Thankful Thursdays - #3

Today is a completely gorgeous day down here - I know it's gonna get WAY toasty later, but as of right now - it feels pretty good!

Alrighty...I've got some things to get done today...so here goes...Thankful Thursday

#1 - summer employment - Being a teacher allows me the flexibility to take a job during the summer (if I choose to do so) and this summer I chose to take 2. In one of them, I get to teach swim lessons to some really sweet kiddos. At the other one, I get to minister to even more kiddos and work with a slew of amazing volunteers! This is letting me feel more and more like this church and city are home. I absolutely love it!

#2 - 5 day fish feeders - This is helping me to keep my fish alive during the summer - and I don't have to go check on them every day! This is amazing because my school is about 20 minutes from my house (which is on the other side of the town). Therefore, I can drop this little feeder in and my fish will eat it and NOT die! This is the goal!



#3 - our new rug - I was super excited because we were able to purchase a rug that I have been wanting for our living room! It finally came in yesterday and looks absolutely GORGEOUS in our home. We have done some little touches around the house (after 3 years) that are finally making it feel homey and comforting. We used to have a rug that was similar, but when we got our sweet Ellie-Mae (our beagle-lab mix), she still wasn't house trained and well...used it has her potty. We could never get the smell out and she kept doing it. So we had to get rid of it. I am super stoked that we got this new one!! It's a bit larger and the shag is a bit smaller, but overall - it looks just as great and really ties everything together.

Well...that's it for Thankful Thursdays!! Enjoy your Thursday and remember to find something to be thankful for!

Bible Bloggin' Wednesdays #1

“For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has,

not what one does not have.”

2 Corinthians 8:12

 

The verse above is from our Sports Camp for the week - from Tuesday night actually - (Sports Camp is our version of VBS - a TOTAL blast for kids and volunteers alike)! God has definitely reminded me of this all week long! Because...I am serving as the Interim Children's Ministry Director for my church until they find someone to serve in the position full-time. This is a total blessing for me because I absolutely LOVE doing children's ministry and I have been wanting to be more involved with the children's ministry. This is a perfect opportunity for me to get to know others at our church as well. I am so blessed that I am able to assist them during this time of finding a new director.

This is the lock screen picture on my phone!

I am starting a new Bible study next week - it's called Made to Crave by Lysa TerKeurst. This one is about leaning on God and craving Him, instead of food. I'll definitely keep you updated on this study. It's a fairly new one and I personally don't know anyone else doing it - so it's just going to be a personal study. I think it should be a good one!

Thankful Thursdays #2

Let me start out by saying...I apologize for not getting to do Bible Blogging Wednesday this week...I didn't have time to get onto my blog on Wednesday.

And even though today is Friday...(I started this yesterday)...Here is Thankful Thursday #2

#1 - summer employment - YEA! Being a teacher allows me to work during the summer...in the past, it's been summer school (which is great), but this year I was able to get 2 other opportunities that I am SUPER stoked about. The first one was teaching swim lessons with a fitness place in town and the other is doing Children's Ministry at my church. Both of these are things that I did before we moved down here and so I am excited to be able to do them again. We consider these a true blessing for us.... :-)

#2 - Diet Sweet Green Tea from Sonic - yes...you read that right...Sonic now has a tea that is sweetened with a diet sweetener. I'm not sure which one it is, but I did look it up and for a route 44 - it's only 10 calories for the whole thing!! YEA!

#3 - Light Caesar salad - I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Caesar salad. I especially love light Caesar salad...I still get the taste and all the yummy goodness - even more when it's on sale. Kroger has had the Dole Light Caesar Salads on sale lately...so I guess people don't like them as much as me. That's fine - MORE for me! :-) I'm even going to grill some chicken tonight so that I can have some protein with it...all sort of healthy way!

So - there they are for this week - short and sweet. Now it's time to work on my Bible Studies  - more on those tomorrow. (I'll do my Bible Blogging Wednesday on Saturday! :-D)

Thankful Thursdays #1

 Since I am doing this blogging thing as a goal for the summer...I decided to start doing Thankful Thursdays!! I found it through my friend Amber at Cross My Heart Art Designs who got it from Julia at Black Tag Diaries (that link explains what to do for Thankful Thursdays)!! Of course - most of the time at least - I am thankful for my husband, my family, my friends and all the major things, but I think this will make me sit down and really consider some of the things that I won't always pick up on.

So...with that being said...here goes!

#1 - my job - I absolutely love teaching and love everything about the school where I teach. I wouldn't trade it for anything. I am so thankful that the Lord chose to place me here. I truly felt led to teach at a Title-I school. These kiddos need someone to show them Jesus daily...especially because they might not see it at home. Now...don't get me wrong - my kiddos are occasionally crazy, but then again...who of us isn't! and they're especially nuts with only a short amount of time left which brings me to my 2nd thankful thing for today


#2 - my team - This year has been trying, stressful, amazing, and absolutely fun all rolled into one and I am thankful that I got to share it with these ladies. Days like today are awesomely fun! We tested this morning and this afternoon we are doing a reading game that the kids can take home for the summer!! (Yesterday...we did a math game.) I'm definitely excited for next year too...for the same reason...except we're losing 2 members and gaining 2 new ones! It's definitely going to be a fun summer getting to know these ladies better on a NOT school level and just spending time together!


#3 - my curling iron - LOL! I KNOW...a little weird, but I figured I'd throw in something small today too. I woke up this morning and TOTALLY wanted to curl my hair...you know - spirally and so I did! I thought it looked nice and my kids liked it too. But - let's face it - I live in southern central Texas and the humidity and heat today just kinda killed it. I am still thankful for this  because I felt really good about myself this morning...and even wore my MAVS jersey to work! And surprisingly enough - I even like the way it looks now that it's fallen.


I know - that last one was kind of trivial, but still - I'm trying to be thankful in all things. And last thing...

#4 - that I get to see Suzi AGAIN this weekend - now...this photo is a throw back to a few years ago...and I even have some that go back 10+ years, but this is one lady that I absolutely adore and LOVE getting to spend time with!!

So...there are my things for Thankful Thursday #1! 

and I totally have found a design that I like...YEA!!