Scrapping Servant

And found a new blog with a very interesting line of comments, it is Digging for Pearls…

 … she has a post asking Christian women to share what their top 10 struggles are.  If you go to her site (linked above) you can share too, and be entered in a book giveaway.  Oh and I would love if you would copy and paste your comment from her blog to mine on this post so I can get to know you (my readers) better.       

Here is my top 10…

1. the lies of the enemy
2. feeling like I am a bad mother and wife
3. …because I cannot get everything done at home
4. jealousies over my husband’s hobbies
5. anger
6. laziness
7. time management / schedule planning
8. patience
9. my appearance in a mirror and the fact that clothes just aren’t built for me.
10. getting out with the kids

  I also found this blog post and I find that this video below would be my reaction…

…My Walk Monday…

 I am starting this in hope to have a home for accountability and encouragement in my walk with Christ Jesus.                 

Each week I would like you to share a post on a bit of your walk with the Savior.  It could be anything like what you learned that morning in devotions, what you are struggling with, a new worship song you learned, a prayer request,  a new Bible study you started, a praise report, you get the idea… anything that is a cause for growth in your relationship with the Lord.

   I will also have bonus questions posted from week to week with hope that you will answer and we will all get to know each other better.  After you write your post and answer the bonus question sign-in to the Mr. Linky for the week you are participating.           

 I shared my first post below and made a button (below) so you can post it on your blog to encourage others to join.  Just click the button below to find the page with the code to copy and paste the into your sidebar.

 Ah yes, and if you are a non-blogging Christian that would like to participate you could leave your info in the comments on each week’s post :o)  

Find all of my - My Walk Monday posts HERE. 

Here I am a mommy of three, the smallest asleep, the older two still trying to go to bed because they keep getting up to play with each other, and me… here I am falling apart… crying over everything from the crying baby, to the full trash can, to an untamed backyard, to the mound of dishes and laundry everywhere!  I don’t seem to function well these days, oye!  I’m hungry, I’m tired, my stomach hurts, I’m angry, impatient, I feel fat and lazy.  I feel like a failure.  I don’t know what I can handle anymore I feel like I am going to SNAP!  My kids went to bed tonight without brushing their teeth, without changing their clothes, without a bath, no story was read, no prayer was said (now I’m crying again) I just don’t like how things are going.  I seem to shower but twice a week, I hate myself.  I wanna be someone that has it all together, someone that has good personal hygiene, someone that is not a disappointment to everyone that people just want to give up on. I’m not good at keeping friends because I do not call and talk to them… I have felt so much love from all you Christian Mommy’s out there, so this is me calling, I love you and thank you for your prayers when my daughter was born, you are appreciated and God has put me in touch with all of you for a reason.  My prayer now would be that the Women’s Retreat I am going on this weekend would be a blessed one, that maybe I would finally get my act together.

I was tagged (6 weeks ago) by my friend Krista at Scraps in Bloom :o)  So now my job is to share 7 Random things about me…  I like doing this in photo form…

Play along ladies…  Hallie, Lil Duck, Karen, Housewife, Monkey Giggles, Jenny, Susie

Here’s how it works:    

• Link the person that tagged you, leave a comment on their blog, so their readers can visit you.
• Post the rules on your blog.
• Share 7 strange/weird facts about yourself.
• Let each person know by leaving a comment on their blog.

Update:  Just some thoughts on the photos ;o)  I love my daughter’s fuzzy hair after a bath (doesn’t she look like my twin in the second picture on the left?).  Picture 5 is a layout of me at a Christian high school summer camp (I wish I was that thin again)…  I made that layout probably 6 years ago.  The picture at the bottom is not very flattering :o)

Today I would like to announce a little giveaway I am having to celebrate my 1 year Blogoversary.  If you look at yesterday’s post I mentioned the top 13 commenters for last year… well I would like to give a little something to the top 3…  Each can choose product from my Inventory List… (it’s not much - I hope you are blessed) 

1. $15 for Rebecca
2. $10 for Karla
3. $5 for Terri

I would also like to pick someone at Random for another $5… Sara at There She Grows (she commented 6 times last year :o)  

Just some stats on my first year… I had 275 comments total from 174 different people.And something cool I found on Rae’s blog… a blogoversary counter…         

Also reminiscing on life this time last year… I won my first page layout contest, I was working through the loss of a baby, I was taking the Library of Memories class from Big Picture Scrapbooking, I purchased my MacBook Pro, and I joined Tackle it Tuesday for the first time :o)  

And now one year later God has blessed me with a newborn daughter (AWESOME)!!!  But He also blessed me with a new flatscreen computer monitor for my husband (you see I screwed up on the budget around Christmastime when our car needed repairs done and I couldn’t spoil my hubby like I usually do for Christmas, but God prompted some friends of ours gave us $300 cash!!! I still haven’t told my husband who it came from because I pray that their reward will be in heaven and not here on earth (Matthew 6:19-21).  God has been so good to us, and you through this blog are part of that blessing, thank you all!          

So, as you know I had an appointment on Wednesday the 16th, where my doctor didn’t like my blood pressure, so she striped my membranes to hopefully move things along.

Later that night I was having some pretty bad contractions and we thought I was in labor, so my husband made a few calls and off we went to the hospital.  My contractions stopped as soon as I got there, total bummer!  We sat around in the hospital all night with nothing happening and no news on what my doctor wanted to do with me.   

We eventually made the decision to start Pitocin since they would have eventually induced me anyway for my blood pressure.  Things were fine at the beginning, but as soon as things got as painful as they were the night before I started freaking out and I gave up on the pain.

I made the decision to get an epidural (which I now know I will never do again) and 15 minutes later the anesthesiologist came in ready to poke me… which he ended up doing three times because the first two times he hit bone!  (I had one angry husband watching!)   

So the pain started going away and the pressure started coming!  My little girl was right there ready to be delivered :o)  I went from 3 centimeters to 10 in less than an hour!

She was born 5 lbs. 11oz. and 18.5 inches.  My smallest baby yet.   

God is good to us, we are both healthy and my hubby is home with us all week.

My other two kiddos unfortunately have a cold though, so we are going through a bit of a trial here at home, but again… God is good.  

…had some unexpected news.  My blood pressure was up to the point where my doctor had me lay down for 10 minutes in the office and retake it.  She said it went down, but she still wanted to see me again tomorrow, and if it is still bad tomorrow she wants to talk induction tomorrow night.  The stork might be coming sooner than I thought.

I thought I should update you all since I am feeling very much like baby is going to come sooner rather than later… This is not the greatest of pictures of me for my face and hair :o) The pregnancy has made my cheeks break out like crazy (bummer).

 This pic is of me at 37 weeks… I am due in another 3 weeks on the 31st of this month… we’ll see.  

Notice I purposely stood in front of my scrapping desk for you all? :o)