Good Start for This Month

Wow! ...grin... I have a follower. I am so excited! ...clap, clap... :D Yep, it is my loving sister. I just love her so much. ...more grin...

Well I have only managed three posts this month. I will work on posting more frequently in the future. I have been going through some growing times so I will probably post those- sensitive topics- in the not so near future. I believe that I am experiencing some of God refining. I am learning and facing things that are not necessarily easy to. So, I,as most children do (a stubborn one, no less) with their parents am bucking the loving lessons God is blessing me with. :) One, its kinda hard to think the life lessons are blessings when you are right in the middle of learning the tough uncomfortable ones... yep, you feel me... nobody likes those kinds :D With that said, that is a sign of the Holy Spirit doing his thing. I, being Me, would normally say that in a not so positive way at aaallll and certainly would NOT call it ...chuckle... a blessing.

God is working in other areas too. This morning was kickoff for our contemporary worship service at our Church. It has been a long and at times discouraging process but here it is. Praise the Lord!! There were over 150 people in attendance with many volunteers helping all the areas that make it happen. The feeling of the presence of the Lord was a peaceful feeling. As I sit here recalling it, I just smile all the way through to my toes. The service went relatively smooth. A few things here and there, but then that would leave us no room for improvement ;)

Well you may be wondering what my role in all of this might be. I am part of the Contemporary Worship Service Team and I am the band groupie, ie roadie. LOL I lug the electric guitar player's equipment around (swoon, he's soo dreamy, eyes flutter), attend all practices and performances to cheer them on (woot, woot) and I work the soundboard etc in the sound booth (stress, worry and work hard to get good sound and no screaming feedback with a system that has been in place for a non contemporary venue). God is blessing this because there have not been issues that have not been manageable.

We enjoyed spending the afternoon at the Bible's. Bunches of kids playing and swimming, the adults enjoying fellowship and of course food. The living room evolved into quote "The Man's Cave" unquote and the alarms would sound until women intruders figured out they, um, were entering a testosterone zone, so they would drop off the babies and quickly retreat. ;D Hehe, let them think it's a man cave instead of the babysitting zone if it makes them feel MANLY. "Thank you Susan and Andrew for opening up your home for such an enjoyable afternoon."

LOL Ok. Well I didn't make this post before I went to bed, so I didn't make the three post for last month after all. The positive side - I have a good start for this month. :D

Nothing to do with Purple Honey

As you can see it has been a bit. This blogging is very new to me and it IS intimidating. Why? you ask. For a ton of insecurities about myself and abilities. So here I am, :D just me, being me. I don't even have a title for the post. ...sitting... starring...still starring at the Title bar... Maybe it will come maybe it wont.

My sweet man stumbled across a blog while looking for information on purple honey. (He researches everything... grin... and unlike me retains 99% of it) The blog only had one entry about the subject. So for it to be pulled in the top three of a search was kinda odd. He read the most recent post and just had to read more. So off to the archives to begin at the beginning. He encourages me several times to read it and after bits of time would ask "have you started yet?" "ok, well start at the beginning and read all the first month". Easier said than done on my end. Interruptions gallour and back to the beginning I go again. So now i am thinking to myself. "you know you cant read this until the kids go to bed" . "LOL, hehe you go to bed when the kids go to bed" I told myself. Yes everyone, I talk out loud to myself. Pretty much I'm the only one that listens. (grin) Or maybe the one I don't have to speak repeatedly to again and again.

Well God cleared a chunk of time and I got all the way through Dec 05. Not without crying mind you. There is a purpose my sweet man found this blog. It sounds like this woman knows my feelings, fears, etc. I can RELATE to it so very much. I rejoice and cry. Thank you Lord for this woman. Thank you for laying it upon her to be so open and candid about all that she does.

Here is a woman, who has gone before me, felt what I feel, struggle what I struggle. Not exactly, same but different, but so very close. Maybe one day I will write with out needing to feel so guarded about what other people think all the time. Confident that I AM REAL and I AM GOD's child and I AM SAVED... by grace mind you.

There is so much on my mind and it goes a hundred different directions. Maybe my blog will grow into something great. Maybe it will touch someone. Maybe it will be just for me. God has a plan for me. I know I constantly fight it. I wont open up to it. My heart has been greatly damaged (understatement), imprisioned. Forever changed. I want to. I want to be free. I need to be free. Not only for myself but for my children, my future husband, for those that remained close and for anyone in the future.

Back on track..... grin... My sweet man called and asked the most recent question of the day. :) I choked as I told him I was through most of Dec. tear. He responded that it pretty much had that affect on him as well. Isn't God glorious. "Thank you Lord for the Sweet Man you graciously blessed me with." And when I say graciously, I mean that I by no means what so ever come close in deserving. ...cross arms...humph..pout... Nope, in the slightest.

(Ahh, a title :) )

LOL, the blog's name that I am referring to is 'Paid in Full'

Our First Egg

My fiance has been saying our hens should be laying soon. So with anticipation rising each day, the kids and I take a peek to see if they have. Nope. Nope. Nope. Ugh, still no! We were beginning to think they would never lay. So M had a little chat with them Thurs. "Listen here ladies, you have three days to lay an egg or I will have one of you for dinner." I chuckled when he told me that. :)

As usual, after getting home from work, I checked the hens to see if they have enough food and water and peek inside the nest in hopes to see a little prize. OMGosh! AN EGG!! I couldn't believe it. I did a ultra mini happy dance (just in case someone was looking) then I thought, "no way this is a joke, its too big for a first egg" I go inside and accuse my niece of pranking me and she played clueless. I called my fiance, and HE played clueless. So COOL it was for real. I could not wait till my son got home so he could get it. Nice thing was, he was as excited as I was.

So Friday May 1, 2009 was the day we got our first egg. I am guessing they didn't want to be dinner :)

"Ah!" my sleuth of a son exclaimed, "a mystery. WHO, laid they egg?"