Opportunity is knocking!

I have always have had these great opportunities for making money. They just sort of fall at my feet. PTL! But I have to think... can I do this? My latest opportunity is this. Since I served at this funeral home last week the owner of the home has called and wants to hire me to serve another smaller funeral of say 30 to 35 people. Can I balance all that I am doing now with this coming opportunity? So, I told two girlfriends if they would like to do it it's theirs. But now they don't know if they can do it either. I am waiting to here if they can do it because they are busy young mothers already working part time jobs themselves. I told them I would buy all the food and they could do the prep here at my house on Saturday morning. They would serve and clean up. I would take a cut of the action and I would hire them to do the job. This sounds good to me. God please help me not to go over my head. Please help me in what to charge and to pay. Goodness this could be complex.

Just got a call and the other ladies CAN NOT do it. Hmmmmm... do I take the job or not? Would pay for the track star son's new running shoes! What to do? I will let you know later.

My busy days

Life is rushing by at a fast pace. Some days I can't keep up with all that I am doing. Just since last Thursday.
1. I headed up the food and all prep for a funeral from my church. Took almost 2.5 days to get organized.
2. Last Friday I worked all day at my insurance office.
3. Saturday was catching up on errands, making two food items to bring to my nieces 38Th b-day party, and scrapping on my kitchen back splash disaster.
4. Sunday was church. We have two services and my hubby spends most of the day busy with church stuff and a jail ministry.
5. Monday noon was an important endorsing convention 70 miles away, then a work meeting for a client whose husband just died at 4, and then 7 was a board meeting for our local pregnancy (pro-life) center!
6. Today, Tuesday was spent working all morning, buying $100 shoes for my track star son, a church ladies planning meeting at 3:30 pm, and meeting with a group plan client at 7 pm...

and now here I sit writing this like I have all the time in the world. Yes, I think I am nuts!!

Each one of these days deserves a good writing story about each one... like serving food at the funeral with the casket on the other side of the room. Really!

Getting your point across

Today I was challanged by my 29 year old son on how I look trying to get my point across. I think he fundementally agreed with me but took me to task on how I came across. I wonder how I would get my point out without sounding like I am right and you are wrong. But once I have studied a point well, coming to a conclusion that usually is a controversy in my own mind I want to share with people the conclusion or conviction I have discovered. I think in the future I should maybe just give the information to people and let them discover the conclusion for themselves based on their worldview. I am a Christian so I base everything in the aspect of, How would God want me to view this? Am I in line with what the Word of God says? The older I get the more conscious I become of what the Lord would want to think and do in every situation. Maybe because now that I am fifty something I see my mortality drawing closer and soon (30 years is short in God's time) I will be meeting my Maker. I want Him to say, Good and Faithful Servent to me when we meet. Dast I meet Him and be ashamed of my life.

Today I did something I have not done for so long I could not remember when the last time was. I made chocolate chip cookies. I have made cookies at Christmas but have not made cookies for just the reason I want them. Well, I really wanted oatmeal raisin but my 18 year old really wanted the other. Hey... he's leaving home in June and I want to make his last days home as our boy so happy for him. You should have seen his face when I said I was making them for NO REASON and just because. Now, that made us all very happy. Because I made the cookies our son was more than willing to grill the hamburgers for me! It was a good night. Poor hubby said he couldn't eat the cookies because of his special diet. That is why I don't often bake. Why make him suffer... but you know sometimes I just have to cut lose. Do I need the cookies no... but I am sick of just being so darn good!

Goodnight to all... why do some of us stay up so late. For me I think it is a time I get to do the things I wanted to all day. But often my day is spent tending to others and my time is not my own. Sometimes I resent that. Although something happened today that has never happened. I have been recouping from a bad cold gone pneomonia. My husband made supper for all of us and I didn't even ask! Wow... he's changing from the man he used to be. I think I like it.

Woods 2 Water

This is my first time blogging in years! Why am I doing this I don't really know but it may be a good stress reliever.

I chose the title Woods 2 Water because I am in MN and this is what I see everyday where when I look out my window. I live on just over 5 acres out in the country. I work from a home office and some days are VERY busy and some like today were lazy. Which I was more than grateful for because I am mending a very nasty cold that has layed me low.

Today the sun was shining and the snow was melting and I was feeling like spring may be coming sooner then usual. At least this is what all Northern women long for. Winters for me is something to endure and just try to make it through. I wrote on my facebook page... Dear Winter, I want you to know you are fired! Yes, it's true. I am hiring Spring and Summer because you did not add anything to my business. Matter of fact my clients leave for southern states because you treat them so poorly!

I look forward to writing down the things I think about. Who knows I may find a new gift.