0515 AM: Paul and I woke up with my alarm and headed out to the dining room. Paul put on the iBethel.tv worship set for us to listen to while I made hot water with a lemon wedge for each of us and got our Bibles out. Yes we gave up coffee I guess 3 months ago. For me, I did this pretty much because God told me to. Paul said something about when he quit smoking cigarettes he just continuously said "I'm not a smoker anymore" and he was able to quit really easily that way. It stuck in my head and that day I just decided that I was not a coffee drinker anymore. I replaced it with warm lemon water for some reason and later found that this is an extremely wonderful thing to do (according to nutritionists) for detoxifying. It sort of just came to me though which I thought was neat. Before I quit coffee (which I only drank one cup in the morning), if I didn't have the cup in the morning by 11:30am I would have a piercing caffeine headache. When I quit, the second I felt the headache trying to come I would say "Nope, I don't get headaches." and it would leave me immediately. I am here to testify that I never got a single headache from quitting coffee. Praise God!
0530 AM: Matthew 14 reading. What stuck out to me is found in the story of Peter walking on the water. Peter actually walks on water!!! But then he starts to sink... Jesus says (v31) ..."You of little faith... why did you doubt?" There is that "you of little faith" comment again that Jesus says multiple times. I always thought this was a rebuke or said in discouragement... but lately I feel like my eyes are being opened to this. Jesus says with the little faith of a mustard seed you could move a mountain and throw it into the water with a word/command. Here he says to Peter "You have a little faith and that's why you walked on water!" But instead of seeing that he was WALKING ON WATER (are we too familiar with this story to see how amazing this is?) ... and having his faith GROW... He saw the wind (v30), and the spirit of fear took hold of him. Wow. He was walking on water because he had a "little faith... why did you doubt?" The enemy snatched it (this time with fear... he was afraid when he saw the wind) but immediately (v31) Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. Great!!!
0630 AM: I made breakfast. I had boiled with the skins on some organic potatoes yesterday for about 8 minutes. I had them in the fridge. I cut them into bite sized pieces and fried them with some onion (cooking tip that I never knew: you should always make your pan hot with nothing in it. THEN when it is hot you add your oil or butter or whatever and immediately the food you are cooking. I always put my oil in first and then turned the stove on... which is wrong). I fried an organic egg and some of my organic whole wheat bread toasted (recipe is posted in this blog a week ago). Yum! I threw a load of laundry in the washer and washed the dishes from breakfast.
0730 AM: I made the dough for my bread and let it rise. As it was rising I made organic banana bread (huge hit even with Paulie who used to throw up to the smell of bananas), hung the laundry on the line outside that Paul put up for us last year, and moved the cars/ cleaned all the toys out of the yard so that Paul could mow the lawn. I also ran to the gas station to fill the gas can for the mower.
0830 AM: Got the banana bread out and vacuume the floor. For less than 10$ I made (all organic) a loaf of banana bread, a loaf and a half of whole wheat bread, and 5 whole wheat rolls for lunch. Awesome!!
0930 AM: Invited my parents to stay for lunch when they dropped the kids off. Took two of the potatoes and cut them into (8) wedges each, coated them with butter, fresh herbs out of the garden (basil, rosemary, thyme, and parsley), diced onion, S&P and wrapped them in aluminum foil. Did the same thing with ears of corn on the cob. Made patties out of organic ground beef and put all this in the fridge waiting for lunch. (I also popped a steam in the bag organic green beans in the microwave for this meal). Really great! Turn the corn on the grill and the potatoes multiple times for about 15 minutes.
1030 AM: Paul left for work. I hung another load of laundry on the line and started setting the table for lunch.
1200 PM: Folks and kids for lunch. Paulie ate everything without a fuss (had to coax him with the green beans and bribe him with a slice of banana bread lol. Audrey did so well but that was a lot of crying... she only gagged once... and she finished everything and then had a slice of banana bread. She is still struggling with the new eating style we are doing. Our kids up to about 2 months ago ate mostly McDonalds, pizza, waffles, soda... junk food really. I know it is not good. So we said "no more"... The kids say they are not sugar eaters anymore. It has been a process but it is getting so much better. What a perseverance trial though!
1:00 PM: Kids took a nap, I cleaned up from lunch and lay down with the book I am reading about Smith Wigglesworth (really great book!) but I fell asleep while reading.
3:00 PM: Kids up from naps and wanted to watch Neverending Story for some reason (they'd never seen it before) and since I had only napped for like 15 minutes I was happy to put it on. They were out all morning riding bikes and at the waterpark so I didn't feel bad not having them out.
5:30 PM: Since the kids did so good for lunch I let them pick their dinner. Audrey had organic PB&J on my bread with a banana, grapes, strawberries and a mozzerrella cheese stick. Paulie had Organic rotini whole wheat noodles with homemade monchego cheese sauce, raisins, and cashew nuts. I wasn't hungry so I just had some homemade organic salsa with organic blue corn chips and called it a day.
6:30 PM: Kicked the ball around in the back yard with Paulie per his request (see picture) for about 15 minutes while Audrey was dressing her babydoll with her new outfit she got on Wednesday and giving her a pretend bath. Bath for the kids, they dressed themselves for bed, Audrey brushed her own hair.
7:30 PM: Bedtime Routine of singing, bouncing, praying and tickling (not in that order it is whatever order the kids want them in). I pray every night that the kids will be full of God's love and His Holy Spirit.
8:00 PM: Paulie has been testing me lately but I WILL win. lol. He decided that he wanted me to read him one more story. When I told him no, he started crying, telling me he doesn't like me, and that he wants to "quit" this day and that this day has been "awful." I told him I didn't want our relationship to be this way and we made up and he went to sleep telling me that he loves me the most in the whole wide world. :)
Ran the dishwasher, filled the laundry for Paul's work jackets, and while I wait for the dishwasher to finish I typed this. Now I am going to go to bed. It is 9:22 PM. Goodnight everyone. Love you all!
Stacey
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