Group Link at Momentum

Tonight, was an event called well, group link as you can see. Group link is where people from our church come and hangout while getting to know new people. We had one last August but, I didn't go to that one so this was a whole new experience for me. The purpose of group link is to find people you connect with and form lifegroups.

I am apart of a WONDERFUL ladies lifegroup but, we are forming a singles lifegroup and I overly excited about it. I love my ladies lifegroup because there is nothing better than being around your group of girlfriend's and chatting it up. I have went to my ladies group with such heavy heart and walked out knowing I have awesome friends who pray for me and my family daily.


With that being said I am eager about forming a new lifegroup with a new group of friends and living my life with a group of guys and girls that understand the single life. I am extremely energized about what is in store for 2010....so stay tuned!!

A GREAT Man....

As, most of you know that read my blog know that I lost my paw-paw last February. Today, would have been his 84th birthday. He was one of the greatest men that I have ever known in my life. He was an outstanding Christian, gentleman, husband, daddy and paw-paw.
I look at him and as a single girl in this life we live in I truly understand why it is so hard for us girls to meet guys now days. He was like I said a true gentleman. He held the door for ladies, he said yes and no mam/no sir, he loved his county and he would do anything to provide for his family. He was an amazing husband and daddy. Now, these I just saw as a child but, I saw how he loved and I mean truly LOVED maw-maw. She was the love of his life and he would have bent over backwards to make her happy. As, for my dad and aunt Vicky he had that TRUE uncontaional love you have for your kids. He was proud of them and the things they had acheived in life and the families they were developing. He was the BEST paw-paw ever! I know every paw-paw has a mug, shirt, or hat that says Paw-paw of the year or even best paw-paw ever but, mine truly was! He loved us, his grandchildren like nothing else in the world. I can remember being a little girl and spending the night at their house and the morning times I would have with him. He always made me cheese taost that to this day I still can not make as good as his. Along with my cheese toast paw-paw always would have me a bowl of ceral. Now for my family that is reading this I am sure they just got a good laugh out of that. As, a child you could cook me a full course meal for breakfast but, it never falled I always thought I needed a bowl of cereal. Then there was the coffee! Ok, so I will admit it I am pretty sure this is where my additaction to coffee came from. Now, I was little so he just gave me a small cup but, it was always so good...and I am sure it had more milk in it than anything. Every morning when I am fixing my cup of coffee or when I am at one of my local Starbucks I ALWAYS think about him and our morning talks over our cups of coffee.
Last, but not least he was an amazing Christian. He as a Christian lived the true life you should as a Christian. The things he showed me in his actions and his words as a child I am truly undersanding now as an adult. He loved our Lord and Saviour and he lived that life everyday. As, an adult now and as I have grown in my Christian walk with the Lord I feel the presence of my paw-paw with me. There are so many times when I am in church praising the Lord and I know he is standing right next to me. I hope as he is watching me from heaven that he knows that he taught me so much as a child and I hope that as he looks down he is beaming with pride.
In good old Hartsfield tradition we went out to eat tonight in honor of a wonderful man's birthday.
I love you paw-paw and I now I will see your smiling face again one day in our home in heaven.
Love you the mostest!!!!

Round 2 out the door!

Today was mom's 2nd round of chemo and she did great! She did sleep again today as I had mention she did last time. Her appointment was at 9:00 and we were done by 4ish. She had went this past Friday to get her labwork done so the "prep" time was cut down on.

After, chemo we stopped by to visit a very good family friend Gail. Gail had called during chemo to check on mom and wanted to know if she was up to it could we stop by. Gail is a cancer survior so she has been a great person for mom to talk to during this time. Gail had a sweet little angel for mom. It is the angel of healing. She also had some hats for mom along with another wig. I got a kick out of that...I guess us women do share everything...​even our hair :)

She is doing good but, we are not looking forward to the "chemo mac truck" coming back to visit us at the end of the week :(

I will be posting info soon about Relay for Life...stay tuned!

