Water, water, water!!

I have challenged myself to drink water instead of sodas for at least two weeks. I DON'T LIKE WATER!! (Unless I'm really hot and dehydrated, and then I can't seem to get enough!) I have a doctor's appt. Monday afternoon because I have had lots of pain in my joints for sometime now. The reason I'm going now is because it has started in my fingers and hurts really BAD! I was telling a friend of my about this and she suggested the aspartame, such as in Diet Coke (my drink of choice), might be causing some it. So at this point, I'm willing to go without and see if it helps. I'm on day two and haven't noticed any drastic changes. It probably hasn't helped either that I have gained 30+ pounds in the last 3-4 years. Matt and I both were following the Weight Watchers plan before we moved here, and I reached my goal weight shortly after. And I guess I have been celebrating ever since!! So, I'm going to try to do better: watch my portions and lay off the sweets (sniff,sniff). And exercise...I hate to sweat! But now with this pain in my joints, it's hard to do any kind of activity for too long. Maybe it's just an excuse, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Another day

We got Ky sent off to church camp yesterday. She will be gone until Friday. They go to a camp in Lone Star, TX. Last year was her first year to go (because she has gone to Siloam since she was a year old!) and she loved it! I hope she enjoys this year as much! But as soon we got her on the van, Kera and I headed to Magic Springs with friends and met Wendy and her twins there. We had a really good day. It was soooo crowded though. I guess after all the rain last week, everybody was ready to get out of the house!

Well, despite my creativity block, I finally came up with the beginning of a poster for the fall retreat. I took it to a printer and asked the lady to take what I had and "jazz it up" so it would look professionally done. I don't know if she really meant it or if she didn't want to mess with me, but she said she would leave it just as I had done it. I pleaded with her to do some different, add color, change the font, something...,but she said, "If I were to do this, it would look basically like you've already done." I was a tad disappointed because I wanted more color, but she also informed me that colored posters cost $15.00 each!!! So black ink on colored paper looked a whole lot more professional than I thought!!! However, I was relieved that I didn't have to wait for her to re-format (is that word??) a poster, because my girls with me and they are NOT good "waiters". I'll see if I can figure out how to add a picture of it to this blog.

Oh, look! I did it!!!

Creativity have I none!

My mother is very artistic. She decorated cakes for the public for many years. She could draw anything that anybody wanted on their cake. The girls and I went down this past weekend to help her move, and as we were going through some of her stuff I can't tell you how many pages of paper we found that she had doodled pictures of her grandkids. She is a master seamstress (in my opinion!). Prom and wedding dresses weren't even started on until the day before the event! She is a jack of all trades. If it's broken, she'll fix it instead of buying a new one, which is what I do! WHY DIDN'T I GET ANY OF THOSE GENES??? I am working on a poster for our fall ladies' retreat and it just won't come together! Frustrations are raging high!! I was trying to save a little money, but I think I may have to pay someone to come up with a decent layout. I hate putting out stuff that looks like it's half-done or low-budget production. I know what I want it to look like (well kind of) but I can't get it from my head to the paper or computer in this case. Well, I better get back to it. I am hoping to get this to the printers on Monday!

Where to start?

I am excited about this blog, but I ponder on where to start. Because I am such a rambler, I fear the thought of writing something stupid that will come back to haunt me later!

I guess the most pressing thing in life right now is to get the ball rolling again on women's ministry at our church since we know that we aren't moving to NW Arkansas yet. I have heard so many women comment lately that they don't feel like they fit in and they don't have any real close friends here. And we all know that women need women!! So one of my goals is to create care groups where they can hopefully feel like they belong, 1st to God's family, 2nd to a circle of friends that care about each other. The problem I'm running into is finding women that will take on a leadership role to head these small groups! I know the Lord will provide and call these women to step up to the task. So in the meantime, I will press forward with what I believe God has given me to do.

Since Matt didn't take the day off for his birthday on that day he is taking the day off tomorrow and getting a 3 day weekend. I don't know what we're going to do, probably not much. Any suggestions for a day trip on Saturday??

Here we go!

Welcome to my world! I am been contemplating for while now whether I wanted to start blogging or not, so today I decided to plunge right in! I have been viewing blogs from some of my friends and it looks like fun!! I'm not sure how consistent I'll be at posting, but I'm hoping I can keep up! I'm hoping this will be a way for family and friends to keep in touch with our family. Enjoy!