You Can't Stop the Beat

Most of my blogs are about random things that are on my mind, not actual updates on life. I decided to for my one reader I would update.

I am trying to learn how to cook. I can throw something in the microwave and boil stuff but I am trying to learn how to cook healthier meals. Last night I tried to make fish. I should have known that it wouldn't have turned out right. It's in my genes. I can't think of a single time that my mom made fish and it turned out right. Sure she could make fishsticks, but I wanted to really bake some fish. I did make some killer teriyaki chicken and rice about a month ago. I even grilled some chicken on the George Foreman grill a few weeks ago that turned out really really well. The biggest compliment Andrew can give me is that my food was good. I am trying really hard to get the timing right-sometimes it's good and sometimes not.

Work is going really really well. I had the biggest turnout EVER for my Caregiver Support group. We had eight caregivers!! I know that that's not a huge number, but seeing as I only have eleven in RCP, that's over half of my clients. I had eight teens. I never have teens there!!! I had seven children. The only problem is that we don't have enough space for everyone. That's a wonderful problem for me to have though. Churches around here would be more that welcome to let us use their facilities. VOCA is going good too. I started out with 11 children and I'm now down to 8. Two moved away and one was pulled out by his father who wants to sweep the sexual abuse under the rug. Not cool! The children are getting restless with coming to the center all the time. I am struggling with trying exciting ways to keep their attention.

Married life is wonderful. We have been married a little over 2 months, but it feels like longer. Not because the 2 months have drug on, but because we were together for so long before hand. Yesterday was our 6.5 year anniversary. You might as well round that up to seven. Andrew is taking one class a week in Selmer. The class is taught by a high school teacher and they are doing the same stuff that her high school class is doing. Andrew hates going but I'm grateful that it's so easy. Once again we are doing the one vehicle thing. As far as getting to work, it's not a problem. It is a slight annoyance when Andrew is off work but I have to have my car or I want to surprise Andrew at work and I can't because the car is with him.

I watched Facing the Giants last night. I was hesitant to watch it for several reasons. I hate corny Christian movies and books. They always have the same story line:
a. There's someone with a problem-either a Christian struggling thinking they don't need God's help or someone isn't a Christian
b. There's always a love story mixed in.
c. Everything is always solved by the end.
In real life there are constant struggles. God might really show you what needs to be done with one area, but your life isn't perfect yet. That's how these movies portray it.
With that said, I really really enjoyed the movie. I loved how they really portrayed that when it rains it pours. In my life, nothing is ever going right. When one thing happens, a million things happen. For example, Andrew and I got back from the honeymoon. Things should have been perfect. The day we got back, we lost our dog for over 24 hours. Finally found her, found out that we had to pay a lot to the insurance company to add Andrew, we also had to pay for school. I had a wreck, Andrew's car broke down, my father lost his job, my father also had to have heart surgery. Who knows what's going to happen next. The movie reminded me to praise God in the good and the bad. God always provides for me.