Words on Wednesday

This song is speaking to my heart today...


Bread
by Ginny Owens


Man cannot live
By bread alone,
He needs something stronger
To feed his hungry soul,
So he'll try everything
Under the sun,
But nothing will end his hunger
Nothing but Your love.
He'll acquire treasure,
But it won't amount to much,
He'll fall in love with pleasure,
But none will fill him up,
And when he has exhausted
All this world can give to him,
Still he'll not grow weary of chasing after the wind-
I looked in the mirror,Just the other day,
I was so surprised,I hardly recognized the change,
So restless and so hurried,I've spent so much time,
Running after things I'm gonna have to leave behind

The DANCE!!!

It's OFFICIAL!! I am OLD!! My dd went to her first dance last Friday night!! They had so much fun and because I'm a teacher at her school I got to chaperone!! Even better!! When is the last time YOU got to go to your daughter's first dance and not have her say "MOOOOMMMMM, please don't come you'll embarrass me!!" Ha! Ha! Too bad sweetie, I'm required to go!! Seriously, thought they were so cute and had so much fun...and what's really great is this boy is really her friend and he treats her with a lot of respect. She was upset the other day and came into my room at lunch to finish up a math test (the fact that she was missing lunch recess and the opportunity to sell rootbeer floats to take this test was her reason for being upset) and he kept walking through my room. He didn't disturb her...he didn't talk to her...he just kept looking at her, obviously concerned because she was crying. He finally threw a dollar on her desk and told her it was to buy her a rootbeer float and ran out. It was so cute!! He was trying to hard to cheer her up!! He really is a sweet boy and if she HAS to have a "boyfriend" I'm glad she chose him....

Finally Friday!

Another week has passed and I'm not sure where it went...Work, doctor appointments. I just realized I never got the kids to their allergy shots this week. Ack! The plates are not spinning, they are crashing!! It's been an experience learning to live with children with chronic health issues. I have two children that require medication and probably will for the rest of thier lives. They require constant monitoring and frequent doctor's appointments to monitor their progress. I sometimes forget to do things like regular check-ups because they are at the doctor's so often. Now, my life has been complicated by my youngest dd's issues. She has something called hemoturia. In English, that means there's microscopic amounts of blood in her urine and nobody can figure out why. She's had multiple doctor's appointments, blood tests, urine tests, and an ultrasound. Everything appears healthy and normal...and yet there is still blood. So we move on to the next step...trying to get into Children's Hospital's nephrology (kidney specialists) department. It's exhausting...it's nerve-wracking...it's a full time job...but like anything that happens like this in life...life goes on.

In church last week we sang a song that really states how I feel right now better than I ever could.

You turn the key
Then close the door behind you
Drop your bags on the floor
You reach for the light
But there's darkness deep inside
And you can't take it anymore

'Cause sometimes living takes the life out of you
And sometimes living is all you can do

Life is hard, the world is cold
We're barely young and then we're old
But every falling tear is always understood
Yes, life is hard, but God is good

You start to cry
'Cause you've been strong for so long
And that's not how you feel
You try to pray
But there's nothing left to say
So you just quietly kneel

In the silence of all that you face
God will give you His mercy and grace

Jesus never said
It was an easy road to travel
He only said that you would never be alone
So when your last thread of hope
Begins to come unraveled
Don't give up, He walks beside you
On this journey home and He knows

Life is hard, the world is cold
We're barely young and then we're old
But every falling tear is always understood
Yes, life is hard, but God is good


Life right now is really hard. It takes a lot of work, a lot of stress, a lot of sleepless nights when my brain cannot turn off trying to figure out how to make my crazy schedule work...'Cause sometimes living takes the life out of you
And sometimes living is all you can do...But when life is hard I have to remember that God IS good. My sweet little blond haired angel FEELS fine now and she doesn't seem to mind going on "dates" with mommy, even if those dates are to a doctor's office. In fact, she seems to enjoy the uninterupted time of coloring with mom and reading books...She has "Green Eggs and Ham" memorized and tries to read it to me!! So I am looking for the goodness of God, in big and little ways...and trying to keep my head above water. "Jesus never said it was an easy road to travel, he only said that you would never be alone, so when your last thread of hope begins to come unraveled, don't give up, He walks beside you on this journey home." Is your life hard too?? Remember you are never alone!! Life is hard, but God is good!!

SNOW!!

I LOVE this picture!! They are running off to Heaven with the sun's rays coming down on them! I LOVE my new Photoshop program!!

Pictures as promised!!

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New Year's Eve in the Snow!!

Happy New Year!!

For New Year's Eve we drove up to Flagstaff to play in the snow. This is not exactly a tradition for us, because we only make it about every other year but we have done it before and it is LOTS of fun!! The snow this year is spectacular thanks to the recent storms and we found a PERFECT spot for sledding and snowman making!! All Sarah wanted to do was have a snowball fight BUT only if nobody threw snow at her!! I'll post more pictures later but here's a preview of the snowman Sarah and I made!!