Get Organized!

I just started using this new free organizational website that helps you keep track of all the business of life....sports, school stuff, husband's work stuff, etc. I love it! You can even have it email stuff to your phone if you want to remind yourself of grocery lists, schedules, or appointments. Best of all...ready? IT'S FREE! The really neat thing that I like best is that your husband, or older kids, can get on and put in their schedules too so that everyone knows what's going on. I thought I would share that with some of you, as I have had a hard time getting organized...this really helped!

Cozi Site

Date Night...At the Last Minute???

Come one come all...tonight if you can find a last minute babysitter...a bunch of us are going to the movie Fireproof (see below). Meet us at Bridgeport at 7:15 if you want to join us. We are going to go for some coffee afterward. Hope to see you there!

...took a cue from Mindy! Thanks girl, this is cute!

Good Movie

This movie looks like it is going to be really good, and something that will be a refreshing change in what is currently out there to watch. It'd be fun to get some babysitters and go as a group of couples when it comes out. Call me if you want to hook up and go out on a group date! ;)

More Good Reads

Here are two more books that I just finished. Both get a "5" from me!

This one was so funny, real, and totally relateable! It's about a SAHM who yearns for something more in her life. To be used in a mighty and tangible way by God. She spends moments imagining herself as great heroes in history, but then snaps back to the real life she lives with her three kids, failures to rise to the top of women's leadership at church, and her husband who just lost his job. It all comes crashing down on her, and she doesn't understand why God isn't using her talent to do "Big Things" for Him. It's about her journey to find what God really wants from her, and her many intimate, and sometimes embarrassing road to get there. I think many of you Moms who are tired of the usual, put on your plastic smile and go to church like everything is peachy all the time attitude, may love the reality and truth of what our lives look like as the Lord tries to mold us!


This one, I finished in a day. No, it's not a short read...just shy of 300 pages; but just extremely intense. I stayed up till 3am finishing it, because there was no good place to stop. It begins with a story of a pastor of a MegaChurch who is on a couple's cruise to "stoke the fire of your relationship!" Sound like many of the big show churches popping up today? It has many turns and twists, and profiles so many different lives in this story that you are never bored. The pastor in the end comes to a realization about his life and how he has used it for the Lord, was it all just for show? I can't tell you much about it, without giving away crucial plot info; but I can tell you that last night after I read this I sat and prayed for a long time to the Lord to examine my own life, and He directly spoke to me out of the Word...what we will be studying on Wednesday!!! Matthew 25. The book, if you choose to read it, follows right along to the same message in this chapter.

It caused me to really evaluate how I live my life, and that time is not to be wasted. I loved this story. So well written, so true, and so encouraging to me to constantly be aware of my own walk with Him. "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Philippians 2:12.

Hope to see many of you tonight at the bbq! I am really looking forward to some burgers, fellowship, and worship! Yaaa!

Thinking Ahead

If many of you are like me, you think ahead. I got all my kids shoes at REI 2 weeks ago when they had their "dirt cheap" sale on all of their Keens, Tevas, Chacos, etc. I got this email from Teva and they are having their Fall clearance now on their mens and womens sandals. If you are an outdoor enthusiast, these are such great deals!!! Happy shopping! (When you click on Mens or Womens, then click on the clearance link to the right)

Teva Site

What??

I thought this was sooo funny, showing the stupidity of our nation. I don't mean YOU...just some of our fellow Americans who are quite honestly many of the people yelling for us to pull out of Iraq now. As a wife to a former Marine, I respect, honor and am beyond grateful for their sacrifice. I just love some of the comments in the video...quite educated if I say so myself! ;)