Late Nights, Late Mornings

So I wrote this post on monday and its been in my drafts since then...I was supposed to add pictures and I never did. Oh well!

This weekend was pretty interesting. Friday morning I woke up feeling sick, so I slept all day. I think Daniel thought I was faking it...he kept asking me to do stuff for him, like making him lunch and washing the dishes. Meanwhile, I'm lying on the couch dying.

Eventually though, I did feel well enough to get up and do some housework. So I spent Friday night watching Lord of the Rings and cleaning during the commercials!




Saturday night was much better! I went with a friend to watch Miss Teen USA at Atlantis. It was pretty exciting to be there and see all the girls, and of course, Nassau's version of Donald Trump, Sol Kerzner. It was nice to get out of my shorts and flip flops, and dress up and feel pretty for a change.

I was really suprised by the shallowness of it all though. I mean, obviously beauty pageants are shallow, but at least they usually pretend to be somewhat about brains by asking (slightly?) challenging questions. But the girls got questions about Lindsay Lohan and Facebook. Yes, I know, Facebook is taking over the world. But still...are these things really important?

After it was all over, my friend met some other friends at a martini bar and I went home. And tried not to cry. You see I don't belong in places like that. They have nothing to offer me, except trashy music and drunkenness. That's not what I want for myself. But even though I have no desire to go to clubs anymore or to be caught up in the partying lifestyle, it still hurts to not fit in. And I felt like I was losing one of my best friends.

After a few failed attempts on his part, Daniel was able to cheer me up. And I decided not to let a life long friendship fall apart because of something so silly. We'll just have to find new things in common, and hang out in new places!

And finally, yesterday after church we picked my mom up from the airport and hung out with her for the afternoon. I made muffins with grated carrots and apple, coconut, raisins, applesauce, and chopped walnuts. Suprisingly yummy! I'm slowly learning healthy ways to cook and eat that don't taste like cardboard.

And then we spent the night jump starting my mom's car since the battery went dead while she was away. You learn something new every day! :)

In conclusion, I did not get to bed early any night this weekend, and I therefore did not get up early to have devotions. Is this one big giant excuse? Yup. Am I accepting it? For now...

I failed...

This morning I woke up bright and early at......8:00. Not 7:45 like planned. Now I know if I want to do this thing I can't accept excuses.

But if I was giving excuses I would say that I got pretty much no sleep last night. I couldn't get comfortable or make my mind shut off. So naturally, I was exhausted this morning. Also, I said I would get up 15 minutes earlier, and considering I actually got out of bed at 8:15 the day before, that technically was 15 minutes earlier!

But still....NO excuses. I failed. But I am determined to have grace with myself (something new I'm learning) and try again tomorrow.

The start of a new blog

So I'm finally doing it. After months of reading other people's blogs and secretly longing for my own, I got up the courage to start.

I got married seven months ago and I have no idea how to be a wife or homemaker. I am currently extremely messy, a terrible cook, and pretty bad at managing my time. However, little by little I am growing and learning. And so I will use this blog to document my journey into womanhood. This includes my cooking and crafting experiments, my attempts to keep our apartment (relatively) clean and organized, and anything else that might help me (and maybe even you) to grow.

How will this blog be different from all the other blogs out there? What will make it special? I guess we'll have to wait to find out.

Speaking of waiting to find out. For the past few months I have been trying to wake up early. One of my favorite things in the whole world is sleeping. Very few things in this world can compare to the feeling of lying in my bed, snuggled in a blanket, snoozing for "just five more mintues". And so I sleep, and I sleep, and I sleep...This usually means waking up at 8:15 and rushing to get ready and get out the door. No breakfast, no bible study, no prayer. And the results are not pretty. Poor Daniel!

Every night I tell myself, "Tomorrow will be the day!", and then wait to find out if it really is. It never is. But this afternoon I came across an article called Establishing a Morning Routine and I realized I can't just wait around until I feel like getting out of bed. That's never going to happen. I have to plan for it, and tackle it little by little.

So tomorrow the goal is to wake up 15 minutes earlier than I already do for some much needed quiet time.

So 7:45, here I come!