Yay!! It’s nearly here!!
What a wonderful husband I have, I would like to claim he is the best (but I’ve learned every wife says that about her husband). I got home from work today, and Phil had gotten me a beautiful bouquet of flowers!! Pink lily’s, orange gerbera’s, and some other fun things!! Lily’s and gerb’s are my all time favorite flowers!!! It was a perfect surprise to come home to!
Tomorrow night Phil is having a L.A.N party — I believe about 10 guys are going to take over my house (my really clean house I might add) and will be up all night gaming. I think this time around, phil will have to be the one who cleans up after them…. I feel I’ve done enough cleaning this week (organized our closest, clean top to bottom got rid of everything). While he is having the ‘guys’ night, I will head down to the Grid for a concert, a christian women in town, along with her band are having a show tomorrow night!!
The summer is now coming to a close, next week I work 1 day (which will be so nice, after working all sorts of random shifts), then we are off to the interior for grandma & grandpa Schalm’s 50th anniversary, on the way home we are spending 2 nights in Van. with some friends. Then we are home for 2 weeks, and its time to be in Ontario for the wedding!! Exciting, exciting!! 
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A few weeks ago, 2 weeks in a row we sang, 2 new songs…. one was “God with us” Mercy me, and the other “I will life my eyes up” Bebo Norman. They were very refreshing to me. Being on worship team, sometimes, I feel as though I don’t get as much from the music as I used to. I am not sure if it is because I am tired, or worn, but some times it feels like there is a lull. These 2 songs, really encouraged me, the lyrics are really powerful. I have bought both CD’s and am very pleased with the album as a whole — especially the Bebo Norman one. But, YouTube the songs and listen to them… they are amazing!! (too me anyway)
Last week, our Pastor suggested a book to read, and we went out and bought it, and I have started to read it, I only just begun yesterday… but for someone who is not a huge reader, if the book doesn’t grab me right away, I don’t read it. So far I’ve been really enjoying it…. I would already suggest reading it, Vintage Jesus; Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears.
Phil and I, when we first got married had a double bed, it was my bed from home, and it did the trick just fine. A few months later friends of ours had a queen for us if we wanted!! We were pretty exicted. Then the other week, Auntie Wanda called us and asked if we wanted a king! I didn’t realize how big king beds were until we started moving it upstairs — its HUGE! Tonight I set out to find sheets for our bed, since the biggest I had were queen sets, and to my amazement I found the perfect color match I needed/wanted at Winners.
When I got home, I threw the sheets into the washer (definitely need clean sheets for bed) and thought it was the perfect time to start organizing our room. When I was younger for the most part my room was always clean and organized (my parents may beg to differ, but I did take care of it), it was my only place that was ‘mine’. My own little sanctuary you could say. Now however, I have a whole house to take care of and keep up. We moved to our new place in April and have been pretty busy since — Moved April 10th, left for holiday’s April 15th, returned April 30th, Birthday week May 1 
, May Long weekend camping trip, church family camp, cirque du soleil, family visits, and work. Well, all of the house was unpacked and set up pretty well. But, our bedroom was very neglected. Not every box had been unpacked, and things kind of ‘piled up’. It has been bothering us for a while that it was not clean, so tonight as I set up our new bed, I decided it was the perfect time to de-clutter, and finish unpacking!
It is not quite done yet, but feels so much better all ready! Last year before our wedding we went to a marriage seminar and they said that bedrooms should not be full of piles, and clutter, they should be relaxing and cozy, and nice place to be, not somewhere you’d rather run away from. Ours was the latter but now will be relaxing, cozy and tidy!
Over the last while, Phil and I decided that we do not want to hold on to ‘stuff’, it is not necessary, we are wanting to de-clutter and only hang out to things that are necessary or have personal value, but we have to pick and choose. I think that when we are done our organizing it will feel great! And when we move again, everything will be organized and we wont be moving junk all over the place
Today, I was having a chat with my father-in-law, who told me that my comments (my mother-in-law had been leaving some and they had not been showing up) 
may not be working right, or that I have to approve them before they show up. Knowing nothing about the settings of this (Phil set up those things over a year ago, I had no idea) I went in to here, looked around, and low and behold I have 387 comments in moderation! Wow! I was a little sad to see that most were spam, basically all except maybe 10…. some were waiting for approval from before our wedding… oops… sorry! So, now, those who are commenting, they do need to be approved, but only because I seem to get a lot of spam comments, and I don’t want those showing up! But, I will be good about checking my “comments in moderation” daily! So, if you feel like you want to leave a comment, I do appreciate it, and love reading them (well now I do anyway).
Live, love, laugh is one of my favorite sayings — those who have visited my home, know that I have pictures frames that have these sayings on them, who’ve seen my scrapbooks, know I write this in them… but really what does it mean and why has it touched my life?
I have 4 frames that are a set — 3 individual onces each saying something — Live for the moment, Laugh out loud, and Love conquers all….. and the other says, live well, laugh much, love often. I look at them often, but lately have pondered why they are important to me. I think I am starting to see why….
Live for the moment — we know not how many days we have. Only God knows and is in control of our time here on earth. So, why not live for each and every moment, do things that will make a difference don’t spend your life waiting for things to happen, make them happen.
