Reviewing my week

Wow what a week it's been.

Monday found us saying good bye to hubby a day early. That is never fun, but knowing he is not gone for a long time helps.
I also thought I would try a new way to start my week. Hello Monday is about being thankful and welcoming the week ahead with all it's issues that might occur.

Monday also brought A new awakening. I talked about my journey and how I need to refresh.

Tuesday found me reflecting on My Niche. Trying to decide why I blog here and what I should be writing about.

Lent started and with that I started a new challenge. Since I am so not a morning person it has been an challenge alright.

Yesterday found me thankful again.
I'm learning that I need to be more thankful in the little things to be thankful period.

All that and I have been working hard on my 3 in 30 goals this week as well.

I also thought for something fun I would show you my instagram pics from the week.
For those that follow me on there these will be old news, but those of you don't well what are you waiting for? hahaha
Here is a teaser of what you will see. :)

My crazy kitty

Love, Love, Love this saying. I want to post it up in our living room,

Proof that I really did/am setting my alarm at that time. Ugh sleep I miss you.

More boxes unpacked. Love seeing this as much as I loved first seeing them packed. LOL

And that my friends is a quick review of my week. I hope you all enjoyed your visit here and I am so looking forward to many more. Have a great weekend!!!

"In Him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in His Holy Name." Psalm 33:21

Keeping it real.

So all in all today was a great day. My 3 in 30 seems to be going really well. I am faithfully reading my bible. Although I did discover or believe that I discovered that the B in 90days is using a condensed bible version and I am not. However my goal is not really to read the bible in 90 days but to just read the bible. This challenge is great for me because well yes I am just a tad competative. Just a wee bit. So even though no one I know is actually doing this right now I know it can be done so why can't I do it as well.

I sorted out my junk drawer in the kitchen today and reorganized it but the biggest of all is I cleaned out our build in china cabinet and made it WAY more user friendly. I am so happy about that!! Sarah and i also did some jars up so we just have to add the wet ingrediants to the bread maker, dump in a jar of powder and voila Bob's your uncle. We also made up a jar of apple cinnamon pancakes. Although I do not care for pancakes myself I know my family does so I decided to switch it up a bit and see what they thought. Maybe next weekend.

So like I said before I am keeping it real.
I was reading a wonderful ladies blog today actually it is one of the first blogs I started reading and she talked about struggles with daily activites, such as house cleaning, not wanting to scream at her children, etc, all while being a Christian and feeling like somehow we should be better than that.

So here I go, although today was great in that I was in a fantastic mood and was really appreciating my family I thought about my children, more specifically my middle.
I love that boy so much. He is so kind hearted, generous, loving, an amazing sense of humour with an uncanny ability to make everyone laugh and yet we struggle. He moved out very shortly after he graduated this year. I truely believe that he just wanted to be away from the rules that I set up here. We don't believe in having parties, especially underaged drinking parties. We don't enjoy overnighters after a certain age. That seems to me like it just screams trouble. We always enforced a bedtime even up through grade 12. So I really believe for him it was too constricting. Now all being said I am thrilled that he is growing up. I am excited for him, truely! I am just so worried about the path that he is on. I know I just have to trust God that it will all work out I still want to have him under my control again so that I can protect him. Oh the joys of motherhood. HAHAHA. I know that when he sorts things out he is capable of amazing things and I can not wait to see them happen.
Oh LORD give me patience and please protect my little boy!
Oh how I love that boy/man.

Great time away

Wow with the storms, power outages, mini holiday away, I have not been on here for awhile. I haven't even had a chance to blog about my 3 in 30.

So to start with that :
1: Read the bible in 90 days.
I managed to find the challenge on line in a printer friendly verson so I printed it and started reading. Now in the first 2 days it went great, then my life got topsy turvy for a few days and although I am reading everyday since; I have not read my required readings for each day. I do plan once things get back on track to read some extra on certain days and get back on track. If not at least I am reading every day.

2: Get the school room ready and everything ready to go back to school.
I plan to finish sorting things out in there and setting a few things up as well and as as soon as the books come in sort it all out, try and figure out what days we will work on certain subjects. I also want to talk to some of the homeschool mom friends I have and ask what works for them.

3: Work on a menu planning and becoming more budget friendly.
I want to try and save some more money. We want to purchase our first house in the next year and if I can save some money I will try and do it. So I have been reading some blogs that talked about menu planning and to be honest when my kids were little we were SOOO broke so I did the same thing. Then time got away with me I worked away from home and last minute meals become more the norm. So now that I have decided to be more enviro friendly and budget friendly I thought a menu plan would be a great idea. I hope to have that up in the next couple days so I can go to the city for a big grocery shop. ( Prices are cheaper than our little town store)

I also want to try and take pics  and post them of our school room in the next day or so. Hopefully I can get that figured out soon.

