Thankful Thursday

Do you ever stop and wonder at how we became so dependent on technology.  I don't mean computers and such.  I mean things like electric washing machines and dish washers. 


I love to read and some of my most favorite books take place in a different time period.  Mostly in the time when settlers where first coming to America and a little later.   In those days they had no electricity or motor vehicles.  They had hand made candles and mules pulling waggons. 


This is the time period I think I would have been able to live in the most.  Hard work was something everyone did to survive.  Children respected their parents and did what they where told.  You never herd them say they where bord.  Most of all, they ate around a table as a family.  They said grace and read from the Bible every night as a family!  Life was hard, but did we trade a hard life with lots of love, faith, and good values for an easy life with a lot of other problems?  Just think how much life is different for us now than it was for the settlers.


The thing I am most thankful for that has changed is bathrooms.  I love having an indoor bathroom with running water and electricity.  I couldn't imagine using an outhouse.  And to think that outhouses are not that old.  You can still find some in a few places.  Yes, even here in modern day America.  I'm not afraid of making my own soap and taking baths in rivers or tubs filled with water you heated on the stove, but please don't ask me to use an outhouse toilet!  I would if I had to, but it defiantly wouldn't be my first choice. 

 I would like to thank whoever invented the indoor bathroom!  God has blessed us with this one convenience that I would struggle with giving up.  How blessed we are in our everyday life.  Look around you and imagine the what modern day conveniences we have now that you can't see yourself living without.  Thank the Good Lord for them and then hop on over and join us at Spiritually Unequal Marriage with Lynn who is hosting this months Thankful Thursdays!

Thankful Thursday

This is the first Thankful Thursday I have posted in a long time, but I promise you that I have been doing it in my head every day.  On the Thursdays of each week I have been writing it in my head. 

Today I get to post it though!  Yeaaaaaay!!!  I know a lot of my readers have been missing my Thankful Thursday posts.  So, today is about all of you.

I am so thankful that I have friends out in the world that read my blog and are truly concerned about me and my family.  My readers are the best and I am thankful you are my friends.  Friends are hard to come by and I cherish them beyond belief. 

A friend is someone God put on this earth to cheer you on, to make you feel like you are someone important, and to give you a hand when yours are all tied up.  Life would be no good with out friends.  Some day we will all meet, but for now I just wanted to give you a big hug and tell you how much your comments have meant to me. 

Share what you are thankful for this week here with me and then hop on over to Grace Alone and link up with Iris, who is our host this month!

Thankful Thursday

This month Thankful Thursday is hosted by Lynn at Spiritually Unequal Marriage.  Hop on over and link up your Thankful Thursday post!

Today I am thankful for my days being so busy.  If you have been reading along, you saw the post I did a few days ago about not having enough time in the day and how I didn't know if having more time added to the day was a good thing or not. 

Well, I have realized since then that my day being so busy has been a blessing.  I may not have time to do everything that I want to in one day, but I never have a moment to just twiddle my thumbs and be bored.  I get things done and sleep better at night (since I'm so worn out).  I have a feeling of accomplishment at the end of the day when I think back on all I did.  I try not to think about what I didn't finish and instead try to mentally add those things to my to do list for the next day. 

I am thankful for the things that keep me busy as well.  I have a loving family that keeps me busy.  I run around cooking and cleaning, taking care of scrapes and bumps,  clip coupons and find good deals, make sure the dog is staying in the yard and not running after the cat next door, cutting the yard, and so much more.  I do all these things because I have a family to take care of.  This is my greatest blessing!  I pray The Lord always gives me family to take care of and keep me busy!

Thankful Thursday

This week I am thankful for so many thing.  This has been a hard week for me.  Lots of things going on and emotions running high.  But, even through all of that I have found things to be thankful for.


Today is my birthday and that is not the best day for me.  For some reason my birthday seems to always become one of the worst days of the year for me.  Everything seems to go wrong.  I have tried many times to skip this day in the year, but it never works.  I have never really had a great birthday that I can remember other than my birthdays as a kid.  I would have a normal kids birthday part.  As I got older It just went down hill somehow.


