Listening

I have realized anew recently that generally people don't listen. Not only do people not listen they don't know how to think or reason the words that were just said to him. Why is that? Do we not teach our children anymore how to listen, not hear? Because listening and hearing are completely different things. At this moment I am hearing the lady cooking on the Food Network. I can hear that she is cooking fish but I am not truly engaged with what she is saying. If I was listening to her I would be engaged with the recipe she was sharing and thinking about how I could make that myself and how to do that. People just hear, it goes in one ear and out the other. They are busy thinking of what their response will be or what is next on their agenda. Do we not teach our children how to think and reason, do we just tell them to do it and believe it because we say so. They did to learn how to think on their own, how to take facts and thoughts and mull them over in their minds and come up with their OWN thought and decision about it. Unfortunately I experience this on a daily basis on the phone. Somedays it is worse that others. Recently, I have made the intentional decision that I when I have children I will teach them how to listen, reason and think. I do not want them to come out of a conversation with someone not having learned anything new or even being able to know what they spoke about and reflect about it. I know that I still have to practice and learn to keep listening and not just hearing. Does anyone else see this problem out there or is it just me? This is something to think about and come up with your own decision. I would love to hear what you think!

Job

I got the job! I got the job!

This is such an answer to prayer. In order to put an offer on the house that we want I needed a full time job- not a temporary/contract job. Banks will not consider temporary income when considering income for mortgages, which makes complete since. Now that I have a full time position- officially starting on July 11, we just need Russ to also get a full time position then we can maybe buy a house.
The good news is that the house that we want is still on the market and has dropped in price. I know that if that is the house God has for us then it will still be on the market when we are ready for it and at a price we can afford.
My husband being the sweet loving man that he is got me a fantastic congratulations gift. Russ bought me a cricut!!!! I have wanted a cricut for a very long time. This paper cutting machine will be extremely usable for the crafting when it comes to scrapbooking and card making. I just wish I had all my supplies and time to play and use it. I got to play a little bit this weekend.
Now I have this dream of a craft room that will be in the house we hopefully can get.
Thank you Russ, for doing research and finding an excellent deal and giving me this special gift that I will enjoy for many years. I love you!

Time

Sometimes I wish I had more time in the day to get things done that need to be done and things that I just want to do. I know that you make time for the things you really want to do, but sometimes you still run out of time. One person can only get so much done in 24 hours in a day. And try as I may I am not the superwoman I try to be, and lovingly my husband reminds me of that.

If I had more time in the day what would I do....

I would cook a wonderful dinner every night for my family, like the ones they make on Food Network and then clean up the kitchen.

I would straighten up and clean up the house so that it wasn't so dusty and cluttered.

I would craft- whether that be sewing, embroidery, scrapbooking, card making, or trying something completely new.

I would keep up with everyone on facebook, blogs and emails.

I would spend quality with my husband Russ and my family.

I would be more involved in my church and serving God.

I wouldn't be tired when coming home from work, especially on Fridays.

I would be productive on the weekend's getting lots of extras done- like making sweets for my family to eat during the week, making a menu for those fabulous meals I would make, going garage saling for deals and special finds, planting flowers in front the house and all the other extra things that I want to get done.

But alas, I don't get much of that done. My house is not very clean and the clutter tends to drive me nuts. I would love to deep clean, but to do it in the evening just doesn't work like when I was single and on my own. I usually cook my family dinner, nothing close to gormuet but still tasty, but lately my husband and brother have been doing a lot of the dinner cooking. I do just a little crafting- last weekend I made a dress and have patterns and material to make a couple more dress and skirts, just haven't found the time to do it yet.

Weekends seem to go by too quickly- never enough time to get everything done. Monday comes around awfully quickly. I never seem to get everything done that I want to do. Sometimes there is just not enough time in the day.

How do I get everything done??????

Wedding Pictures

I have finally decided to post some of our wedding pictures and actually got around to doing it. After talking with my maid of honor this week, I realize that she as well as others have not gotten to see our pictures so I will post them here. I do want to say that our photographer Jolene Pilarczyk did a wonderful job. These are her pictures- and therefore copyrighted by her. The pictures are actually backwards from how I loaded them, so the beginning of the pictures are actually on the bottom, :( oh well.

Enjoy!!!!

My rings are very special! The middle diamond is mine wrapped between my Mom's and Grandma's diamonds. My wedding band is my Great-Grandmother's.

For my husband- O H I O !





























My husband thought it was very funny to dop some frosting on my nose.

My beautiful flower girls Abby and Hayley who actually threw fall leaves down the aisle.

Our wedding party:

Bridesmaids: Caitie (France) Rice, Amy Ross, Shelbi Millard, Belle Blair, and Maid of Honor Abby Peffer. Flower girls: Abby and Hayley Ross. Groomsmen: Carl Rice, Greg Pituch, Dave Carson, Ruben Troupe and Best Man Steve Ross.

In honor of my Mom who recently passed away my brother, Matt, carried a rose in her honor and placed it in the pew where she would have sat. I am so glad that I didn't get to see it- I would have bawled.

The first moment he saw me all dressed up :) special time together!

My grandparent's wedding topper.

Bringing me coffee in the midst of getting my hair done. They had been moving the rest of his stuff to the storage unit. It was a busy morning.

sinus infection

I really hate being sick. Sinus infections are horrible. I decided that I would like to cut my nose off, maybe I will feel better then. I have antibiotics which I think are beginning to help. The doctor was real assuring letting me know that I will feel start to feel better in about 10 days- woohoo!!! I can't wait. I want to feel better now and not have to wait that long. My nose is sore from blowing it, my sinus' are full and sore, my ears are sore, and just about every sinus cavity in my body, as well as my lungs and those muscles from coughing and coughing to bring the crap up. (I know that is gross and a little TMI- but I am sick and at this point I don't really care.) I just want to feel better, I would like to be able to go to sleep tonight and not wake up in a hour coughing and then a couple of more times through the night. I would like to wake up feeling more refreshed and ready to face the day. I would like to feel better, so that I can have a much better outlook on life and the tears will not come so easily. I do not want to feel crappy or icky anymore, I just want to feel better. I know that I am not facing a life threatening disease and that shortly in a few days I will feel better and go on living, so I am not thinking that I am worse off or woe is me. I just want to feel better, I am whining and I admit it, I just want to feel better.

Thursday's TV

I do enjoy my Thursday TV viewing schedule. I watch Big Bang Theory on CBS at 7:00pm. I am not exactly sure exactly why but that program makes me laugh and I sooooo enjoy watching and laughing at it. We quote from the program all the time.... "It WAS you...."it makes me laugh. Then at 8:00 I switch it over to the History channel to watch Swamp People. It is a program about the alligator hunting season down south in the bayou. It is rather interesting, you should check it out- it's addicting really.

Spring is Here

I saw my first daffodils today. There are outside of the door I use at work. They weren't out this morning when I walked in, but I was excited to think that there would be daffodils soon. Then when I walked out to go home there were some bright, sunny, beautiful daffodils there looking up at me. I smiled and beemed all the way to my car. Spring is here. The daffodils are here, the daffodils are here, the daffodils are here!!!!!!!