it... why? because I love me some rice!!! mmm mmm mmm

Some of my other favorite things to cook are:
-chicken soup from scratch
-mozzarella stuffed chicken breasts with pasta
-enchilada casserole
-garlic chicken
-roasted whole chicken or cornish game hens!!!

What are some of your fav foods to cook?

This and That

Dang, been a few days! haha my bad!

  So, now that October is over my holiday festivities can begin!! I CANNOT wait for Christmas movies to come on tv!!! So excited for it!! And I have alreayd caught the baking bug... today I am going to make mini cheesecakes with a nutella drizzle on top! Cheesecake is my favorite! Speaking of cheesecake... my mom's birthday is on Wednesday and I am hoping we get to go to the cheesecake factory... why? because I LOVE CHEESECAKE!!!! haha

  For Halloween I went to San Jose with my fam to take the cuzzos out trick or treating!! They are the cutests things ever. However, Justing was being a little stinker taking off like a bat out of you know where and trying to cross streets by himself! haha Figures, payback is a b! I used to be like that too... oh wait, I still am! haha

 
  Tonight I am making bbq chicken with couscous and cooked carrots! I love me some coucouse and cooked carrots! I feel as if I am ramblign today, probably because I am but oh well!!! lol
 

  I bought some boots (see below picture) on walmart's website on Saturday. It's starting to get colder here so I wanted some closed toe shoes to wear for rainy days and such! Plus, I really love boots!! lol

except mine are black!

Today I shall list some of my dislikes:
-people being mean to their pets (I can handle training them, actually I am an advocate for teaching them to be good, but I cannot handle them being picked on!)
-cinnamon (unless it is cinnamon rolls, hot cider, or cinnamon swirl french toast! haha)
-snappy people
-selfish people
-FAKE people! (this one REALLY gets me fired up)
-movies with no point
-foreign films
-strawberry milk
-watermelon flavored things (I LOVE watermelon just not the fake watermelon flavor)
-rap music vibrating my car while I am stopped at a light (if that happens I usually roll all of my windows down and turn up my country music really loud! haha)
-allergies (they ruin my life) haha

I think that shall hold you over till tomorrow... I promise to have something good to write about tomorrow haha

Reality: real or fake

  Today I spent some time with my puppy! Monkey and I cuddled in this beautiful gorgeous cool weather and enjoyed some loving! haha Then we had home made fried chicken with creamed red potatoes and it was delish. Now I am watching one of my loves: reality tv.

  On tonight's schedule we have Survivor, America's Next Top Model, Dog the Bounty Hunter, and Top Chefs Desserts. If you can't tell I love me some reality tv. Most of the time I know reality tv is not really a good word to describe it but I can't get enough! haha One of my all time favs is The Real Housewives series. I think my fav city done so far has to be New Jersey. I love the craziness of all the drama... puts my life's drama in perspective haha.

  I know I am crazy but one of my favorite things to do at night is to light my candles, turn my fan on, get under my covers, snuggle up with Scoobs and put a ridiculous show on!! Tonight I think Scoobs is mad at me because every time I try to cuddle him he pushes away and goes to the other side of our bed! Pray he doesn't go to bed angry!! hahaha

some of my candles

  I seem to be pulling stuff out my hiney tonight to talk about. Must be that I am exhausted and the fan blowing on my eyes isn't helping! Oh well!!! Sometimes life is just dull!!

 

Butt Holes

  Oh man... I woke up this morning and, after reading my Bible for a while, decided to get on my old Xanga blog and read through it!!! OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! All I could think the whole time was how ridiculous I was as a teenager! haha

  For those of you who don't know me I LOVE shopping online! Right now I am in the market to find some navy blue or purple boots for this winter. I have a huge addiction to buying dresses and heels too... OK not an addiction but it is one of my fav things to buy! My favorite stores consist of: Target, Old Navy, Forever21, and Charlotte Russe. LOVE the jewelery at the last 2!! Anyone have any suggestions of places that have well priced shoes and jewelery?

