Tuesday already?

Ok, so I don't feel very productive today.  I cleaned the kitchen and took care of my child all day but that wasn't very hard.  I just have NO energy!  I looked to see what kind of deals are going on at publix next week and started mentally getting my list and coupons together and now Adam and I are relaxing watching Friends.  I'm thankful that Abbie goes to bed at 7 because it gives me a few hours at night to do stuff I was to lazy to do during the day!  My mind has been very blank the past few days.  Maybe something will inspire me tomorrow and I'll have something to blog about, I mean I am watching 3 year old twin boys tomorrow so I'll probably have something exciting to share :) Until then I'll leave you with a sweet picture of our little one.

Blessings today and always,

I fell off the wagon...

and RAN MYSELF OVER WITH IT!  I must admit for the past 2 days I've gone on a bit of an eating binge, I did pretty good during the day at not eating a lot (although I didn't eat healthy I didn't over eat) but the past couple nights I over ate, last night being a deliberate "I had a horrible day and I need FOOD" night.  So getting up this morning I didn't feel great about myself I had the "I over ate" hang over which never feels good.  However, I got up did my devotions and am determined that it's a new day.  I went to a ladies bible study I'm involved in and had a great time of encouragement and fellowship, I've begged God's forgiveness once again and am back on track.  I am so thankful for encouraging women in my life who understand that we all fail but that are willing to encourage me and pray for me.  This has gone beyond an eating problem, this is a big fat spiritual battle!  I am learning to lean on my Father for comfort in my times of depression and bad days.  Okay, well I was just taking a small break from cleaning!  I need to get every thing finished for when miss Abigail wakes up so I can go to the store!

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Blessings today and always,

"The List"

Don't judge me, I watch Friends.  We own all 10 seasons on DVD and I've figured out that Adam and I watch the complete series probably about 4 times a year.  Now you have to realize we don't have cable so that doesn't make this such a "loser" time activity :) Well today is one of the days where (during nap time) I watch Friends and enjoy some me time.  Well I was watching the episode where Pheobe makes the statement "Out of all the men that Monica has been with, and that has been A LOT, I like Richard the best"  Now if you've seen the episode you know that this then leads to Monica and Richard (and in another room Rachel and Ross) having the talk about who they've been with, or "The List" and I would like to say PRAISE GOD I NEVER HAD TO HAVE THIS TALK! 

Now I've always been very honest about my history and to make a long story short Adam was not my first.  Praise God though that I married a man who when I had to have that talk with him he was forgiving.  Now that being said I'm glad we never had to have the talk about who we had done it with.  I can't imagine!  My prayer is that my daughter will experience the same.  I know that she will make her own choices but I pray that God will guard her and protect her from the world!  Some day, my daughter will grow up and (Lord willing) marry a great man, and I would like to know that she didn't have a list.  My prayer today is that whoever reads this blog young and old, will either look to the future and say to themselves "I don't want to have that list I'm going to save myself for my husband" or look back and say "I'm so glad I didn't have a list" or "I had the list but Praise God for forgiveness and I forgive myself!" Well Abbie is up from her nap and it's time to get back to chores.

