Starting Over

Now that I'm coming upon a new life change that will allow me to keep up with things like blogs, I thought I might as well get started.

This blog is one of the many things that got put to the side in the midst of trying to work full time and be a good parent and wife over the last 3 years or so. Other things in that category include exercise, eating healthy, keeping the house in order, planting flowers, scrapbooking, crocheting, cooking, learning how to sew and quilt, teaching my children, reading, doing online coursework, and various other things that make a person balanced spiritually, physically, and emotionally. Obviously, I'm not too good at splitting my focus between family, work, and things I love to do.

Thus, the consequence of my lifestyle for the last 3 years has resulted in high cholestoral, a 40 lb weight gain, atrophy of critical thinking skills from doing mostly mundane and unchallenging work for 90% of my time in the office, and a ridiculous amount of late night TV watching because I don't have the mental or physical energy for anything else after a day of work and eating unhealthy processed quick meals because I don't get home until 6pm and have to cook dinner, feed the kids, give them baths, make sure Holloway has his homework done and has practiced piano, and then get them settled in bed by 8pm.

Good news is...that will be over soon! Thanks to God's blessings on us, Scott is doing great at work and has been promoted a couple of times in the last few months. He's also making money on the side drumming for a U2 cover band, so that means that I can go back to taking care of some sweet babies for some extra dough, and I get to be a full-time mom again!

I'm actually still not quite believing it to tell you the truth. I mean, I know, logically, that we've paid our dues...it's not like we haven't worked our tails off for the last 10 years to get to a comfortable stage in life. I guess it's just that these blessings came on us all of a sudden, and all at once, after so many years of praying for them. I'm just so thankful for our friends, our home, our marriage and family, and the fact that Scott is getting to do something really fun that he loves to do AND make money at it!

I do want to point out though, that these changes happened after Scott and I did some pretty serious spiritual work. It wasn't until we let go of control of our future that all of this happened. It wasn't until we totally surrendered our whole hearts to doing God's will no matter where His will led us that we started to experience the things that we've been praying for for so long. God does answer prayers, but we have to be willing to let Him do the work and to do it according to His plan, not our own timeline.

So, I'll end this first post in over a year by saying that I'm so looking forward to getting myself balanced again. I can't wait to organize our closets, crochet an afghan, cook some homemade meals, take walks in the evenings, play with some sweet kids, and most of all, honor God by being the best mom and wife that I can possibly be.