just same changes: December 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009

It is snowing!! In Texas! On Christmas Eve!!!

Ok, Ok so it doesn't look like this but it is really SNOWING!!! I have never ever ever seen snow on Christmas here! Yay! *I just hope it sticks....*

Red, White and Blue Christmas.....

Thinking about all the families with soldiers overseas for Christmas. I am so thankful Dad is home and that we made it through those Christmas days without him.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

wait·ing: 4 a : to be ready and available. 2 a : to look forward expectantly

I recently watched Fireproof again, and fell in love with the message this song has! (Again) I do not want to grow weary in waiting for what God's has promised.

He will not let me down. I may not get to plan how I want my life to go, but I know it will be so much better because of that!

I am waiting on so many things. So many unknowns. What am I supposed to do after school? What job am I to have? Insurance? Car? How am I going to...
Where is he? Who is he?! The list goes on.

But today is no different from any other day. So I will lay my list at His feet. I don't need it, and there will probably be a new one tomorrow. =)

I will wait.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

It seems I am on the Naughty list again this year....*third year in a row*....*blarg*

Friday, December 18, 2009

Ahh!

You know you are jumpy when the snake skin shoes in the bottom of your closet scare you to death!!!!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Christmas

I love Christmas cookies...
and music...
and decorations...
and the meaning....
and the laughter....
and the cocoa....
and the lights....
and the smells....
and the joy....
and the bustle....
and the crazy mishaps....
and getting to say " Oh I celebrate the real meaning of " The Holidays" so Merry Christmas to you!"....
and the cold...
and the fire place...
and the stockings....
and the tree....
and the baby that SAVED the world...
and the Father that loved us that much....
and the young mother who found favor with God and trusted....
and the young father who believed what the angel said...
and the inn keeper that let them use a stall for the Prince of Peace to be born among the lambs....
and most of all, The Promise that Christmas reminds us of.

a few favorite quotes..

"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."
— L.M. Montgomery

" I want to marry a man prepared to swim against the tide"
- Elizabeth Elliot

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss

"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string."
— L.M. Montgomery

"The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of christian,But the fact that I am a christian does make me a different kind of woman."
— Elisabeth Elliot

"Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself."

— Elisabeth Elliot

"Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest;

Home-keeping hearts are happiest,
For those that wander they know not where
Are full of trouble and full of care;
To stay at home is best.

Weary and homesick and distressed,
They wander east, they wander west,
And are baffled and beaten and blown about
By the winds of the wilderness of doubt;
To stay at home is best.

Then stay at home, my heart, and rest;
The bird is safest in its nest;
O’er all that flutter their wings and fly
A hawk is hovering in the sky;
To stay at home is best."- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Do I like jello?"
"Nice coat. Merry Christmas to you too. You're beautiful. Will you marry me? I love you!" -While You Were Sleeping

"Thank yer, ladies and gentlemen. Thank yer" -You've Got Mail

“You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.” - Winnie the Pooh

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" -Gone With the Wind

"That's Re-dikorus." -Tigger