Look whose back :)

Wow, I've definately been lacking in the consistency side of things with my blog. I apologize for the lack of new posts, and HOPEFULLY I'll be a little more up to-date from now on :S
So, now I have the problem of coming up with something to write about :P I guess I could start off with telling you about my new job :)
Starting Monday Lord willing, I'll start a full-time job as a nanny of three children; two boys and a girl: ages 2,6 & 8. To be honest, despite what alot of people have told me about me would happen, i.e. ending up being stressed out, having too much work and not any extra time, being overwhelmed with everything....this has always been a dream job for me. I've always wanted to do this sort of thing, and honestly, it couldn't have come at a better time. It's such a blessing to finally have something full-time, as well as something I love. I'm so excited!
So what does this "dream job" include? Most mornings I'll start the day between 5:30-6:00 a.m. and end it between 5:30 - 6:00p.m. For the summer, I'll have all the kids home with me, so groceries with three children, laundry, housework, coming up with meals for the day...and most exciting...POTTY TRAINING :P (Mom loves to tell people that I'll be so good at it that I'll be able to teach my new brother or sister when he or she enters this world...but she's allowed to dream right? ;)) and keeping the kids occupied and happy should prove to be a challenge, but I truly believe that it will be one of the most enjoyable challenges. (So if anyone has any suggestions for exciting things to do with them, or recipes that I should try, any advice for making a child stay on the potty..anything!...I would LOVE to hear it!)
In the fall, I'll be taking the two oldest to school in the mornings, and I'll have the youngest with me through-out the day. I decided that I didn't want to just quit all my piano students, so I'll be trying to fit lesson times in through the day as well as after I come home in the evenings, to get them all taught each week. I'm sure I'll be extremely busy with it all, so that's why I'm warning you now, and apologizing if I ever seem like I never time for anyone anymore. I promise you I'll try my utmost hardest to keep in touch and not be an "I can't go out tonight cause I wanna go to sleep" type friend..:D
So...that's my life right now, and Lord willing for the next while. Who knows what will all happen, but for the time being, I'm so excited to start!

If you could, I would love for you to keep me in your prayers. I'm going to need them I know.

Because I need to share them.

I just really want to share a few verses that have been a HUGE comfort to me in these past few weeks. My life has taken so many different twists and turns and there were alot of times where all I wanted to do was throw my hands up in frustration and ask "why?"
Just proof that He hears, I stumbled on these verses one night while I was having devotions, and they fit so perfectly with my life right now..I want you to be blessed by them as well.

Psalm 139: 1-5

"O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. You have hedged me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me."

And then verses 13-18

"For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, marvelous are your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You."


Amen!

Just a few grad pics

Graduation!

So today's the day!

In four hours, I'll have graduated from highschool!

I just got back from having my hair done and I guess that just makes me more excited :) Yesterday, I took my younger sister Cheryl to get our nails done...something she's never done before (my present to her for her graduating from Grade 8) so that was a ton of fun, true girl bonding time ;)
I'm waiting for her to get home so I can get started on her hair...something that BETTER work out today :P

So ya, I guess I'm just really excited to get into our dresses and get tonight done (my valedictorian address to be exact :P) :)..

I'll post pictures later, promise :)

Sometimes...

life doesn't go the way you wish it could.

Either way, it's in God's hands, and that's when you need to drop everything at His feet.

He's there.

He knows.

He's listening.

Just trust.

Believe.

So no there might not be any resemblance..but we are sisters, I promise.

My Piano Class of '09 (minus 2)