Company Girl Coffee ~ 3-5-2010

It’s been too long since I hooked up for coffee, so I thought I’d jump back in today.  Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to visiting y’alls blogs, too!

I love it when a new month starts on a Monday!  It gives me hope in accomplishing all I want to that month…it seems like a fresh, new start.  I am resolved to stay on task with Rachel Anne over at Home Sanctuary this month.  My biggest pride this week was my husband’s dresser.  (What a chore it was!)  I really should have taken a “before” picture of my husband’s dresser, but it was sooo bad that I was ashamed.  Instead, I present the “after”:

Please note that the pitiful looking stuffed bear.  Hubby and one of the girls had a long standing joke of hiding this poor creature back and forth for the other to find.  He’s lived on the dresser for about a year and when I dusted him off, he practically begged me for a trip to the Salvation Army.

My ‘babies’ turned 16 this week.  I guess it’s time to stop saying ‘I just had twins’ as an excuse for the extra flab?  Working on it, working on it…eating right and exercising…a slow process, but it’s a work in progress.  Here’s a not-so-great picture of them opening gifts early that morning before school.  Taylor is on the left, Kaylie on the right.  They are amazing young women who love the Lord and I learn so much from them daily.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a blessed week!

Cheryl

Contest at a friend’s site!

Like earrings?  OK, let’s be real.  Who doesn’t?  (Besides my 21yo daughter who has twice had her ears pierced and twice let them close up.)  Even better than earrings…FREE EARRINGS!  Sarah over at Piece by Peace Designs is having a new contest and you could win this darling pair of blue earrings!  Stop on over and check out how.  The contest goes through next Saturday…and you can win extra entries.

I have 3 (or is it 4?) pairs of Piece by Peace earrings and get compliments on them every time I wear them.  Isn’t it time you treated yourself to some?!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a great week and good luck!!

Cheryl

Company Girl Coffee ~ 1/8/10

Welcome!  I have been out of the blogging habit.  I guess it’s easier to hang out on Facebook.  Has it been a great week at Home Sanctuary or WHAT?!  What hit home for each of you?  For me, the Minimum Maintenance was perfect.  It goes hand in hand with the Messy Perfectionism article that followed the next day.  I am a perfectionist.  I like things done right.  And often, if I don’t have time to do it “right”, I will just not do it.  Minimum Maintenance gives me the permission to spend 5 minutes in an area.  No more, no less.  Do you know how much I can accomplish in a 5 minute period?!  My master bedroom looked waaay better (OK, my ‘half’, anyway!) after 5 minutes.  It got me on board to continue making small changes, all as I head toward the perpetual goal of creating Sanctuary in my home.

As with many other Americans this first full week in January, I am DIETING.  It is time…and a new and different mindset about this…so I’m hopeful.  Next week I add exercise to the routine.  Basically I’ve cut out sugar and flour.  No big surprise that those are my two favorite food groups. :oP  As I do without those things, my tastebuds and cravings change and fruits and vegetables are getting more popular than cookies.  Well, almost.  ;o)

Have a blessed week – thanks for stopping by!

Cheryl

2010…bring it!

I have to say I’m not usually one to make a big deal about a new year.  I suppose years of failed resolutions have made me a little cynical about January 1.

For whatever reason, this year feels different.  I have goals I would like to strive toward in 2010.  Some are the same as years past.  Is this the year weight will really come off?  Will I read my Bible daily this year?  I can only go into the year hoping that I have more discipline than in years past.

2009 has been a year of blessings, mixed with some painful lessons.  Every rose bush has its thorns.  Or is it that every thorn bush has its roses?  Yes, I think that’s it.  It’s been a year of change (and I don’t mean Obama’s) and the sting that can accompany it.  Lessons learned, when the sting dies down, can be beautiful.

The greatest lesson I learned in 2009:  Be obedient.  His timing is always best.  Had I been obedient to Him, I could have avoided a sting.

Here’s to 2010…a year of obedience, a year of discipline.  May He grant me the wisdom to listen and act accordingly.

Blessings,

Cheryl

Company Girl Coffee ~ 12/4/09

Welcome, Company Girls!  Thanks for stopping by.  I am getting a late start today – and just had a bowl of oatmeal.  I’ll start some coffee in a minute!

I hope your week has been full of His never-failing blessings!

Cross Country had their State Meet last Saturday.  Kaylie (on the right) PR’d on the course and was thrilled!  

 

I celebrated my birthday this week with our family (plus 20yo’s boyfriend) going to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra.  What a wonderful way to welcome the Christmas season!

 

 

 

 

 

Please join me in praying for the following:  KM, JB, TG, SG, MW (all fighting cancer); SE (first week in the Navy!).

Have a blessed week!

Cheryl