ENCOURAGED IN HEART

Breathe, laugh and pray today.

If I had my own reality TV show, that’s what I’d name it. (Not that any producers are knocking down my door…)

Breathe, laugh and pray today.

I’ll give you a quick segment from yesterday. One innocent offspring accidentally bumped my coffee cup over. No worries, because my purse and all her glamorous contents are precisely beneath and absorb said coffee.

Breathe, laugh and pray today.

Honey situations.

Yup, you guessed it…Breathe, laugh and pray today.

I’ll give you a quick segment of today’s show. The last walk home from the morning bus stop as a friend, my neighbor that became a very dear friend, is moving away.

Breathe, laugh, and pray today. (Okay, add in a tear-filled bear hug too.)

In a few moments, I have Winter school parties for Cal and then Jake. It is with great confidence that I share what I’ll be doing while there: breathe, laugh and pray. It’s a guarantee.

If you’re a teacher, GOD BLESS YOU!

Some day, the Finkster and I want to go on the Amazing Race. We have a ton of non-marketable skills that would prove invaluable on this show. I mean really, how exactly do you quantify sarcasm? And, as for entertainment…we’d BRING IT alright. West Virginia and New Jersey will not disappoint on the entertainment front.

CBS, have your people call my people, well, me, and we’ll sort out the details.

I hope this Wednesday, this last Wednesday before Christmas, that you will breathe, laugh and pray today…cause that’s WASSUP!

If given the opportunity, would you ever go on a reality show? Which one? If you could have your own reality show, what would you name it? WASSUP?

Happy Black Friday to all you lunatics lovelies that woke early to get a bargain. I’m very interested in what time you woke up and where your shopping travels took you?!?!

Since Christmas is now officially the next holiday, I also wanted to ask what’s something that you do to keep Christ in Christmas?

The Fink fam’s changing some things up in here this Christmas. After much consideration, the Finkster called a family meeting. The discussions that followed were focused on this exact question, “How we could focus more on Christ this Christmas and less on stuff?”

I will assure you that this conversation was gold…pure gold.

The Finkster presented the idea that maybe we could consider asking Santa for three gifts.

Not one to ever miss an opportunity to squeeze in a sermonette (that’s a Smurf sized sermon), I chimed in with, “On Jesus’ birthday, He only received three gifts…Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh.”

One unnamed offspring quickly deliberated that this was in fact a great idea. He decided that his list would only have three items on it:

1. Gold
2. Gold
3. More gold

Is it shameful to write that I did not see this coming?

(You already know how I just adore being the “butt” of the joke).

I choose to see our sons’ leverging life for his ultimate maximum golden gain as a strength, okay? Okay.

What’s one way you keep Christ in Christmas? For you Black Friday shoppers, what time did you get up and where are the bargains at?

Since I’m the fourth born child, there are very few pictures of my life. No, I’m not bitter or anything…

Since I don’t have a picture of the year I was a Rubix cube for Halloween (yeah, I wore a box that had each side painted a different color!), I will show you another fav Halloween costume…

My friend, Natalia, and I were the Fruit of the Loom grapes…or perhaps more accurately, Fruit of the Looneys!

What is one of your favorite Halloween costumes? WASSUP?