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Just started reading thru Luke, not really sure why but that is where i am now. :) If you have grown up in church you know the second chapter my heart. You know all the players and their lines. It seems like God's word does a dance with you when you read it. Each time you are not sure which dance it is but different spins and steps lead you to see different people, events or words stick out no matter how many times you have read it. This time verse 19 and 51 stood out in our dance. 'But mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart." -after the birth of jesus. 'His mother treasured all these things in her heart'- after she lost jesus and found him in the temple. Not sure if there are any other times written in scripture of her treasuring things...i will find out....but i bet her treasure box was huge as the mother of jesus...with sad and happy things. Then i thought about my life and all the things i have treasured thru out my 'short' li

Its been on Andrew's and my hearts to reach out to our neighbors, but finding time is like finding a needle in hay stack and its beginning to get to me. I saw that our neighbors across the street had a baby so at my weekly walmart time 3 fridays ago i purchased a bag of diapers. Finally monday night i saw them coming in their drive way, andrew was in the house, so i jetted up stairs and said 'honey they are home lets go!' So we talked with them in the driveway! We know their names and she liked the diapers, it was the kind he was using :) I am tired of 'not having time' to do things. I am praying for a change somewhere and hoping i can be obedient in this. We have talked about doing a block party, maybe that will happen for realz! :)

This past weekend our church had a Multi Faith weekend. Where congregations from a Jewish Synagogue, Muslim Mosque and Baptist church took turns visiting the others 'service of worship'. Our pastor has been given some amazing friends through out the years that only God could give that has affected his heart to teach us to love and respect others, and try to understand them. Andrew and I didn't make the Jewish service on friday, the time was just difficult for us. We were able to make it to the Mosque on saturday. The people were so warm and welcoming. They greeted you and gave you a small tour, then led you to the food! YUM! i love experiencing other cultures...it just makes God seem so huge! I love hearing others pray in another language too. These are three distinct religions with very different views. But i know that God loves each of us, and as we all seek HIM he shows us the truth! He revels himself to those seeking HIM. Thank you Lord! There was q&a after every se

So i got to go to lunch with two of my students that are dear to my heart, NOT MY FAVES, just dear to my heart. We used to meet weekly and we always went to Chilli's. So for old times sake we did again...they had some fun with the coasters :)

So i think i have mentioned before that Andrew's great grandma gave us this amazing slow cooker recipe book that i cook out of at least once a week, sometimes twice. This past week, i finally used some of the Ham my sister and her husband had sent us for christmas thru the Omaha Steak mail thing...totally wonderful if you ever want to send that as a gift to someone out of state!! Fabulous. So when i was doing my planning for this week, i picked out a recipe that used ham, and this is the one i found and we loved. So i wanted to share. Unlike alot of the slow cook meals it takes loads of time, this one is only 2-3 hrs, so you can decide to do this on a whim...sorta :) A friend of mine led me to a blog where the lady takes pictures of every step as she makes the recipe and i love it! I just wish i had thought of that when i made this :) The Pioneer Woman Slow-Cooked Ham 'n' Broccoli (jill pennington) 3cups cubed fully cooked ham 1 package (10 ounces) frozen chopped broccoli t

We had a fun saturday night this weekend. We took a group of our high school kids to a brahmas hockey game! Its the ft worth minor league team. They were really good. It was fun, and cold! We got to free skate after! Didn't take any pictures or capture any flip footage...but worth a blog mention...it was fun!!

If you read my tweets it seems i may live IN a starbucks! I am not really sure where this obsession started but it was sometime during college. I remember the first time i had a latte and i didn't like it, it wasn't starbucks though :) There is something about coffee shops that are just so relaxing. Which is kind of ironic when coffee is caffeine and yet they create such a calm environment to sell the caffeine. It was cool to play in coffee shops and sometimes i wish i lived near a city where you can hear someone playing at all the coffee shops. Its a cool jazzy vibe :) haha I have two or three drinks that i choose from, Vanilla Latte, Carmel Machiatto, Carmel Frappacino, and Passion Tea Lemonade. I go in spurts with which one i purchase. There is nothing worse than when they don't make it quite right...it just is a sad day. :( Just curious if you too like Starbucks or Coffee in general. If so what do you get?? :)

