As all of you college students know, finals are fast approaching. This means that if any of you are like me at all you have been a nervous wreck/emotional rollercoaster/grouchy/ball of stress all at the same time. I feel like my whole life has been classes, homework, work, sleep, repeat. I haven't even had hardly any "Eric time" which makes things even worse. I have been stressed about keeping my scholarship thanks to my dang Chemistry class/lack of motivation, applying for USU, getting all of our Christmas gifts bought, making our money stretch just a little bit further, and trying to get a work schedule that actually gives me the chance to see my family over the holidays. With all of this stress I have had a similar thought several times. "Why?" Why is the Lord doing this to me and now of all times. I have felt constantly overwhelmed, like none of my hard work pays off, and that even though we are doing everything we should and keeping the commandments we are still not receiving the blessings that others so easily receive.
A couple days ago I decided that my bad attitude was doing nothing but dragging me down so I turned to Pinterest for some inspiration (haha.) I found several quotes that just seemed to fit my life perfectly. The first was "Sometimes the Savior prefers to prepare us to fight through the storm, rather than calm the storm for us." This made me realize that if everything in my life was easy I would never learn anything. Another thought was "Having faith in God means having faith in his timing as well." Even though I may feel like it is the time for me to receive certain blessings God may feel differently and I need to remember to seek God's will not my own. My last thought was just to be grateful for what I have. The past few weeks I have been dwelling on the things that I don't have. I don't get the weekends off to go home and see my family rather than I get to work the weekend to make a little extra money. Or I don't get to spend enough time with Eric rather than every night I get to crawl into bed next to my husband and spend way more time with him than military wives get to spend their husbands. I have decided that I need to start working on changing my perspective. I can sit around and complain all I want but nothing is going to change unless I make it change. I need to stop complaining and start being someone others enjoy being around. I need to trust in the Lord with all my heart and with every decision he makes. I am so blessed and even if it took this crazy month to make me realize it I am so grateful.
and now for a little less serious topic..
So lately Eric and I have been into crafting! I have been trying to gain a good variety of holiday decorations so Wood Connection has recieved about half of our income haa... So this post I thought I would post a few pictures from the holidays! :)
This is really a craft but we had so much fun carving pumpkins I thought I'd post a pic anyways! :)
Eric made his own design (the alien) and I cut mine out of a book (I know I know, creative!)
This one was a lot of fun! We made this turkey to hang on our door :)
Pinterest has taken over my life the past couple weeks... but thanks to this I have super cute christmas decorations like the cute ornaments hanging from our curtain rod! :)
Another pinterest craft... this one was hard and kind of expensive and at first I didn't like it very much but the longer I have it hanging up the more I like it.
Wood Connection... we seriously can go in that store without spending at least $40! We made this adorable Santa decoration with all sorts of things haha!
This is probably my favorite! We actually planned on hanging this on the door until I found the ornament wreath. The thing that is so fun about this one is that for every holiday/season they have a cute set to hang on the welcome board so we can just keep it up all year round! :)
and of course... our beautiful christmas tree :) Eric picked this tree and cut it down himself!
So needless to say our house is very "Christmas-y." I can't wait to get a bigger place so we can even more decorations haha!
