{Virtual Coffee}

Good morning friends!  The coffee is flowing this morning, with lots of hazelnut creamer...but you can have yours however you like...

If we were having coffee, I'd tell you about how my husband took a cold shower this morning, and after investigation, discovered that someone didn't pay the gas bill.  I have no idea who that could be, but I'm sure it will right itself shortly.  Thank goodness the coffee pot makes the coffee hot! :)  I'll be starting up the crock pot in a little while for dinner...

Also, you would see little boy resting on the couch watching "Up" because he has a yucky cold (aren't you glad this is virtual coffee today).

Yesterday I finished our taxes.  Blah.  Usually we have a CPA do them, but in the quest to save some money, I did it using last year's as a guide.   It is no fun, but I'm sure you knew that -- worth it though because we get a refund! 

My birthday is coming up this weekend.  I'll be 30 something.  :) It's the third anniversary of my 29th year :) !  I have two children, a minivan and a mortgage...I don't really have a problem accepting my age, but the 30's do seem to be moving right along...

I am really enjoying reading through the bible in 90 days.  So far I'm only a day behind, which I think is pretty good.  I didn't think it would be easy, and it isn't, but I am getting so much out of it - it has been so worth it.  I'm flying through Deuteronomy!  

With getting up early to read, and a little boy who likes to wake me up in the middle of the night (because he wet the bed :( which isn't something that makes it easy to go back to sleep after) I have been a little more wiped out than usual.  Thankful for a good nights sleep though, and for coffee!

Ok, so that's all for today...now it would be your turn to talk.  I really appreciate the listening ear!!  I would ask you how your week is going, if all your children/family are well, and if you finished your taxes.  

Now I will pull out my phone and share some pictures I found this morning...apparently little girl was entertaining herself yesterday in the van when she was supposed to be playing games on my phone.

I have no idea where she got the idea to take pictures of her feet...

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

{Virtual Coffee}

 

Good morning!  If you were here having coffee with me, I'd be having my third cup of coffee today! :)

I got up early this morning - yay for me (cause that hasn't been happening).  I found a cool idea from twitter called #HelloMornings - although I did not tweet this morning, the idea definitely helped get me up!  I used my iPhone as my alarm, and then as soon as it went off, I opened up my bible app You Version and started reading.  It helped me to wake up and stay up!  It also helps that my automatic coffee maker was set - so one chapter and I got up and got my coffee! 

(Did you know that You Version has an audio bible at it's web site?  We LOVE it and have been using it to read the bible daily for school, Abigail loves it because it is dramatized and really enjoys listening.)

I'm also planning to read the entire bible through in 90 days (I've seen so many people doing it, and it gives me hope!).  It seems like a big task, but this morning I read the first 11 chapters of Genesis, and tonight I'll finish out the remaining 5.  I really want to get purposeful about living habitually in the Spirit, instead of riding the roller coaster - up a couple days, down the next.

But I say, walk and live [habitually] in the [Holy] Spirit [responsive to and controlled and guided by the Spirit]; then you will certainly not gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh (of human nature without God). Galatians 5:16 AMP

Today is our early morning, both of the kids go to their schools for the day.  On these mornings I do breakfast-a-go-go:

How do you handle getting everyone out of the house on early mornings?  This helps us because we eat breakfast in the car - today was peanut butter and jelly on raisin bread and bananas. 

This is our first year homeschooling, and I can tell you, we have not actually time changed. yet.  It's hard when you don't have to get up!  But now the kids are not going to bed until late.  Sigh.  So I'm going to plan to get myself up early, and get the kids out of bed before 8am...you'll pray for me right!

Hope you have a great day!  I'd love to hear from you if you stopped by here or @alliflwr!