Oh I love my kids, so I just wanted to show you how the little sweeties helped me while I went upstairs to fold laundry for five minutes, literally five minutes! I don't know what I'd do without them!!! :)
Mommy, went upstairs so let's do this....
We had a great fourth of July, my parents and brother came up on the 3rd to have dinner with us, then on the 4th we headed over to Katie and Eric's for a BBQ, swimming, and fun. We watched our super early firework show, (due to grumpy kids) and just had a great day!!! Linnea kept saying all day "It's America's Birthday!" Well true... We hope everyone had a great 4th of July!!!!
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Well I hope everyone had a wonderful mother's day. We were able to all gather and we were able to skype with Daney Boy. It was a great day!!! Derek spoiled me with my annual love letter and a whole set of de-stressing scents, lotion, pillow spray, and body scrub. I slept with the pillow spray last night and really did feel rejuvenated :). I wanted to let all those who are missing mom's or wishing to be moms, I'm praying for you and I look up to you!!!! I wanted to let my wonderful mommy know how much I love her and appreciate all she does for us as well as my sister!!! She's such a great mommy and does such a wonderful job with my nephew Sammy Sam!!! Love you
I'm also so grateful to my little nuggets, no matter how busy, and tired they make me!!!! They are my life and they bring me so much joy. I can't imagine my life without them. I love them so much. I wanted to thank my hubs for being such a great daddy and helping raise our little ones!!! Happy mother's day everyone
Well it's been a week into our little faith adventure and I've learned a few things this far into it. I've learned that there are bullet points of faith. What I mean is like here is FAITH but underneath faith is other items you need to have that give you true faith like this
- patience
- hope
-trust
- and enduring well
I am truly trying to have patience, and I think I am. Both my kids just got ear infections, high fevers, congestion and Drew just got put on a steroid to keep it from turning into RSV. Anyway this is just another thing that has happened to help me learn patience, I feel pretty stretched thin since the long nights between both kids I've done alone. I've prayed for strength and each morning I wake up and am able to function and not yell and still handle the day with happiness, so this has been a testimony builder for me in patience and enduring as well as showing us what we can handle even when we feel we're at our limit.
I also have learned that Heavenly Father helps us in His own way and a way that works for the individual person, Derek is still out there each day all day and hasn't made a sale, however he has improved. He's learning the skills he needs to be great at sales. This has been a hard lesson for me to get since I want financial success out there, but I've come to learn even if Derek doesn't make one sale and he comes home early I feel he has learned skills and he can keep trying in a different field of sales since he told me this is a talent he wants to learn. Derek has felt Heavenly Father teaching him and helping him, so it has shown me that He is aware and answers our prayers in ways we may not want, but in ways that will help us for the better.
The other hard lesson I've learned so far is not to allow myself to get envious of others. There have been several other guys out there that have been quite successful and at first I was really happy for them, but as the days progressed I noticed myself thinking "why can't that be us?" So last night I said my prayers and asked for things not to get to me and just be grateful that Derek is improving and learning so much, and it has gotten a lot better today. I'm so grateful for this time in our lives. This is such special opportunity for us to learn life skills in such a spiritual way. I've felt alone at times like Heavenly Father isn't listening, but then I exercise the lessons he's been teaching me and I truly feel like it opens my eyes to see from a different perspective His hand in our lives. Don't get me wrong I'm not perfect at this it's a work in progress and I'm still hoping for success out there, but we'll be taken care of either way.
So I'm needing a little boost... As a lot of you know Derek and I are trying to make some money to help get Derek through school by doing summer sales. Everything has attempted to get us to not go. I'm happy to report that today we were told that a family will be signing a lease agreement on our condo next Friday...amazing news. That was a huge stress on me, but through patience and tons of prayer and fasting it finally happened thankfully!!! We went forward without having our condo rented because both Derek and I truly felt that going to Kansas and heading to Utah State was for sure the right thing to do. Well I'm continuing to try and be patient while Derek is out there, but so far he hasn't had success. I know it's only been a few days and I continue to be positive and encouraging to Derek (obviously he doesn't need me to stress him out more) but anyways I can't help but wonder why did we feel so good about this sales opportunity in kansas if we don't make anything? A lot of people keep saying well maybe you need to just learn something which I get, and that is very possible. I just can't see what He has planned for us, does that make sense? So I kind of wanted a boost. Has anyone had any experiences where you were directed one way, but it didn't turn out how you thought? Did it help you reach your goal even though it happened another way? Don't get me wrong we've had plenty of life changes in our lives where things just work out and it works out better than we could ever have planned. This one though I am finding some confusion...I guess I'm just hoping to understand why we were directed in this direction...So if you want I'd love to hear some stories!!!
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