Well, I haven't blogged in a while. But much has happened. Some good, some bad.
God has spoken to me about scripture. He has reminded me to meditate on and study His Word. Sometimes things get so overwhelming, that we forget the basics and need a reminder every now and then. And so I began to meditate on Romans 12:2. "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect."
I have been repeating this verse to myself over and over and really meditating on it. It has been quite helpful in getting me through the bad that has happened. It has reminded me that I need to keep my thoughts under control and renew my mind.
Someone very close to me accused me of the most hurtful things ever imaginable.... things that I could've never imagined nor would ever want to imagine. I will call her X. X said that I did these things 15 years ago as a teenager. Now first of all, I know I wasn't the best teenager in the world. In fact, I was actually quite self destructive as a teenager... but NEVER would I have ever done what I was accused of. It saddened me. It hurt me for someone who is supposed to know me so well to believe those things about me. It hurts to think that she has been holding a grudge for that long. I always knew she had a wrong opinion of me, but I never thought it was THIS extreme.
Another thing that boggles my mind is why would she bring it up now? It literally came out of nowhere. I received some news that could turn out to be good (financially) and she found out about it before I did. So she called me to inform me of it. Then out of nowhere, she says that she wants to talk about things that have been on her mind lately. She said I did some terrible things to her and she has never confronted me about them... til now. And she proceeds to tell me what she thinks I did. I'm still in shock. So again, I question... Why bring it up now? After all these years? Was X upset or jealous that something good was happening to me? I just don't understand.
I had my husband in the room listening to my responses. I do this when I think these are going to turn ugly with X. This isn't the first time we've bumped heads, but it's never been this bad. I always have my husband in the room. He is my accountability partner. I always want him to be aware of all I do, good or bad. He corrects me when I need correcting, supports me when I need support and helps me to see where I went wrong and how I can do better next time. I love him for that. So I had him in the room and he heard my side of the conversation and later on I told him what she had said. And I asked him, "Was I wrong? Did I start something?" And he said no.
I need him to keep me from straying in one direction or the other. No one but God and my husband really know how hard I am on myself. No one knows how I strive to find where I went wrong and how I always dissect every situation just so I know how to handle future situations. Now, I'm not saying I always handle them correctly but I am saying that I do not like to be ignorant of my sinfulness.
My husband is an amazing man. He does what God asks of him and it is never for a reward or to score brownie points. He does it just because it's the right thing to do. He is a just and fair man. So when he says that I didn't do anything wrong, I believe him. When I'm wrong, he's the first one to call me out on it.
So now I'm left with having been accused and feeling angry, hurt and betrayed and knowing I did nothing wrong. (there is a first for everything because usually, I have a lot to do with what went wrong) So now I'm struggling with these negative feelings and thoughts. I woke up the next day with angry thoughts and I battled them through the Divine Mercy Chaplet for X. It was all I could do. Then I went to confession and confessed how I was angry and couldn't forgive... how I had been thinking angry thoughts and how I felt resentful. Not only that, but I confessed things I have said to others that might have left them feeling as I feel. It was a situation that... I can't believe I'm saying this... but I'm glad it happened. Now I know where I stand with X. I confessed speaking harshly and hurting people. I asked forgiveness from the person I hurt through my words. And I pray this serves me as a reminder of how to treat people.
This morning, I was reading "the little black book." It's a book thats put out for Lent and Advent and there is a meditation everyday leading up to the feast days you're preparing for. Todays meditation was about Jesus and Judas. It explained how when Judas betrayed Jesus, it hurt Jesus badly because this was someone He loved... someone He was close to... one of the TWELVE. It spoke about how this betrayal cut Jesus to the heart and it ended with the best two sentences I could've heard today.
"In one way or another we have all felt something like this because of broken relationships, divorce, being done in or betrayed by someone we trusted. Jesus is no stranger to how we feel."
What more can I say but thank you Jesus for reminding me that I am not alone and that you help me to carry every cross.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Man made lights
So we are on our way home from my in-laws house and my daughter was looking up at the stars. And she starts to tell me how she loves looking at the stars and how we see so few in comparison to how many there really are. Then she says its because we live in the city and there are so many lights and those lights don't let us see the stars. So I thought, wow! She's right.