I am thankful though.  I am thankful that I have my family here with me.  Hubby may be working, but he is home every day.  I don't have to worry about him in another country fighting or over the road working.  I have Will with me, even though he thinks this is the day of the year to be as bad as he can possibly be.  My friends and my family call me to wish me a happy birthday every year, and so I never get forgotten.  My health is still good and my funds may be low, but I still have a house to live in and food on the table.  None of the bill collectors have turned anything off and I even got $20.00 from my father-in-law to go eat out.  (We went to McDonald's.  It was a treat for us. LOL)


I am also thankful for this blog.  It does keep me sane sometimes.  I have a place to go and share my feelings and show what I am doing in my life.  I have blogger friends that I keep up with who keep up with me.  I love giveaways and tend to win a few here and there.  I also love to check out other blogs and get new ideas.  So, thankful is a great feeling for today!  I hope everyone has a great day.


Hop on over to Grace Alone and link up with what you are thankful for.

Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday is hosted this month by Iris over at Grace Alone.  Hop on over and join us!

This week I had so many things pop into my mind that I was thankful for.  So I decided to make a list of a few of them.

I am thankful for:

The farmers I see in the fields that are growing the food we need.

The way God provides for us.

That our vehicles are in working order and that the gas prices haven't reached a point that is totally crippling us, even though it has put a dent in our finances.

That we have food on the table and a bed to sleep in every night.

The small things Hubby does for me that make me feel special.  (One thing he did was washed the dishes for me one day this week.)

For friends who help each other out.

And many many more!!!

Happy Thankful Thursday Everyone!

Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for our differences.  Everyone is different.  We have big differences, like our nationalities and cultures.  Our differences even go all the way to our religious beliefs.  We also have smaller differences, like our taste in decorating and color preferences. 


With all these differences we have learned to get along.  We have even learned form one another.  The one think I have learned is that God made us all and loves us all.  In John, 13:34 Jesus said  "I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another." 


This is something that I find hard to do at times.  I try to get along with everyone, but do I really love everyone?  That is something for me to work on.  But, I am thankful everyone is different because if everyone was easy to love we wouldn't need this commandment.  It's the ones that make it hard to love them, that really need our love the most. 


Thankful Thursday is hosted by Iris at Grace Alone.  Come on over, join us, and share what you are thankful for on this beautiful Thursday!

Thankful Thrusday

This week I am thankful for the break all Mommy's need once in a while.  I found that I needed this break last week.  I was getting grouchy and hard to live with. 

Hubby stepped up and allowed me to go do the bimonthly grocery shopping all alone.  He kept Will for about 2 or 3 hours.  I got a nice little car ride with no questions.  ( I have been getting tired of the constant questions of if I'm doing the speed limit and going the correct way by a 4 year old!)  I then got to go through two stores with no child wanting to go see the fish or go through the toy section promising he wouldn't ask for anything!  I was able to do my shopping with only my own thoughts for company.  It was so glorious! 

I forget sometimes, that he is attached to me 24/7.  Very rarely do we get a sitter (one of our parents).  It is even rarer that he spends the night away.  I can literaly count on my fingers the amount of times I have been without him.  What am I going to do next year when he starts school.  Some say I will go crazy with nothing to do.  I say to them....I have a plan.  Hubby and I have already started planing away our free time.  Gym memberships, romantic lunches with p.b.&j. sandwiches (just the two of us), watching movies without any interruptions, and sitting on the porch talking!  I'm sure there will be days when I go crazy with nothing to do.  Those will be the days I will throw myself into house cleaning.

But for now, I am just thankful for those few hours.  I love my son, but need some alone time sometimes.  And no, trying to take a bath while my 4 year old fights with the dog, who is trying to get her 5 foot long 2 1/2 foot high body under the door doesn't count. LOL!

This month Thankful Thursday is hosted by Grace Alone.  Hop on over and join us by telling us what you are thankful on this blessed Thursday!

