Just a BlinkProof Time Flies

Scraping Off Crud

The top of my soon-to-be dresser.

This week my heart felt like gunk. I can easily be discouraged which is odd because I find it so easy to encourages others.

This week I tackled missed deadlines, family sickness and cold weather as I tried to get my heart up and running. I needed to give my gunky funk a tune up.

I always forget to ask for help. Pride, maybe. Insecurity, sure. But, I really think I just forget to ask sometimes! This time I had help.

A friend and follow MOPS leader spent a great deal of time with me over the phone offering help and pointing my heart upward to my Creator. Plus an added bonus, my Mother-in-Love Kris baby sat the kids for 8 hours on Saturday freeing me up to rest and work on the house (cabinet doors are on their way to becoming Cottage White)!

I am still battling a cold and my laundry mountain but I have been renewed with a stronger sense of direction and my heart is beating freely only now without all the crud. Now that’s just in my nose.

Bible, Book of Psalms, Chapter 51, Verse 10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Trick-or-Treating Get-Ups

The photos below were just taken this afternoon. I left my camera behind the evening of Halloween. Sometimes I just need to be in the moment and not behind the lens.

Molly really “got” it when we took her out for trick-or-treating. She insisted that she go up to every door instead of stay back in the stroller. She held out a little pumpkin purse to collect goodies and refused to have anyone else touch her treats. She was a happy lil’ pumpkin.

My knight in shining armor! Here Ryan is posing to “look tough” for his role as a brave knight. He loved to stomp around in his “king” boots and charge with his sword through the leaves with his friend Jack. He wore black clothing for his original costume. Today however was unseasonable warm and he was in shorts!

We are making progress on our main level and only living area which feels like getting 2 steps ahead.

We are all suffering from head colds which is turning us into head cases which feels like taking 1 step back.

Here are some of our steps so far…

The wood-laminate flooring is in!

The bases of the kitchen cabinets are painted. Cottage White by Behr, shown here-only the first coat was completed. Bye dark brown 80's stain!

Cabinet doors- Washed, hand sanded, power sanded and stacked for painting. Molly is having a tea party with our medicine cups. Oh yes, of course our walls are painted too, Harvest Brown by Behr.

Well we can only take one step at a time! Though right now I am going to drink up my Airborne and close my eyes for sake of common sense! Though the dishes are calling me, painting, laundry….I’ll just have to let the answering machine pick up…if only it were that easy.

I was recently blessed with a job opportunity to capture my friends on film digital media. Darn, film sounds so much better. My trigger finger was in full frenzy as it grazed the shutter release button for an hour during a recent photo shoot.

I worked as an independant photographer for about 3 years but “closed” shop right before Molly was born to focus more inwardly on my family. A few people close to me have coaxed me out for a few jobs in the last year and a half. The family below is one such family.

They are such little treasures. Plus a little red wagon, how could I resist?