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Tag: Goals

  • A Challenge I am Ready for

    Ever since I started Homeschooling or researching it, for that matter, I have found really good blogs written by other Moms. Recently, I noticed a few of them began talking about a challenge they were about to begin on.

    *Flash Forward* Just the other night I was telling my friends that I am starving for the Word, I have not been in it like I want to be.  I started working a new schedule in the Fall so I had to stop attending my regular Bible Study.  I have been in a study a year ever since He called me 4 years ago, this year has been different.

    Finding this challenge, I feel is Gods answer to my pray that I find a way to get back into His Word.  The challenge I speak of is called Read the Bible in 90 Days.  I first heard of it from The Kelley Eight blog and she links back to the originator at Moms Toolbox.

    This isn’t just a speed reading idea, not at all.  The way the schedule is set up, it is in nice sized chunks.  Then after reading it you do the devotional part.

    They also hold Twitter parties and a check in on Mondays to help keep everyone motivated and accountable.  Thank you ladies!!!

    I am really looking forward to this and I am thrilled that Lord has answered prayer so quickly.

    Now my prayer is to STAY in the Word.   Would you join me?

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  • Okay Nevermind

    It is what it is. Even as much as I don’t like that saying, I have to say. it is what it is.

    Remember the camera I wrote about? Well it turns out the girl that was going to sell it to me can’t find it, she said her husband thinks she sold it last summer. :O(

    I was really, truly bummed as I read the email. My dreams of finally having an awesome camera were dashed. My dreams of taking beautiful pictures of my kids, food, and nature – gone. But, oh well. It is what it is. For now I will keep on keeping on. Also, my husband won a flip from Lloyds Barbershop. I used it for the bread pictures, not bad at all!

  • I’ll Be Honest

    I have always wanted to be a photographer. I always figured I would buy a supernice camera someday and then self-teach. Well that day still has not come, currently I look at the pictures I have posted and they just are not up to par. Especially if you look at what blog pictures should like like. Currently I am using my mother-in-laws camera which is a Kodak Easyshare with no working display. It’s a challenge to say the least.

    So I decided to just put it out there and see what I could come up with. Looking at craigslist the cheapest, nicest setup would be around $300 for a used one. It was then that I decided to hop on over to the WANTED section of craigslist. I offered $100 and received a response within the hour! She is a wedding photographer and has a sweet Canon Powershot that she used before she bought her SLR. She has even offered to give me a quick lesson and some tips when I pick it up! I am so very excited. I can’t wait to learn, to experiment, to bake and take pictures and most of all to capture great pictures of my boys! Thanks Craigslist!

  • Inspiration


    After reading a few different blogs over the years I was finally ready to start one. I have a friend who has a really great blog that I love to read. One of her posts from about 1000 days ago she started a goal list titled 101 in 1001. I googled 101 in 1001 and found this site, I signed up and started my list… so far I only 14 things but I will be adding to it daily. I look forward to this journey of goals and tracking… something I have never really done outside of my daily/weekly to do lists. I look forward to tracking things I have always wanted to do but never acted upon further than a thought or two on the matter. One thing about the site I found, it has a link for inspiration – ideas from other users. So here I go – I look forward to this being a step toward achieving more, stepping outside of my routine, this will be fun!