Well as moms we are definitely not in it for the money are we? Mostly because there is none. Anyhow two quick stories to share before lunch time:
1. Each night before bed i sit with Atley in his bed and we talk about the day and pray. Last night after doing these things i layed him down and he looked up at me and said, "Mom, I just got too much of a good thing." Yes, he did. I made him repeat it. Guess he's a happy kid.
2. This morning we were all lounging in the bed. I was still in my tshirt and underwear and the kids were eating cereal bars. I was sitting up chattin with my mom on the phone. Well i was wrapping up conversation with my mom and stood up off the bed. As i stand i feel something wierd in my underwear. I feel and indeed Ava has smashed up her cereal bar and put in my underwear unbeknownst to me while i was on the phone.
Five minutes and one pair of clean underwear later, the dog pukes in the floor.
We're not in it for the glory either.
Meow
Mandycat
P.S. Bets, how's the babymakin mission?
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
In Complete Awe...
Good evening to my faithful cats (i am referring only to the ones who update...you know who you are.)
Anyhow, so this weekend Daniel and i were on a retreat with the Leadership Team from Crossings. It was really great. I really have NEVER expererienced what i think Jesus meant for church to be in a community form without all the "crap," so to speak.
Anyhow, so at the end of our time today we spent a little while praying for each other. I had asked that the group be in prayer for my dad. Now, for those of you whom i haven't caught up with lately, my dad has finally come to a place in his life where he has decided to accept God's grace for the first time. He has started going back to church and is spending a lot of time in the Bible and seeking out God's best for him. In the past few weeks he has been going through a really difficult time with his business and his finances. He has been seeking God's guidance but it has literally put him in a pit. He has told me this is the most difficult test of his faith he can imagine. This past week it was really beginning to take a toll on him. Well, this afternoon i asked our Lead Team to pray for him, so we did around 1:30 and then we all went to lunch. So i got home tonight and after awhile called my dad to see how they are doing. He seemed in really good spirits and after a little conversation he told me that he & Jill were baptized today! He said that he has been feeling like something just wasn't quite right and he felt like this was what the Holy Spirit was asking him to do. So the pastor of the church they just started attending baptized him and then together he and the pastor baptized my stepmom. So after i congratulated i thought and asked him what time today all this took place. Yeah, you guessed it; 1:30! Right as we were praying, God was already answering the prayer.
Cats, I don't believe that baptism is what saves you. But i do believe it is like a wedding ceremony. Today my dad & stepmom married Jesus. I just can't tell you how long i have prayed for this. I know there are a couple of my dear cats who long for this for their dads and i just want you to know that for so long i thought this was impossible. But God is continually proving to me that he is still in the business of doing the impossible. Never give up.
Love you cats.
Meow.
Mandycat
Anyhow, so this weekend Daniel and i were on a retreat with the Leadership Team from Crossings. It was really great. I really have NEVER expererienced what i think Jesus meant for church to be in a community form without all the "crap," so to speak.
Anyhow, so at the end of our time today we spent a little while praying for each other. I had asked that the group be in prayer for my dad. Now, for those of you whom i haven't caught up with lately, my dad has finally come to a place in his life where he has decided to accept God's grace for the first time. He has started going back to church and is spending a lot of time in the Bible and seeking out God's best for him. In the past few weeks he has been going through a really difficult time with his business and his finances. He has been seeking God's guidance but it has literally put him in a pit. He has told me this is the most difficult test of his faith he can imagine. This past week it was really beginning to take a toll on him. Well, this afternoon i asked our Lead Team to pray for him, so we did around 1:30 and then we all went to lunch. So i got home tonight and after awhile called my dad to see how they are doing. He seemed in really good spirits and after a little conversation he told me that he & Jill were baptized today! He said that he has been feeling like something just wasn't quite right and he felt like this was what the Holy Spirit was asking him to do. So the pastor of the church they just started attending baptized him and then together he and the pastor baptized my stepmom. So after i congratulated i thought and asked him what time today all this took place. Yeah, you guessed it; 1:30! Right as we were praying, God was already answering the prayer.
