6 Months

Today my baby and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary. :) We didn't do anything in particular; we had supper over at my parent's house & it was far better than anything I could have cooked. But my husband did bring me home some beautiful flowers & a card that was full of writing (his writing) which I love. I am so thankful for the husband that God has given me. He has blessed me so much over the past 6 months & I can't imagine being married to anyone else - I can't imagine anyone else putting up with me. :P My love for him has grown so much since we said our vows 6 months ago, and I'm excited to celebrate our 1st and 2nd and however many anniversaries God gives us together. I love you, baby!

I'm Back

Okay - so this is long overdue. I haven't even been that busy; just had a bad case of blogger's block, but I'm back. So like I said in my last post, I have started a new book called "The Power of a Praying Wife". I haven't gotten very far, but I like most of it. Something that really hit home for me was when she was talking about common negative thoughts that it's easy to have. One in particular was that, "Nothing will ever change". I definitely have been guilty of thinking this at times, but nothing good comes from it. Maybe things will change, maybe they won't, but it doesn't matter! It's me who needs to change - change the way I respond to whatever situation God places me. It's a lesson that constantly needs to be learned every time I'm tempted to complain or give up or get angry because it's "the same thing over and over" or "nothing's changed" or whatever excuse my sinful nature might try to give me to get upset. Anyways, so far so good with the book & hopefully I'll have some more good tidbits to share in my next post.

And some other updates:

On Wednesday, Sammy and I watched the movie Up together and it was so good! I definitely recommend it to everyone if you haven't already seen it. It was such a good family movie and a ton of laughs and I don't know what else to say about it, but just that I liked it!



My last midterm (finally :p) is on Monday & then it's on to studying for finals. I'm actually pretty excited for this semester to be over and for Christmas break. I can't wait to have a couple weeks to just rest. Even after getting to sleep in this morning, I'm exhausted right now and will be heading to bed soon after this post. The tiredness could also be because I'm getting sick. I'm not sure, but I started getting a sore throat tonight, and it's just gotten worse and worse so I'm probably coming down with a cold. Hopefully it doesn't last long.

In other news, I finished the last load of laundry yesterday. I've done about 6 over the past 3 days. All folded and put away too, which is usually my downfall, but not this time! I do have some sweaters left to hang up though, and some dishes to do. Every time I feel like I make a little bit of progress, I'm reminded of all I haven't done and then my accomplishment doesn't feel so huge. That's how I feel right now. All the laundry is done, but the dishes aren't, and the floors need a vacuum and there's always more homework to be done. Oh well - there's always tomorrow, Lord willing.

Ooh, one more exciting piece of news - I get to be a bridesmaid! My dear friend Solveig is getting married on June 19th, 2010 and she just phoned me this morning with the news that she got engaged last night! I am SO excited for her & I can't wait to help her plan and go dress shopping and all that fun stuff. I know it's going to be a gorgeous wedding and I am super excited for her. :)

Already?

The end of October is almost here.. already! I can't believe we're starting into November right away. This month took so long, but now I can't believe it's over. School was very hectic for me, and there is still more to come, but it won't be as busy, thankfully. Life is very "normal" right now, but at the same time, a lot of fun. I feel happier than I've been in awhile, and not that I was unhappy before, but I just feel lighter and more care-free, even though I really don't think I have fewer cares than before. I'm just enjoying life.

On a side note - you know what I really dislike is when you heat up food in the microwave and then go to check it and the bowl is super hot so you think, "It must be ready..." But then you take it out and sit down to eat it, and it's only semi-warm! :S and you really don't want to get up and put it back in so you just put up with semi-warm food. Well that's what I'm doing right now... eating semi-warm food and trying to be content because I really don't want to put in the microwave again. It's kind of ironic, because I am trying to be content, which seems so "virtuous", but in reality, I'm just lazy.

Well on to the next topic. :) Sammy and I had people over twice in the last couple weeks for games nights. We really enjoy those and have begun collecting, so hopefully soon we will have a large arsenal to choose from on future games nights. The first night we played was with some of my friends from high school. We played a game called Ticket to Ride twice in a row because we all love it, haha :P I'm addicted now. That is one game I would really like to buy, except the only place in Saskatoon that I know has it is charging $70! So I'm trying to find it online for cheaper. Then last night we had a missional community games night with some Mario Kart Wii, Catch Phrase and Taboo. All fun times... ooh I want another games night already! Board games are the best - I'm still looking for people who actually like Monopoly to play with me. Everyone seems to hate that game, but it's such a classic! :P Another game I found online is Clue: The Office. Haha, I sound like such a game nerd, but that really suits Sammy & me to a tee! We love The Office; it's the only show that Sammy can watch reruns of over and over. We also both really like Clue, so I think it would be a sweet addition to our games collection. But enough about games. :P

