What A Week

Im so excited, this week I was able to talk with a dear friend of mine that reminded me I had neglected my blog, since becoming so caught up in facebook! Sorry blog readers!
We have had a blessed past couple weeks. So many people have helped us out with Josh's Grandma passing away and taking Dr.s orders to go easy - women in the church brought delicious meals and I am so grateful. I am feeling so much better now, and I know that the Lord has touched me and the Baby. There isn't any other explanation. I have a doctors appointment next week and I am believing that everything will be good to go, normal!

We are getting ready to start painting and packing excess things around here that will hopefully help the house to look more spacious. - How do you make a town home look spacious? Im guessing - move everything out of it that isn't necessary for life for the next 6 months and see how it goes! Then pray like crazy that it sells very quickly! Im going over to a girlfriends house in the morning to pick up her boxes that she has hung onto after moving. Im so glad that she still has them! REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE Jack Johnson is in my head!

Lessons in Trust

With each pregnancy the Lord has blessed me with, I find a lesson in trust. Its as if God is saying to me, Ok, Dara, here is how much you really trust me. How about we stretch that a little?! God is ultimately in control of my life, and my baby. While I try and follow the Doc's orders to a T - the worry still creeps in to the heart of a mother. It is then that I have to let it go back into the Lord's hands and say "God, you created me, and this child. I believe that you are GOOD, and so I TRUST you for your will to be done in my life." I believe He is the Healer, and great physician. There isn't anything that takes God by surprise, since he sees the ultimate BIG picture. Thank you Lord for the gentle reminders that are everywhere I look, that you have my best intersest in mind, and that NOTHING is too hard for such a great God!

Books Im Reading

I filled out a random things note on Facebook, I mentioned that I was reading a few books. Steph has asked me what they were - but I forgot to respond. It made me really think about how my book reading has increased this year.

At the beginning of January my world changed when Josh brought me home an i-phone. It is THE BEST organizational tool that I have EVER EVER EVER had. If I could only have one piece of technology, The i-phone would be it. There are tons of applications that you can download to make your life more organized and easy. One of them is the Bible! It is put out by Craig Groeschell's church www.lifechurch.tv and its called youversion because there are tons of different languages, as well as versions available all the time. At the C3 conference this week I was able to read along with the speaker in whatever version he was reading, as well as look up what other versions said. Very handy.

Any way all of that to say, that I have read more of the Bible with this handy application, because you always have it on your person. I hate to sit & wait and have nothing to do: whip out the Bible on your i-phone and your reading away. I started the daily reading program that is on there as well, when you follow it you will read the entire Bible through in a year, the OT once, NT twice.

Reading more of God's word has enriched my life so much this year already. I have always read God's word but this is such a saturation of it - and the wierd thing is - it has made me hungry to read other things as well. I have always wanted my children to have a love for reading. I have purchased books from scholastic every single month, and while working at scholastic built a huge library before they were even thought about, so I love books. In a way I guess Im trying to make up for what I didn't read as a kid.

So here are the books I am currently reading:

Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World - Joanna Weaver

So You're Thinking about Homeschooling - Lisa Whelchel

A Guide to Motherhood (Herbs, Helps, & Pressure Points for Pregnancy & Childbirth) - by Katherine Tarr

THAT BOOK - put out by Fellowship Church - written by Ed Young & their entire staff.

100 Top Picks for Homeschooling Curriculum - Cathy Duff

What to Expect While You're Expecting - Eisenburg, Murkoff, and Hathaway

Made to Be His Help Meet - Debi Pearl

This last book is a must read for any married woman. The principles in this book will change your marriage! It will rock your world and God will shake you up as you see what His word says about living out your potential as a Godly wife! Its awesome!! It is a message that Today's woman needs to hear, and know you will be challenged. With the majority of issues that hit the church, at the heart of them are a man not living out his calling as the Leader of his home, and a woman not fulfilling her potential as a wife. If I have intrigued you at all - I hope you take a look at this book.

I think...

After doing the Dave Ramsey seminar last year I learned that most of what I grew up thinking and knowing about money to be false - there were several myths that He busted, that I no longer live with. For example the myth - that you will always have a car payment! It isn't true! Or at least it doesn't have to be when you stop living the myth!

Tonight I was doing some research on some health issues - and I think that the majority of Americans believe a whole ton of myths about health - that they are fed by main stream media.

Thats what I think...

Isn't it time we became our own advocates and did our own research and thought for ourselves?
Do a little digging - don't be spoon fed everything by what you hear and see on television and even from your health care providers - our system is messed up, and while there are a ton of wonderful Dr.s out there doing what they do for the right reasons, there are a whole host of others who do what they do for the wrong ones.
Do some RE search - and think a little - for yourself!

Thats my challenge for this week - think - for yourself!

Our Exciting News

Colin is going to be a big brother! Ana says she is going to be a big big sister! We are excitedly expecting our 3rd child. We are so happy and overjoyed that God has blessed with another baby. We are due in Early October, and now there is so much to do in order to prepare. But that can all wait for another blog post. For now let it be that we are just so excited to have this new precious little one to arrive in the fall! YEAH!!!!

Unwelcome alarm

This morning at 5AM ish - I was jolted awake by a loud crash. The mirror on the back of our bathroom door fell to the tile just after Josh had walked into the bathroom and it busted into a bajillion little pieces. It was so startling. I am so thankful that Josh didn't get badly cut. It could have been bad. I didnt like having to clean it all up and be aware of every place I was stepping at such an early hour. (Im not a morning person and my wits aren't quite about me just yet at 5)

Today Ana and I had a day together and we had a very nice time. We are looking forward to February and all that it will hold. I may get to see my niece in the near future which I am crossing my fingers that it happens. We will have to wait and see.

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