I'm going to be in SO much trouble

when school starts next week. You all know that I'm a morning person, and my wake up time is around 6:30am. Well for the past 2 weeks I've been sleeping in until 8 am, and the other day it was actually almost 10am. (I was lucky that the kids slept in too).

But now with school starting next wednesday, I am just not ready to go back to waking up that early.....I'm in so much trouble!!!
I've tried going to bed earlier thinking that "hey, I fell asleep early that means I'll be ready to get up early"....but NOOOOOOOO, mybody says "oh come on, just a few more minutes, and besides it's still summer break you don't need to be up yet". See, even my own body is betraying me!!!

I managed to get some of my to do list done, but what I didn't do I'll obviously be achieving today, or so I hope. As soon as I get things straight out around the house, then I'll start on my kitchen curtains, I'm dying to get those done and see how they look :)

As we were heading out the door yesterday, I snapped some pictures of the kids, my family had asked me when I would post more and it HAS been a while, so here you go.......

A few ladies asked me yesterday how I make my fleece blankets, and it really is so easy. Jasmine loves helping me and she actually wants to make some herself, I think she said for some of her dolls as well....I think it's great and it's a project that the kids can get involved with :)

I'm going to point you in the direction of a really easy method, using two pieces of fleece fabric. I've made it that way and I've also made it just with a single piece of fleece, cut the four inch long, one inch wide fringe around the blanket and then tied a knot on each to create the tassled look. That's the way my kids do it, they get confused with the two piece blankets :)

This morning while checking my email, I had one from my stepmom about Cell Phone vs The Bible, I thought it was so cleverly done that I had to share with you all.

Cell Phone vs. Bible
I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our
cell phones?
What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we turned back to go get it if we for got it?
What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?
What if we gave it to kids as gifts?
What if we used it as we traveled?
What if we used it in case of an emergency?
What if we upgraded it to get the latest version?
This is something to make you go...hmmm...where is my Bible?
Oh, and one more thing. Unlike our cell phone, we dont ever have to
worry about our bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid
the bill!

Isn't that the truth?!?!?! Why is it that we as Christians at times feel almost ashamed or embarassed to show that we follow Christ??? Do we really care so much about what other people think???

I feel that the way society has become, we're far too obsessed with fitting in to some sort of mold or standard. If we don't then we're scared of being outcasts or looked down on. It's just amazing to me that some would rather turn their backs on the Lord than proudly announce thatthey're Christians. I'm not saying this without fault, I too used to be the same way. Here's an example, I get tons of emails everyday, a lot of them just forwards and jokes etc.....and I would quickly pass those on to my friends, but then one would come about "If you love Jesus, pass this on to all your friends" and I would think twice about doing it, I didn't want to offend anyone or let them think I was trying to preach or impose my way of thinking on them. How sad is that?!?!?!?

After reconnecting with the Lord, I am no longer afraid to pass those on and let others think that I'm a Christian. I now forward those emails with the same happiness and excitement (or actually MORE) than the jokes or friendship emails. Has the world come to an end because I do that? Do people criticize me or judge me? Has anyone turned their backs on me because I did it?
NO, if anything I feel a million times better with myself, and right now I couldn't be happier with my relationship with God. So next time you're in that situation, proudly announce or better yet, don't DENY that you're Christian, who cares what others think as long as HE is happy with you?

Well it's time for my "Blog Drive", and then I have to get started on my To Do List.

Post today's dinner "Smothered Steak" on my food blog.
Vacuum living room and bedrooms.
Finish putting laundry away.
Clean up computer desks.
Start kitchen curtains.

I hope you all have a wonderful thursday, God Bless,