It's Funny 'cause It's True

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Menu Plan Monday

After consuming tons of pizza, chips and cake this weekend it will be nice to get back to a 'regular' eating schedule!

Monday -chili
Tuesday- leftover chili (it's even better the second day in my opinion!)
Wednesday - Lasagna
Thursday - Spanish Rice Dinner
Friday - Leftover Buffet

(After reviewing this, it's fairly clear that my tomato craving is in full swing. My poor family will be eating tomato-based foods for the next eight months! And I guarantee I'll have a glass of chocolate milk with each meal. That's how this pregnant girl rolls...)

Check out more menus at orgjunkie.com! 

Lost the Battle

Brenna get off the train table. 

I mean it, don't stand on the train table.

 

Begging won't help. I said get down.

I don't care if it's your 'stage' where you perform. I said get down.

 

Oh, I give up.

 

As you can tell - these pictures were taken on two separate days. This is a daily battle at our house.:-) 

Future Fabio

Riley fell asleep in the chair one morning and I found him like this:

 

I'm not sure which is funnier - the fact that his shirt came completely unbuttoned or that D Dog is in the exact same pose. Crazy kid.

Menu Plan Monday (On Tuesday)

Better late than never, right? Between the trips to the bathroom, Riley sleeping in his big boy beds, a cold and our dogs I have not been sleeping very well! So my motivation to do anything productive is very hard to find. But here goes!

Monday - we had grilled smoked sausage, loaded mashed potatoes and green beans

Tuesday - Chicken and Dumpling soup and Beer Bread

Wednesday - Enchilada Cassarole

Thursday - Leftovers

Friday - Probably eating out

Saturday - Riley's 4th birthday party! I can't believe he's four. So we'll be eating lots and lots of his favorite Cristano's Pizza and some awesome cake made by Myra!

What are you eating this week?

Rainbow Brite Zombies

I have been having the strangest dreams lately. I thought it was lack of sleep, overactive imagination, etc. Take this one for example:

I'm living in New England and there is a blizzard outside so I'm trapped inside the house. A blond girl, who thinks she is Rainbow Brite, keeps following me around. I soon realize that she is a zombie and wants to eat my brain. 

WEIRD, right? So when I told Jeff about my dream he says, "Are you pregnant?"

Huh. I don't think so. Or at least I didn't think so until that moment. I whipped out the calendar...I'm two days 'late'. I can't be pregnant. We didn't plan this. I want to wait until Brenna is older...

Before I took the test I prayed, "Lord, I don't know if I want this to be positive or negative. But if you want us to have another baby - bring it on!"

Long story short...

We're Pregnant!!!

Our third little blessing is scheduled to make it's debut October 14th....about a week before my 30th birthday! What a gift!

Sew and Tell: Almost Done

I am so close to finishing this tote! I just need to do the lining and straps. Hopefully this week...

 

(Front) The ric rac will be wrapped around brown bows at some point. 

  

(Back)

I'll post a picture once I finish it completely!

Menu Plan Monday

I missed last week and had to wing it day by day. Yuck! Going to be on top of it this week!

Monday - Stuffed Shells
Tuesday - Hamburgers
Wednesday - Chicken Enchiladas (this has been on the menu several times and I haven't made it yet! We always end up eating leftovers!)
Thursday - Potato Soup and Roast Beef Sandwiches
Friday - Beef and Noodles

What are you having? Check out Org Junkie's website for more menu ideas!

Search Me, Know My Heart

I have a terrible habit. Everything will be fine, I'll be going along as usual, and then BAM! something triggers a memory of a time when someone hurt me. I allow myself to get sucked back into the feelings I had at that time - the rejection, the hurt, the shame. And I re-live it. Feeling all those awful things; let it eat away at my self-worth again.

Lately it has really started to bother me. Why do I do this? These memories are from events that happened years ago - some as early as when I was 13! I've certainly grown since then and I've done some pretty good things in my life. So why do I allow these memories to be such a stronghold over me? I started talking to God about it. I asked him why I did it and even wrote down a few of the memories in detail hoping it would somehow purge itself and leave me alone.

Yesterday morning, I flipped through the DVR and started to watch Beth Moore. She was discussing Psalm 139 and I was dumbfounded by how she was speaking directly to me.

"God knows who has broken our hearts, devastated us."

No matter how silly or small the act - God knows that it broke my heart. I don't have to write down each memory because He already knows.  When we re-live these things over and over, we want someone to acknowledge them. We want someone to say, "Yeah, man that was awful!" But it will never be enough. The only want to release it is to determine that "you will not let it have you, but you will let God have it."

   Let me be clear. I've thankfully never suffered any type of abuse. The hurts I've felt have been unintentional - most of the time the people never even knew how deep their words/actions cut. But we all have pain in our lives that shapes us - for good or for bad. "Pain will happen, people will blow it. But there is always a redeemer."