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Name: Diana
Birthday: 4/4/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: My interests are God, my DARLING husband, reading a good book, my horse, and learning all that I can about being a new parent... = )
Expertise: Heehee, I'm an expert at reading, eating, sleeping, making people laugh!, listening to other people when they need an ear, spending time with my hubby, and just being me!!!
Occupation: Wife
Industry: Other
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AIM:  appaloosalover15
Member Since:
4/8/2005
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| Jenny recently started outgrowing some of her footed jammies. I'd seen some cute ones at Cosco so last Tuesday we stopped there to grab a pair. Out of 7 different cute designs, Jenny picked the one that was brown, with a green Dinosaur on the front! She picked the coolest pair there! Then Wednesday she was wearing them crawling around the house and growling. When I asked her what she was doing her reply was "I'm being a Dinosaur!" It was darling. | | |
| Life is just full of surprises!
A week and a half ago Ror hit a deer when we were on our way to evening service. The damage didn't look too bad. Long story short, insurance is totaling the van. They figure the van is worth about $4800 and we still owe a little over $6000. Thankfully we purchased gap insurance so we won't have to cover the difference. So that means that we won't have any more car payments, but also, no car. Then God decided to do something totally unexpected. :) Our insurance agent called to let Ror know that we can take as long as we want before 'declaring it totaled'! After talking through some different options we called our agent to make sure it was ok and legal and legit and everything and this is our plan as of right now. We are going to buy a new headlight for the van (the passenger side one was destroyed) and we are going to keep driving the van till Feb or March. When we get our tax return back we are going to look for a new used van and just buy it straight out. Our original plan was we had planned on paying off the van with our tax return but that was before we'd hit the deer and what not... Anyways, we were looking at how much a headlight is going to cost us and it's going to be less than $40. So, this whole thing didn't play out like I thought it would (I had assumed they'd fix the van, not total it) but I am totally and completely ok with how is is turning out. PRAISE GOD!
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| I mentioned previously that I am the new Cubbies leader. Our AWANA group is small and we don't have the Leaders Workbook to go with the Cubbies handbook that all the girls are on. Anyways, I decided to try my hand out at writing the story, the dialog for the puppet show, came up with a craft....... I loved it and and the same time felt super ridiculous and inadequate.
Yesterday was one of the girls birthdays so I made cupcakes to bring tonight. I wanted to give her a birthday crown but didn't want the other girls to get jealous, so I decided we'd all make crowns for our craft. I spent a good part of afternoon figuring out how to make a crown and got it all ready and packed up. (I am not artistic in any way, shape, or form) After that I decided to make a lesson about us being princess's because God is a King and He's our dad..... Then I decided to go ahead and write out the puppet show and include the Cubbies b-day and us being children of God and therefore princess's.....
It was a disaster!
I'd bought glitter glue for the girls to use and it was too messy. They ended up not being able to wear their crowns till AWANA was over cause they weren't dry. :-/
The puppet story was..... I'm just not meant to write puppet stories
The story time was just sad! I'd found and written out several different verses about how God is King and how great and wonderful He is, and then several verses about us being called children of God, that part was great! But.... I didn't have an actual story to go with it.... :(
Then the cupcakes! I though for sure that would be the one thing that would go smoothly tonight. Made a mess that the janitor had to clean up in an area he'd already cleaned.
Played some games and were late to counsel time.
I LOVED doing it, coming up with the craft, writing the puppet show, doing the story, coming up with games..... But I feel like I failed miserably at it. Like somehow I let the kids down. I think from now on I'll stick with the lesson book and the crafts it suggests and the puppet show dialog it gives. Yes it might not be the right book to go with the kids books but at least it'll all make more sense than what I did tonight.
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| So much has been going on, I don't know where to start.
Jenny started going to AWANA a little over a month ago. She absolutely LOVES it! Last week I volunteered to help teach Cubbies every other week to give the teacher a break. Last night was my first night and it was a blast! It was decided that I'd do it every week from now on. :)
Nikki is sleeping through the night in her own room. She has been for a couple months now. Ever since we moved upstairs :) It's so nice having her out of our room and in her own. Nikki is crawling, standing oh her own, and walking along furniture. When we try to coax her into taking a step she just throws her whole upper body forward and fall on her face. Well not literally, we catch her. She's got her two middle bottom teeth in and one top tooth in, it's off to the right. It looks like she'll be getting her middle two and the far left tooth any day now. She is such a happy baby! She adores Jenny and her smile just lights up the room when ever they play together. They just love each other so much.
I started going to a womens Bible study 5 weeks ago. It's a Beth Moore study on the book of Daniel.
It.Is.AMAZING
I am learning so much. God has really been using this study to open my eyes to some area's of my life. I am being stretched in so many ways. It's not always comfortable but so far those are the things I needed and have needed for a while now. My walk had become so..... mediocre. There was no fire, no passion. I had begun to question so many things. It was embarrassing and sad. I didn't even tell Ror. I had kept up the act of appearing to everyone like a solid Christian. I was talking the talk, but I was NOT walking the walk. Not that I was blatantly sinning.... I was just not getting into the Word, I was not setting aside time to pray and talk with God, I was not actively seeking His will in my life. God felt so far away and I had no idea how to bridge that gap. If anyone reads this, PLEASE pray for me! That I continue to actively seek Him and will continue to nurture my relationship with Him.
Other than that.... Life has been pretty good. There have been some bumps here and there. Our neighbors bought that house and Ror and I moved upstairs. We love it up here! The girls love it too. Jenny misses Emi and I miss having Amanda around. It's nice getting to see her every Monday at AWANA and Wed at Bible study. :)
Hopefully later today I'll get around to getting the carpet cleaned. I made the mistake of letting Nikki eat on the floor and so there is dried food smushed into the carpet in certain areas. :P
Ok, that's it for now! I don't usually bare my heart here on xanga like I did but for some reason, I felt like I needed to. XOXOXOXO
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