New Blog

Jr and started our own website through iWeb. I will now be blogging there. In fact I already have a couple new posts. This is the link: http://web.me.com/abdonjr/lizandabdon/Liz_and_Abdon.html

Just because

I haven't blogged in a while. Not much going on. Well actually there has been a lot going on. I've been staying home with Abigail for a little over two months. It's been great and challenging at the same time. I thought I would have all this time to do things around the house, but boy was I wrong. Abigail is quite the handful. Sometimes two handfuls! I love it though. There's nothing better! We also just got done with Youth Camp. It was great. God spoke to the youth and I believe he also spoke to the leaders. The one thing that stood out was God calling us to loyalty. Also, seeing ourselves the way God sees us. Man, I could go on and on. It was awesome. I know this is one of the camps those kids will never forget.

10 years ago today

Today I celebrate the 10th year anniversary of my high school graduation. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was so excited to finally be getting out of that school. I was pretty much a loner my senior year do to the fact that my friends were all seniors when I was a junior and they had all graduated the year before. I found a couple of friends in christian club, a freshman and a sophomore. I didn't care though, I new the end was near for me! As graduation day approached I was especially excited because the first day of youth camp was the same day I graduated. I remember my youth pastor, Nate V., came to my graduation and after all the pictures and hugs, we drove off to the camp sight with a few other friends. I was so happy. That is what I remember most, I was happy. At the time it had been a year that my parents had divorced and somehow, through God's love, I was able to enjoy that day and what I felt was more important, camp.

Looking back, I don't know if I pictured my life the way it is now. All I know is that God has blessed me and he has me here. In his hands, for this time with a purpose. My desire as it was 10 years ago, is to do my Father's will and to live a life that is pleasing in his eyes.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to proper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

I could get used to this....

Yesterday I took a day off. Just because I could. Also to meet with Pastor Debbie and talk about VBS. I was amazed at how relaxed and calm I felt the whole day. I got up, ironed a shirt for Jr. I put some clothes in the washer. Abigail woke up a little bit later. I took her out of her crib, did all the morning things we do with her. I ate breakfast. Then I gave Abigail her breakfast, after she watch Arthur on PBS. I got ready to go to my meeting. I gave Abigail a bath. Then I went to get some shopping done. Then to my meeting. On my way home from the meeting I thought to myself, I could get used to this! A little anxiety is starting to creep in though, but not bad anxiety, the "I wish it was June 8th" anxiety. I'm almost there.

This is how I feel today

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Schools should have a sound proof room where teachers are allowed to go in and just scream! Some days are great, some days are good and some days are just down right BAD!

God is funny

God has funny ways of doing things.  I hardly ever listen to podcasts, as compared to Jr. who listens to them almost daily.  Today on my way home from Luv It(only the best frozen custard ever!) the Family Life Today show was starting on SOS and it caught my attention because they were talking about the feminist movement and how it has affected the family.  So I came home and asked Jr. to show me how I can listen to the podcast on my iPod.  So I start listening to it and towards the end they start talking about how there are women who want to do it all, have a career, family, community service and whatever else they think they need to be doing in order to feel valued or accomplished.  They also mention how really in the end one of those things ends up being neglected and damaged while trying to do all those things, and it ends up being the family. So basically, you really can't have it all. There has to be a priority.  Of course not everyone is able to stay home with their kids but, he mentioned the importance of moms staying home with their kids and how critical the first 6 years of life are.  I might not be expressing myself the way I would like to in this post but what I'm trying to say is that I listened to this podcast not by accident.  God used it to give me a reassurance that we have made the right choice and that He IS going to take care of us.  The lady that was speaking on todays show shared a story on how a lady who was trying to do it all was extremely stressed and her family was suffering because of it, decided to  quit her job to take care of her kids and her mother-in-law and the result of that was that she was not stressed out anymore and God blessed her husband with a pay raise! Now I know that this isn't necessarily going to be exactly what God is going to do with our family but what I do know is that he's going to take care of us. Jr. may never get a raise or get a higher paying position with the school district but we will be taken care of and we will have the things we need to survive.  Or who knows maybe God will bless Jr. in his job who knows!   Whatever the case ends up being, God isn't going to leave us, and the greater reward will be to watch Abigail grow and the memories that we'll create during our time together.  By the way did I mention that I'm only 17 days away from becoming a stay at home mom? :)

Frustration

I've been trying to set up a substitute for next week to take my last day I have available to take off of work. I kept typing in my password and it wouldn't work. Now mind you I have forgotten the password in the past or reversed numbers and what not. So I'm thinking to myself, I've done it again, I've forgotten that darn password!!!! Nonetheless I keep trying different order of numbers and just trying and trying, no success. I finally call the help desk and ask them to give me my password and it turns out they had already taken me out of the system as if I was no longer teaching! Do these people not read the end date on the paper we sign? The same thing happened to me with my work e-mail after spring break. I know I'm whinning, but I was going crazy!