Update on the Kickin the can....

Things were rocky at first, but I think I'm finally making headway!  :D I will admit that I have had a soda or two recently, but we are no longer keeping them in our house and my dear, sweet, beloved has told me he is cutting his soda consumption down as well! Yippeee :D My new challenge is to find something to do with my stress when I'm in the kitchen now.  As I've been on this journey, I've realized how much I really consume because of my emotions.  I am one that doesn't do well with disorganization, and I am SO TOTALLY disorganized! (Shaking head) So,... when I stopped drinking sodas I found myself eating instead.  Sounds silly right?, eating while cooking a family meal, well, it happens.  I may try chewing gum for a while to see if that helps with the craving to put something in my mouth.  As I slay that dragon, I'm gonna need to focus on what I need to do to keep my stress levels down.  Hmmm, as I'm thinking on paper I realized I have a radio in my kitchen..... If you know me, you know I love to sing ( shhhh and don't tell anyone, but I love to dance too.) I might have to take advantage of that and instead of listening to Christian talk radio, which I have come to love, I'm gonna have to start boogieing to the music. Singing to the Lord God Almighty, who knows exactly what I'm going through relieves stress for me.  I need to remember to take all of my stress, frustration, and comparing myself to my Betty Crocker herself to the cross.  Food is not the place I'm going to find the answers to all of my problems or even the place to resolve my emotional issues, its in Christ's loving arms that I will find all that I need, even if He's in the kitchen with me.

Drawings on the Wall

As you walk through my home, you will not notice any elaborate wall hangings, posters, paintings, craft projects, or even any crosses, though I'd love to have a wall of different hand made ones. But as you walk into my dinning area, the hallway and even more so, when you cross the thresh hold of my older children's bedroom, you will notice something.....

THEIR artwork, in a array of colors, styles, also coming from different utensils, such as crayons, pencils, markers, and pen.  Thankfully permenant markers are not on the list....yet. 

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't let my children decorate our home with their own art.  In fact most days I have to remind myself that....

It will not be there forever, that one day, after we have painted over all the beautiful creativity of my artistic children, and have moved on into a bigger home, and they are no longer at the stage that they are in now, I will  miss seeing their masterpieces all over our home.  I will miss how free they felt to express themselves to me and their daddy.  I will miss how they want to show us their art and how they aren't afraid if it is good or not, they draw from their hearts.

Keep these memories, take pictures, make memories with even these moments.  Because one day, you will be standing at your door, watching your children get into their cars, to go home, to be with their families, and as you turn around, and shut the door, if your not careful, you will wish you hadn't painted over the drawings on the wall.