Karlee & I were talking yesterday about different things. One of them being was about how Dillon and I get along and then the other was Micah & I. There were times she would say something like this "you have know when to choose your battles", "you just need to let the little stuff go", "let Micah handle it and if you don't like it then talk to him later about it", "mom sometimes you push it too much", "just let him figure it out on his own, you told him and doesn't want to listen so just let him figure it out and in the long wrong he'll know you were right".
I stood there listening but staring at her in awe for what seemed like for hours but really just a few minutes. The first thing that I thought of was how much she sounded like Micah and a few other people in my life. The second was how much she reminded me of myself. I use to talk to my mom the way she was talking to me, sounding so wise with her words. (being more of the adult than the child) I couldn't help but feel as if I had gone back in time and I just stood there feeling frozen as I listened to her. I was offended or anything, I didn't take any of it the wrong way. I listened and took it all in.
It was like looking in a mirror, not only could I see myself in her but I could see how I can be when I struggle with choosing to respond how God would. The whole conversation with her was very humbling. I walked away with a heavy heart wanting to choose a better way to respond the next encounter with a trial or a situation.
Thank you Karlee and thank you God for using her and giving the words to show her "momma" how to respond next time.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Happiness Soaring High in the Air
As kites soar over the park today so did smiles, laughter and joy. I saw several people I knew, mostly from MOPS. Everywhere you looked kids were running around laughing and smiling as they ate an ice cream, or climbed the rock wall, jumped in the bounce house or flew their kites. It was nice to see so many families out spending time with their loved ones.
Sara had spent the night at a friend's house. Briana's mom took them to the park to Soaring in the Air (I think that was what it was called) I walked out on my balcony and viewed the park from above and decided to walk down and see if I could find Sara and her friend.
And this is what I found:
They had just finished jumping in the bounce house and we headed over to get some ice cream.
Then Briana wanted to climb the rock wall. Sara didn't want to at first but soon Briana talked her into it. She didn't go up all the way but she went up some.
She had a good time with her friend and I had a good time watching her have fun. I enjoyed hearing my Sara laugh, watching her run and gazing at her smile on her cute little face. There was so much more soaring in the air than kites......happiness soaring high in the air.
Sara had spent the night at a friend's house. Briana's mom took them to the park to Soaring in the Air (I think that was what it was called) I walked out on my balcony and viewed the park from above and decided to walk down and see if I could find Sara and her friend.
And this is what I found:
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| Sara & her friend Briana |
Then Briana wanted to climb the rock wall. Sara didn't want to at first but soon Briana talked her into it. She didn't go up all the way but she went up some.
She had a good time with her friend and I had a good time watching her have fun. I enjoyed hearing my Sara laugh, watching her run and gazing at her smile on her cute little face. There was so much more soaring in the air than kites......happiness soaring high in the air.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Do you have a God Radar?
Do you have a God Radar? I do and I wasn't really sure how well it worked until the other night. I haven't always had such a thing. I certainly didn't have one during the pre-Christian stage of my life years ago. What is a God Radar? Well its what I would say is our little indicator that flashes when you hear something that is sinful. I think of the little monkeys that sit there covering their ears, eyes, mouth and point to their head and say "I hear no evil, I see no evil, I say no evil and I think no evil".
My son's baseball coach is a comedian. At least that is what Micah was told by him when asked what he did for a living. Last night Micah had gotten an email invite to go out and support my son's coach on his comedian night at the Green Room. So we decided we would go and watch him then eat dinner. I didn't know the Green Room was a bar, but okay we'll go in and stay to ourselves and listen and that would be that. Within the first 2 minutes of his intro of himself and the show Micah and I looked at each other shaking our heads. We soon learned way more than what we needed to know about Kyle's coach in the most roughest language possible.
Every "comedian" that got up there figured they needed to drink alcohol and lots of it in order to be funny. They thought that to make the "jokes" funny they should be told with as many bad words as possible. Each "comedian" had there group of people they would pick on as far as races and every joke were on subjects that really weren't funny.
