Inner workings of a stay at home mom.

This Christmas will be different then the rest. I'm a girl of traditions...this year well that's out the window...hahahah....we the Goodwin family(or gang,clan...or whatever you want to call us) are doing Christmas differently this year... Christmas-eve we will get up go to church(okay so that's normal) come home probably play board games with those of us who are home...(also normal) probably watch a movie.(normal) eat till we cant move!(normal) This is were it gets not normal...in parts.... go to bed (without opening 1 present...my favorite tradition) CHRISTMAS DAY Wake up and make coffee open secret Santa(or not so secret to some of us)presents. eat bagels and cream cheese. pack the van with our 7 peoples worth of bags (thank God for luggage racks). then load 7 grown people and a 100 pound dog into a 7 passenger van. leave for a 15 hour drive to Florida. wow this Christmas will be great! hehehehe.... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! P.S. you know what really makes me mad is that it i

A couple weeks ago at my Wednesday night church we had a big breakthrough for this generation and generations to come. It was great for me because I was able to admit that i once had an eating disorder, depression, anxiety, and that I really never liked my-self till this past year when God healed me from it. That night I got home and I wondered to my self... If God healed me from everything that ailed me.... why then do I not read my bible or pray to him? If I cant serve the God who made me then what am i doing calling my-self a christian? this i assure you was not an attack from the devil.... It was a conviction! I went a few days reading my bible and had a few prayers.... I can't help but think of my Dads sugar packet illustration. there is a flesh side and a spirit side.... I have herd this illustration many a times but it never hit me like today..... I have been feeding my flesh side all my life... and barely feeding my spirit side.... I know how to feed my spirit side.... I ju