I'm Lovin' It!

So, this last week has been kind of a bummer. I haven't felt all that great and have been dragging big time. I always get a little down when I don't feel like I can keep up with the crazy pace of life. This happens periodically for me, and in the past I have been very guilty of giving into the blues and going straight to the dumps. I've had some moments, but I just finished Warren Wiersbe's, "Be Joyful" study on Philippians and I have tried to take this as a test at how well I absorbed the lessons of that study. The overall idea is learning how to not allow people, things or circumstances steal your joy. It was such a great study. Anyway, I'm trying to get back in the game, and speaking of the game, I do realize how pointless it is to post a blog during Saturday night college football. However, I just got my turn with the laptop and I'm pretty sure it was Josh's way of occupying me so that I don't ask things like, "Do you like my new nail polish?" during the most important game of the year. And speaking of nail polish, since I haven't actually done anything noteworthy in the last week, I thought I would share a random list of things I'm loving right now. Here goes.

* First, I love this new nail polish line by CVS called Confetti. All of the polishes are like, a $1.99 and tonight I found my favorite color, "Dressed to the 9's". 

* I cannot wait to see how this new nail polish goes with these new lyrical shoes I just ordered. I am teaching a lyrical class this year and it is my FAVORITE. Lyrical is my thang. Hip Hop: not my thang. Lyrical: totally my thang.

Aren't they purty? I mean seriously, how many people get to buy shoes for work that have butterflies and bling bling? P.S. Those are not my feet. I'll spare you that shot.

* One more thing with feet. I also just got Heel Tastic for my achy, breaky feet and it is awesome! Y'all know I'm a sucker for As Seen on TV stuff, but I think this is actually gonna work.

* I am attempting to get back on the wagon with my diet. I don't know that I will be able to totally give up caffeine again, but I am trying to really cut back. I discovered Honest Tea the last time when I was being really super good and fell in love with the Black Forest Berry and the fact that it comes in glass bottles I can save and reuse. The Pig stopped carrying it not long after I discovered it (boo), but recently they started carrying it again. Yay! It doesn't taste anything like the sweet tea I make, but it just has a really refreshing taste.

* I'm lovin' that Kate has started singing "Ipsy Dipsy Spider" and that tonight she said she wanted Jesus in her heart. I REALLY loved hearing all 3 of my babies singing "Jesus Loves Me" in the playroom last night.

* I love giraffes and today I got to feed one.

* I love that my girls FINALLY cleaned their bedroom. I did the ugly cry in a happy way and told Sarah how proud I am of her.Y'all just don't know what that room looked like. It left me in sobbing fits for days declaring how I have failed as a mother and thanking God that my daughters are pretty since they would obviously never get a husband based on their domestic skills. Anyway, I am seriously loving that it is clean!

* I loved reading Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy and am so thankful you can download it on Kindle for $9.99. I've had an infatuation with Jacqueline Kennedy since 3rd grade when I read a biography about her, Some of this was hard for me to follow because I don't know my people in history very well, but it sparked my interest and made me want to learn more about that time in history and even led to me watching a documentary on the Cuban missile crisis. My Dad would be so proud. :)  

* I love that God is answering prayers and working in people's lives in ways that make me say, "Yep, that can only be God."

* I loved this post by my friend, Lori, and feel overwhelmed with a need to be a more faithful prayer warrior. I'll start by saying this prayer for you, one that I love from Philippians:

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, ¹⁰ that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, ¹¹ being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

                                                                          Philippians 1:9-10

What did you love this week?