So I have been thinking a lot about New Year Resolutions and all the hype about them this time of year. I have some goals I want to set and meet this coming year but I don't know if I want to call them New Years Resolutions but I have read a lot that you should right them out and look at them daily and I will do that but I wanted to put them on here also!!! So here goes
Spend time daily doing scripture study.
Spend time daily in personal prayer.
Keep family prayer and family home evening a top priority.
Spend at least 15 minutes a day taking care of Stacy.
Do some kind of exercise daily. (Thank you WII fit)
Eat healthier.
Live more frugal.
Spend less!!!
Stick to meal planning every week.
Become more organized and stay on a schedule.
See everyone as sons or daughters of God and treat them as that.
Be more charitable.
Further my education.
Be the mom Heavenly Father wants me to be.
Ok that's a lot and I will fail on some but I want to get right back on track as soon as it happens!!!
Friday, December 30, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
30.....
So today is the day I turn 30!!! I was sooo worried about it and feeling old. But I don't haha. I am sick with strep throat and all the kids are sick too. This isn't the best way to celebrate anything. I am just praying that we are all feeling better before Christmas. So in my twenties a lot happened and I have learned alot! I know who I can trust and who I can't. I am very happy with where my life is now and who is in my life. I am going to make a lot of goals for my 30's and I feel that all will be well. I am so excited to see where my family will be in the next few years!!!
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
30
I know most people think I am so much older than what I really am and sometimes I feel a lot older than what I am also. But I will be turning 30 in a few weeks and I really can't believe it. Yes I had my kids young, yes my husband is ten years older than me, and yes I was only 10 when my step daughter was born. But I look back and it is all worth it. I love when people look at me and say you are not really 29. Do I look that old?? My 20's have brought so much my way. I got married, had Jared, had a bout with cancer, I was a stay at home mom, worked a full time job, became a work from home mom, and my list can go on forever. But I am so blessed for all the things I went through. I look back and I had some scary times. At one time I was so ill that I feared for my life. The doctor even told my husband and I that I was loosing so much blood a day that it was surprising I was able to function. But I am glad that is past me!! I found out who my true friends are. I am hoping my 30's are amazing! I am hoping that I will be in better health. I will be going back to school!!! I will be preparing for my kids graduations, college and my boys serving missions and possibly Maddy also. But most of all I will be serving my Heavenly Father in what He has planned for me!! I am so excited for the new adventure. Last year I said I wasn't celebrating any more birthdays. But right after I said that I had some scares with my health so I will be celebrating my birthday and will be happy I made it another year!!!
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Things I am thankful for!!
My Heavenly Father
Salvation
Prayer
My Church
My parents
My husband
Jalen
Madison
Jared
Elisabeth
My home
My freedom
Food in my house
Friends
My furnace
The people that has came into my life this year
Missionaries
Love
Hugs
The words " I love you"
The bonus kids in my life
Facebook
Cafemom
My extended family
My sister
A car
Scriptures
Health
Knowledge
The ones fighting for my country
The ones who have came into my life this year
I probably have missed a lot but on this Thanksgiving evening I wanted to take time just to list some things I am thankful for. I am have so much gratitude for many things in my life. I am trying to be more thankful this coming year and find something to be thankful for in every situation. I hope that everyone that reads my blog will take time to think about what truly they are thankful for. May you be blessed!!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Crazy Busy Life
So I feel like I haven't blogged in a long time. I know it was last week but it feels forever ago. Things are going great for the Dick family. We are getting into a new routine with all the changes going on in world. The boys are playing basketball so we have lots of practices. Staci has a new schedule at work where she works seconds two weeks at a time and then days two weeks at a time. So when she is on seconds Jasmin and Elise are here in the evenings and spend the night. Evans mom is now working days so that has been an adjustment. Shane is working tons of hours too now so he is gone a lot but his job is going well. Both boys are doing scouts too now but they are doing them through our church. We are all adjusting to our new church and we all love it. The kids are really adjusting and learning so much and growing there.
