Rejoice in the Lord

I was going through some music tonight and I found this song. I thought it was very appropriate for what is going on in my life right now and offers some encouragement! (Read previous post if you are confused) Here are the lyrics:

Verse 1
God never moves without purpose or plan
When trying His servant and molding a man
Give thanks to the Lord though your testing seems long;
In darkness He giveth a song

Chorus
O rejoice in the Lord
He makes no mistake
He knoweth the end of each path that I take
For when I am tried and purified
I shall come forth as gold

Verse 2
I could not see through the shadows ahead
So I looked at the cross of my Saviour instead
I bowed to the Will of the Master that day,
Then peace came and tears fled away

Verse 3
Now I can see testing comes from above,
God strengthens His children and purges in love
My Father knows best, and I trust in His care
Through purging more fruit I will bear

Preparations and Good Food

We have been so busy trying to clean the house and starting to pack some things away. Last week was the final week to do A LOT of cleaning. Probably anything you can think of to clean, we cleaned it, more like scrubbed it! It was a lot of work, but I'm glad that its done and now we just have to keep it up until the house sells. The realtor came out on Thursday to look at the house, it went really well! She thought everything looked great! The only thing she wanted us to work on was to get our closets cleaned out, to give the "illusion" that we have so much space that we dont even use all of it. I finished cleaning out my closet tonight and man oh man, it looks SO bare! It hardly looks like anyone is living in it, except for the clothes in the closet and a couple things in there. Its really starting to become more and more cemented in my mind that we are moving. The more we do things to get ready the harder it gets. This week our house will be put up on the market, happy or sad occasion? I couldn't really tell you, mixed emotions with that one. I know that a house is just a house, but I have lived in this house for 14 years and there are sooo many good memories, most of my years growing up have been in this house, its just going to be really hard to part with it. I'm sure that you all know what I am talking about if you have moved before and parted with a house that you have lived in for a long period of time. Mixed emotions is really all I can say about that.

On a lighter note, on Saturday Kali and I made dinner and dessert,  it was delicious if I do say so myself!! We did an Asian theme with Mongolian Beef w/ rice, Sausage Dumplings, and Lettuce wraps! It was very delicious, lots of work but it was well worth it! We also made Brownies with Nutella as the frosting, YUMMY! If you like Nutella you should try it! Its delicious!

So I can't end a post without some pictures, so here are the pictures of Saturday's meal!
                                       
                                                                 Before:

After it was attacked:

Princess Maggie

The past week and a half has been absolute MaDnEsS!! With 4 nights of Bible Institute and the weekends taken up by getting the house ready to be put on the market, my life has been crazy! Constantly doing things and if I came home thinking it would be a nice relaxing evening, it did not turn out to be that. Yet, I am very pleased with how much we have been able to get done in the past week as far as getting the house ready, f.y.i. we have a meeting with the realtor next thursday for her to see the house. Also, even though having Bible Institute makes for a really busy week, its always worth it!!

THE YELLOW ONE IS THE SUN!!!!

My mom has been saying that for the past couple days. If you have ever heard of Brian Regan, a comedian, he said that in one of his jokes and my mom has taken it and run with it! AHHHHHH!!!! She is haunting every part of my life with that phrase! Randomly saying it when we are talking or texting it to me during the day! Good Grief! So, Kali and I have texted her the same thing to get her back for doing it so much, but in turn she said she loves it, so I guess our evil plan didn't work out as we hoped it would. Oh well, we will find a way for her to stop irritating us with that phrase all the time. I wish you all could hear her, "The yellow one is the sun!!" Get me out of here!!!!!
                                                                  Love You Mom!!

Today was such a nice day, so I was able to wear a nice flowy skirt AND flip-flops!! It did turn gray for a little bit in the afternoon but then warmed up really nicely later in the day!! I loved it!! There is this little 2 year old boy at work who always comes up to me saying "Maggie!!!" when I enter the room and gives me a great big hug!! *very sweet, I'm melting* Apparently today, a teacher told me, that when I couldn't go into his class with him he was crying for like 5 minutes because he wanted me! Poor thing.... This morning, I came in with my nice flowy skirt and he looked at it and I could tell that he thought that it was a different skirt then what he usually will see me in, e.g. jean skirt or kaki. So he just kind of looked at it weird and then he said, "Maggie, Princess!" Aww.....I'm a Princess!!!

A New Haircut!

On Wednesday night, Alyssa and I were going out to DQ after church. Alyssa mentioned that she wanted to get a haircut, something different then what she has. This soon turned into a plan to get our hair cut together! We both had long hair and sometimes that can feel kind of boring and just hanging on you, so we went online that night and found hairstyles that we liked. We went to a salon the next day after work and got our hair cut together. (Which may sound kind of weird getting it cut together, but we wanted to do something like this together, especially doing something that involved chopping off several inches and doing our hair different!) So here are the before and after pictures, we both love our new hair, feels so light and fluffy after having such long hair!!!