Amy J. Bennett

Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life

I’M JUST TOO BUSY

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Last night was great no doubt.  D&M and Heather were over for the big season premiere.  I blogged my little fingers off and everyone was great and helped me out if I missed something.  My stats are way up and I hope it continues to increase.  But I’m still not making squat off of it but my Internet friend Allison is helping me out.  When there’s not much return, it’s just not worth my time away from my family.  And believe me, it’s taking so much time.  And there’s so much more I could do with it. 

And then there’s regular work and church and the kids and the 90 days thing and blogging and couponing and other stuff I want to do and I’M JUST TOO BUSY.  I don’t know what, if anything, I’m going to do about it.  Right now I’m just frustrated and really don’t want to give anything up.  Bleh.

That premiere day I blogged all day

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Today is a busy day. I got up early and got ready knowing I’d be quite busy. Scott works again today so I have to be the one to do the shuttling back and forth to school. I was supposed to have band practice at 5 but that got canceled and then we have a meeting at 7 about the big Julian Drive concert our church is sponsoring.

The big news causing all my busyness is today is the premiere day for One Tree Hill. That means lots of appearances and articles to keep up with on my OTH blog. Also, two of the youth are coming over to watch the premiere with me–I’m a great influence aren’t I?? One of them is actually a college student and the other already watched the show and got permission from her guardian to come over. Anyway. I plan to blog about all that tonight and that doesn’t end until 10. The good news is my stats are already hitting averages we’ve had and it’s only lunch time and the premiere hasn’t even shown yet.

Somewhere in there I’m doing my real job and taking care of the girls.

The evening I bought and clipped 300 coupons

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Melissa got sick and we had to postpone our Starbuck’s meeting but don’t you know I’ll hold her to that.  The evening was pretty low-key.  I drug dragged took the family with me to go buy two more Sunday papers.  If you haven’t bought yours yet, you need to.  There are SIX inserts.  I’m going BACK to CVS tomorrow to get a ton more free/very cheap stuff and since it’s not ECB deals, there’s no limit so watch out, folks. 

We made a stop at Starbuck’s on the way home from that and actually went in and sat down with the girls who were very well behaved.  I think Lexi was scared of it or something because she stuck to me like glue.  Or it may have been because she was so tired because she literally asked me to go to bed when we got home around 7:45. 

After they went to bed, I Interneted (my inner geek just likes using that word in verb form) for awhile and then sat down to clip my coupons while I watched Gossip Girl and a rerun of OTH.  It took FOREVER to clip so many.  I haven’t been doing that and going with the Coupon Mom approach and keeping them in the inserts and dating them.  But I found that many coupons the coupon mom has in her database don’t match up with my inserts so it was sort of worthless.  There were some that matched but I found Heather’s system of clipping and organizing so much faster when you’re actually in the store looking for something last minute.

So now I’m closing up shop for tonight and still need to read my Bible in 90 days for today.  I better get started as I’ve already taken a sleep aid and it should be kicking in soon.

Please pass the “Papa John’s”

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I made spaghetti tonight and Emma loves parmesan cheese on hers so while I was still fixing my plate in the kitchen, I told her to get the cheese out of the fridge and take it into the dining room.  The next thing I hear.

"Mommy, I can’t open the Papa John’s cheese!"

The day I clicked setup.exe 50 times

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Getting a new laptop from work is great but that means I have to install every single piece of software I use besides my mail application.  It has taken nearly all day to do it. 

The day started out not so great either when we didn’t wake up until 8:51 when I flew out of bed got me and the girls dressed and ran out the door.  They were only 20 minutes late but it wasn’t a great feeling to be so behind already.

The rest of the day has literally been spent getting my new laptop set up and of course answering calls for food, opened puzzles, web site URLs and TV shows.

This evening I get to go spend some time with Melissa over coffee which I can’t wait for.

Now, if I could just get a shower for today, I’d be good to go 🙂

Oh, in other random news, our elliptical technician guy FINALLY called and we have an appointment set up for Thursday.  Yay!

Sunday Scripture

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image Wow, I missed a week and now I’m late.  Not great stats lately.  My Scripture for this week is Psalm 51:12-13

Restore to me the joy of your salvation
       and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
       and sinners will turn back to you.

Yesterday at church the pastor asked if we could dream big and do anything we wanted for God, what would we do?  No one answered out loud and when I thought of mine, for some reason I was embarrassed and thought number one, surely *I* couldn’t do that and number two, how silly and unimportant that would be? 

Wanna know what I thought of?  I would love to be a writer of some sort and a speaker.  Which is sort of weird because if you know me, I get embarrassed in crowds easily so it seems what I really wouldn’t want to do.  I’ve often said I’d like to like Beth Moore and while I don’t want to be her or take her spot in her ministry, I would love to do something like that. 

And then I read these Scriptures and realize, you know, some people’s great dream may be to win people for Christ cities and countries at a time but if I were to write a devotional or bible study type book and affected even one person.  If it brought someone in sin back to His ways, it would worth it.

I’ve screwed up enough in ways I don’t even want to admit.  But so has everyone.  And God has restored me each and every time and His salvation is my joy.  And if I can use my life to affect any number of people even if it’s just through posts on a personal blog–if that’s the only writing I’ll ever do, I’m good with that.

So how about you? To participate, simply post a verse, a set of verses or even just a reference to a verse that means something to you now or maybe even in the past. Explain why it’s important or don’t. It’s up to you. Go now and post and then come back. Post your name and then a direct link to you blog entry. If you don’t have a blog, feel free to leave yours in the comments. Here is the code for the graphic above.

Family Portraits

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Sorry for the horrid scan job but here’s the results of our family portraits the other week.  I’m not a big fan of the background they use but they were free, so no complaining here.

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