5 things. 4.13

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1. we are scheduled to close escrow on friday. lord willing. i am so excited i can hardly contain myself.

2. i have been doing a lot of reflecting lately. last night i had a revelation. all these years i have been a little upset that my husbands job has required him to work night and weekends. when really i should be thankful for the special time that i have had with my boys. special time that will always be near and dear to my heart. the three musketeers. but don't tell them that's how i think of us. they already find me too silly.

3. i have had so much fun the last month or so day dreaming about our "new" home. i want to get white slip covers so bad i can taste it. i love the above room. even if it'a a grainy photo. when i showed this little bit of inspiration to my husband the other day he said, "i love the contrast of the white and turquoise." makes my heart want to explode.

4. my mom pointed out something to me this week, also involving my husband. she said, "i love the way he values your opinion and lets you "fight" with him." my mom had been in an abusive relationship for 15.5 years, she got out about a year and a half ago. so thing she notices about my relationship with my husband that maybe i take for granted mean so much to me.

5. the orthodox church is more than half way through lent now. it feels weird that easter is so much later than the western easter. but even still i can't wait to celebrate the pascha.

lately, 5 things

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lately, i feel like life is passing by and i'm not taking the time need to remember. does that make sense? life has been so full and i love it and i want to be intentional about remembering these years with my boys before they are grown. my big man will starts high school in the fall and tiny will start junior high. i will no longer have a child in elementary school. how did that happen? some (most) days i feel like time is the enemy. 

so im going to restart my 5 things on friday. today we will pretend that it is friday march 15. i wrote down my 5 things on a scrap paper last week and never got around to turning it into a post...

march.5.2013

1. i love the way my first born smirks, snickers, and shakes his head when i say something stupid. i'd love to tell that i say such things on purpose just to see his smirk. IT.MELTS.ME. but thats not really the case...stupidity comes from my mouth far too often. 

2. thursday is my favorite day of the week. it feel like its the calmest,  knowing the following day is friday. i like calm. 

3. i love it when my mom and i both have a free evening. she stops by when she gets off of work for a glass of wine and a salad. i also love that i am now in a position to spoil her (fill her belly) a little every now and then.

4. i've been reflecting a lot about when i met my husband. we were such babies. i've said it before and i will say it again. for me it was love at first sight. the second i saw him the my world went out of balance and i knew it would never be the same. i was 14 and he was 17. that was 18 years ago. husband celebrates his birthday this week. how did we get so old?

5. i'm struggling with tiny man. he has been "testing the limits" and we butt heads constantly.  however, i love that at the end of each day he wants to just snuggle and wash the day away. 

5 on friday 7.20.12

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it's been a while since i've done 5 on friday.

it decided that i missed it.

so here we are.

1. last week i feel into a rut. complain was my middle name. it came to the point where i was annoying myself. please tell me this happens to you.

2. i have worked hard all week to keep the boys and i on a schedule. it's worked out really nicely. 

3. i started doing a youth devotion through you version with my boys. i let them choose the topic, and they chose peer pressure. it's been a lot of fun to hear their thoughts on the scriptures and what they mean to them. 

4. Part 2 of my husbands test is OVER finally. we have been living and breathing this test for weeks. we should know by the end of next week if he will get promoted or not. 

thank you for all your prayers. 

we feel so blessed.

5. football starts on monday. so to get into the football mood i spent all day yesterday watching friday night lights. i can be obsessive.  

#netflixisthebiznass 

how was your week?

~you need only be still~

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sometimes i feel like things are so bad 
that i want hide.

in my hiding i am still, 

and that is where i find Him

the one who comforts me.

five things on friday

1} my grandma still hasn't come home. she has good days where she is emotionally so strong and other days she just cries. physically she is getting better but it's been a super slow process.

i know she is in God's hands and i find tremendous comfort in that but some days my humanness takes over and i worry.

2} last week was birthday week, tomorrow is birthday party.

pray that i don't get shot because if i do i will cancel the war. 

MKAY

3} challenge: 365 has been on my heart unrelentingly. God wants what he wants right. i guess my duty is to listen and if it touches just one person it will be worth it. next thursday i'm hosting a link up where we can share with others what the bible is teaching us. read more on that here.

4} all week i have been running everyday. i'm really excited. it hurts so good. just hoping i stick with it this time. aye! i'm my own worst enemy. 

5} i decided to get a manicure today. i never paint my nails. i'm excited.

chase your dreams

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5 things on friday

1. it was birthday week (for my boys)

2. i opened an etsy shop after stewing on it for over a year 

excited

3. i blew through the hunger games trilogy last week...
{while on the subject of the hunger games
i really love this song and taylor swift and the civil wars}
 and have been sad all week because i need something else to read.

Hello Kelly 

READ.YOUR.BIBLE!
i'm getting caught up on that this fine 3 day weekend.
do you have any book suggestions?

4. i want to thank you all for your prayers for my grandma and my niece 

they are both doing really well.

have i told you lately how much i adore all of you
my readers

thanks for flying with me!

5. i secretly wish i could run in high heels that way i could run in the high-heel-a-thon
or maybe i just want an excuse to hang out with kelly ripa
love her.

have a dreamy weekend

five on friday

1. i threw the biggest silent fit yesterday when i took my boys to an airsoft shop 

and they didn't hold the door for me. i let the door close on me, and 

just stood there outside in the cold until my youngest 

noticed and came and held the door open for me.

he appologized 682,971,002 times. 

he better. ;)

i told them in the "manly store" that from now on i was going to make scenes 

until holding the door for a lady is a habit. i'm raising gentlemen not pirates. 

the owner of the shop said to my boys. 

"you better get used to this it's only just beginning"

whatever dude. was my thought 

ladies deserve to be treated as such. OK!

2. i saw this on pinterest last weekend & i love it!

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hello i'm a californina gurl. dude is what we say always.

if i want my dad to really hear what i am saying it's
"DUDE DAD"
in a very serious low tone, with dad drawn out like daaad.
when i was in high school he tried to tell me his name wasn't dude.
now i think he has realized that, yeah it is.

my boys are dude, my nephews, my students, etc.
my sister-in-law and i even address each other as dude.

my mother-in-law
hates the word dude.
where she is from dude isn't a nice word.
i'd tell you to google it DON'T it's just gross.

3. i've been substituting all week. it is so moving singing worship songs in opening with 100 little ones.
i can hardly get through the songs with out letting a tear go.
i pray that they worship their whole lives.

4. hubs and i went on a date last night. so F.U.N. it has been a minute since our last date.

5. i really want to spend the weekend here reading, napping, or just lounging.

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i could finish the hunger games. i started book 1 wednesday.
i'm a little scared and i feel like a bad mom because i let my son read it.
maybe it get's less scary as it goes on. i'm only on chapter 6.

happy weekend friends
i hope is relaxing and full of fun.

oh yeah
GO GIANTS!