Sadly Kyle's coach slammed Christians in a few of jokes. His idea is that people never change and what he knew that person in high school to be no matter what this person is now (like a pastor or someone that loves Jesus and wants to tell the whole world) that the person was always going to be that and nothing more, that change wasn't possible. Micah & I were very disappointed.
Let's just say the end of it all on the way home I felt like I was getting water out of my ears. You know when you lean your head over to one side and then sort of pound on your head on the other side so that you can feel the trickle of water drain out of your ears. I felt like doing that to get all the "junk" I had just filled my head with.
Micah and I have decided that our "night life" at home wasn't such a boring thing after all. We also decided that wasn't our scene anymore and compared how we use to be before Christ invaded our lives :)
Our radar was going off so often while sitting there with the loud music, the types of people around us, how people acted and talked, the whole scene. I couldn't help but pray and ask God to continue to help guide our children in His Light so they could skip scenes like that of the world and not to know any of it. But really to give them the direction they need to make Godly choices when their time comes to gaze upon such things of the world.
The show was over after 10p.m. We got up and got out of there as quickly as we could. I'll admit we should of just got and left earlier but we didn't. We were not proud of ourselves either, we felt yucky and realized that we sinned by being there. I know I silently talked with God and asked his forgiveness and I'm sure Micah did too.
We were extremely hungry and nothing was open so we went to Albertsons and bought some steaks, cheese, crackers and wine and enjoyed a nice late night dinner together at home.
My God Radar works quite nicely how does yours work? Its amazes me how much I'm more aware of things than I use to be. The transformation by His grace is a wonderful thing. I'm so happy that Jesus has my hand and that the Lord has my heart.
My son's baseball coach is a comedian. At least that is what Micah was told by him when asked what he did for a living. Last night Micah had gotten an email invite to go out and support my son's coach on his comedian night at the Green Room. So we decided we would go and watch him then eat dinner. I didn't know the Green Room was a bar, but okay we'll go in and stay to ourselves and listen and that would be that. Within the first 2 minutes of his intro of himself and the show Micah and I looked at each other shaking our heads. We soon learned way more than what we needed to know about Kyle's coach in the most roughest language possible.
Every "comedian" that got up there figured they needed to drink alcohol and lots of it in order to be funny. They thought that to make the "jokes" funny they should be told with as many bad words as possible. Each "comedian" had there group of people they would pick on as far as races and every joke were on subjects that really weren't funny.
Sadly Kyle's coach slammed Christians in a few of jokes. His idea is that people never change and what he knew that person in high school to be no matter what this person is now (like a pastor or someone that loves Jesus and wants to tell the whole world) that the person was always going to be that and nothing more, that change wasn't possible. Micah & I were very disappointed.
Let's just say the end of it all on the way home I felt like I was getting water out of my ears. You know when you lean your head over to one side and then sort of pound on your head on the other side so that you can feel the trickle of water drain out of your ears. I felt like doing that to get all the "junk" I had just filled my head with.
Micah and I have decided that our "night life" at home wasn't such a boring thing after all. We also decided that wasn't our scene anymore and compared how we use to be before Christ invaded our lives :)
Our radar was going off so often while sitting there with the loud music, the types of people around us, how people acted and talked, the whole scene. I couldn't help but pray and ask God to continue to help guide our children in His Light so they could skip scenes like that of the world and not to know any of it. But really to give them the direction they need to make Godly choices when their time comes to gaze upon such things of the world.
The show was over after 10p.m. We got up and got out of there as quickly as we could. I'll admit we should of just got and left earlier but we didn't. We were not proud of ourselves either, we felt yucky and realized that we sinned by being there. I know I silently talked with God and asked his forgiveness and I'm sure Micah did too.
We were extremely hungry and nothing was open so we went to Albertsons and bought some steaks, cheese, crackers and wine and enjoyed a nice late night dinner together at home.
