Ok, so all weekend I was so excited because we had NOTHING to do. We had nowhere to be (except church) and it was great! We have been SOOOOO busy with swim meets and Dan's races etc. that it felt so great to do nothing. We got up Saturday morning and in anticipation of Dan coming home made this huge breakfast and then sat out on the back patio and enjoyed the warn sun and wind.
The girls were so happy to get to play with their toys which you guessed it included dirt and mud.
We thought is would be nice to invite Dans mom down from Lake Arrowhead for the weekend to hang out with the girls; little did we know what the week would hold for her and thousands of other families. It's funny becuase I kept thinking,"ahhh, this weekend is to calm, to mellow, to delightful. Surely something is coming." I swear I am a "glass is half full" type of person but this weekend I just had this feeling.
So around 6am Monday morning I get a call from my mother in law that she needs to come move in & my husband moved out! Ugh!! I want my cozy, sleep in, make pancakes, watch my girls play in the sun weekend back. Whaaa! Seriously though, I am praying for all you firefighters and wives who hold the fort down. Be strong! And to those of you who may have lost your homes or know someone who did? God is faithful and we will get through this. We're Californians, we're tough!
So all last week I could hear this small voice in my head askingme if what I did day in and day out pleased God. At first I was trying to drown it out because I knew full well what that little voice wanted; it wanted change and ugh.......we know how much we all love change right? So anyway after a week or so of the Holy Spirit nudging at me, a few things friends have said and Pastor Chris sharing from Josehps life during the sermon yesterday I decided to think it through more. Ok, so here is my confession; I watch shows that I know don't please the Lord. I used to be really good about filtering these things out and then slowly as Dan would work more overtime and I would find myself alone and bored I would start flipping through shows and checking out things that I knew friends watched and some other shows that I had seen previews for. Before I even realized it I quickly started to care about what was happeing on Greys Anatomy and believe me when I tell you I would not ever have an affair but I loved this show and let's be honest, that's all it's about. I would also watch the gossip shows about the stars and then a friend said in her Blog that she watched them but NEVER gossiped. So it got me thinking,"why then do I watch a show that talks about other people?" I mean is it ok to tare apart Brittney Spears? No.........in fact my heart breaks for her.So then what am I doing here? At church yesterday when Pastor Chris started talking about Fleeing temptation like Joseph did and how he called sin wicked. Pastor Chris loved that word "wicked." He said we should use it more often to describe the act of sin and where it puts our hearts. When we sin we destroy our lives, and those around us. Now you might be screaming "leagalistic" at your computer but its not. Even little stuff creeps in. I don't think I am a bad person if I watch something that doens't please the Lord I just think it removes me from being in fellowship with him when I am watching the cast of some show sleeping around or another show gossiping and hurting others. I don't care about the "good person, bad person" thing either; I care about being in constant fellowship with God so that the short time I am here I can be a world changer. I mean it's hard enough without TV to do the right thing, think the right things and so on. It is so hard to live in the world, be part of it yet be different yet love those around us plus be healthy in our own homes and families why make it any harder? So with that said I have decided to go about the task of being more aware of what I flick on the TV. No more junk. I want to be completely available for God to use me and grow me and him having to work past all the junk we feed ourselves really is counterproductive don't ya' think? Maybe not for you but for me I am choosing to flee.
I took this picture off our back patio last night as the sun was trying to set in the smoke filled sky. Pretty, but unfortuantly really unhealthy.
Dan got to come off the mountain last night after 3 days of fighting fires so the girls and I took him some clean clothes and made his crew some muffins that they were more than happy to take off our hands. :) The girls were really excited to see daddy and since my mother in law was with me everyone was fighting for air space to talk to him as you can imagine. He's tired but hoping to be released on Friday morning if everything calms down.
On the way home I decided I needed to kill a couple of more hours so the girls wouldn't kill each other so we stopped and played video games and ate pizza! 
We made the most out of our week being all screwed up, Dan being gone, & we had just some good clean fun indoors away from the smoke! :)
