God's Call

This might be long. Sorry. Remember when I typed out a few weeks ago that God was "calling me to do something" and I assumed it was the MDO job? That would have been too easy. That job would have been comfortable to me. God calls us to step out sometimes, but little did I know where He was calling me!

While we were at Watts Happening this weekend, Ryan got a voicemail from our new youth pastor at church, Lee. We haven't met Lee, but obviously knew who he was. He just said on the message that he got his name from someone at church and had something he thought Ryan might be interested in and wanted to talk to him about it. Ryan immediately thought it might be sports related considering the person that gave Ryan's name to Lee. So standing at Mustin Lake Ryan called Lee back. Lee asked Ryan to lead a 10th grade boys "Life Group" at church (aka Sunday school). What is ironic about this is that about a month ago the middle school pastor, Grant, asked Ryan to teach 5th/6th grade Sunday School. Ryan had coached that age in Upward basketball. Ryan told me this and I was thrilled that he was asked, but I NEVER asked him about it because I didn't want to be his "Holy Spirit" and tell him what I thought. So, I just didn't say anything. Ryan acted super excited about this high school age when he got off the phone. Then he proceeded to tell me that Lee wanted me to do 10th grade girls! Immediately I got nervous...those high school girl feelings of "what will they think of me, will they like me, etc." DOES IT MATTER?! No, I'm there to lead them to Jesus.

It has been neat for me to watch Ryan truely get excited and obviously feel led to do this. Ryan is not "churchy" which is great. But that being said, he doesn't talk "churchy" either like..."I feel like God is calling me to (whatever)", or things like that. So as we've talked about it he says things like "I don't know why I'm so interested in this, but I am." Which tells me, it is a God thing!

One of the things I read when I was trying to decide about the MDO job was that "when God calls us, He enables us." Which at the time I thought "God will enable me to be the MDO Director." However, being honest with me (and my blogging friends) I would not have been as reliant on God to be a good MDO Dir. as I will have to be in order to lead a 10th grade girls life group! What?!?! That is so not where I would see God using me.

I know that God calls us to do things that we wouldn't pick, which is why He calls us, right?! When Ryan talked to Lee yesterday, Lee asked if we could be there Sunday for promotion Sunday because he wants to introduce the Life Group leaders! What?!!? Again, not my timing God! I need to get ready! But, no God will get me ready.

I told Ryan this will "change the way we go to church" in a couple of ways. We will be with teenagers and not adults. We will go to a different church service and not sit with our friends. We will not go to our Sunday School class. None of these are bad things, just different.

I'm excited to see what God does in our lives in leading these teenagers. Wow, I must depend on the Lord to guide my words, my steps, my actions and my life...into a goup of 10th grade girls!

Happy Memorial Day!

For the past 23 years, my dad's side of the family has had a family reunion in Camden, AR at Mustin Lake. We have so many cousins there that are literally my 2nd and 3rd cousins, but they do not feel like that. They feel like close family. I can not imagine not going to "Watts Happening" every Memorial Day weekend. Watts is my Dad's mom's maiden name, so that is the family tree to where we get Watts Happening. Anyway, I'm so excited that we have this tradition that my girls are getting to experience. It is a fun family time! Three years ago, the job of coordinating the reunion was passed down to myself and one of my cousins. It has been challenging at times to do fun things that all the different age groups can participate in. This year, we went with the Olympic theme. We did that once before and had a torch run that turned into a "classic" family story, not funny or important to anyone not there (or hasn't seen the video!) so I won't go into it. However, the "torch run" is notrious to Watts Happening. So we decided to do that again. We have our new generation and new comers to the family that did not get to participate. So that was our theme.

It is never "cool" or "comfortable" at Mustin Lake, but this year was by far the most humid/hot year I can remember! It was pretty much unbearable!! If you know me and know how much I sweat...you can imagine what I looked like after playing badmitton in the humidity! Mercy! It was NOT pretty! Fun though! I dropped out of the tourn. but Ryan won with our cousin Jordan! Way to go!

Lindsey and Courtney got to fish and swim! The lake looks so gross, just brown, not pretty. I swam in it all growing up and Lindsey didn't care at all. Courtney wasn't big on getting in the water, but she liked the sand (with her shoes on)! It was a great weekend!