  I was reminiscing last night about Cleveland days. I guess Shig's (my roommate in Cleveland) blog made me start thinking of our funny stories. I am pretty sure we had too many to count but one of my all time favs was when we had the key to "some one's" (he shall remain nameless for the sake of not embarrassing him too much) house and decided we were going to go freak him out. So we broke into his house and at first we were just moving stuff around but then we decided to fix it all and hide till he got home. So we were going all over the house trying to find good hiding spots and in and out of the shower and closets. Finally we all decided to just go in his room and jump at him when he opened the door. So we're sitting there and I figure I will just get on his computer and look at his pictures and such! Well that was a huge  NO NO... I began clicking the next button to scroll through all the pics when ALL OF A SUDDEN pops up this butt that is bent over with cheeks wide spread!!! I almost puked!!!! I clicked next but it was already too late... I had been scarred for life!! I think either Smalls or Shig had seen it too but I refused to show anyone else because I didn't want to see it again!!! That was one of the scariest and yet funniest days of my life!!! hahahahaha

  When you live in a small town like Cleveland, TN you have to create your own entertainment and we were pretty good at that!! Thus why Mexican Train because so important to our sanity on the weekends haha!! I do miss my college days... I miss the prayer tower and all the revelations and words that were received there! I miss late night drives to get a krispy kreme donut (you pay I'll drive haha). But most of all I miss those relationships that were formed so deeply so quickly!!! Love y'all!!!

Jesus Freak

I have a lot of good traveling stories but I think my favorite (and I know it's Aleena's) is this one:

I can't really remember if I was headed home from TN or headed back to TN from home but I was in an airport haha. I was dressed appropriately for the situation... flesh tone pants (which we had named the nudey pants) with a black t-shirt that says "Jesus Freak" across the chest. My flight had been delayed so I was pretty anxious to get on the plane. They finally started boarding and were on e number away from my boarding number when all of a sudden a man decided it was the best time to strike up a conversation with me! But this was no normal man, he was one of those that says something and walks away or turns his head so you can't even tell if they are really talking to you or if you're hearing things. So, I thought I heard him say something, and me being me turned and said "huh?" !!!! haha I think he was hoping to just make his comment and then run but I was not clear on his goal! Then he proceeded to tell me he liked my shirt and of course I took that as, "ohh he loves the Lord!" NOT!!! I responded with "oh that's awesome. are you a christian?" my lame response was due to the tired state of mind I was in. Looking surprised he said "no! I'm an atheist... I thought your shirt was a joke, like sarcastic or something!" hahaha oh man if only this man had been made aware of who he was talking to... poor guy! lol I turned to him and said "nope, I love the Lord!" I don't really know how I expected him to respond to that because it was a pretty weird sentence to just leave by itself but our conversation turned into a theological debate. I was trying my hardest not to be rude and not debate because I knew I was NOT in the right state of mind. You know those conversations with people when they have questions about the Bible and you know the answers but at that moment you forget everything? Yeah, that was me! He kept asking me questions like, "well if God is real then how did this happen and why does this happen..." etc. And all I could respond with was, "the Lord healed my knees!" HAHAHAHAHAHA By this point everyone had boarded the plane and I NEEDED to get on. I think I ended the conversation by saying something like, "thanks for asking about my shirt"! OMG, as soon as I got in my seat all I could think about was, "Oh Lord what did I just do?" The whole flight things I SHOULD HAVE said kept popping into my head!!

This is not an unusual story for my life... but it still makes me life when I think about it to this day!

Anyone have any funny stories...?????

Women's conference

Tonight and tomorrow I will be at a women's conference at my church. This is the first conference I have been to in a LONGGGG time so it's going to be refreshing!

Does anyone else love a clean room?? I cleaned my room last week, like deep cleaned, and have spent the last week in here!! I light my candles and turn on my scentsy (apple is the flavor of the week) and drink some hot cocoa or tea while sitting in peace! haha Maybe it's my ocd or what not but a good organized room makes me smile!!! I am excited that my room is now ready for Christmas decorations!!!! AHHH

Speaking of Christmas...Ok so everyday I get on my tv and search for Christmas movies!! I am soooo thrilled for the day they start popping up so I can record them all (even though I've seen all of them every year lol)!!! And then the day when KOIT starts playing Christmas music!!! Life will be sooo joyous!!!


So I am not much of a recipe person, I love to cook by just throwing stuff together, but I've decided starting on Monday I am going to start jotting down the different things I cook... maybe I will even put them on here for all your enjoyment... all 3 of you! hahaha


Pray for this conference that the Lord has completely freedom with us!!!

What are y'alls plans for this weekend???

The farm

  While some might call their homes a place of peace and quiet I would have to say my home is the opposite. We have 5 animal (2 cats and 3 dogs) as well as 3 1/2 woman living here (my best friend sleeps here a couple times a week usually and I LOVE it). Usually my room is off limits to all of the household except for Scooby (see first picture) and my mexican sister. I am very strange about people touching my bed, remember Shig? I don't know what it is but if I even dream that you touched my bed it creeps me out and our relationship will never be the same! :) So, only Scooby and a select few are allowed on my throne! haha  

  Scooby is my sleeping partner... he likes to sleep as close to me as possible (between my legs, under my side, or up against my back) unless Lisette (mexican sister/best friend) is over then he could care less if I were in the same house with him let alone the same bed. He and Lisette have a very unique relationship; they started off not to fond of each other and now they are bf/gf. It is a strange dynamic!



