Shhh...It's a secret

So how good are you at keeping secrets? I am not so good at it. I normal feel the need to tell one person... which is normal my husband. The thought of knowing something that no one else knows creeps me out a little bit. So the secrect is out - I have a hard time keeping a secret!

The other day I went to check on my really quiet 3 year old who is normally very vocal. I found her lying in her bed. As soon as she saw me she started to whine. I said "Baby, what is wrong?" She looked up to with those big innocent eyes that did not look so innocent in that moment and she said "Shhh... it's a secret." Oh, a secret with a whine... this could not be good. My sweet little girl just keeps saying, "Shhh... it's a secret." It did not take me long to identify the SECRET! Her hand was covered in red paint and in the other hand was the evidence... a tube of red face paint. When she realized that I saw "the secret," she began to scream, "It's a secret!!!" I pick her up and took her to the bathroom and washed the mess away. I told her that we don't need to play with the paint because it will make a big mess. She laughed, gave me a hug and said, "Thank you!" The secrect was gone.

So we were safe from the paint and I went on to bed. On my way there God spoke to my heart about the secrects we try to keep from him and others. How plainly He sees our "secret," the sin we try to hide from him. How he longs for us to stop saying, "It's a secret it's mine." His word says that if we will confess our sin that he WILL forgive us. His word also says to go and share that secrect with someone you can trust. The devil would love nothing more than for you to stay in that creepy place of feeling all alone. There is much freedom in holding your hand up and saying, "Here it is God - help make me clean." He will gladly clean up the mess, encourage you and restore your joy.

So come on people - let's come clean from our secrets today.

( I encourage you to only share with Godly people that you can trust to protect you and point you in the right direction.)

Time for Mom to Create

I absolutely love to make things. They don't have to be good and no one has to like them - I just want to create. I would have to say I get it from my "Father," the best Creator there is. Anyway, as a stay-at-home mom of three (and one on the way), I rarely have time to create anything but meals. Ok, let me tell the truth. I have to create peace when the war of brother vs. sister starts! That is never pretty; most of the time it ends in one crying girl and one proud boy. Anyway, back to creating things... here are a few things that I made.

The Beautiful Job of Praying for your Children

So today has been a long day of teaching school, fixing meals, cleaning up messes and stopping fights. Just a normal day in the Foster-Whiddon house. As a stay-at-home mom I sometimes get so annoyed with the normal stuff. Where is the spice and the adventure? Is life just going to be this normal and mundane forever? Well, I guess it will be if I wake up every day speaking these thought over myself. My day is what I make it and today I want to make it beautiful and make it count.

God has given me a very important job. Today that job is to war in prayer for my family. I may not see the difference my small prayers today are making but one day I will. Every prayer I pray today for my children and husband is paving the way for their tomorrow. So today I do not want to look at my day as just being a slave to the little people in my life, but I want today to be a day of calling forth the things of God in my children. This is the day I get to team up with God and make life happen for these wonderful people in my life.

Help me God to see the beauty of who you are in my children today.

A prayer for your children today from Psalm 1...

Blessed are my children
They do not walk in the counsel of the wicked
they do not stand around with sinners or
sit in the seat of mockers.

But my children delight in the law of the Lord and on His
law my children meditate day and night.

My children are like trees planted by streams of water
that bear fruit. Their leaves will not fade away and
in whatever my children do they will prosper.

Not so the wicked.
They are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in judgment
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the Lord watches over my children
but the way of the wicked will perish.

This is Zoe

"WILL YOU PLEASE..."

"Will you please come play in my room?" asked my two-year-old.

Well let's see...I can't see the couch because I have so much laundry to do. I have just about 30 minutes before the one-year-old is ready for me to rock him and maybe 10 minutes before my ten-year-old is ready for her next assignment. Can I go play? "I really don't have time to... but you know that I will." I enter her room and say "I am here, what would you like me to do?" She points to a chair for me to sit in. As I sit down I pick up a shirt to fold and put away. She sees me do this. I thought "Oh no - I am in trouble! She saw me cleaning!" But that's not what happened. She looked at me and said "Fold more?" She ran out of the room and came back with a handful of clothes. She handed them to me and said "Wait!" So I waited. She went to her "cook set" and got things ready and then looked at me and said, "Now." So I started to fold. I ran out of clothes and she ran and got more. It was so funny. But then the truth of the sitution hit me - she just waited to be with me. It did not matter if I was working on something else. She just wanted me to enter her room and be there. Then God spoke to my heart!
As a mother I have so many things to do - teach school, rock babies, clean house and play. I get so focused on those things that I forget in this very day that God has a purpose for me. That purpose may be different each day or like most days it is the same. But God is asking, "WILL YOU PLEASE... just come into my presence and remain there?" He does not care if I am folding clothes, teaching school. rocking babies, or playing. He just wants me to show Him that He is important enough to me for me to turn my gaze to Him.

So next time we feel God push on our hearts to be with Him, let's take the time to turn our eyes to Him in our busy days and say "Yes Father, I am here and here I want to stay." All he wants is to be close.

" WHAT DO YOU DO"

What do you do if you are sick and your house looks like it has been turned upside down?
So I have been sick for 4 days. I do believe it could be the flu... So don't get to close.
My house reflects how I feel. Like a big fat mess.
I do believe my kids are get smarter by the day. They have watch so much tv.
Just this morning my ten year old said she could not find her bible.
We are really lost now.
So what does a sick mother do?

Small things... Make a big difference

Today's Small Thing is to find something beautiful in your home and make a table centerpiece out of it.
To learn more about small things click on the" I Am A Company Girl" button on my side bar.
So I decided to light a candle. I know you are thinking, "Come on Vanessa get creative." Well let me explain. My husband is out of town till Sat. We do not like for dad to be gone. So to make us feel better I light a candle for him. This candle is to remind us that no matter where dad is he is still the head of our home. He is still praying for us. The candle also represent that The LIGHT of all lights is with us. That we are never alone.