We came home and then went to the lake today. We got a tube! It is one that is enclosed on the bottom so when you ride, you aren't in the water. It is like you are sitting in a hover craft or something. To say that Lindsey LOVED IT would be an understatement. Courtney endured it. I forgot my camra (gasp!) but luckily Mom and Dad met us and hung out with us for a while and Dad has his! When I get the pic of Lindsey grinning from ear to ear I'll post it! So cute!! She didn't ride by herself and she won't for a while. I'm not sure who had more fun...Ryan or Lindsey!

So TALENTED!

Check out these pictures! My friend Julie takes pictures and is so talented. She asked if she could "borrow" my girls and take some pictures! OF COURSE! Anyway, she put a few up on her photography blog for me to see. They are AMAZING! Check them out.

http://julieamberjones.typepad.com/

Thank you Julie! They are so cute! I can't wait to see all of them! You are a great friend!

Dancing Videos

This is Lindsey at dress rehearsal. I decided to video this on my camera so I could really watch at the recital. She is on the far right, second one from the end. Look for the curls!

Here she is doing tap! It was so fun to watch her!

Our Week in Review

We have had a busy week as this "semester" of activites comes to an end for us. Lindsey has LOVED going to Puggles. She was really old enough to go on to Awana and do Cubbies, but since she is a summer birthday and Awana is only a 2 year program (at this point we are planning on not starting her in school until she turns 6 so she will be older and not so young as she goes through school) we decided to do Puggles this year and then 2 years of Awana. She doesn't know what she's missing! :) Turns out they aren't doing Awana at our church next year, but something called KidMo? Do you know of it? I don't. But, she loved Puggles and I think it is because she is obviously bigger (and older) than these kids and she loved "mothering" them! She told me that this was her favorite class to go to. My shy (not anymore!) Lindsey was holding hands and walking like a mother hen keeping them all in a row as they walked on stage. Then when they got up there, Lizzy Kate (the girl beside her) let go of her hand and Lindsey bent over and kept saying, "Lizzy, hold my hand. Don't you want to hold my hand?" as everyone waited on her to finish "mothering" her. I don't think she realized everyone was watching. Who knows. It was precious no matter what.

Then on Sat. we had her first dance recital. She has also thouroughly enjoyed going to dance. She has a great time and really does a good job. I will post a video on a different post later. We put rollers in her hair and it turned out SOOOOO curly! I wasn't sure it even looked right, but we worked on it and it turned out very cute!
This is the bag that Honey and Granddad got her. All of the other girls, literally, in her class have been bringing a bag with their ballet and tap shoes in them each week. Lindsey just wears her ballet shoes and carries her tap shoes. Nothing wrong with that, but she said something a couple of weeks ago about wanting a bag like her friends have. So when mom asked me what she could get Lindsey I knew just the thing! As soon as she opened it she said, "It is just what I needed!" Great job! It is really cute. I'm going to have her name monogrammed on it after this week. She is going to do dance again at the same place next fall. Lindsey and her friends. Theses are girls that aren't in Lindsey's dance class, but that she knows from church. They are so funny together! I love to see her be a girl and giggle with friends!
I don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful dancer! We got to put on blush, a little bit of eye shadow and lip gloss! So big! She thought that was so cool to wear makeup like Mommy! I have a girly girl for sure!
Just before she and I left for the show! I love how she put her arms around us....totally on her own! Just too cute! She is so loving and so affectionate!
This was Courtney during the show. For a little bit. She made her rounds between all of the extended family that was there. She liked watching the dancers. When she could see Lindsey she would say "Dinsey, Dinsey dance. Dinsey, Dinsey" so loud. Courtney does NOT have a quiet voice, ever, so when it was quiet in there....everyone could hear Courtney. It was cute though for sure. Granddad only had to go out with her one time for some extra entertainment.

At the end of the recital it was AMAZING what some of these over the top parents brought their girls. We didn't bring anything. Everyone was walking around with balloons, flowers, candy, etc. I didn't think Lindsey would really care or notice, but I was wrong. She asked so I sent dad out one side door and we went the long way so he could get her a balloon. She thought it was great! Way to go Granddad being sneaky!

Then on Sunday after church we headed up to the lake. It was a beautiful day and almost hot. We were hoping for our first swim, but the water had not warmed up enough yet. We dipped the girls' toes in and thought that Lindsey wanted to get in. So being the good Daddy that he is, Ryan jumped into this FREEZING water and then Lindsey decided against getting in the water. Oh well, it was fun!

Ryan was laying out and so I told him to flex! :) I didn't put that picture on here. Anyway, we told Lindsey to and this is what she did! TOO cute!

