"Take some time for you" pt. 1

My life is filled with day time T.V. and puppy pee breaks. As I was getting ready the other morning I had a show on in the back ground.

I'm doing this post in 2 or 3 segments. This is for your benefit, because it will probably end up being a REALLY long post if I don't break it up.

If you watch day time T.V. these days it's all about making people over. They usually have a mom who no longer feels beautiful and they make her over.

This episode it was a mom who was too busy taking care of her children to really take care of herself. At the end of the segment the host of the show says "Just remember it's all about taking time for you".

I chewed that over for a while. Pretty much all day until youth group time.

"Take some time for you".

I believe in taking personal time to relax and regroup.

Taking care of other people can be burdensome. Serving people gets tiring. I know this, but I also know that I don't know it like a mother does. Right now it's just Brian and I and washing dishing and doing laundry can get old fast. Even though I get tired, I'm not foolish enough to think my life is harder than someone with children.

However, the context in which; "Just remember it's all about taking time for you" was said, I believe is selfish. Before you get mad and close the window hear me out.

This is what the person meant when she said "Take time for you"

"Take time for you; and take a shower"
"Take time for you; and by new heals"
"Take time for you; and do your hair"
"Take time for you; and rest"
"Take time for you; and take a nap"
"Don't do that for your kids, relax; take time for you"

Now. All of those things are good and important. We do need rest. We do sometimes need a shower. We do need to take time away and relax. Not getting burnt out is important. However, If it's not done properly it will just create bitterness and wont actually produce rest.

Maybe you agree, maybe you don't, maybe you think i'm a fool. Thats ok. I challenge you to think about it. And come back tomorrow when I write more on it.


Bitterness: It's really easy for me to get bitter at Brian for not doing the dishes, or not taking out the trash. Or helping me around the house. (not so much now because I don't work. but when i was working).  I wanted HIM to serve ME. Because, who doesn't want to be served.

²² Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 

Probably, one of the most incorrectly quoted passages in scripture. And even thought it's said at most Christian weddings I'd say 10% actually understand what it means or even agree with it. 

Verse 24: Says that wives need to submit to their husbands and the church submits to Christ. 

Submit: To accept or yield to a superior for or stronger

Go back to 

Martha, Eat Your Heart Out

Or,  "Martha, Eatchor heart out" is how it sounds in my head. 

A couple weeks ago my father-in-law had his birthday. The family came over to our house. So I decided to make a cake. 

I made a Chocolate Cake with a peanut-butter buttercream frosting. YUMMY! 

Apparently this is a new thing? I've met a few people who haven't heard of that combo before...They've apparently never been to Governors.

 It's a Maine thing. 

Ok. SO I made my cake. And I had a little help from my friend Betty Crocker. Let it cool. Blah blah blah. You know the drill. 

Then I made some buttercream frosting. I had never actually made buttercream before. I know. Fail. But it's ok. 

I went to Cookies and Cups and got tips and the recipe on how to make it. 

Ok so after I got the cake on the plate and started to frost, I realized there was a gap in between the cake and the plate. Well what do cake people do. They pipe around the bottom.  

So I pulled out a plastic bag. I couldn't Justify getting out a piping bag just for that little bit, hence the plastic bag. Now, a lot of people don't know this trick. Or they do, and I'm just the only fool. In order to get frosting into the bag with out making a mess, you fold it over a glass. Like so:

I just grabbed my little scooper and scooped some frosting into the bag. Then you close the bag up and snip off the end. 

Note: I didn't use it all, so I froze the rest of it. 

Then, I just frosted the rest. And this is what it looked like... Mmm makes me want another one.

Oh. And I melted some chocolate chips (and crisco) and just took my fork and shook it over the cake. Voila! Sugar comma happiness. 

Enjoy!

Thats all for now.

-j