While my life spins seemingly out of control and I get my feet back on solid ground, I'm taking a slight hiatus from blogging. I'll be back, possibly even faster than anticipated.
But for now, there are just too many other important happenings that I don't want to miss out on or take time to recover from.
For now let me leave you with a few blog posts that really resonated with me and I hope you'll take a few minutes to read them too:
Just keep swimming - perhaps it's because I'm so much like her, but I just adore Mary and think she's the greatest. I love her openness and honesty here so, so much!!
Help me help you - I can't help it, here's another one from Mary. I'm totally addicted to reading her blog with every post.
Hands up for the loop-de-loop - about letting go and trusting God, and not resisting change from our plans
Why is anger so popular? - all about anger and how it's okay to be angry sometimes.
How to listen to a friend - nothing else needs to be said here.
The beauty in the threadbare - oh how deeply I love Beth Moore!
Everyday - because it shows the everyday life of one of my in-real-life friends {another coworker's spouse - I can't help it, I love these ladies!!!! :)}
Love to you all as I go back to spinning in crazy circles....
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Bring on the Fireworks... Or Not
There are a ton of options in Chicagoland for viewing fireworks over Independence Day celebrations. To view them all, check out the list hubster put together here.
But there are also several suburbs cancelling or postponing their shows as a result of the dry weather & heat, and fears of fires {and rightly so}! So be sure to check your locations closer to the date to make sure it's still on.
We're still finalizing all of our plans, but it's a little weird this year. With July 4th landing on a Wednesday, it means my mom & stepdad's typical trip up here over the holiday will now occur just after the holiday, over the following weekend. Bummer. We're planning on fireworks, more house stuff, and probably BBQ'ing with friends. Good times, for sure, and we're trying to soak it up as we wrap up these final house projects before our guests arrive!
I was considering giving some treats a whirl, like these found on Pinterest...
...but then I realized I'm exhausted just looking at all of those. They're amazing - and maybe next year.
If you're planning a party or get-together, remember you don't have to do it perfectly. I highly recommend you check out my friend Mary's e-book Plan a Fabulous Party {without losing your mind}! I also recommend that you check out her more specific 4th of July tips over at (in)courage. Mary is amazing and a truly delightful, godly, witty, giving-up-on-perfect blogging friend!! She's a bit of an entertainment junkie like me, has terrific taste, and writes in the way I wish I could! Love her, seriously go check out her tips!!!
And to wrap things up, what would a true 4th of July post be like for me if I didn't post more personal pictures... I mean, really. It's like a requirement for me. So here are some pics from last year as we waited for the fireworks:
It won't quite be the same this year, but we will definitely do our best to make the most of it anyway! Hope you're able to find some good ways to enjoy your time!
And remember, plan a nice party, not a perfect one!!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Don't Quit
I really needed to read this post at (in)courage today. Really, really, really.
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You will want to quit. More than once.
And fear is always at the root of it.
I’m not going to make it.
I can’t do this.
It’s too much.
But listen here—you can do it. You’re stronger than you know. Your God is bigger than you’ve seen. That hill isn’t as unending as it seems right now.
Just keep going and going and going.
Until you leave fear in the dust.
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Read the full post here.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Oh the Love of Pumpkins
One of my favorite things about Fall is the baking of things with apples and pumpkins. I don't always get around to it, but I love the idea of it!! ;) And I usually let someone else do it for me. ;)
I love a nearby cafe that makes the BEST pumpkin pancakes ever. Never really like them anywhere else, this place makes them perfectly, with just the right amount of pumpkin and nutmeg, mmmmm. Then there's the pumpkin shakes at Culvers, and the apple cobbler wherever you can get it. The apple cider donuts my friend Monica makes are amazing but sadly I missed them this season. *sigh* We haven't had a chance to go apple picking yet this year and aren't sure if we'll be able to.
