So we've been trying to adjust, yet again, to our new schedules. School is starting up again, well kind of.....we do year round schooling but now it's REALLY time to focus. Plus the school supplies are on sale at Target and a general feeling of school-iness abounds. Andy has officially been working his new job for over a month now, and we've kind of gotten into the groove of things.
But in general life is pretty good. We get to spend time together as a family! Something that was missing for us for almost 2 years. The differences are astounding and if I ever questioned moving back to Hawaii I don't anymore. The first time we lived in Hawaii I had a huge problem with being homesick, I missed the people I had known and I couldn't quite make any connections that felt real here. This time around I am just so surprised and grateful at the awesome people God is putting into our lives.
I am still struggling with my trust issues, which I've mentioned before, I've been deeply hurt by people I have trusted to never betray me and while that hurt is still there I think God is trying to show me the goodness in people. It's so easy to see the bad, the negative, the people that use you, the back stabbers, the women that act like life is still high school, and while I know they're still there I hope that maybe I've gotten better at not letting myself be used and praying that God surrounds me with people that make my life better and hopefully I do the same for them.
Women that I have just met that encourage me instead of compete & compare.
Fellow mothers, breastfeeders, home schoolers.
Fellow Christians, Crunchy Mamas, wives.
All helping to build one another up, congratulate on jobs well done and children well raised.
Maybe it's something in me that's changing or I've just gotten lucky but I am truly so thankful for the women I have been so blessed to be friends with. From my best friends, an ocean away in California.[ One who I got to see yesterday!] Old friends that send me an encouraging word on Facebook or messages to ask how I'm doing. To new friends that I am just meeting that have an honesty about parenting, the ups & downs but also the joys & rewards. Those people I can laugh with, enjoy an iced coffee and just talk without feeling like I need to be impressive, that I can just be myself flaws and all without being taken advantage of.
[One of my best friends. <3 Although we are far in miles we have gone through so much together in the short time we have been friends. She is genuine and such an encouragement to me when times are hard. She is proof of God's goodness in people and I am forever thankful that she is a part of my life.]
It's just something I have been so thankful for that I can't explain. As much as I try to fight it, I need people. I need someone to go on clearance Target runs with. I need someone to read 50 Shades of Gray with me and then make fun of it. We we're not meant to be alone and I am so excited for the new relationships God is putting in my life, just to prove to me once again, that I don't know it all, people are not all bad, and sometimes it's ok to trust. <3
[Also many thanks to my dear friend FranQueen from the 6th grade! She re-did my blog for me and got it looking all spiffy & Chevron-ed up. I <3 it.]
And since I'm too lazy to type up a recipe I'll just pass on the goods that I've been given lately and tell you to check out www.coastal.com.
No, I'm not one of those cool blogs where people pay you to write or anything, so there's no gimmick here or anything. Cause if I'm not cooking, baking, or cleaning I'm looking for ways to save money!
But seriously. I've gotten 2 FREE pairs of glasses from them & I love them both!
And by free, really the glasses and frames were free and all I paid for was $16 for S&H [to Hawaii!] and insurance on each pair. Just a good deal people, I'm not gonna lie.
If you've never ordered from them before just put in the code FIRSTPAIRFREE at checkout.
You have to pick from certain pairs, obviously, but there are tons of styles to pick from.
I have a horribly bad prescription too, like I'm legally blind without my glasses, and I don't even pay for any of the thinner lenses and my glasses STILL look good. Damn!
I also friended them on Facebook which is how I got a code for another free pair.
So yeah, I'm basically set for life.
Go enjoy people. Enjoy life. Enjoy free things.
I know I do.
[My newest pair! Nerd glasses.
I had almost this exact same pair in high school. They were not so cool back then.]
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