I will be DEBT FREE

WOW!! This is about the only words that come to mind right now is WOW. After, sitting in my first financial peace class today I can truly say that I am excited about the way my finances can be in the future. In just the first 2 hours of the class in week 1 I learned so much and can’t wait to learn so much more.
If you have never heard of financial peace you should check into it! It is a program that Dave Ramsey has put together and many singles & couples have walked away from the 13 week class debt FREE…how amazing is that!!!! We will learn not only how to manage our money but, how learn how to live a debt FREE life. I really cannot tell you how excited I am about this 
When I was laid off from my job (now over a year ago) my first thought was how will I survive? I am happy to say I have survived…mostly by hopes and prayer but, hey I surviving! Dave says in his course that in every 10 years you should plan on some kind of crisis to happen in your life that will require money to help you get through it. Did you get what I just said EVERY 10 years!!!! Now, let me tell you that in a million years I would NEVER thought I would be laid off and jobless in my 30’s.
Now, don’t get me wrong I am blessed so very BLESSED. I have wonderful kids that I keep and have had odd jobs here and there that have helped keep some form of money coming in but, when you go from X amount of income, health insurance and just plain security to all of that being taken away from you within moments your life is changed. This is why I am so excited and happy to have the ability to take this course to learn to correct ways to safe for my future and how to actually have financial peace!

2 Years Already!!

I can't believe that we had Alivia my, great niece's 2nd birthday party today. It really seems like Andrea should still be prego and about ready to pop with Alivia. She is into so many things now days, talking so much more and her little personality is just blooming more and more everyday. Abby Cadabby is one of her favorite people these days so Andrea had her party done in all pink, purple and Abby everywhere! I loved seeing how excited she was about people coming to see her with gifts, that the cake was for her and that in general everything was all about Alivia! She would just laugh with excitement throughout the party.
Alivia had so many people at her party that love her and can't wait to watch her grow even if it is way to fast!!

Enjoy a few of the pictures I took:

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Great day with my mom....

We started off having a not so good weekend with chemo giving us a good kick in the hiney. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse it came a knocking at the front, back and side doors. As, you can imagine the worse part of chemo came and happen this weekend and as women it is the most awful part of chemo. Being a women myself it was even hard for me to find the right words to say to my mom in these moments.
Monday, was a holiday so I was home all day I devoted EVER moment of the day to her. I even found one of old church cookbooks and made homemade potato soup for her! When she ate every bite of it I didn't know who to more proud of her for eating all her food or me for actually making it!
Today, we went to a class that Henry Medical offers called "Look good feel better" for chemo patients. It was awesome and I was so proud of her because she was not feeling her best today. The class teaches ladies all kinds of tricks of how to handle their skin through all the changes it will make through chemo and different ways to wear wigs and scarfs. Being the girly-girl that I am this class was pretty cool to me also. After, of class we headed to the square to get mom's wig to Cat's pajamas....love, love, love them! #1 mom's wig looks AWESOME!!!! #2 I can't not say enough about Cat's pajamas they are such amazing ladies there. Mom was so upset this week with her hair falling out and they just let you come in and pour your heart out.
After, mom got her wig we headed over and met dad for lunch and then mom and I did some shopping around the square for as long as she could handle. It was great day with my mom.

I SO CRAVED IT!!!!

Tonight was CRAVE!!!! IF you happen to be a friend of mine on facebook you saw my status was all about CRAVE today. I was so excited about it I could help but, talk about it to eveyone! I think actually got to the church about 45 minutes early :) Ok, so I know if you just landed on my blog...you know if you are one of those blog hoppers you are asking what the heck is CRAVE? CRAVE is a all women's event at my church that is so Holy spirit filled you don't know what to do with yourself! The only men there are the ones helping park cars in the parking lot and of course the Lord himself :) The Praise band is even all women! Who says women can't do what men do? It was such a great night. I really could go on for hours and hours about this event but, I will just touch on a few things. Melissa (who I absolutely love) and her mother spoke. Joy & Delight was the topic tonight along with a touch of happiness. Everyone has happiness but, it so easily can be taken away from you in a moment can't it? I know as you are reading this you can think of a time that your heart sunk into your tummy with sadness. I personally know I can think of plenty of times this past year that my heart has sunk. As I sat there and listen to both Melissa and her mother it was like the Lord was speaking right to ME...it was like he as saying Sharon you will go through hard times but, I am walking right next to you. I will never leave you, forsake you or forget about you. That is so true! He is always right next to me ALWAYS! It is us who turns and walks the other way, turns our backs, takes other advice or just don't listen to him. He is always there waiting for us to come back he always forgives and forgets. How delightful it is to have friend like that. Don't you wish all your friends were like that? We ended the night with a very encouraging word from Melissa who said they (the world) may take my happiness away but, they can NEVER take my JOY away because my JOY is my JESUS CHRIST WHO LIVES IN ME!!!!

Tired, exhausted, worn-out, beat, just plain pooped!

