Beautiful Ordinary Life

I am getting better from being sick this week. I didn’t want to get up and go to the clergy/spouse brunch this morning… at all. But I did because we are new here and the Superintendent is new and some of our friends were going as well.
I awoke early because I [...]

Big Love

I’ll add caps later, but for now, enjoy these.
The jammies were given to me by a man who took us to his cabin earlier in the summer. He’s a very nice guy and I couldn’t stay warm enough because SUMMER and who’d have thought it would be 50 up north? Sheesh! So he tosses them [...]

Dear Mrs. Oke

Dear Mrs. Oke,
Bless you, bless you dear lady for sharing your fantastic works of writing with the world! I am thrilled and amazed that I found your books, and especially at this time in my life.
My name is Jayleigh. I am 36 years old, and live with my husband in the parsonage of the church [...]

Romans 13:14

I have made it no secret here on my blog that I haven’t been a REAL Christian for all that long, not yet 5  years. In that time, I have opened my eyes to the horrible life I lead before, and have done a complete turn-around. Praise God. PRAISE GOD!
I used to be so sad, [...]

Homing Pigeons

THE LITTLE KIDS
 had a greatexperience this morning, stemming directly from my lateness and unpreparedness. I know, it sounds a bit weird. I set my timer so that I would get up from the computer and playing on Facebook, (btw bloggers pls don’t mention MY blog on FB. Real life peeps know nothing abt my blog… thx) [...]

Blown Completely Away

Rob wrote this to me while he was away this weekend. I was blown away and I want to be a better wife because of the same reasons.
Saturday, May 16, 2009 3:20 PM
Dearest Jay,
I am reminded, as I have been apart from you for some 77 hours, that I can be fine when I am [...]

What a Difference a Day Makes

… or two or three days, even.
I am sitting here now somewhat in awe of the crabbiness and nastiness I showed here on my blog last week. So in honor of God leading me by the hand out of that pit once more, I shall speak of my blessings today!

I don’t remember if I mentioned [...]

Lucy in the Sky

Oh sweet Lucy girl.
When last you heard from me, I mentioned about having too many kids to fit in my car, so Rob and I were both going to drive a car-load of kids to church today. That did happen. We brought 8 of the 14 which were there. One of those children is Lucy, [...]

The Best Problems

I am in the middle of having a really good problem. I can’t think of too many problems which are good, but this one is, my friends.
There’s not enough room in my car to pick up all the kids who want to come to Sunday School. There are 5 who live all together in the [...]

All the Blessings

All the blessings I can think of are right here, right now:

Mindy came today to help pack up and move out. It was good to see her and talk with her. My sweet Mindy Lou Who.
Rob is amazing. I already knew that, but reading through our letters from High School and after, I see that [...]

All Because of Jesus I’m Alive

On the eve of my 36th birthday, I know that I am alive in my heart and soul because of Jesus.
Check it out:

Things are a bit better tonight. Rob made contact with someone at the DHS office and they are “working” on having Stormy removed. I think it may take 2-3 [...]

MySpace Parenting

Stormy had Saturday School (detention) today. We used the 4 hours to finish up Christmas shopping. We’re all done except for getting gift certificates for a month of guitar lessons for Stormy and Mindy. They are psyched about it. I am psyched that the shopping is finished!
I sent the following message this afternoon to Stormy [...]

Love Is All Around

Tonight we watched Love, Actually. It was sweet, but I don’t believe I’d watch it again. I was glad when Stormy left the room because, HELLO, embarassing. We never have rated R movies in this house, so I wonder how this one filtered through the Netflix Queue. Hmm.
It was a great day today. Stormy had [...]

I’m So In

I wonder how I could have been so discouraged yesterday!
Let me just name out all the blessings from this afternoon:

Stormy’s Dad said he would let her have her clothes and things back. There was a real concern that he would not.
I have tomorrow off work!
Stormy has a half-day of school tomorrow, so I am going [...]