I never grew up with any religious background, the first time I had really dove into learning anything about religion was during the three years I worked in an office with these two amazing people who are Christians. I often found intrigued by their stories and faith, having never heard much about Christianity I grew to have more questions and often was found in their office sitting back and hearing the answers to my questions. I enjoyed this very much, but after leaving the office while pregnant with my middle child, I rarely gave faith much thought again.

That is until I was going through an extreme case of depression, for days I could do barely anything but sleep, even while taking care of my kids I just wanted to sleep. It was difficult to enjoy my life in the ways I always had. Of course the depression was set on by some financial issues and for some reason I couldn’t find my positive during these times. After about three days of being in a funk, I felt this presence. It was a warm feeling and my mind instantly went to God.

I found this rather creepy to be honest with you, I was  little freaked out as well as a little intrigued. That day I put my faith into God in a small way and things seemed to get better from there. I, once again, forgot about faith, was doing pretty good with positive thinking and life was rolling along. Then I was hit with news that just made my stomach clamp up and my heart sink. News that I heard wasn’t anything anyone wishes to ever hear, however, it was one of those situations where I had no choice but to remain positive and reassure those that were being affected.

I turned to God that night, laying in my bed wondering if I should even allow myself to fall asleep, I prayed. I prayed for strength for the person who is mainly suffering and strength for me to be there the way I should be. The next day everything changed, there was a warmth in the house, and in the middle of the day I was outside when the sun peeked out from behind a cloud almost as if it were shining down on only me and I remembered ….. I prayed for strength last night – that is why this person did what they did today and that is why I feel so much at ease today.

Thank you Dear Lord for answering my prayers, thank you for helping me find strength and the person who needs it most find strength, without this faith I happened upon again, I don’t know where I would be today. So, a girl raised with zero religious background, never really having not believed but never have exactly “believed” in God, found faith and I think this girl will continue to pray because it really is helping with the extremely sensitive and tough situation that is going on.

In December my other blog Happily Blended will be featuring various craft ideas, that I will be doing with my kids so that I can post real life pictures and such. I have been reading Disney Family Fun magazine and let me tell you what this magazine rocks!

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We have a local channel where you can watch the happenings around town but the channel usually has horrible audio quality so I just don’t ever watch it. One morning I was feeling lazy and while lounging in bed decided to flick channels when I happened upon a November school board meeting. Now there is a lot going on in the high school and with the school administrative unit that has me wanting to keep up with the latest and since the audio for this meeting was normal I thought I would watch it.

All I can say after watching this local school board meeting is that the tension within the room of students, school board members, administrators and teachers was so intense that I could feel it through the television. It appears that there is a lot going on behind the scenes of the schools, mainly the high school, that the parents are not aware of. Most recently the principal from the high school was arrested based on reports that he put his hands on a student, he is facing simple assault charges against a student.

My children are not in the high school yet but I will be honest that if the school doesn’t smarten up by then and get some organization going on then I would have no issues pulling my children from the public school environment and placing them in an online high school environment or even home schooling because I won’t put up with my children feeling intimidated at their own school by administrators.

This is really sad to see that the one place children should feel safe and secure is falling apart. As a teen I knew that high school was my safe heaven, I was an above average student and being at school was way better most times than being at home. I had trust in the administrators and had no issues speaking to them if something was going on. I can only hope that by the time my children get into high school that the school has it’s act together because this is so sad to see our future generation falling behind because adults can’t seem to get some organization going on in the upper level of administration!

I walk into the bank and see a sign “please refrain from cell phone use while completing a banking transaction” and my mind instantly goes to laughter, oh actually I laughed out loud. The bank teller looked at me as if I had done lost my mind, but then I explained to her how silly I thought it was that they had to have a sign saying ” no cell phone use while doing a bank transaction” because who in their right mind would be on a cell phone while depositing or taking out money from their account? The idea is just silly to me, yet people do this.

Is our wold so technology advanced that we have thrown all common sense and common courtesy out of the window? Take for instance that person who sued McDonald’s over the hot coffee because it burned them? I mean, seriously people! Coffee is hot, if it were not hot you would bitch because it was cold. Now all coffee cups from your convenience store or Dunkin Donuts have “caution this may be hot” on the outside of the mug. This is another silly idea to me, I always say to the cashier, really the coffee is hot? Oh my gosh, I would have never guessed. Alas, the cashier doesn’t get or like my sense of humor, but it amuses me.

Oh and last but not least, I pull up to get my oil change in a Prompto drive up oil change garage, yes because I like Prompto service and I am reading a sign while waiting in the long line of cars that states “Cell phone use is forbidden when driving into the garage. OSHA” I get it, OSHA is a safety organization for most companies around here, hopefully where you are too, but doesn’t OSHA have more important things to do than have to place a sign up for people’s lack of common sense? I can’t imagine being on my cell; texting or talking, while driving into a garage. I can barely drive into the garage without distractions, never mind holding a cell phone. People, please put the cell phones down when in your vehicle, save us all from your lack of common sense.

What’s That Buzz has a common sense article I think you may enjoy.

What type of things have seen that maybe have been around for a long time or you noticed are new and really make you wonder what is wrong with the world today? Please share …. humor me!

I am turning 30 on Friday and with that comes my needs of wanting ME time and getting out to celebrate. I think I will be getting my hair cut, layered and colored. You see I tried to do a home highlighting kit not that long ago and my hair turned out multiple colors. I want my color to be closer to the natural hair color of black so that I can work on growing my hair out to be healthy again.

Oh and the greys will show more I am sure. I can already see a ton on the top of my head.

I may get my first professional massage EVER which is cool. I really hope that @mommadjane can really get that for me as a gift, she has offered but it’s hard to figure out which local one to go to.

I love my life and I love my kids. I am looking forward to cake with the kids, my daughter is gone so it will be just the boys and me enjoying some cake together!

So in a few more days I will be heading into the 30 years…. and I am looking forward to it!