iwantmk.comLuanne Storer,IBC

Many of you know that this coming weekend is Blissdom ’09. Everyone is so excited. What will I wear? Who will I meet? The stuff we get!!!

It all sounds quite exciting, but I am kinda nervous. Sometimes it is hard for people to believe, but I am really an introvert. I get revved up by being alone not being with people. When I am around people I don’t know, I kind of clam up, or if I’m really freaked out, I run my mouth non-stop and make an ass out of my self. Blah blah, I know I will have fun. I love to take off with friends and be away for a couple of days. It will be fine. I’ll meet great new friends and learn bloggy lessons I obviously need.

Back to the point. What will I wear?

Let me know if you are going. I’m awful in a crowd, I would love to have another friend along.  

Kisses!

I wanted to be able to post this and have a link to this week’s sermon, but it is still not up yet. I am going to go ahead and share my thoughts and link you later when it comes up.

Actually, I can link you to the site and you can listen to the first three in the series. The name of the series is “House Rules.” House refering to your home and our church family. Rules refering to how to play correctly and fair. First we need to have Christ as our foundation, second, learn how to deal with conflict and third, how to forgive. Take a listen, you will love them. Just one a day for the next three days.

Anyway, the fourth is about being missional. Knowing what your mission is a sticking to it. It hit me pretty hard yesterday that I have not been sticking to the mission. Today, I am going to clear some things up. My mission and the mission of my family is to give glory an honor to Jesus Christ. It is to share the good news of His saving grace and teach others to do the same. We are to be disciples at all times. Thus, it brings me to this blog. My mission in this too should apply. It doesn’t mean that every blog should be Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, but it does mean that the point of it all should not be to sell products or get comments, it should be to bring honor and glory to Christ. Maybe that is why I haven’t been as motivated to blog everyday. I haven’t been doing what I love the most. Don’t get me wrong. I love selling MaryKay and I will sell you some in a split second, but I adore, with all my heart, talking about the Grace that God has given me. Sharing stuff like this makes me much more vulnerable, I know, and it might not be as interesting either, but it’s gotta be the way I roll. Please love me through this, and pray for me often. I want to get to know women and share in their lives. Even if it is “just online.” I want them to be able to share with me too, honestly, not with an intent to entertain. I want you all to understand what a crap I am and what a God we have, that loves me and works through me to make me AWESOME! Only He can do that. If you don’t get what I am talking about, email me, I would love to explain more. Emailing is safe, you can cut me off whenever you want….or ask me anything you want and never be embarrassed. If you don’t know God like I do, I know you want to. He has placed that desire in all of us. Ask questions, it can’t hurt to ask. If you do know exactly what I am talking about, please comment and give God a little lurve. Thanks for listening, I just needed to share.

Kisses!

Yesterday was totally insane. The good news is that everyone made it out alive… I’m not sure if they made it out well, but definitely alive.

At 9:15am I had to be in court. I would explain why, but every time I think too hard about it, I have to run to the restroom. For the life of me I could not find my court papers. Reason being, I’m sure I put them somewhere where they would not get thrown away or misplaced. In other words, I hid them. Needless to say, I hid them well. I decide not to panic and go with the information I had. When we got to the court sign in, we were not on the docket. To make this hideous story that is too long, a little shorter, follow me; We were in the wrong place….car too far away to get to in time…walked four blocks in two inch heals with dd and dh to another building…went to hearing…nothing I said was valid….left as quick as possible…walked six blocks to car.

That was only the beginning. We came home and homeschooled for about an hour. Drove to the Chiropractor’s office at 1:30pm, took off and went to my doctors apt at 2:30, then off to the dentist for Krisha to get her teeth sealed at 4:00. As soon as the sweet dental hygienist came out with Krisha, she said, “Oh, Krisha told me this is her only day off, and your off too. What are you guys going to do special tonight?” Krisha has dance rehearsal every day for at least four hours except Monday. I usually have my MK meetings on Monday night. Yesterday we were both off. That is why we scheduled every apt that had to be taken care of this week.

All the way to the car it was, “Mom, what are we going to do special tonight!?” My plans were to go home, ignore the other million things I had to do and recoup my sanity. I hated to disappoint her, but I think I did when I told her that were were just going to “be” as in quietly “exist” for about an hour and then I would answer that question.

When we got home, my husband, who is on third shift this week, was awake and ready for play time and dinner. Don’t you just wish life had a stop button? We ended up going to buy a $5 movie at Walmart, I made Chicken Lelani and salad for dinner and we watched the movie while we ate. Krisha was happy, Dh seemed happy, and I was ready for bed.

I know I should have posted this on Manic Monday, but can anyone guess why I didn’t get it done?

Kisses! 

We are finally getting our house painted. It has certainly been a long time coming. We have an old downtown Victorian style house. It is unbelievable what it cost to have them painted. We have had estimates from $13,000 to $18,000. Several weeks ago, a painter gave us an estimate of $5,500. AMAZING! Of coarse I wanted to say, “You can start tomorrow!”, but the truth about it is , these days, it is hard to come up with $5,500. Times must be tough for everyone because, I wrote up an offer for this guy to take $2000 right now and $500 the first of each month from December 1 – June 1 and he took it! That is like a six month interest free loan. Anyway, I wanted to put the colors past you and see what you think. I would have loved to have it be blue (my favorite color) but most of the houses on our street are some kind of blue, blue-grey, or grey so … we needed to go with something different. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think:

Hello all. I am so sorry that I have been gone so long. Thank you so much to all of you who checked in on me. This summer was really rough. I was gone to Kentucky on a missions trip for a week, came back for four days and flew to Dallas for a MK conference. I was back for a week and school started. The first week was very overwhelming. The next week, we packed up and went to Virginia with Jenny from Momminitup, and her family. Needless to say, all of that plus a few unmentioned stressors (these are all seperate post in themselves) wore me into the ground physically. I was really in a hole that I didn’t think I would ever get out of. Thank God for….well…God. He never, ever, ever, gives us more than we can handle (even when it feel like it in the midst of it all.)

I am back, and I am looking forward to hanging out with all of you again. Thank you for being patient with me.

Kisses!

Luanne