Thankful Thursday

Today Thankful Thursday is hosted by Laurie at Women Taking A Stand.  If you would like to join us, hop on over and link up.  Don't forget, you can always leave what you are thankful for here in my comment section also.

This week Valentines Day was celebrated and then forgotten.  Leading up to Valentines Day the stores had a ton of chocolate hearts and roses in stock.  Every where you looked you could see heart shaped balloons, but I happened to go to the store the day after Valentines Day and noticed every one of those boxes of chocolates and heart shaped balloons on sale!  The store had cleared the holiday isle to start putting up Easter baskets and plastic eggs.  They started putting out the chocolate rabbits in place of the chocolate hearts.  Valentines Day was over and then forgotten.

In my house Valentines Day means very little.  We love each other on a daily basis.  We don't have to put one day aside a year to show how much we care.  We didn't go out to eat,  there where not heart shaped balloons, and no running around to find a baby sitter.  Hubby happened to be off and we spent the day together as a family.  I did cook a good roast and gave Will and Hubby handmade cards with boxes of chocolate.  This was my way of teaching Will about the holiday and having a craft to do together.  We made cards together!  Hubby loves those little chocolates filled with orange and strawberry.  You can only get them at Valentines Day in those heart shaped boxes.  We did go and try to see how much they discounted those same boxes the next day.  It was just our luck they where all gone though. LOL!  They may be Hubby's favorite holiday candies.

Other than that, we had a family filled day.  We stayed home and spent time together.  We had friends and family stop by through out the day.  It was a very nice Valentines Day indeed.  What I am trying to say here is that I am very thankful that our family doesn't need one day a year to show our love for one another.  Every day is a day like that in our home.  One any given day you can see Hubby come home with some candy and my roses grow very nicely with my love and care in the yard.  Our love is a gift from God and we celebrate it through the year!  He has given us to each other and in His plan for us our love grew.  That is what I am thankful for!

Thankful Thursday

This week has been one of those weeks where I am thankful for many things.  One of the big things that I will share today is our family time.  Hubby has a job that has a really crazy schedule.  He works two days off  then he is off two days, works a few weeks on day shift and then works a few weeks on night shift, but this allows us to have so much more family time.

Today is a weekday, but he is off.  With Will not yet in school, we are able to make plans on the spur of the moment.  Yesterday we decided that today would be one of those days.  We are going out to lunch in the city (or the closest thing to a city we have) with friends.  From there we will spend time together shopping and being together as a family.  We will end our day with a nice dinner at home.  This is the kind of time that not every family gets to spend together.  For this time, I am thankful!  This is a time in our lives that we will always remember.  Next year will be totally different with Will in school.  We will have so much more going on and so much less time to do it all.

So what are you thankful for today? 

Thankful Thursday is hosted this month by Laurie at Women Taking A Stand.  Hop on over and join us!

Thankful Thursday

It's Thankful Thursday again and I have so much to be thankful for.  Feel free to share what you are thankful for with me and then link up with our host for this month, Laurie at Women Taking A Stand!

Today I am thankful for my cup being filled!  I have so much.  My cup is filled with the love of my family.  We are sometimes so busy that our paths cross only for an hour or two at a time.  This week was one of those weeks.  Hubby is almost done with his night shift, but it has put a dent in our time together as a family.  On top of that we have all been struggling with our allergies and sinuses.  This makes us all a little cranky and tired.  Which means more arguing and feelings being hurt.   But, we made it through all of that and still love each other. 

Winter is moving in on us hard today.  This weeks temperatures droped dramatically from 70 to 30 in an hour.  Since our weather has rivaled that of the northern states.  People in the south are freaking out and acting like the world has turned upside down.  I say....so what?....The Lord has gotten us through hurricanes, what's a little cold weather and freezing rain.  I have seen the promise of warmer weather to come though.  Last year I planted a white hyacinth, two yellow daffodils, and a red tulip all in one pot. After spring moved on I placed the pot with the bulbs outside.  Last week Will noticed that the hyacinth was coming up.  What a beautiful site it was.  When I found out about the freezing weather coming our way I cleaned up the pot and brought it in the house.  Now it sits on my dinning room table and reminds us all that Spring will come again!  Again my cup is filled!  Filled with hope for warmer weather and beautiful flowers.  Times when we can set up the pool, have a bar-b-q in the yard, and wish for a cool breeze in the hot Louisiana heat. LOL!