For those of you that were left hanging with my lost diamond earring. The story would have been different if I had typed this an hour ago. Ryan had a golf tournament in NWA today. He went by the boat storage and searched and FOUND.MY.EARRING! Can you believe that? He said it was between the seat and the console where Courtney and I were sitting! It was in a small crack and he had to go borrow a screw driver from the office lady and take the seat off! I don't even know exactly what he means...but I don't care! When he told me he was going to go look I just said ok. Never dreaming it was there. I don't know why I had no hope. Anyway, I just prayed that IF it was there, that God would lead him to it and he would see it! Praise the Lord! God cares about every detail of our lives. I'm so thankful!

Quick Update

Several of you have asked lately about the MDO Director's job. I found out today that I did not get the job. I am TOTALLY fine with it because I know God has a plan and a will. Our Mother's Day sermon was good and our pastor talked about how we should be making "spiritual markers" on our children's lives. He kept saying "In 1000 years will it (whatever "it" is at the time) matter?" All that will matter is that our children are in heaven with us. That is what we should be focused on. It definately convicted me of spending more time doing important things with my kiddos and making those "spiritual markers" deep in thier lives.

Right now God has obviously closed the door to the MDO job, but has opened the door and called me to be the mommy to my precious girls. I could not ask for a better job in all of the world! I'm thankful to my sweet Ryan for going to work and working hard for us and providing all that he does for our family so that I can have the job that I have...being a MOMMY!

I want to focus on being better about spending quality time with each of them individually and doing something that THEY want to do, even if it interrupts me and my idea of what I should be doing. I am working on it and refocusing my daily activities.

Too Much To Say!

We have had a busy weekend and that is the only way to say it! I have too many things to say to put it all in one post. No one would ever read that much! :) So I'll just tell my funny Courtney story and blog about the rest later. The rest: Lindsey's recital, the lake this weekend, my lost diamond earring! That will just wet your appetite for some good blogs to come.

Courtney did so well in her new big girl bed for a few days. Then on Sat. she figured out how to "timb" aka climb in AND OUT of her bed. This was as I was supposed to be taking Lindsey to her dress rehearsal and Ryan wans't home from golf. My mom was here so she stayed while I left. Ryan came home, "restarted" nap time, put her in bed. She got out and got a spanking. She stayed in bed and took a nap.

The recital went VERY well! She was adorable, beautiful and looked oh so big! More about that later with pictures and videos!

Then Sat. night when she went to bed it was late, she was so tired she did great. However, apparently she woke up and was ready to get up. I woke up early wondering if Courtney was awake so I got up and didn't hear her. Then not long after that I heard some banging on the wall, it was her. So I go in there. She has books in the bed with her and her music is going (her new CD). The CD has 27 songs and song number 22 was playing! So who knows how long she had been up being so quiet!

Today was another battle to go to bed. It just seems to take her a while. I guess the new bed and opportunities (climing out) that come with it are just distracting. She got 2 spankings to try and get her to stay in the bed. It was hard, but she finally slept and had a good nap!

Any suggestions?

I am in need of a new quiet time, Bible study, book, etc. I want something to challenge me, but also something that is very relevant to my life and very applicable. I have been struggling in finding something. I decided to "re-do" Power of a Praying Wife and it has been good to guide me in my prayer life, but I know I need to be "in the Word" more and have such a hard time finding a good study/book. So if you have done or are doing something you like, can you pass it along to me?

Just FYI...several of you have asked so--I had an interview at church for the job last week. There are 2 others that applied and as of last night they had not made a decision and are supposedly hoping to have that decision made by next week. We'll just keep praying that whatever God's will is, I will follow. Thanks for your prayers and support in trying to do what God wants me to do!

New Rooms

As I posted last night about our new rooms for the girls, I thought I'd post a few pictures. They both love their new room/bed. Lindsey thinks it is great that she has a pink room. Courtney is glad she has a big girl bed. I ordered some bedding for her room today, so finished product of that coming later. Lindsey loved painting! :) She wanted to help when we painted outside, but she got to do a lot more here. They didn't have the shams, but I ordered them. They match the comforter, so I'm excited to get them. Then we have to get a dresser since Courtney will need the other one when we sell the changing table.

Then Courtney decided to help. I was up on the ladder in the corner and it was the LAST corner before I was finished! Ryan had taken Lindsey on a quick errand. Courtney was so proud of her "painting" on the wall...luckily it came right off.

