Recycled Newspaper Crafts

Love pomegranate! Throw half a fruit’s worth in chocolate chip cookies – they turn out very soft but yummy!

I am okay with saying no to a lot of things now even though I know a lot of people think that selfish. At our previous church (switched after we moved), which was a small church, hubby and I had a huge load (strange because you wouldn’t think we’d make up the bulk of church leadership in our early 20s, and what we really needed was some mentoring and fellowship, instead of serving serving and more serving) and it caused some burn out. Between the 2 of us, we were involved in leading worship, leading youth group, Christian Ed dept, VBS director, etc. Now with 2 kids of our own and at a new church, we wanted to make own relationship with the Lord a priority and our family as well. It didn’t make sense to minister to others when we weren’t even spending time with the Lord. Anyhow, I’m a little long winded here, and just wanted to say that it is hard when society makes you seem lazy if you’re not busy busy busy and involved in every event. And it’s tough because our friends’ kids are participating in a million activities, and it makes me feel like our kids are missing out when I don’t spend money to sign my baby up for music classes. For me, I don’t think I put myself as a priority. My hubby works hard and I don’t want him to have to deal with other home tasks, etc when he comes home so I do it all myself. I probably shouldn’t do that. Even though we don’t have a TV, technology is a big time waster…checking every few minutes to see if anyone responded to an email or comment. =p I need to prioritize more to make everything more balanced I guess.