Triumph

Well, thanks to a little over-the-phone coaching, I got my picture up! What triumph and exhilaration, oh the sweetness of success, Ah! I wonder what she charges!?!?!?! JK! Thanks Courtney!!! I think that I am having too much fun tweaking my page. Templates, layout, Fonts & colors...... oh, I just LOVE fonts & colors! :o) There are just so many options!

So, beyond humility, that moment of frustration brought about exhilaration! Lol!

O.k., so back to being serious. I wasted an embarrassing amount of time today trying to get a more recent picture of myself. I am decidedly UN-photogenic! (at least that is my excuse.... :o) This is not a new revelation by any means but was rather irritating today. I find that it is hard to get good lighting for a self portrait. I am sure that there are tricks for that too.......

I have a post wandering around in my brain. I think that I will be able to post it soon. I can't tell you how much fun I am having with this blog. It is so nice to have a creative outlet that doesn't include cooking for those with food allergies! I tell myself daily that I have no creativity but this place makes it easy to pretend! :o)

Well, the kids are supposed to be cleaning their room but, from the sounds of things, are going to need my encouragement. Sometimes it is hard to remember what you went in your bedroom for, you know? I mean, I don't have a bedroom so I can't imagine but my kids seem to have that problem every time I tell them to clean their room! :o) Then again I have that problem when cleaning too, so maybe it is genetic!

Technological Difficulties

This post is strictly for my whining and, as this is my blog, I can if I want to! I am one of the technologically challenged people in this world. If you have been given this same disability then you can understand and feel my pain, if not I would advise you stop reading this post now as you simply will not be able to understand. There is something dreadfully painful about attempting a seemingly simple task only to fail repeatedly. Today I decided to try and spruce up my page a bit. Now my friend, over at Growing is Beautiful, has beautifully placed on of her pics in her header. It looks lovely and so very professional. I thought that I would try something similar with one of my pics. Hah! Although getting the pic uploaded was no biggie, getting it to fit was something different. I am assuming my attempts at resizing before uploading are failing............. The disgusting thing is that my quiet time is now over and I STILL don't have my pic up. **SIGH** O.k. so now I have to figure out how this moment is a gift................... Ah, right, it is teaching me humility.......... Alrighty then, so I have been gifted some extra humility today and should feel all better about my pictureless blog, right? :oP lol!
Anybody out there have Adobe photoshop and now how to resize pics? I thought I had it figured out, but obviously not!

Moments are gifts

I have been deliberating starting a blog for months but have really struggled with whether or not I had time, anything worth writing, etc.... I finally decided to do one but just haven't been able to come up with a name that I really liked. I thought long and hard about the name of my blog as I felt like it would define who I am and what my blog is in bloggerworld. :o) I probably gave it way more thought than necessary but names mean a lot to me. Fast forward to tonight......
6 months ago this weekend my 18yo brother died in a car accident. As I visited his grave and talked with him and God I was struck by the thought that in 1 moment our lives can completely change. We tend to think in terms of months, years, life spans but all we really have is the moment that we are in. There is no guarantee that we have any more moments. When I received word that Nathan was in an accident my life was forever altered. From that moment on nothing has been the same and it never can be. As I knelt at his grave pondering the many missed opportunities to tell him that I loved him, the many times that I couldn't see past the fact that he was an annoying little brother to see that he wanted assurance of love, the hugs that should have been given, the times that I should have said more or less.......... I realized the irrevocable nature of moments. We can not change what we have done with our moments. Each moment that I have with my husband, with my sweet kids, with my family and friends, are moments that I need to take advantage of. I tend to get caught up in survival mode and don't seize them and make the most of them. I let my chronic pain and tiredness get in the way. I have too many "laters" in my days. I realize that this thought process is nothing new or earth shattering, it has just been made real to me in ways that it never has been before and I don't want to forget this lesson.

As I left the cemetery tonight I knew that I needed to bless each moment, to use it for glorifying my Heavenly Father, and to thus teach my children to do the same.

How about you? Are you living each moment to the fullest for the Father?