To blessed..lessons from a puppet

Thursday I listened to a podcast and it was exactly what I needed. It was a kid ministry podcast but honestly it could be for anyone. It was a podcast by the Kidologist and he had a guest speaker on the show...his puppet friend. His puppet friend did a rap, and it was called "To blessed to be stressed." This rap was to the tune of To legit. It was rather funny, but that quote or whatever has stayed with me.  I shared it with my husband and we actually have said it to each other a couple times a day.
 Life is stressful..yes but look at what you have. Look at where you are, and who is in your life.  I feel so blessed it is crazy. Last Sunday a girl in Kidz 4 Christ made me an awesome book mark. (I usually use paper) Today I got a flower, and not just a dandelion..a real flower. Don't ask me what Kind because I don't know..( purple) I just feel like since we have been saying a couple times a day hey we are to blessed to be stressed it helps us seriously be thankful and think about our blessings and what we have.
 It really has made me quite excited..about life. God is really doing some awesome things and I feel like I could just run around town and paint fire hydrants...haha ( inside joke with Tues night small group) But seriously i feel so excited and I thank God for that Joy. So when you feel stressed and like you want to pull your hair out just say I'm to blessed to be stressed. Hope that helps! :)

blooger

The title of this post is rather weird, but you will laugh when I tell you what it means.  Every time I want to go to my blog and I am trying to type in blogger.com It always says blooger..no Joke! Every single time I look up and it says blooger. Makes me laugh every time:)
 Ever do something so often and yo still don't get it right? I know how you feel..You do it over and over and you still mess up. But that is when we just gotta laugh and try it again. I feel like March has kinda been a month of new beginnings..a new look on life. I have really been learning so much like everyday. Kidz 4 Christ ministry is making alot of changes that I am so excited about. God seriously has some awesome things in store for our church:)
 Just so much has been happening and everyday has just been a new fresh day. I love opening the curtains and letting the sun shine in, I love exercising and feeling so healthy. Not only my physical body but my spiritual body. It is just really cool to be able to mess up and just laugh and try again. Ok so messing up is not always so cool but you get my point :)

I don't know

yesterday afternoon I was reading a Kidministry leadership book that I bought awhile ago. I decided to go through and read the things that I had underlined. After I did that I knew why I underlined things..they were so helpful. I read one that stuck with me and sort of feels like my motto right now. It said "Turn your I don't know's into I will find out"
 That jsut really stuck with me because I honestly want to live like that. I don't want to leave things at I dont know so I will probally never know. I want to learn and push forward. I feel like that is what I am trying to do in alot of areas of life right now...turn those questions into I will find out. I don't want to just  be satisfied I want to go further in so many areas of life. I guess reading that and it sticking with me was sort of a motivater. I am motivated to push, to find out, to go further.  Do you have some I don't knows that maybe need to be figured out in yor life? :)

simple colorful Saturday

Saturdays are indeed marvelous, but some are of course better than others.  When Josh works overtime I usually clean house or do something crafty or go for a walk in the snow. When Josh is not working Saturdays are splendid whether we plan something fun or just lay around the house all day.  Today was a different kind..one that helped us check something off our list of moving forward. Today I finally got my permit..:) yes it's a little late in the game but that's OK. We are now hoping to get my license by summer..oh how great that will be. After that we celebrated with breakfast at Denny's (our favorite place for breakfast) then just went to the mall.
 We have this thing where he plays video games and I either do something crafty, read or go on a fashion craze. Tonight was fashion craze..I among many others love pinterest. I found this hair tutorial for wavy hair with the flat iron, so I tried that out and it actually worked. So then I decided lets try on clothes. This may be my outfit for church in the morning ( if you read this please don't judge) I actually kinda liked what I had put together. Josh always asks why I always wear scarves.  It simply pulls an outfit together. Before the scarf I didn't like it and then with scarf it changed the whole look.
  Just so you know I never knew how I felt about blogs with pictures of people and their outfits and themselves, but tonight I thought hey why not...I am always up for something new and different even if it is only something I will try never again. I always see looks I like on people well why not actually like a look on me..:) I think if i saw this on someone I would want to wear it. Well my random blog about the random things I like to do on a random Saturdays is concluded...

old skool parenting

As I am sitting here at my desk today researching, reading and listening I stumbled upon a website that is very interesting. I wanted to share my thoughts on the subject. The subject of the particular blog post I read is old skool parenting..should we go back to it? As I read through many of the methods that parents use today and then look at the " old skool" methods there is a pretty big difference between now and then.  I will not ever judge someones parenting methods.  I am not a parent yet so I obvioulsy don't know what you go through. I am trying to learn and trying to understand things for when I do become a parent.
 All I will say is I want to raise my children up in the Lord, and in this particular blog the things it lists as "old skool" honestly I think are common sense things that need to still be done in the home. )except for a few) The point is that family is important, and I think there needs to be more family time. Do you know what is going on with your kids at school? What they are thinking? Do you discuss what they learned at church? Like I said I am not a parent, I am not jusdging, and I don't htink any of you are bad parents :) I just wanted to share what I thought about what I read.  Here is the site for you to check out yourself if you would like:) http://www.epicparent.tv/epicparent-goes-retro-returns-to-old-skool-parenting/

I want more..we should all want more

This morning was a really awesome time for me in Kidz church. I had so much fun helping the kids understand what it means to love God and spend time with him. We read in Nehemiah where Ezra got up and read Gods word for hours and hours, and the people listened. the people rejoiced because they then realized how much God loved them. They spent more time listening and worshipping. We learned about the feast of the booths where people who followed God made their own tents and for a whole week stayed their and all that time was spent with God. WHOA! first of all how amazing would that be to not have all the hustle and bustle and to be able to just go away and spend time with God. Anyway it says these people fell in love with God. They spent that week with him and they couldn't get enough of him.
   After that week was over they didn't stop..God was their number one. The bible says they fell in love with God. This happened because they spent time with him, and they more time they spent the more they loved him. The more time we spend with him the more we love, and as that love grows we become stronger, bolder and more joyful and we just can't get enough.
 I absolutely love this..it is just amazing to me, and yes I have read this many times before but when I was teaching those kids today and they were all just starring at me it was like they got it They wanted this..this love. It was an amazing feeling, and all of us together made a commitment to spend at least 5 minutes a day for a week reading God's word The ultimate truth and see if after that they want more. I want to fall deeper in love with God..

Valentines day

Wow! can you beleive that it is Februaury already..? Time she does fly..It feels like we just celebrated Christmas. Now it is about time to celebrate our very first valentines day as a married couple. I am trying to find a fun creative idea. I really like to do homemade things, and I think Josh likes that to. I already know what I am doing for our anniversary ( can't beleive it's only 1 month away) but that will have to be a secret until then. I have ideas rolling around in my head. I cold write a poem and frame it, little love notes, just buy him something, or somethign corny like you see here. Which obvioulsy is what I am leaning towards because it is something I would do, and it owul dmake him laugh that I chose to be that corny. Although the gift really doesnt matter at all I like giving gifts. I especially like giving fun cheesy gifts to my husband that are hillarious. At the end of the day its about how much fun we had. Life is not all about fun, but why not try to make it as fun as you can. :) This valenties day don't stress over a gift or where to go or what to cook, just do something you both like, watch a love movie ( valenties day) and eat chocolate oh and laugh ALOT! :)

- This came from datingdivas.com and it simply says our love is red hot..yes hillarious. I have to admit I do love it. Hope you all have a wonderful valentines day full of fun and laughter.