Laugh out loud — laughter is the best medicine, and can often change your outlook on life — why be so serious about everything around you…. laugh a little and it seems to always make me feel better.
Love conquers all — in the bible it talks how love is the greatest gift… love your enemy, love your neighbour, love your husband/wife… I need to act in love always, speak in love, this will help to make my impact on people greater than if i speak out in anger, or hate.
I look at what I wrote and whats on my mind and realize I need to take this to my own life — I have to act this way at home, the way to talk to Phil and the way I need to ‘lighten’ up in situations. I am learning and will forever be, but each little light is a step in the right direction!!!
I wouldn’t usually call myself a materialistic person, but lately when I’ve sat in our beautiful home, filled with beautiful things I think that indeed I am. I wont lie — I like things, I love to shop… I love finding that awesome deal on something and am so happy to bring it home. In my younger years my shopping was souly for clothes — which looking back was frivilous and not necessary, but was part of my youth, and I believe helped me become who I am today. Still, I love to go shopping, and love clothes — but my priorities have shifted, now having a home — I love to shop for my home, make it ‘homier’, that’s my intention at least.
Lately I’ve been convicted though — that does having the new vase for flowers, or the picture frame, or the ottoman, really make my house homier? Or is the the atmospher Phil and I create with our life, and who we are. People always told me when you have company to not stress about making your home perfect, it doesn’t matter (for me, I have stressed and felt that if things were out of place, well that was bad) I have learned, that when a friend comes over, if clothes are strunned everywhere, dishes are not done, and the floor not swept, that our friendship still stands, and often growns stronger — becasue in reality my life is not always organized and clean, and when they experience this I am being real. (Not that I will always have a messy house but I will lighten up a bit)
I have been pondering that if I spent even half as much time, thinking about shopping, shopping and deciding where to put my great find, I would have much more time to spend time with people or with God and create deeper relationships, which is what life is about! I would have time for myself — remember to take time for my spiritual, physical and emotional health.
It really is astonishing how we become materialistic about thing without even realizing — please don’t take this post as I will never shop again, I will. But that I am learning that I have to make my priorties straight for what is important in life…. and as much fun as shopping is — its not the most important thing in my life. God is…
I couldn’t really think about a better post title because this post directly goes along with my last. God knows when you need to struggle and then times things just perfectly when you don’t. Like I said in the last one, I’ve been struggling and it’s been tough….. in the past 3 days however — I am encouraged!! I love to call people, and make plans and do things… but like anyone I desire that people call me. Sometimes I wonder if I would have all these friends if I never made any effort — and these last few days I’ve learned yes. This week I kind of cut of ties– didn’t call people, didn’t initiate the ‘plans’ and one friend after another made contact!!! I feel full about things again… encouraged.
Which is probably a good thing — being in a lull, or low, I felt absolutely no desire to clean up my house not motivation to get things done…. and today I woke up sun shining and am busy working away on making our house a home again!
This week though a struggle, though I have been being shaped I feel closer to God… I feel his hand in my life and again that it is His timing not mine. And I am really starting to believe that through the tough times is when we do truly draw nearer to God.
This verse now hangs on my fridge (Thank-you Amy) and reminds me every day to trust God!
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanks-giving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” Phil: 4:6-7
Lately I have felt that although we have been so busy with friends — I’ve been completely surrounded by people, who I know love me, and care for me…. I have felt lonely…. in a room for of people, I feel as if I am by myself. It’s been a bit of a stuggle, because I didn’t know if I was just ‘sulking’ or if I was down about something, or if it was just related to being tired…. but I couldn’t seem to bounce back, or pull out of it.
Phil has been wonderful and really trying to encourage me — trying to ‘fix’ things like most guys like to do, and this was something, a feeling or state that couldn’t just be fixed. The other day, I was feeling quite low about things and just when I was hitting the bottom… 3 wonderful people stepped out, and showed me they cared. Just when I needed it, at the perfect time they let me know they were thinking of me, and made the effort to find out where I was at!!! God is good!!! Last night for the 1st time in a little while i was totally able to sleep through the night, felt totally relaxed and free again. I was starting to be full again.. I was encouraged!!!
I had the opportunity to meet with 3 great friends, and share with them individually how I was feeling, where I am at, and be honest and true about my life. That is what I needed, and it was not in my time but definitely in God’s time… perfect time.
The big thing I am learning right now is who ‘I’ am as a person again…. I’ve always been very sure of who I was as an individual — but am still learning who I am as a wife-who we are as a couple-who I am as ‘this’ individual. It’s been challenging, but good. I am still me, but in a different season and a different time, and that is okay…. exciting really, in the end that is! I just don’t like the process… but I learn more and more each day, and in the end the getting there is all worth it.
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Lately I’ve been feeling like life is changing again, not any life changing events or anything, but just moving on, evolving into something new. Most people except change with open arms, and anticipation to what will come…. me, I dread it, I don’t like change, I don’t like changing. I like comfort, safety and familiarity, and with change you loose that, which is what I don’t like.
I feel as though things are round me are moving on, and I’d like to keep things stationary, the same, comfortable. But I’ve been struck that I can’t do that, even if I hold on to what ‘was’, I will eventually be left behind to everyone/thing else moving forward. Maybe I should just sit back and join in the ride…. if only it were that easy, I know I wont… but maybe I’ll little by little accept change into my life a bit more.
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