todd: for whatever you eat and drink, and whatever pelvic thrusts you do, do it all for the glory of god.
and that's how we roll.
how i spent all those hours of being stuck on the couch nursing.
i love reading, but it tends to be one of the things that gets pushed to the side in favor of, i don't know, raising my kids and doing laundry and (to be honest) watching reruns of friends during naptime. so last year, i set myself a reading goal: 3 completed books per month - which equals 36 books over the course of the year.
i did not meet the goal.
but i did get close. i finished 30 books plus the bible, which is still pretty sizable. not all of them are profound or lengthy reads - in fact, a couple of them are from the little house series - i try to read at least one or two of them each year. don't judge. some of these books were purely for information, some were purely for entertainment, and some were in between. but every one that made it on the list was read from cover to cover - i started but failed to finish quite a few, and i don't allow myself to count them because it's cheating.
so here are the books i read last year (in order):
1. Stop Dating the Church by Joshua Harris
2. Superfoods by Michael van Straten and Barbara Griggs
3. The Classic Mediterranean Cookbook by…someone.
4. The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie O’Martian
5. A Woman After God’s Own Heart by Elizabeth George
6. The Dangerous Duty of Delight by John Piper
7. ******** (um...kind of weird so moving on.)
8. Living a Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life by Alexandra Stoddard
9. A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
10. The Power of a Positive Mom by Karol Ladd
11. Babywise by Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam
12. Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life by Jenna Woginrich
13. Jamie’s Food Revolution by Jamie Oliver
14. The Family at Home by Anita Kaushal
15. Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
16. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
17. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
18. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
19. Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
20. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
21. Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
22. You Are What You Eat by Dr. Gillian McKeith
23. The Passion of Jesus Christ by John Piper
24. Food, Inc.: How Indusrial Food is Making us Sicker, Fatter and Poorer – and What You Can Do About it edited by Karl Weber
25. Treasuring God in Our Traditions by Noel Piper
26. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
27. Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
28. To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father by Donald Miller
29. The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
30. Style by Lauren Conrad
31. The Bible by, well, the Lord Almighty.
books that are currently in progress and will have to count toward my 2011 goal of 30 books (i like having multiple books going at a time):
1. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price
2. Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
3. Practical Theology for Women by Wendy Horger Alsup
4. The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul
anyone have any suggestions for good books to read in 2011? i'm open to most genres, including christian fiction, even though i've never read a christian fiction novel in my life. i guess i have read like 15 pages of one, which a friend had by her bed and i started to read while using my breast pump at her house. it was about some girl falling in love with an amish guy. or something. i don't know. it wasn't good.
so anyway. as long as it's not that book - i'll take suggestions. hit me.
i did not meet the goal.
but i did get close. i finished 30 books plus the bible, which is still pretty sizable. not all of them are profound or lengthy reads - in fact, a couple of them are from the little house series - i try to read at least one or two of them each year. don't judge. some of these books were purely for information, some were purely for entertainment, and some were in between. but every one that made it on the list was read from cover to cover - i started but failed to finish quite a few, and i don't allow myself to count them because it's cheating.
so here are the books i read last year (in order):
1. Stop Dating the Church by Joshua Harris
2. Superfoods by Michael van Straten and Barbara Griggs
3. The Classic Mediterranean Cookbook by…someone.
4. The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie O’Martian
5. A Woman After God’s Own Heart by Elizabeth George
6. The Dangerous Duty of Delight by John Piper
7. ******** (um...kind of weird so moving on.)
8. Living a Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life by Alexandra Stoddard
9. A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
10. The Power of a Positive Mom by Karol Ladd
11. Babywise by Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam
12. Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life by Jenna Woginrich
13. Jamie’s Food Revolution by Jamie Oliver
14. The Family at Home by Anita Kaushal
15. Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
16. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
17. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
18. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
19. Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
20. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
21. Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
22. You Are What You Eat by Dr. Gillian McKeith
23. The Passion of Jesus Christ by John Piper
24. Food, Inc.: How Indusrial Food is Making us Sicker, Fatter and Poorer – and What You Can Do About it edited by Karl Weber
25. Treasuring God in Our Traditions by Noel Piper
26. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
27. Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
28. To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father by Donald Miller
29. The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
30. Style by Lauren Conrad
31. The Bible by, well, the Lord Almighty.
books that are currently in progress and will have to count toward my 2011 goal of 30 books (i like having multiple books going at a time):
1. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price
2. Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
3. Practical Theology for Women by Wendy Horger Alsup
4. The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul
anyone have any suggestions for good books to read in 2011? i'm open to most genres, including christian fiction, even though i've never read a christian fiction novel in my life. i guess i have read like 15 pages of one, which a friend had by her bed and i started to read while using my breast pump at her house. it was about some girl falling in love with an amish guy. or something. i don't know. it wasn't good.