So... I'm living vicariously right now through others and finding all kinds of wonderful recipes my mouth waters and we'll see if I get around to making them:
Pumpkin cheesecake
Pumpkin butterscotch muffins
Homemade pumpkin pancakes with apple topping
Pumpkin cream cheese muffins
Pull Apart Pumpkin Cinnamon Bread {looks soooo yummy, but I soooo don't have the patience for this!... Monica?!?!}
So then of course... I had to find this: 75 Recipes that taste like Fall
And this: Pumpkin round-up
YUMM!!! Are you trying any amazing new recipes this season? Please share!
I love a nearby cafe that makes the BEST pumpkin pancakes ever. Never really like them anywhere else, this place makes them perfectly, with just the right amount of pumpkin and nutmeg, mmmmm. Then there's the pumpkin shakes at Culvers, and the apple cobbler wherever you can get it. The apple cider donuts my friend Monica makes are amazing but sadly I missed them this season. *sigh* We haven't had a chance to go apple picking yet this year and aren't sure if we'll be able to.
So... I'm living vicariously right now through others and finding all kinds of wonderful recipes my mouth waters and we'll see if I get around to making them:
Pumpkin cheesecake
Pumpkin butterscotch muffins
Homemade pumpkin pancakes with apple topping
Pumpkin cream cheese muffins
Pull Apart Pumpkin Cinnamon Bread {looks soooo yummy, but I soooo don't have the patience for this!... Monica?!?!}
So then of course... I had to find this: 75 Recipes that taste like Fall
And this: Pumpkin round-up
YUMM!!! Are you trying any amazing new recipes this season? Please share!
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Overwhelmed
Life is crazy.
An uncle fighting stage 4 melanoma, an aunt with "several masses" [update at the end of today: she's been diagnosed with cancer], my mother-in-law in remission from breast cancer, family members struggling with their marriages/finances/big decisions, friends going through divorce, last surviving grandparents in nursing homes, both grandpas fighting dementia, a dear friend's mother-in-law fighting stage 4 ovarian cancer, a brother-in-law causing some dilemmas....
A messy house with way too much junk. Trying to organize it but finding my junk to be too overwhelming, and not having the resources to organize it properly. Keeping my car spotless because it's the only area I feel I have some control over.
Fighting Fibromyalgia every day. Trying to sort through what I can do in the midst of what I must do. Sorting through the overwhelming ideas for weight loss, healthy eating, exercise, and every diet plan known to man.
More research & discussions about Fibromyalgia than I can begin to fathom. A to-do list that grows faster than I can keep up with it. A hundred or so blogs that I love but cannot keep up with even monthly.
A book reading list the size of the city of Chicago.
Insane pressure and spinning circles at work. Financial decisions looming over us. Lots of tension and arguing between us.
At the breaking point of what we're able to handle. Bad news seems to be surrounding and engulfing us. And we aren't seeing eye-to-eye on anything.
As if that wasn't enough, my car started having major issues. We had trouble getting it in anywhere. Finally we were able to. Turns out the rear brakes were at 0% and the front brakes are at 15%. Then with the car in the shop and me unable to take myself anywhere, I started feeling really, really sick at work yesterday morning. Hubster had to leave work to come get me. :( I felt so bad about that, but am so thankful he was willing! Flu, grrrrrr. :(
Anyway, I took a 2-hour nap after getting home, and laid on the couch for another 5 hours after that before even remotely being able to sit up and look at anything other than a blank and semi-awake stare at the TV.
Upon being able to, I glanced at a few of my favorite blogs. I regularly read an amazing, godly, inspiring blog with about 30 different contributors called (in)courage. It always has incredible posts that uplift & inspire me, and often make me get all teary.
One of yesterday's posts was no different. Here's an excerpt from a lady who also deals with chronic illness. In the midst of her feeling overwhelmed by life, here are some of her inspiring thoughts:
"Jesus took the pain that was to come for Him and, in the midst of what must have been overwhelming, acknowledged the Father. He acknowledged that what was going to be brutal for Him would be transformed into grace, because that is what the Father does. He didn’t let what would overwhelm Him in the garden overshadow the beauty He trusted would come. A beauty that only God can bring from the hard.
