It's Been Too Long....

My days are filled with many things. Just like most moms, I have my hands full with my children. But unlike most moms, I have my hands full with other peoples children, too. I also have my responsibilities to my husband, at our church, in our mission work and the list goes on. I find it hard at times to just fill a page with interesting reading but miss posting at the same time. So many things have been going on and I will try to share some with you.

As my last post stated, I am in search of my purpose in this life. A great deal has changed in the way I live each day since the reality of what my purpose should be is. I no longer sit around day dreaming about when we can move to Colorado. I still would love for that dream to come true but if the Lord never moves us there I will be able to say that I made the most of each day here and now, where He has planted us. And I know we will visit that place we love so much. We are working hard to find a way to pay off the land and build something small on it to enjoy from time to time.

I have a new excitement for my daycare. I am in the process of getting licensed instead of registered so I can be more of a preschool. I am not watching very young children on a regular basis because I am trying to gear my program towards preschoolers. I purchased a very simple but nice computer for the kid care room. I was able to borrow a computer desk for it and I love it! I worked today on redoing my setup page on my business website with new pictures. I am very pleased at how it turned out. I am looking into ordering new t-shirts for our preschool so that when we go on field trips we will all be in the same shirt. I am also going to order some shirts for me to wear during the day when I am open. I am trying to get my preschool hours to only be on the weekdays and normal hours as much as possible. I do have a few that aren't but not the majority. I think that will help a great deal.

A friend of ours knows a friend who is redoing her kitchen so she is giving away counter tops! If you go to my link for the set up it has a picture of our LOVELY YELLOW counter tops that we have now. YULK! So we feel so blessed to have this happen. We just need to go pick them up...and...figure out when we will put them on! But what a blessing! Thank You, Lord, for the provision that we so needed to fix up our kitchen.

I finally got my bedroom furniture rearranged and LOVE it even more than I did before! We got it in August. But I didn't realize it was such HUGE furniture. I had only seen it online and when I found out it was being discontinued I called to find out if I could still somehow get it. So I went to the store and bought it early in the summer but had them wait until the end of August to deliver it. I got everything it came with! This is the first bedroom set we have ever purchased and it is awesome! (I am on the wrong computer to upload a picture so I will do that later! I have them posted on my Facebook if you want to check that out.)

Our oldest daughter, Samantha, just became a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant and we are so proud of her. She will be 22 this month. I was a consultant for 14 years but my calling has always been with children. But I also love to do office work. So I am her "official" secretary and am loving it! When she becomes a director she can pay me! For now, free make up here and there is awesome! She is tired of the retail world and is ready to make it happen. I got her lots of cute and helpful office stuff to get her excited about her new career. I used the excuse of her birthday coming up but I have always gone over board where my girls are concerned! I just can't seem to help it.

I got a new color laser printer! I have wanted one of those forever because the ink jet goes through ink so fast and because my daycare paperwork is in color and I need to make new copies for things a lot. Also, I use lots of things with the daycare that need printing. This one is an all in one! I was so excited. It came in on Tuesday. We got it out of the box (which was almost as tall as me!), set it up, turned it on....and it didn't work! We tried a few things and decided that we would have to wait until morning to call them to see what was wrong. On Wednesday morning after a few short minutes on the phone with the support person, he tells me it was dead on arrival and they were shipping me out a new one! It arrived today, Thursday. So I now have two boxes in my house that are almost as tall as me and two large printers. We will pack up the "old" new one and ship it back tomorrow. I am thrilled to say that the newest new one is working great!

That is about all I can think of that we have been doing. Just working around the house to clean it out and make it better. I will try to post more as we get more done. I hope to have some new pictures to post of our "new" kitchen soon!