It's Mommy Time!

Hey guys I'm back from Women of Faith! OK maybe you had no idea I was gone but I was!I, along with 25 other ladies from our church went to the big city of Dallas and attended the women of faith conference. It was a blast! I got to hear live concerts from Nicole C Mullen, Natlie Grant and Sandi Patti! The music was OVER THE TOP this year! It was so good! The speakers were as good as ever. We cried, we laughed (in fact I laugh so hard I cried!) and we were blessed. We were also challenged in our walk with Jesus. There was a lady who does skits there (I can't for the life of me remember her name! I think I've lost my mind again! That was one of her skits!) that did a skit about how distructive your words can be. She compared them to a roaring fire burning out of control. They destroy and tear down and leave destruction behind. It really left an impression on me. One of my biggest struggles of the flesh is keeping my temper under control. I have to constantly be on guard and ask God to help me keep it in check. I try very hard to avoid the triggers that cause my temper to explode (mainly it's running late and trying to get the kids out the door) but everyone knows that it's impossible to control everything. Anyway, she really opened my eyes on how one mispoken phrase could tear down a child or spouse and how it could break the trust built between you. The word of God says in Ephesians 4:29 "Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it my impart grace to the hearer" OH LORD this is my prayer! Let me edify and build up my husband and children. Let me not tear down my own house with my harsh words and careless temper!
Well, we are home from church with Jared this morning. He started running a 102 fever last night. I think it's strep throat. I hope he doesn't have to miss the first day of school but it looks like he might have to. I start back to work tomorrow with inservice days. I have them every day this week and then will work in my room and with my coworker to do lesson plans. Pray for me! I'm really nervous starting out without a clue of what to do. I have all the material and have gone over in my mind how it will go. However, you know that the best laid plans don't always work out. I have faith that God will lead me through it all though and have prayed over my class of kids. I know He has exactly who He wants in my class and now it just up to me to do my part.
OH yeah I forgot to tell everyone that we bought a new van!!!! It's a 2005 Nissan Quest with about 54,000 miles on it. God is so good and worked out all the details. We went and looked in Dallas on vaction but they were way out of our price range. However, we knew that Jim Bass had one that we liked. The only problem was the fact that they gave us a very low trade in for our van. It wouldn't even have paid it off. Anyway, Brian knows a guys who has a dad who works for them and he gave him a call. (Have you ever noticed how Brian "knows a guy" for everything????? Is that all men or just him????) Anyway, we take it back to them and they went from a $1700 trade in value to a $4,000 trade it value. Which paid the old van off with money to spare. Then they came off the sticker price a couple of thousand dollars. On top of that, we took the van for a test drive and ran it past Greg at Goodyear. He told us it needed 4 new tires which are $100 each for it. When we "made the deal" we asked them to replace the tires but, they said they had already come off the price too much. We still felt that we wanted the van so we made the deal and resigned ourselves to having to pay for new tires. However, when we went back to pick up the van they had put 4 brand new tires on it for us!!!!!!! We were stunned and just praised God right there! Anyway, when you see a BRIGHT orange/red Nissan Quest running around town honk at us!