The same way God wants to transform our hard.
We all know how God turned the pain of Jesus’ journey into joy for each of us. And it all started with an action… not just of Jesus saying yes, but of Jesus giving thanks.
And so, as I lay in the quiet with my own pain, feeling the natural inclination to be overwhelmed, I take action as He did. I give thanks for the gifts that come from pain. I give thanks for the people and the moments and the experiences. I give thanks to a Savior who was willing to go through the pain so that the hard I live through could also be redeemed."
Please read more of Sara's post at (in)courage. / Written by Sara Frankl, visit her personal blog at Gitzen Girl.
An uncle fighting stage 4 melanoma, an aunt with "several masses" [update at the end of today: she's been diagnosed with cancer], my mother-in-law in remission from breast cancer, family members struggling with their marriages/finances/big decisions, friends going through divorce, last surviving grandparents in nursing homes, both grandpas fighting dementia, a dear friend's mother-in-law fighting stage 4 ovarian cancer, a brother-in-law causing some dilemmas....
A messy house with way too much junk. Trying to organize it but finding my junk to be too overwhelming, and not having the resources to organize it properly. Keeping my car spotless because it's the only area I feel I have some control over.
Fighting Fibromyalgia every day. Trying to sort through what I can do in the midst of what I must do. Sorting through the overwhelming ideas for weight loss, healthy eating, exercise, and every diet plan known to man.
More research & discussions about Fibromyalgia than I can begin to fathom. A to-do list that grows faster than I can keep up with it. A hundred or so blogs that I love but cannot keep up with even monthly.
A book reading list the size of the city of Chicago.
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| image from Flickr. copyright (c) Walt Stoneburner, 2009. |
At the breaking point of what we're able to handle. Bad news seems to be surrounding and engulfing us. And we aren't seeing eye-to-eye on anything.
As if that wasn't enough, my car started having major issues. We had trouble getting it in anywhere. Finally we were able to. Turns out the rear brakes were at 0% and the front brakes are at 15%. Then with the car in the shop and me unable to take myself anywhere, I started feeling really, really sick at work yesterday morning. Hubster had to leave work to come get me. :( I felt so bad about that, but am so thankful he was willing! Flu, grrrrrr. :(
Anyway, I took a 2-hour nap after getting home, and laid on the couch for another 5 hours after that before even remotely being able to sit up and look at anything other than a blank and semi-awake stare at the TV.
Upon being able to, I glanced at a few of my favorite blogs. I regularly read an amazing, godly, inspiring blog with about 30 different contributors called (in)courage. It always has incredible posts that uplift & inspire me, and often make me get all teary.
One of yesterday's posts was no different. Here's an excerpt from a lady who also deals with chronic illness. In the midst of her feeling overwhelmed by life, here are some of her inspiring thoughts:
"Jesus took the pain that was to come for Him and, in the midst of what must have been overwhelming, acknowledged the Father. He acknowledged that what was going to be brutal for Him would be transformed into grace, because that is what the Father does. He didn’t let what would overwhelm Him in the garden overshadow the beauty He trusted would come. A beauty that only God can bring from the hard.
The same way God wants to transform our hard.
We all know how God turned the pain of Jesus’ journey into joy for each of us. And it all started with an action… not just of Jesus saying yes, but of Jesus giving thanks.
And so, as I lay in the quiet with my own pain, feeling the natural inclination to be overwhelmed, I take action as He did. I give thanks for the gifts that come from pain. I give thanks for the people and the moments and the experiences. I give thanks to a Savior who was willing to go through the pain so that the hard I live through could also be redeemed."
Please read more of Sara's post at (in)courage. / Written by Sara Frankl, visit her personal blog at Gitzen Girl.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Quick Update & Links
I've been really struggling off and on with some stuff. Some things I'm trying to just sort out with friends in real life. Some things I'm not telling anyone. Some things I've been calling out to God about. Some things that I'll share here when I finally figure out the right words.