I spend a little time with may Dad yesterday, which adds to my cup! My Dad is one of my most favorite people in the world.  Add that with the time we spent with a few friends this week, and a few more we will most likely see this weekend, and I think we end up with a cup that is overflowing!  Praise the Good Lord for a cup that is overflowing! 

So, what is filling up your cup this week?



Thankful Thursday

We have made it through to another Thankful Thursday.  This month it is hosted by Lynn from Spiritually Unequal Marriage.  Hop on over to link up and share what you are thankful for this week.  Don't be afraid to share it with me too in the comment section!

Have you ever wanted to be like someone else?  Everyone has.  There is always that one feature from someone else that you wish you had.  I was always happy with myself.  The only things I wanted that others had was nice smooth clear skin. 

As a teen I was plagued by pimples and horrible skin.  My face was the typical teenager face.  I didn't think so though.  Everyone around me seemed to be immune to acne.  Now that I'm well past that stage in life, I can look back and see that I wasn't the only one.  I was one of the worst though. 

I also wanted the spunk and bravery some of the others had.  I was a shy sweet soul.  I didn't volunteer for much and didn't excel in the social department.  I was never the outcast, just the sweet girl you could overlook or include when you thought about it. 

Now that I'm an adult a lot of that has changed.  I no longer have bad skin, even though I do have some scars.  I am a sweet soul, but have learned not to be so shy.  Life has taught me to stand up and say what I want or need.  If I want something I have to get up and get it, or someone else will.

In all of this I have realized that I am different.  God made me this way.  He gave me all the tools to be the person He wanted me to be.  All I had to do was use them.  I am thankful for my individuality!  I am thankful I was made the way I am.  Life has taught me a lot.  No longer do I wish for the skin of someone else or the spunk and bravery of others.  I have what I need and can proudly be the person The Lord made me to be.  With the skin and soul God gave me I have attracted a husband and have a son.  My family loves me for me and I am the happiest I have ever been.  God is good.  He will always want me to be happy and has made me in His image.

Thankful Thursday!

This Thankful Thursday is a great one for me.  This year has been hard financial wise.  We have had our good times financially, but since literally the week Will was born we have been struggling.  I stoped working to be a full time stay at home Mom and Wife.  This brought us down to one pay check.  As the economy went south, so did Hubby's pay check. 


Last year Hubby took a new job.  Making less per hour, but with the promise of raises in the future that would get us where we wanted to be in the long run.  This meant we struggled like never before this year.  Hubby even changed his tax status, so that we would get a little more each check.  Because of this, we knew there was a chance we would have to pay taxes this year. 


Hubby came home with a his head hung yesterday.  He handed me his W2 and just knew this was going to hurt us.  I told him not to worry.  The Lord was good to us all year.  We didn't go hungry and our lights stayed on. 


I got to work on the taxes as soon as dinner was done.  I finished today and found out we wouldn't have to pay!!! We even where getting a refund!!!!  The Lord is so good!!!!  We still have bills and we still have a smaller paycheck coming in, but we will be ok!  Another year has passed and His love is felt!  As He promised, He will always take care of us!


What are you thankful for today.  Hop on over to Spiritually Unequal Marriage and link up!

Thankful Thrusday

Today I have to share what I am thankful for with the world.  I am trying to memorize more verses from the Bible every day.  This is the one I learned last night.  I have just started believing in myself and that I can memorize verses. 

John 3:16  For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.

You would not believe the joy in my heart at this moment.  As I am writing this post, Hubby shared with me that this is one of the verses he memorized also.  Praise the Lord God for my filled  heart!

