Living Life One Cheerio at a Time

Tuesday was 10 on 10. I started out really strong...I mean I remembered before noon! But shortly after 9 am my husband called me from work. He told me he was no longer employed and would be home soon. GULP! My 10 on 10 got a little sidetracked but this is the story! I called a good friend and she prayed immediately on the phone. We cried and laughed. I had gotten all the emotion out of my system because I didn't know what state he would be when he came home. I wanted to be strong not a blubbering mess. Surprisingly he was in great spirits. You see he had been wanting to leave for sometime now. In fact, he had thought about it during the summer...then it was in the fall...then after the new year. All the delays had great excuses. Yet, they were still excuses. Maybe this is God' way of moving the hubs on to a new adventure a little faster. The hubs is a bit of a private man and usually plays his cards close to his chest. He doesn't reveal much and is very...

Matthew 6:25-34 “Therefore I tell you, do not  worry  about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by  worry ing add a single hour to your life? ... One month until 2 of my kids start school. ONE MONTH people! So last week we spent the fortune on school supplies. It also crossed my mind that the shorts and sun dresses would not suffice in the cold Midwest winters that would be coming oh too soon. I went down to the basement of no return to look at the buckets/bins/bags of clothes given to us by friends and family. Having 4 kids to clothe and feed this go to spot of clothing has been such a blessing. I have been so blessed as to never purchased a winter coat for my kids.  But this time the...