Blessings today and always,

Taking a break

Although it doesn't show I've been trying to be productive today but am finding it hard to drag myself through the day.  I've done 2 workouts today, Pilates and Zumba!  I've also cleaned my kitchen gone to the store and taken care of a lil miss fussy britches :)  I just need to finish cleaning up my living room!  As I spend the weekends with my daughter I can't help but think about what will happen in just a few weeks.  I'm going to be a stay at home mom!!!  Ever since I can remember I wanted to be a wife and mother and that's it.  I'm pretty sure that's why I've never been able to decide on a major for college because this is the calling that God has placed in my heart.  I've always been a firm believer in the fact that if God places a desire in your heart He will provide it.  In college when all I wanted was to have someone to date and eventually call my husband and everyone told me to be patient and that maybe God wanted me to be single I knew it couldn't be true.  Why would God give me such a great desire only to ask me to stay single?  And having children, God has given me a great desire to have children and I'm sure when the time comes and I have no desire to have anymore children I'll take that as God telling me I'm done.  And last year when Abbie was born and I wanted so badly to stay home with her, Adam didn't have a job and everyone kept telling me you do what you have to for your family and yes that's true, but I also knew that God would provide a way for me to stay home with my babies.  He is all powerful and through prayer and following His will doors FLY open for you.  God has even managed to soften the heart of my husband who if you asked him three years ago if he ever saw me as a stay at home mother/wife he would have laughed in your face!  I was NOT a good housekeeper, cook, laundry queen or ANYTHING of that nature.  I could barely make spaghetti without a melt down on my part and a MESSY kitchen that never got completely cleaned up before bed.  Now ask him what he thinks of his wife and he would probably tell you he's so proud of the work that I do in our home.  Not without fault and times of ciaos but still he's proud none the less.  I have 4 weeks till I put in my official resignation and 6 weeks till my final days at Greenleaf.  I've appreciated the time I've had there and the friends that I've made but am SO ready to play the biggest role of my life and that is molding and shaping our little girl into the women that God wants her to be.  Well, my break is over now it's time to clean up the living room!

Blessings today and always,

Storage or trash holder?

It's been a few days since my last post and let me tell you a TON has happened.  Okay...not much at all has happened I lead a pretty awesome but simple life!  However today was a very productive day.  For those of you who read my blog but didn't know my husband is former military, not only former military but he was a supply sergeant, and in civilian terms that means he got to take care of a bunch of awesome guns and stuff but that also means he got issued a LOT of stuff.  Army issued first aid kits (they come with an IV kit, ya know just in case I ever have to stick an IV in myself here at the house), gun cleaning kits, backpacks, sleeping mats, sleeping bags, duffel bags you name it and it was probably in our storage closet.  When we started our project this morning we had about 10 or 12 totes of just "stuff" or what I thought was stuff but when we opened them up to go through them it was a lot of TRASH.  Probably about 80% of the stuff we went through, went in the trash!  I couldn't believe we had ever actually gone through those before and put them back in there!  And if I think back I'm probably pretty sure we didn't go through them we just put them in there!  So, after about 3 hours of going through and chunking stuff and putting stuff in a pile to give away we are down to 6 totes and we were able to put all my fall and Christmas decorations in there too!  So, although my living room is somewhat messy and my kitchen is only half way cleaned I still feel very productive today!  Now I just have to finish organizing the stuff we are keeping in the house and put it away, I need to find something to keep all of our user manuals for things we have (any ideas) and put all of the stuff I'm going to be scrap booking with soon up.  So I have big plans for the weekend!  I'll leave you with the best picture of my daughter doing her cheezy smile.  We had fun today :)

Blessings today and always,

Amy has been MIA

After posting every day for like a week you must have wondered where I went. Or maybe not however it's late and I'm tired and off to bed but I'll update y'all tomorrow. Blessings!!

Sunday..and day of rest play dates and laundry

I know Sunday is suppose to be spent spending time with your faith family, your family family and resting but since my husband works most Sundays and I do NOT like sitting doing nothing at this point in my life today I was very busy.  Went to church this morning at Crosspointe and heard an AWESOME message about being Blameless (if you would like to hear it you can visit Crosspointe's website here) then I came home and a friend joined me for lunch and Abbie got to play with her daughter Molly.  They had lots of fun and wore each other out!

After that I did laundry dishes cleaned up from the play date and watched a couple movies.  Adam got home and we were able to go to lifegroup together, something that hasn't happened in like 3 weeks due to travel and holidays.  It was nice seeing our friends and digging into the word together.  My weekend was short and busy but uneventful just the way I like it!  Now I'm off to put all the laundry away that I folded this afternoon and then some snuggles with my love. Praying everyone has a good week! I'll leave you with a sweet picture from my mommy daughter time with Abbie this afternoon.

Blessings today and always,