So in light of that, I wanted to post a few links of really encouraging words today that I can't help but share with you.
Plotting for Our Joy
Words of Wisdom
Why Shouldn't I Adopt?
When You Pass through the Waters
I hope you find them as encouraging as I do. Another encouraging word is in my sidebar under "Quote of the Week".
Now just for good measure, and because I miss them like crazyyyyy, check out the fun dear friend Monica & my little buddy Parker are having this week in California. :)
I hope to be back with regular posts soon. In the meantime, I'm listening to this song over and over and over... and resting in God's love and sovereignty even when I can't breathe from being so overwhelmed, am in too much pain to see straight, or when I'm overcome with emotion from my past. God is good.
So in light of that, I wanted to post a few links of really encouraging words today that I can't help but share with you.
Plotting for Our Joy
Words of Wisdom
Why Shouldn't I Adopt?
When You Pass through the Waters
I hope you find them as encouraging as I do. Another encouraging word is in my sidebar under "Quote of the Week".
Now just for good measure, and because I miss them like crazyyyyy, check out the fun dear friend Monica & my little buddy Parker are having this week in California. :)
I hope to be back with regular posts soon. In the meantime, I'm listening to this song over and over and over... and resting in God's love and sovereignty even when I can't breathe from being so overwhelmed, am in too much pain to see straight, or when I'm overcome with emotion from my past. God is good.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
We Remember - One Year Ago Today
One year ago today, Haiti was hit with a devastating earthquake.
My pastor {James MacDonald} and his friend {Mark Driscoll} co-founded Churches Helping Churches immediately after the quake and traveled to Haiti to survey the damage.
Shortly after that, our town {among many others} had Haiti relief programs. We volunteered at the one with the Salvation Army, packing food to send to the victims. We left there feeling so humbled and grateful and blessed. We cannot take anything for granted!
Today, on the one year anniversary of that tragedy, Churches Helping Churches is hosting a rally, with likely 50,000 people to be in attendance. Please be praying for Pastor James and Pastor Mark as they all prepare to preach. You can follow along with how it's all going on Twitter.
And so far here and here are a couple of pictures they've posted of the rally.
Below is a video recapping some of the work Churches Helping Churches has been able to provide in Haiti.
Thank you for your continued prayers and support for the devastated people in Haiti.
My pastor {James MacDonald} and his friend {Mark Driscoll} co-founded Churches Helping Churches immediately after the quake and traveled to Haiti to survey the damage.
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| Just before they left, Pastor Mark visited our church and he & Pastor James prayed together for the people of Haiti. |
Shortly after that, our town {among many others} had Haiti relief programs. We volunteered at the one with the Salvation Army, packing food to send to the victims. We left there feeling so humbled and grateful and blessed. We cannot take anything for granted!
Today, on the one year anniversary of that tragedy, Churches Helping Churches is hosting a rally, with likely 50,000 people to be in attendance. Please be praying for Pastor James and Pastor Mark as they all prepare to preach. You can follow along with how it's all going on Twitter.
And so far here and here are a couple of pictures they've posted of the rally.
Below is a video recapping some of the work Churches Helping Churches has been able to provide in Haiti.
Thank you for your continued prayers and support for the devastated people in Haiti.
Monday, December 13, 2010
A Video Like None Other
This video is extremely touching and impactful, and made me sob and sob. I pray it is just as meaningful to you as well.
Be sure to have the Kleenex nearby.
Thank you to Amber for originally posting this video.
Be sure to have the Kleenex nearby.
Thank you to Amber for originally posting this video.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Fabulous Friday
Links of the week while I fight this nasty cold and a case of crabbiness.
A Nut in a Nutshell about the goodness of Crest Pro-Health
Giving Up on Perfect with some Wisk love
The Finer Things in Life with some apple recipes {seriously, she went all out on this, love it!!}
Skip to My Lou with a fun fall craft
The Tightrope about slowing down and enjoying life
Happy Friday!
