It Gets Me Every Time...
It's Tuesday. My house is a mess. The laundry is overflowing.Tomorrow night we leave for Thanksgiving in Wisconsin. I haven't packed. Even my van is a mess. I'm gonna have to empty that thing before we can load up all 6 of us and our stuff.And once again, I've waited till the last minute. Always. I always put off stuff like this till the last minute. And *big surpr

Let's Get Personal Part 2
If you haven't read yesterday's post, you should go there and do it, because otherwise this is just gonna seem weird.I enjoyed reading your comments yesterday. I had no idea so many others were going through similar situations. I should warn you this is my longest post ever. Get some coffee and sugary nourishment before you settle in. It's a journey I'm glad to share, and one I need to record for my own sake as well...I'm likely to find myself back here some day.

Let's Get Personal Part 1
Yesterday I received a question from a non-real life bloggy friend. She wondered if it was weird for her to ask a serious question to a person you've never actually met but feel like you know via bloggy world. And my answer, without a doubt is nope. Not weird at all. I love blog questions. Makes me feel like someone is actually listening to what I'm saying...which is a good portion of the reason I blog. Because in my real life, it can often feel like no one is paying attention. :)Before I get to the question, I'm gonna put a disclaimer on this post. I hate disclaimers, they somehow seem like an apology for whatev

My Ideal...
There are two of me. Sort of.There's ideal Sarah and real Sarah.Each night as real Sarah crawls into bed she plans what ideal Sarah is going to do differently tomorrow.Ideal Sarah is going to get her butt out of bed at 5:30 AM (and she'll be happy about it) and she'll immediately get on the treadmill for 45 minutes. When she's done, she'll start the coffee pot (which is not still filled with old coffee from yesterday because ideal Sarah cleans up everything before she goes to bed) and then she'll head up to take a shower a

It's Personal...
I'm in session 5 of Beth Moore's Daniel study. God has used this study to challenge me beyond words. I haven't blogged on it much because it is so personal, so close to my heart that I need it to just stay there for awhile.This morning, something Beth wrote hit me hard.For some, the flow of the world can be easier to resist than the flow of Christian mediocrity.I struggle with both. Until this study, I didn't realize how