The man-made lights block out the light of Gods creation.
That was something to meditate on.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
The Ant and the Grasshopper in 2010
An email I received. Worth sharing.
OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shiveringgrasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on theant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopperdoesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shiveringgrasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on theant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopperdoesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
Info on Daniel Fast
*****Foods to include in your diet during the Daniel Fast*****
All fruits. These can be fresh, frozen, dried, juiced or canned. Fruits include but are not limited to apples, apricots, bananas, blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries, cantaloupe, cherries, cranberries, figs, grapefruit, grapes, guava, honeydew melon, kiwi, lemons, limes, mangoes, nectarines, oranges, papayas, peaches, pears, pineapples, plums, prunes, raisins, raspberries, strawberries, tangelos, tangerines, watermelon
All vegetables. These can be fresh, frozen, dried, juiced or canned. Vegetables include but are not limited to artichokes, asparagus, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chili peppers, collard greens, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, ginger root, kale, leeks, lettuce, mushrooms, mustard greens, okra, onions, parsley, potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, scallions, spinach, sprouts, squashes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, turnips, watercress, yams, zucchini.
All whole grains, including but not limited to whole wheat, brown rice, millet, quinoa, oats, barley, grits, whole wheat pasta, whole wheat tortillas, rice cakes and popcorn.
All nuts and seeds, including but not limited to sunflower seeds, cashews, peanuts, sesame. Also nut butters including peanut butter.
All legumes. These can be canned or dried. Legumes include but are not limited to dried beans, pinto beans, split peas, lentils, black eyed peas, kidney beans, black beans, cannellini beans, white beans.
All quality oils including but not limited to olive, canola, grape seed, peanut, and sesame.
Beverages: spring water, distilled water or other pure waters.
Other: tofu, soy products, vinegar, seasonings, salt, herbs and spices.
*****Foods to avoid on the Daniel Fast*****
All meat and animal products including but not limited to beef, lamb, pork, poultry, and fish.
All dairy products including but not limited to milk, cheese, cream, butter, and eggs.
All sweeteners including but not limited to sugar, raw sugar, honey, syrups, molasses, and cane juice.
All leavened bread including Ezekiel Bread (it contains yeast and honey) and baked goods.
All refined and processed food products including but not limited to artificial flavorings, food additives, chemicals, white rice, white flour, and foods that contain artificial preservatives.
All deep fried foods including but not limited to potato chips, French fries, corn chips.
All solid fats including shortening, margarine, lard and foods high in fat.
Beverages including but not limited to coffee, tea, herbal teas, carbonated beverages, energy drinks, and alcohol.
Again, this is just information as you pray let your spirit guide you and tell you exactly what the Lord wants you to sacrifice.
Stay Blessed and be a blessing!
All fruits. These can be fresh, frozen, dried, juiced or canned. Fruits include but are not limited to apples, apricots, bananas, blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries, cantaloupe, cherries, cranberries, figs, grapefruit, grapes, guava, honeydew melon, kiwi, lemons, limes, mangoes, nectarines, oranges, papayas, peaches, pears, pineapples, plums, prunes, raisins, raspberries, strawberries, tangelos, tangerines, watermelon
All vegetables. These can be fresh, frozen, dried, juiced or canned. Vegetables include but are not limited to artichokes, asparagus, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chili peppers, collard greens, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, ginger root, kale, leeks, lettuce, mushrooms, mustard greens, okra, onions, parsley, potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, scallions, spinach, sprouts, squashes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, turnips, watercress, yams, zucchini.
All whole grains, including but not limited to whole wheat, brown rice, millet, quinoa, oats, barley, grits, whole wheat pasta, whole wheat tortillas, rice cakes and popcorn.
All nuts and seeds, including but not limited to sunflower seeds, cashews, peanuts, sesame. Also nut butters including peanut butter.
All legumes. These can be canned or dried. Legumes include but are not limited to dried beans, pinto beans, split peas, lentils, black eyed peas, kidney beans, black beans, cannellini beans, white beans.
All quality oils including but not limited to olive, canola, grape seed, peanut, and sesame.
Beverages: spring water, distilled water or other pure waters.
Other: tofu, soy products, vinegar, seasonings, salt, herbs and spices.