My God Radar works quite nicely how does yours work? Its amazes me how much I'm more aware of things than I use to be. The transformation by His grace is a wonderful thing. I'm so happy that Jesus has my hand and that the Lord has my heart.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Mother's Day
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| Karlee made me breakfast |
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| Karlee & I |
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| Kyle & I |
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| Me and my kidos! |
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| Despite the wind we were going to help the kids practice batting and catching (well actually Micah helped I just watched and took pictures) |
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| They are heading up to set up targets for shooting. |
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| The view from where we were shooting. |
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| Me, shooting Micah's 22 rifle. I've always been afraid of guns. I had fun and now I want my gun to go out and target practice with. |
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| Roses from Micah |
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Busy Bee
Lately I have felt like a busy little bee buzzing all around. Baseball and Softball have started so I think that is enough said right there. You can imagine all the different directions we are going with three kids involved. Micah & I managed to do a kayak trip Williams on Monday. We headed out to Kaibab lake but couldn't get past the big machines working on the road. So then we headed to Dogtown Lake. We enjoyed our day but didn't catch any fish. Dillon and Micah went fishing the other evening at Lake Mary and Dillon caught two fish. Karlee had a fitting yesterday for her school's first fashion show fundraiser. She had fun at Buckle trying on all different outfits until she found the one that she thought would be perfect for her to model.
I have started taking medicine and it seems to be helping some. I've been busy trying to learn about Fibromyalgia so I can figure out what will work for me and what won't but that is going to be an ongoing process I think. Ladies Bible study came to a close for now and soon so will MOPS so things will start slowing down some.
My ex-husband will in Albuquerque at the end of May and wants to see the kids so I need to figure out how to make that happen. The kids really do miss their father and when they bring it up, it just breaks my heart. I always struggle with what to say to them and how to comfort them. He is going to look for a job there or maybe look for one here in Flagstaff. Either way it would be great if he was a little closer to be more involved in the kids' lives. It would be could for him and them.
My birthday is next week and then Micah's is on the 18th. He'll be 40 and he's not looking forward to it at all. I'll be 38. I can't believe it at times. I think its bothering both of us a little since are bodies seem to be telling us things and that is making us feel old when we really don't want to. But its a new stage in life and we just have to go with it and keep moving forward and enjoy our family as time goes on.
Daily I continue to look for blessings to be thankful for and there are so many so its not difficult. I'm thankful for so much and I'm glad I have an amazing God right beside me as I start my days and end my days and go on to the next moment. Thank you
I have started taking medicine and it seems to be helping some. I've been busy trying to learn about Fibromyalgia so I can figure out what will work for me and what won't but that is going to be an ongoing process I think. Ladies Bible study came to a close for now and soon so will MOPS so things will start slowing down some.
My ex-husband will in Albuquerque at the end of May and wants to see the kids so I need to figure out how to make that happen. The kids really do miss their father and when they bring it up, it just breaks my heart. I always struggle with what to say to them and how to comfort them. He is going to look for a job there or maybe look for one here in Flagstaff. Either way it would be great if he was a little closer to be more involved in the kids' lives. It would be could for him and them.
My birthday is next week and then Micah's is on the 18th. He'll be 40 and he's not looking forward to it at all. I'll be 38. I can't believe it at times. I think its bothering both of us a little since are bodies seem to be telling us things and that is making us feel old when we really don't want to. But its a new stage in life and we just have to go with it and keep moving forward and enjoy our family as time goes on.
Daily I continue to look for blessings to be thankful for and there are so many so its not difficult. I'm thankful for so much and I'm glad I have an amazing God right beside me as I start my days and end my days and go on to the next moment. Thank you
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| Beautiful Tulips from church (Julie McDonald's) I love flowers they make me smile. |
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| Girls Softball. We have Diamond Backs and Cardinals (Kyle is on the Padres) |
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| He never wears a hat. He looks like a little boy. (so cute and happy) |
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| thought this tree was interesting |
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| Dogtown Lake in Williams |
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| long necked bird |
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| Micah's bike trailer that he custom painted himself. He was so excited to find a trailer finally for all his toys. |
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