Cats, I don't believe that baptism is what saves you. But i do believe it is like a wedding ceremony. Today my dad & stepmom married Jesus. I just can't tell you how long i have prayed for this. I know there are a couple of my dear cats who long for this for their dads and i just want you to know that for so long i thought this was impossible. But God is continually proving to me that he is still in the business of doing the impossible. Never give up.
Love you cats.
Meow.
Mandycat
Fulty's Birthday
Happy Birthday Fulty-cat!
What are you now...22? :)
Just Kidding--You and Byrd seem so young when I stop to think about how you guys are just now turning 28!
Well Cats--I'm still in my pajamas on this fine Saturday morning. It's colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra here in central Indiana (you can thank my dad for that word picture). Kenna is playing with play-doh as I type. Yesterday the play-doh occupied her for TWO WHOLE HOURS! Who ever heard of such a feat? She just sneezed two snot rockets out of her nose--one of which landed on her pajamas (yes, she's still in her pajamas too--but I guess now I should put them in the dirty cloths hamper). Duncan has been wearing a pair of socks on his hands for the better part of the morning because he keeps scratching his face with his itty-bitty nails. He has really dry skin--it must itch :( I just unceremoniously plunked him down in his bouncy seat--he didn't much like that.
Obviously I have nothing of importance to share with you.
Well, Kenna is cutting me a piece of play-doh pizza--She just prayed over my meal and is now encouraging me to, "eetsy peetsy peeze Mommy!"
Gotta go
arctic indy-cat
What are you now...22? :)
Just Kidding--You and Byrd seem so young when I stop to think about how you guys are just now turning 28!
Well Cats--I'm still in my pajamas on this fine Saturday morning. It's colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra here in central Indiana (you can thank my dad for that word picture). Kenna is playing with play-doh as I type. Yesterday the play-doh occupied her for TWO WHOLE HOURS! Who ever heard of such a feat? She just sneezed two snot rockets out of her nose--one of which landed on her pajamas (yes, she's still in her pajamas too--but I guess now I should put them in the dirty cloths hamper). Duncan has been wearing a pair of socks on his hands for the better part of the morning because he keeps scratching his face with his itty-bitty nails. He has really dry skin--it must itch :( I just unceremoniously plunked him down in his bouncy seat--he didn't much like that.
Obviously I have nothing of importance to share with you.
Well, Kenna is cutting me a piece of play-doh pizza--She just prayed over my meal and is now encouraging me to, "eetsy peetsy peeze Mommy!"
Gotta go
arctic indy-cat
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
a new day
dearest cats...
I'm doing better since I last wrote. God's mercies are new every morning, thankfully. Thanks for your encouraging words. I appreciated Byrd's sweet prayer that she e-mailed me, Betsy's reminder that my kids will only be young once and Fulty's statement that she thought I was 'supermom' (flattering...but very far from the truth. I obviously put on a good facade!) Anyway--I knew you girls would come through for me and I appreciate you being my support team from afar.
I'm currently brainstorming some ways to use my creativity and love for making things in some enterprising way. Perhaps I'm on to something...who knows. I suppose I am in a stage of life that requires some patience, waiting and reflection. I hold tight to this promise in Isaiah, "he gently leads those that have young" 40:11 I may feel insignificant and that my important role as mother is overshadowed my never-ceasing duties--but apparently God thinks otherwise!
love you guys
indy-cat
I'm doing better since I last wrote. God's mercies are new every morning, thankfully. Thanks for your encouraging words. I appreciated Byrd's sweet prayer that she e-mailed me, Betsy's reminder that my kids will only be young once and Fulty's statement that she thought I was 'supermom' (flattering...but very far from the truth. I obviously put on a good facade!) Anyway--I knew you girls would come through for me and I appreciate you being my support team from afar.
