God is good!!

A lot has happened since i was on blogger last. I ran into some health issues. I had to go to the emergency room for chest pains and they did a bunch of test, come to find out i have a blood clot on one of the main vessels to my heart. The doctor says that is not a huge clot but one he thinks should pass through and if it doesn't it may result to surgery. <please lord make it go away without surgery>. On a positive note our oldest daughter (Bethany) has A's and B's and our youngest daughter (Kailyn) is officially potty trained and not to mention we moved and are in the process of BUYING OUR FIRST HOUSE...I'm so excited..

April 21,2011

I really need to keep up with my blog but these last couple of weeks have been pure madness, I need a vacation. Really soon. I love my family but i am in dyer need of me time. I heard someone say that you can't give the best to your family if you can't give yourself the best. meaning i need more me time i just think it would be healthy to get away for a bit. A few hours would be perfect. So my scentsy business is doing great. God is good. I need to get some recruits that would be fantastic. <--- been using that word a lot lately.. =)... Kailyn is doing pretty good on her potty training, she has her days where she wants no part of it and others where she is on that thing all day..

March 31,2011

So we have been on this long journey of buying a house, It has been crazy and in a way made me super emotional. We had found this one house and put in a offer and the owners counter offered and so we put in another offer and instead of counter offering or just telling us no thanks they pulled it (meaning taking it off the market) grrrr. So now what???? We continued looking and nothing was right for us i mean you have to be able to see your family in the house along with your things, so we think we may have found "the one" we went with our realtor to look at it and of course i had developed a fear and that was liking the house and well i did and i still do. So we let our realtor know that we were interested and he spoke with the owners realtor and now we have to go do paper work i just hope this all works out... Wish us luck!!

March 25, 2011

This week has went by fast. I am so ready for the weekend we are having family pictures i am excited. I love love pictures i would be perfectly content if that was the only thing i owned. after pictures i have a scentsy party to do. This month has been great i finally made LEAD i am so thankful to all my customer's they are amazing. Kailyn is doing great on her potty training i haven't posted any pictures recently but i will. Bethany is out of school for spring break it's been pretty mellow here (knock on wood)

Something to think about..... I'm ready

 Luke 21:10

10Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

12“But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name. 13This will result in your being witnesses to them. 14But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. 15For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. 16You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. 17All men will hate you because of me. 18But not a hair of your head will perish. 19By standing firm you will gain life.

20“When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. 22For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. 23How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

25“There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. 26Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. 27At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

29He told them this parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees. 30When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near. 31Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.

32“I tell you the truth, this generation^b will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 33Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

34“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. 35For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

37Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives, 38and all the people came early in the morning to hear him at the temple.

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Thursday March 10th 2011

Yesterday was a long day of potty training we will see how today goes. The husband informed me last night he needed to get up at 3am because he has to work in Little Rock...*sigh* okay, I just got my kiddo off to school and Kailyn is still in bed. I love the mornings i can get up and have a cup of coffee in silence before all the craziness hits (2 year old events) by the end of the day i'm locking myself in the bathroom..lol but that's the life of a stay at home mommy. I really wouldn't trade it for the world but i am seriously considering going back to work. I need to have ANY type of a life outside these walls. I went to a scentsy convention Feb 22 and was gone all night boy did i have some serious with drawls.. I know nothing when it comes to this blogging but i'm going to try and i must warn you i am not the greatest at keeping up with this kinda (<-- funny spell check didn't correct that sad that most slang has become a part of vocabulary) stuff. I would always buy a diary or journal and say yeah i'm going to do that and i would forget all about it before the end of the week hit. So this week my sister's and i are supposed to find out when we can go pick my father's ashes up. It's still so weird i am still expecting his call and it hasn't quiet hit me yet that he is gone. Since his passing i have developed a fear and that's being alone. We didn't have the best relationship with my dad as a small child. I was a small child when my parents divorced so i don't have many memories of them as a couple and us as a family. But i have a step father DAD (Johnnie) has been the most wonderful person in the world and i can't imagine what life would be like without him as i had said before i didn't have much of a relationship with my real father so god sent a great one (Johnnie) to fill that void. Over the years and the birth of my 2 daughters i developed a relationship with my real father and i forgave him for the past and i was able to have a type of compassion for him, he didn't have a great life after my mother moved with me and my 2 sisters and in the last years of his life you could see that it had taken a toll on him, he gain a lot of weight and he started to age fast his health had deteriorate he had to go and live in nursing homes and had done well so that thought he would be fine in a assist living facility and that's where he was for the remainder of his life. We talked on a regular basis and went to visit when we could. But looking back now i should have visit more i should have called more, I had went a couple of days at a time without talking to him so i didn't think a thing of it. I talked to him about 4 days before. Well my aunt had tried to call him and she didn't get any answer so she got worried and she called the police and they to had tried to call and they got no answer and so they sent someone over and they had a skeleton key card (one that opens all the doors) went inside and found him in bed. They phoned my aunt and she went over cause they needed someone to identify him, they say he passed in his sleep and that he appeared to have been gone at least 18 hours or so. to most people they would find comfort in the fact he passed in his sleep and i don't. yeah i'm glad that's how he went BUT i'm still angry that he's gone. I know it will take time. He was a heavier man and so rigor mortis had set in quicker so we had to get everything (arrangements) done asap because of that. A word of advice if you have a parent that wasn't always there for you but you still care about them LET THEM KNOW..

           

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My dad...

God sends us all kinds of messages and they appear in all forms. It maybe the loss of a loved one, a addition to a family. You can't hear these messages with your ears you have to listen with your heart. I just recently lost my biological father. As soon as i found out i was tore, my heart was hurt and still is hurt. Of course i am still really angry about it. My dad was 55 years old and he passed in his sleep, I'm not convinced because after he passed i ended up with his meds so that i could dispose of them properly he wasn't in great health so there are a lot of pills he had in divided into the little trays with the days of the week and so i have been using it as a time line and it doesn't make me feel any better. I am searching for closure and i know i won't get it anytime soon. But i know with time comes healing i know i am going to have to listen to the good lord to seek out the closure i am needing so badly. There really is power in prayer.

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."
1 Corinthians 13