Why is it that we get the biggest zits in the most horrific places right before we have to attend a big event where all our friends and family will be and lots of picture-taking will occur? Is there some little fairy zitpimple guy inside our faces that says, "Oh, hello, I see you have a big party on Wednesday, I am just going to crawl on to top of your skin and sit there until it's over..." THANKS!
Anyway, tomorrow is Isaac's official graduation. He said he was getting his gun today. I assume that I will hear all about it tonight when I get home. Can you imagine how proud he must be? Protecting the law and having the authority to do it, especially with a gun, is some serious business.
His life is changing forever tomorrow. His career will now be a 24-7 lifestyle with an always cautious, careful, and protecting mindset. He will grow into a habit of maintaining a watchful eye and always be weary of suspicious behavior. His mind, spirit, and body will be on guard constantly. It makes me feel safe, yet also scared for his life. I know there will be days that he will come home from cases dealing with murder, suicide, child abuse, car accidents, gangs, drugs, and much more. And that is not easy to swallow, for someone with a compassionate heart as his.
He will be brave, though. I know it. He will "never give up" as he told me last night at the dinner table. That's the one thing that stuck out the most to him, he said, that he learned during his 6 months in training. Never give up.
So today, I ask you to join with me in prayer for him as he takes on yet another new daunting challenge in life, and ask that God impart the wisdom and knowledge to make good and smart choices and protect him from evil and danger.
Lord - make him brave, make him strong, and always, always bless him during each and every call he receives.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Simple Living: A Dream to Be
There are moments at work when I get extremely bored. Because all my projects are quick turnarounds with finite objectives there are a lot of breaks filled with nothing but waiting for someone else to do something before I can. It's actually rather nice and a complete 180 from my last job. This industry (the tradeshow industry) operates in seasons, too, where the fall and spring are the busiest times of year, but the summer and winter are not. So, during those months of particular season we are not very busy. Again, very nice to have the downtime.
Having downtime gives me a lot of time to think, search the internet, think, write, search the internet, write, study, and search the internet. I know I am going to totally miss having these downtime moments when busy season picks back up! It's great having my own office, too, because I can just shut the door and read a book if I'm not doing anything (isn't that horrible?). I don't do it too often because I don't want to look stand-offish or uninterested.
Isaac and I went grocery shopping yesterday and spent more than we wanted to. We spent the kind of amount that is covered with a cough when said. It was really rather ridiculous. I distinctly remember Isaac saying to me as the granola bars were being scanned, "These granola bars are $4 hun!! $4!!!!!."
"It was a larger pack," I explained. "That's why there are $4."
Unforunately, he just doesn't come to the store with me enough to realize that that's what stuff costs these days. Things really aren't cheap anymore. He says he hates going to the store, but when he's there with me he's like a little kid looking up and down the aisles in awe thinking we need stuff we do not need! Needless to say, we spent an extra $40 on bathroom amenities. I do have to say that he brings a sense of spontaneity to the relationship, though, and does things that I normally wouldn't do. But they're always good things...things that I wouldn't do in an effort to save money or time. (For example, we've been using a towel as a shower bathmat for at least 6 months because I did not want to spend the money on one.) Thanks to Isaac, we now have a nice, new, real bathmat.
After stocking our fridge up with all the food we bought I sort of felt guilty. How many children have nothing to eat? Did I really need to buy two hunks of colby cheese? We throw away and waste more food today than I can remember. It is hard cooking for just two people, though. I mean we are a food society, aren't we? We center our lives around it and we don't even need half the junk we eat, or buy.
I have a friend from college whose blog I read from time to time and her way of living is the complete opposite of mine. She has two kids, lives in Arkansas, is a stay-at-home and work-at-home mother, line dries her clothes, gardens constantly, and cooks almost every night. I want to learn from her simplicity.
Incase you're interested, her website is: www.mamaseasons.com.
Having downtime gives me a lot of time to think, search the internet, think, write, search the internet, write, study, and search the internet. I know I am going to totally miss having these downtime moments when busy season picks back up! It's great having my own office, too, because I can just shut the door and read a book if I'm not doing anything (isn't that horrible?). I don't do it too often because I don't want to look stand-offish or uninterested.
Isaac and I went grocery shopping yesterday and spent more than we wanted to. We spent the kind of amount that is covered with a cough when said. It was really rather ridiculous. I distinctly remember Isaac saying to me as the granola bars were being scanned, "These granola bars are $4 hun!! $4!!!!!."
"It was a larger pack," I explained. "That's why there are $4."
Unforunately, he just doesn't come to the store with me enough to realize that that's what stuff costs these days. Things really aren't cheap anymore. He says he hates going to the store, but when he's there with me he's like a little kid looking up and down the aisles in awe thinking we need stuff we do not need! Needless to say, we spent an extra $40 on bathroom amenities. I do have to say that he brings a sense of spontaneity to the relationship, though, and does things that I normally wouldn't do. But they're always good things...things that I wouldn't do in an effort to save money or time. (For example, we've been using a towel as a shower bathmat for at least 6 months because I did not want to spend the money on one.) Thanks to Isaac, we now have a nice, new, real bathmat.
After stocking our fridge up with all the food we bought I sort of felt guilty. How many children have nothing to eat? Did I really need to buy two hunks of colby cheese? We throw away and waste more food today than I can remember. It is hard cooking for just two people, though. I mean we are a food society, aren't we? We center our lives around it and we don't even need half the junk we eat, or buy.
I have a friend from college whose blog I read from time to time and her way of living is the complete opposite of mine. She has two kids, lives in Arkansas, is a stay-at-home and work-at-home mother, line dries her clothes, gardens constantly, and cooks almost every night. I want to learn from her simplicity.
Incase you're interested, her website is: www.mamaseasons.com.
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