The Beauty of Friendship

Feelings of Frustration

I love my beautiful daughter with all my heart. However I've been trying to study and get my continuing education hours completed so I'm a little behind on the housework. 


I LOVE that she loves me and wants to be with me at all times including when I'm in the bathroom, cleaning, or studying, or trying to load the dishwasher. What frustrates me is that she wants to close the dishwasher and she wants to play literally under my feet. I can't seem to make her understand that our very small kitchen doesn't have enough room for her to play safely in there while i'm trying to clean. 


I've read about some mom's putting their children in a play pen while they are cleaning and I've considered doing that, but I honestly don't want to hear her screaming the ENTIRE time I'm trying to do a task. I certainly can not put her in one and have her screaming while I'm trying to work or study. 


Today I have her watching her Your Baby Can Read dvd and have been afforded enough time to sit and compose this blog. I Refuse to allow the TV to be a baby sitter and I know that God will help me figure out what works best for baby and I.

Lord, please show me how to teach my daughter at this young age. Help me to not loose my temper with her or to raise my voice. Help me to be her mentor, and mother not her friend. Help me to show her your love and mercy and to provide her with solid teachings. In Jesus Name. Amen

Finally Have Some Quiet Time

I'm so thankful that hubby has taken charge of the baby tonight and allowed me some time to study...

Yes I'm a bit of a procrastinator! I did take a rather large break earlier to chat with my girl friends from Biblical Families and that was and always is a LARGE blessing! I am always encouraged, and recharged after talking to my friends who support me, lift me up and know that God is working toward great things in my life and marriage.

It's truly wonderful to have friends who- even though we are scattered across the country-truly care about what happens in your life, and are willing to lend a listening ear, shoulder to cry on and a cheerful word when you are blue. These women are loving, God fearing amazing women and I am so blessed to have found them!

I am really hopping that we are able to attend the retreat this July so that we can get to meet our friends and fellowship with them!

Well I guess I better finish my Ethics course and move on to Life and Health Insurance Principles.

~G~

My Prayer For This Day

Father in Heaven, I praise your Holy Name Lord Jesus. I thank you for your healing, protection and all the glory is for You. 


 I humbly ask that you continue to watch over my Grandmother and help to bring her blood sugar down to it's normal level.
 I pray you will protect Holy as she has stopped communicating once again because I caught her in a lie again. She needs you Lord and she needs to know that you will always be there for her even though she has chosen to defile herself, her relationships with her family and friends. 


Please be with Ernie as he continues to work and provide for his family. I ask you help him in his efforts to loose weight so that he is able to truly love himself and focus on You and leading our family as YOU see fit. 


I pray protection around our family and our home Lord, I ask that you will help me to focus on keeping my family healthy and happy in our home. I thank you for always providing for us everything we need. 


Be with our family and loved ones as they go about their day. Provide, guide and supply their needs, oh God. Thank for your Provision!


Bless us on Lord that, you would increase our territory so that we may continue Your work for Your names sake! 


In Jesus Precious and Holy Name I pray, 
Amen

Feelings

I'm feeling a little melancholy tonight... I miss having someone that I can just hang out with. I mean whatever happened to loyalty? When did self -centeredness become so prominant? When did people stop being loyal to the people they consider family?

why would you tell someone you love them and want you to always be a part of each others' lives then, go and throw it all away and just be daft?

This is how I see it.... IF YOU CAN'T BE ADULT ENOUGH TO KEEP YOUR WORD THEN I DON'T NEED YOU! I FORGIVE YOU BUT NOT BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT. I'M DOING IT BECAUSE I DESERVE IT!

OK... I'm done! LOL I guess I just needed to get that out.

'STAY OUT OF THE DOG FOOD!'

This is a phrase I have heard myself saying at least 15 times a day! My beautiful little girl is fascinated with the stinking dog food!!! 


She apparently like the kibble! I wish I could figure out why she likes it so much! UGH! I pick it up when I think of it then the dogs harass me because they can't reach their food. 


Oh well I guess this phase will pass sooner or later! lol 


Be Blessed, 


~G~

Waiting for the snow to melt!

NikiRhe and I are working on our 3rd week of being couped up in the house! Mommy is starting to go a little nuts with nothing to do other than be in this house. I have managed to work on my knitting and get some studying done on my Insurance continuing ed. I have spent time in the word and I am working on teaching my beautiful little girl new things. She really loves singing Jesus Loves Me and listening to other children's songs.

I Praise God for the fact that He has been showing me how to teach her so that she learns quickly and retains. He reveals to me each day how blessed we are to have this opportunity to teach, discipline, love and raise this amazing little miracle!

Making Some Changes....

