help!!

Fellow bloggers, I need your help!  

I went to blog away this morning about our amazing Thanksgiving, and it looks like my free 1GB through Google is used by by Picasa.  Have any of you ever experienced this?  It looks like I would have to pay a monthly fee which isn't really my cup of tea, so if anyone has a suggestion I would be extremely grateful!!!

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On a happier note, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  This year was extra special for me.  It was the first Thanksgiving that I've spent with my mom since my parents divorced, and the first time I got the chance to cook with her and my grandma.  All of our extended family came from out of time and we had over 20 people sharing their love with us.  It was a very touching day to say the lease.

Now I am diving into the Christmas spirit head first!  Our Christmas cards are ordered, the tree is up, Daniel's Christmas village has been arranged, and our house has been filled with Christmas music since...ummm...two weeks ago!  I can't help myself sometime.

to my best friend

4 years ago I married you, the man of my dreams, God's greatest gift to me, and began a life that has taken my breath away as I see how much you love me, more than I ever thought possible.  I'm lost for words when I try to express my love for you.  All I can say, is from the bottom of my heart, I love you unconditionally, always forever. 

it all fades away

Lately I have found that I can get pretty worked up over the smallest things.  These little things really have a way of dragging me down.  Something I am really focusing on is stressing less.  

Stress is my enemy.  It has caused physical and emotional pain for me, and the hardest part about it is that you have to do the work to get rid of your stress.  Whether that is cutting back on your commitments or finding ways to relax more.  It always baffles me how I can be so stressed out over something that, at the time seems so trivial, but when I put it into perspective it is so small.  My mind can get so stuck on what is going right and stay in that place for a while.  It isn't fun at all.  There are lots of tears.  And then my husband completely catches me off guard and makes me laugh, the laughter vanishes all of the pain, all of the nuances that bring me down.  

Today it was a child's laughter.  Our sweet niece and nephew have an amazing effect on me.  I look at them, and all the pain in the world just disappears.  In that moment all you can do is be overjoyed at the life God brought into the world, see His beauty and His creation, and stand in awe at what the world looks like for a child.  It is beyond beautiful, so much so that I can't fully express it.  

So we did just that today.  We went to the wild animal park, and marveled in God's creation.  And all of the hurt, all of the stress, all of the pain and anxiety, all of the to-do's that never seem to get done, all of the changes I think need to be made...

disappear.