Happy Thanksgiving

What a successful day!  Thank you Lord for the strength and energy to get through (and the help of pain meds.)  We had 18 people total in our new house.  It was awesome.  We had enough places for people to eat.  The weather actually feels like it should, nice and chilly and breezy all day.  I actually got to wear winter clothes and we had a fire in the back yard. 

Thanks family for coming over and letting us host you.  It was a blessing having you.

Randomness

There are so many things running through my head right now.  Like:

• The fact that I hate (well, that may be too strong a word) that they play Christmas music before Thanksgiving.  We have so many things to be thankful for, why should we as American's play down this day.  We aren't thankful enough, so of course we need a day to remind us to be extra thankful.
• We upped our cable for $4 more a month to get HD channels and I now have music stations.  OH MY GOODNESS, how did I live without this before?  Especially with the holidays coming, I can just put the TV on and listen away. 
• I am having so much fun decorating for Christmas.  Now you may say "what?" over the fact that I just posted that I don't like the music until after Thanksgiving and now I am talking about decorating.  But hold on.  Since I didn't get to decorate for Fall this year and we just moved (have only been in almost 2 weeks), I am decorating for Christmas early.  I change out my decor for the major holidays, so why decorate with my regular stuff when I am just going to take it all down for Christmas. 
• I just hate that my boob is starting to be in pain again.  It just really hurts and I wish this stupid infection would just go away.
• I have been having so much fun decorating the new house.  I only have to find one more set of curtains for my kitchen nook area and I am done with curtains.  I actually had some hang within the first 3 days that we moved.  I was pretty proud of myself, and it is totally looking like home.

Ok, so I think that's all for now.  Thanks for letting me share!

Recommend: Shutterfly

So I am not a big scrapbooker or should I say I am NOT a scrapbooker.  It's just too time consuming and I don't have enough time or space to do it.  What I have fell in love with is digital scrapbooking.  I love all things that I can do online with my pictures.  I have made countless number of photo books, from 4x6 brag books to the big, hard cover books.  I've done birthday parties, end of the year books, grandparent books, and vacation books.  So this brings us to Shutterfly (there are many sites out there, I just seem to use a lot of Shutterfly).  Right now they are giving bloggers an awesome deal on FREE Christmas cards.  Now who doesn't like free, I know I LOVE FREE.

It's been almost 2 years since I have done picture Christmas cards, so I was excited to see this come up (it was something I had to cut out of the budget).  They have some really cute designs.  They also have cards that share the message of Christ which I really love.  I like sending a message of God every year and so I like that they have this option.

Head on over to Shutterfly and check out all of there products.  There are so many cute gift ideas, get all of your shopping done for the family in one stop. 



· Christmas cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards
· holiday cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-cards
· Christmas photo cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery
· calendars to http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars/desk-calendars
· personalized mugs to http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-gifts/photo-mugs
· birthday cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/birthday-cards-stationery
- blank notebooks to http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-gifts/blank-notebooks

Thankfulness

Today I am thankful for modern medicine.  With all of my breast issues, my mother surviving breast cancer, and a friend getting a mastectomy this morning, where would we be without modern medicine.  Technology and medicine changing almost every day, staying on top of all the illnesses and disease that plague our world. 


Thank you Lord that I didn't have breast cancer, thank you for saving my mom, and thank you that my friend has a treatable cancer.

Thankfulness

Today I am thankful for my wonderful hubby.  He is another year older and that means another year I got to spend with him.  Lord, thank you for this wonderful man.  He is a blessing to me and our girls.  No matter what we are dealing with, I am with him in sickness and in health (even though there has been a lot of sickness :). 

Thankfulness

Today I am thankful for all of the veterans who have served our country and who are currently serving.  Without you, who knows where our country would be.  We are blessed to be able to have freedom of speech and worship the God of our choice.

Mourning the Loss

It was almost 6 years ago that we "up sized" from our very first home.  Moving is such a hard thing, this move was going to be it for a while.  We were planning on staying in our new house for a long time, it was going to be our home the girls new.  Slowly as the years started to go by, we made friends with neighbors, second families were born with them.  All the kids in the neighborhood were growing up together, celebrating birthdays together, making memories together. 

And then the economy failed.  We tried hanging onto our home for over 2 years and it just became impossible.  Teacher salaries kept going down, cost of living, gas, groceries, and insurance kept going up.  ML has been so dedicated to support our family and I am so proud of him.  However, it became time that we make that hard decision to let our house go.  It was only the Lord that new that ML would not have a job by the time it finally all went through.  And we only trusted the Lord as to where our new home would be located.  It has been 4 days in the new house and we are slowly making it our home.  We are both mourning the loss of our old house, our old neighbors, and our old familiarity.  But we know the Lord has us where He wants us and have to trust that. 

In these past year or two, so many families have lost their home.  We are now one of them.  I only hope and pray that they have the Lord in their lives to see them through...to give them hope...to show them the positives of the change. 

So to our "old" neighbors...even though we don't live across from each other we will still consider you neighbors.  We will try hard to see you on a regular basis and keep up with your families.  You have made a great 5 1/2 years in our home, you have made a long, lasting impression on our hearts.  You will forever be friends.

Thankfulness

Today I am thankful for being able to move on this 3rd day of moving.  Thank you Lord for the help we have been receiving and for the help that is coming tomorrow.

Thankfulness

I am thankful for a day of successful moving yesterday.  I was able to take two loads to the new house, by myself.  I paced myself and took a lot of pain pills and I got through.  Thank you Lord for a great day.

Happy November!

Thanksgiving is here, or at least the month of it.  There is so much to be thankful for and so much to do this month too.  We are getting ready to move in a couple of days, but I will try and jot down a few things I am thankful for each day.  Please add to the list, I would love to see what you are thankful for.  So for today:

• I am thankful that ML has a new job opportunity.
• I am thankful that the Lord has orchestrated the move from one house to another so perfectly, and now I see that I never should have ever had one ounce of worry.
• I am thankful for all of our health.  Even though FM can be so troublesome and cause major havoc in my life, it could always be worse.