New Bible Study

There have been several ideas converging on me at once. Let me explain. Our church is embarking on a "30 Days to Live" event. The idea is to think of what you are living now and how would you live differently if you only had 30 days to live. Then.....on a blog that I like to read they have a month long challenge to either get up extra early everyday to pray for your family OR to fast one meal a week to pray for family. THEN I started seeing references to binding scriptures to you to keep the LORD in the forefront.

This has really gotten me thinking about life. One of the first steps that I am taking is having a "mother's ring" made so that I have a visual reminder to pray for my kids! They NEED me to pray for them! I am hoping to add a fasting meal each week as well (shouldn't be too hard....I am definitely NOT starving!). The other thing that I/we want to do is take the family to the ocean! We love the ocean and husband & I have been wanting to take a trip out west again. The kids are old enough now to make that happen. So the planning has begun!!!

I am hoping that this month-long study will reveal other areas of life that need GOD's light to shine!

motivation

I am coming to realize that I'm not very self-motivated when I'm by myself. Not a pretty part of my life! I like solitude on small scales but I think that I really enjoy the presence of friends and people. Need to pray on how to get more of that at my job. My boss is gone from the office many days out of the month and he keeps a fairly irregular schedule when he is here. So that leaves alone alot at work. My work is not very busy (although some times of the year are better than others). Hanging in there until husband gets done with his master's work then we'll see what happens from there.

cleaning up

A new year always brings about the desire to clean out the house. Started with a small cupboard in the kitchen. Emptied it out and washed all the cups and threw out the stuff that was just junk (why did I even put it in there to begin with?). Then I put in there the cookbooks that are not used much (but I want to keep), the teacups and all my coffee gear! It looks so nice now that I am tempted to take the door off so I can see it all the time!!!
Anyway, the next project is Joanna/Abigail's room. We moved their beds (actually....I moved the beds). This means that they had to clean out all the stuff under the beds first (what a PILE). This got me looking at the flow of traffic in the room and how their toys are stored. Decided that the shelf thing that usually houses the bulk of toys is now going to be stuffed animals and some of Polly Pocket gear. Everything else is moving away from the bed area. Hopefully that will keep the area around their beds more clear! I think that I might go up there randomly and move some stuff out all together. There is just some things they don't play with anymore and I don't think they will miss. Perhaps it will go in a rubbermaid tub to a holding place (labeled with something to remind me to get it gone if it hasn't been touched). I'm dreaming of making a bean-bag type sitting area in the room for reading and listening to music.