Changes....

Hi There...I know it has been awhile since I have written anything and really since I started being a FB junkie I have found that a couple of words or sentences can pretty much sum up my daily life. Lots of things have changed in my life over the last month or so and I have found that one moment I am okay with them and other moments I am still wanting to hold on to the way it was. This last month I watched as my MIL's flesh body deteriorated and she received her new body. I found myself in a situation that I had never imagined I would be in. It was hard and easy at the same time. We are still trying to figure out what life looks life with Donna at home with our Lord. Last weekend the kids had their first Friday Night Sleepover at their Grandpa's house since Grandma's home going and really they hadn't had a Friday Night Sleepover in over a month. As they were getting ready my daughter said to her brother "Isn't it weird saying Grandpa's house and not Grandma & Grandpa's?" To which he replied "Yeah". This is what our life looks like right now. It is kind of surreal on some levels and yet very real on other levels. The other big change in our family life is that our bookkeeper has officially retired and now I am the book keeper at the shop. I am not going to lie and say that I have taken this change as I should have, with thanksgiving in my heart because we still have work. I will keep it real with you and let you know that I have fought it tooth and nail, the whole way. It is not that I can't do the job or that it is hard. Really it is quite easy for me. I have always liked working with numbers and have found that even paying payroll tax, sales tax and all the other taxes and reports that have to be done for the government isn't that bad. (It probably helps that our bookkeeper was also our tax lady and she had it all figured out and she even wrote me a manual so I can just follow directions if I can't remember exactly how to do something.) So that part isn't so bad. I guess I am just not happy that after being a stay-at-home mom for over 10 years I am now a working mom with all that it entails like when exactly do you clean the house? Do laundry? Shop for food? Plan meals? Pay household bills? I know that these are things all working mom's have to figure out but usually the job comes with a paycheck and well mine does not. For someone whose love language is not words of encouragement or acts of service this is a really hard thing. I am trying to remind myself of my Lords promise to me in Jeremiah 29:11 but I will admit that there are days that I take my eyes off of Him and well things just go bad. So these are the things in my life that I can't just sum up in a couple of words or sentences on FB. My life with all it's bumps and bruises......

12 years and counting...

Wow...12 years ago I married my hubby! Sometimes it feels like yesterday and other times it feels like forever ago that I walked down the isle and joined my life with his. I will be forever grateful that he married me. He is a wonderful husband, truly my better half. He is our provider, he doesn't complain about going to work everyday to provide for us. He is a loving father to our children. I love him more every day!!!