tagged.

I was tagged by Ashley at The Christian Wife Life for a blogger game!! 

Tag! You're it!

The Rules

1. You must post the rules.

2. Post eleven fun facts about yourself on the blog post.

3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and then create eleven new questions to ask the people you've tagged.

4. Tag eleven people and link them on your post

5. Let them know you've tagged them!

1. I am from Oklahoma. 

2. I am a mom.

3. I'm partially addicted to social media. 

4. My Boston Terriers were my first kids. 

5. I'm obsessed with John Mayer. 

6. This past year, I worked out on Christmas Eve. I'm ill. 

7. Blogging has given me some of the best friends I have had in a loooong time. 

8. I used to model. 

9. The beach is my idea of heaven. 

10. I am afraid of fish and the drain. 

11. I LOVE weather. Yeah, you read right. Weather. 

Ashley's Questions for Me

1. Where is your favorite place to shop?

Forever 21!

2. What food could you eat every day?

This changes as frequently as the wind. Today?

3. What is your favorite animated movie?

Eh...I mean, if I had to pick...Lilo and Stitch!!

4. What was your best subject in school?

Best? Who knows? Favorite? 

Geography.

5. What shows are you watching these days?

6. What is your favorite blog post you've ever written?

This one.

7. What is something you collect?

I used to collect Barbies! I have like 557566 of them still in the box at my mom's house.

8.What are your favorite colors to wear?

Black (I'm a loser) and...black?

9. What's your favorite physical feature on your guy? (I'm almost positive you're all married!)

Ummm...my husband is super tall...and I love it. Like love. He also has nice arms. :)

10. Would you consider yourself a "girly" girl?

I mean...maybe? I like a rhinestone or two as much as the next girl.

11. What book should I get next on my Kindle?

Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit by Francis Chan. That is what I am currently reading and you can read it with me!! 

TAG!

1. Melissa @ Pineapple Lily

2. Liz @ Behind the Scenes

3. Rushelle @ Digging Deeper

4. Hollie @ Hollie Takes Notes

5. Lauren @ OK Lauren

6. Jessica @The Perks of Life

7. Jessica @ Lovely Little Things

8. JeNeal @ Pieces of Luv

9. Anna @ AnnaBee's Little Bits

10. Jessica @ Morrison Lane

11. Ashlyn @ My Unrehearsed Life

My 11 Questions for you!

1. What is your middle name?

2. If you had to choose to not ever wash your bed sheets again or not wash your bath towel ever again, which would you rather not wash?

3. When is the last time you played the air guitar?

4. What is your favorite day of the week and why?

5.  Are you true to the brand names of products/items?

6. If you could move somewhere else, would you? If so, where?

7. What song is stuck in your head?

8. Are you a good tipper?

9. What is your favorite cereal?

10. Do you get the recommended eight​ hours​ of sleep​ each night​?​

11. What’s one car you will never buy?

Psalm 109:4 {Worship Wednesday}

One of my many reading plans on YouVersion is the Active Word Daily Devotional. I haven't been doing great with my reading plans recently and I really need to work on that. I know my relationship with the Lord is not based on how many days I have missed my reading plan, but more times than not, they provide prayer and thought provoking view like the one below.

I preface this by saying, I am in NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM looking for sympathy when I share this with..well, the world. I have found more and more in my adult years that I really don't "fit in" any kind of group of people. I find myself as the outsider, the joke, or just plain fool. I have shared before, that I desperately want and pray for a good group of girlfriends. Christ minded women and mothers who are walking though life the same way I am. I group to lift each other up, not judge. That's hard to find with women. Really, it is. Women are mean...and dramatic...and catty. One of my consistent prayers with God is one in which I ask for a friend. Really, just one would be enough.

Since diving head first into blogging, I have met some of the most amazing women. I do feel like I "fit in." Women bloggers just want to be themselves. We don't fit in an about me box, we need a whole corner of the internet to express and share our lives. I have met a few women that really do "get it." This gives me hope and quite honestly, something to look forward to.

In the times (past and present), I don't fit in, don't say the right things, or learn I have become a source of hatred, I hope to remember Psalm 109:4.


Psalm 109:4

4 In return for my friendship they accuse me,

but I am a man of prayer.




When you pull back and look at Psalm 109 in its totality, it becomes painfully clear that it's one of David's most heart-breaking compositions. Obviously, he wrote it during a time of unparalleled difficulty and distress, when everything that could possibly go wrong did. Maybe it was when the sting of Ahithophel's betrayal was still fresh, or on the heels of some unrecorded conflict. Whatever the exact circumstances were, they took David to the brink of his breaking point.

And yet, there's a star that shines through all this darkness. Notice that in this state of extreme misery, David gave himself to prayer. All around him there was nothing but heartache, and so he looked up. He looked in that one direction, the only direction in which he could trust there would be a loving heart to receive him.

Sometimes, our lives parallel David's. Our enemies are multiplied and threaten to utterly overwhelm us, and even those we trusted betray us. We're attacked from every angle, except one: from above. The avenue of prayer is still open to us and unlimited resources of God's love, joy, peace, wisdom, and faith are made available to us.

When our lives seem to be racing out of control at breakneck speed, prayer is the brake that saves us. We need to use it. We need to do as David did and give ourselves to prayer when the battle appears hopeless and the floodwaters are at their highest. Don't surrender or roll over in defeat. Don't succumb to the rising tide. Dig deep, call out to God, pray! Take advantage of the one avenue that is and always will be open to you no matter what. 

Hearer of our hearts, may we always and ever pursue the pathway of prayer to You.

When you pull back and look at Psalm 109 in its totality, it becomes painfully clear that it's one of David's most heart-breaking compositions.

Friday Feature and Babies!

Happy Friday! I'm proud to announce two more Friday Features over at The Little Birdie Blog! If you are visiting via Rachael, Welcome!

And if you popped over from Truly Lovely, hello!! I was featured on their Facebook Page!

Yesterday, a dear friend and co-worker gave birth to her first baby! There really is no way to explain how happy I am for her! You really just don't get it until you are a parent. 

My sister had her son before I had mine. I seriously could not get enough of the kid when he was born (and still to this day.) 

I just want to pinch his little cheeks!! 

But for me, I just didn't get that indescribable, unconditional love you have for your own child until Austin was here!

Pardon the puffy, sleep deprived face...cute.

Before I was a parent, I had no idea how much a child would change my life. I think we all sort of know what its all about, but this truly is one of those experiences you must be in to "get it."

Despite the moaning and groaning of pregnancy( a healthy one at that), the horrifying thought of weight gain, and bad skin, I would do it all over again....a million times.