so anyway. as long as it's not that book - i'll take suggestions. hit me.
a day in the life of our house: day 1
i have decided to document more of our day-to-day stuff, and i thought it would be appropriate to start with the basics of our house since we will be moving at some point in the near future. to add to the fun, i figured i'd post it on here and give you a little glimpse of how we roll on a typical day. or, a typical day in which i'm filming, which means it is not a typical day where i gorge myself on oreos and pass out on the couch by 10:45 a.m., leaving my toddler unattended and my infant to fend for herself on the food front.
(i'm really kidding - no one call dhs on me please.)
and yes, you're seeing the inside of my fridge here. you're welcome.
(i'm really kidding - no one call dhs on me please.)
and yes, you're seeing the inside of my fridge here. you're welcome.
snow time fun
over christmas, atticus got the opportunity to play in the snow with my mom. he had a BLAST. (um, a far cry from his snow experience last year.) he still talks about it: "yaya no. pay no." (which means 'yaya snow. play snow.' he calls my mom yaya.)
'member that time?
hey, 'member that time lauren and i got bunk beds and i tried to decide which bunk i wanted based on the possible dangers that could arise? like, 'member how i thought if i chose the top bunk it would take me longer to escape a fire, but if a chose the bottom bunk i'd be more likely to get eaten by the witches that lived under the bed? and 'member how i chose the top bunk because, let's face it, how likely was it really that there would be a fire?
**note: next week i will be posting a linky thing - post your own 'member that time and link up!!
**note: next week i will be posting a linky thing - post your own 'member that time and link up!!
new year, same old me.
todd and i have started looking around at houses! oh. my. word. i am so excited! our little apartment has served us really well, but 3.5 years and 2 kids after moving in, it's not serving our needs quite as well and we're hoping for a little more space. maybe a yard. not a known meth lab down the hall. extravagant, i know, but i'm worldly like that.
so, for those of you who don't know me, i'm an INTJ on the meyers-briggs scale. that's just a concise way of saying i desperately need people-free alone time, i'm kind of intuitive, i'm a thinker more than a feeler, and i'm SUPER organized and structured...
so naturally, during my alone time, i ...intuited.. a super organized and structured list of things i'm wanting to keep in mind when looking for a house. and i'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but it is a 3-page long word document. i'm not kidding.
so...good luck to us. we'll probably never find a house that meets my standards and, in addition, my apartment managers will realize i have something against the meth lab down the hall and evict us. they're highly selective like that.
in my list's defense, they're not all 'make or break' issues, but rather just things to keep in mind. like, is there a utility sink? and where will we put the TV? are a far cry from does it have enough space for a growing family? and is there a known and unemployed pervert living next door? it's all about priorities. because a utility sink is VERY important to me.
but back to the point of all this: my list. in all seriousness, the house search is really just an excuse for me to make a truly awesome list. and i would consider this house search to be successful because i want to make out with my list. so i guess the house search has served its purpose and is now officially over. although, if i actually looked at real houses, i could compare them to my list and develop pro/con lists in addition...
house search: BACK ON.
i'll let you know how it goes.
if you're in the market for a new house and/or need a ready-made list to make out with, let me know and i'll hook you up with this bad boy.
so, for those of you who don't know me, i'm an INTJ on the meyers-briggs scale. that's just a concise way of saying i desperately need people-free alone time, i'm kind of intuitive, i'm a thinker more than a feeler, and i'm SUPER organized and structured...
so naturally, during my alone time, i ...intuited.. a super organized and structured list of things i'm wanting to keep in mind when looking for a house. and i'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but it is a 3-page long word document. i'm not kidding.
so...good luck to us. we'll probably never find a house that meets my standards and, in addition, my apartment managers will realize i have something against the meth lab down the hall and evict us. they're highly selective like that.
in my list's defense, they're not all 'make or break' issues, but rather just things to keep in mind. like, is there a utility sink? and where will we put the TV? are a far cry from does it have enough space for a growing family? and is there a known and unemployed pervert living next door? it's all about priorities. because a utility sink is VERY important to me.
but back to the point of all this: my list. in all seriousness, the house search is really just an excuse for me to make a truly awesome list. and i would consider this house search to be successful because i want to make out with my list. so i guess the house search has served its purpose and is now officially over. although, if i actually looked at real houses, i could compare them to my list and develop pro/con lists in addition...
house search: BACK ON.
i'll let you know how it goes.
if you're in the market for a new house and/or need a ready-made list to make out with, let me know and i'll hook you up with this bad boy.