Well I've done it! I ordered The Total Gym! I can't wait until it arrives. Over the last year Ernie and I have tried to change our eating habbits so that we can promote healthy living and eating in our home for our daughter. We don't want her to struggle with her weight her entire life like either of us has.

I'm looking forward to being able to get my energy back and having a longer life to spend with my beautiful baby girl!

I plan to keep our menu as healthy and home made as possible. I'm going to teach myself to bake bread and to help my baby girl learn to be a lovely, godly spirit!

Teaching to Follow Simple Directions Early

My beautiful little 14 month old princess is learning to follow simple directions. She can bring me things and she has started helping unload the dish washer and put away groceries! I was so very excited today when she came in the kitchen and took a box of cereal out of the grocery bag and offered it up to me. 


Watching my little girl realize that it's fun to help mommy is so bittersweet! I love the fact that I get to teach her to be a godly young lady as she grows. I get to show her how to serve others on love. I try to remember that each day with everything I do she is watching me. She is watching to see if I'm happy or complaining about the chores I do around the house. She watches to see what I'm doing if I'm blogging, reading my bible or praying. 


Ladies, we have a wonderful opportunity to spend loving moments teaching our beautiful daughters and sons, to be God reliant, servant hearted, Loving, compassionated people! 


I started super early with my little one by praying out-loud over her every night, we pray at our meals and hold hands ( now she won't eat without praying), I ask her politely to give me things she picks up and I say thank you. I've taught her to say thank you when given things and to say please when asking for things. 


Children are our blessing and we should treat them as such. However I do believe in discipline, in the truest form. The chance to teach her right from wrong and more. 


Our father God will show us all we need to guide our beautiful babies! 

God Is Our Healer....

As I sitting here studying I took notice of the fact that in the living-room my husband was listening to Michael W. Smith. I then began to listen to what was going on, on the program he is watching and realized that Smitty was talking about spiritual healing.

My wonderful husband has been sitting there allowing the healing spirit of God to wash over him and as he held our daughter and listening to the music and testimonies of these wonderful Christians on TBN.
He is my love. I am so blessed and thankful that God healed me of my hurt from an abusive childhood so that I could fully appreciate my husband and learn to be the wife God intended me to be .

As Smitty sang Healing Rain I feel the Spirit fill our home:

Healing Rain is falling down
Healing Rain is falling down,
I am not afraid
I am not afraid

As he goes on to tell us how amazing Jesus he shares a beautiful song;

 I want to sit at your feet
drink from the cup in your hand
lay back against you and breath and feel your heart beat
this love is so deep it's more than I can stand
I melt in your peace
it's overwhelming

Such beautiful lyrics! My heart sings with joy and the  peace of my Saviour!

Oh come let us adore Him
Oh come let us adore Him
Oh come let us adore Him
Christ the Lord!

I praise you Father God for the many Blessings you have given my family!

Be Blessed!
~G~

Snowed In Day 3

Well last night NikiRhe had her first sleep-over! She was so cute because she acted so much like an older girl would. She wanted to stay up late and giggle and chatter and play! Every time I tried to convince her it was time to go to bed she would ask for something to eat! LOL

The girls finally went to be about 1:15 am and I couldn't go to sleep! GO FIGURE! It was really fun to watch and the girls both enjoyed themselves even though Miracle is 5.

The good Lord has blessed us with some really great neighbors and I am so thankful! Ernie had to drive the Milk truck home on Monday because the weather was so bad that he could not finish his route. So we have been unable to venture out to the grocery store. So after being stuck for day and a half. Ernie and our neighbors started digging the milk truck out and then his boss came to help make sure he could get out. So they (I was taking care of the kids) got everyone dug out and I was able to ride to the store with the neighbors.

This morning I was thrilled to find that my beautiful little girl really is learning to help around the house! She helped unload the dish washer! She would hand me the flatware one piece at a time and say thank you each time! It was sooo cute! :o) I love my future homemaker! She is going to have such a wonderful spirit! I praise God for giving me the desire and the ability to be at home with her to train her up in the ways of the Lord!

Be Blessed!
~G~

Snowed IN!!!

I am officially sick of being stuck in the house after just 24 hours. This is largely due to the fact that I've already been in the house for over a week because we have been sick. Now we are stranded at home with no transportation and I'm going to have to start baking soon.. LOL

I don't mind except I get tired of spending all my time in the kitchen in silence while hubby and baby watch tv or  dvd's in the living room. I guess I'm going to work on my CE's today and try to knock them out soooo I should probably get cracking.

Hubby's work truck is stuck in our parking lot here and our car is down town which is experiencing extremely difficult travel. The news is telling us to stay put unless 100% necessary. Hubby's boss is supposed to be sending a tow truck to get his truck out so I don't know what's going to happen with that.

Well I need to see if baby wants a nap then get busy working on some dinner plans, and CE's..

Be Blessed,
~G~