There is simply nothing good that happens when your husband has the day off, you both share a love of Lord of the Rings and you have recently been given "War in the North" for Christmas. I love that he says the game was for me... HA. The facts are: my children were neglected today, (they had a BLAST) there are dishes piled in the sink (I'll be busy tomorrow) and the game was totally defeated... (by 8 pm). We're total losers - for real. But we had fun (once we put the settings on EASY).

So as far as resolutions go, I've been doing some thinking... (uh oh)(What's with the parenthesis?)

When I think of resolutions I think of the word resolve - of course. I think most of us don't have much resolve which is why most of us don't stick to resolutions ANY time of the year. (that's profound, I know... ;P) I'll save any further blah blah blah here and just say this: In my humble opinion, if you want to see change in your actions, it's got to start in your heart. You can't change an action without it flowing out of the heart. You can resolve to be a better Mom, but if your heart isn't where it should be, I give it ten minutes... Not to mention it's a process. Life is about the journey and not the destination... a lame but SO true statement. Here's my example. Deep in my heart there is a desire and NEED to be steering my children to Jesus - in every situation in life I want them to follow Him. Not man made up garbage of following this rule or that, but truly learning to love and follow Jesus. They've got a good foundation because God is merciful... but I want to do more for them and feel the conviction. How can I do a better job? Take them straight to the source of course. Every year, the four weeks before Christmas day I have read a neat advent story to the kids each night. We enjoy this time together a lot and wanted to continue... Call it a resolution if you want but my intentions are to read to them each night from the Children's story Bible we have, knowing we'll skip nights for no good reason - but that conviction will still be there, and something will be done about it. Period. It's why I'm on this Earth...

Point is: enjoy the journey: your 20 year old was just two three minutes ago right? Enjoy those babies while they're little... it goes fast. Hate your job? Find something to appreciate about it - the next one you have may truly be AWFUL...

Now, I must sign off because I am TOO tired and may wake up thinking "why would I type that?"?

'Twas the fourth day after Christmas...

This picture makes me feel better about myself!! So what do you do when you look around and are overwhelmed at the normal stuff, the Christmas stuff, the new stuff... the toddler stuff? Of course, you decide that everyone needs to switch bedrooms. Duh! It was time to reevaluate who shared which room with whom... THAT was a fun conversation! (??)

Yes, that just happened. You'd think 6 people in a 2,000 sq. ft. house wouldn't be an issue considering there are people under bridges doing just fine not too far from here ("just fine" - not really but...) Well, we've got issues and lots of them in the forms of the following:

*Naked Barbies with matted hair and one boot
*cars with three wheels
*blah blah blah... you get the point.

It's ridiculous and we need to rent a dumpster. I know I'm not alone here - we all have too much crap. In our family we also have a certain member who shall remain nameless (CHIP) who likes to collect things... I'll leave it at that. (stupid dumb Star Wars...) Now I'm done.

SO... I got boxes out of the garage, labeled several "donate", "keep" and "throw away"... then I shut the doors and am praying that things happen in those rooms. Meanwhile I deal with a toddler who wants fish sticks like five minutes ago AND the ache in my heart for the sweet crooning of Christmas to not go away just yet.

This verse has been going through my head constantly for about a week: "You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. ~Isaiah 26:2-4. Not "pretty good" peace but PERFECT peace. There are SO many things that threaten to occupy my mind and DO if I let them - finances, relationships, emotionally charged "battles" that are not mine to fight...even thinking about the future.

I think too often we pray for peace about things in our lives AS we think about them... Peaces comes as our minds are FIXED on Him instead - not tinkering constantly in what's going on around us. (Peter sank when he took his eyes off Jesus) I don't want to sink!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Well hello there

Sometimes I look at that little box on face book that asks me "what's on my mind" and I get antsy. There's always a lot more on my mind and in case you ever feel like hearing about it, this is the spot.

Ironically there's nothing floating around up there at the moment so we'll just leave it at that. Here's my blog. Enjoy for what it's worth~

K