Yes God??????

Do you ever feel like God is trying to tell you something and you are just too stubborn to hear it? I have just been praying lately for me to be able to just enjoy life better where I am. I am the queen of the "what if's"! Don't get me wrong I love my boy's and that I get this amazing opportunity to be home with them, but between the hormones and the fact that I did love my old job and just pure selfishness in wanting more for me, I find myself struggling some day's to be joyful.
I have prayed and prayed that God will just miraculously have me wake up like a fairy tale princess, me singing, birds chirping, my children smiling(and not because they just messed their pants) and my husband had just made me breakfast in bed. No that is not the answer God has given me, instead he has be telling me to just praise him no matter how I feel.
"Hello, God not what I wanted to hear!"
So I chose to ignore that and you know what he wouldn't let me. I know this may sound cheesy but every time I turned on the radio the song Blessed Be Your Name by Matt Redman was on.
So after about the 20th time of hearing it, finally it hit me. First and foremost no matter how I feel I just need to praise the name of God. Way to go God you wore me down!

On the fun side my youngest has started to crawl.
Well maybe not full crawling but he gets up on all 4s and starts moving forward and backwards

till he gets enough momentum than lunges for what ever he was going for!

Blessed Be Your Name
by Matt Redman
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Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name

Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name

Ohhhh The Facts of Life

I just read a friends blog about her glorious day becoming a woman and it got me thinking not only about the day that "fred" came to visit me for the first time (I don't know why it is called fred, that is just what my older sisters called it), but about what is it that I am going to have to deal with having boys and the changes of life! I really truly have no idea what to expect. Do they have a day when it all changes like for a girl or for them or is it slowly over time. Do you as a parent even know when it hits? Does anything "hit" for them? I really feel just ignorant to the male body tonight! Maybe I should be relived that I will not have to deal with "fred" visiting anyone else in this house, but I am a little worried about what to expect with my boys! I know what to expect with a girl, but God has given me boys. I think He is trying to stretch my horizons! Maybe I should see it as a relief. Whenever anything "hormonally" happens I can just defer it to my hubby. They can deal with all the boy issues together and just leave me out of it because I am fairly certain that I don't want to know!

I do believe that I should feel blessed however, my father had 3 girls and he was a trooper about having to go out and buy "fred toys"(tampons). But for some reason he would always buy us ginger ale also. I don't think he really understood what cramps were. I guess he figured that when he had a stomach ache he would drink ginger ale to help it. Well anyway his heart was in the right place and I do applicate the gesture.

Angie I need to dedicate this whole blog to you. It was your idea that inspired this post tonight! You are truly an inspiration in my life and I am so blessed to know you. Happy Anniversary!

A Breath of Fresh Air

I feel like a new woman today! My sweet 6 month old decided to sleep for 4 hours straight last night. (I know some of you are thinking my baby did that at like 3 weeks) But it is a huge accomplishment for us. He loves to eat and believes that he needs to wake up ever hour and a half at night to do so. I feel like I have so much energy today. Maybe I should do something productive!

Or maybe I feel so good because I finally got off my patootie and cleaned the house. There is nothing more refreshing than waking up to a clean house. Of course it is 9:30 now and there are toys everywhere but, it is still somewhat clean. I really truly believe that I am a serious neat freak trapped in a lazy persons body! Maybe when I am old and there are no monkeys in the house it will stay clean.

Tell me is there anything more precious than kids running around the house in their jammies?