Extremely grateful for my mom's cooking/food preparation for us this week. Haven't eaten fast food AT ALL for the entire week & it feels great. I feel so much healthier & even though I haven't even thought about being hungry in the past 5 days, I still just feel better & less "preserved". I need to discuss with James meal planning & really focusing on eating more at home (& learning to love left overs) because it is WAY more cost effective and healthy. I need some really good tried-and-true recipes for a meat, cheese, and potatoes kind of husband. Any ideas?
Our power bill was only $192. PTL! For people who keep their thermostat on 68 degrees always, that is very good for July.
Today was a quite lovely day to myself. Woke up, had some quiet time, went to water aerobics, & then spent the afternoon treating myself to a manicure, pedicure, and brow wax. Yes please. And the best part was, because my frequent customer card was filled up, I got everything half price!! That means I paid the same amount for all three services that I'd normally pay for just my pedi. Things like that really make me happy, although I did feel guilty for the "splurge" since my husband is in a third world country sweating his brains out.
Tonight, we grilled ribs & I went by BBQ Shack and got slaw (love) and their stew. It was delish. Dad worked on our deck steps for the third sweltering night in a row and they are going to be much more stable & safe now. He also discovered a hornet nest under our step & seriously killed like 10 of them. So thankful that no one was stung & that he found them. We had no clue they were there.
I've decided I don't want our TV to hang above the mantle, because its fine & out of the way where it is. Plus, we really need a family portrait canvas up there instead of the knick-knacks currently adorning it. We can spend the money on a nice portrait instead of a wall mount.
I was going to use our blower to suck up all of the leaves getting on my last nerve around our porch. I went to get the blower from the storage building and opened the door to a
Wanting to do something to really tone my arms. They are developing into "Smith" arms as my mama says & I'm being driven crazy over it. I think I've built muscle at the Y over the past few months & didn't "lose" the fat on top of it so its left me with "beefy" arms. Yuck. Gag.
Looking forward to spending Friday night at Summer's house (saw FB chat of possible catchphrase & apples to apples=LOVE) & then spending a day with the ladies at the mall on Saturday before James & mama come home. Yay for girl time & (window) shopping!
Have I mentioned my father is the bomb dot com? Because he is. I've felt like a queen this week just spending time with him & not really doing anything other than some simple jobs around the house. He's come in every day sweating and exhausted from working in the heat for eight hours, yet after a "power nap", he's ready to go help do something for me, something for us, something for our home. What a blessing this man is! I've determined his "love language" for me as his child is "acts of service". I love him so much & am thankful for the way he lives his life, works so very hard to provide for his family, and has a servant's heart. (Read any of "The Five Love Languages" books by Gary Chapman if you haven't for more info about "Love Language")
This morning while reading my Bible, I came across this passage:
But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. 1 Corinthians 15:10 (NLT)
Sometimes I really feel like, for whatever reason, that I am "too blessed". I've had/have/experience this special favor from God. All of us as His children have this favor. Geeze, what a great "problem" to have, right? God has given me SO much & I don't deserve any of it. I just don't fathom WHY He loves me enough to bless me with everything He has--Salvation, Amazing Husband, Best Family in the World, Great friends, great job that I love(I cannot believe year 3 is upon us!!!), good health, nice home, nice "things", food to eat, clean water to drink, the list could continue infinitely. I guess if I could "get" why He does these things for us, He wouldn't be God, right? While I'm certainly not wishing He'd take away any of those or not continue to bless my life, I need to do a better job of making sure that there are more "results" of those blessings He's given me. My life needs to exemplify praise for His abundant grace & mercy and His protection over my life. Those results should be using my life even more to glorify and honor Him. And also to praise Him even MORE for what He has done, is doing, & will do in my life.
Speaking of praise, this girl's got it going on! When I get to Heaven, can I *please* sing just like her?
(Waiting Here For You)
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