*****Foods to avoid on the Daniel Fast*****
All meat and animal products including but not limited to beef, lamb, pork, poultry, and fish.
All dairy products including but not limited to milk, cheese, cream, butter, and eggs.
All sweeteners including but not limited to sugar, raw sugar, honey, syrups, molasses, and cane juice.
All leavened bread including Ezekiel Bread (it contains yeast and honey) and baked goods.
All refined and processed food products including but not limited to artificial flavorings, food additives, chemicals, white rice, white flour, and foods that contain artificial preservatives.
All deep fried foods including but not limited to potato chips, French fries, corn chips.
All solid fats including shortening, margarine, lard and foods high in fat.
Beverages including but not limited to coffee, tea, herbal teas, carbonated beverages, energy drinks, and alcohol.
Again, this is just information as you pray let your spirit guide you and tell you exactly what the Lord wants you to sacrifice.
Stay Blessed and be a blessing!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Ash Wednesday
So today is Ash Wednesday. I have prayed and I feel as if God wants me to do some specific things this Lent.
1. No baking goodies for Lent. Baking has truly become a passion of mine and so giving that up for the next 40 days will definitely be a sacrifice. I have a list of about 4 different recipes I wanted to try, but for now, they are on the back burner.
2. Practice "The Little Way" of St. Therese. Small acts of sacrifice that serve others and doing it with a smile. I'm sure opportunities will arise for me to do so. They already have.
3. Spending 10 minutes alone with God everyday LISTENING to Him and not talking. That could mean reading His Word and allowing Him to speak to me through it, or meditating on something He's told me. But NO talking!
This morning at Mass, the priest said that we who receive these ashes are not doing so because we are holy. We are receiving them as a sign of repentance and as a sign of admission that we are sinners. I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree!!!
This Lent, I wish to keep in mind a lesson that God has been speaking to me about a lot lately. The lesson of His Grace and how apart from Him, we can do nothing. I have very high hopes for this Lenten Season. I know that many graces will be poured out upon me and my family. I believe that God intends to transform us. I believe that He intends to teach us more about denying ourselves, dying to ourselves and serving others. I'm so so grateful that it's Lent. I want a new beginning. I want more of Him. I want more of a servants heart, and this special grace-filled time of year is perfect for such new beginnings.
So far, this is what I've felt called to doing on a personal level apart from the fasting and abstinence that all Catholics practice. Now that I have some time to myself, I will spend it with the Lord.
1. No baking goodies for Lent. Baking has truly become a passion of mine and so giving that up for the next 40 days will definitely be a sacrifice. I have a list of about 4 different recipes I wanted to try, but for now, they are on the back burner.
2. Practice "The Little Way" of St. Therese. Small acts of sacrifice that serve others and doing it with a smile. I'm sure opportunities will arise for me to do so. They already have.
3. Spending 10 minutes alone with God everyday LISTENING to Him and not talking. That could mean reading His Word and allowing Him to speak to me through it, or meditating on something He's told me. But NO talking!
This morning at Mass, the priest said that we who receive these ashes are not doing so because we are holy. We are receiving them as a sign of repentance and as a sign of admission that we are sinners. I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree!!!
This Lent, I wish to keep in mind a lesson that God has been speaking to me about a lot lately. The lesson of His Grace and how apart from Him, we can do nothing. I have very high hopes for this Lenten Season. I know that many graces will be poured out upon me and my family. I believe that God intends to transform us. I believe that He intends to teach us more about denying ourselves, dying to ourselves and serving others. I'm so so grateful that it's Lent. I want a new beginning. I want more of Him. I want more of a servants heart, and this special grace-filled time of year is perfect for such new beginnings.
So far, this is what I've felt called to doing on a personal level apart from the fasting and abstinence that all Catholics practice. Now that I have some time to myself, I will spend it with the Lord.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Too much food and food related items... And Happy Valentines Day!
So I haven't blogged for days. I've been too busy cooking delicious spinach and ricotta quiches and baking cakes and making ganache and whipped ganache frosting and whipped ganache candies. I've watched movies and bought books at Barnes and Noble. I've gone out to dinner and COMPLETELY overeaten. Yesterday was the worst. I ate about 3000 calories. (I'm only supposed to be having 1200) But they were 3000 calories of buffalo quesadillas, nachos with cheese, chicken wraps with broccoli and tomatoes, wonderful mashed potatoes... *sigh*... the bliss. Needless to say, I will not be weighing myself for 3 weeks.
