Now What?

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My first emotional post.....here it goes....
What do you do when your world has been totally rocked??? That is what I am wondering because in the summer of  2011, my world has been changed. What do you do when you thought your future was planned out and now you don't even know where you will be next year??

A man who I thought was "The One", a man who talked to me about our future bedroom, the ring he was going to get me, what our kids would do, our future house, our future in general.....decided I wasn't going to be in his future anymore. Apparently it took him 4 years to figure that out. Seriously dude?? You couldn't have figured that out in year 1, maybe year 2??? Really??? You need to be with me for 4 years to figure out that you don't want to be with me????

Where does a newly single girl go from here??? I feel like I am starting over in a new place knowing no one. After a break up- you don't just lose a best friend, you break up with other friends as well. I am sure you all know how that works.

Thankfully, I have had some good girl friends to hang out with to get through this rough time in my life. I have met lots of new people already and I am looking forward to meeting more. I met a large group of really nice girls this past weekend for the Houston's Blogger brunch. I will blog about that as soon as I can find my camera cord. I found about 15 cords today. Of course, none were the ONE I needed.

I know I will get through this. I know I will look back at some point and be glad that it happened. I will realize why God has this plan for my life. But in the meantime, it sucks! So join me on this journey as I begin my search for "Mr. Right". I am sure I will have plenty of guy bashing posts about all the losers I meet along the way! I already have a few I could write!

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I also signed up for twitter this morning....trying to figure it all out!

pool day

Yesterday, I went out to Missouri City to hang out at the pool with this Mama and her precious little boy!

We stayed out there for a couple of hours. L slept in the shade for most of the time. The 5 minutes that he got in the pool/sun wore him out! We are gonna do another pool day next week. I will try to take lots of pictures because my blog has been lacking pictures lately.

Not much else is going on this weekend. I am exciting about the blogger lunch going on tomorrow! Any other Houston bloggers wanna join??? I will definitely get pictures from that! Have a nice weekend!

Something Blue

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Linking up with Paw Prints and Pastry Bags.....

What have I been up to??

I have been a bad blogger lately. It seems as if I blog in spurts! I am going to try and blog more often. I have spent a lot of time in Louisiana this summer. We had a family reunion at my parents house for the fourth of July. That was a lot of fun and I enjoyed spending time with them. I did some volunteer work in a low income area in Houston last week. We had a lot of fun working with the kids in the area. We helped the older girls make scrapbooks and taught them ways to read the Bible and think about verses as they read them.....

1. What does it say?

2. What does it mean?

3. How can I apply it in my life?

I do not have any pics from the week and could probably not post them anyway.

I am going through a really rough time in my life right now and will eventually blog about it, but I am not ready yet. I prayed for some answers and the next day I read this post about waiting on God, read this post about God being faithful, and got in my car and Waiting by John Waller was playing. So I guess my answer is to just keep waiting and be patient.

"I'm waiting, I'm waiting on You, Lord And I am hopeful, I'm waiting on You, Lord Though it is painful, But patiently, I will wait"- John Waller

Painful is an understatement. I am 99% sure this is the hardest thing I have ever had to go through. I have hope that in the end, I will look back and realize why things went the way they did. But in the meantime, it's painful.

DIY conference

I need to find some people that want to go to the DIY conference in Atlanta next summer. Sounds like it will be lots of fun! I would love to learn more about power tools, painting furniture, photographing it, etc.

Posts about it:

http://www.havenconference.com/

http://www.centsationalgirl.com/2011/07/haven-conference-june-2012/

http://www.homestoriesatoz.com/2011/07/announcing-haven-conference-home-diy-blog-conference.html

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

A week ago, Pastor Gregg brought his wife's banana bread into his sermon. Well apparently, EVERYONE was asking for the recipe. They posted it on their facebook account and sent out an email with the recipe. I was bored this past Saturday and actually had all of the ingredients on hand so I decided to make it. It is delish! I have tried several banana bread recipes before and have failed at all of them, but this one is a keeper! It is absolutely not on my diet though! Only thing I changed about the recipe is that I did chop up some walnuts and add those in it. I do not know how much because I did not measure them.

CHOCOLATE CHIP BANANA BREAD

1 ¼ cups sugar

1 stick butter, softened

2 eggs

3 medium sized ripe bananas

½ cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup milk chocolate chips

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease bottom of bundt pan with Crisco shortening and dust with flour. Mix sugar and butter in large bowl. Stir in eggs until well blended. Add bananas, buttermilk and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Mix in remaining ingredients except chocolate chips just until moistened. Stir in chocolate chips. Pour into pan. Bake about 45 minutes until top is light brown and wooden pick comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes. Remove from pan. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Slice and spread with butter. Serve warm with a glass of cold milk. Enjoy!

Speaking of my diet, I have being very lenient this summer I guess you could say. Somehow, I have only gained one pound back. The end of June and most of July was basically a free for all! I was on vacation and also spent a lot of time in Louisiana with a lot of extended family in town. I am now back in Houston and I am back on track for the most part. I think that is the most important part- that you do allow yourself to indulge every now and then but must get right back on it.

I have had to scale my running back due to knee problems. That is a whole other post for another day! Hope everyone is having a great summer!

Pray for baby James

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