A decision to blog

I'm not a big computer person, but I love to type. Something about how I just think words and my fingers can fly over the keyboard and make them appear on the screen is still amazing to me. Get used to it; I think stuff like this a lot. So, I also love to journal and if you put journaling and typing together and you have blogging. (Duh) So I decided to give it a try. I don't know that anyone will ever read this; will I even tell anybody that it exists? Mostly I just want a place to spread my random thoughts, because I have a lot of them and not a ready outlet. I also have a lot of dead online time due to my job as a church secretary. I'm supposed to be answering the phone, but it rarely if ever rings. So, I shall instead type and sit in wonder at the talent of my fingers. :)

I got the niggle to blog after reading about some friends of mine that are hiking the Appalachian Trail. Now there's something to write about. Compared to that my daily diaper changing, bulletin folding, and laundry doing routine seems like a "Dick & Jane" kind of read. Oh well. When bemoaning my nothingness to my friend she said maybe I could fulfill my need for adventure by completing large projects. Well I hope she's right because I have a lot of big projects that need doing. For instance, on Wednesday afternoon I tore the carpet out of what is soon to be my son Parker's room. Mostly this just required a lot of tugging; up from the floor and then down the stairs and out the door. Next the carpet pad. And then finally the linolium. My efforts were well worth it though because underneath it all was a fairly nice wood floor. I love that old linolium was stapled instead of glued. We've got his room almost done now; Mike (my husband) painted a great farm scene mural on the wall and I'm in search of a good area rug. My last big part of that room is to convert my college loft into a kids loft. Mike says it's not possible, but I'm determined to use it somehow. See, my dad custom made that loft for us and through the three years we used it, our friends wrote all over it. It has a lot of good memories. To many to just burn. So, someway, it's going to make it into my house again.

See...isn't my life exciting? :P Yeah I know...but as Chuck Swindoll says, it's all about attitude and that's what I'm working on, moment by moment most days. I do believe that I am currently where God wants me to be and doing what He wants me to do. That fact should fill me will incredible joy and anticipation. That it does not is evidence that I still have a lot of growing to do and that this "fire" is still refining. Thankfully, He is forever gracious and patient with me regardless of my current feelings. Someday I might begin to catch up in appropriate gratefulness to the blessings He daily bestows.