Tupperware and Girls nights out...

It all started many years ago.. infact so many years ago that I just remember my mom going to them when I was really young and since I am hitting on 30 soon, its been a couple of years. So now we have Papered Chef, Tastefully Simple, Lia Sophia, Purse Party and many more. When we find a product we like we call up all our friends we invte them all. The rewards of these parties are always another BIG reason on our inviting the "town" to our parties. Its the thing to do being a female along with Girls Night Out... you call up all your girl friends invite them to come along tell them they will have a great time and maybe even convice the single ladies they may find a date. How about when Sunday morning comes we jump in the car by our self or with our significant other, our kids and maybe a friend.Why is it that we wont call up all our friends to join us??? We go out of our way to call send out invites and call everyone we know for an extra 50% off or for a free handbag and yet we wont work for greater rewards hearing Christ say "Job well done, my good and faithful servant". We tell our friends about the great deals they will get and they come along and yet when it comes to church on Sunday mornings and having a relationship with Christ we leave our friends and aquaintances out of it. we dont tell them of the great rewards of forgivness and eternal life. We dont invite them to a weekly even that would change their lives. Well ladies lets change that.... how about we start a new fad a fad that has the best rewards of all life change, eternal life!

my daughters are my world!!

You know when I was a child, I LIVED! I didn't know all that much about money and knew how to live without it and that's because we didn't really have any money. But my parents did a good job teaching us what the real importance of life was and that being our relationship with each of and friends and Christ. Holidays were so much fun, there was always a feast prepared and my parents made it all about my sisters and I. As I grew older I lost sight of that, well sight of how much fun Holidays were. Those days just began to feel like all the rest, until I had kids. I live for my kids and I love having days that we can create special memories. I enjoy making it all about them and through their excited eyes, I too find myself filling with joy and excitement. My girls are beautiful and full of life, I want them to have their hearts desires met. I find joy in my childrens joy, when they are sad I too am sad but its my job to comfort them. My daughters dont have their biological fathers in their lives and at times I really allow it to get to me, because I know McKenzie longs for that sort of relationship, Kyleigh too will one day wonder, Who her father is and why he is not around. But not only do my children have God as their father who is ALWAYS there. Mike is in their lives just as much mine and we are lucky to have found someone who will love the three of us girls. McKenzie and Kyleigh are beautiful and smart and I want them to know they can do anything there little hearts desire and that they have a support group behind them to help push them through when times are tough, to be there when it seems the world is crashing. I thank God for my daughters, they are my life, heart and soul!

Seek Him

When I remember the old times.... I also remember how God always made a way, he always came through. I lived my life in the gutter lane for a while, at times I would begin again and try to stay on the lane but I kept ending up in the gutter. I always grew up in church and I knew there was a God who loved me and who watched over me, and looking back its so apparent that I had his arms around me keeping me safe. But in my late teens decided to take my own path, I "bought" what the world sold me that I had to be beautiful, and sexy, I threw myself down to be the welcome mat to all those that would take me. I got so caught up in what money bought and playing a part, I began drinking my years away, which then lead into strong alcohol and drug addictions. My life was wasting away before my eyes. I listened to the lies the devil told me. How could what I was doing be so wrong? I was Happy? I felt confident? I found love? Yes, those were statements I just made but also questions because what I found out later as that they were lies that were masked with temporary feelings of Happiness, Self Confidence, Beauty, and popularity. I KNEW there was a God and yet I was so far off track because I was seeking to find all those things in the world and not in God. Had I only sought out God I would have found more of him, I would have found happiness and confidence in who I was and realized some of the things I was seeking was not what I needed. Although in my life I have strayed at times and gone after the things of the world, I end up here and now, wanting to know Him (Christ) more, wanting to live my life in his image, and that's the great thing. My slate has been washed clean!