Starting a new blog soon

I just started using Google Reader and realized that I haven't blogged on this since 2008 - that is over a year ago. With a new baby, dislocated tailbone, buying a house, and working full time blogging hasn't been my priority until recently.

Recently, the Lord has been putting it on my heart to blog again but for a different reason. To blog so that I can make money from it and eventually, Lord willing, work only part time. With that being said I will be leaving this blog soon to start a new blog on wordpress.

This blog will be called Party Planning on a Pinch. The Lord has given me the gift of hospitality and a joy to serve people by hosting parties for them. By parties I mean dinners with good friends, Baby Showers, Wedding Showers, and soon Birthday Parties. I love to see what I can do with a couple of hostess and less than a $100 most of the time.

Be looking for my new blog to be released in the next month or so with my first several posts on a baby shower that I am throwing for my dear friend Abby who is expecting a sweet baby boy in May. Abby and I have known each other for years and I am so excited to try some new ideas for baby showers on her and to bless her with the biggest diaper cake ever made by Angela Northcutt and lots of onesies for Ari, meaning Lion of God, to wear.

I will post on here when Party Planning on a Pinch has its premier date. Pray with me that in 3-5 years I will have enough followers to make some extra money for my family and that I people would start paying me to plan their wedding receptions, or birthday parties or whatever. I want my Parties to Glorify God in every aspect. From the amount of money spent, to the hostess gift, to the Prayers at the event, to making the party/shower/wedding calm for whoever decides to let me use there money to throw one for them.

I don't know why the Lord has called me to blog on Word Press with my new blog - but He has and I will follow him. Can't wait to see, Lord willing as James teaches us to preach, what the Lord does with my blog. Pray and hope with me if you are still reading here!

Can't Believe Christmas is Almost Here

After a 4th month hiatus I am back.

It dawned on me this week that Christmas is next week - that in less than 7 days it will be Christmas. It doesn't really feel like Christmas to me. We haven't finished our shopping and our tree is only half up. This is the first Christmas in a long time that I feel like I haven't gone all out. Maybe its because I am tired, work is stressful, or that Christmas decorations are great, but Jesus is better. I really hope it is the last one and I am not just getting lazy.

This Christmas Matt and I didn't ask for much, because the Lord has given us so much this year. We both have good jobs, a roof over our heads, and food. We do need things, but we are so blessed compared to most of the world, especially right now.

This season we are trying to not focus on the eternal things of Christmas, but focus on the incarnation of Christ and what that means for us as sinners. Every Christmas I am more blown away that the Lord came to earth and lived as a man and did it willingly and then willingly died for us. What a Great God we serve.

So take a moment this week amidst the last minute Christmas shopping, and stress of finishing up work, and maybe even the stress and family and remember that Jesus came to earth as a baby and even then He was our Savior. Thank Him that He came, was tempted but never succumbed to it, and then died for us.

We love all of you and wish you a Merry Christmas!

Trying to find Balance in Life...

So I usually think of myself as a pretty organized person who can juggle a lot of things and still do them well - lately the Lord has showed me that I am not.

Since starting me job at Colonial I feel like my organization and the ability to find balance is sorely lacking. I feel like at work I can't organize all the projects that I need to do and at home I feel like our house is a wreck. Not to mention time with Matt.

With this whole balance thing, I have felt like my priorities have been skewed. The Lord and Matt should be getting the most of me and not work. How do I juggle all these things, how do I give God and Matt the most of me? These are questions I am continuely asking myself.

If you are reading this and you are a wife and work a full-time job, or have worked a full-time job, how do you balance everything? How do you be everything you need to be and still have time for yourself?

I really wish the feminist movement never would have happened, because if it never happened then wives would be able to just be wives, and not working wives, and moms would just be able to be stay at home moms and not working moms.

The Lord is slowly chipping away at my control issues and showing me that I am serving my husband and Him by working. The fact that I am broken means that perfect balance in life will never happen with me - it needs to be Him working in me. Now if I could just believe that truly. Still working on that one. Praise the Lord that I am not a finished product just yet - for now I will just be a work in progress.