This really spoke to me!

On this day, God wants you to know

... that you are perfect as you are. God doesn't create faulty life. No. Everything created by God is perfect, and so are you. So stop driving yourself mad with endless ways to improve, and just accept the glory of your being as is.

This is todays daily message from a facebook app. Since I am on  journey to find balance in my life this really spoke to me. Now how to I get people in my life to realize this and stop takinga advantage of me?

just one of those days!

My day started out fairly well. my older girls got up and ready for school without too much whinning, and they got to school on time.But now I am feeling overwhelmed in my wifely duties. My one year old is having one of those days where she doesn't want anything but to be held, and is super whiney. that makes it bit difficult to do any house work. The only reason I can do this is she is on my lap. Today i feel held down without being able to move a muscle. I have come to enjoy being a house wife a bit but when do I get a day off? I don't get to sleep in on the weekends because I do have a one year old, and the weekend is my husbands chance to sleep in. Plus if she wakes up in the middle of the night she wakes him by playing with him. If I take a nap or don't get enough house work done during the day it makes me look lazy so I very rarely take a nap. But why is it the first time in a long time I lay down with my girl, my husband comes home to find me napping? That just makes it look like that is my daily routine, when in fact I normally take advantage of nap time and get things done. I feel like my whole life has become filled with everyone else but how do I find me? Can't do with a baby attached to me, or when my other two girls come home from school, and weekends are out so?

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Changes!

Today is the day my middle brother comes back to Texas. This is bitter sweet because he has made so many bad decisions lately. The mother in me just wants him to be happy, but he needs to find himself. He is one of the believers that December 21, 2012 is the Apocolypse. This has made him not care how his life goes because it is ending soon. My goal has been to make him see that even if life is ending soon, we need to make it the best we can. Of course this has been difficult because last year he found our brother dead in his bed, at the age of 21. It seems I can talk until I am blue in the face and he doesn't see that even with this hurdle life can be good. Now that he will be around me again I just hope I can get through to him.

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 Scavenger hunting was interesting this week.

 1. capture the sky

I have soooo many pictures of the sky. I take at least one pic everyday of something in the sky that captures my eye. A fellow scavenger hunter told me I was not allowed to go into my archives for this pic. 

2. life

Yay my grass is showing signs of life!

3. everyday

At first I could not figure out what I want to snap for this, but soon it became aparent. This is my baby brother, Travis, he passed away last year at the young age of 21. So my everday is filled with thoughts of him

4. furry

I didn't want to take a shot of an animal because I figures that would be a common photo.

5. blurry

We went to a birthday party at a skating rink. I took this picture of a friends son as I was flying by.

Wow!

Last night I got a call from my mom. My troubled brother has been kicked out of the house he was staying at. He has not made the best decisions in his life, but the kid can't catch a break. He has pretty much lived on someones couch since he was 15, moving around from place to place. Now I know that if someone needs their life to change they must put forth the effort, but what if you don't  see light at the end of the tunnel? Last year he found our baby brother dead in his bed, and that seems to have thrown him for another loop. I want to help and this is when I decide, God has been preparing me my whole life to be a mom. I am the one that my immediate family, with the exception of my older brother, calls when they have a problem. Now that i have excepted this, it is time to put all my effort into motherhood!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday!

I was a bit busy this week but somehow found the time to hunt down some pics.

1. canned food

 My one year old loves to get into the pantry so this pic was easy to get.

2. chocolate

 Chocolate doesn't last long in my house!

 3. numbers

I took this on our family weekend adventure.

 4. stack

one of my daughters many toys, she loves these that stack.

 5. music

This came out of my archives. In November I helped put together a benefit for a local girl with MS. This is a Texas Country Band, The Clint Levi Band. If you ever get a chance to look them up they were very good.

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