A bunch of stuff all rolled into one.

Hello there!
Here we are at the end of the week and into the weekend!

I made it through a week of working days. While I do love getting off at 12pm daily, the hard part is getting up very early {4:45} and taking a nap for about an hour daily. And I am always at a cross-between whether I'd like to keep getting off at 12 or leisurely get up daily and then start my day later. If I had to be utterly honest here, I'd say I'd rather work the afternoon shift. I like waking up around 6 or 7 and then just putzin' around the house, work out, fix breakfast, take A to school, walk the dogs, make dinner, scrap, etc. I am a morning person as you know so I feel like I can do a whole lot in the AM rather than the PM. However.. This is going to change soon.

We just found out that D might have to deploy. You can imagine the blow. I especially was blown hard because I felt like the Lord gave me a huge sign for him never going again. He was very upset to say the least, and even snapped at me when he found out. Right now, we don't know for sure if he will or not. I know that God can work it, and we are expecting him too. The thing that stands against it for D is that he hasn't been long term deployed since May 09. Praises for us, but they look at it like hey, let's send him because he hasn't been in a really long time. So please pray specific prayers of him not going. We are asking the Lord to grant us our prayers. Although we want the Lord's will to be done, we firmly do not want him going. Now to my work. If he goes, I will then work 2 days in the AM and 2 days in the PM. Then in June I'll go strictly to days for the summer. That might not sound bad, and it isn't. However the whole 2/2 thingy isn't really working for me. But eh. What can you do? You pick up the pieces where you can and do what you do. We are also in prayer that the Lord grant him Master Sergeant, which would also create a entirely different situation at work. Serious prayers here folks!

I wanted to show you this layout.. It's of A and the castle dinner with Cinderella and the other princesses'! What a great night that was. Alyssa's words? "I feel really special." That made it. Sign. Sealed. Delivered. Touched my heart, it did!


I created this for Treasured Scrapbooking.

Supplies: Bella Blvd. Estate Sale Nana's Apron papers, Pink Paislee Queen Bee Worker Bee, Crate Paper Brook Float papers, Crate Paper Brook Pebbles papers, Fiskars punch,
Dream Street Forget-Me-Not Alphabet, Prima Designer Pearls- March card kit
Offray ribbon- March card kit, Flower, Maya Road pins, Crate Paper Brook Branch papers
Computer font Bradley Hand, Crate Paper Brook Float papers

Update on my gram. She is still doing okay and still in the hospital. Thank you for your prayers.

As sad as this is to write, I think its time. I am no longer eating ice cream. Isn't that just sad? The other night I had it and it make me ill. Not the ill like throwing up ill, but ill to my stomach. The icky, horrible feeling. I don't think I am lactose intolerant, but something in ice cream doesn't sit well with me. So I am giving it up. And that in itself is very sad indeed!

Grateful list:

1. Getting off at 12.
2. Laughing really hard with Alyssa.
3.Going shopping with Alyssa.
4. Funny texts back and forth with Dayv.
5.God's gentle whisper.
6. Sleep. I will never again said it is a waste of time.
7. A silly game on the internet on MSN called Flowers. It's a mindless game and I like it.
8. The feeling, the knowing in my spirit that something isn't exactly right. I've learned to listen to it wholeheartedly.
9. Seeing myself in a reflection and realizing I'm really not fat. Sure we might look in the mirror and see ourselves a certain way and it makes us feel a certain way because that is how we see ourselves. But when you see your reflection and you least expect it, there your true self is! It isn't what I see because I wasn't looking for it, so when I see myself I smile because I am not fat. Does that make sense? LOL. It does to me...
10. My crock pot. Seriously. I could cook in that thing every. single. night.
11. Doing Jillian as a make up day on Sat. and not feeling like a failure because I missed a day during the week!

The sun is shining, we'll be able to walk the dogs. We're going to enjoy each other today just by staying in our home and hunkerin' down!
Hope your day is full of sunshine too!