The Vineyard

It's time to say goodbye to my career at the Vineyard. My position was eliminated on Monday. It's sad because I will really miss the people but at the same time, as Cody would say, I have my weekends and holiday's back.

Loss of a Friend

I just lost a dear friend of mine to cancer. She had battled cancer for awhile and decided this last time that she would not have treatment because her quality of life was more important than quantity. I complete understand that decision but it's still hard. She taught me so much about God faithfulness before and during cancer. She was one of those people that when you talked to her you knew she really cared about you and you knew that when she said she was praying for you she really was. From what I understand, her husband and son played and sang worship music as she went home to be with the Lord. How wonderful for her that she heard that as she left this earth and heard heaven's music as she arrived. I know that she is totally enjoying being in God's presense, I mean, who wouldn't. I'm also sure that God is so happy to be with her. Even in death, she is still an inspiration. She was a beautiful woman inside and out and she will be greatly missed.

I love you and miss you Gaile.

To Give or not to Give

It amazes me how my kids and probably most kids are so self absorbed. I think that probably most of us are self absorbed.....LOL! Anyway, this past Friday I heard a really great talk about poverty and it really got to me. So I went home and I asked the boys their opinion about Christmas. I proposed that instead of buying each other gifts that we take the money we would spend and give it to a family who was really in need. Well, the room got really silent and then Cody said "that's a good idea but lets not do it until I'm about 17 or 18 because I might not care about Christmas gifts then" and then Austin shook his head in agreement and said that we needed to wait until he was 17. Really!?! What makes them think it will be easier to give up gifts at 17 or 18? I think we need to do this for this Christmas....LOL! What do you think?

Teenager?

I had an epiphany this morning. Cody just celebrated his 13th birthday on August 4 and I really tried to ignore the fact that he's 13 but then today, 10 days later, it has hit me......holy crap, I am now the mother of a TEENAGER!

Am I old or what?

1 Pound

One pound...that is all the weight I lost after being sick for 3 days and the only thing I could eat was cereal. I came down with some stomach thing, I'll spare you the gory details, and all I have to show for it is 1 stupid pound!!!!!

Need Prayer

I'm starting to feel really down. I'm starting to look at things with a "the glass is half empty" mentality. Please pray for me. Maybe I just need more sleep....LOL!