My Life as Mama Jodi

Happy Birthday my love! Hope you have a great day!
Tonight should be interesting… golf, let’s see how well I do LOL!

Photos to follow later, maybe

I have some issues with my mom, therefore I don’t talk with her at all. I have been going to some counseling sessions with my Pastor’s wife for the last few months trying to deal with all of this.

She just called me to say I had been on her mind since yesterday (I didn’t get to see her as I had nursery duty at church), and wanted to call to see how I was doing and say that she would be my “honorary mom” from now on.

Switching to this church last November has been the best thing for me and my family. This phone call just made my day complete!

How did you spend your Mother’s Day? I had nursery duty at church today, which was actually pretty fun this time. The kids were so much fun. We let them color some construction paper and attached a poem to it with a packet of flower seeds and had them give this to their moms. They were so touched. I am not to bummed that I missed the service as our Pastor’s wife did the message, and it was what she preached on at our Ladies Retreat this weekend. We then went out for lunch at Rio Grand. I had a yummy steak and some tilapia, I had some left over so we got our doggie bag. The waitress came back and said there was a mishap and my plate got knocked off the counter, so they were going to make up another steak (I had about half of mine left), I told her that wasn’t necessary, so she said I could have a free dessert to go. The manager then came over and said that our bill would be adjusted, she took of $10! WoW!! My meal was only $15, so I got a great meal for $5 and free dessert to boot!!

The weekend retreat was amazing! It was a great bonding time for all the women! I feel so much closer to all the women now. On the way back to our cabin one of the gals and I saw a someone in our cabin and we both said at the same time, “Oh someone beat us back to the room”. We got there to find the door locked, so when we opened it up, Sherry said “Hey, who beat us back?” No one answered us, we kinda looked at each other with that look of concern. We said hello again and still no answer. I checked the back door, but that was locked, so they didn’t go out that way. She had a pocket knife in her purse, and I grabbed the iron, and we searched the cabin, to find no one, thankfully. So we deemed them our guardian angels. Everyone teased us as they thought we were a little crazy, but her and I both know what we saw.

We had a time of rest and renewal in the Lord, my time of “washing my hands” (symbolic of being washed in the blood of the Lamb) was an amazing experience, Pastor Judy prayed over me, and just confirmed all I had heard from God prior to me going up there for prayer. The scripture I pulled out of my “treasure box” confirmed everything yet again: “My heart has been sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and my body washed with pure water” Hebrews 10:22.

All through out the night I kept hearing “Be Still”, as this has been my theme scripture for the last few months. Just “be still and know He is God”. I was thinking about this, and started humming the song “Still” by Hillsong, and the next think I knew this song started playing, right before I went up for prayer. It was a God thing for sure.

These are from my hubby for Mother’s Day (of course the kitty had to get in the picture). He gave me a really sappy card too. Made me cry! I had to call him to thank him for these, as I have been gone for the last day and a half, and he and Trent are at the races until late tonight.

I was at my Ladies Retreat for church. What an amazing time I had! I will share later, as I am ready to go take a nice long soak in the tub, then off to bed!

I got this prayer off of Online Christian Parents and wanted to share it on here. I am going to scrap this along with the picture of the two of us below a few posts and hang it on our wall.

Lord Jesus,

Grant that I and my spouse may have a true
and understanding love for each other.
Grant that we may both
be filled with faith and trust.
Give us the grace to live
with each other in peace and harmony.
May we always bear with one another’s weaknesses
and grow from each other’s strengths.
Help us to forgive one another’s failings
and grant us patience, kindness, cheerfulness
and the spirit of placing the well-being
of one another ahead of self.

May the love that brought us together
grow and mature with each passing year.
Bring us both ever closer to You
through our love for each other.
Let our love grow to perfection.

Amen.

Me and my sweetie. We were messing around with the tripod and
camera this weekend, and after many, many pictures we finally got this one.

Today we are celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary. It has been a great 12 years, looking forward to 12 more! We have been together for just about 18 years. Where does the time go? He is such a blessing to me!

He came home from work with some potted tulips for me, for no reason.

Aren’t they pretty?

The love of my life

He totally surprised me last night!  I was gone for a few hours last night, meeting with my Pastor’s wife… great talk with her.  Its funny as we talked a little bit on the topic of my “control issues”,  and mentioned the dishes,  as I am very anal about the way they are put away.  Well I get home to find my kitchen totally cleaned up!  I was expecting to come home to a mess from them getting dinner on their own.   I am going to have to either email her real quick today to tell her what happened, or try and remember on Sunday.

He took care of all the dishes (that I had washed earlier), and even washed up what they  used as well.  I will be later today, putting things in their rightful spots tho.   I found this morning that things weren’t where they were supposed to be, took me a bit to find the sandwich containers while making lunches.  But bless his heart for doing this!  Its not very often I come home to a clean house that he has taken the time to do!

Then what did I do once I got home, messed it all up.. LOL  I had to boil a chicken, so it would be ready for me today for the homemade chicken noodle soup I am making for dinner.  My menu for the week has been totally messed up!  Oh well!  I even have homemade noodles, that were made with my own two hands!  I am so excited!

I have been taking a cooking class from one of the ladies from church for a few weeks now.  I love to cook/bake, but can always use some pointers!  Her class is called “Simply Scratch”, and it is definitely all scratch, right down to the noodles we made last week!  She is such a sweet lady!  We are off this week, but next Saturday is all about breakfast!  She is going to teach us a few things, and the one I am most excited about is making omelets. I can’t make those to save my life!  Then sometime she is going to have some cake decorating classes, that I am excited for as well!  All this knowledge for free!  FREE!  I have been wanting to take a cake decorating class for some time, but just don’t have the $$ to go to the classes!  She has been a blessing!

Ok, got to go, time to get the kids to school.  Be Blessed!