I had a really nice day with my husband today. Unfortunately, yesterday, he fell from a ladder and hurt his back. He is doing okay, just very sore. The one plus from this though, was that he got to stay home with me today! :D We slept in a little bit, then ran some errands together, and as boring as errands are, it was so nice to do them together. So first we went to the doctor, then the X-ray clinic, then Zellers (to look for The Office of course :P) and finally to ICBM to drop off the doctor's form. Then, since we were in the area, we also stopped at Parables and it was quite the successful stop; successful for Parables because we spent $80, but also successful for us because Sam got some new books that he's already dug into and is really enjoying, & I also picked up some things for me, which include some Christmas CD's and a book. I'm normally one who hates anything too Christmassy before December 1st, late November at the earliest, but I saw the displays of Nativity scenes and a section of Christmas CD's and I got all warm & fuzzy and just couldn't resist, so I got a pack of 3, and the new Chris Tomlin Christmas CD and I've been playing them most of the day. The book I got is called "The Power of a Praying Wife" by Stormie Omartian. I've never heard of her so I have no idea what her theology is like or anything, but I skimmed a little and the topic is great, so hopefully the book is too. It was on sale for $5 so I figured that if it wasn't that great of a book, then it wouldn't be too big of a loss. Anyways, I'll let you know if it is any good soon because I'm excited to delve into it. Well that's pretty much our day. Once we got home, Sam read and I did some homework (and played some Mario Kart :P) and now he's sleeping and I, for some reason, am not. I kind of just felt like posting because it's been so long. At first I wasn't sure what I would say, but was just hoping the words would flow, and as you can see, they did. But now I really am quite tired, so hopefully I can sleep right away. Good night all!

Nothing New

It's been awhile. There isn't much new, but I figured I would post anyways.
Well the test that I was dreading & was sure I would fail actually went surprisingly well! I'm almost positive I passed and probably even got in the 60's, maybe even a 70, but that's kind of pushing it.
Lots of work lately - tonight, tomorrow, Saturday & Sunday... but oh well, at least it's more money coming in.

Tonight was a candy & The Office night in our home... who knew that pop rocks could cause an injury? I was showing Sam how amazing and noisy they were as they popped away on my tongue and one just popped up and hit me in the nose. It kind of stung actually, haha. Serves me right for sticking my tongue out I suppose. :)

Well, like I said, there really isn't much new so I suppose that's all for now. Hopefully I'll have some better updates next time. Sorry to bore.

Wishing

So sleepy... so stressed.

School is so incredibly overwhelming right now. I wish it was Christmas. I wish I could close my eyes and fast forward the next month and a half.

I wish I could hold my niece. She is so beautiful and I want so badly to meet her!

There's never enough time in the day to accomplish everything I need and want to do. And on top of that I waste time, which leaves even less time to do what I need to do. Yet wasting time is SO easy. I wish things like studying and reading didn't take so long. I wish I had a photographic memory. I wish I could understand all the confusing things that go straight over my head, no matter how hard I try to understand them.

I wish my tummy would stop aching.


Philippians 4:11 b "... for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content."


I wish it was easy to be content. :P

Games Night

I don't have much to write today, but I do have some fun pictures from last night's missional community hangout night. Angela, Cody, Sammy & I all hung out and played some Wii & Scattegories and had a really fun night!

It got pretty intense.. :p

Goals

So today is a new day, unfortunately not the best day so far - woke up with a major head ache & I really don't want to take advil first thing in the morning so I'm trying to wait it out. For now - I'll just blog some more. Anyways, today I thought I'd share some goals. I wrote up yesterday a list of goals for October. I made one for August and I really liked having it, especially when I got to cross things off the list. I meant to make one for September, but it just went so fast on me! So anyways, here are a few from my October list:

Keep a clean home
Read the Word every day
Go to the gym consistently
Do at least 30 minutes of homework a day
Make Sammy's lunch for him every night (instead of just sporadic nights)
Try to make meals with the slow cooker
Drink 8 glasses of water a day

Okay, writing them on a blog makes them seem like pretty boring, standard goals, but it helps to have a written reminder. It actually really helps to focus me, and so far I've been doing most of my daily goals. And I really don't have any extravagant goals right now. I just want to be a good wife and keep a clean home and be healthy, and most of all, be a godly woman, and that's my focus right now. So I'll update later on how well I'm doing with these goals - hopefully it's a good update!