Adult Conversation and being a Mother of Three

I never realized how much adult conversation that I miss out on in my daily routine as a wife, mother and work from home-er. 

I was really really itching to get out of the house today. You see we have been passing around what I like to call "the junk" in my house and today I was tired of it... I felt better and was tired of being couped up. Need. To. Get. Out.  So I logged onto my faithful facebook account and lookie here... A friend of mine, whom I haven't gotten to spend much time with lately and lives just around the corner, was online... Who happens to also be a mother of three. After a bit of "chatting" we decided to make a trek to WalMart... At 10:30pm... Well... I just got home. We walked around that whole store for almost four hours and literally just talked. The. Whole. Time. 

IT WAS GREAT!!!

And then as we pull back into my drive way... I realize... How sad is this that the whole time we were there, child free, we looked for things for our children... And spent almost four hours in WalMart "chit chatting" - I was afraid that if we stayed any longer we would have been put to work. 

We did find some great things at WalMart though, things that I have never seen... And I have discovered, too, that apparently the 70's through early 90's have made a huge come back in the line of clothing... I thought there was a reason that those styles, and colors, were retired. Am I wrong??

God is good... All the time...

So this last year has brought about a LOT of change for my family, here you go... in a nut shell:

December 2008, I lost my job right after Christmas and then found out I was pregnant... Losing my job was a little bittersweet though. It was a shock to the system and I had a whirlwind of emotions but had I not lost my job I probably wouldn't have picked my photography back up full time. 

I had a rough pregnancy, my husband ended up out of work with a hurt back and a denied workers comp claim, our heating and air went out over this hot Georgia summer and there were several times we were faced with utilities off and phone calls from our landlord about us having to move out. God is good though. Our children never went hungry, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, God blessed us through our friends and anonymously with payments being made for my family to have a home and utilities still on. There were several times that we thought we were "all miracled out" and God just stepped in and blew us away. 

As humans we get so frustrated with our circumstances and we try to do it all in our selves and take care of the situations that come up. The truth of the matter is, not until we fully rely on God will things get better. Instead of drifting apart my family was able to, only by the grace of God, pull together and stay strong during our storm, one right after the next.  And He has brought us through completely to the other side of the storm. 

Right now things are loooking brighter for my family then they ever really have - and it's all a testiment to God's great love and faithfulness He has for His children. While we aren't "sittin' pretty" by the world's standards we are "sittin' pretty" because of what He has brought us through, because of our Faith, His blessings and the hope that we have in Christ Jesus our Savior.