Sep. 1, 2008 - Rambling & Venting
Well it has been a long time since I posted...been busy with summer time, and we just recently started back to school.
Ok so I recently started using Google Reader and have been enjoying reading lots of blogs at night after the children go to bed...so today I found some really good blogs about being frugal and using coupons...I have tried doing the coupon thing in the past and enjoyed getting deals while it lasted, but it did not last long before I got frustrated in how much time it took each week to go through all the sites, coupons and etc. to get everything together to go to the store and get the deals... however it felt great knowing I was saving money and getting some stuff for free, well these new blogs I have been reading has got me going again, and I was ready to get some coupons together and go shopping for some great deals, but first I needed to print some coupons suggested at http://thecentsiblesawyer.blogspot.com/ ....so here I go and try to print the coupons to only get more frustrated when the things would not print, probably due to a firewall, popup blockers yadda yadda yadda, so I give up, now only more frustrated that I am not going to get to go shopping for deals....see the thing is I just don't feel like I should be wasting all this time to try to figure out how to print these coupons, why can't it just be easy....
So anyway, I had also recently decided that I needed to be more dedicated to reading God's word and decided I wanted to read the Bible in a Year Chronologically, so last night I started and could not put my Bible down, read 16 chapters before stopping, then started watching "The 10 Commandments" on TBN, got my Bible out and started following Exodus as I was watching the movie, it was pretty cool, and helped me to visualize what it would have been like in the days of Moses leading the people.
I think the devil is trying to hit me hard today for all the Bible reading and spiritual food I took in yesterday, cause today I feel yuck...I have not felt like doing anything, and then when I did decide to try the coupon thing again, it just got me more frustrated...the kids are driving me crazy, and they are only being normal, but today I am so wishing I just had a day to myself, but I know I am suppose to be serving my family, it is all about God, it is not about me and what I want, but I am having a hard time fighting that feeling today....
Sometimes I just wish I could have the day to myself, and do what I want to do, read blogs all day, listening to sermons and podcast I would love to hear, and just pray and read my Bible...then I know also that if I did have a day without kids, I would also just want to rest and would probably spend most of the day sleeping. A day without kids is impossible, it ain't going to happen...so I have to pull out of this and get on with the day.
Speaking of time without kids...dh is keeping the kids tomorrow night for me to go help a friend get some things sorted out ...she is a great Christian woman and owns her own Christian Dance School... my girls take dance from her, and we just love her to death, so I will be enjoying helping her tomorrow night...then in two weeks I will have the blessing of going to a Women's Conference, called the Frazzled Woman (now that is me for sure), then hopefully next month I will be going to a confence given by Teri and Steve Maxwell...These conferences are huge for me, I don't normally get to go to stuff like this, but it is the kind of stuff I like to do with my free time, get filled up with "me" time, but at the same time learning more about how God would have me live my life as a wife and mother....just good stuff!!
On another positive note...Noah got saved last month, and was baptized last Sunday morning, praise the Lord...another child God has given me is now in the kingdom of God...hopefully I will be able to share more about this experience in the near future.
Well I think I am going to go try to read a few more Chapters from my Bible and lift my spirits a bit, before trying to clean up my house...it is a little mess right now, since I have been feeling so blah today...
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