As we journey together “let us think of ways to motivate one another in acts of love and good works”(Hebrews 10:24 NLT)

As i sit here tonight pondering my first link up with the better mom, i find myself really unsure what to write about! A year ago it would have been very different I am sure! But tonight. I am one worn out exhausted momma to four kids.

My house looks like a tornado hit it…ok lets be honest four tornados! We have completed homework, made three meals, done chores, done dishes and it still needs a lot of work!. Earlier this week i read a blog post that was something along the lines of getting you energy back. I took notes and am trying to put one major concept pt into play!

At a certain time in the evening be done with technology! I have done that for the last few nights and oh how true it is! And i promise as soon as i am done writing this I will do the same. It gives us a chance to unwind. To enjoy some peace. Instead of getting caught up in all that is happening in the world, whether it be on the news channel or on the news feed! This wasn’t one of my original goals for this year but it is something I definitely plan on implementing!

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The Weather:::
It has been unseasonably warm this past weekend end but no wrries *SIGH*. Temps will drop again!

Right now I am:
Dressed in a purple scrubby sweatshirt and jeans an sneaks, laying across my bed propped up on one arm feet dangling off the edge.

Thinking:
I am utterly exhausted. I want to go to bed this instant but that is just not going to happen.

On my reading pile:::
A bunch of books to be completed.
The bible

On my tv:::
Cosby show reruns

Favorite Blog post this week (mine or other)::
On a friends blog…..sistersnfriends, she was talking about her stay in NYC for her second bout of cancer treatment. The post was called Corner of Provision and 67th.

Something fun to share:::

On the menu for this week:::
Monday- pizza rolls…one cheese burger and one pepperoni
Tuesday – pasta
Wednesday – chef salads
Thursday – Chicken and baked potatoes
Friday – pizza night
Saturday – meatball subs
Sunday – leftovers

On my to do list:::
laundry- wash, dry, fold put away
Dishes
Organize games
Put away Christmas decorations (yeah its pretty late for us!)

What I am sewing, crocheting, knitting or creating:::
Curtains
Skirts for the bug

Homemaking Tips:::
None for now

Looking around the house:::
Ugh….it feels as though i am still trying to regroup from Christmas and the tummy bug that hit us! Lets just stay its not what i would like it to be!

From the camera:::
Weasel and the slinky dog hubby made for him!

On my prayer list:::
Friends and family.
Situations at church
Our kiddos

Bible verse, Devotional:::
Proverbs 3:5&6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your pathes.

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This post has been a long, LONG TIME COMING! I’m sorry i haven’t been around much!

I love to blog and write and all this great stuff but, i am also a Pastor’s wife and mom to four amazing kiddos! One of those kiddos we just recently discovered has some form of autism. We are in the process of filling out mountains of paperwork, getting past medical records, and just trying to cope until we can get some help for out little guy.

He is such a joy and we love him deeply as we do our other kids but Weasel is different. Most people don’t see it. They just think he’s disobedient or high maintenance. We have people telling us we don’t discipline him enough. And we have people who won’t follow our instructions, and raise their voices at him…then after i spend 20 minutes calming him so his little hands and feet stop shaking so much i have to deal with questions like…”mommy why don’t people like me?” Yes we are still dealing with repercussions of that weekend.

He is a runner. When he gets overwhelmed he takes off. We have modified our house. We will install a fence, one he can’t climb.

I plan on blogging more about all of this but despite all of this God is here with us. Through the verbal tics, the frustrated yells (of weasel, not hubby and I), through the tears of watching our son struggle through life. God is here. He understands, He loves, He comforts. He never ever leaves!

Please pray for our family. Pray especially for our older children even though they are older , they are still young enough to not really comprehend.
Tornado prays nearly every day that weasel would become normal. Ahhh out of the mouth of babes! Oh if God would only make it so!

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(Otherwise titled “when life hands you a puke bucket!)

Yep that pretty much sums up our Christmas break. I was pretty bummed to say the least. No Christmas Eve service. No Christmas dinner. No Monkey Bread or Christmas breakfast. Not even all the presents had been finished.

But despite all of that, we were together, we were warm and sheltered from crazy snow storms, and we were relaxed. We are going on two weeks of this now and pretty much everyone is better except for me. My stomach takes a little longer especially eating dairy when I am sick but my focus is better. I hate being sick, but I am grateful for it because I might have missed some pretty amazing moments….AND I don’t think I would have started reading my daughters first chapter book with her. Well at least I am reading it to her!

This Christmas season was not just riddled with sickness, there have been some other major trials too. I will write more about that over the coming weeks.

But for now i will leave you with a belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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So this morning I got my kids up, and got them off to school. We are just beginning our snow storm this weekend. They were excited and really were not focusing well, but their joy was contagious. Hubby is moving stuff around outside so we can host our yearly deacons Christmas Party tonight. The dishwasher is running, i have two other munchkins in various places in my house. And i finally got to sit on the couch and enjoy my cup of coffee!

My living room is full of comfy places to sit and anywhere I choose to sit i have an amazing view as the snow collects on the trees mountains, and grass. I know we are in for a doozy just by the sky. The sky is not gray, but just as white as the snow.

The Christmas tree in plugged in and I have Newsboys radio playing on Pandora. (I needed some peppy music this morning as I finished up Projects for tonight). The events of the last few weeks whirling through my head. My kids and Christmas constantly whirling around in my head like the falling snow outside.

I am grateful for so many blessings, my husband, my kids, our church, our home…..SALVATION…..PEACE.

In the Bible snow represents purity or being clean. When I think of clean in the Bible, I am reminded that usually it required blood being shed,. In the old testament and the gospels that was animals and then culminated in the final sacrifice of Jesus. As I think of that blood shed, i think of twenty little children who will be celebrating Jesus’ birthday with him the Christmas. As hard as life is here on this earth, these children are experiencing true peace like no other. As a parent of four kids….7,6,5 and 2. I cringe and shudder at my own words, just because I can’t imagine! I know truth but it is still hard! Each day i have to give my family over to God. It got a little harder a week ago today, but I still must!

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