Sunday Morning Madness

Church has been a challenge for me to get to lately. Having a 22 month old and 8 month old to dress, feed seperatly, change, and get out the door on time is tough. Oh yeah, did I mention that I need to find time to get myself ready, eat, and I'm pregnant? 

I know there are many women who go through this on a Sunday morning for reasons that vary like being single, or having a hubby whose job takes up his Sunday morning or even having a non believing husband.. etc.. I have more compassion now for those women.. The awkward and ironic part of this whole situation for me is that my husband is at church weekly before I even get there. Obviously since he works at church he needs to be there early. So it's not that my husband is not at church or can't be there, it's that he IS there and we can't leave together because of his work schedule vs. our kids schedule. I completely understand the need for him to be there.. but I can't help but think about what a Sunday morning would look like if I had his help at home, or even getting the kids from the car to the nursery together.. It never crossed my mind that Pastor's wives who have young kids have so much to do on a Sunday morning (or whatever day they attend church) until I became a Pastor's wife.

 It's funny because I think many people have the idea that a pastor's wife is to do some type of ministry(not a bad thing) but I say more than that, we need to be ministered to in many ways. Being a Pastor's wife can be an unseen, demanding job in many ways. I've just listed one here.

 Any thoughts??

Placenta Previa

Yesterday I found out I have a mild pregnancy condition called Placenta Previa. This basically means my placenta is lower than it should be. I've heard that most of the time this problem takes care of itself as the pregnancy progresses. I will have another ultrasound in about a month to see if it does move up as it should. I thought I would take the opportunity to ask those of you who like to pray, to pray that it would move up and all would be well. I will update you on this the next time I have an ultrasound. Thanks in advance for your thoughts and prayers.

Judas and Deception

I heard a message yesterday on K-Wave that talked about the life of Judas and how all the disiples were fooled by him.. but the great part of the message was that Jesus was not fooled and He saw straight into His heart. I'm sure Judas mimicked the other disiples so well since Jesus told them that one of them would betray Him and non of them could figure out who it was. 

Today we have modern day Judas's who mimic other Christians so well. They say the right things and even do what other Christians do but what is different about them is where their heart really is. Although we can be fooled, God cannot be... This is why it is so important to fix our eyes and hope on Jesus. 

I think it's ok to look up to more mature Christians and desire to be like them but I think that sometimes we can find out that we've been deceived and let down and that's when we have to remember who we truly follow. Not people, but God.

Not To Us

Today I was listening to the song Not to Us by Chris Tomlin.. I love the words in the song that say Not to Us but to Your Name be the Glory. So many times worship songs can become about us, our feelings, and what we felt we got out of it. I love that this song reminds us that we sing for God's glory. Everything is made for His glory... including us. What a great reminder of the mind set we should have.

Boy or Girl?

So yesterday we found out the sex of our baby. I know Victor got some people's guesses on his blog on what they thought we were having. I'm not going to ruin the surprise because we made a fun video that says what we are having and Victor is going to post that soon on his blog. So if your curious about what we are having go to thewonderfulnoise.com and the video should be up either today (if Victor has the time) or tomorrow. 

We are excited about our new little additon :)

Date Night :)

Tonight Victor and I had an awesome date night. We went to Gabbi's mexican food at the circle, looked at a cool antique store, got ice cream from Right-Aid and got some goofy pictures of us printed from our time at the circle. Then we had a cool time of prayer as we drove to Target. We found some sweet sales on clothes there (i'm talking about nice stuff between $5 and$7) which was the frosting on the cake for us. I love these nights where we do random things and just enjoy each other's company. I am blessed by Victor and thank God for such an amazing husband. 

I knew it would come..

I knew one day it would come.. I knew one day I would die my hair for a reason other than boredom.. I knew one day I would find the dreaded white hair in my head. I didn't know that day was going to be yesterday. Yup, it's starting. I'm starting to find white hair on my head. I guess the only benefit to this new found problem is that I actually have a good excuse to die my hair. Who knew the day would come so soon for me though.

Disappointed

About a month ago I was invited to a women's ministry event at our church where we enjoyed a yummy dessert, fellowship with other fun women, and got to hear from a very nice speaker about giving gifts from the heart. We were given a cookie recipe from this speaker as a gift to us titled the "perfect sugar cookies." I was so excited because the speaker came up with this recipe all by herself and I also have not found a good home-made sugar cookie recipe. Well today was the day I decided to make them. They were time consuming, made a big mess, and left me tired when I was done. All this would have been worth it if they were the "perfect cookies" that I was excited to get but they were far from perfect. Actually they weren't even slightly better than other sugar cookies I've tried. I'm not trying to put down that nice speaker in any way, I'm mostly just disappointed that my expectations of some awesome sugar cookies where not met :( I'm not looking forward to cleaning the mess I made either.. ugghh

Hell and Love

Today I was thinking about Hell and a conversation I had in high school with my atheist history teacher. I remember one day he asked me if I thought he was going to Hell and I said yes if he didn't change and acknowledge that he needed Jesus in his life. I remembered that he said I was judging him. I told him that I was actually loving him because I was willing to tell him truth and not pretend that he was going to be ok without Jesus. That was a wonderful moment for me to share truth in love. 

I share this because I feel like Christians have become afraid to talk about Hell and just want to talk about God's love and grace. Believe me I love that about our faith but I also believe we are not loving people if we can't tell them about Hell and the truth of their destiny if they don't have Jesus Christ in their lives. I think that we should be more concerned about telling truth in a loving way then trying to skim over parts of truth to try and not offend. I rather love and offend then to never offend at all.

I'm terrible long distance friend

I have a confession. I am a terrible long distance friend. I was just thinking about all my friends that have moved away and how I can only count on one hand those I have actually kept in touch with. I don't know why this is the case.. 

This also makes me wonder who would put effort into keeping in contact with me if we ever moved away.. Just some thoughts. I guess I won't know until we are in that place.

What are they thinking?

Matthew and Rachel were having a ball together, making each other laugh and just being themselves. I pulled out the camera to try and capture the moment and they both gave me the same look you see in the above picture. What do you suppose they are thinking?

Check out my munchkins..

I love how much they entertain each other.. what a blessing!

Christmas Pictures

Update..

I just wanted to thank everybody who was praying for us. Matthew's fever finally broke yesterday after 5 straight days of trying to keep his temperature down. Rachel did get sick too but her fever was not peaking as high as Matthew's which we thank God for. Rachel's fever seems to be breaking today. Yay!! It's been a lot of sleepless nights the past week and now we are starting to get rest. We thank God that our little munchkins are okay and that we are on the up side of this flu. Thanks again for all your prayers!