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Women’s Retreat Was Great! - Learning To Take Much Needed Breaks

Published at May 4th, 2008

Women’s retreat was a few weeks ago and it was great. The message for the weekend was “rest”. We learned why it is important to take breaks. I so needed to learn this lesson because I have been running on empty lately. Here are some of the points I learned about my weekend retreat.

Taking breaks and resting helps you to refresh and renew.
It’s important to take a sabbath. One day a week should be set aside for rest.
Take time daily to reflect and talk to the Lord.
Take mini-retreats with you and the Lord a few times a year.
Retreats with for fellowship is also very rewarding and educational.
During the all retreats and rest times we need to leave all of our worries and responsibilities behind. Set them aside and don’t pick them up until your rest is over. Trust that God can handle things while you are resting because he understands the importance of rest.

So that’s basically what I learned and I am trying to make them part of my life. I now understand that rest is very important and should not be taken lightly.

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Going on a Womens Retreat Tomorrow

Published at April 17th, 2008

I have been very busy working lately so I guess I deserve some time off. I hope it will be a relaxing weekend but I am not sure that it will. Sometime when you get a bunch of ladies together there is a lot of bickering. Hopefully that won’t be the case with this retreat.

I wish we were going to an area that didn’t have cell phone reception. I like getting away from all the technology.

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Looking Through Old Photos

Published at March 18th, 2008

I was copying some of our family photos from our digital camera and was reminded of when my baby daughter was just a baby. She is now three years old and it just seems like it was just yesterday that she was a baby. I remember the day took this picture of her falling asleep in the shopping cart.

Time Flys

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Do you ever have thoses days?

Published at March 3rd, 2008

Do you ever have those days when your head didn’t make it with you out of bed with you? When you forget things that you forgot about? Clean the same dish three or for times before you realize you have already cleaned it? Do you ever have those days when you sit down to do one thing and then are immediately directed away when you here “Mom, I spilled!” ? Or when your mind is literally trying to think about 20 things at one time and it’s feels like your brain is going to explode? Do you ever have those days when all of these thing plus much more happen to you in the same day?

This was today for me and it’s not over

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Finding time for yourself can help you find balance.

Published at February 4th, 2008

Is a really possible to find balance when you have so many responsibilities? I have asked myself this for at least fourteen of the fifteen years I have been a mother.

The last few years I have struggled to find time for myself. This is not easy to do when most of my time is taken up by chores, work, family (though I love spending time with my family) and a hundred other things I have to do in a day. There were (and still are) many times I just become paralyzed because I am overwhelmed by responsibilities.

Before 2007, I would say I did not truly understand the importance of balance. Too much work caused stress in my home. My kids were stressed, my house was a mess and my husband felt neglected, not to mention the bitterness I was feeling because I had no time for myself or family. So I ended up going to the other extreme and clean like crazy, have house and home all in order but the bills would pile up because I wasn’t working and we didn’t have money. I still didn’t have time for myself because my life was still off balance.

In 2007 I made it a goal to find balance. I didn’t know exactly how I was going to find it but I didn’t want to stop until I did. What I ended up finding was that if I would just give myself time to reflect on my life and blessing, everything else seemed to fall into a reasonably balanced state.

I have a passion for horses. I have since I was a young girl. I think my mother may have passed down the “horse gene” to me. God has blessed me with two wonderful horses that I get to watch outside my window everyday. The years I spent living an “off balance” life, offered little time for my horse passion.

During the year of “finding balance” I decided to try and spend more time with my horses. Though time for myself was not easy to find, I had to try. What a world of difference this made in my life. What I discovered was that I could see my responsibilities more as blessing than ever before because I could see myself as a person first.

I am an individual. I have passions, likes, dislikes, wants and needs. The privilege of being a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter, a friend and a women of faith (as well as the many other titles I carry) can only truly seen as a privilege through the eyes of a person who can see themselves as an individual.

If my story sounds at all familiar to you, I encourage you to find time for yourself so too you can better reflect on your blessings in life.

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The Teenager, The Boy, and The Toddler

Published at January 19th, 2008

I have three children that I love dearly but it’s not always easy being a mom. I remember a long time ago when I didn’t have kids and life was much less eventful but it was quieter. I sometimes think what life would be like without my kids and it makes me sad. Even though there is a lot of stress that can come with parenting, I would changing having them.

It’s difficult to explain this to people who don’t have kids. I remember when people tried to tell me about having children. I couldn’t understand how it could be so hard to have them and be responsible for them yet you love them so much you couldn’t imagine your life without children. I understand this now of course.

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Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Published at January 3rd, 2008

Ok, so it’s been a while since I have posted on this blog. A personal blog is not as easy to write on when you are a busy person like me. I am still trying to create schedules for blogging but they don’t seem to be sticking so here I am posting on this blog after a lot of time has passed.

The kids are out of school right now and it has been nice. I am not exactly looking forward to it starting back up again. Since I home school my kids, school starting back up means I will be much busier. I am still trying to have balance with every thing in my life. I don’t want to over do it with work like I did a few years ago. I also want to be sure I keep up with home schooling so I don’t feel like I am trying to catch up the rest of the year.

I have my own laptop now and I am so excited about that. Having my own laptop means I can get much more work done in less time. I hope the laptop will help me to step up my blogging this year.

Hopefully I will find the time to post on this blog more. I hope to at least keep a once a week posting. I know that is not much but at least it’s something

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In The News- SuperMom Having Difficult Time Keeping Up With Personal Blog

Published at November 24th, 2007

So I am still a SuperMom but I do have limits. All superheros have weaknesses right? Well, mine is time. I don’t have enough of it. I would be nice if there were just a few more hours in a day. Of course if that were to happen then I would still be complaining about not having enough time because I would us it up like I am now.

The last few months I have been asking God to bless my efforts. I know I can’t do it all so I ask that He would bless what I can do. Putting things into that frame of mind really has helped me to relax a bit. I am able to balance things better than I used to.

It’s important for me to keep my priorities straight. There was a time when I would work, work and work and feel as though I wasn’t getting anywhere. Now that I have my priorities in order I am able to be much more effective when I do set time for work. It’s a funny thing but it’s true. I think God has been blessing my efforts.

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My Baby Girl Turned 3 Yesterday :(

Published at October 24th, 2007

I am having a hard time with my children getting older. My youngest is now three years old and I don’t like it. It really seems like she was just born yesterday. She is such a three year old though. She is entirely too independent and strong willed.

I hope I can survive another three year old stage. I am still trying to survive a teenage stage and I don’t know if the combination is good for my nerves . I think it’s time to pray .

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I don’t have enough time!!!

Published at October 23rd, 2007

I am trying really hard to balance my life but it’s very difficult. I probably have too many projects going on right now but I am not sure I plan on stopping. I just don’t have enough time in the day to do everything I want but I have to continue to try.

Some days I feel really good about all the online ventures I am involved with (blogging for income and social networking) and others I just don’t want to continue. Some days I have a real hard time even getting online and other days I can’t get off. I suppose this is how life works. Those that let the rough times get to them don’t ever find out what could have been if they had just stuck to it.

I have heard that the “stick to it” attitude is what lacks in most people. I have had to learn to not take myself to seriously on my “off” days but sometimes it’s really difficult. I figure if I just keep at it without loosing focus on the important things like my family then eventually all this work will pay off.

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