Last week marked a new chapter for our sweet family. Or as many of us like to say a "new season". Which is just a way of putting things so as to remember that they will not last forever. Just as the heat of the summer will soon pass, so will these days. So in this "season" of my life I am not only the wife of a chiropractor, I am also the assistant of a chiropractor. Well assistant/receptionist/office manager or all of the above at any given time Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Yes, for a brief period of time I have taken over Precision Spine Specialists. Our sweet Sharliss has moved on to a new season of her life and as a result, here we are in a new phase of our own.
I will not lie to you, because as you already know I am just not good at it. This season, just as the last few that we have lived here in TN (speaking of both the literal seasons and the life seasons) is not my favorite. It is hard and exhausting and I miss my kids and they miss me. I will say that there is something fun about being in the office with Doc all day, even though I do not really see him while we are there. But the truth is friends, in my heart and soul I am a mama. A stay at home, raise your kids, make the dinner, clean the bathrooms mama. All day, every day, and I LOVE IT! I get that it is not for everyone, but it is for me 100%!
This season, phase, time whatever you want to call it, will be short. I will work until we find my sweet Doc the right person to help him there so that I can be home. I will go in everyday and get my butt kicked right along side him because that is what I do best, support my sweet husband that is working his tail off for us. I won't complain (okay maybe I will complain a little bit) but overall I will do it with a smile on my face. I will miss my babies and try my BEST to make up for it when I have time with them no matter how tired I am. I will stand faithfully, knowing that my Lord is right along side of us making sure that we have what we need. And soon, I hope, I will be back home in my pj's at 8 am sitting on the sofa kissing on the heads of my baby girls and trying to figure out will it be the sprinkler or the pool today??? Hmm....what a tough life I live. ;)
So friends, for those of you who have called and wondered where I am, there you have it. I am up at 6:15AM getting ready, making breakfast and heading to work until 6PM (or 6:30 or 7 depending on the day) and hurrying home to see (and feed) my babies before they have to go to bed!! Oh, and if you are wondering where the girls are for those 12 hours, they are a home having a BLAST with Aunt Kasey. We are SO blessed she is able to help us!!! That is it for now. Plan to hear from me in about month if you are waiting for a call because all of my spare minutes are going to my babies until I am back home with them!!
Have a GREAT summer friends!
Blessings,
Melanie
I can do all things through Him who gives me strength. Phil 4:13
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
GET TO WORK!
Here I am on week 4 of what has been a merry go round of sickness and injuries at the Hall house. Just about the time that the puking had ceased and the cast came off, in came the snot. I do not get it. You take two perfectly healthy kids to the park and you bring home a week worth of tissues, sleepless nights, Hylands cough and cold and tears. Ugh. All for a day at the park?
So here I am in good ole Franklin TN, the home of the cicadas and freakish weather, sitting on my sofa wishing that I had take out Chinese food and a cold beer. No I am not kidding, I really want a cold beer. I know I don't drink anymore and haven't for 5 years, but still I want the damn beer. I think back on the days when it seemed like a cold beer could solve just about anything. And just as quickly as I go there I remember that the cold beer is what caused most of the problems ;).
So, I will do without the beer and the Chinese food if I am being honest and I will make a pb&h and wait on my girls to get up with runny noses and frustrating coughs. All the while I am thinking about next week and the week after. Wondering what God has in store for us and if it will be fun or frightening, or both ;). I laugh at the absurdity of being 36 years old, still trying for more babies, broke, tired, sick, living in the turd and on the verge of needing a pedicure so badly that someone might actually offer to pay for it if they saw me barefoot. I wonder what it would be like to sleep through the night or have enough money to get my truck fixed and then I giggle because I know that would not be any fun at all. I mean that is what makes us the crazy Hall family right!? The fact that we are exhausted and broke and still buying organic food and making babies is what makes us, US!! Are our priorities screwed up? Maybe. Or maybe we have them just right.
We are once again getting our butts kicked here in Franklin TN. Next week I go to work at the practice for the summer, we need money, we need a house that is our own, we need to be well, and we want another baby. With all of that said, this is what I know. I love my husband bigger than the whole sky. I have two of the sweetest, prettiest, funniest girls in the whole world. Jesus loves me. My mama and daddy spoil me rotten and my sister misses me just as much as I miss her. That, the phone calls from my brother everyday and my four best girls are all the things that keep me sane (relatively speaking). Therefore, I will wait patiently on Him and trust in His plan, knowing He will lead us down the right path.
Ephesians 2:10 (The Message)
7-10 Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
I love at the end where it says "WORK WE HAD BETTER BE DOING". I guess I better get off of this computer and get to work!! ;)
Blessing My Friends,
Melanie
So here I am in good ole Franklin TN, the home of the cicadas and freakish weather, sitting on my sofa wishing that I had take out Chinese food and a cold beer. No I am not kidding, I really want a cold beer. I know I don't drink anymore and haven't for 5 years, but still I want the damn beer. I think back on the days when it seemed like a cold beer could solve just about anything. And just as quickly as I go there I remember that the cold beer is what caused most of the problems ;).
So, I will do without the beer and the Chinese food if I am being honest and I will make a pb&h and wait on my girls to get up with runny noses and frustrating coughs. All the while I am thinking about next week and the week after. Wondering what God has in store for us and if it will be fun or frightening, or both ;). I laugh at the absurdity of being 36 years old, still trying for more babies, broke, tired, sick, living in the turd and on the verge of needing a pedicure so badly that someone might actually offer to pay for it if they saw me barefoot. I wonder what it would be like to sleep through the night or have enough money to get my truck fixed and then I giggle because I know that would not be any fun at all. I mean that is what makes us the crazy Hall family right!? The fact that we are exhausted and broke and still buying organic food and making babies is what makes us, US!! Are our priorities screwed up? Maybe. Or maybe we have them just right.
We are once again getting our butts kicked here in Franklin TN. Next week I go to work at the practice for the summer, we need money, we need a house that is our own, we need to be well, and we want another baby. With all of that said, this is what I know. I love my husband bigger than the whole sky. I have two of the sweetest, prettiest, funniest girls in the whole world. Jesus loves me. My mama and daddy spoil me rotten and my sister misses me just as much as I miss her. That, the phone calls from my brother everyday and my four best girls are all the things that keep me sane (relatively speaking). Therefore, I will wait patiently on Him and trust in His plan, knowing He will lead us down the right path.
Ephesians 2:10 (The Message)
7-10 Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
I love at the end where it says "WORK WE HAD BETTER BE DOING". I guess I better get off of this computer and get to work!! ;)
Blessing My Friends,
Melanie
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