Here's the angel! The first time she slept in her big girl bed! She has done so well...each time! I'm so thankful!

I cried

I didn't think I would. But I did. We moved Courtney to her "big girl" bed today. As Ryan and Bill (his step-dad) took down the baby bed it hit me. Even this morning as I was telling a friend that it was our plan to do that today, I said it didn't bother me and I wasn't that mom that it was that "centimental" about stuff. I don't think that was it. With all the chaos, Courtney didn't want to take a nap. I think it was because she somehow knew that we still had company. So I left her in there for a little while. Then let her get up. She got VERY cranky after being tired from church, company and not having a nap. I laid her down at 4:30 for a VERY late nap. She went right to sleep. We woke her up so she'd go to bed like normal. She did. She's a great sleeper, just like Lindsey was and is. She always talks and sings herself to sleep and she's in there just talking and singing now. I was just watching my baby in her big bed and couldn't fight the tears. She was talking to her bear saying "lay on the piddow (pillow). night night." Then she sang "This little piggy went to market" to bear. She didn't say anything until she said "Weee weeee weee weeee...home." (this was in a very much higher pitched tone than the other words she was saying as well.) So cute! I just sat in the girls' bathroom and cried as I listened to my baby be so big (fighting tears now as I think about it).

As it is now, no more baby beds here. Ryan and I were talking as Lindsey ate supper and Courtney took a bath. He said, "Well, we have a king, queen, double and twin size beds all in our house now!" So funny to think about. Not to even mention the crib still here...or the bassinett! Our babies are getting big. They are so much fun. I enjoy them so much.

We redid Lindsey's room and I love it. I will post some pictures tomorrow. I thought I knew what bedding and colors I wanted to do in Courtney's but sort of have had a chage of heart today for some reason. So I will shop around and see what I find that I like...

Happy Mother's Day! This will be a memorable one for me. My baby grew up...

Candid Camera

All I can say is I must be on that show! Seriously! Do NOT continue reading (for the sake of the story) if you have not read about our new car story first, click here. If you know that crazy story then keep reading this one.

Today Ryan and I decided we would move Lindsey to a double bed in order to move Courtney to her big girl bed. I decided that I wanted to also paint one of her walls pink, so we headed out a little later than what would have been good, but ended up fine. We were taking 2 cars so he could put the mattresses in his suburban (good reason to have one!) and then I'd take my car w/the girls to get the bedding. Then we'd come home and get started. So I headed out a little before he did so the girls could get some lunch and eat it on the way. I was still in Greenwood, probably 4 miles from our house, in bad, Sat. Greenwood traffic (my big city friends are laughing I'm sure!). It is bad considering it is the only road in/out of town. That is what makes it bad.

Ok, back to the story. I was stopped at a light in the traffic, on the phone with Ryan figuring out our for sure plan. When WHAM! I was rear ended. Let me say that agian with emphasis I WAS REAR ENDED IN MY NEW CAR THAT ONLY HAS 100 MILES TOTAL ON IT! Yes, the "new new" car as we call it around here. I was furious! Can you imagine!? The girl just wasn't paying attention and literally RAMMED us so hard! Luckily we were not hurt and my car wasn't hurt that bad, but will for sure need work done. The girls were fine. Courtney didn't even know anything had happened. Lindsey's first words were "I dropped my shoe." It was in that panic voice like her shoe had fallen to the deep, dark pit of the earth and we were never getting it back! So annoying! Then she said "Did our car break?" So I told her yes, but we could still drive it, someone crashed us and we were fine. So I of course told Ryan to come immediately to help with the girls and the dealings with the cops, etc. It wasn't a big deal, wasn't hard, just so frustrating and time consuming when we were already running late.

The girl's car was badly damaged and mine was not nearly as bad. Her hood was bent way up and had to be bungeed down so she could drive it. It looked like it wasn't even in the same accident as mine. Way to go Mazda!

After all of that was done the girls and I headed to Sonic, then to Fort Smith to get Lindsey's new bedding. Ryan got the mattresses and we got it all fixed! It is so cute! Pictures coming soo!

Top that story! But turn the camera's off please, I'm tired of all the drama.

I love our car, but apparently it doesn't love me. :) It is great and just what we needed. We already have the Denali that I LOVE and is great with TONS of room for trips. More "luxury" than we need for sure, but great none the less. Perfect for vacations, but since we are finished having kids, I didn't need a car with a lot of room to just go from here to there! So when we were searching for a car for me, we were looking for something small, not expensive and something we could pay off quickly! It is a fun car to "buzz around" in and looks cute too!