Monkey (aka Scooby)

  Now we move on to Bella. Around here she is known as Beast, big oaf, klutz, melma, etc. She is HUGE. I have always wanted a big dog and so when I found her online at a great price I was in the car on my way to pick her up within minutes! She was supposed to be my dog; I bought her, trained her, played with her, walked her, etc, but instead of her becoming my companion she clung to my mom. I was a little bitter! But I'm over it! Bella is THE MOST jealous dog you will ever meet. She is not only jealous of the other animals but if my mom is paying attention to her computer instead of her Bella will throw her 80+ lbs onto my mom's lap to get her attention. She does the same if my mom is eating as well. She's a pretty lucky go easy dog for the most part just don't mention the word kitty or let any other animals near her food... she'll go BALLISTIC!!!

  The last of the dogs is Lucky. He was our surprise pup. Lisette found him on the street and brought to my house so I could help her care for him and figure out what to do with him... BIG MISTAKE! haha We got him all cleaned up and gave him food and then my mom came home... he jumped up into her lap and batted his little puppy dog eyes at her and it was love at first sight. He adjusted well the chaos of the house and now we'd be lost without him. He is a great dog as long as the sun is up... but something changes when the sun goes down. Usually we just leave his bed open so he can go get in it because no body will mess with him if he's in there... we might lose an arm if we touched his bed. He's loco!!



Lucky climbing the fence at the dog park


  Then we have the cats, Tinka and Sterling. Tinka is my princess kitty. She is an orange tabby but I am pretty sure there is a mixture of some type of wild cat in her because sometimes she is crazy. She loves to sit in my mom's lap and when my mom isn't paying attention she will attack her arm at full force and then run away. Now she won't do that to me because she knows how much trouble she'll get in but for some reason she just loves to do it to my mom. Or sometimes she will be in her room (which is the office but we have designated it her room because she's spoiled) and will come running into the living room with the bushiest tail you've ever seen. Usually her tail is nice a straight. we've yet to find out what it means when she does that.




    Last but most assuredly not least, is Sterling, whom I call the king. He is an out doors cat except for at night when he comes in for his nightly cuddle and feeding. The best way I can explain sterling is that he does what he wants and doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. The best example of this and our first impression was the day we went to pick him up; my mom was carrying him out and as soon as he saw the car he started getting very agitated. When she opened the door to put him in he did not want to go and so he latched onto her... with his teeth! As long as he is not forced into things he is a great cat... but don't you dare try to make him do something. Sterling pretty much runs things around the house. The dogs know their place with him (although they ALWAYS try to sneak a nibble here and there) and anyone knew to our house gets a warm welcome from the glare (what we call sterling face)!

  I love all my animals even though they cause a ruckus! They keep life interesting and me on my toes! I am so thankful that we are able to have them and care for them! They are my babies!

Inspired by Aleena...

  I am starting this blog because I was SOOOO inspired by Aleena. I need to jot my memories down so that when I'm old and gray and my kids want stories I won't have to hurt my brain trying to remember ones to tell them. My life is FULL of stories because for some strange reason weird things always happen in my life! I am hoping life will get a little more exciting than what it is right now though!!!

  I feel as if this season in my life should be appropriately titled,  as William Shakespeare so eloquently put it, "Much To Do About Nothing." I spend most of my days on the internet searching for a job. It started off with me looking just for nanny positions but as months have passed I have become a bit more eager to find something and so I have moved into office jobs as well. I get quite a few replies from people looking to fill positions during the week  but when I respond to them the majority of them never respond back. I have been on several interviews and they tend to do the same thing... am I really that bad?? haha

  I have spent much of my time praying about this and though I have a peace that the Lord will provide I feel as though I have to live up to every one's standards around me. I know people are thinking why doesn't she JUST get a job and my response to that is I don't want to JUST live life. I want the job the Lord has prepared for me and opened the door for. Now of course people usually take that as I am being lazy and don't want to look for one but that is the farthest from the truth. I have spent too much of my life trying to work things out on my own and every time I do I end up on the bottom waiting for the Lord to pull me back up again. So this time I am fully waiting on the Lord as I actively look!!