The Blessed Life of a Single Mom

At prayer meeting tonight I was given some wonderful references by different people to encourage me, and to pray. Those references brought to mind some other scriptures that I have always held dear. I felt lead to share them. Please take the time to read through each verse. "I am worn out waiting for Your rescue, but I have put my hope in Your word."  Psalm 119:81 (NLT) "Please listen and answer me, for I am overwhelmed by my troubles."  Psalm 55:2 (NLT) "The Lord Himself will fight for you. Just stay calm."  Exodus 14:14 (NLT) "Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing. If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask Him, be sure ...

    It will take an absolute miracle (or very manipulative person) to ever get me to go on a blind date again. Many of my friends have great success stories revolving around their blind dates. They married and had kids and blah blah blah. Well, my experience with the whole thing has me convinced that it's not for me. One friend, after hearing my stories, decided that she won't ever try it either. She's recently divorced and told me that my experience is all she needed to hear. Hahaha!! The names of the "men" <--more like morons, in this story will be changed.  The First Blind Date (approx summer 2007 or 2008):      My boss has wonderfully good intentions. She would never in a million years purposefully set me up with an idiot. One of our customers (that she had known since he was a little kid) came into the restaurant one day. She asked him if he was seeing anyone, and he told her about how he was sick of all these women that say they are Christians but...

     My children have taken to writing notes, coloring pictures, and cutting paper into shapes and leaving the tiny clippings all over my floor. It's usually frustrating when I see the mess, but highly entertaining when they tell me about what they have been doing, read their phonetically spelled notes to me that I can't read, and are all happy and excited. Courtney wrote me a note that, when translated, said "Dear Mama, please go to daddy.com." followed by her begging me "Just give it a try. Once chance. It has a picture of them, tells their name, where they work, what they are like. What do you expect, some guy to just come knock on our door and ask 'will you marry me?'. Not gonna happen. Just give it a chance." So, to ease her mind, I went to daddy.com and showed her that it is just a place for dad's to go to learn how to be a good dad. So she changed it to findahusband.com. Oh joyous joys.      Jenna showed me a recipe for cookie pie that sh...

    I finally have a picture of the squirrel that has been living in my wall. It explains why he can get through every patch that has been put over his entrance. Now, all I need to do is find his kryptonite and I'll have the upper hand.

I feel like sleeping, not blogging, so this will be a bit more rushed than normal. It's been so long since I've posted anything, I just felt that it was about time I caught up (not that anyone really cares. Haha).     Being sick got me behind in everything from laundry and dishes to sleep and school work with the girls. . . and editing photos. Now life has been full of catching up and cleaning up.     I found the cure to Courtney's inability to sleep before I go to bed. Constant music. I found a Disney lullaby cd at the library, and have been playing it all night in their room. Courtney sleeps so much better, which means I sleep much better!      My photography session scheduling went crazy the past 2 months and I have been struggling to keep up with all the editing. The editing takes lots of time. Here's an example: I sat for 3 hours straight just color correcting wedding pictures. You would normally think "WOW!! She probably got a whole lot done!"...