You can share and link up with what you are thankful for this week with us at Spiritually Unequal Marriage.

Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday this month is hosted by Lynn over at Spiritually Unequal Marriage.  Head on over and link up, and share what you are thankful for today!

Lynn made her post this week about fresh beginnings or fresh starts.  I think I will join her today.  As I think of all the things that happened in 2010 that I am thankful for, the list gets longer and longer.  So, to make this post shorter and save you some time, I will only list a few here.

1.  My Hubby was found to have high blood pressure and is now on meds that seem to help a lot.  I am so thankful this was found when it was.  If not, no telling what could have happened.  I don't even want to think about loosing my soul mate so soon in life.  Now we know about his high blood pressure and are changing how we live. 

2.  We had no visits to the Hospital this year.  We are healthy and doing well.

3.  Our family is growing!  We have more babies to love and old friends back in our lives.  Some old friends we haven't seen in a long time have come to visit us in 2010!

4.  God has blessed us with another year of watching our son grow up bigger, healthier, and older.  I can only hope He gives us many more!

5.  We still have electricity, water, food, and a house to live in.  Our credit cards took a hard hit this year, but we still made it through!  Best of all, Hubby has a good job.  So many others don't have some or any of these things.  I know we are truly blessed!

6.  I have become closer to God than I have ever been.  I have even heard His calling and now teach Children's Church!  I have a lot more understanding and love than I have ever had, and can't wait to become the Woman God wants me to be.  I am on the right track and want to say thank you to all of you who have helped me along the way!  You may not have even realized it, but my bloggy friends have helped a lot!

I pray that 2011 will bring more great things!  For now I will be taking it one day at a time, and trying my best.  I can't wait to see what this year will be like.  That may mean I will be one year older this year, but it also means I will have one more year to enjoy life and all that it brings with it!

Thankful Thursday

Now that the year is almost over and I look back on it, I can say it was a good one.  My little boy turned 4 years old this year and is growing up so fast.  The Lord gave him to ME and allowes me to be his mother!  WOW! That still blows my mind!

My marriage is great and I have become closer to God this year.  I have made what I consider progress with my blogging this year.  I have new followers and most importantly, I have discovered some new friends.

This year also brought many surprises at many different times in the year.  Hubby and I have gotten another year older and what I would describe as wiser.  We had our share of mistakes and bad decisions this year also though, but have learned from every one of them and each other.  What next year holds for us is a mystery, but I have my faith in the Lord, and know everything is according to His plan!

Thankful Thursday is hosted today by Iris at Grace Alone.  Hop on over and link up!  I would love to know what you are thankful for today!

Thankful Thursday!

Today is my Husband's Birthday!  A wonderful day to share with him!  Now that we have a family our birthdays are that much more special.  We love to celebrate birthdays together.


I am so thankful for my wonderful Husband God has so graciously given me.  He is a wonderful person!  He has shown me how to give more of myself and to share what we have an abundance of.  He is a great father and loves his family so much.  Today we will be spending the day doing things he likes to do.  We are going out to eat at his favorite place (Buffalo Wild Wings) and doing whatever else he wants.  We may go visiting friends or just spend time together as a family.


I wanted to share with you all a picture that struck me as so amazing.  My Husband put his shoes down in the spot and about 2 hours later my son was told to take of his shoes.  He placed his right next to his Daddy's shoes.  (Both pair were not in the correct spot, but looked so darn cute)  Will loves his Daddy and wants to be just like him!

Share what you are thankful for today and link up with us and our host Iris at Grace Alone.

Thankful Thursday

My Thankful Thursday post was not a hard one to write.  I didn't have to sit and think about what I was thankful for this week.  What I am thankful for has been on my mind for a while now.

I am thankful that God is all seeing and all knowing.  He has a plan for us all.  That includes me and whatever happens to me.  Not long ago, someone came back into my life that really bothers me.  Not bothers me in a bad way, but in a way that I'm not sure I can trust this person or their motives.  I don't know exactly if this person is sincere in starting a friendship with me again (our past has a lot of craziness in it), or if this person wants something more from me in time. 

