welcome, winter.

Tomorrow starts the month of December and we are welcoming winter already. Today was very cold and very wet. Tonight, I am enjoying the warm fire my sweet husband built before leaving for work this evening and listening to The Weepies on Pandora. My Ebay sells are going fairly well, but I have so much left to go through.

I can't believe how fast Thanksgiving break went by and I feel like we didn't relish the moments we spent with our family as we should have.

Tomorrow my husband and I will celebrate 4 months of marriage. We're still newlyweds, I know, but it's amazing how much we have learned about each other and ourselves these past 4 months. So, happy anniversary sweetheart. May God bless us with many more months and years to come. <3

Down-sizing

At the advice of a good friend, and my sweet husband, I've decided it is time to start down-sizing my closet. When you're in high school or college, and you're single, it seems like you can never have enough clothes. I have this problem. My husband uses one closet and one small dresser. I have two dressers and I use the better half of his closet and two more closets. I always buy something that I love, and then I never wear it. It's probably safe to say that many of the clothes in my closet still have the tags on them! Granted, many of my clothes DO come from the Goodwill, but it's just easier to rack up there anyway since everything is so cheap! Anyway, the time has come to say goodbye to somethings. This will definitely be a process, and a hard one at that. Hopefully I'll be able to contribute to the family income by selling some things on Ebay. I know my husband will appreciate my willingness to make more room in our home. I pray that my sacrifice is not only pleasing to my husband, but also pleasing to God. This quote from a book called "Stepping Heavenward," (which I HIGHLY recommend to any Christian woman) comes to mind.. "Choose always to have less, rather than more."

The past couple weeks..

Well, here's what's been going on in our life the past couple weeks. We traveled to Charlotte one weekend in late October to visit my family for a Pig Roast.

Next we attended a Harvest Party at one of the family's from our church's farm. I rode a horse for the second time since Young Life camp. (PS-Miss my YL family.) We had a beautiful bonfire and fellowshiped for a good while.

My husband had his vacation the first week of November and what he was most excited about was growing a beard. His job requires that he is clean shaven every day. I love when he has a beard and was excited to see it! We took this picture to commemorate the beard until next time.

So, the past couple of weeks have consisted of spending time with my wonderful husband, working a day here and there, and enjoying Fall.

Learning to knit..

Yes, you read it right. I'm learning to knit. After my sewing machine got mad at me, I decided to try another crafty hobby. I love scarves in the winter and decided that this year I would attempt to make one of my own. I also thought it would be a great way to give Christmas presents this year since spending money isn't really an option. Anyway, it's working out really great and I'm really enjoying it. I found some tutorials on YouTube and it was really easy to learn. The beginning is sortof hard and I got frustrated and had to sit it down for a little bit. I started Tuesday afternoon and this is what I've got done so far.

Sorry for the delay..

My computer crashed. This is the third time since I got in in 2007, very annoying. I've been using my husband's computer for the past week and it's just not the same. I probably won't be posting much until I get my computer fixed, which may take a while, considering it's rather expensive.

Perhaps there is a reason for it though. I spend entirely too much time on the internet. I need to find a GOOD hobby. Any suggestions?

Somebody help!

I finished sewing a skirt that I started 6 months ago. (I'm ashamed.) I just took a pair of jeans and ripped the seams in the middle and put fabric there to make a long jean skirt. It looks great.. except on the inside.. my sewing machine must be mad at me.. it worked great 6 months ago.. I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking..

In the first picture, that is a huge clumped line of white thread on the inside of the back seam. I don't know what's going on. I do know that it's not coming from the bobbin, it is coming from the top threader because I'm almost out of thread up there and I just sewed the back of the skirt last night. I've re-threaded the machine and fixed the bobbin multiple times and I just don't know what's going on. Does anybody know what my problem is? Please help!

Praise God for The Sabbath

What a sweet day of rejoicing and praising the Lord! If you have not yet embraced the doctrine of the Sabbath Day, you are missing out on one of the Lord's sweetest and richest blessings. What a delightful and fulfilling day God has given us. We work six days a week and when Saturday night comes around, we are tired and empty. But ah! There is The Sabbath Day. A day where we can rest and be filled with God. What a wonderful picture of what our heavenly home will be like. We will forever rest in God and His glory. The Sabbath Day is a glorious picture of our eternal rest. How sweet it is to spend one day of the week doing nothing but worshipping the God who created us and has given us life.

This is taken from the Westminster Shorter Catechism to help you understand more about The Sabbath Day:

Q. 57. Which is the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Q. 58. What is required in the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such set times as he hath appointed in his word; expressly one whole day in seven, to be a holy sabbath to himself.

Q. 59. Which day of the seven hath God appointed to be the weekly sabbath?
A. From the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly sabbath; and the first day of the week ever since, to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian sabbath.

Q. 60. How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
A. The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.

Q. 61. What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
A. The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omission or careless performance of the duties required, and the profaning the day by idleness, or doing that which is in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thoughts, words or works, about our worldly employments or recreations.

Q. 62. What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment?
A. The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God's allowing us six days of the week for our own employments, his challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his blessing the sabbath day.


Praise the Lord for giving us one day each week to simply rest in Him!