Goodness!
It seems I am surrounded by lovely people! Seriously y'all, I am so grateful for the prayers and your words of welcome into this crazy club. I am still figuring out this whole blogging thing, but I am excited to see where this leads :)
So, anyway Happy Friday to all! You know it's a good day when it starts out with a garage sale. I stopped by a place yesterday but didn't have any cash so I had to go back today and pick up my items (a cute little kitchen chair and a small side table thing with drawers that just needs a little love...mainly because one of its legs is loose and needs a few extra screws..) Anyways, they have been already been introduced to their new friends in the corner of my garage where the "rather run down furniture items I have brought home that will one day be made all pretty" live. However, I am in the middle of a project that is at the moment taking up my whole kitchen table and I will not allow myself to start anything new until I finish it.
Have you even just taken a drive just for fun? Like the windows down, music up, beautiful day drive down a road you've never been kinda drive? Well, my search for another garage sale ended up that way. I got to explore down a side road I had been wanting to for a while. This was the sort of drive that makes you feel a bit more adventurous and free...two lanes winding through a wide stretch of open land where you see more horses and cows than houses. We live in a neighborhood with houses close together but from the entrance to our edition you can see cows across the road and I must admit I like it that way. What can I say? I am a Texas girl :) Not that I think I would ever be too happy living on a farm taking care of cows, but I like the feeling of being a bit out in the country (and still being within 10 minutes of a Wal-Mart ) Never did find that garage sale, but the trip was well worth it.
Well, I really didn't know what I would write about as I sat down today...garage sales and cows, oh dear.
I'll spend a post another day telling more about our story but this will do for now.
A few more random things...
I love teal, turquoise, any sort of bright blue and yellow. These are my main happy colors!
I enjoy photography, crafting, singing in the car (and everywhere) and am hopelessly addicted to pinterest.
I have two younger sisters, and my husband is the only man I ever dated :)
That's about enough for one day. Thank you all again for your lovely words. I am slowly reading your stories as well and I look forward to learning more!
Today I am thankful for this beautiful weather
Have a wonderful weekend!
Friday, October 21, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Here goes!
Well, here I am!
I had no idea how I would feel about this but I can honestly say my heart is pounding as I'm choosing simple things like even the colors for this blog (which is extremely silly because everyone who knows me knows that I have a downright obsession for all things turquoise :).
I have been thinking about this for some time, but it all seems real now. It's like I'm officially joining this strange club of people I've never really met and becoming a member of something of which I've never wanted. I have been a 'sortakinda stalker' on a few blogs for months now and with the encouragement of my SIL, I am finally taking this leap to create one of my one.
I am nervous and excited all at once to join this community because I have heard such WONDERFUL things about many of you from my dear SIL. You know her as "Faith makes things possible...not easy" and I know her as someone who has been my support through our journey to conceive, a prayer buddy, a SIL who has grown into a friend, and just an overall beautiful person inside and out and I will always be grateful God made us sisters! :)
Well, let's see if I can introduce myself a bit more (the short version for now..)
I am a Catholic, twenty-something woman who has been blessed beyond belief with the sweetest, craziest, most handsome, faithful, lovely husband EVER! He is my best friend, my strength through this crazy journey of ttc, and such an incredible blessing in my life.
God has blessed us both so much through our years of dating, engagement and in these 2 years (plus a few months) that we have been married. I would never trade our story for anything in this world because I know without a doubt that every single thing that we go through, every joy and every struggle has been given to us for a reason and that without these things we would certainly not be the people or the couple we are today.
I am obsessed with JOY! I love what is stands for. I love that in the midst of suffering, we can still be joyful because God has created us and given us each day that we are here! I know that Joy is not a feeling but a choice. For me it is a conscious effort to sort through the good and bad, the ups and downs of everyday life and zero in on the fact that above all else, God loves us more than anything we can imagine. I know that through Him, all things are possible! So, despite the fact that I am tired of the doctors appointments, the bloodwork, the sonograms, the heartache, the sick to my stomach feeling I get when I hear of yet another pregnancy announcement, the fact that we are coming up on two years of 'trying' (though we have never 'not tried'), the longing to hold the love btw my husband and I in my arms and to finally become the mommy that I feel I am called to be, and to see my dh love on and play with our little one(s)......
Despite all these things.....
I KNOW that GOD LOVES ME so very much!! And I KNOW that he has a beautiful plan for our lives all ready to go. And so I can still be joyful, and trust that God will take care of us always.
