Try... try ... again...

I am just not so great at this thing called "blog". Again it has been almost a year since my last post and again I have a renewed sense of passion for it... we will see how long this one will last. Our church here in Alaska is the reason for my newest drive to start blogging again. You see our church is participating in a month long series to help revitalize marriages and make couples and singles aware that sex was created by God. We all have a book that we are doing together as couples and each night there are different questions and challenges that are to act as an aid to help bring intimacy and Godliness back into all aspects of our marriages... and I mean ALL! This month Michael and I committed to the 30 day sex challenge in hopes that we can become closer and more intimate with one another. We are onto day 3 and already I have felt shifts happening. I realize it is going to be extremely hard to keep to this commitment because honestly there are times both of us are so wiped for one reason or another all we want to do is zone or zonk out! Not converse and be intimate but I know that there will be great things ahead because of our faithfulness... I can already see changes! During this time we are supposed to journal and take moments for reflectiveness this has been a great reoccurring theme this last year... it seems like every time I turn around I am being told by some person or study that I need to be journaling. I must admit that my first response was rebellion but now I can see the great benefits of it... and now I am very thankful for those people that pushed me to do this in my life ... it's literally like free therapy... So now I figure I have been better at that I can be better at this... our church has a specific blog for the great month of sex (my wording not theirs) anyone who reads my blog should seriously check it out. Anyway... time for a little bit of catch up...

Well, obviously we are still here in Alaska this last year has been another one filled with big moments and winter( had to throw that in because anyone who has talked to me recently realizes how much me and winter do not get along ) . After my brother moved here my parents realized there was no reason for them to be in Oregon without any family so they packed up and had their own little mini adventure on the ALCAN and came to the family was. We moved into our new house and started school work and school for me and things were going at a steady hectic pace. Until... I had to have knee surgery which halted everything in a matter of a 30 minute doctor appointment. I spent three months of winter on the couch recovering, during that time I made so many important self discoveries... I mean really what is there to do but to be self reflective when sitting on your bum for three months? It was a really hard time but I must say that I am really thankful for it... I realized that I wasn't living my life the way I wanted to (busy, stressed and overwhelmed) and that things needed to change. Also because of this injury God blessed me with an incredible friend whom without I wouldn't have survived those months( I mean probably not so dramatic as death but I think that my sanity might not have been intact). After the three months were up I resumed life with a knee that almost works and the decision to homeschool my children...I know that many at this point would be like whoa how did you get from that to here... let's just say thats the way it works in my world...Mike and I both decided that changes needed to happen and one of them was how we were going to educate and prepare our children for life. This was what we thought would be best for our family at this time. So now all of my focus for the last few months has been on curriculum and planning. I am also trying to finish up my last 8 classes for my education and praying about the next step after these 8 classes are finished... that is if I can ever pass my math class...All in all I feel like things are going well for us here... we have found a great church family and Michael has even preached a couple of times. We have started our own small group and this group of people are like family to us. My brother has a very serious girlfriend we all love and adore her. Michael is doing an amazing job at work and although this one could cause the most amount of change and upheaval I am excited to see where it is going to take him next... however until then we have decided that this summer will be our summer of adventure throughout Alaska... we are going to try and explore as much as we can.

So I am going to end here but hopefully I will be much more faithful to this form of communication. I know it is a great tool for all of those family and friends that are so far away... I think if I make a scheduled day to blog I might be better at this whole thing( I do good with schedules)