All 10 Popes

**click here to listen to me read this post** Dearest Reader, It's been weeks since I originally wrote this post. Like, beginning of summer. Lets just say that the Lord has been at work on me in with this very thing. So lest you be tempted to think that I have this altogether, He has plainly showed me that I surely do not. Please remember that now and always as I write, I am always speaking truth to myself first.  I accidentally let out about 1/4 of our pool water into our neighbor’s yard the other morning. Thankfully it was slow, and it’s been rainy so they didn’t notice. The same evening I proceeded to make a dinner for some new friends and the dish I made included ingredients some of them can’t eat because of their severe food allergies. Like brings an epipen because I might die from eating your food kind of allergy. I even asked if they had any. Allergies, I mean. And my sweet new friend took the time to lay it all out for me via text which I read. And

Click this link, if you'd rather listen to me read this post. Enjoy! Y’all. People are cheering for you. It may not feel like it right now. You may be in the pit but I promise there are people out there rooting you on. They see you. They have not forgotten about you. Time may have marched on. You may have lived far apart for many years but it doesn’t matter. Things change. People change but most of the time...more often than not, they want you to succeed. I was reminded of that this week in a special way. It’s easier to believe the nay sayers isn’t it? Those who maybe are in your life more regularly and don’t know how to be encouraging. “Nay, nay, nay,” they say. It’s hard to turn aside and remember what is true isn’t it?  As I’m typing this out I know you are thinking of at least one of those people you can encourage. Go ahead and reach out. Text or call her. Send her flower. Or chocolate. Tell her you’re cheering for her

**If you like listening rather than reading please click here . In the vain of quitting perfection, my recordings will never be rerecorded and edited unless they're terrible and even then it will truly have to be horrible. I don't really have time for any of this, so time for editing my readings doesn't exist either. You have been warned. :)** Planning might just be the bane of my existence. Seriously. It is the thing I am constantly running up against, fighting against, and relearning how to do. It is no exaggeration to say that my plans never  go as planned. Ever. Ever. Ever. Try as I might they just do not obey.  You know those people, the ones exactly opposite of me, that are able to plan a trip...say to Colorado and have that trip go off without a hitch. Everything planned goes as planned and if you could grade the trip they would always receive not just and A but an A+. And if there was such a thing they might just receive an A++.  That’s not me.  Ever

To listen to me read this post (rather unprofessionally) click here . Otherwise, all you traditional readers...read on! Well, Hello 2019. We are already 26 days in. You certainly snuck up on me per usual. The days have gone by slowly but 2018 sure did pass by in a flash. This probably has to do with the half a year we spent preparing for and then moving. Again. This is our 5th military move but we have, in every duty location, moved into another house after the first year. That would make it 9 moves altogether with 2, then 4, then 8 kids. It is an exhausting, exhilarating life. A life that I love. Also,  a life that passes by quickly as the years increase. New Years Day had not really registered in my brain until I went to the YMCA two days after the actual new year. I don't know why.  Well, time is so weird isn't it? Mothering, schooling, wifing, doing all the things leaves me feeling, many times, in a time fog. How about you? I can hardly remember what the actual day is m