by Kimberly | Jan 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of the most dreaded parts of the holiday season (Thanksgiving until my birthday) is the amount of traffic that is created. I love living in metropolitan areas – but I’d rather do anything than fight busy intersections and crowded shopping malls.
What is it about the holiday season that raises our blood pressure, turns highways into crowded parking lots, and makes doing errands almost unbearable?
Something we DON’T DO: we don’t rest.
We strive.
We plan too much.
We go too often and too fast.
We don’t take time.
We don’t REST.
This goes not only for our physical activity, but also for our spiritual activity. We seldom take time to enjoy the Christmas season and all that it entails. Even if we go to Christmas Eve services, we are rushed getting in shopping and huge family meals with lots of cooking before and after it. We rush into places that we need to go and never take time to rest and enjoy the holiday season.
I look forward to the days after the holidays when the parking lots of back to normal, the traffic is back to normal, and life can resume a comfortable, full life of friends and cooking and photography and play dates and doing nothing with my Mister.
by Kimberly | Jan 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
The new year is upon us. Goals are set. Resolutions may be already broken!
I’ll be posting my goals (which I’m doing pretty good so far) in the coming days, but until then let me start off the year with this thought:
God’s grace is more than your goals.
We will all fail at our resolutions or goals. We will eat sugar, gain weight some days, sleep in, press snooze, not write one day. We will take bad pictures, fail to blog, be mean to someone, speed at some point, etc. You get my point. The cross says more than our goals.
by Kimberly | Dec 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
It is still December. What does this last weekend of 2013 hold for you? Do you like to make lots of goals or do you just not make any because they are hard to keep? I would encourage you to take a look back this weekend and look forward – see what life may hold for you in 2014?
Here is my weekend and week ahead:
Hanging out with friends.
Exercising.
Cooking new meals.
Finishing up the Nehemiah Prayers for the Journey by the new year.
Completing my recipe index here on the blog.
Packing for a trip to Florida next wknd for TWO weeks! Bring on the sunshine state, friends, family, and the beach!
Watching a sleeping baby.
What are you doing on the last weekend of 2013?
by Kimberly | Dec 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
From our neck of the woods in Little Rock to all of you – wherever you are. Merry Christmas!
by Kimberly | Dec 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
I guess there is always one week that will make the holiday season rushed.
My husband had two concerts this week, we had two parties for our church and office. We are trying to get out of town for a Christmas weekend getaway. I had several appointments for the boys.
But, we spent it with each other, with friends, and the weather was beautiful!
by Kimberly | Dec 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
I often wonder how so many bloggers I read actually have time to cook all the pretty food, take photos of it, live life and go out on dates and do ministry, read tons of books, and write too. Oh and stay physically fit, get sleep, and be. Oh, and not neglect their family or children.
Here are some time consuming reduction habits I need to implement:
1. I deleted all games off the ipad and my iphone
2. I need to hang up my clothes when I finish wearing them.
3. I need to start using my crockpot more.
4. I need to simplify my belongings. I learned this from JessLC over with her purging 100 things tasks. Started doing that before we were married. Now that our church as a share and swap – I have a huge pile of many boxes already begun for the spring event.
5. I need to unload the dishwasher at night when possible so it is cleaned out to be loaded with dirty ones the next day.
6. I love and will keep doing the majority of my laundry in one day.
7. I need to spend some part of my day reading – either beginning or end.
8. Organization is a big thing. We are working on cleaning out our walk-out attic (years before we turn it into a functional bedroom) and I need to get things organized so I quit spending time looking for stuff.
I actually think most of my time wasting is pure laziness, and that is not the habits of a Prov 31 industrious woman.
