Notes

Self image
Role models
Compliment
Unplug digitally
Put your phone away
No electronics in bed
Learn conflict resolution face to face
Your relationship with friends is model
Your view of self, comment of self, comment to others about kids
Ask questions, “if you don’t like when she does that why do you go back to her…”
Get out of bad relationships
Relationships have responsibilities
Model think before speak…
Give criteria for making good friends – kindness, helpful…
Respectful, kind, loyal, trust, time, attention
– Ask questions like, “is she respectful to you…”

Moms:
honesty (when they ask you tell at least some) – they should know you’ll tell them the truth
Don’t try to perfect your child. Work on your relationship
Presence:
Fun: laugh with your kids

As I stood in church feeling so exhausted, yet it only being 10:45am, I began to think of how blessed I am. Blessed that I have a husband who wants to spend time with me, little ones to wake me in the morning or snuggle in bed with me, Trevor’s grandparents and parents so close for us to join for breakfast, a church I love that teaches God’s Word truthfully and has people I love, and I have a full day ahead filled with all of my family – my parents, siblings, niece, and nephew. Wow, for a split second I thought – sure wish I could have slept in and had a day to do nothing but relax. BUT, one day I will have those days and I won’t even have the option of this anymore. So, for now, I will walk through THIS day with gratitude for all that God has placed in my life including kids who were already dirty from finding frogs and slugs BEFORE we made it to our church. We never know when the circumstances of  our lives will look different. We aren’t guaranteed forever together on this earth. Thank you God for THIS Mother’s Day and all it will hold THIS year.

Knot on leg
Skin spots
Knee
Leg discomfort – moves, one spot often
Sometimes around on my arms too
Breathing issues
Bruising easily less likely to clot?
Heart beating/fluttering chest.
Peak flow at 450 – that indicating all good?

Were

Room should be able to always be cleaned up within 15 minutes. If it can’t be, then the stuff left out is probably not very important to you. In that case, we can put it together to sell or give away. If you don’t want to give it away it will be put into a bin in the garage. If you want it back you will need to show that you are responsible enough to have it and will need to do an extra job for me for each item you want back.

For summer activities

Donations from family
Go through house thoroughly
Post on CL and Facebook to sell

2 peonies
2 or 3 hydrangeas
2 lattice sheets
Top soil or bark type soil
Post for lattice
Any fasteners to attach to fence…
Vines/climbing plants.
Bark
Grass seed and soil
Gravel and/or something for walking path
Maybe 3 more smaller plants – two to put in corner by front door.

Number light
Light enclosures

Save 20/30k

D&J need to figure out the plan to get actual cost

So much to do

So little motivation

So little time

But

Strength from the Lord

Power over the enemy

A hand to hold for the road

A road map for the path

Primary Goal:

Love the Lord with

All my heart

All my soul

All my mind

All my strength

And

Love others

As myself

So…

In all I do today,

I want to be loving and act in love:

Have positive attitude

Set example to children

Be kind

Use calm voice

Be clear

Be patient

Love is

Patient

Kind

Doesn’t envy/is not jealous

Doesn’t boast

Isn’t proud

Isn’t rude

Does not demand its own way

Is not irritable/easily angered/provoked/irritable or resentful

Keeps no record of wrong

Does not rejoice in evil

Rejoices with the truth

Always protects/never gives up/bears all things

Always trusts/never loses faith

Always hopes/is always hopeful

Always perseveres/endures through every circumstance

Love never fails/ends/will last forever

God IS Love

God never fails/ends/will last forever

Thank you, God

As I was praying and asking God to help me prioritize the activities of my day, this is what came to mind:

So much to do

So little motivation

So little time

But

Strength from the Lord

Power over the enemy

A hand to hold for the road

A road map for the path

The next thing that came to mind is that my priority is to “Love the Lord…and love others.” I thought, ok, easy enough, I need to remember that in all I do today, I need to act in love. Then 1 Corinthians 13 came to mind, which defines what love is, and WOW, there is sure a lot to love. I begin to feel defeated before starting, knowing it is impossible to get it all right. Then I was reminded that love is a fruit of the Holy Spirit at work in my life. Of course I can’t do it on my own, but I’m not walking through life alone!  Thank you, God, for walking alongside me while leading me and guarding me on all sides!

“One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”   “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’  The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’  There is no commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:28-31 NIV

http://bible.com/111/mrk.12.28-31.NIV

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NIV

http://bible.com/111/1co.13.4-8.NIV

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”

1 John 4:7-12 NIV

http://bible.com/111/1jn.4.7-12.NIV

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.” Galatians 5:22-25 NIV

http://bible.com/111/gal.5.22-25.NIV
So, on the list of things that need to get done soon:

Clean back yard

Clean house

Laundry

Bathrooms

Kitchen

Go through paper

Grade writing papers

Get papers to Facilitators for report cards

Prep info and binders for Gaila

Order canvas print

Schedule dentist appointments for kids

Go through mail

Budget

FPU stuff

Sweep outside walls of house

Repaint inside

Touch up spackle

Paint doors outside

Do backyard

Clear out rooms

Decide who will sell our house

Get them on board & meet with them.

Decide what we need to do

Pull back bedroom carpet & look at floor

Decide details of moving to D&Js

Write up details and clarify everything

Get a few additional opinions

Have papers signed and notarized

Bedsheets

Dinner

Eph. 6:10-20

1.  Know our ENEMY

Our struggle is in the spiritual realm.

Enemy – slanderer/accuser of your spirit, deceiver, attacks in vulnerable spots, shrewd, seeks whom he may devour

2.  Know the source of our ENERGY

Hope because Holy Spirit is aways countering his work.

Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

Scope of our energy – if I’m plugged into God, I have energy. If you’re not plugged into the power, you have no power.  Scope is God.

Of our energy is endless

Armor us personally sized for you. YOU have got to put it on.

Stand up!!

3.  Equipment to do battle.