Ok I am not liking how fast the holidays are approaching. I am sooo not ready for them to be here. This past Easter Jared has snooped through some stuff in my van and found his Easter basket stuff so this opened the door to tell our kids the truth about Santa, Easter Bunny, and Tooth Fairy. I am glad that is passed us and if I had to do it all over again we probably wouldn't have put so much emphasis on these fictional characters. Life is so much easier when we can actually talk about gifts and not have to deal with the disappointment of them not getting what they asked for. So we have discussed more about what gifts they want and if it will be able to happen. I know Shane has shown a couple things online to Jalen to see if he would actually like it before we made the purchase. I think we are going to do a family service project to help someone else out this year at Christmas so they can learn the true meaning of the Holiday. Also we are going to make some presents this year as a family. I am so blessed to have great kids who think of others before themselves.
We are also planning a vacation in the summer so if we save money at this time it will help this summer. They are soo excited to go on their first real big vacation.
Ok I am not liking how fast the holidays are approaching. I am sooo not ready for them to be here. This past Easter Jared has snooped through some stuff in my van and found his Easter basket stuff so this opened the door to tell our kids the truth about Santa, Easter Bunny, and Tooth Fairy. I am glad that is passed us and if I had to do it all over again we probably wouldn't have put so much emphasis on these fictional characters. Life is so much easier when we can actually talk about gifts and not have to deal with the disappointment of them not getting what they asked for. So we have discussed more about what gifts they want and if it will be able to happen. I know Shane has shown a couple things online to Jalen to see if he would actually like it before we made the purchase. I think we are going to do a family service project to help someone else out this year at Christmas so they can learn the true meaning of the Holiday. Also we are going to make some presents this year as a family. I am so blessed to have great kids who think of others before themselves.
We are also planning a vacation in the summer so if we save money at this time it will help this summer. They are soo excited to go on their first real big vacation.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Tears......
I am so blessed to know such great people that have left such great impacts on my life. I am sitting here crying because I don't know what my future holds but I know Who holds it. Tomorrow evening another piece of my heart is leaving New Castle. I know its not a forever goodbye but I know I don't know when we will be able to speak to or see each other again. I know that there is a greater work for Elder Wilson in Indiana. I know that many will be blessed by his testimony. I know that he is doing great things in Indiana!! I am just being selfish and not wanting him to leave. But I am so blessed that he has brought great people into his life. I am forever grateful to him for all his sweet words and love he showed me when I wasn't very lovable. I know he stayed in New Castle so long because of me. He was meant to be with me through my journey to this point and he will be with me through the rest of my journey, it just may not be physically. I will miss him so much that I don't know at the point how I will handle it but I know my Heavenly Father has all the strength I will need during this transition time. I know letters will come and I will here from him often. I will more than likely get weekly updates about him from his amazing mom that I have now become to call my friend. I am just so thankful for his testimony and the blessings that it has had on my life. I will be forever grateful to Heavenly Father for bringing Elder Peter "Max" Wilson into my life!!!
Sunday, October 16, 2011
My testimony
I was introduced to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints approximately 3 years ago. When my husband requested a visit from the missionaries in the area. Two very sweet sister missionaries came for a visit. We had lessons with them for approximately 6 months. Then our family started going through some issues with our oldest daughter who at the time was a 17 year old high school senior who knew everything and no one could convince her other wise. Also some other matters were going on in our family. So I told my husband that the sisters needed not to come back because we were perfectly ok in our church and with all the issues going on we didn’t need to confuse our children anymore.
Fast forward to earlier this year I am thinking February or March. I really can’t remember exactly what month but it was still cold out. Two Elders stopped by and started meeting with us again. Due to my husbands job he was not home except two days a week and that was Wednesdays and Thursdays. The Elders were only able to visit on Thursday evenings due to our family’s crazy schedules. But I sit on the board for a baseball leagues for adults and children with disabilities and also a committee member for Henry County’s Relay for Life. Thursday evenings were usually the night of choice for both organization’s. So a lot of times I was hit or miss on the lessons. My husband consistently met with the missionaries and grew in understanding and wanted to know more and become a member of the church. As for me I was a Nazarene who was content, comfortable, and happy or I thought I was happy at my church. My mindset was no one was going to convince me otherwise. At one time I did make the statement I would me a Nazarene till the day I died….. In June my husband set a baptism date. I was not happy our family had always went to church together. I didn’t want to be a wife who went to church with her kids by herself. We had already been baptized with our oldest daughter. Which was a very special event to me due to the fact that the man who baptized us was tragically electrocuted to death while trimming trees for a member of his church on July 30, 2005. I felt being rebaptized would be making a mockery of him.
