To be content..

I have been troubled with this lately and on/off in the past. I feel like I am always looking around the corner for something new and excited to come along. In both my personal and professional life. I have often asked Gods help in this situation, but I continue to have these feelings. I wonder what's making me feel like this? I have been blessed with so many wonderful gifts in my life. I have a great husband, a wonderful little boy, great family, friends, work and I still continue to battle over such feelings.

When I was younger, I had an idea of what my life might be like. In that picture, I would be a happy wife (who loved her husband), a mother, and one with a successful career. I look at my life now and I have EXACTLY that!

So I wondered, as human beings, are we just wired to always be thinking and needing more and why the heck do we do this to ourselves? Besides the key fact that sin surrounds us everyday, I think the answer that question remains to be a matter of opinion. People might say they are content, but are they really? Others might have the same battle as me.

Ben constantly talks about Jack like this, "I can't wait till he can walk". (When he just learned to crawl) "I can't wait for him to say his first words" (when he just learned to say, ba ba ba). I am constantly telling him, "Be in the moment of now hunny" "Don't look to the future OR you will miss the very important moments right in front of you!"

In writing this, I definetly need to take my own advice dont I! BE CONTENT with all your blessings Amanda! So many others aren't as fortunate as me, especially in today's economy!

Jacks getting a baby tooth!

Since Jack was three months old, if he was crabby in any way, I would just say, "He's probably just teething". Over time, Ben and I just started laughing aboout the situation because I would always blame it on teething. Pretty much everyday for the last 6 months, I would always check his mouth, "Nope, nothing". So you can imagine my amazement when yesterday, Jack was a little crabby and I checked his mouth to see if anything was coming through and sure enough a little tooth! I was so excited for him! I wonder how much it really hurts them? I hope not too much for Jackie's sake, because this is just the start to alot of pain! :(

You can't see the tooth yet in this picture, but I thought I would post one of Jack's cute mug anyway.

work, ugh!

I am an administrative assistant to an executive at a reinsurance company in Bloomington. Yesterday, all of the employees found out that we are being "aquired" by another company called Guy Carpenter (this one of our competitors). No one really knows what's going to happen in the coming months, but I think that my job might need some serious prayers. With an aquisition, they basically combine two similar companies together and theres sure to be jobs that "overlap". Not sure how I work into this equation, but I know for sure that some drastic changes are going to be made in the next few months..stay tuned.