Aside from the massive amounts of deadly food I've consumed, I now have a way to store my healthy recipes. My husband bought me the most thoughtful gift for valentines day. It was a recipe organizer. I was so so so grateful. It was thoughtful and something totally up my alley... something I would've desired but would never have bought myself. I love him!!! He also bought me a movie I've been dying to see; The Nativity Story. So it was an absolutely amazing Valentines day. Today I will be making healthy stir fry with actual vegetables that I purchased fresh at the market and not the frozen kind. I plan to read and watch movies all day. I already worked out so there's no need to exert myself the rest of the day.
Enjoy your presidents day! I will!!!
Aside from the massive amounts of deadly food I've consumed, I now have a way to store my healthy recipes. My husband bought me the most thoughtful gift for valentines day. It was a recipe organizer. I was so so so grateful. It was thoughtful and something totally up my alley... something I would've desired but would never have bought myself. I love him!!! He also bought me a movie I've been dying to see; The Nativity Story. So it was an absolutely amazing Valentines day. Today I will be making healthy stir fry with actual vegetables that I purchased fresh at the market and not the frozen kind. I plan to read and watch movies all day. I already worked out so there's no need to exert myself the rest of the day.
Enjoy your presidents day! I will!!!
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Lots of Blue Snow
For an "uneventful" day off, I most certainly woke up early. I've been up since 5:00 am. The thought of my car under all that snow... I just couldn't sleep. So I got up while my husband was showering to go to work (yes, there was work and yes, he went in) and began shoveling. It was a lot of snow.
I'm short, so that snow pile was almost as tall as me. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. And actually, I saw something beautiful this morning. As the sun was rising, the sky turned into this beautiful blue that I've never seen before. It was a blue something like this, but not quite. Now I regret not taking a picture. And the color of the sky was lighting up the snow. So the snow had this beautiful blue glow. It was amazing.
We finished shoveling snow and I came home and he went to work. My poor daughter... She watched the news all morning and they didn't say her school was closed. So she gets dressed, my husband drives her and has to bring her back because it was in fact closed. She took it well. The excitement from another day off outweighed the fact that she's been up since early this morning. She's sleeping right now.
As for me, I don't know what I'm going to do. I've been online all morning with recipes and food and such. And now I'm sleepy but I need to get ready to prepare lunch.
I'm short, so that snow pile was almost as tall as me. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. And actually, I saw something beautiful this morning. As the sun was rising, the sky turned into this beautiful blue that I've never seen before. It was a blue something like this, but not quite. Now I regret not taking a picture. And the color of the sky was lighting up the snow. So the snow had this beautiful blue glow. It was amazing.
We finished shoveling snow and I came home and he went to work. My poor daughter... She watched the news all morning and they didn't say her school was closed. So she gets dressed, my husband drives her and has to bring her back because it was in fact closed. She took it well. The excitement from another day off outweighed the fact that she's been up since early this morning. She's sleeping right now.
As for me, I don't know what I'm going to do. I've been online all morning with recipes and food and such. And now I'm sleepy but I need to get ready to prepare lunch.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Snow and Plopped Ganache
So theres a blizzard in NY. The schools were closed which means the Archdiocese was closed, so I've been home all day. Part of my day was a bit disappointing. I made my cake and ganache. The ganache looked really good til the end. After I frosted the cake, I decided I would whip the remaining chocolate and pipe flowers on the cake. After whipping some, my husband said there wasn't enough to make flowers out of it. So I plopped it on the cake. And thats what it looked like. Plopped chocolate. It looks like crap but tasted pretty good.
My husband has been wrestling with snow all day, both in his mind and in reality. If he wasn't out there shoveling the sidewalk, he was up here thinking about shoveling the sidewalk. He's a good man because I haven't even thought about opening my door, much less stepping out into the snow that's taller than I am. The cars are buried right now. I have already predetermined that the streets will be undrivable tomorrow and I've already given myself a day off. I pray my boss feels the same way and calls work off so my husband stays home. If work is open, he will be there. He has a "strong work ethic" that I admire, but I don't want to immitate tomorrow.
