dum spiro spero
So, obviously I have some stuff going on. But devoting VALUABLE JOURNAL SPACE to it won't make it go away, so instead, how about a
+ GTL:
- Alan and I made peanut butter bars. They were delicious!
- It's so much fun to see Alma crawling and sitting and getting into everything
- Taught a good class this morning
- Going to get my concealed handgun license
- Alan loves his job
- I'm not very far away from getting my AA, and then I can decide what to do from there
- He will keep me in perfect peace if my mind is steadfast and I trust in Him
- Ashley Marie is going to be doing teacher training this summer!
- I bought a new Bible and it's super portable
- Bombarding Alan with Linkin Park lyrics
- Bought some new clothes
- If I, who am evil, know how to give Alma good gifts, how much more will God give me His Spirit?
- Michael and Alex are going to stay in the Foundations group via Skype
- My powder-blue toenails
- Learning so much from my study of John
- My friends at yoga
- Practicing this with Alan!
- My eternal destiny is secure no matter what; no one can snatch me out of His hand
- All the scripture memory I've been doing in my discipleship group
- Maria's grad party - got to spend some time in the hot tub, chat with some acquaintances, and reconnect with Maria
- CNB and her random but timely encouragement
- My green mother's day roses...and my first mother's day
- Sweet gift from my MIL
- The first family photo my family has taken in a decade
- God is God, and I am not
- Getting to see old friends in my dreams
- The cats I saw in the front yard
- The giant slugs who come out after it rains
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she gives a smile when the pain comes
+ GTL:
- After this week I will have taught 20 classes. Wow!
- Teaching is becoming more and more second nature
- Alan found a new job so quickly that I didn't even have time to blog about him being laid off
- I like my new hat
- "Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in." -Portia de Rossi
- Not to jinx it, but I think I'm starting to do better on this med combo
- Dr. Shumate has called several times to check up on me
- Planning a weekend trip in June to visit Katie and Elvis (and go canoeing!)
- My sweet Alma-bear, who's so happy and talkative
- Our Foundations group
- It's been nice having Alan home this week
- Great, GREAT co-workers and students
- Mark 15:15--how dangerous it is to be a people-pleaser!
- Organizing stuff
- I get to teach my first Water class tomorrow
- The cute cowgirl onesie Alan's mom made for Alma
- Law & Order: SVU
- Email correspondence with K
- The reread
- Working hard for the money
- Using survey feedback to improve my teaching
- Looking at houses is exciting
- Making mixes
- Alma's pretty blue earrings
- Chocolate chip cookies from the bakery
- My discipleship group
- I've done my prayer calendar every day for over a week
- God always gets me through
- "Remember when you told me to have a nice life?" "I'm glad you listened to me."
- Meeting Elisa for a Starbucks date soon
- Consulting with designers
- Pretty weather
- Alma's giggle, and when she smiles so big that her pacifier falls out
- Alan's kisses
- I get to pup-sit Bebe!
- Alan's discipline in running and school
- A clean house
- A God who doesn't change and loves me eternally
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things I would do if I had unlimited time and resources
figure skate, be a midwife, learn several other languages, dance ballet, enlist in the military, have fifteen kids, spend time gardening and landscaping, trace my family tree back in all directions, travel all over the world (spending at least a month in Turkey), learn martial arts, write an instrumental concept album based on the Neverending Story, adopt a bunch of animals, get a tattoo (or a dozen tattoos), work in a bridal salon, open my own yoga studio, take a Vipassana course.
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