Falling Into Place

Things are looking up.

A new church has really made a difference for me. I went to a Women's Conference and felt very connected. Connected like at PWOC. I talked to all kinds of women from all different points in their lives and ages. It was an amazing feeling to be surrounded by amazing women and knowing that we all came to this conference to grow.

As I sat there watching the video and taking notes I felt things falling into place.

I talked to many women who were also members of the YMCA in town. I felt confirmation and encouraged. I began to realize that I could share my fitness journey and my spiritual journey while combining the two.

Today after church I signed up for two more Bible studies.

My new schedule will look something like this:

Monday: Daughter early morning speech, school work, lunch crunch gym, afternoon 30 mile away son's speech, light supper and an evening gym class.
Tuesday: Bible study, afternoon RIPPED Class
Wednesday is my daughter's early morning speech and then lunch crush and then pick up son cook dinner and make it to church for a Bible study.
Thursday is an early morning gym class and a later Zumba class
Friday is still being worked on but early morning class for sure
Saturdays are no gym probably going to be our free day and Sundays will be church but depending on how fast I can get the kids home changed and back to the gym, they may do small classes and I'll use my time to work on school work.

It will be a full schedule. It will require discipline and dedication. It will mean dragging my kids back and forth from the gym the school the house the church. But this will also mean that time is flying and before we know it our temporary stay in this tiny town will be drawing to a close.

Sticking to this schedule means that all three of us will sleep very well at the end of the day. I will be well on my way to my goal of growing closer to God, that is if I don't doze off in class....just kidding! It also means I am following through with my fitness goals.

I will have opportunities to connect with many different women in two very different situations. I am finally feeling like I can stay in this town. That it isn't so different from what I want or can deal with. I think if I stay in my little gym, church, Kroger, house routine we just might make it through this. I know that cannot possibly happen, and besides how on earth would I grow my Essential Oils business my doing that?

So a few funnies to throw in here to show just how my life is really a running sitcom of nonsense some days.

I put my not really into the whole potty training thing on the potty and tell her to go pee she promptly goes "SSSSSSS" making the pee sound with her mouth and then slides off the potty telling me she was done after not having gone pee. Of course ten minutes later she come to tell me that she peed in her pants.

My son has this new thing were he randomly tells me that he loves me and I am his favorite mom or his best mom. So then I think "Aren't I the only mom? Do I need to talk to the hubby?"

And while I was at the Sunday Bible study I left the kids with Granddad. Granddad takes a nap wakes up and realizes the kids were really quiet. My daughter is asleep! He just leaves her that way. So I get home at six and she is sleeping. Then he begins to help me with my history paper, thinks he should go check on her around 8 and tries to say her name! Umm nope! I went in my bedroom where she was sleeping to put on my jammies and smell poop. So now I am faced with the horrible dilemma of changing her or leaving her and sleeping on the couch. And of course she happily wakes up at 9, just as I am trying to get my son into bed. It will be a long night, and yes, I to am wondering how tomorrows schedule will play out.

While at the Bible study I found clarification for this blog. It is going to be the humorous and sometimes darker humor of a Christian Mommy working through each day to day struggle. Some days it may not be a writing day, and other days may be a ton of writing, but wherever it goes, it is because I am following my heart and where I feel God is leading me.

January 10 2016

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