I do not send out mass e-mails or forwards very often. However, tonight I watched a No Phone Zone video online and felt I should send out an e-mail to everyone on my contact list to get the word out.
PLEASE watch this entire video and PLEASE do NOT use your cell phones while driving. EVER. Not to talk. Not to text. If you must text or call someone please pull over. No call or text is worth it.
Starting today, my phone will be in my purse anytime I am driving.
Beautiful brown thick hair.
Perfect eyebrows that I have to pay money to have.
Gorgeous light chocolate brown eyes.
Her dads nose.
Full lips
Olive skin that has brought on compliments since the day she was born.
She is stunning. Perfect. Smart. Spunky. Determined.
Thank you God for blessing me with the perfect daughter.
Francis Chan has a lot of videos up on Youtube and you can get his podcasts on itunes. I love to listen to him and encourage you to check out what he has to say. Tonight I was going through some of his videos and came across this one. Being the mom of one (almost two) teenagers and being a Junior High small group leader this video opened my heart up to some things.
Part two.
I may have posted this video before. It is a favorite of mine and I often pull it up and watch it. Just to be reminded of what I want to do with my life.
I don’t remember where I first saw the video, so I apologize for not giving proper credit if you shared it with me.
There are a lot of songs that make me think of past memories, happy times, sad times. There are songs that get me excited to work out. Songs that I love to sing and use to Worship.
When watching a movie or TV show, sometimes the music selection can either make or break how I feel about the show/movie (I love Grey’s Anatomy song selections.).
When I first started dating Joe. I fell for him hard when I realized he could take me out of THE WORST mood and make me laugh. He did some pretty crazy things (throwing poppers out the car window-don’t ask) just to see me smile. After 16 + years he can still do it. I can be so mad at him I am nearly spitting fire and he can make me forget about it, by making me smile.
Every time he makes me laugh I fall in love with him all over again.
This song makes me think of my beautiful amazing husband and SMILE.
I managed to get my first post up on the other blog. If you have a couple minutes will you please check it out and send the link along to anyone you think would be interested? Thank you.
There is something wrong with the process of uploading pictures off my camera so I aplogize for the lack of pictures latley. I am hoping to get it all straightened out this weekend.
I am off to go play nurse. Joe is sick with the flu. Bleck. Poor guy can not catch a break. First, his eye now this. He is keeping his spirits up though. Still cracking jokes.
I have decided to quit,fire, whatever you want to call it Facebook. Let’s face it, facebook is a time sucker. Yes, it is good while you wait in a Dr’s office. It is even good for updating a lot of friends and family at the same time. However, the bad of it certainly outweighs the good in my life right now. I find that it promotes gossip and takes time away from the family. It has also caused me to stop writing like I used to.I have not kept up with my blog as I would like to because I find myself thinking I will jump online real quick to check facebook. I then run out of time to write. That makes me sad. I want to write about all the fun things we do together as a family.
No more wasting time on facebook. I will not close my account completely but I do not plan to post nor spend anymore time at the facebook website.
I am also in the works of starting up a new blog. Wayyyy back I tried to start up a bible reading blog. I failed miserably at keeping it up. It is SO important to me that I do this. Actually, for once in my life, follow through on something I start.
I want to reach out to other women of faith so badly. Or even women who are on the fence and just want to learn more about what the bible and God are all about.
I want to understand the word. I want to live the word.
I want to talk about it. So, please check in at my new blog as well. It is just in the beginning phase and I hope to make it all pretty soon. Please pass the link along to anyone you think would be interested and PLEASE leave comments. Talk to me. Let’s get conversations going. Help me to get this blog out there. Thank you.
I will post the first post on Wed. 1/20/10
The link is. http://understandingin2010.blogspot.com/
I had grand plans for a big post tonight. It is being put on hold because I am in a lot pain. Sharp sudden (take my breathe away) pains in my lower left back. The pain comes on fast and hard. Then it is over. A couple minutes will go by and then it hits me again. It is a lot like the pains I had when I had back labor with Alec. Ouch.
I promised an update on Joe’s eye and I am keeping my promise. I only had a one minute conversation with Joe tonight because he had to take JT to baseball and I had to take Alec to Tae kwon do ( Boy did I get some weird look when I was gasping in pain and practicing Lamaze breathing every couple minutes.). Sorry, off track for a minute. Joe had his appointment and his infection is back. Not good news. He is on two more medications. One being another eye drop. He has some PERMANENT vision loss. That’s all I have for now. Won’t talk to Joe until tomorrow evening. I am going to wither my in pain butt to bed and he wont be home until late.
( Had to stop twice while writing this post. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Whine….)
Over Christmas break we stayed up until 1-2 a.m. and slept in every morning. Getting back to a regular schedule was a little rough,but we managed to do it.
Today, the last of the Christmas decorations made their way back into the storage room. I spent about 2 hours sweeping up and re-organizing. We started our mini-home makeover right before the holidays started and I did not realize how much stuff we purged and got rid of. The house looks a little bare. I am not complaining though. I would rather that, then clutter. I do want to get some nice big vases filled with floral arrangements.
I am worried about Joe’s eye. He had a couple days with no *issues*. I am afraid the irritation is back and his vision is being greatly affected. We have every brand of eye drops on the market and nothing soothes the itchiness and pain. Joe has an appointment with his eye specialist at 2:00 tomorrow. Will you pray for him?
Thank you. I will post an update.
Now that the holidays are over I am going to get back into taking pictures. I was burnt out. I found that I was constantly editing pictures of clients and had no desire to take pictures of my own family. That made me sad and I feared I had lost my love for photography.
After a break, I find myself thirsty to get back into it. I am going to limit myself though. I am a natural photography girl. Lights and backdrops are just not my niche. I am more of a spontaneous, outside girl. So, I am going to go with that and not push myself to do something I am not excited about. I recognize my talent/eye is not for indoor photography. Outdoor sports is where my passion lies.
So, enough of my random-ness. I will be back with an update on Joe’s eye tomorrow.
Dear 2010-
You have a lot to live up to 2010. There are a lot of people expecting you to work miracles that 2009 sadly left unattended. You have a big job ahead.
All over the world I have heard people talk about how 2009 was the worst year of their lives. They can not wait to bury 2009 deep in the ground and forget about her.
As the calendar year change to 2010 the world is to Poooof - change and all will be better.
How I wish it were that easy.
Going into 2009 I was scared, lost, sad and in the darkest time of my 35 years. We were a week or so into 2009 and I just wanted to pull the covers over my head and sleep until 2010.
Thankfully, I did not give into that temptation.
Yes, 2009 was tough but we MADE it. We made it because we had the help of God.
2010, my prayer for you, is that you show the love of God into those people who expect so much of you.
I want you to show them that your *being* is NOT what is going to make this year the one that changes it all for them.
The miracles that happen this year (as those in the past).
The maker of those miracles deserves the credit he is due.
I know, I know 2010. It is hard to walk away from all the praise you receive. Even if it is not entirely all your work.
I know you will do the right thing 2010.
It will be the year of giving credit where credit is due. You will receive all the recognition of being the year of the truth.
Love,
Tanya
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of our friends and family. I pray for a healthy, happy NEW YEAR full of blessings, truth and love!
Praise God!
JT met with the surgeon for his (r) shoulder. The Dr. said that even though there is in fact a tear. It is small and in the back? The blood flow is fine.It is his less dominant arm therfore, the Dr. does not see the need for surgery! WONDERFUL NEWS! JT will have to go through physical therapy and have a couple check ups with the surgeon but that is nothing. There will be no interruption in JTs baseball season.
