Margin

well life gets busy...and when I can either fall asleep in my bed, or on my couch while I am blogging, I pick the first!!
School is into full swing and moving from K to 2nd was the best choice I have ever made (as far as my educational career goes). I love this age. They are still very much in love with their teacher, they want to please but they are SO incredibly independent. My room is spotless when I leave and I'm not the one that has to do it:)

Margin is our key word right now...we want to do whatever it takes to have some margin...

As I've posted earlier... we've downsized to 2 vehicles (with better gas mileage). We are on a mad dash to provide more margin when it comes to our finances. We want to be able to survive and have a little bit extra to give away, above and beyond our tithes.

We're also really trying to provide some margin in our time. Our lives are CRAZY right now. If its not one thing its another. We want to serve, we want to have time to do fun things as a family but it seems like we are so caught up in the rat race of life. We want to have at least some time to be able to serve others...that can look like any kind of serving. My struggle is, it has to be something we can do as a family. With us both being at work and Brylee Jayne being with the nanny...it is crucial for us to spend every possible minute with her. We're not willing to go put her in a nursery somewhere when we barely get enough time with her as it is. For me, I just don't want to be so caught up in the rat race that I can't get my mentality towards serving other and putting their needs as a priority in my life. So...we want margin in our life so that we can give of ourselves to others in our time as well.

I know I am where I'm supposed to be. This is the season in which the Lord has me. Its easy to look around and wish I was doing something else, but the grass is always greener. The Lord has me here for now and so my focus is to make the best of it, work as smartly as I can and find the purpose of me being where I am.


Finding my contentment in Him, Meredith