A Nut in a Nutshell about the goodness of Crest Pro-Health
Giving Up on Perfect with some Wisk love
The Finer Things in Life with some apple recipes {seriously, she went all out on this, love it!!}
Skip to My Lou with a fun fall craft
The Tightrope about slowing down and enjoying life
Happy Friday!
Friday, September 3, 2010
A Year Ago
A year ago this Labor Day weekend, I was buying this. Then it did this (but thankfully no other issues since!).
A year ago this month I found my new favorite album & song. I ordered the vinyl autographed album as a result of this video.
A year ago last month I joined the gym. A year ago this month I joined Team Weight Loss which really got me integrated into things at the gym, got me to know some people, and hooked me up with my current awesome trainer!
One year later Hello Football, Goodbye Husband strikes again.
This year I'm traveling this weekend. Hubster is staying home. I'm spending it at my friend's house, helping her pack and move. Call me crazy, but I love helping people pack up their homes. The organizer in me is a bit of a control-freak about it. I love it. I'm craving time with her, with my mom, with my brother, with my nieces. Ultimately though, this trip is all about my friend. Girl time.
Can't wait to hit the road this afternoon!
I hope you all have a terrific, relaxing, fun-filled, sun-filled, extraordinary Labor Day weekend!
A year ago this month I found my new favorite album & song. I ordered the vinyl autographed album as a result of this video.
A year ago last month I joined the gym. A year ago this month I joined Team Weight Loss which really got me integrated into things at the gym, got me to know some people, and hooked me up with my current awesome trainer!
One year later Hello Football, Goodbye Husband strikes again.
This year I'm traveling this weekend. Hubster is staying home. I'm spending it at my friend's house, helping her pack and move. Call me crazy, but I love helping people pack up their homes. The organizer in me is a bit of a control-freak about it. I love it. I'm craving time with her, with my mom, with my brother, with my nieces. Ultimately though, this trip is all about my friend. Girl time.
Can't wait to hit the road this afternoon!
I hope you all have a terrific, relaxing, fun-filled, sun-filled, extraordinary Labor Day weekend!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Links of the Week
A recipe I'd try if I liked zucchini at all
Hilarious-as-all-get-out
Excellent post on adopting transracially
Debating about trying this recipe
A good discussion about potatoes
Great thoughts on parenting and God
Hilarious-as-all-get-out
Excellent post on adopting transracially
Debating about trying this recipe
A good discussion about potatoes
Great thoughts on parenting and God
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Links of the Week
A must-read at Heart & Home
A recipe I want to try at Giving Up on Perfect
My cute-as-a-bunny friend and her baby at Sherah G Photography
Hilariousness at The Other Mama
Super encouraging at (In)courage
Randomness of Fibro at Fibromyalgia Experiment
A recipe I want to try at Giving Up on Perfect
My cute-as-a-bunny friend and her baby at Sherah G Photography
Hilariousness at The Other Mama
Super encouraging at (In)courage
Randomness of Fibro at Fibromyalgia Experiment
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The School of Gratitude
I've been thinking a lot lately about gratitude and being truly thankful. I'm trying to grow in this area. Then yesterday as I sorted through my email, I ran across this "Weekly Walk" devotional from my pastor's radio ministry, Walk in the Word. Please see below and may it impact you as much as it did me.
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"So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name." - Hebrews 13:12-15
If we were to interview five people who know you best, would they say that you are a glass half-full or a glass half-empty kind of person? Do you tend toward gratefulness or grouchiness? I've taught at Harvest frequently that there are three learned levels of thankfulness. Everybody is enrolled in the school of gratitude—but too many people are flunking out!
First there's basic, for the lack of a better term, elementary school thankfulness. Hebrews 13:15 says, "Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name." Thanksgiving is the sacrifice.
I can almost hear you say, "Okay! You want me to be thankful? Fine! I'll make a list. Here are some things. I'll make the sacrifice. I'll be thankful on command!" Congratulations. You're in elementary school gratitude. It's a place to start. But don't stay there!
