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Hi all, i know this is a few days late but i wanted to touch on the questions at the end of Fridays post! This book club has been challenging. If refreshes me and yet challenges me in things I already knew and yet have slipped through my fingers asI have become a weary mom. I have come to realize that being a weary mom is the best place for me to be, because I keep my eyes on Jesus!

This weeks chapter was a great reminder of the power of music!
The song that ran through my head all week……grace, grace, God’s grace. Grace that is greater than all my sin. This song was comforting me in two ways. It reminded me that I’m not perfect and yet I’m covered. Grace takes care of my imperfection! Secondly it’s a great reminder that those who hurt me whether my kids, hubby, or others around me need grace. I need to extend the same grace to them as Christ did to me! Does that mean I am to be a doormat? Nope! Sometimes I need to take a stand and always God will fight for those who are upright. So my character needs to be blameless!

My steps to focus on Jesus, has been beefed up since starting this study! God totally lured my heart here. I played catch up and have been impacted immensely. So this book club has played a big part in that! Secondly MUSIC! And thirdly and definitely the biggest is God’s word. Sometimes it seems so textbook, but it never returns void! No matter how many times i’ve read certain book chapters or verses there is always something new for me to dwell on!

Praying on my knees is certainly a struggle both physically, and emotionally! First off I have been super hard my my knees but that has not stopped me. I don’t pray on my knees as often as I should BUT when I do, and I humble myself to kneel before my creator, my heart refreshes as I pour out my deepest concerns! I want to make this a more common practice but in the same respect I don’t want to become flippant either!

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Hi all, i think this is my second time doing this post and hopefully as I settle into a new routine it will become more frequent.

So a little about myself. My name is Mary, i am the owner and author of this blog and yet it is solely dedicated to my walk with Christ. You’ll get a little bit of everything with me!

I am the wife to my red-headed pastor husband! I love him dearly! And we have been married for almost 10 years! Can it really be that long already!

We have four amazing kids whom we love very much as well! Three boys and a daughter and they all keep us hopping. The oldest is almost 8 and the youngest is almost 3. Yep we pretty much have stair steps!

This coming week will mark our four year anniversary at our current church and we love it here!

Over the last six months our lives have changed a bit! Our 5 year old son was diagnosed with Aspergers last month. This really has taken it’s toll. We are beginning to be able to understand things a little more so we are realizing that somethings really need to change. One of those things is our schedules.

As a pastors family we live pretty crazy lives as it is, and things are ALWAYS changing but as we have come to realize our son really struggles with this! So i have come up with a few ways to help!

Here are some of my goals.
1. I already menu plan but I am finding it necessary to make meals ahead! I love to cook but depending on the day and it’s circumstances, i am finding that I am just too exhausted.

2. Blogging is one outlet that I have let slide. I love to do it and have been doing so since like 2007! So in order to do a good job I have set up a blogging schedule, and I have found thus far, I am accomplishing a lot more!

3. And back a few months ago I modified my cleaning schedule. And then our son started having major meltdowns and it just seemed as though hubby and I would deal with those issues for literally hours and then have nothing else to give. So now as i settle into this new rhythm i look forward to implementing this!

It is my hope and prayer that these simplified things will make a positive impact on our family life as well as be glorifying to God in all that we say and do!

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The Weather:::
COLD!

Right now I am:
Watching the sunset as I type!

Thinking:
That life hurts sometimes but there is so much to be grateful for!

On my reading pile:::
Bible
Hope for the weary mom
Prized
Just Like Jesus

On my tv:::
Bonanza
Once upon a time

Favorite Blog post this week (mine or other):::
None

Something fun to share:::
This is my 4 and a 1/2 foot (yes i typed tat right) bear hubby got me for valentines day! The chair he is sitting in hubby and I sit in together!

On the menu for this week::
Monday-leftovers
tuesday- chicken noodle soup
Wednesday- crockpot manicotti
Thursday- burgers and tater tots
Friday- pizza
Saturday- pulled pork
Sunday- out

On my to do list:::
Freezer meals
Mixes made
Finish up a bunch of projects
Restore my house to normal working order (its close)

What I am sewing, crocheting, knitting or creating:::
Doll clothes,
baby blanket
Pot holders

Homemaking
Lists! Make lots of lists

Looking around the house:::
Most of our little people are asleep still. They took a late nap! Hubby is working on a Greek Diagramming project and me…i am recovering from a major sinus headache earlier

From the camera:::

On my prayer list:::
Family
Friends
Church family

Bible verse, Devotional:::
So many times in life we hold all of the mistakes our loved ones make from in the past over their heads. I am so very grateful that God doesn’t do that to us. His grace is greater than All my sins! I should bestow this same grace to all those around me! They aren’t perfect and neither am I. (These are my personal thoughts after reading Chapter one of Max Lucado’s book Just Like Jesus)

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WEEK 6 when the words are slow to come.

I think we’ve all been there. For me it is most certainly the noise level and as a mom of three boys, there most certainly is A LOT of noise…..and i usually end it with a very loud ENOUGH! That could be heard down the road!

That is one thing that drives me nuts but the other….is whining…..i DETEST IT.

And God tests me with it every day! I used to tease, before i was a mom i prayed for patience, then God gave Us Tornado and i stopped praying for patience! Tornado has matured greatly since i made that statement nearly 6 1/2 years ago!

One of the things tornado loved to do was pull every book on ALL the bookshelves off…now note we have a TON of books and tornado and his sister are 14 months apart so i was VERY pregnant when he went through this stage! And then two of them when i had our next 16 months after ladybug( it was by no means my plan). My patience has been tried many times everyday for the last 7 1/2 years.and yes i have said somethings i regret! But yet this weary mom does have hope!

I now have four kids ages 7,6,5 and almost 3…..thats four kids in 5 years! Of course i am weary. On top of all of this i have a specials needs child, which is a relatively new discovery! And that tries me more than anything I have ever done in my life!

The only thing that holds this all together is my relationship with Christ. It isn’t where i want it to be, i’m not sure it ever will( i have pretty high expectations and goals). But just as all the authors have already said this week, God’s word is what we need to accomplish our calling. I need to rely on Him more and call out to Him for His help in times of stress!

The words of one of my professors from college echoes in my head…
“You can’t give them what you don’t have.”

How true…..

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