The night before his baptism I told him he had to choose between his family or the church. …. I was very upset and the children and I left and went to stay at my parents house because my family was not going to attend two churches. that’s not what my family did. It wasn’t fair. That weekend was a very dark weekend for me. On the day of his baptism my phone rang and it was a former elder that had recently went home. He told me I needed to go to his baptism. He also was very reassuring and supportive to me and made sure I knew he loved me. I didn’t go to the baptism. I was a very un happy person for awhile…..
One evening the Elders stopped by and asked me if I wanted them to continue to teach me. I actually said yes…… So they continued to teach me. The whole baptism was my hang up. I didn’t want to make a mockery of my baptism. We were having a study with the Elders on September 7th and Elder Wood asked at the end of the lesson if I would kneel and pray ask if the book of Mormon was true and if Joseph Smith was a true prophet of Heavenly father. I knelt and prayed and received my answer…. Well ok I had no idea what to do now. I didn’t know how to leave my church…. I had responsibilities and was a teacher. Well the answer began to come the next day. I was leaving my house to go to a PTO meeting. I would have usually slipped into a pair of flip flops and just went but I took the time to put my tennis shoes on. Grabbed my purse, phone, keys, and told my family goodbye and out the door I went. If you know me I rarely leave the house by myself. I have my kids with me and everyone else’s kids since I have a daycare and am always babysitting. Well I fell down 6 cement steps. I am laying at the bottom of the steps and in severe pain. I didn’t know what to do. I did have a lady stop but she wasn’t much help since she had a fear of cats and a cat was sitting on my porch.. So I start panicking and realized my phone was in my purse. So I called my husband and had him come outside. So he came out looked at me and called 911. I ended up in an ambulance and in ER. I had sprained my shoulder, my left ankle was severely sprained, my left knee was dislocated, and had a really bad abrasion on my right knee. The elders were at our house shortly after I came home from ER to offer a blessing. This began my transition to breaking ties with my former church. I just didn’t realize it. I was unable to do anything. Moving from the recliner just to do simple things we take for granted was a major feat that would result into me being extremely exhausted. I am a very busy person and always on the go. So I really had nothing to do and I was bored so I read and I read a lot. I read a lot of the book of Mormon. It really brought great comfort to me. The church I attended was in Spiceland which is about 10 minutes from New Castle and I told my husband many times during my recovery that I felt spice land was a thousand miles away. The people I attended church didn’t seem concerned about me. It really hurt me. But the people of the branch in new castle were so awesome to help me and my family. The sisters brought meals, offered to help with my children, sent texts, called, offered to help in anyway and also visited me. During this time I felt ok with taking myself of the membership in the Nazarene church. I felt at peace with everything. The issue with my baptism weighed heavily and I did talk to the missionaries about my concern. They invited me to pray about it and I received my answer.
On October 29th which is less then two weeks myself along with three of my children Maddy, Jared, and Jalen will be baptized at 6pm. This will be an amazing evening for our family and it will be one step closer to our family being a forever family. I now know without a shadow of a doubt that Joseph Smith is the Prophet of the Restoration, The Book of Mormon is True. Thomas S. Monson is a Prophet and this church is Jesus Christ’s true church. I bear this testimony in the name of Jesus Christ amen!!!