Once you have developed a consistent habit of thanksgiving, it's time to graduate to the next level—high school thankfulness. First Thessalonians 5:18 says, "In everything, give thanks."
"I guess I can find something to be thankful for in every situation. I might not be thankful for my husband, but I'm thankful for my kids." "I might not be thankful for my job, but I'm thankful for my health insurance." "I might not be thankful for my health, but I'm thankful for my sister...my pastor." In other words, deliberate, but selective gratitude.
Finding something to be thankful for in everything is certainly a step above having random grateful thoughts, but there is still plenty of room for developing a deeply thankful heart. Here's what you're going for, brothers and sisters: Graduate school thankfulness. Ephesians 5:18-20 says, "Giving thanks to God at all times for all things." No matter what's happening; no matter how dark the moment is, God is in control. He can be explicitly trusted. He's working out a purpose beyond what you can imagine. Some of it you'll see in this life; some of it you'll see in the life to come. Give thanks to God. Go for it. Give thanks to God for the hardest part of your life. Just say, "Thank You God for this. You are good!" Watch the blessing begin to flow your way.
~ James MacDonald (c) 2008 Walk in the Word
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"So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name." - Hebrews 13:12-15
If we were to interview five people who know you best, would they say that you are a glass half-full or a glass half-empty kind of person? Do you tend toward gratefulness or grouchiness? I've taught at Harvest frequently that there are three learned levels of thankfulness. Everybody is enrolled in the school of gratitude—but too many people are flunking out!
First there's basic, for the lack of a better term, elementary school thankfulness. Hebrews 13:15 says, "Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name." Thanksgiving is the sacrifice.
I can almost hear you say, "Okay! You want me to be thankful? Fine! I'll make a list. Here are some things. I'll make the sacrifice. I'll be thankful on command!" Congratulations. You're in elementary school gratitude. It's a place to start. But don't stay there!
Once you have developed a consistent habit of thanksgiving, it's time to graduate to the next level—high school thankfulness. First Thessalonians 5:18 says, "In everything, give thanks."
"I guess I can find something to be thankful for in every situation. I might not be thankful for my husband, but I'm thankful for my kids." "I might not be thankful for my job, but I'm thankful for my health insurance." "I might not be thankful for my health, but I'm thankful for my sister...my pastor." In other words, deliberate, but selective gratitude.
Finding something to be thankful for in everything is certainly a step above having random grateful thoughts, but there is still plenty of room for developing a deeply thankful heart. Here's what you're going for, brothers and sisters: Graduate school thankfulness. Ephesians 5:18-20 says, "Giving thanks to God at all times for all things." No matter what's happening; no matter how dark the moment is, God is in control. He can be explicitly trusted. He's working out a purpose beyond what you can imagine. Some of it you'll see in this life; some of it you'll see in the life to come. Give thanks to God. Go for it. Give thanks to God for the hardest part of your life. Just say, "Thank You God for this. You are good!" Watch the blessing begin to flow your way.
~ James MacDonald (c) 2008 Walk in the Word
Monday, June 14, 2010
Encouragement
In the midst of my dire need for encouragement today, I found some posts (or went back and revisited some posts) that really meant a lot to me.
Nooks and Crannies
Resistance
Catching Foxes
Are you using your strengths to mentor?
All I can do is pray
The in-between
I hope you find them to be a huge blessing too!
Nooks and Crannies
Resistance
Catching Foxes
Are you using your strengths to mentor?
All I can do is pray
The in-between
I hope you find them to be a huge blessing too!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Just Being Real... and Recommended Links
...I feel like crap.
Just sayin'.
Recent recommendations:
Check Amy's Finer Things Blog for a great post about fertility... and please accept my apologies to anyone who thinks or I've somehow mislead to believe that I struggle with infertility and that's why I'm not a mom yet... that isn't it at all. And it has nothing to do with the Fibro although an underlying fear I have certainly is that I'm afraid I won't be able to care for any kids we have in the same way as when I wasn't sick... I'm afraid somedays I wouldn't be able to care for them at all and that scares me. But needless to say, neither of those things are why we don't have kids. But that doesn't make it any less of a struggle for me. And I don't pretend to compare my heartache to the heartache of infertility. To those struggling with this in a gracious, faith-filled manner, you have my utmost respect and admiration.