I tell my dh all the time that even on the difficult days, I am truly thankful to have today with him. That I love him with all my heart and I wouldn't trade today for anything. I want him to always know that even though we desire children of our own, that I am grateful for today and never want to take it for granted. As my great aunt once said to me which I think about often,
"there are no guarantees in life." Today is a gift. We are not guaranteed tomorrow.
(steps down off of soap box...so much for the short version ;)
Really I write these things because they are as much a reminder to myself as anything. This will be a place I can keep thoughts about our journey. A place to talk about the joys in my life and a place to come on those days where I am rather a mess. I will not try to be anything other than me. If you could please add me to your prayer list I would be extremely grateful and I thank you in advance! I pray for many of you as a general group but I am really excited to hear more about all of you amazing blogger women that my SIL speaks so highly of so I can pray for you more specifically too.
Well, this turned out to be much longer than I expected and I think this is quite enough for one day. Thank you so much for stopping by and have a lovely day!
Enjoying life, striving for sanity, and praying for little blessings,
One joyful day at a time :)
I had no idea how I would feel about this but I can honestly say my heart is pounding as I'm choosing simple things like even the colors for this blog (which is extremely silly because everyone who knows me knows that I have a downright obsession for all things turquoise :).
I have been thinking about this for some time, but it all seems real now. It's like I'm officially joining this strange club of people I've never really met and becoming a member of something of which I've never wanted. I have been a 'sortakinda stalker' on a few blogs for months now and with the encouragement of my SIL, I am finally taking this leap to create one of my one.
I am nervous and excited all at once to join this community because I have heard such WONDERFUL things about many of you from my dear SIL. You know her as "Faith makes things possible...not easy" and I know her as someone who has been my support through our journey to conceive, a prayer buddy, a SIL who has grown into a friend, and just an overall beautiful person inside and out and I will always be grateful God made us sisters! :)
Well, let's see if I can introduce myself a bit more (the short version for now..)
I am a Catholic, twenty-something woman who has been blessed beyond belief with the sweetest, craziest, most handsome, faithful, lovely husband EVER! He is my best friend, my strength through this crazy journey of ttc, and such an incredible blessing in my life.
God has blessed us both so much through our years of dating, engagement and in these 2 years (plus a few months) that we have been married. I would never trade our story for anything in this world because I know without a doubt that every single thing that we go through, every joy and every struggle has been given to us for a reason and that without these things we would certainly not be the people or the couple we are today.
I am obsessed with JOY! I love what is stands for. I love that in the midst of suffering, we can still be joyful because God has created us and given us each day that we are here! I know that Joy is not a feeling but a choice. For me it is a conscious effort to sort through the good and bad, the ups and downs of everyday life and zero in on the fact that above all else, God loves us more than anything we can imagine. I know that through Him, all things are possible! So, despite the fact that I am tired of the doctors appointments, the bloodwork, the sonograms, the heartache, the sick to my stomach feeling I get when I hear of yet another pregnancy announcement, the fact that we are coming up on two years of 'trying' (though we have never 'not tried'), the longing to hold the love btw my husband and I in my arms and to finally become the mommy that I feel I am called to be, and to see my dh love on and play with our little one(s)......
Despite all these things.....
I KNOW that GOD LOVES ME so very much!! And I KNOW that he has a beautiful plan for our lives all ready to go. And so I can still be joyful, and trust that God will take care of us always.
I tell my dh all the time that even on the difficult days, I am truly thankful to have today with him. That I love him with all my heart and I wouldn't trade today for anything. I want him to always know that even though we desire children of our own, that I am grateful for today and never want to take it for granted. As my great aunt once said to me which I think about often,
"there are no guarantees in life." Today is a gift. We are not guaranteed tomorrow.
(steps down off of soap box...so much for the short version ;)
Really I write these things because they are as much a reminder to myself as anything. This will be a place I can keep thoughts about our journey. A place to talk about the joys in my life and a place to come on those days where I am rather a mess. I will not try to be anything other than me. If you could please add me to your prayer list I would be extremely grateful and I thank you in advance! I pray for many of you as a general group but I am really excited to hear more about all of you amazing blogger women that my SIL speaks so highly of so I can pray for you more specifically too.
Well, this turned out to be much longer than I expected and I think this is quite enough for one day. Thank you so much for stopping by and have a lovely day!
Enjoying life, striving for sanity, and praying for little blessings,
One joyful day at a time :)
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