It’s Not About Me…

I am going to have to pay a fine as this entry is so past due!  It has been a month since my last entry.  YIKES!  I am somewhat still in survival mode.  I am doing everything I have to do each day and letting a great deal of other things slide…  until “tomorrow”.  It sometimes seems as though tomorrow will never come!

Still, I am still super duper thankful that I am doing as well as I am!  My key word of the month is: perspective.  We must put every aspect into our lives in the proper perspective in order to live a full and happy life.  If I compare my days to someone else’s I might get discouraged.  If I compare my days to my prior days, I am very encouraged!  It’s all about perspective. 

All is well around here.  We seem to have a very busy house lately, but it’s all a good busy.  Greg is working like the energizer bunny lately.  Even though he works from home, it seems I hardly see him any more.  Now, that may sound strange, but it’s reality.  We communicate more via IM (him upstairs and me down) than face-to-face!  What a crazy world we live in, huh?!?!?

Brittney was accepted into Lander University.  YEA!!!!  She is very excited, and a tad bit nervous.  I am thrilled, beyond words.  We both fell in love with the college when we visited it and not only became her first choice, but THE college she wanted to go to.  So I am thrilled that we were able to apply early and she got accepted quickly.  Now we just have to work out all those details and apply for and hopefully get LOTS and LOTS of scholarship money and grant money!

J. Jay is growing up so fast.  He keeps calling himself 13 already, although his actual birthday is not for another 4 months.  It dawned on me the other day that I am soon to have 2 teenagers living under the same roof!  Hmmmm….  He has so many interests and hobbies his only dilemma is finding the time to do it all!  He reads voraciously, does animation on his computer, plays piano & keyboard, and enjoys playing with Elijah, his little brother.  He is never EVER at a lack of anything to do.  I can’t remember the last time I have heard the words “I’m bored” coming from his mouth.  Usually I am pulling him away from one of his beloved activities to do school!  It’s odd as we have no cable or satellite TV (we do dvds and videos) yet he is never bored.  Who’da thunk?

Elijah, my little dude, is another one who is growing up too fast. He has been talking about his 7th birthday for over a month now and it’s not until November 17th!  We are having a party for him a week and a half early so it is not shared with Thanksgiving and we are having a LEGO party.  He is a LEGO maniac.  He also have several interests and is a very contented and busy young man lately.  He can typically be found either playing with his LEGOs, playing with and taking excellent care of his snake (yes, shorty is still alive and doing awesome!),  playing JumpStart 2nd Grade which is his favorite computer game (no he’s not in 2nd grade yet, only 1st), or outside in the back yard “pretending” which means making up movies.  He still wants to be a movie director when he grows up AND he wants to be a zookeeper too!  He’s a very happy, self-entertaining little guy.  He is always saying “I love my life”.  How cool is that?

Me, I am good.  My pain levels are higher than I would like to admit, and I am having middle heart racing, anxiety type attacks a few times every week so I am not sleeping well.  But, all of that is chump change compared to having happy, thriving kids who love and appreciate their lives.  So, overall I am one happy and thankful Momma!

So, as you go about your day, I would love for you to keep us in your prayers.  I am still praying for total healing.  He has healed me SO MUCH already and for that I am so thankful.  I am praying that my healing will continue.  :)  I leave you with one of my favorite Bible passages, which I think of when I think of how many people out there care for and pray for me. 

It’s Phillipians 4:10-13  I am very happy in the Lord that you have shown your care for me again. You continued to care about me, but there was no way for you to show it.  I am not telling you this because I need anything. I have learned to be satisfied with the things I have and with everything that happens.  I know how to live when I am poor, and I know how to live when I have plenty. I have learned the secret of being happy at any time in everything that happens, when I have enough to eat and when I go hungry, when I have more than I need and when I do not have enough. I can do all things through Christ, because he gives me strength.

I don’t have this mastered by any means, but I do feel as though I have learned through all this to be content.  I can only say this as I truly am content.  Circumstances change some days are good and some days are bad.  But all in all, I am very VERY content.  God is good!