2011
i love the new year. it's like the ctrl-z of life...if you want to say 'scratch that,' the new year is fine with it. wanna become an entirely different person this year? the new year is all, whatevs. i gotchu.
by nature, i am a list-oriented, goal-oriented, task-oriented person. screw relationships. i have a list and some good intentions and i plan on using them. because of this, i have spent much of december mulling over what i will do over the coming year. and honestly, i get excited thinking about all the things i will do.
things that include learning to shoot in manual mode. eating differently. moving my blog over to a less pervo-friendly url. (not talking about you - i love you and you are not a perv.) crafting more, stressing less, reading more, wasting less, showering more, not-showering less. working on looking like NOT a pile of garbage on most days. you know. your standard, run-o-the-mill resolutions.
but god opened my eyes to all that i do. i rely so much on what i do. and in my mind, what i do equals who i am. if i do a lot, i am a lot. if i'm good at a lot, i am good. but even though that's how i see myself - and frequently, how people see each other - that's not god's mindset and he doesn't want it to be mine, either.
so instead of 'resolutions' per se, i'm instead going to adopt a theme for this year - abide. the greek word for abide is meno - meaning 'to remain, tarry, be held, or kept continually.' i want this in my relationship with god. i want to tarry with him...be kept continually by him. not to just check my quiet time off my list and continue on to my next 'to-do.' so this year will be the year i get to focus on abiding in christ.
and the awesome thing? christ promises that when i abide in him, he will abide in me. he will tarry with me, remain with me. and this is all i want out of this life. not that other things aren't enjoyable or even good things, but all that matters are those ways in which i will spend my time that moth and rust can't destroy.
so, because i am who i am, i still have a list of 'goals.' which are basically the same as 'resolutions' only with a working-class name. but they aren't allowed to hold me...make me tarry with them...keep me continually...the way christ will be invited to do this year.
by nature, i am a list-oriented, goal-oriented, task-oriented person. screw relationships. i have a list and some good intentions and i plan on using them. because of this, i have spent much of december mulling over what i will do over the coming year. and honestly, i get excited thinking about all the things i will do.
things that include learning to shoot in manual mode. eating differently. moving my blog over to a less pervo-friendly url. (not talking about you - i love you and you are not a perv.) crafting more, stressing less, reading more, wasting less, showering more, not-showering less. working on looking like NOT a pile of garbage on most days. you know. your standard, run-o-the-mill resolutions.
but god opened my eyes to all that i do. i rely so much on what i do. and in my mind, what i do equals who i am. if i do a lot, i am a lot. if i'm good at a lot, i am good. but even though that's how i see myself - and frequently, how people see each other - that's not god's mindset and he doesn't want it to be mine, either.
so instead of 'resolutions' per se, i'm instead going to adopt a theme for this year - abide. the greek word for abide is meno - meaning 'to remain, tarry, be held, or kept continually.' i want this in my relationship with god. i want to tarry with him...be kept continually by him. not to just check my quiet time off my list and continue on to my next 'to-do.' so this year will be the year i get to focus on abiding in christ.
and the awesome thing? christ promises that when i abide in him, he will abide in me. he will tarry with me, remain with me. and this is all i want out of this life. not that other things aren't enjoyable or even good things, but all that matters are those ways in which i will spend my time that moth and rust can't destroy.
so, because i am who i am, i still have a list of 'goals.' which are basically the same as 'resolutions' only with a working-class name. but they aren't allowed to hold me...make me tarry with them...keep me continually...the way christ will be invited to do this year.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
john 15:4
this video is for everyone in the world
...named jessie and who have made it their new year's goal to lose weight.
peyton manning is my life coach.
peyton manning is my life coach.
'member that time?
hey, 'member that time i was in high school and i started to black out in abercrombie and i couldn't see and was running into tables and stuff? and 'member how i kept calling out for my bestie emily to help me but she was embarrassed so she pretended not to know me?
that was an awesome moment in our friendship.
that was an awesome moment in our friendship.
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