Philippians 4:13

This is one Bible verses that I as a wife of a marine, and stay at home mom of two girls live by. and it's something that helps me with all that I do.

"I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength." Philippians 4:13

I have people asking me how I do it and how I do the everyday life with all that comes with a military life. And I tell them it's all because of the love that we have as a family for the Lord Jesus. And knowing that he is with us in all that we do. I do not think that I'm a supper mom or anything. And if you know me you know that I have bad days when I about had it. Those days come when it's been days without seeing Matthew, and both the girls and I are missing him. Or when I have to go shopping and the girls both want to nap at a time that they do not nap at. I stop and pray and move on.

I was ask once how do you handle him working all the time and do it with two little kids. And when I stop to think before telling her how I did it, it cam down to me not doing it as well as I would like. So I grab my Bible and sat down and just opened it up and started reading and this verses is what I was reading. And I knew that's what I needed to tell her. And from that second on things have ran much better. I try to keep our day to day life the same with or without Matthew here. And do fun things with and without him, it helps the time go when he is gone, and makes good memories when he is here. We now have a week list of things that we do each week and on the days that we do it. We been doing it for a few months now and it's been going well and the girls know what is happening that week, with one fun thing each week. Sometime more. I do it for a full month and it works well for us. (will post each month later)

And when things happened and Matthew just can not be there we use it as a learning time. And the girls have been doing a lot of learning over the past year and have learn to love the time we get with him, or anyone. When he is something big like a Christmas party, or a Birthday we come back to Philippians 4:13 and read and we talk about how they are feeling and we have both seen that our talks have changes and that their understanding has too.

We do not always handle things like Jesus would, but we try, and keep him in our harts, minds and acts all day.

Christmas vs Santa

You all knew that it was coming! As our blog is called our walk with God. And right now if you do not know us at all you are thinking there is no Santa in that house at all! Well it's a good thing you did not place any money on that. Yes we do Santa, well now I got you thinking, because the two do not work well together do they. Well it's all about how you go about it. First off we are about the Christmas story, and our girls need to know that he the one and only came in the this world with nothing, and not a very nice place. And all his life was about giving and what he could do for others. And we use that to teach our girls that they need to be happy and glad for what they have, and look for ways to give back. And around Christmas time it seems a lot out there to give back. With the giving tree, the bell ringers, and toys for tots. (had to put that in there) And we do have the girls give at this time. And we take the whole month to look at the birth of Jesus and what each thing means. We read the Christmas story, sing songs.

But on the other hand we do Santa and have a ton of fun with it. We feel that it's good for them to be able to think that someone is watching and seeing all the good that they are doing. And when it comes right down to it, we are watching them. So we watch the tv shows and read books with him in it. And we do talk about how some people do not beleive in Santa just like some people do not beleive in God. That does not mean that we should be mean to them, we just do not push it. And when the time comes that they no longer beleive in Santa, we will have them look in to it and see what they can find. Because with all good story there is a starting point. And it will come a learning leason. I come to look at it just like Disney.

We have a good balance that works for us, and as long as we remember to have JOY in our life then we should be just fine.

Jesus
Others
Yourself

Thank you Duggars for the JOY we love it and so do our girls! It's something that we all can remember without to much work.

winter picnic

Today we did something that my kids have come to love. Having a winter picnic! So much fun, we lay out a blanket and eat on the floor. Sometimes it's just whatever is for dinner and sometime we go all out and make summer time foods! Tonight was all out and had summer time food. And with the end of the year coming fast we find ourselfs talking a lot about the up coming year and what we would like as a family. mind you that our girls are still all under 5. So when we talk about goals with them we sometimes get some funny ones. But we feel that they need to have something to work to, even at this age. And new years eve we now have a party for a good year that we had and the good year that is to come. The goals that we were able to finish and the ones we were not. And that is when we come up with new goals, but just to see where they were we talk a little about it tonight. So Matthew was to not work as much, and to take more faily trips. Eammah's is to be potty train. Mine is to cook fresher, and to loss weight. But the one that got me was Jessalla's our 4 1/2 year old. She would like to get more family time in just like we were doing now. to see that our little girl knows what is important. To see her so happy to have both of us and Eammah just having fun and having dinner together. I know that most of you all have dinner as a family each night or most nights of the week. but we do not and are lucky to have it on Sunday.

It got to me a little and so glad to see that I'm doing something right with her. :)

I'm back

it's 135 in the morning and I'm sitting up awake! Man what is up with this. We are giving us other a computer for Christmas this year I'm so glad! I'm not going to be on to long I just wanted to get back in to writing and whatnot again. And to tell you that I'm a planner and when my day dose not go as plan I my flip ;~) Keep that in mind as you read this.

This morning was the 17th and it was a Friday and in the Landers house that means we are going to speech. And on this day we were going to head north because Saturday we were having a big thing for my brother who just finish college. So the morning is going well, get Jessalla where she needs to be and when we are all done with that we come back to the house and as I'm getting Eammah out she starting to get sick. Mind you, as she is doing this the only thing I can think of is not in the car seat! LOL! I dislike taking them apart! Well with that in my head I cup my hands and get most of it. Well now she is crying to get out and I'm standing there with no way to get her out! I now have to go in to clean my hands. Clean her up and all was better for a minute. needless to say we are still at home and I fill like a bad sister! But he knows that we love him and would be there if we could. But I just put her back down before I got on here. So it's not going to work for us to be there.


Look for our Christmas posts coming soon! with in the next few days