Where did God go?

This is a question that has been on my mind lately. Not in my life, but in everything around me. Not saying that there some days when Definetly put him on the back burner, and forget that HE is suppose to my priority not laundry, not baby, not myself..him. I just have found lately as I have been a soul journey of gaining a deeper and better understand of Christ in my life, that he seems to be missing in so many things where he should be number 1! its hard. Some days more so than others, some conversations harder to be a part of than others..some people harder to be around more more than others, its just hard. I feel like so many people are lost, lonely, materialism focused, getting ahead, making sure their kids have all the best toys, education, sports activities, art classes and dance classes..ect. I am not saying that these aren't all wonderful things, but sometimes I feel like they push God to the end of line instead of being at the front. With Christmas approaching and all the events begining..where will God fit in it for you this year? When did God stop being enough for us?

Question??

So I was at the parenting seminar last night and I got talking to some of the other parents. the discussion of girls came up and different things with raising them. one of the things that we got talking about was girls and them dressing themselves. Meaning at what age do you stop dressing your girls and letting them pick out their outfits and at what age do you stop? Do you let them go to school at the age of 5,6,7 in a princess gown if they want to, or do you make sure that they look "normal". Maybe only to church?? anyways, one of the parents said that at home they let their 7 year old wear whatever she wants, but when they go out they dress her to try and create a sense of whats normal, in her mind. So my questions is to you mamas with girls, mama's with boys, mama's to be soon or in the future, whoever, just curious, what do you think about this subject?? Do you just let the girl be who she wants to be, or do you guide her down a path of creating what you think is normal???

Random thought number 1

its late, and this is when my brain usually decides it wants to work. its quite annoying actually..most of the time! So, Dave and I started a parenting seminar at our church last week. It goes for four weeks. Yes its true we have an out of control 5 month old who needs lots of discipline...just kidding:) The truth is that we want the proper tools now so that we are being pro active and not reactive to how we want to raise our kids. The title of this seminar is how to raise healthy kids in a destructive world..or something like that. Anyways, the first week was great. We are already off to a good start in the learning curve. What they talked about seems like such basic concepts. how to raise good kids, start with being a good role model. Be who you want them to be..easier said than done..right?? The one challenge that the speaker said was to come up with one thing that you would like to change about yourself so that your children won't follow the bad trait..if you could do just one..have you thought of what it would be??

The other thing he talked about was staying focused. Focused on the goal. So what is it?
My question to you is that have you ever sat down as a family and come up with a mission statement?? what do you think of this idea?? Having a family plan, or a couple plan. The core of it comes down to in many ways one targeted thing for us, to raise our chilren to be like christ. So if we can keep everything we do focused on that wouldn't you say we would be off to a good start changing our world, one little person at a time? I think so! so that is our goal. one we will fail at probably every day, but every day we will pick ourselves up and keep trying!

The other thing that the speaker talked about that I love. Well, more of a retorical question I guess..we are we spending so much time focused on making this 100 or less years be the priority when we have a whole eternity ahead. how many hours in the day do we plan for that?

more Randomness...

So i have lots of random thoughts running through my head right now..I will be back when I get them organized!! maybe we can start up some interesting blog discussions????:) ok, I will be back...stay tuned!

5 Months old...seriously??!!!

i can't believe how fast time is flying! Addy is five months old today...so hard to believe;)

This last month has been lots of fun with our little miss. She is getting busier and more interactive all the time!

Her big milestone this month would have to be learning to sit up! She has for a couple of months done a slunched over version but this last week she has learnt how to sit fairly straight up and for a good length of time!

She loves to laugh and giggle. Farting sounds get her going the most:)hehe

Her new favorite thing to chew is her toys and her socks. Cant keep a pair on for the life of us!

She also is fasinated with scratching everything around her, loves feeling material and all the different textures..she especially loves to scratch her butt in the bathtub:)*grin*

She is busy watching the world and learning all the fasinating things around her!

