One of those days..

Do you ever have one of those days where you are just down in the dumps? Don't ever let anybody try to make you feel bad for those kind of days. God knows we aren't perfect and He knows that this earth is a rough one to live in and sometimes we get bad news, or bad things happen or we just woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Just because this happens to us does NOT mean that we don't know how blessed we are or how bad we could really have it. Yes there is always a positive way to look at things, but sometimes we need to be in a little funk. We will come out of it. I, personally, think that we are allowed "funk" days every now and then. It makes us appreciate the good days even more.
I am having a "funk" day for a few reasons today. And I will probably remain in my funk the rest of the day, but that's okay. Tomorrow will be a new day and hopefully a sunnier attitude day!
God Bless!!!

Whirling Thoughts in My Head

I have said this before to a few people, but it's something that I got to thinking about this morning while I was getting ready. I know, especially during the summer, that clothing and modesty are topics that pop up a lot. And I usually say, if God/Jesus were to be standing in front of you, would you be ashamed to wear it? Would you constantly be pulling and tugging your shorts down or your shirt up? Btw-I have heard people say that they just don't make long shorts. I beg to differ on this. I know for a fact that they are at Old Navy. They are called Bermuda shorts. Or you could always just settle for capris. You can't go wrong there. But back to my little motto...I got to thinking this morning that you could apply that to a lot of things. If God/Jesus were standing in front of you, would you be ashamed of your language, clothing, attitude, the drink in your hand, the drugs or cigarettes in your hand or the lifestyle that you lead? I am not trying to call anybody out. I was thinking about using in the blog and then I got to thinking about myself. I don't drink, I don't smoke or do drugs and I don't wear shorty shorts, etc. But I have been prone to talk about people or wear an undershirt that showed that I constantly had to pull up. As a matter of fact, I am wearing one of those shirts today(well I was when I started writing this). It gets annoying having to pull it up too. But thinking about it this morning really made me stop and think, I don't feel like I am a horrible person, but there are lots of things that I wouldn't say or do if God or Jesus were standing in front of me. And that is something that I need to work on as a Christian. It's a long road to get where God wants us to be. We aren't perfect and God doesn't expect for us to be. But He does expect us to give it all we got and then some. And I don't mean do a halfway job, being a Christian is something that involves changing your everyday life. I beat myself up when I make mistakes and I make them often. I made a mistake recently that I may not be able to take back, but thankfully God loves me enough to forgive me. And the most valuable thing is that I usually learn a lesson from mistakes and hopefully won't do it again. But God is always there to pick me up when I fall.
2 Timothy 2:15-17 ESV version "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene..."

Mickey Mouse

So I tried appliqués again. This time I didn't have anybody here but she was only a phone call away. Not nearly as pleased with this one. But in my defense, I was on the phone while I was sewing it. I was also proud because I made the tie pattern on my own by looking at a picture. This is coming from the least artistic person! Btw I am not trying to become one of those people that sew for a living. For one, I am not good enough for that. Two, I just want to do it for my own pleasure and sanity. And three, I do want to use it to make baby gifts. From what I hear, pregnancy is in the water at MSOP(yes, I plan on drinking gallons) and I can use this to save money and still give decent gifts. And who knows, maybe the water will work for us and I can make my own baby things. ;-) For the record, I tried to put the pics in order but my phone wouldn't let me.

Picture of Rotteness

I am attaching a picture of what the definition of spoiled rotten is. For those of you that don't know- this is Mr. T aka Bone or Bone Bone. He is the king of the Thornton household, or so he likes to think. He brings so much joy to our house! He is our baby even when he is a mean little mess! Btw- he is curled up with TWO snuggies. He is laying on mine and I covered him up with Jeremy's. And that's a pillow right above his head! :-) I will add another pic or two of our baby boy!

New things

I usually type a blog on the laptop and download it when I have Internet access, but I decided to try it from my phone this time. Several new things lately! One, Jeremy was asked last Sunday to preach at Fairview for the first time. And it's his first time ever in the pulpit. So please pray for him. I know he will do great! I just don't want his nerves to get the best of him. Second, we sent out the first 20 of our support letters this past week and we have gotten one response of a single donation. I was ecstatic! God is continually blessing us. And third, we made the decision on Friday to go ahead and put our house in real estate. I felt a lot of relief after that. Our realtor seems very confident that we will be looking for a place to live before June. Our house is in shambles in certain rooms. We have boxes and totes and junk everywhere. So we have to do some maneuvering around to get this house ready for pictures so it can officially get listed. I am also asking for prayers that it goes well! Not to mention, I have decided to take up sewing in the midst of all of this. This hobby also takes up a lot of space. But I enjoy it! Thanks to my friend Erica, I can now applique. I will post a pic of my completed project if I can. And as a side note, I would like to say God bless all you mothers of teenagers. I don't know how you do it! That was completely random, but I just had to say it. I hope everybody has a great week. It will be back to a normal work week routine for me this week and i admit that I am completely dreading it. God Bless!