Well gonna run off to bed as another fun filled day tomorrow and last day with my handsome hubby. :( Sad about that but it has been a great days off with him.

Night ya all.

Can you say hot?

Wow was it hot today!! I love the heat but wow!!! It got me started thinking about fall and sweaters and cozying up by fireplaces ( really really really wish I had one, so sweetie if you are reading this, hint hint. ).

So every year at the local fair they do a church service the sunday after where all the churches in town participate. So in otherwords all the congregations from all over town meet at the fair grounds for one large service. This is the first year that I went and I must say I am SOOOO glad I did. I am saddened that I haven't gone in previous years. What a blessing it was to be able to see all those diverse people coming together to praise our one and only almighty saviour!! What a privilege. I most definately am going back next year.

Then off to golf with friends. Now this might sound amazing and it was lots of fun but oh the heat!! I do believe I had a touch of sunstroke.

Oh I forgot to add that I started to read my bible more intensely last night. I started in John, why I can't really say other than I have heard that if you are not familar with the bible to start there so I did. Plus I also read a chapter of Proverbs. Then this morning before church and things got crazy I read some more of John. I am really enjoying digging deeper into his word and learning more. I can't wait.

Well since it was so hot today looks like we are gonna get one killer storm tonight so I will sign off for now. Tomorrow I will post my 3 in 30 for August so tune back then.

Hope everyone had an amazing Sunday!

PS Storm hit earlier than expected and had a power outage so had was unable to post my blog until now.

Carving out more time for his word.

So spend a nice chunk of the day reading and finding new blogs. And I read something today that really struck a cord in my brain. This wonderful lady said that less than 10% of proclaimed Christians have read the entire bible. We find time to do many other things but not read the bible. This really struck me. As I have said before I have struggled with my path.

I feel like there is times when God is shaking his head and saying come on Sherri you know better than that. Or saying 'Look child I you can do this I have shown you the correct path'.

I mean I have time to blog, time to read blogs, time to watch tv, time to quad, sled, swim, suntan, clean the house but I am having struggles trying to find time to read my bible. Now this is partly because I don't know where to start and how to go about doing it. Do I start at Genisis and work my way through or what? And partly because I am a tiny wee bit of a control freak and I am petrified about giving free rein to God. However in saying that I know I need to and it will make me a much more fullfilled women, wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend.

Sooooo.... That will be my first of 3 in 30 for August. Tomorrow I will do tons of researching and decide where to start and go from there. So stayed tuned not only to see how I have done but also what my other two items are.

Parade, Kids day and 3 in 30

Wow what a day. Get us rush around like a mad person cleaning the fridge and taking the garbage to the curb, then quick shower, then hurry get ready and head out the door to take my girlie to town so she can be in the parade. Can you say slept in? Oops. Well in my defense I just couldn't sleep last night. Lots of tossing and turning not to mention as I said it was 1 before I even got to bed. So Oops again.

However...I got to see my baby in the parade again. This is such a cool experiance getting to see her do that. I waited and waited and then pow she was in front of me and then vroom she was gone. Oh well there is always next year and I did manage to take some pics. :)

On another great note I met with the homeschool register and we are off to town tomorrow again so Sarah can meet with her and we can possibly get her signed up and started. I am so excited about that. I think Sarah has her moments but I believe that there is more good moments than bad ones so I am happy about it.

Then I was reading some blogs today and I stumbed across Lynnette from http://lynnettekraft.com/ and she talked about having a kids day, and I thought what a fantastic idea. I mean we do lots of fun stuff with our children but not ever an entire day just devoted to them so I am going to talk to Rob and see if we can do this come fall. I think once things settle down again it would be a great opportunity to get together and just celebrate them and their lifes. I have 3 blessings here on earth and 3 in heaven waiting for me to mother them when I get there. But for now I want to be the best Mom I can be for my beautiful ones here. So thank you Lynnette for the fantastic idea.

Plus in my blog reading journeys I have come accross the 3 in 30 and I really want to try that for August so now I just have to decide exactly what my first 3 are going to be. I hope to do this every month. Small baby steps first. I know one for sure is going to be about me being more open with my faith and try and let God lead me without me thinking I might know better. So stay tuned.

Well that is all for now, I came closer to finishing my laundry today but not quite so have to finish that off tomorrow but a few more tidying up. So until then.

Night Night.