High Lows

At Hitched we do high/low about our week. While today was my high going back to Hitched, it was a low to hear about Missy. Missy was a 38 year old woman from our church who suffered with breast cancer. I tried to go and see her a couple of weeks ago, but she didn't want visitors and I wasn't able to make it back in time to visit with her again.

I'm happy that she passed in a way. She stated she knew the Lord so now her spirit is with Jesus. At the same time my heart breaks for her children who are here without her. Especially her little ones. All I think, is if I were to die right now, and it was my son, he'd grow up never knowing me. So my heart breaks for the ones she left behind. The little ones, and older ones, that will live without a mommy. No one should ever have to live without a mommy.

I wish I had done more to comfort her. I wish I knew what to do now. I want to do something. Lord, please show me what to do now.

Dude's Date Day

So the boys had a play date today. Not Mason and Daddy.... Daddy and his friends. Mostly the daddies of Mason's friends :) They played video games and ate junk food. Mommy and Mason went out with friends, chatted, played and had dinner with friends. It was a nice day to do fun things with friends. But it sure is nice to come home and see my sweetie.

Shoes :)

I love shoes!  And I LOVE shoes on sale.

This morning I woke up to no water. Not a drop. It was so cold last night in our part of warm and sunny Florida that our pipes froze. Yup, after sleeping past the alarm clock and needing to get out of the house in time we had no water and no way to get ready. FUN!

So after confirming my in-laws had water I packed us up and headed over there to get ready. Yeah! Only to get half way through a shower and have the water pressure disappear! Seriously, here too!

Okay, today is going to be day of success in challenges, not just challenges. So I told myself through 2 1/2 hours of a cold classroom followed by 2 1/2 hours of a hot classroom. Tired, tired, and more tired, I was determined to be happy.

I needed to make a quick trip to Target to grab a box for shipping a necklace to a customer. Of course Target didn't have the box I needed, but in a quick walk through the store, my eye spotted a pair of shoes I'd seen the week before on sale 30% off. I hadn't bought them because 30% off is a tease. It's a sale in waiting. Today I had scored the jackpot! 75% clearance :) Could it be, could my day get wonderful with a pair of tiny girl shoes on sale? Oh yes it could.

You ask, what's the big deal, it's a shoe sale? It's not just a shoe sale, it was a God thing. I love shoes, and I love giving gifts and I love having gifts to give that I buy on sale! So after considering the next couple of birthdays coming up and a very sweet little girl who needed shoes mailed to her I grabbed a few pairs. Happiness. :)

Then I considered a couple of friends who might love clearance shoes and made a few calls. Picked out more shoes and the found a couple pairs for myself at super cheap prices.

It took a few minutes, and it seems really trivial, but after a rough day that could have ended terribly a few minutes in a sale aisle of shoes made it better. God knew I needed it. I needed to feel successful in finding something I enjoy, in giving happiness to someone else and it sharing with friends.

Off to bed, hope there's water in the morning!

Mama! Mama!

The words are incredibly sweet to my ears! I don't think words can possibly express how much I love hearing that word. I know for a lot of moms by the time their little one gets to 2 years old they get tired of hearing it, but for me I'm just starting to hear it. And after a year of "Daddy" for everything, hearing Mama is music. It started last week, but to be honest I was afraid it was a fluke. LMM wasn't saying it all the time to refer to me and I wasn't sure if he really got it.

But for the last two days after work when I've gone to pick him up, I've been greeted at the door with "Mama! Mama!" and a big hug ready to leave and go home.

I love it. So much! Just happy:)

Good vacation

My vacation ends tonight. Tomorrow morning I'll have to get out of bed and go to work :( While I'm in no way pleased about the thought, I will do my best to make the most of the opportunity. I'm not going to consider the problems, but rather grow in my challenges. All this growing and stretching, etc. sure isn't fun or easy though.

Yesterday though was a great day. A most wonderfully productive, happy, accomplishing, successful day. Not just for myself, but for my entire family. I got up and ran errands in the morning alone, met some friends for a quick breakfast, came home, played with LMM, sanitized (not just cleaned) my house, did all the laundry, made a home cooked dinner, did a little sewing, and got to spend some quality time with my hubby. Plus the hubby got the entire playground finished!!! Today I'm a little tired from it all, but that was what nap time was for.

I wish I could have a good day like that every day. I know it's not possible all the time, but I'm going to do everything in my power to make more good days like that, working outside of my home or not. And when there aren't good days I'm just going to reflect back on the good ones and grow.

What made today a great day, LMM said "mama" to me today. It only took 2 years 3 months and a day, but you know, God likes to make me wait on the things I really want in life :) Now if he'd just say it consistently for me.

Verse for the year

A friend of mine, Tina Hutchinson, posted this verse to her FB page today. I just loved it. Such a wonderful way to start out the New Year.

"Forget what happened before, and do not think about the past. Look at the new thing I am going to do. It is already happening. Don't you see it? I will make a road in the desert and rivers in the dry land." Isaiah 43:18-19

 Seems like the perfect verse to start out a new year. No thinking about the past and problems. Just take the lessons learned and start the year anew knowing that God will lead the way and make the path.