"Daddy Paintin"

I didn't get a really good "before" picture of the house. We (mainly Ryan) started paiting the trim/eves of the house last Friday. Then we painted the wood siding (not much) that we have a darker khaki color than it was. It was more of a gray color (picture above). The trim we painted the same color. It looks really good. We both like it a lot. The only part we have left is the chimney in the back and it isn't much!
Here is the section to match the first picture. The best before/after combo I have!
Here is the front of the house. We used to also have 4 holly bushes in the front that totally blocked the view of the front porch. We just put some flowers there for now. My mom gave me a fern for the porch and I got another one. I am searching for some cheap, but the right height plant stands for them. It will look even better with the ferns off of the ground! I really like the way it all turned out! Way to go, Babe!! It looks great!

The reason I titled this one "Daddy Paintin"is because that is what Courtney said all weekend. Even still, I went to the front door today and she said "Daddy paintin." So cute! I reminded her that no, Daddy was back at Cintas now.

Princesses

Here they are...our very girly princesses! Chick Fil A was having princess day which sounded fun, so we loaded up and went. Turned out it was total chaos! It was just so crowded it wasn't fun. They didn't have it set up AT ALL for that kind of crowd. For Lindsey we could have stayed, but having Courtney it was WAY too much! Too crowded. We didn't even really stay for any of the activities. We walked outside and they saw the cow and got one of the crowns they were handing out (see the last picture for that!) and then drove through the drive thru there and got lunch! It was that crowded that I could NOT have kept up with the girls and ordered and gotten out of there all of us together WITH food!







Check out these eyes!! Can you say beautiful blue eyes? So pretty!













Courtney's crooked crown. If the shoe fits, wear it huh? I think a crooked crown fits her well. She likes to be a princess but is pretty tough a lot of the times!

I love both my girls so much. One of the things I love about them is how different they are. I love Lindsey's loving personality and sweet spirit. I love Courtney's funny personality and entertaining spirit!

Where do I start?

It all started 2 weeks ago Thursday. Ryan came home saying he'd been thinking...scary! :) Ryan gets a percentage of his gas paid for with his car package at work. He'd been driving the Montero since we got the suburban. The Montero was getting 18 miles per gallon. The suburban was getting 14/15 miles per gallon. Needless to say that with gas prices how they are, we were spending a lot on gas. Plus whenever we went somewhere as a family, we went in the suburban (not Cintas gas) since the car seats are in there. So he started thinking we should trade in the Montero (that was paid off!) and get a small car that gets good gas mileage since I'm the one driving more miles by running around with the girls or we use that car as a family.

He started shopping around and thought we would get a used Nissan Altima. He pulled into a dealership here where he saw one. They convinced him to look at a new car, Mazda 6. So he did and liked it. It was the same price as the Altima he originally was looking at, but was brand new! He told me to go look at it, pick a color, etc. So I did. I chose the silver one. It was a cute car, nothing fancy...but great gas mileage and a cute car. So we went on Friday to pick up the car. They were very nice people and very quick. Which was nice since we had the girls. We left the Montero at the dealership and drove away, the 4 of us in our new silver Mazda 6.

The windows were not tinted and we wanted them tinted. They didn't have an apointment at the place that they use until today (Tuesday) so we drove it over the weekend and it was great. We really liked it. Ryan moved the car seats around and took the new car back to the dealership today to have the windows tinted. The appt. was at 1:00, but he had some time in the morning. So he took it on over there. We met for lunch (Sorry for all the details, but they will make the story better!) here in Greenwood. As we were finishing around 12:15, his phone rang and he had a funny look on his face and in the conversation said "Are you being serious?" then ended with "I'll be there in just a little bit." He hung up and here is what he said (this is the "punch line" of the story) Brandon is the sales manager that sold us the car. Here's what Brandon told us:

I was driving your car over to California Customs (the tint place) and had an accident. I was sitting still in traffic behind a semi. Then the semi started backing up. I put it in reverse and before I knew it HE WAS ON TOP OF HOOD. (This is when Ryan said "Are you being serious?") So I've filed the police report and you all need to come up here so we can figure out what we are going to do.

