New beginings

We are moving into our very first house the 1st of November. Jeff and I are very excited and happy about it, the kids are too. Christine not so much but she is coming around, she doesn't like the idea of changing schools again and making new friends...again. I feel bad about that, this will be our 3rd move this year so she is sick of it, This should be our last move for a long time. Because we are moving so close to the holidays we are not going out to California for Christmas like we planned, it's just too expensive. So our plan is to come out around tax time, that's right around Christine's birthday so she will be pleased.
So now I have the awesome job of packing everything up again, going through toys and clothes to make sure everything fits and nothing is broken. Then unpacking and setting up our home, decorating for the holidays and settling in.

Nothing of interest

I have nothing very interesting to say today. I have a cold and my brain is fully clouded, there is so much pressure in my head I feel like it just might explode. I have been watching movies and sometimes when my head doesn't hurt as bad, reading. We are turning the application for the house we are trying to get into today. Hopefully we find out soon after that if we are approved. Then we get to pack up and move into our very first house, God willing. I am trying not to get to excited about it, not until we get the okay. It's very hard tho, I can already where our furniture will go and how we will decorate it. Okay my brain is going so I must go lay back down.

A childs prayer

Last night I had a dream that there was an earthquake while we were all asleep. In my dream I jumped up and grabbed all the kids and ran for the door frame. When I woke up this morning I wondered if there really was an earthquake while I was asleep and just didn't wake up for it. This has happened a few times when I lived in California, but I don't live in California anymore and there are no earthquakes here. I reminded me of when I was little, I was terrified of earthquakes, so afraid of them. So I would pray every night and ask God to protect us and please lets not have any earth quakes tonight. I even made a pact with God as a 7 year old girl "Okay God we are going to make up a special phrase for no earthquakes, and when I say this phrase during prayer then you won't let there be any earthquakes" Our special phrase was "Keep up the good work God" I know, I was 7. So every single night I would say this to God and be comforted that it was safe and the Earth would not move while I slept. Sometimes I would even sing it to him, "Keep up the good work God la la la la" Every once in a while when I pray I have the urge to say that, because I so faithfully said every day for years and years I am still triggered to say it once in a while.

As children alot of us prayed for things we wanted and our needs. We were kids that's how our minds worked. Now as an adult I pray alot differently, I pray for His will and thank Him for the many things He has blessed me and my family with.

When we first moved here to Broken Arrow I was really scared of the storms here. Living in California I only heard of the worst part of weather for OK. So when we would have a storm I would pray for God to protect us and lay His arms over our house. But I bet my kids were in the other room negotiating with Him.

They're not all bad

This past weekend my 11 year old daughter and I went to a "Tween" seminar / fashion show about Modesty, it was called Secret Girl Keeper. Very good, is based on the Bible and the fact that God loves us and makes each one of us truly beautiful and unique. We both enjoyed ourselves and our little alone time, it's not easy having one on one when you have 4 kids.
Well on the way home from the conference I had a conversation with Christine and made a decision based on my actions and what I feel is the right thing. I basically told her that she will no longer be listening to a few music artist that she likes and has on her Ipod, she was very upset. The reason for that is I feel they are very inappropriate for her age and self esteem, songs about how to look good, get a guy, and show off your body...not okay. I admit that I allowed it, she asked me for those artist and I put them on her Ipod, artist such as Beyonce, Black eyed peas, Gwen Stefani, and Rhianna. At first I didn't think it was that bad, they weren't songs about sex and they were only very mild. So her argument to me was "What about the other songs from those artist? Not all the songs are bad!" So I told her this...
If you have a friend, and that friend is doing drugs, would you hang out with them? No. Would you hang out them on the day they didn't do drugs? No. So you don't listen to one song from a person that sings about their body and how to get a date with it or some other wrong reason.
God has made us for one man and one man alone, our Husband. We keep ourselves covered and dress modestly so we do not show our treasures(body) to other people. We certainly don't sing about the secrets of our bodies to the whole world or represent the ones who do. I made a mistake by allowing my daughter to listen to the wrong kind of message and now I have corrected it. We aren't all perfect and we do make mistake with ourselves and sometimes our kids but it is never to late to correct those mistakes and turn them for good.

First off

Let me just thank you for visiting my blog and having even the slightest bit of interest in what I have to say. I have been told on a few different occasions that I should start a real blog, so here I am giving it a try.