Emergency Preparedness December 8th

I am looking forward to starting this very important series with A Bowl Full Of Lemons.

 

http://www.abowlfulloflemons.net/2012/11/emergency-preparedness-8-week-program.html

Before & After Bathroom

I finally finished the bathroom cabinet re-organization. I am so excited! Now if I coould just afford some paint and figure out how to give the bathroom a makeover. One thing at a time right? Ok, so here are the new and improved cabinets. Tell me what you think?

Look, I have an empty drawer. I ran out of things to put in it. I am not sure if this is good or bad.



This drawer was full of empty toothpaste tubes after my daughter squirts toothpaste everywhere. The drawer was mostly garbage. I am so pleased with the new drawer.

 

I think maybe this cabinet still needs some work. I am still happy with the way it turned out.

This top cabinet was a nightmare. What a purging job it turned out to be. I think I am most pleased by the difference in this cabinet.

 I was always afraid to touch anything under the sink. My husband keeps his stuff under there because it was safest from my daughter, but now I wonder if we shouldn't move it to the cabinet. Anyway, here it is for right now. He loves it.

 

I actually didn't have a before picture for the medicine cabinet, but here is the after picture.

 

 

Ok, what do you think? Do you have any suggestions for me? I would love to hear your comments and suggestions.

Thanks,
Hilary

Obsessed About Organizing

I have been reading blogs lately. A lot of blogs. From food to crafts to organizing. I never knew there were so many. I have to say, I'm hooked and cooked on these organizing blogs. With the daily feeling that my life is out of control, I knew I needed to do something yet I just didn't know where to start. Some of these wonderful blogs have helped me get started.

So, today, I wanted to talk about some little steps that I am taking to organize my life. My bedroom was first, and it is still a work in progress, but it is too late for before pictures. I will have to take some after pictures at a later time. However, I did have the forethought to do before pictures with our guest bathroom. Even though it is a guest bathroom, 4 people share it. My 6-year old loves to play with toothpste and water and mess up this space often.

So far I am only working on the cabinets and drawers, because paint and decorations will have to come with the money. Here are my before pictures and once I am all done I will post the after pictures.




Under the sink

 

Bottom half of the cabinet

 

Top half of the cabinet



 

Drawer #1



 

 

 Drawer #2

 

 Well, it looks like I forgot to take a before picture of our medicine cabinet, but there will definately be an after picture. Look at all this disorganized stuff.

 

My daughter helped me purge the cabinets and shelves, except for one. We had several power outages while were doing this and we just plain ran out of time. Either way, I only have one more cabinet to finish. Hopefully I can get to it in the next week and complete my follow up post. Let me know what you think.



In Memory

We lost a good friend on Thursday. He died in a freak accident. His girlfriend Tricia is really suffering and I just wish I could take the pain for her. She has been through so much already. Now she is being hurt by his family as well. I don't understand why people become such nasty, hurtful, vultures after someone dies. Every time someone dies, there is always one person who makes the situation bad. I had this happen to me as well. Usually, it is family that really commits the greater problem. Especially when it is family against family. Having been a victim of this way of thinking, I am disgusted by it. Isn't the loss hard enough? People who take it upon themselves to sell personal property that wasn't meant for them is despicable. People who come into to someone's home who is grieving and helps themselves to the deceased person's items is trespassing. Be respectful people!

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The Cage of Fear

Sunday's message was given by my brother in Christ Brandon Buck and he did an awesome job. He usually does. He talked about trusting in God and God's promises. We have many promises from God, but we still have a hard time trusting Him. He has never failed us, but we constantly fail Him. Still, even so, He keeps His promises. Proverbs 3:5 and Proverbs 29:25. Fear is a trap, a cage with an open door we are too afraid to walk out of.

I had been trapped in a cage of fear for a long time. It wasn’t until I came back to church and started healing from the pain inflicted on me over so many years that I finally found the courage to take the out-stretched hand and come out of the cage. Mind you, I still did it shaking in my boots, but I made it out. Sometimes I still find myself wanting to crawl back in, but I have lots of support who are willing to step between me and that cage and help me up and back on my feet.

It really has been the Lord, looking at me like a beloved child and telling me that I am worth it to bolster my strength. My church family is a huge support system and I love each one of them, right where they are. We are all learning and growing together. I have hope again because I have been released from my cage. I have the love of several people. I have the love of my Heavenly Father and I know that everything will be alright in the end.

My Wish List Part 1

My Wishlist 4/18/12 (To Be Continued)

It seems like there might be some merit to this bucket list thing, so I thought, why not make one. I don't see it as being much different than a wish list, so perhaps that is what I will call it instead. So, these are some of the things I would like to see happen before I leave this world.

1. I want to see my son graduate. He is 19 and still stuck dragging his feet halfway through 11th grade.
2. My daughter to learn to stop stealing, and destroying things and her attitude change. For a 6 year old, it just isn't cute. She is proving to be quite willful.
3. Get out of my mom's house and into a place of my own.
4. To see my friends and family come to Christ and find healing from the pains in life.
5. Touch everyone's life in a positive and significant way.
6. I would love to see Bella’s dad make a real effort to be a Father instead of a cameo in her life, taking credit for creating her and enjoying the idea of being a dad without any of the work involved in raising her up.
7. I would love to see my church family come together in unity, and our Pastor not have to run his health ragged working with us.
8. I would like a cat with a temperament that Panthira possessed. She was a true therapy cat.
9. I would love to go back to Plymouth, MA just one more time.
10. I would love to go to Ireland, just once for a week.
11. I would love to love my husband in a way so deeply that it would drown out the love I have had for others.
12. I would love to learn to play the violin.
13. I would love for the stress to ease and my stomach to stop attacking me.
14. I would love to live somewhere breathtakingly beautiful.
15. I would love to have more time to spend at the beach.
16. I would love to get down to 150 obs.
17. I would love to not have to take any medication for anything.
18. I would love to have time for fun. I don't get to do fun anymore.
19. I would love to be able to finish reading the Bible all the way through.
20. I would like to learn about Bible Prophecy & Archaeology much more.
21. I would love to finish my cross stitch projects.
22. I would love to learn how to draw/paint really well.
23. I would love to do more scrapbooking.
24. I want to be a better mom.
25. I would love to go to Israel before the Rapture.