PB & J Worship

No, this isn't the newest fad cd for "Christian" kids! This is something my friends and I ended up talking about Friday night when we all went and hung out at Starbucks. First, a little background. There were 7 of us "girls" and little Zeke came along for the ride too. Of the seven, all but one are married and of the 6 married of us only 2 don't have children (and 1 of those is pregnant!) So needless to say our talk involved our families and children. Oh, did I mention that all of us with children are stay at home moms? Our conversation was very diverse. We went from irrational fears of snakes and horses (?!) all the way to natural family planning and hit just about everything in between! lol, I think if anyone around us was listening in they probably got more than they bargained for. But now, on to the worship talk. In the middle of everything else we were talking about serving our families and our kids and one of the girls told us about something that had happened the week before. She was standing at the kitchen counter making lunch for her 2 year old son and it was like all of a sudden God told, "Megan, this is a time for worship." She was like, "what? No, I'm just making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich." But it was that much clearer, "Megan, THIS is a time for worshiping me." "But he's sitting at the table waiting God." Those are the moments to worship. Those are the times when we are serving God in the everyday mundane things. If we can and do worship God at those times our children will see that and worshiping God in EVERYTHING is going to be so much more natural to them. It would seem more foreign to them to not worship while we fold the laundry if that's what they saw when they were growing up. Plus, how much more satisfying will our lives be if we worship at those times?!?! And one last thing...if we can worship while we're cleaning the toilet...think what our worship on Sundays at church is going to be like?!?!?!
So, here's what I'm going to strive to do as God continues sanctifying me and teaching me to better worship. I'm going to start recording PB & J Worship moments whenever I post. I hope you'll joining me in remembering that EVERY moment is a moment made for worshiping. I'd love to hear what your PB & J Worship moments are, just leave me a comment!

Here's todays PB&J Worship...I was soo tired and Zeke decided he wanted to eat...again...for like the 3rd time in an hour. I didn't have a bad attitude, but I was just sitting there almost comatose as he nursed and God said, "This is it, worship me in this moment." It's amazing!!!
TTFN

Some crafty stuff!

Ok, its only a day later than promised...but here is the last scrapbook lo I did and also a card.
swirl that is around the pictures from a piece of double sided SU close to cocoa paper. The bg paper is Wild Asperagus and the pp that is torn is from a page kit by Foof-a-la. I hand cut the swirl that is around the pictures from a piece of double sided SU close to cocoa paper. The epoxy sticker is by Love, Elsie (I'm falling in love with her stuff!) and the chipboard is by American Traditional Designs. The letter stickers are just some I've had in my stash forever, I have no idea what brand they are! lol. I used the basic brown SU journaler for all the doodling. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.

Just a close up.

Ok, so I hardly ever make cards, but I really like the way this one turned out! The pp is all from The Stack 4. I used the swirl stamp from SU Priceless set and then embossed it on the tag. I just drew and then hand cut the card. I didn't have any heart shaped cards so I made my own.

Ok, come back tomorrow to hear all about my night out with the girls at Starbucks! We had some interesting and very edifying conversations, you're not gonna wanna miss the thoughts on worship if you're a mom. :D TTFN!

Humility Vs. Joy?

Ok, so I guess this will be your “theology” for the day. I’ve been studying Philippians and God has been showing me a lot of things I’ve never thought about before from this book. I’m using Kay Arthur’s study guide that is called That I May Know Him. Anyway, we're studying chapter 2 this week and I have been struck by several things. First was how they say over and over again that their brothers in Christ bring them joy. Think about that, do you bring joy to the people around you? I was rather convicted that I probably don't a lot of the time. Then I was thinking about humility since this chapter talks about Christ humility. I think most people think of humility in a negative way, not that its a bad thing, but that its something we have to white knuckle and do. They think of it as lacking something rather than as having something. This is where my humility vs. joy thought came in. I think to restate humility as a positive rather than a negative we would call it joy in service. That's really all humility is. It's wanting to serve and help others for the glory of God. As Christians I think we tend to think of all the things we have to do or can't do rather than thinking about the joy and contentment and delight we have in doing those things.
Thats it. Those are all my random thoughts for the day. TTFN! (tomorrow I'll have more scrappy stuff for ya!)

(ps, sorry about the underlining, blogger is retarded and I can't get it off!!!)

And it's been a while...

So I got this blog up and running and then I ran off and left it! Sorry about that, I know before last night/this mornings rant it had been a long while. Fear not, it is one of my big goals for this year to make this blog something worth reading, so I will be posting more regularly. I promise at LEAST once a week, hopefully more often than that. I have no "crafty" stuff to show you today, everything I've been working on lately I'm submitting for a Design Team application today. I will post all that fun stuff later in the week after they have made their decisions.

However...as promised in the wee small hours of the morning...new pictures of my babies!!! :D I know you want to see them...so here they are!
This is our new addition...Zeke! He was born on Jan 2nd. Isn't he cute?!?! (You know you all went awwwww...when you saw this picture! ;)
Another picture of Mr. Zeke. I think he gets cuter everyday. Scrapbook material for sure. I'm still in shock that he can already wear "real" clothes...and not look silly in them! He's so much bigger than Kessa was...she was 3 months old before she could wear anything but onesies and then the "real" clothes still looked rather...odd.
We hardly ever watch tv, so when we do Kessa is usually pretty interested. As least she has good taste, she was really into Almost Famous the other day when we were watching it! lol
And finally...My little star brushing her teeth! lol. I LOVE this picture. It cracks me up everytime I see it. Ok, that's all for now, I'm off to play with the kidlets and make sure everything is together and sent for the DT application. TTFN!

It FINALLY worked!!!!!!!

Ok, so this is going to be a VERy short post because it's 2:30 in the morning and I have been sitting here since 10 working on this silly blog. I got my new banner made and was pretty happy with it (isn't it pretty?! :D ) and then I decided I wanted a favicon. For those of you who don't know, that's the little icon up in the address bar and it also go next to the site name if someone bookmarks it. Little did I know that getting a favicon was going to prove to be a rather...LONG endeavor!!! I made my icon is PSE in no time and then was trying to follow a tutorial to get it uploaded and working...no luck. Tried a different tutorial...no luck..and so on and so forth through probably 15 different tutorials (with that many I'm thinking the problem was with me not the directions...hmmm..) but, praise the Lord!!!! I finally got it to work!!!! Who knew getting a tiny picture in the web addy could be sooo hard!

I'll be back tomorrow...err...I guess that would be today...with a better update about life and scrapping...and maybe even some pictures of our new little blessing from God!!! :D