Been reading through Mark off and on and today as last part of chapter 13. Talking about the return of Christ. When He sat with his disciples and said i will return to bring you home after a lot of difficult things happen. He ends it with mystery and intrigue by saying "be on alert!" Right before he says no one knows the time He will return not even himself...just the father. Be on alert...what does that look like for me today. Be on alert in my pursuit of Him. Be on alert of unbiblical teaching. Be on a alert to see where He is leading me daily. Be on alert to exhibit the fruit of the spirit, love joy peace patience kindness gentleness and self-control. Be on alert to submit to my husband and be his helpmeet. Be on alert to love others. Be on alert to conversations and make them pure. Be on alert to share the gospel with EVERYONE. Be on alert... To be on alert means He is always with me, always guiding and always loving. Never worrying cause God knows! What does be on

Well i made my first attempt at using all the new stuff on our computer. Augh i felt stupid for a bit. It was an old dog learning new tricks...hahaha it was 8 years ago i had the other mac, and they have really updated and changed it. Its nice once i figured it out but oh boy....:) Enjoy the first of many, i hope :)

Yesterday Andrew's school closed due to some ice on the roads, one could debate about whether or not the weather warranted the closure or not but the fact still remains KISD closed its doors. My office observed the ice by opening at 10am. Which is great, we found all this out at 6am, so we turned the tv off set my alarm for 9 and proceed to sleep :) It was normal day so to speak, everything went about as if the ice had never been there. So i headed home. Thankful that the roads were cleared and my husband was home waiting! When i got home he said, "i could tell you were about to come home the house got warmer". At first i was like aw my house missed me, but i quickly remember that friend of our blessed us with this awesome digital AC/Heater thermostat for CHEAP. It has great programable settings for every day of the week and weekends. I had programmed it to stay off all day and then start warming up at about the time Kimmel or i get home. Its a nice thought for a brief

I love Mariah Carey!!! From her first albulm in 1990 thru her breakdown to Emancipation of Mimi i have been a fan!! I have not heard her latest albulm, 'Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel' but soon will. She is a little proud and happy of her body, and likes to flaunt it. That aside i like her. On a trip to Vietnam about 5 years ago, in the Tokyo airport, Mariah walks by us. Her designer bags carried by someone else, and boarding the plan before anyone else. She is a huge sensation and we got to be close to her in a normal situation. Well if having an entourage with you who carries everything for you and makes you happy no matter what and being filthy rich is normal. haha I share all this cause she is coming to Dallas next month, and i secretly (well openly now) want to see her! I just don't know who would go with, i can't take andrew! hahah and not really anyone else would pay to see her...oh if Monica lived here i believe she would go with me!! Some of her friends and her

The past couple days i have really been mulling this word over in my head. I work with people who are 'driven' people, big visionaries, never stop working, always looking for the next best thing to "FIX" ( i put in quotes cause sometimes i think they get caught up in the high of doing something new) constantly saying what are we doing wrong, how do we get to greatness...and i began to ask myself what greatness are you trying to get Man's or God's or what you think God wants...idk i don't have an answer and i don't think people are being disobedient i just feel like God is teaching me thru this environment, cause i am not a driven person or demanding person so i often see things as just fine and i can't fix them cause its a God thing so i am ok to not try. hahah I remind myself that greatness isn't always the way man sees it, and that is just fine with me. I have always since i was a young girl only wanted to be a wife and mother. Some may not t

Tomorrow we will head back to the grind of our adult schedules. Meetings, choices and important things will be talked about and decided. Sometimes i have a hard time gearing my head back in to the work cycle. Its just so nice not worrying about all the details of every little thing. Sometimes i feel lazy cause i don't want to start working until its monday morning and i am back thinking about work stuff! haha It has been a great holiday and i am very blessed with family and friends that gave me such a great time i don't want it to end! Andrew is wanting to get a running schedule started again for him in the morning, us eating breakfast together after then off to the world for the day. I will not be running with him, i just can't that early, but after work he is going to show my how to lift weights to keep me tone not huge :) haha so that is one of my new commitments this year. Several more to come. I am still mapping those out. So hope you are having a wonderful day after t