So Bugged!

Yesterday was awful!

Now I know I said that I didn't want to complain on this blog, but I realize that life has its ups and downs... so I will just end up talking about them both!

Anyway... the reason that yesterday was awful is because I was sick and we found fleas on our dog!!!

So 3 days ago we checked her fur and skin out as a usual routine and she was fine. Yesterday we were commenting that she has been acting a little weird for the last day and a half, but didn't really know what the cause of it was. A little later I started to rub her belly and found a clump of what at first felt like dirt, but turned out to be fleas.

So because I am generally afraid of bugs and freak out about possible bug infestations, Michael and I went to work bagging everything (all stuff which we'll be washing all weekend long!!!!!). Michael ran to the store to get some flea and tick shampoo, a flea collar and home cleaning products to get rid of fleas as well.

I had called my mom extremely upset, hoping that it would calm me down, but really I was too upset to be on the phone, so I passed the phone to Michael and she gave him some really good suggestions for how to take the cleaning on.

I felt so bad for sticking Fergie in her kennel to watch us clean everything up, but her! So even though there wasn't any place to stick her after I bathed her I stuck her in the bathtub and got her all sudsy and left it on for the 5 minutes the treatment called for (which was quite a feat keeping her from shaking it off!) on the label.

I was shaking so much from everything that Michael kicked Fergie and I out of the basement and we hung out upstairs while she dried and he cleaned her kennel. Once her kennel was clean and dry, I grabbed a clean blanket and said goodnight to my poor fur-baby.

Michael told me to go watch a movie upstairs and not to worry he was going to finish cleaning up our room, vacuum and spray it down.

So that was why my day was so awful! And why Michael and I's Facebook statuses were plain and gloomy.

ps. As I was writing this Michael was getting ready for work and I started shaking because I only slept a couple hours and I ended up crying into his shoulder when he gave me a hug goodbye.

Also after he cleaned out her kennel and finished cleaning and spraying down our room he cleaned out the bathtub, so he could take a shower! He was my hero!!!!!

Buyer Beware or Ignore the Stupid People?

I was reading reviews on a couple mattresses we are interested in buying, they are memory foam and they each have 2-3 layers of soft, medium and firm foam that make up this mattress. While some of the reviews are 5 stars, others are 1-2 stars and I was thinking those sound like drastically different mattresses while reading them, but I wondered if some of those people had their mattress upside down! Such different perspectives on one thing!

Sometimes I wonder about people... I mean did they try to make it work? Or did they get frustrated and not think past that?

I really want to believe the good reviews and get a quality mattress for an amazing price, but I am inclined to be skeptical. Michael and I don't have a lot of money to get a new mattress, so I want to make the best decision possible.

This is so tough!!! Maybe we should check out IKEA's memory foam mattresses too...

Anyone got a suggestion?

Some Moments...

Some moments I am okay with where I am at in life. No its not what I envisioned all the time, but when I first thought of how I thought it would be... I definitely did not see the journey of life. I just saw the destinations I hoped for.

The places that I have stopped along this journey I now see, are shaping me into the woman God wants me to be. I am perfectly fine with that.

I hope that you can experience the same where ever you are in your life right now. Because God has a plan for all of us and He will see us through!

Side by side

Over the four years that Michael and I have been married we've struggled.

Not with our relationship, but just in life.

Sometimes everything has felt like a battle.

The battle for rent money, the battle for good health, the battle for getting all the things done that need to get done in a day!

I know that I have felt the oppressiveness of our world a lot, but I have not been so sure about Michael. I mean he does have his moments of outward expression.

Its just that he has indeed been my rock, letting me explode in tears in his arms using his t-shirt as a tissue.

No matter what the struggle we're side by side.

The best part is that we are trusting in God as a couple.

Tonight I could not sleep. I smelled mildew and mold, had allergy and asthma issues, and then organized laundry and cleaned the garbage can all in a pursuit to vanquish the enemy of my nose!

Michael woke up and helped me. I told him how attacked, how oppressed and sick I was feeling. He paused for a moment then prayed for me and prayed for us.

He thanked God for His presence in our lives.

He asked God to provide for all our needs and he committed our resources as small as they are to the Lord.

No that isn't the first time he prayed a prayer like that and no it may not be his last time. But he brought before the Lord our present struggle, battle if you will and armed us in prayer.

The funny thing is that while Michael was praying, this old song popped into my head and felt urged to look it up online and the words fit so well with how we were feeling. It was almost like God was trying to put a smile on my face.

SIDE BY SIDE (Harry Woods) (1925)

See that sun in the morning,

Peeking over the hill?

I'll bet you're sure it always has and sure it always will.

That's how I feel about someone,

How somebody feels about me.

We're sure we love each other

That's the way we'll always be.

Oh, we ain't got a barrel of money,

Maybe we're ragged and funny

But we'll travel along

Singing a song

Side by side.

Don't know what's comin' tomorrow

Maybe it's trouble and sorrow

But we'll travel the road

Sharing our load

Side by side.

Through all kinds of weather

What if the sky should fall?

Just as long as we're together,

It doesn't matter at all.

When they've all had their quarrels and parted

We'll be the same as we started

Just a-traveling along

Singing a song

Side by side.

We're all hunting for something

Something we don't know what

'Cause none of us are satisfied with things we know we've got.

We all forget about moonlight,

As soon as we've given our vow

But we'd all be so happy if we'd start and sing right now:

Oh, we ain't got a barrel of money,

Maybe we're ragged and funny

But we'll travel along

Singing a song

Side by side.

Don't know what's comin' tomorrow

Maybe it's trouble and sorrow

But we'll travel the road

Sharing our load

Side by side.

In this case I can definitely say that its more like

Side by Side by Side.