Distractions

Ok, so I'm supposed to be working on what I will be sharing tomorrow morning at our Home Group Leaders training (ministering out of our marriage, one of my favorite subjects) and all I can think of are distractions!!!  Like this blog!  And figuring it all out :o)

I feel like there is so much inside me regarding this subject (marriage), it is one of my greatest passions but how to get it all out onto paper in a format that I can share on, that is the challenge...Lord, help me :o)  They say you don't know something until you can teach it, and I know that I know some things from these last 7 years of my life (and I have MUCH more yet to learn).    Why is it that when you sit down to do something, like prep a teaching, you get SO distracted?!  Well, here's one distraction I'm getting out of my system.  I have to focus my mind and only look at one thing at a time and give my attention only to that thing until I've finished it, otherwise I get overwhelmed and don't know where to begin.  

So I'm going to blog a few thoughts and then get back to it...

Today I was getting Aidan, my oldest, ready for a nap.  I wondered if he'd go down easy or fight it for an hour or two as has been the case over the last few weeks.  You see, he turned 18 months this March 2nd (it goes by so fast) and all of a sudden, it felt like over-night, he changed.  I thought to myself, "where did my sweet little boy go?"  The one who loved his naps and never really had an attitude, who never said "no".  That sounds terrible, but let me explain: my sweet little baby had changed and had now become a little boy, just like that!  I wanted to cry but was happy all at the same time.  He now had an opinion, well at least now he was exerting it, or rather, his will.  

I am finding that a large part of motherhood is all about change and being flexible - it is a process of constant discovery.  Like naps for instance.  Aidan has gone from napping at 11:30am to now, I've finally discovered, napping at 1:30pm.  He had been fighting his naps all of a sudden so I tried something different, I started putting him down later and it worked!  I love it when that happens!

Anyways, I truly love this new stage he is in, and I am enjoying the stage my newest is in too.  I never want to wish anything away.  Toddlerhood has so many joys and Dustin and I have been enjoying every one of them!

Spending It All

Where to begin...

Well, I have to say that I was pretty hesitant at first to set up a blog, for thoughts like: "what do I have to say that anyone would want to read? What if they don't like what I write about?" I am a very honest person, at least I try to be, and the thought of blogging for the "whole world" to see is very vulnerable to me. This was my inner conversation, along with thoughts like: "I don't think I have time for another thing, this all seems overwhelming to me." But, now that its done, I'm actually excited!

I decided to do a blog after being encouraged by some friends of mine (Jonan & Ash, you know who you are ;o)) I don't consider myself to be anything great, least of all a writter. But, I do have a great desire to share my life with others and if in doing that I can be an encouragement to someone than I will be very pleased.

Why, this name? I would have to say that this is the motto I try to live my life after. I want to spend everything I have in every moment I have - my life, my love, my energy! I long to live completely sold out with out fear or inhibition and to see others do the same!

A life verse of mine is Philippians 3:12-14

^"12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. ¹³Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."

So, here's to the beginning of Spending It All.