Why shouldn't we be excited?

Okay, seriously, why shouldn't we be EXCITED about serving God? I say this because a good friend invited me to a ladies devotional this week and it was truly amazing. I have never been to one before and I am in awe of these wonderful ladies. I am in awe of the passion and spirit they have. I have never really experienced anything quite like that, just to be honest. Well not when I was growing up anyways. We should be excited to wake up everyday as a child of God and as a servant. This is something that I am still learning. I don't think I ever really knew how. It's Wednesday and tonight is church!!! Jeremy is off and gets to go with me. I also get to go in the cradle roll class to watch all the little ones as they listen. I hope everybody has a wonderful and blessed day!!! Give God the glory!!!

Happy New Year

Happy New Year's!!! Did I really just say that? I feel like we zoomed right thru 2011. Jeremy and I were reflecting on 2011 this morning on the way to church. After I made the comment that it kind of stunk, Jeremy brought something up before I could. The first part of the year kind of stunk aside from a really awesome vacation that we had to the beach while celebrating our 5 year anniversary! The last part of the year is where we began getting our lives together and turning our life back over to God. And then we made the big decision to move to Memphis and do God's work for a change. Things aren't always peachy but as the Bible says, "My brethern, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience." James 1:2-3 And God sure knows I need patience! And we have went thru our trials as have most everybody else. I am looking forward to the New Year, we have lots of exciting things to come. I am sad at the same time, just because we are moving away from everything we have ever known. But I know this is where God wants us to be and that He will take care of us every step of the way. Sometimes it takes a pep talk with Him or somebody else for me to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Selling our house, raising our support and packing is at the top of the list of the getting to that light. Even though it will be strange living in a new place, we will have each other and God will always be right by our sides. I hope everybody reflects on their lives. I know there have been several sad tragedies in Giles County and God will never give these families more than they can handle. Sometimes turning to Him and getting your life back on track is the only way to make it thru the difficult and trying times. I know for me, that's what it took! I didn't have a tragedy but I was dealing with my own issues.  We will still have trials and temptations, that's just life. The devil will come after you harder after you turn your life to God, but we have to keep him away and draw closer to God. I hope you all have enjoyed all the time off from the holidays and I wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR and pray that you all have a great year! God Bless!!

Late Night Planning

I feel like there have been more “rough” days lately than not “rough” days. My rough days aren’t anything in comparison to what a lot of people go thru on a daily basis. We are extremely blessed. It’s only rough because I make it that way. If you really know me, you know it doesn’t take much to stress me out. I have stressed all day about telling somebody that I needed a day at home on Monday instead of doing what we had planned. Why? I don’t know, if I knew why then maybe I could get to the bottom of it and stop worrying! I went and got my hair cut last week and that was the first time I had been since our decision about MSOP. So I was telling my hairdresser about it all and when she got to my hair around my ears(where ALL the gray is) she was like wow, you have really been stressing.  Sigh…Yes, yes I have. I am sure my grays have multiplied as the wrinkles on my face have as well. After a talk with Shannon on the phone tonight about a certain issue, I called my sister Vickie about the same issue. Not intending to lay it all out because as much as I like to talk, I sometimes hoard certain things between myself and a couple of other people. I guess she got me at THAT moment. Anyways, it turned into a much needed pep talk with her. Over the hour conversation and talk about how to redirect my energy into something else other than worry and stress and her suggesting doing a New Year’s resolution list. Okay, I gave up resolutions several years ago because I never kept them anyways. But she brought up the point of reminding ourselves once a week about those resolutions to make sure we keep them. And we weren’t talking about losing weight or the “normal” resolutions. For instance, one of mine is to study my Bible more. I haven’t been doing very well with that lately and it makes a huge difference on my day to day life. I don’t really intend on sharing all of my resolutions, but I am going to focus on trying to redirect my energy more. I need to become more organized so that maybe I can redirect my energy more efficiently. I have about decided that I need daily To Do Lists. I am a procrastinator by birth and I will start things and not fully finish them. And two days later wished that I had of done them the first day because now I REALLY don’t want to do them.  With a move coming up and all the packing and preparation, more than ever, my brain has turned into a whole new meaning of frazzled. But like I said, it doesn’t take much to stress me out. So I am going to try this. Another resolution I have is to get more sleep and try to go to bed at a decent time and get on a better schedule. As Vickie was letting me go, she said to drink some water and go to bed. That’s been over an hour ago and it’s now 12:02 AM and I am sitting at the kitchen table writing this and I have already had my sewing machine out working on my first burp cloth(which I successfully finished). My eyelids are getting heavy though. I really wanted to sew some more too. Maybe I will leave it all out and work on it tomorrow if I have the chance. I guess that’s all for now. Thanks for reading! God Bless!