Inner workings of a stay at home mom.

We have all had those days... 2 cups of coffee and a million prayers before 10am. We think "Man life sucks!". But does it really? I have been learning for the past couple years this concept of excepting that sometimes we have craptastic days but not letting them rule us. Life piles up on us and it's all in how we deal with it. Do we stair at it and think "Man this day sucks!" or do we look at it and say "lets make the most of it!". Up until lately I have been doing the first. I have just sat and let life run me over. I suffer from chronic migraines and I have 3 kids under 4. I all ways made excuses for myself. I would tell myself that I had to take care of myself. That I had to take it easy. While this is true, not to the extent that I took it. I now know that taking care of myself means taking care of my home. Taking care of myself is taking care of my family. With this realization I got up off the couch and I cleaned I organized and I took my l

So since the last time I wrote one this blog I became a missionary. I became a city resident. I became a wife and I became a mother. I wanted to start writing on my thoughts on parenting and homemaking and being a missionary in the inner city of St. Louis. I want to start with saying that my family is amazing! I have a husband Jason (who's birthday is tomorrow HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!), 3-year-old named Josie, 2-year-old Evan and a 1 1/2-year-old Lena.  I will write more later I just wanted to introduce my little family. Goodnight and I hope you keep coming back. I plan on posting at least 2x a week. -Amy

Wow! August 2008! I'm so sorry! God has done so much in my life since that last post! Last summer I went to Wyoming and came back a different person! He taught me how to know who to trust and that some times I just act dumb! Paul in the bible talks about walking in the flesh and that is what I did that summer! I did not care what my loved ones told me I just did what I thought was right! It took me coming back to all the people I hurt and seeing the hurt to realize what a jerk I was! God patched up all the friendships that I allowed to be torn! I praise God for all the people in my life. After getting back I began to work in the inner city of North St. Louis with a ministry my Father started called Sun ministries.We were donated a building in the neighborhood of Hyde Park. we started to clean the building out and get it up to code. we started making product and selling it. God has blessed this ministry so much! During this whole adventure God gave me a friend named Jason Calahan. H

At the beginning of this summer I asked God to show me Him! I went through a time of Him teaching me to be on my own. I went through really hard time were even my Timber Lakes family couldn't help me! It was vary hard to be away from home and going through a storm of life! I told my mom this morning that this summer was God taking twigs by twigs out of the nest so that one day I will be able to go away to collage or be on my own and not miss home so much... I was in the mountains of Colorado and doing my quiet time and the song "Beautiful Sound" by the Newsboys came on my MP3 player. and it hit me like a ton of bricks! God brought me to Timber Lakes and Colorado to rediscover who He is! I grew up in the church I knew all the right things to say and when to say them! but it wasn't until I was 9 till I "got saved". then past that I didn't start living( I mean really live...lay my life down live for the lord) till the last year or so! I didn't know the

Okay I'm going to start this story off in 2005. I went to a camp in Kansas to work as what they call a "teen staff" I worked in the kitchen and on the grounds crew. This was WAY before my parents even thought about the disciple driven church! I loved it! I loved it so much I was thinking of how to put my life into something like that! The next year I was planing on going back! BUT God told me to sign up for this leaders in training at Calvary church and they sent me to Mexico for a week so we could build a house! I loved it so much I was trying to think of how to put the camp lifestyle into Mexico and whatnot! I went through a year of being discontent and wanting to go back to ether Mexico or Kansas! I finally gave it to God and I finally loved being home in my Missouri. Then my dad leaves my church and shakes up my world and God uses my dad's passion for what he is doing to change my heart! This brings us to 2008, this year! I start off the year on a Florida beach gi

I wrote this poem on the way back from meeting with Richard Green, in Indiana. I often get inspired by Gods creation and this time it was the clouds, and words to a GREAT song(nothing but the blood!). this is a picture that i took of the Indiana sky. 69 Every bump of 69 gets to me with every hit you get to me every lyric of this song gets to me with every note you get to me every verse of the bible gets to me with every line you get to me with every thought you get to me. P.S. Bob there you go! hope you like it!