I know I know I haven't blogged in a week! The title of the blog explains exactly why. As you all know mom started chemo on Monday and chemo hit on Thursday along with the dishes, the laundry and everything else! I like to call it the chemo mac truck! I always considered myself a type A personality and thought I was so organized but, it seems like here lately I can’t organize anything or keep myself going for anything in the world! I can say though that when my head hits the pillow at night I sleep like a baby. The problem was keeping me going until I could make it to my pillow at night!!!! I have never really been one to lay down during the day but here lately I would almost do anything to be able to get a nap in during the day. I started asking around and doing some research on vitiams to help give me some energy because I was having major lack of it! I found out I was in need of vitamin C so I headed out for some of it yesterday and so far I have gotten more done today than I have in a week…yea me! I even think it might be helping with my concentration…maybe? I do have a lot going on right now but, I have always worked with craziness in my life so that shouldn’t change anything…I will just whip out my calendar, my crackberry and keep on going! We will get through this all. After all I am a type A personality and I now have vitamins to keep me going!!!!

1 down 5 more to go!

Today was mom's 1st treatment of chemo and she handled it like a champ :) We got to Southern Regional at 7:15 and was admitted and in the chemo room by 8 something. Chemo is a very long process and it takes so much from everyone. At Southern Regional they treat their chemo patients like friends and it was so nice.

I have a website for mom and I said on hers if you ever need to be humbled just go and sit on the oncology floor and that statement is so true. As, I sat there this afternoon after they had severed lunch & all the patients had fell asleep I just looked at each one of them one by one & wondered why are they there. I mean I know why they are all there they are cancer patients but, what I mean what kind, how long have they lived with it, do they have any family, how did they find out? What is their story???? I then found myself quietly looking at each one of them and praying for them, their health and their family.

Now, I know to some that might not seem like much all I did was say a prayer for them but, that is all I can do for them. That is my way of helping them. I said when my mom told me she had cancer my life flashed before my eyes and they did. I thought wait hold on she hasn't seen me get married and have kids and she is suppose to be here for that! Who else will I argue with about what dress I like or if I want to wear my veil in my face or not (those who really know me will know who funny that comment is). All I can ask is that people pray so why wouldn't I do it for someone else.

If I learn one thing out of this it is that when I tell someone that I will keep them in my prayers and thoughts I mean it. Ask me to pray for you and I promise you I will lift you up in prayer everyone morning, night and every moment I think about you in between.

Imagine!

Hum, imagine you say. Yes, that is what I said, imagine. That is what the sermon at Momentum was about today in fact that is what our sermon is going to be on for next couple of months. Imagining what the world would be like be like well, just use your imagination. Imagine if we were all debt free, we all have perfect marriages/perfect relationships, had the perfect job or um had the most perfect walk with the Lord? Just Imagine! It kind of makes me stop and think about the Allstate commercial where everyone stops and helps someone on the street…wow what if the world was like that we would live in a different place!

As I drove home from church today I really thought about what was said in church WHAT IF this and WHAT IF that. You know have you ever heard the saying if we were only more child like I think it should be if we were only more Christ like. Then we wouldn’t have to say WHAT IF?

Why is it we will go out of our way to say something mean to one another or roll our eyes but, we won’t go out of the way to help each other out or say something nice? Are all of our lives really that busy that we can’t even say hi to each other anymore? Are our lives that awful that we have to do mean things to each other to somewhat make ourselves feel better for a moment of time?

With the New Year being upon us I am holding myself accountable to be a nicer person even on those days and moments where I just don’t want to. What would happen if this trend caught on in 2010????

JUST IMAGINE!!!!

Hello 2010!!!!

I didn't get to make my first post of the year on the first day of the year because I always go out of town for New Year’s. Remember that whole tradition thing we talked about a few blogs back.

I am so excited about not only starting a new year but, a whole new decade!!!! I am not going to bore you by listing all my goals for myself here but, I would love for you to check back often and see how I am doing.

Here are a few things:

~I am going into 2010 without nails! I have been getting my nails done since I graduated from high school in 1996. When my mom was diagnosed with cancer and was told she would have to go through chemo we were told she would no longer be able to get her nails done. I thought it would be a nice to have my taken off as well.
~I will start a financial class this month that my church offers. I am really excited about this. I have heard from many people that after taking this class that they have no debt...how cool.
~I am going to get into better shape and stick with it!
~I have some great plans for devotions and my faith with God. Boy has my faith been tested over the last year and I can't wait to see how things go in 2010.

I hope everyone had a great new year's eve and I hope everyone has a wonderful 2010!!!!

Much Love!
Sharon