Spiritual Sunday

We tried out a new church this morning. We both really liked it. We will defiantly have to go back and see if it might be our new home church. 

The preacher spoke on reigniting your passion. Passion for God to be specific but it really could be your passion for anything. He spoke of all the "things" that can steal/kill your passion and it got me to thinking about all the things I've allowed to take mine over the years. 

I've always had this dream of planning parties for people and running my own business for it. It's always seemed like such an unattainable dream I've really all but let it go. Hearing the preacher talk about passion today made me remember that dream. I'd like to bring that dream back to the forefront of my thoughts again and see if one day it might actually be possible. My own party business could be a ministry as well. It would allow me to reach people that might not otherwise be told the message. I would run the business with Christian values and I'd love to be known for that as one of our company attributes. 

When I was about 16 I surrendered my life to the ministry, but haven't done a thing toward that since then. I've always assumed ministry work was on a much grander scale than it actually has to be. I pictured being a missionary, Christian singer, preacher or his wife, some kind of public speaker, etc... But what I've come to realize is that ministry work can be as simple as being a mom and instilling Christian values in your children. Teaching a sundayschool class, or a Wednesday night bible study. Making a safe place for young girls to go after school and talk about problems and life. Just me being a witness every day in every way can be my ministry calling. 

I don't know that I will ever see that party business come into reality but I don't want to lose my passion for it and what a great tool it could be. I've be robbed of that passion by bills, kids, schedules, and just general laziness. And I think about how many people let life get in the way of their passions because of those very same things. 

Over the years and with life getting in the way I've allowed several of the things that the preacher talked about today steal my passion. I'm ready to reignite. 

Here are some pictures of my girls just for your enjoyment today. 

Kadee showing off her hair do before church. 

After church nap...no she doesn't normally sleep in her sister's crib. This is just where we found her after putting her down in our bed for a nap. 

This is funny face time with sister. Kadee makes funny faces and sister laughs. 

Week One

Well week (sorta) one down. I haven't weighed myself yet to see a change but I do feel healthier. Didn't walk over the weekend since I was out of town but I was a little more active with outings and corralling children so it evens out. Got back to walking Monday with my mom. Glad she came over or I wouldn't have went on my walk due to be being by myself. There was a storm moving in so the wind was getting up and we had more resistance than usual. Tuesday nights walk was good too. A little less breeze, a little more sweat. But all in all I'm feeling great. 

 My clothes are fitting looser so I guess that's good, except for when they no longer fit and I have to buy new. Maybe by then we will have the money for a whole new wardrobe. Wishful thinking. 

Mommy Monday

It's mommy Monday and after a long weekend away from the house I feel refreshed and ready to jump into reorganizing, cleaning out, and redecorating. 

After the usual morning cleaning; making beds, starting laundry, vacuuming floors, and general straightening; I decided to start on Kadees bedroom. This weekend while hitting up some thrift shops me and my friend found some cute items to repurpose for the room. I'm going to get some paint and repaint the items in my color scheme; fuchsia, turquoise, lime green, orange, and purple. The color scheme is based off this cute piggy bank that my daughter got when she was a baby. 

The lighting on the picture isn't the best but you get the idea of the colors. I'm going with solids because I feel they will grow with her and last longer style wise. We can add different items as the years go on and her tastes change. 

Of our thrift store finds we bought this wooden knick knack shelf.

These wire frame picture holders, which I plan on putting tutu skirts on.

And these figurines that will all get a solid coat of paint in one of the colors.

We also have these wooden letters that were used in her nursery and made by her nana that we will be repainting to match as well. 

So in preparation today for redecorating we cleaned, rearranged, and got rid of some items. It's crazy to see how much my baby has grown but we got rid of a full laundry hamper of too small clothes. Lucky little sister will be getting those in a few years, maybe sooner if she grows like her sister. This is the final product of rearranging furniture, at least for now. My idea is to put shelves all the way around the room for items but I might settle for a random scatter of long shelves since this is an apartment and  I don't want to custom make something that won't be able to transfer to a new house when needed. 

I will tackle the dresser issue when we have the money although this one is used for puzzles and books so I might switch to a small cubby type shelving unit instead. I've also been wanting to mount her tv on the wall up high so she isn't able to mess with the DVD player or pull it down off the surface it's sitting on. I'm also going to try and convince my husband to let me paint her toy box, which happened to be his growing up. I'll let you know how that one goes. 

As you can see my daughter has already pulled the toys back out. 

Her closet got a streamlined look as well after ridding of extra clothes. 

The dresser currently has pjs, panties, and socks in it but when we get a new dresser for the room the contents will get transferred to it and this dresser will be moved. 

While I was on the cleaning out kick I went through the new baby girl's clothes and opened up the next size up bag of clothes. About a month after she was born I went through all the saved hand me downs, & garage sale and thrift store buys to separate them into sizes. They were all bagged according to size and I just open the next size up when the time comes. I ended up getting rid of about  a diaper box full of 0-3 month clothes that no longer fit. Gonna be making a trip to the consignment shop soon. 

Hubby is in for a surprise when he gets home as well. We will be going through our closet tomorrow...

After the revamp of Kadee's bedroom I will move to her bathroom. The bathroom shouldn't take too long. We already have the hot pink towels. Just need to get a few bathroom accessories, a few box shelves for the wall, and a rug and call it done. 

Its getting to be garage sale season again so I can't wait to find items to paint and repurpose for the rooms. I might even start on our bedroom if I find items that will fit in my theme. 

Nap time is about over so I must finish up the cleaning so we can play the rest of the day and do a little school in the evening.