Nice Day

As my day comes to a close I can say that it was a nice day. Work was good...busy but good. The Pecan Round Abouts (which I named) are selling well, which is exciting! Ryan and I spent some time at his parents house this evening enjoying a fine home cooked meal of sloppy joes, prepared with love by Grandma Rowett! Laura went to a birthday party so we didn't get to see her much. I was noticing how much older she seemed tonight and then I remembered that she is in 5th grade now...which makes her a lot older than she was just a few weeks ago!
Then we went downtown to Hyperion and enjoyed a good mocha...Ryan had tea...and we had good conversation outside on the bench...luckily we had the coffee to keep us warm...and each other I guess...!! Now I'm ready for sleep and I'm looking forward to tomorrow morning when Ryan and I get to sleep in a bit together...anything is later than 4:15am...
so good night!

This makes for 5 posts on my blog...please be on the lookout for a link to appear on Ryan's blog!!

Brinks' First Bath

This afternoon I gave Brinks his first bath. This should make his grandparents and housemates very happy...its not that he really smelled bad but I think his "itchy" dry skin may have actually been a flea problem...so hopefully the bath helped. He just finished his rawhide treat that was meant to distract him from being so wet and it worked...now that he's done I with it...I'm pretty sure that he is rolling around on our bed upstairs in an attempt to get all the "wet" off of him!! If I had a camera and knew how to get a picture on here I would put one on of this...its a funny sight!

I would just like to take this time to let Ryan know that the time is quickly aproaching when he will have to give my blog a coveted link on his blog!! This is very exciting for me!

The Great House Hunt...almost done?

So we finally got in to see this house on Charles St. today, pretty much in the heart of historic downtown, well maybe the outer wall of the heart. Its right across the street from the Mary Washington house, theres nothing like living in history!! Anyway, it was very cool and the good thing is that we don't have to leave Brinks out on the street. I think it will continue to be a stretch giving up privacy in pursuit of a simpler life but it will be a good stretch.

Now we will once again prepare to get our house on the market..I still have one room to paint, luckily its the second smallest room in the house so it shouldn't take too long, however I am sick of painting. And then there is the garage to tackle...I might leave that one to the boys since I have no clue whats out there... So if anyone is interested in a house please let us know...we have one for you!!

untill next time...

trying to understand

I've been trying to understand something lately in light of some recent events in my own life and in the life of my family. How is it that a church can become so consumed and desire such control over their mission that the have little to no support for someone carrying out a similar mission somewhere else. Are we as followers of Christ not here to love others and share the Good news? I believe that God has called each of us in some way or another to do this but in each of our lives it looks different. So then who are we to say that someone's calling is not right or to be unsupportive of it. If what God has called them to do is spreading His Word and loving others why not join together in it. Why not be about the Kingdom of God more so than about the walls of a building.

This has really been on my heart lately. I just find it sad that as the Church we can't all be about the same thing even if it doesn't look the same or have the same name or whatever. If we are all about the mission of the Kingdom then how can we say that one is doing it wrong or disagree with it. One person/church can't reach every person or community so why not be supportive of what another community of faith is doing in a different community.

Perhaps this is the way its always been and I'm just waking up to reality. Or maybe I just don't understand the bureaucracy of a church. But I hope that I can be more about loving God and loving those in my community and more concerned about the Kingdom of God then about one building and one way of thinking. Please feel free to comment and let me know where I may have missed something...I'm open to your thoughts!

Attemt 3

Ok, so this is my third attempt to post on my blog. I think that I finally found a template that I like although I think its the same one that my father-in-law uses on his Phlog, but thats ok.
Today is my day off from work at Eileen's at the Chimneys, an amazing bakery in downtown Fredericksburg that you should visit if you have not already. So far today I have finished painting the doors to our bedroom, vacumned and done some laundry. I most likely do not have the most exciting life that you might read about on a blog but none the less its mine.
Tonight we are going to look at some houses downtown, hopefully some that will be good candidates for the nameless church house. Its somewhat insane that is will be my third house since Ryan and I got married almost 2.5 years ago but I guess that keeps things exciting. I'm also thinking about pursure a career in real estate and may be taking the liscinsing class this spring.
I am most certainly rambling on here but this being my first official post and all, I'm not quite sure what exactly to post about. I think maybe we'll leave it at this for now and hopefully there will be more to come!