On that note, check Don and Sara's Blog for two great posts: one on trials and one on infertility
Check Giving Up on Perfect for a hilarious post about the mishaps that can happen when making slews of meatloaf
Check out Deliberately Domestic for a family portrait of my family away from family, and also a picture I took of the couple before they went out on Mother's Day. I am not the pro photographer Brian is, nor did I do a good job of reminding Brian to smile more :), but I think it turned out good! {although I'm sure B likely did some post-editing.} Aren't they so cute?!?!? Love them.
Check Deb's Fibromyalgia Blog for a great post on feeling fortuate.
Just sayin'.
Recent recommendations:
Check Amy's Finer Things Blog for a great post about fertility... and please accept my apologies to anyone who thinks or I've somehow mislead to believe that I struggle with infertility and that's why I'm not a mom yet... that isn't it at all. And it has nothing to do with the Fibro although an underlying fear I have certainly is that I'm afraid I won't be able to care for any kids we have in the same way as when I wasn't sick... I'm afraid somedays I wouldn't be able to care for them at all and that scares me. But needless to say, neither of those things are why we don't have kids. But that doesn't make it any less of a struggle for me. And I don't pretend to compare my heartache to the heartache of infertility. To those struggling with this in a gracious, faith-filled manner, you have my utmost respect and admiration.
On that note, check Don and Sara's Blog for two great posts: one on trials and one on infertility
Check Giving Up on Perfect for a hilarious post about the mishaps that can happen when making slews of meatloaf
Check out Deliberately Domestic for a family portrait of my family away from family, and also a picture I took of the couple before they went out on Mother's Day. I am not the pro photographer Brian is, nor did I do a good job of reminding Brian to smile more :), but I think it turned out good! {although I'm sure B likely did some post-editing.} Aren't they so cute?!?!? Love them.
Check Deb's Fibromyalgia Blog for a great post on feeling fortuate.
I am personally thinking back at the My Thorn post from a while back. Reminding myself God allowed me to have Fibro for a reason. And trying to press on today through the pain, fatigue, and overwhelming out-of-body experience I feel like I'm having. Argh.
"He knows the way that I take, and when he has tried me,
I shall come forth as gold."
I shall come forth as gold."
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Hilariousness
Head over to The Other Mama for some funny :)
{This is my new favorite blog. Hillary is such a stinkin' hoot!}
{This is my new favorite blog. Hillary is such a stinkin' hoot!}
Monday, March 29, 2010
Fibromyalgia and Sneezing
These may seem like they don't relate, but they do to me.
Something as small as sneezing to you, is excruciatingly painful for me.
It's like my entire body just went through the dryer. Spinning. Queasy. Shaking. Jolting.
With that said, for those of you suffering from Fibro and bad allergies like I do, I suggest reading this article at Fibromyalgia-Symptoms.
Something as small as sneezing to you, is excruciatingly painful for me.
It's like my entire body just went through the dryer. Spinning. Queasy. Shaking. Jolting.
With that said, for those of you suffering from Fibro and bad allergies like I do, I suggest reading this article at Fibromyalgia-Symptoms.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
No Salt? They're Kidding, Right?
Where would we be without salt?
Well, we might be able to find that out soon enough! Check out the full story here at the NY Daily News. I think the line about going to a hospital for their food instead was just spot on.
Really? Maybe this isn't a terrible idea. Maybe we could all use a little less salt. But ban it altogether?
Hmm, food for thought.
Well, we might be able to find that out soon enough! Check out the full story here at the NY Daily News. I think the line about going to a hospital for their food instead was just spot on.
Really? Maybe this isn't a terrible idea. Maybe we could all use a little less salt. But ban it altogether?
Hmm, food for thought.
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