The pizza is now done, so we're going to have dinner and watch the Bourne movie - part 3. I don't know how this third one is going to be any different than the other two, but we'll see. When we saw the first one, all night I dreamt that my husband and I were fighting people. Well, I'm off to have some semi-homemade pizza with my family. I don't forsee tomorrow being too exciting since I'm staying home... but one never knows.
My husband has been wrestling with snow all day, both in his mind and in reality. If he wasn't out there shoveling the sidewalk, he was up here thinking about shoveling the sidewalk. He's a good man because I haven't even thought about opening my door, much less stepping out into the snow that's taller than I am. The cars are buried right now. I have already predetermined that the streets will be undrivable tomorrow and I've already given myself a day off. I pray my boss feels the same way and calls work off so my husband stays home. If work is open, he will be there. He has a "strong work ethic" that I admire, but I don't want to immitate tomorrow.
The pizza is now done, so we're going to have dinner and watch the Bourne movie - part 3. I don't know how this third one is going to be any different than the other two, but we'll see. When we saw the first one, all night I dreamt that my husband and I were fighting people. Well, I'm off to have some semi-homemade pizza with my family. I don't forsee tomorrow being too exciting since I'm staying home... but one never knows.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
My first blog... kinda
So this is my first blog here... but I've been known to blog quite frequently on those social networking sites we all know and love.
I guess I will start off by simply explaining what this blog is all about. I will model it after Seinfeld... Anyone who watched Seinfeld knew that it was a show about nothing, but it was about everything. That's what this is. A blog about nothing and everything. That's the stuff life is made of. All the everyday moments that we count as nothing... yet they make up the everything that is our life.
First and foremost, the name "A lil bit of Son shine" refers to my Jesus. I love Him. I try to live for Him. I fail miserably most of the time, but nevertheless I have rare and amazing moments where He shines through me. I pray that everything I do, even the mundane chores of everyday life, would have a ray of The Son shining in it and through it.
I am a Roman Catholic who loves my church. I am a wife and mother who loves her family insanely. I work full time. I'm into politics. Glenn Beck is amazing. I love to read and write. I live in the city, but I don't like it here. I want to move to the country where I can grow my own vegetables and herbs. I want to work from home with my husband. I want to learn carpentry skills. I want to build my own home. I would learn to fix cars if given the opportunity. I love food. I eat mostly organic. I grew my own tomatoes last summer. My newest obsession is cooking from scratch. Tomorrow I'm baking a cake from scratch and making some ganache. (first time for both)
And these are probably just some of the topics I will write about. I guess like many others, I blog knowing that no one will read my words. But that doesn't really matter. (As long as my husband reads it.) I write just for the sake of writing. I don't really know how often I will write. I guess whenever I feel it.
And now I feel like editing the look of the blog. So on to that.
I guess I will start off by simply explaining what this blog is all about. I will model it after Seinfeld... Anyone who watched Seinfeld knew that it was a show about nothing, but it was about everything. That's what this is. A blog about nothing and everything. That's the stuff life is made of. All the everyday moments that we count as nothing... yet they make up the everything that is our life.
First and foremost, the name "A lil bit of Son shine" refers to my Jesus. I love Him. I try to live for Him. I fail miserably most of the time, but nevertheless I have rare and amazing moments where He shines through me. I pray that everything I do, even the mundane chores of everyday life, would have a ray of The Son shining in it and through it.
I am a Roman Catholic who loves my church. I am a wife and mother who loves her family insanely. I work full time. I'm into politics. Glenn Beck is amazing. I love to read and write. I live in the city, but I don't like it here. I want to move to the country where I can grow my own vegetables and herbs. I want to work from home with my husband. I want to learn carpentry skills. I want to build my own home. I would learn to fix cars if given the opportunity. I love food. I eat mostly organic. I grew my own tomatoes last summer. My newest obsession is cooking from scratch. Tomorrow I'm baking a cake from scratch and making some ganache. (first time for both)
And these are probably just some of the topics I will write about. I guess like many others, I blog knowing that no one will read my words. But that doesn't really matter. (As long as my husband reads it.) I write just for the sake of writing. I don't really know how often I will write. I guess whenever I feel it.
And now I feel like editing the look of the blog. So on to that.
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