I don't have any financial way of helping this person, and I don't think they need it.  All I can invest in this relationship is my emotions.  That is something I am working on trusting God with.  I am trying my hardest to leave it all in His hands.  To let Him lead me and to just be the kind of person God wants me to be.  This is Hard!  I am trying to be hospitable and kind, but under everything is that nagging feeling of having to be careful of my feelings.  Also that I have to walk on egg shells around this person.  I'm just not sure of anything when it comes to this.  The only thing I can be sure of is God's plan for me.  I know He loves me and only wants the best for me, but I have also given myself to Him knowing full well that He will use me to help others too.  I can only trust in Him. 

This week I am thankful that I have such a loving God, who only wants the best for me.  I will continue to pray about this, and ask that you remember me in your prayers also.  This is a problem that can torment me if I let it.  Luckily I am trying to leave it in God's hands.

To share what you are thankful for on this fabulous Thursday, head on over to Grace Alone and link up with my friend Iris!

Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday is hosted this month by Iris over at Grace Alone.  Go on over and link up with us and share what you are thankful for today!

Have you ever had those days where you just don't get anything done.  When your head hurts and your child and dog do what ever they can to intensify your pain, or at lest that's how it seams.  Well, yesterday was one of those days for me.  All I wanted was some quite time.  I think in the end I made more noise fussing them than they made to start with.

This morning I woke up to see my little boy with a stoped up nose and knew his allergies had gotten the best of him.  While I sat on the couch holding my 43 pound baby on my lap I realized, this is what family is all about.  Noise, allergies, and all.  The fact that we have a warm house and a big couch that I can hold my baby on is amazing at times to me.  Don't get me wrong, we have our share of financial struggles, but that moment made it all worth it.  All the noise and headache from the day before was forgotten when I saw my little boy feeling bad. 

My point is that this is my family! A family I wouldn't trade for the world.  A family God gave to me.  No matter how much we struggle or how much I wish my Husband could be home on Thanksgiving, instead of working so that we can pay the electric bill this month.  I love and need my family.  I would keep my headache  forever if it meant I could keep my family just as it is.  Filled with love!  That's what I am thankful for today.  What are you thankful for?

Thankful Thursday

WOW! Its has been two weeks I missed Thankful Thursday!  My computer has been acting up (still is) and I have been getting nothing done.


Today I want to thank Laurie over at Women Taking A Stand for hosting this month!

On this beautiful Thanksgiving day, I want to write about family.  Not everyone has much family.  Not blood family anyway, but friends are family too! 

Family can drive you nuts and make you feel loved all at the same time.  Family makes you want the holidays to hurry and be over with, yet when you think of Thanksgiving and Christmas you think of family. 

Isn't it crazy how it all works.  You work so hard to make everything just right for your family, when all that really matters is being together.  Who cares who's house your at, or who cooked dinner, or who got the perfect gift.  What maters is that we are all together.  Where it be over the phone, over the computer, or over the table.  We are all together. 

That is what I'm thankful for this week.  What are you thankful for?

Thankful Thursday

   Today Thankful Thursday is hosted by Lynn at Spiritually Unequal Marriage .  In her post today she asked a question of us all.  Lynn wanted us to share with her a scripture verse that God is using in our life to craft our character, or one that has exposed a lie, a verse that brought you peace or comfort, or a passage that has inspired us to draw closer to Jesus.


Well, that is a little hard for me.  I have found so many that I feel strongly about.  The one that recently took on a new meaning for me has been...

Romans 14 : 9-21  I met someone recently that made these verses stand out to me.  Romans 14 : 20 is the one that gives me the most when I think of the person that has just come into my life.  It reads....Rather, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burnings coals upon his head.

That is just one of the many scripture verses that have made a difference in my life.  I have discovered so many that have changed my life.  I am happy to share this one with you today.  The friend that made this verse mean so much more to me feels persecuted daily.  She keeps this verse close to her hart and keeps in mind that her treasure in heaven with the Lord.