I'm currently brainstorming some ways to use my creativity and love for making things in some enterprising way. Perhaps I'm on to something...who knows. I suppose I am in a stage of life that requires some patience, waiting and reflection. I hold tight to this promise in Isaiah, "he gently leads those that have young" 40:11 I may feel insignificant and that my important role as mother is overshadowed my never-ceasing duties--but apparently God thinks otherwise!
love you guys
indy-cat
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
An Unusual Request from the Lord
Hey Cats, quick story for you. Tonight i was putting Atley to bed. We were praying and he was saying thank you for various things. At the end of his prayer instead of saying amen he decided to say, "the end." After i laid him down he started talking about something then in mid sentence he stops abruptly midsentence and says, "Mom, Jesus wants me to go poop." What?
True Story.
Love yous
Mandycat
True Story.
Love yous
Mandycat
Monday, January 14, 2008
Where did Liz go?
Cats
I'm struggling right now...Eli's at work and I need someone to talk to. I don't want to call him upset so you guys are next in line. I feel like I am barely keeping my head above the surface in the daily, constant, never-ending task of caring for small children. I have little to no time to just sit and stare at a piece of fuzz on the ground without some little person needing something from me. I am everything to everybody but at the same time I feel like a nobody. I just need some time to simply be Liz...and it's not a matter of sending the kids off to be with someone else for a few hours. It's a deeper need than that. I need to find something that's just for me and makes me still Liz...instead of simply being the person who cleans the dishes, changes diapers, runs the errands and picks up the house. Why is the task of mother-hood so VERY important but yet still so 100% consuming of a woman?
Please don't write back with a bunch of suggestions or answers to my problem--I really just need some listening ears and some encouragement.
Lizzy
I'm struggling right now...Eli's at work and I need someone to talk to. I don't want to call him upset so you guys are next in line. I feel like I am barely keeping my head above the surface in the daily, constant, never-ending task of caring for small children. I have little to no time to just sit and stare at a piece of fuzz on the ground without some little person needing something from me. I am everything to everybody but at the same time I feel like a nobody. I just need some time to simply be Liz...and it's not a matter of sending the kids off to be with someone else for a few hours. It's a deeper need than that. I need to find something that's just for me and makes me still Liz...instead of simply being the person who cleans the dishes, changes diapers, runs the errands and picks up the house. Why is the task of mother-hood so VERY important but yet still so 100% consuming of a woman?
Please don't write back with a bunch of suggestions or answers to my problem--I really just need some listening ears and some encouragement.
Lizzy
Strange Gatlinburg Sighting...
Hey Cats,
This weekeend i was in the ever so classy Gatlinburg, TN for the Tennessee Christian Teen Convention. Daniel and i did our usual thing helping out backstage. Saturday afternoon we headed out to lunch. Traditionally we eat at Calhouns with all our buds, so we went in to put our name in for a table and what before my wandering eyes did appear but the one and only Brad Dodson in the flesh! It was so good to see him! We hung out for a little while, caught up on all the latest cat spawnings and the on the fact that Jenney is a Mary Kay saleswoman, :) and laughed a lot. It was really good to see him. He seems very happy. I told him to come to Homecoming.
Speaking of Homecoming, Liz McAllister get your butt down here! It is time for a little reunion and we all need to make some time for it as best we can!
Meow.
Mandycat
This weekeend i was in the ever so classy Gatlinburg, TN for the Tennessee Christian Teen Convention. Daniel and i did our usual thing helping out backstage. Saturday afternoon we headed out to lunch. Traditionally we eat at Calhouns with all our buds, so we went in to put our name in for a table and what before my wandering eyes did appear but the one and only Brad Dodson in the flesh! It was so good to see him! We hung out for a little while, caught up on all the latest cat spawnings and the on the fact that Jenney is a Mary Kay saleswoman, :) and laughed a lot. It was really good to see him. He seems very happy. I told him to come to Homecoming.
Speaking of Homecoming, Liz McAllister get your butt down here! It is time for a little reunion and we all need to make some time for it as best we can!
Meow.
Mandycat
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