Blog Picture Tag & Update on progress...

Ok, so two blogs in one day!! WOW!

I am getting so much done! I just have to finish the filing cabinet & my craft area! But I am taking a break to participate in a Picture Tag & eat lunch.

I am going to play along with Sherry over at Lamp Unto My Feet. So to participate in this tag you have to show a picture, but not just any picture. It is to be the 6th picture in your 6th folder. This is what I found.

Jarred at Disney during Spring Break '08. This was our 1st time and we had sooooo much fun!! This pic was taken on the Buzz Lightyear ride which was one of our favorites. I think that we must have ridden it about 5 times!!

I'm supposed to tag 6 others, but I will tag whomever wants to play. Leave a comment so I can check out your pics. :D

I'm getting back to work now ;)

j

What I would like to accomplish today...

I would like to do absolutely nothing, ha! No really! It is raining and thundering outside, so I have decided to postpone my trip to "town" ( i love that I can say that, lol) and get my house semi-organized! Namely my room. I live in a really small duplex and my room has to house not only the typical elements of a bedroom, but also my desk and "crafting center!" I would just love to have one of those organizer/decorator people come and and make this space of my house fully functional and pretty, but I will have to settle for what these two hands can do for the time being. So that is the goal.... As a way to motivate myself (and to document proof that I actually accomplished something this weekend) I am going to share some before pictures with you.... Now I warn you, this is scary!







(Shauna, this is proof positive that my house truly is a disaster at times, lol!)

I also need to do some Business Calc hw, finish a skirt that I started sewing two months ago, make some cards, plant my tomato garden, color my hair, and do some other random cleaning this weekend. I will check in later to let you know how it's going.

Please feel free to join me in posting your before\after pictures of what you have accomplished this weekend :)

Here I am... I haven't fallen off the face of the earth....

It has been over a month since I have posted, my oh my where does the time go?

First off let me say PRAISE THE LORD!!! I graduated last week with my AA and that is nothing short of a miracle from God! This past week was just amazing! My parents flew down last Sunday and surprised me. I had to no idea they were coming and when they showed up at church I almost fainted. Instead I did the ugly cry for about five minutes! Not only did they fly down but they arranged for me to have several days off of work and got us a condo on the beach. WOW!!! I am so undeserving of every blessing God has ever bestowed upon me and this just humbled me that much more. I couldn't believe that they went to all of that trouble just for me! It was quite possibly the best week ever!! So thanks Mom & Dad! Here is a little pic from the ceremony....
The lord has truly worked miracles in my life and made a new creature in me the last four years. I was saved in September of 2005, and sometimes I just can't believe what He saved me from and where He has brought me to. I would love to share more about my testimony and how God has been working in my life and heart later but today I just wanted to give ya'll a quick update. :)

I started my first upper-division class on Monday. No, there is no rest for the weary! I secretly love school though. It is such a blessing to receive a higher education, and I thank God daily for the opportunity that He has given me to do so.

The past few days have been spent trying to get back to reality. My house is a DISASTER! I desperately need to get cleaned and organized. So that mundane task is currently topping off my to-do list. Next would be working on my tan, lol! This has been a busy week and I am looking forward to..... sleeping in on Saturday!

I need to start getting ready for work, but I pinky-promise to post again this week regarding my testimony, some great pix, and just general chit-chat!!

~love
j.

Jarred's thoughts on mom.....

1. What is something mom always says to you?
~No

2. What makes mom happy?

~Obedience

3. What makes mom sad?

~Disobedience

4. How does your mom make you laugh?

~By being funny, duh~

5. What was your mom like as a child?

~annoying probably

6. How old is your mom?

~28, but she will tell you she's 29 (Jarred swears I am still 28!)

7. How tall is your mom?

~5 inches or 5 feet?

8. What is her favorite thing to do?

~Cook

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?

~Invite friends over (that's right... party!! lol)

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?

~Being rich..... or being obedient to God and making Him happy

11. What is your mom really good at?

~Math, Biology, Pre-Calc, my school work, and being a mom

12. What is your mom not very good at?

~Letting me have what I want

13. What does your mom do for her job?

~help customers out and say "thank you for calling financial aid, how may I help you?"

14. What is your mom's favorite food?

~ice cream, cake, and vegetables. (Wow, he sure knows what I like!)

15. What makes you proud of your mom?

~when she lets me have what I want (gotta love the honesty!)

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?

~Batgirl (go figure!)

17. What do you and your mom do together?

~go on dates (he said I wasn't allowed to list that one!) play games!

