Things I adore

Thigns I adore...This is a random blog, but will help you to get to know a little about me!

We all know I adore my family, friends, kiddos, and the bible, so we will skip those things and focus on the silly stuff, things that really I can live without, but having these things just makes life a little sweeter!

So lets start with this list no particular order, just the first things that come to my mind.....

1. sushi
2. sweet wine
3. tervis tumblers
4. tervis tumbler with sweet wine in it
5. nascar
6. nascar crashes and close finishes
7. tulips
8. veggie tales
9. avocados
10. bacon
11. maple bars
12. maple bars with bacon on top
13. all you can eat crab legs
14. Vegas
15. Farmville
16. Angry birds
17. flip flops
18. The Duggars
19. comfy clothes

We Survived the First Five Years!!

Uriah is 5 years OLD today!  They always say the first 5 years are the most important years of a child’s life. It is a vital time to learn how to build relationships, trust, speech, language and social skills.  It is of the utmost importance that children have stable and loving relationships in their life.

I remember when Nathaniel turned 5, I said, “well I don’t think we did too bad!”  And today I can say the same thing about Uriah!  He’s an amazing kid, and I think he thrived the first 5 years of his life!

So tonight we are going to celebrate!  He’s a lucky boy because he gets 3 birthday parties!  He told me this morning he thinks he should get 5 birthday parties because he is turning 5.  I asked him if that means I get 35 birthday parties this year because I’m turning 35.  He thought for a minute and said, “mommy that is too many birthday parties”  I love five year olds!

Uriah says the cutest things, the way his mind works is so imaginative and fun.  I love his innocence and creativeness.  I remember when he was looking through his valentine cards from school and he said, “mommy guess what, the coolest kid in class gave me a valentine.”  I said, “Really who is that”  He started laughing and said, “ME I sent myself a valentine”  I love it!

So happy birthday to you Uriah!  The next 5 years will be just as fun as the first 5!

My New Goal

So I wrote a blog 2 weeks ago, but apparently it was a bit depressing and someone recommended I take it down! It’s a long story but I was reading blogs of all these fabulous mothers that feed their children things like home-made oatmeal with orange zest and fresh smoothies for breakfast.  And I was feeling like a bad mother!  So that blog got taken down J 

Last week’s blog was more inspiring, and heartfelt.  So this week will be about my fat A$$, oh I mean this week will be about my new goal to lose weight! 

I went to the doctor a few weeks ago for a checkup and he told me I should be back down to pre-pregnancy weight by the time Z man is 1 year old.  Well I looked at the calendar, the scale and crunched some numbers……YIKES!  That’s 40 lbs in less than 3 months!

That is when I saw the couch to 5k running plan on my friend Abby’s face book page.  Well, this is the end of week 2 and I’m still alive! Abby and I have made a few adaptations to the plan, but we are running and running well! 

My wonderful hubby got me an IPod for my birthday last year.  And this week I found a cool pedometer feature on it.  So I used it and the next time I charged my iPod it asked if I wanted to upload my info to nike.com.  So I did.  And now I have all these great charts and graphs of my work outs!  Wow technology is great! 

So here’s to my new work out program and to losing 40 lbs as soon as I can! Watch out everybody this mom is on a mission!

Grace

I was very inspired this week by a story a friend shared with us this week.  Her father was in his 80’s and very ill.  One Thursday night he was rushed to the emergency room. While lying in a bed his daughter began praying for him.  She and others had spoken to him about the Lord many times, and this time while praying together he accepted Jesus Christ into his life.  He had lived his life without the love of the Lord and at the end of his life he realized he had made a mistake, and in that hospital bed he said yes to the Lord!  

As his children came to see him that weekend, he opened up to each one of them and said those precious words “I love you.”  The most heart wrenching part of the story for me, was hearing how he spoke about his regrets and what he would have done differently if he had the opportunity.  Four days later he took his last breath on earth and went to be with the Lord.  I can only imagine the party that the Heavenly angels threw for him that day!

Now, I did not have the opportunity to meet this man, so I do not know what his life was like.  But I imagine that those four days were some of the best days of his life.  However, part of me aches for him because he only had four days to experience God’s love here on Earth.  But how amazing is it that our Lord has such abundant Grace.  It doesn’t matter if it is four days, four minutes, four years or four decades, he gives grace and he forgives!

This story was a huge reminder of how important it is to be the best I can be EVERY day. The best believer, best wife, best mother, best daughter, best sister and best friend so when it comes to the end of my life I do not have any regrets. We never know when our last day is upon us.  So today is the day to make a difference. Today is the day to give an extra hug to a loved one, today is the day to volunteer at church, today is the day to play with the kids, today is the day to do something special for your spouse, today is the day to find time to read a book to a child, today is the day to dive into the bible and most of all today is the day to be the hands and feet of Christ.

 I thank the Lord that this man found Jesus, and I pray that his story continues to encourage others like me to be the best we can be every day.

Thank you Lord for your Grace!