Fast forward to earlier this year I am thinking February or March. I really can’t remember exactly what month but it was still cold out. Two Elders stopped by and started meeting with us again. Due to my husbands job he was not home except two days a week and that was Wednesdays and Thursdays. The Elders were only able to visit on Thursday evenings due to our family’s crazy schedules. But I sit on the board for a baseball leagues for adults and children with disabilities and also a committee member for Henry County’s Relay for Life. Thursday evenings were usually the night of choice for both organization’s. So a lot of times I was hit or miss on the lessons. My husband consistently met with the missionaries and grew in understanding and wanted to know more and become a member of the church. As for me I was a Nazarene who was content, comfortable, and happy or I thought I was happy at my church. My mindset was no one was going to convince me otherwise. At one time I did make the statement I would me a Nazarene till the day I died….. In June my husband set a baptism date. I was not happy our family had always went to church together. I didn’t want to be a wife who went to church with her kids by herself. We had already been baptized with our oldest daughter. Which was a very special event to me due to the fact that the man who baptized us was tragically electrocuted to death while trimming trees for a member of his church on July 30, 2005. I felt being rebaptized would be making a mockery of him.
The night before his baptism I told him he had to choose between his family or the church. …. I was very upset and the children and I left and went to stay at my parents house because my family was not going to attend two churches. that’s not what my family did. It wasn’t fair. That weekend was a very dark weekend for me. On the day of his baptism my phone rang and it was a former elder that had recently went home. He told me I needed to go to his baptism. He also was very reassuring and supportive to me and made sure I knew he loved me. I didn’t go to the baptism. I was a very un happy person for awhile…..
One evening the Elders stopped by and asked me if I wanted them to continue to teach me. I actually said yes…… So they continued to teach me. The whole baptism was my hang up. I didn’t want to make a mockery of my baptism. We were having a study with the Elders on September 7th and Elder Wood asked at the end of the lesson if I would kneel and pray ask if the book of Mormon was true and if Joseph Smith was a true prophet of Heavenly father. I knelt and prayed and received my answer…. Well ok I had no idea what to do now. I didn’t know how to leave my church…. I had responsibilities and was a teacher. Well the answer began to come the next day. I was leaving my house to go to a PTO meeting. I would have usually slipped into a pair of flip flops and just went but I took the time to put my tennis shoes on. Grabbed my purse, phone, keys, and told my family goodbye and out the door I went. If you know me I rarely leave the house by myself. I have my kids with me and everyone else’s kids since I have a daycare and am always babysitting. Well I fell down 6 cement steps. I am laying at the bottom of the steps and in severe pain. I didn’t know what to do. I did have a lady stop but she wasn’t much help since she had a fear of cats and a cat was sitting on my porch.. So I start panicking and realized my phone was in my purse. So I called my husband and had him come outside. So he came out looked at me and called 911. I ended up in an ambulance and in ER. I had sprained my shoulder, my left ankle was severely sprained, my left knee was dislocated, and had a really bad abrasion on my right knee. The elders were at our house shortly after I came home from ER to offer a blessing. This began my transition to breaking ties with my former church. I just didn’t realize it. I was unable to do anything. Moving from the recliner just to do simple things we take for granted was a major feat that would result into me being extremely exhausted. I am a very busy person and always on the go. So I really had nothing to do and I was bored so I read and I read a lot. I read a lot of the book of Mormon. It really brought great comfort to me. The church I attended was in Spiceland which is about 10 minutes from New Castle and I told my husband many times during my recovery that I felt spice land was a thousand miles away. The people I attended church didn’t seem concerned about me. It really hurt me. But the people of the branch in new castle were so awesome to help me and my family. The sisters brought meals, offered to help with my children, sent texts, called, offered to help in anyway and also visited me. During this time I felt ok with taking myself of the membership in the Nazarene church. I felt at peace with everything. The issue with my baptism weighed heavily and I did talk to the missionaries about my concern. They invited me to pray about it and I received my answer.
On October 29th which is less then two weeks myself along with three of my children Maddy, Jared, and Jalen will be baptized at 6pm. This will be an amazing evening for our family and it will be one step closer to our family being a forever family. I now know without a shadow of a doubt that Joseph Smith is the Prophet of the Restoration, The Book of Mormon is True. Thomas S. Monson is a Prophet and this church is Jesus Christ’s true church. I bear this testimony in the name of Jesus Christ amen!!!
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