18. How are you and your mom the same?

~We are both humans with brains, we are not naked, and we have books. (I don't even know how to respond to that!)

19. How are you and your mom different?

~She is annoying, I am not. She gets pimples.

20. How do you know your mom loves you?

~Because she corrects me (Can you tell that he has had the "I only do this because I love you" lecture a few times, lol) and she gives me lovins.

21. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?

~the mall

22: What would your mom be if she wasn't a mom?
~A widow and lonely.


You gotta love kids. They say the funniest things.

P.S. How do you use the strike through feature on here?

A prayer....

I found this prayer on someone else's blog today. It seems to screem the unspoken words of my heart at the moment....

".....Lord, I know in my heart that your timing is perfect, but I still feel restless in my spirit as I wait. I want to see your plans for my life unfold now. I want to know ahead of time what the future holds for me. It is so hard for me not to try to control circumstances or manipulate situations so that things happen the way I want and according to my time frame. So, during this season of waiting, carve into my character all I will need to fulfill your amazing plans for my life. Don't let me waste my time while I wait on You. Grant me your perfect peace while you prepare me. Give me wisdom about when to move and when to be still. Rmind me daily that your timing is perfect and that your plan is for my everlasting good.I choose to wait on your timing."

~Sherri Rose Shepherd

A nice thought....

A good friend of mine sent me an e-mail today that had this though in it. It blessed my heart so just thought I would share :)

'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.'
When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely
opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on this
sentence... 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will
not protect you.'

WE are enjoying our spring break (with rain and all)! Tomorrow Jarred and I are off to Mobile to the Exploreum and then to spend a night with my G-pa. We are looking forward to the trip. We have had a great week so far. It has been so nice to not have school work to do! I wanted to get out of the house and do all kinds of outdoorsy types of things, but alas that rain has prevented that. It has been a nice, quite, and restful few days and for that I am so very thankful!! Jarred has spent most of his time playing with our new favorite toy, the Wii Fit-btw if you have a Wii and don't have this thing then ladies you MUST get it. You will absolutely adore the yoga and all the other fun games!

Hope to share some pix when we get back in town.

Quick Update: A new look and Testimony to God's goodness

It is really sad when you see that you have only posted 4 times in 2009!!! To be perfectly honest I hardly sit at my desk at home anymore. This has been a crazy busy semester.

As you may know from previous posts, I am taking several classes this semester including Pre-Calc. It started out really bad at the beginning of the semester. I started really praying about it-that God would provide a tutor and a way to help me out- and of course He was right on time. I have a great tutor and my boss has also been very lenient with me in allowing me to visit the math lab weekly. What a difference all the extra effort has made!! I went from getting a D on the first test to a 95/A on a test this week. PRAISE THE LORD!!! I know that it is all His doing in me getting this stuff. I mean I am the girl that can barely add without a calculator and math was my most hated subject in high school!!

Through all the stress of this semester I kept seeing the verses "With God all things are possible," "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me," and "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." As well as many others relating to the words "all things." It dawned on me that all things means an awful lot!! I needed to just trust in Him more and lean on Him because that is the only way that I would make it through this semester or wait... this life!!

Committing myself to God is not always easy. It is far easier in theory than in reality. I do desire to be a dedicated, separated, living for Christ Christian. It is my hearts deepest desire, but I too struggle daily and have to constantly be reminded to take up my cross daily.

Even today I woke up despondent and discouraged. It was all that I could do to drag myself to work. I had to be reminded again that part of dying to myself is getting my lazy self out of bed and not allowing my flesh to have the rule over me. My heart was downcast for a good part of the morning, and finally I got God's word back out and read several verses about comfort. In about 15 minutes I went from being on the verge of tears to laughing. He is there every time we need Him and even better, when we think that we don't!

There has been a lot going on with me lately. Some things I am not ready to share with the public. But God is up to something....... I'm not quite sure what yet. But in this situation that makes me sometimes want to shout with joy and other times cry, He is showing me things little by little. He is giving me glimpses of a life that one day will be..... Hope for a future that I so desire...... an appreciation for waiting and seeing His will unfold.......and most of all gratitude for His work in me. A gratitude that does restore my joy daily-even in the mist of my sorrow-and leaves me in awe for the perfect work that He is doing in me.

I hope that you know the joy that comes with being saved. I hope that your heart sings with gratitude when you look back at the past and see what God has done for you.

This verse is also one that I have been claiming more so every day as my current circumstances makes me want to analyze every aspect of what God could possibly be doing. I am daily brought back to this truth:

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths" Proverbs 3:5-6