So, we left lunch and drove to the dealership. There was our wrecked NEW car! I wish so badly I had my camera and had a picture. So we traded cars and now have another new car. The same car, just in a different color. It is now just a dark gray color--tungsten gray to be specific!

I had not even put the "new car" post on here yet. It has been crazy. We now have our car, tinted windows and all, to keep. It is very nice, about the size of an accord. Not loaded, but nice. Great gas mileage which is what we needed at this point. I'm excited! It is a great car!

Fun Times!

Lindsey got her hair cut and I love it! It is just the lenghth I like on her!
Lindsey used to have a "picnic" all the time! She loved it, so I let Courtney do this the other night when Lindsey was at dance. She did really good. She thought she was so big!
This is sort of funny of Lindsey, but it was cute when it was happening! The girls now like to run naked after their bath. They both ended up in Ryan's lap and Lindsey was turned around and you could just see thier little booties! So cute!

Grangrad came to visit this week on his way to Hot Springs to play in a golf tournament. The girls had so much fun with him! They loved having him here to play and give them full attention!

Lindsey Funny

This is a conversation that Lindsey and I had as she was going to bed. This came after reading the story of Jesus being born. No it isn't Christmas, but she has this Bible that she loves that has probably 10 stories in it. We read them over and over and over and tonight she told me to read my favorite one, so I chose that one. Here's what happened when we were through reading:

L: Mommy, when am I going to be a mommy?
M: You have to get married first.
L: When am I going to get married?
M: When you find that special someone God has picked out just for you.
L: What if it takes too long?
M: (trying to to burst into laughs of her innocence and "girlyness") You just have to wait until just the right time when you find that special boy God has.
L: Are Kyle and Miah going to have a baby?
M: I bet they are when they are ready.
L: When are they going to give me a cousin? (HOW IN THE WORLD DID SHE KNOW THAT RELATIONSHIP!??!?)
M: I guess when they decide they are ready to have a baby.
L: But when is it?
M: I don't know why don't you ask them!

TX cousins...she asked when we were going to get to see Brooks and go to his house again too (I guess since cousin was on her mind she thought of him!) So cute! Wish we were closer!!!

Job?

I don't have much to really blog about. So, I thought I'd share what God has been doing in my heart and life. A few weeks ago my friend Martha and I were talking about how we so badly wished we could find something to do from home to make extra money but also to give us something more to do. Let me skip back to about a year ago when I considered applying for the Preschool Director's position at church. This is something that I really thought God might be calling me to, but never felt a true peace about it. That time passed and the position was filled and I never looked back. Ok, back on to the now...last week I found out that the MDO Director position at our church was going to be open. Just as the Preschool position was appealing to me, this one was even more. This is a job that in my mind would be perfect for me to do as my girls were back in school, but before I was ready to go back to full time teaching. I thought about it a lot over the weekend after hearing about it and then it was in the bulletin at church on Sunday.

So I prayed about it on Sunday and Monday. As I woke up on Monday morning I was wanting to really seek God (whatever that really means w/o sounding churchy) about what I should do. I have been reading "Power of a Praying Wife" as the major source of my quiet time. I didn't feel like that would really speak to me about what I should do, but wasn't sure how to really go about reading the Bible to find out what I should do. So I just prayed and then read the book... amazing how God can use a book that I'm reading to pray for Ryan to speak to me.

As I opened the book to pray the first sentence was "Lord, show Ryan the call you have upon his life." I thought of the new "call" I felt like God might be leading me to. Interesting. Then as I kept reading it went on to say "If God calls us, He enables us." Then the verses were talking about how God gives us all gifts that we are to use for Him. I called my mom and asked her to pray for me to have clarity on whether or not this was something that I should do. As I was telling her she said to me "you have just seemed really restless to me the past few weeks." Which is just ironic to me since I have been...dare I say it...bored a lot of days lately. I just was sort of amazed that my mom was even able to pick up on that frustration of mine even without me saying anything.

So I decided to talk to the girl at church that was now in charge. After talking to her and Ryan and considering the little amount of money I could make PLUS not having to pay for all of the childcare at church (we were going to have to pay $100 more a month next year!) it just seemed right to pursue it and see where God leads.

I'm super excited to see if this is something God has for me to do. I feel like this is something I am ver interested in and would like to do very much. I feel like God has used several things in my life lately to point me to doing something and if this is what it is then that is great. If God is using this experience to teach me something and lead me somewhere else I am fine with that too.

I'm just asking you to pray for God's guidance and direction as I seek to do what HE wants me to do.