Gather

Hi all...Yes, I have been on a bit of a hiatus. We got moved and working on getting everything unpacked and organized. Happily we are pretty much finished with the whole downstairs....Just need to finish up the upstairs rooms. Hanging ruffled curtains and organizing Freckles room, getting my studio put together and decorated and actually making our bedroom cute, which is always the last room to ever get done. We are so happy with this house. It is brand newly built. Everything is all new and feels so roomy and big compared to where we just moved out. We have an open great room and spacious kitchen with a walk in pantry....I am so thrilled about my walk in pantry!!! I am a bit late for choosing a word for the New Year...I decided to use the word Gather. This is a whole new year for us. We finally are settling in the area where my hubby pastors our church plant. We are finally able to open our home for bible studies, fellowship, functions, dinners and gatherings. That's where my word of the year comes in. To Gather with God's people in our home, 

filling our home with love, laughter and good things. 

"For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” Matthew 3:18

These pictures are kind of blurry. I used my phone...Sorry. I will get around to taking better pictures when I have more of our place completed. Just wanted to drop in, 

say hello and share some peeks of our new home.

Will be back soon!!!!

Blessings!

Getting Through

It has been longer than I thought since I last posted. I didn't mean to let time slip. It has been a busy whirlwind planning my Mr. Darlings official ordination/installation service, taking Freckles to school on Academy days, and taxiing her around to youth group. Our church plant was a part of the local safe trick or treating that is held for the community. We set up a tent and banner and passed out 1,000 pieces of candy and our church business cards. That evening I felt under the weather and it rained hard. We were soaked to the bone. After returning home that evening I ran a slight fever and had the worst sore throat. The next week I literally spent in bed, sleeping. The flu caught up to me. My family also got hit by it. Long story short, I had no energy or inspiration to do a whole heck of a lot. It is only today I am actually feeling quite better. The cough is still lingering, 

but I can finally function a bit more.

These are just snippets of pictures taken that I put on Instagram...So thought I'd share them with you. I made my costume this year. I was a tomato pincushion. I didn't get good pictures due the the dark dreary rain...But, it was a hit. Some people actually could figure out what I was dressed as a simple girl Doctor Who with bow tie, skirt and nifty sonic screwdriver. I didn't even get around to decorating much either. Just a few pumpkin things here and there.

So, now that I am on a mend and got through the hard part of the flu. I am hoping to get back here to my little spot. Hope all is well with you dear readers. Can you believe it is almost Thanksgiving!? Then Christmas already!!!!? Crazy...

Life Lately

Life has been jumbled lately. 

With consistent illness/colds/flus/allergies and death in the family we have been unable to achieve a good full week of consistency. Deep down I have been in the dumps. I have so much to be thankful for and shouldn't have anything to even grumble about. Compared to other lives, I probably have it easy. I have been trying to pinpoint what may be wrong. I can only think back to the possibilities...The rough few years we have endured with Seminary, moving around, losing our place for a time and practically being homeless, having no where to go. Our son decided to grow up too fast and moved out on his own, which is still weird to me. I'm getting older, my health isn't 100%, I have lost interest in things I love doing,

 My Gramma passed away, and I don't have many friends...

I know woas me.

Yet, I have so much to be thankful for. God, my hubby, my kids, my family, a roof over our head, a new area to call home, a new church plant work. Why am I still down? I can't figure it out...If it is even something at all or is it my health. I have a tendency to bottle things up, I am tense all the time, I have headaches/migraines all the time, my dizzy spells have come back, I feel alone even though I know I'm not. It's weird. I have been in a funk, feel like I am seeing the light then I fall back down again and I can't get out. I have however changed my diet, I need to get to the gym and spend more time outdoors...And cut out some other foods and junk I don't need. Surely it could be many things. The season of my life is changing, I am aging, my children are growing up. Soon they will have families of their own...Sooner for my son, later for my my daughter.

I think a part of me is tired of moving around. I would love to just be able to settle down and have consistency. Of course life throws us lemons sometimes and life can seem uncertain. I am thankful for my faith, for that I am certain. I trust God knows what is best. But really....Am I trusting fully? Perhaps not. Am I trusting God with my life? Just when I think I am... 

I really don't think I am!

It is really a battle we all face. It is hard to confess the truth.

 My problem is more than likely, I don't trust Him.

If I can't trust God, there is no way I can trust anyone let alone myself either. 

I am asking you dear friends. Please pray for me. I would also like to pray for you.

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Would you please pray for my kids as well. My son has been really sick fighting infection back in Washington. My daughter also came down with a full head cold this last week. Pray that we: Her parents don't catch the bug. Unfortunately I have also

 felt under the weather the last couple of days. 

Trying to tell myself, no! You are not going to get this too.

Lot's of smoothies are in order for sore throats.

Hope you all have a great weekend.