To me there is nothing better than watching your child discover life! its truely amazing!!

Recent Happenings and a bunch of random thoughts!!

Its so hard to believe that it is november!! time is flying, and my baby girl is almost 5 months!! oh my:) We sure are having fun with her;)!

October has come to a close. its always a busy one for us as its again, our anniversary, my birthday, thanksgiving, and Halloween:) We had so much fun as you can see from the pictures in my last post dressing up the girls and taking them out, I look forward to making this a tradition. and again, halloween, we don't really like, but cute costumes and candy..well, who doesn't????

So between hanging out with my little girl, visiting with friends and family, and sweeping my floor what feels like 20 times a day, we have been living pretty low key...and I love it! I have always been the sort of person who needs to be going going going, and for the first time in my life I am enjoying just being. Cause God did call us human beings, not human doings...so I am learning:) Plus as stated about, it seems like time is flying with our girl, and I don't want to miss a moment!

One of the things we are doing right now, is praying, praying for some big things! A few of them being, getting out of apartment and into better and bigger living accomidations. We really really want to do a tropical trip before having another wee person join our lives, and getting Dave through his last level of his carpentry apprentice this January! We can't wait till he is done this! and hence why we want to take a trip...to celebrate this huge milestone in his life!
We are also praying very hard about what I am going to do in the spring time when the wonderful world of mat leave comes to an end. Right now the thought of going back to work makes me sick. We have come to a decision, and hopefully can stand by it that no one else but family is going to be raising our children..so God is just going to have to work out the finances for us to accomplish this. We are not sure right now how this is going to work, but we do know we serve an amazing God who wants what's best for his children, so he is going to work it out!

I have also have been doing a lot of reading lately. It helps to keep my mind working, and its a great escape at the end of the day! One book that I recently finished reading and HIGHLY recommend anyone reading is called the Glass Castle...it will change your life. or your thought life I guess you could say...it will make you appreciate so much more than you ever have before how truely blessed you are! I have a stack of a few others right now to that I will be giving reviews on, at a later date:)!

This weekend we have had some interesting small turn of events. Addy got her first cold, and her mama caught it too! So it was a few rough days around here, and still is, my little monkey is in bed coughing as I write..poor little bug:) but she is a trooper, and I am hoping all these vitamins that I have been taking are what helping us fight this sooner than later!
While my mom was over yesterday helping take care of her sick girls she discovered something nasty in my house...mold!!! in my washing machine!!! it was disguisting!!! black nasty mold in my fairly new front loader washer from Sears. Lets just say Sears wont be getting our business again anytime soon! they have been no help! so we having been trying everything this weekend trying to get it clean, but we will probably have to break down and buy a new rubber part! and now we know that apparently after every use we have to air it out to dry...so annoying!! but I did discover, through my research, something very interesting. A new cleaning agent..ready for this....hydrogen peroxide! works wonders..better than bleach...who knew:)!!!

So november is here, we are looking forward to a few different events this month, including a parenting seminar at our church every thursday for a month..will be back with review on that as well!! anyways, that's my late sat night catch up on life around these parts:)!

Addyson's first Halloween

How much fun am I having with all these firsts...tons!!! This weekend obviously was halloween, and addy got to be the cutiest little lady bug I have ever seen! Yesterday was filled with lots of fun with her cousins, we did a family kids photo shoot in the afternoon, than tricker treating around David's sisters area, than over to my parents place to do some more around their culda sac! All in all a great day! the girls did a great job at getting their daddy's and mommy's lots of treats! Can't wait for next year when she is walking and talking..should be even more fun~ I love building all these traditions with our families..its a blast! and i look forward to many more;)!


Lady bug addy and Eden Bear;)

The girls and their daddy's!

I love my lady bug!

Ok, not a fan of this picture of me, but I love her shirt that we got! And we couldn't get her to look at the camera because she was too distracted by her tights!

Cousins:)

LOok mom I can fly!