This video is from Taylor’s first solo song in a musical last summer at church.
Taylor’s piano recital this winter.
Taylor’s performance at the talent show.
I am so proud of Taylor. I am so excited that she has discovered what God has given her at such a young age. Her gifts truly bring joy to my heart. What an awsome gift God has given us!
So I went to my first read through of the skit. All was going well and I hit a little bunp in the road during the reading. The first was a word that begins with F and ends with G. I replaced it with freaking. The director okayed it and we went on. The next was God. I replaced that with Gosh. Not sure how he felt about that. Then we got to a word that begins with S and ends with t. Replaced with crud. Okay, I am probably upsetting the director by now but I just couldn’t compromise my faith for a place on stage. Then it came to unbuttoning my top shirt button and kissing one of the cast members. EEEEPPPPP! NOT ME! I don’t care if I am acting. I love my Jim and I felt that if I did this God would not be glorified. I felt absolutely nauseated thinking of kissing someone else even if it was just acting. If I was payed a million dollars and it was a movie that led people to Christ-that might be a different story! But since I would never come upon this opportunity, I will just continue kissing the most amazing man in the whole world-my Jim.
So the end result-I am not in the play. Good news though, I felt that God was so glorified in my decision and I left a great example to those people. Hey, they want me to come back and this would be really cool. I will make sure I know what the heck I am doing before I go next time!
As I went back a read my previous post about the play, I stated that I couldn’t wait to see what God would do with this in the community. And he did, he showed that he is a gracious and faithful Father and for his names sake, It has been a glorifing triumph for His Kingdom. I love my Father!
I have always enjoyed theatre. Never in a million years did I ever think I would go on stage. Ever since I was a little girl, after seeing ‘Nutcracker’ I have wanted to be in a play. The last couple of years I have been on the church drama team doing a few skits and I was Mrs. Zindler in ‘Freedom’s Gift’ for our church production. I have been Sam in our Kidstuf production and this has been a blast.
I have always thought I was an artistic person and wondered where God would want me to serve. It has been quite a struggle for me to see where God has me. I don’t know if it is having confidence in what he has for us or just getting up and doing what he wants us to do or maybe both.mI have tried so many different things in ministry and the only thing I come back to that I now brings him joy, is when I worship him through drama.
I guess the confidence booster was when I thought I would audition for a play at Heartland Theatre Company. I had no idea what I was in for because all of these people has so much experience and they could just chew me up and spit me out. I licked my wounds a couple times but really enjoyed the experience. It was so fun and would you know it, I am casted in one of the 10-minute plays. I couldn’t beleive it. What a trip. I can’t wait to see what God could possibly be doing with this in the community.
Everyone thinks my Jim looks like David Cook on American Idol. Well I do too. My Jim is so cute. Just the other day someone he didn’t even know said to him, “Man dude, I just have to say this, you look just like David Cook.”
The funny thing is, I just got my hair cut exactly like Victoria Beckham-nobody says I look like her! That stinks!
I am so proud of Taylor. She auditioned for the school talent show. We went out last weekend and picked out a cute little Hanna Montana outfit for the audition. She looked so cute. So for the past week it was, “This is the life” over and over again. Here is the cool thing, I love hearing it over and over again. She has the most beautiful singing voice and it is truly a gift from God. What is more amazing is that she is not afraid to use this gift for other people. How awsome is that.
Anyway, she made it into the talent show. Yeah! I can’t wait to hear her sing.
So today, Jim and I went to go have lunch with the kids at school and help out during recess time. We were so excited to bring them McDonalds and sit with them and their friends. We played kickball, visited with the principle. While Jim was out with Turner at his recess, I sat with Taylor for lunch. There was a girl sitting at the next table. She turned around and asked me if I was Taylor’s mom and I said yes. Then she said, “You look funny!” I was absolutely dumbfounded. Maybe it was because of the acne scars on my face, I don’t really know. I guess this was my conclussion. Anyway, she got up from the table and came and sat next to me. She continued with her “looking funny” remarks. What in the world is this kids problem? I didn’t know what to say. I just told her that it is not nice to make fun of people. I wish you could have seen the body language. Wow! Rolling her eyes and treating me like the plague. I know why kids get so scared sometimes. This really bothered me. I really wanted to…pardon me, I won’t go there.
Then when I was out at recess with Turner, a little boy pushed him and I saw it. Turner was wanting my help. I marched that kid over to the principle. This kid must be trouble because I didn’t have to say anything to the principle. He looked at the kid and said, “What’s going on ______?”. The kid said, “I accidently pushed Turned.” The principle said, “Uh, I don’t think so, go sit down!”
Wow, what in the world do these kids face every day. Our kids are in a wonderful school and I am thankful for the principle, but holy cow-I can’t even get past the bullies!
On Sunday, I went to go get in the shower and asked Turner, he’s six, to watch Ginger. I was just shutting off the water and see Ginger through the shower door walking in the bathroom dragging her leash behind her. So check out what happens next:
“Turner”
No answer
“Turner, can you come here please?”
Undecipherable distant mumbling. (Is undecipherable a word?)
“Turner, get in here right now!” By this time I am getting quickly dried off and open the bathroom door all the way and here comes Turner.
Little baby steps with pants at ankles, “I’m sorry Mommy.”
“Oh honey, were you going poo-poo?”
“Yeah Mommy, I’m sorry.”
“Oh no honey, I’m sorry. It’s okay, I will take care of Ginger.”
I felt so bad and at the same time it was one of the most precious moments with my son!
So, I know I have been gone a long time. It was a difficult time after my Grandma Evelyn past away. Not so much the grieving process just being so far away from family that I got a little, well sad and just didn’t want to talk about anything. But for that past few weeks I keep thinking of things I want to blog about. So anyway, here I am. I missed you all. Thank you for all for checking in on me. Hey Dennis, how is Snick?
My daughter Taylor loves to make people cards. She knew that I was leaving tomorrow because my grandma Evelyn is going to pass away. She wanted to give my mom a card to encourage her through this difficult time. Here is what it says:
Dear Grandma Lindsay,
I hope your feeling happy because great grandma also gets to see God and I’m sure she will love it. I feel sad too but God is with you and great grandma. Just feel happy for the time you spent with her. Have a great day.
Love, Taylor
I praise God for the gift I have in this child, what a gift!
So I had a bad day at work. Unfortunatley a coworker decided to try and get me in trouble in several different ways. I am greatful that all my other coworkers decided to stick up for me but at the same time I wanted resolution with this coworker. I decided I needed to talk to her because I didn’t like hearing what others were saying and I wanted it to stop, for everyone.
I approached the person at the end of the day and she gave me an earful of nothing. No validity to any of it. I ended up telling her that I preferred that she come to me, not anyone else or that I would not put up with this type of behavior and that I would not do this to her and that is why I was coming to her rather than letting any of this continue. I may have been a little harsh with my tone but she was trying to get me in trouble, even fired. So the conversation didn’t end well.
By the way, I went to my boss and she said she was glad I did what I did. She also told me that my coworker was trying to get me in trouble but it didn’t work because my other coworkers had already complained about what she was doing to me.
I don’t mind confrontation if it leads to resolution. I don’t like it when it is still in the air. I told all my coworkers to treat her right and not to get involved and that the best thing they can do is to work peacefully. I just feel like I could have been a little nicer about wanting her to come to me first. Any suggestions? How would you feel if a coworker was trying to get you fired?
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