I have been thinking lately, yeah you heard me I said thinking.......he he. I have to many blogs! 4 to be exact. They all have differnt purposes though and I do not post regularly on all of them just one (obviously not this one huh? :0). I wanted to share them all and then explain my new purpose for this one because it is to broad right now.

Homeschool Blog *where I post the most: Living to Glorify
Medowview Church of Christ webring: JavaMama:Coffee Meditations
Superman and T-Rex's Blog: The Adventures of Superman and T-Rex
Well the last one is this one so I don't need to give you the address!

I am however changing my purpose for this one. I really just want to use this one for expressing my thoughts in my journey of being a woman of God with the hopes to encouraging other women of God in this high and holy calling. Posts will be on homemaking, motherhood in general, teaching at home, servanthood in the calling of being a helpmeet, and ways in which we as women can glorify the Lord. So all posts will be focused on the Lord's most beautiful creatures...........his women :0). A lot of these posts will match the ones from Living to Glorify but not always so be sure to check, if you want to.

Well, I just remembered that I have yet another blog.......but I am not revealing it just yet because I don't want to yet. So make that a whopping 5 blogs.........my husband thinks I am crazy.

*CRAZY FOR BLOGS*

Joyfully in Him,
Kelli

"If I am going to have a busy day, I spend one hour with the Lord. If I am going to have a very busy day, I spend two hours with the Lord." Martin Luther

Don't forget to spend some one on one time with the Lord each morning to start your day off right. Does it feel impossible to have a meeting time with Him each day? It is difficult but with His grace it is possible to schedule it in. Get up an extra 15, 30, 45, or even an 1 hour earlier. Sacrafice a piece of your time in the morning before you run off to school, work, or just the daily activities by putting on some head phones and worshiping Him through music, or set up a reading plan and follow it each morning, or and pray for your day to come and ask the Lord to fill you with JOY for this is the day that He has made..................Psalm 118:24.

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,for in you I trust.Make me know the way I should go,for to you I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8

JOYfully in Him,
Kelli

T-Rex is getting ready to turn 2 in June. I can not believe that he will be 2 years old! He is growing up so fast, to fast. He is beginning to talk in sentences and on Tuesday he decided to sleep in the bottom bunk so we have taken his baby bed down. I can remember the nightmare of a transition it was for Superman to go from the living room palet (don't ask) on the floor with Mama to his own bed. Listen to what I had to do. He had bunk beds a different set from now and at night and at naptimes I would put a movie on for him and then climb into the top bunk and wait until he fell asleep. Now sometimes this would take up to an hour or longer! It was misery and before that and the sleeping on the floor with Mama (again don't ask) we would have to drive him around in the car to get him to go to sleep. I am laughing at myself now as I think back at these terrible methods of settling your kids to sleep. We would at bedtime which was around 9 or 10 back then, keep in mind Superman was I think close to 1 years old, put his pjs on and pack him up in the car and drive for 30min-1hr until he fell asleep and sometimes we would drive for 30 minutes and then when we stopped the car to get out he would wake up so in reverse we went. Why I am telling all of this I don't know. At 3 years old or maybe a little younger we finally had to let him just cry it out and it was a difficult process for me to begin with, listening to him cry for up to an hour each night until he eventually fell asleep.

So I guess we learned our lesson with the bedtime methods and decided that with the next one we would not do what we did before. Some friends of mine used Baby Wise so I decided to give it a chance. I did it with T-Rex and it was very difficult but the end results were amazing for me anyway. Whether or not I will use it again I am not sure. I really missed rocking my baby to sleep sometimes and him crying to sleep each time I layed him down gripped my heart. I think that I will read the book again and chew on what he has to say spitting out what I think is unnecessary for my child and me to have to go through this next time around.

I got way off subject here let me retrack. What I was going to say was just that I am going to begin planning T-rex's Birthday party here pretty soon and I need to be as frugal as possible. The theme is of course Dinosaurs. Today awesomely I found a cake mold of a T-Rex with the directions and all on it for only $2 and then the other day at Target they had a ton of Dinosaur items in their $1 section. I am hoping that these sort of things will keep happening until June 17.

JOYfully in Him,
Kelli

Last week I purchased a new t-shirt from Target with the name of a band on it that I like. After I bought it and got it home I got to thinking about whether or not I should wear it. On the front of it is the name of the band, Aerosmith, and on the back is the year 1976. My thoughts were is this okay for me to promote as a Christian? If I wear this shirt what is it going to say about me? Of course that I am an Aerosmith fan but what about whether or not I am a Christian or not? Now, I am not saying that Christians can't or shouldn't listen to Aerosmith or any other non Christian group for that matter but should we promote them and wear them?

Is this important to even be thinking about? I don't believe that when we become Christians that we become less of who we are or that we have to give up who we were all together. I believe that some things can be salvaged after they have been sifted through the scriptures. Aerosmith, should I give them up? Bon Jovi, Guns n Roses, Poisen, Warrant, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain...............and many more artists that I enjoy listening to every now and then. Of course the songs from each one are carefully selected and do not offend my conscience in anyway.............and usually I hear them on the radio but I do get an urge to listen to them sometimes mainly because they are a part of my past, a part of me.

Now whether or not I listen to them should I promote them?

Comments....................

Wow it has been a long time since I have posted. The last couple of weeks I have been really dwelling on this phrase..........Let Go and Let God. In all of my difficult situations I have been trying to reflect on it, on letting go and letting God. When I first heard this phrase or read it which ever it was I thought to myself.........what does this mean? I have found that when you let go........of your fears, your jealousy, your pain, your grief, your selfish ambition, your greed, your hate, bitterness, your discontentment, you nervousness, and sometimes even your plans...............and let God take control of them you inevitably have............peace, joy, rest, and anwsers...............and the power that you need to persevere through and overcome your personal hindrance or obstacle that was in you way to glorifying the Lord and having His peace live with in your situations and circumstances.

Joyfully in Him,
Kelli