Random Thoughts of a Supersmock

I have been on Facebook since 2006.  It’s been an extremely useful tool for me to reconnect with so many wonderful people who have been in or are currently my life – long friends from primary, middle and high school, distant relatives living across the US and around the world, current friends and peers from church, work, school and the neighborhood.  How did we connect with all these wonderful people when we didn’t have Facebook? Being and extrovert – most people often know how I am ‘doing’ with just the expression on my face.   My co-workers know when I don’t agree with something or hold a difference of opinion.   I seem like a pretty open book to most people.   It’s true, I was the kid that danced on the kitchen table just to get a few laughs or threw the board game when I wasn’t winning.  And if you do that long enough – no one really takes you that serious and not many people ever stop to actually read your pages of your life....

I don’t really expect anyone to ever truly read my blog.   I don’t really publish many postings out there to sites where people would come to visit me here.   I am not famous or even highly interesting most days of my life.   I am not wise or smart.   My English and grammar are to be desired.   I know that I believe way too much in Capitalization, Commas and - Hyphens.   Honestly I don’t have anything really interesting to say most days.  I am just a girl struggling as much as the next person trying to figure out this crazy thing we call - life.  Every now and then, I have a thought that I just can’t keep hidden inside anymore.  We all got something to say every now and again, right?  So every now and again, I blog. I won’t lie, I have many unpublished postings.   I may have thought one day a posting would bring new meaning to my simple decent life, but they have become just another unfi...

When I first learned that our church was sending a group to 'babysit' kids in the Caribbean – I instantly wanted to be part of that.  The details made the trip even more and more enticing and I waited patiently to see if God would invite me to be part of the VBS team... and he did. It's true, I act like a pretty big kid most of the time.  I sing, dance, make a fool of myself many times within any given day.  Most adults are highly embarrassed to be seen with me, when I am in my fun loving kid mode.  But I tell you that childlike spirit was exactly what I needed for this special mission trip. For this trip, I was asked to lead the VBS classroom for the 5-6 year old missionary children, whose parents serve in Latin America and Africa.  I am very well diverse in middle schoolers but have survived raising two kids that once where the ages 5-6, so how hard could it be?  Let me start off to say, I have a new found respect for teachers of 5-6 year old...

After 15 years of marriage.. here are 15 random facts I have learned so far: 1. I married a sinner, so I have learned much about forgiveness and how to forgive.  However, he also married a sinner, so I have learned how to seek forgiveness and be reconciled.   I have cried many tears over sin that has affected my life.  Both His and my own.    If married you must be willing and able to forgive and ask for forgiveness, pretty much daily.  2. Having children is one of the most rewarding and selfless things you'll every "do" in life, but you have to remember your marriage came first.  I joke with my husband that we'll have each other again when the kids leave home, but that's not good enough.  Your marriage is more important than parenting.  Your kids will use your marriage and apply that to their lives... make it a true romance.   3. Communication is key.  If you don't talk, then walls will build and love can die.  Te...