Recipes and Writing

So the blog seems to be going well, I really enjoy the emotional release it allows me to have.  No cares in the world, free to write what I want and when I want to.  It really has helped me cope and vent which if I didn't  it would only be a matter of time before I took it out on Art or my family.  I picked up where I left off reading my "Rediscovering Catholicism" and geeze I forgot how much I missed that book.  I feel refreshed just after reading a section.  The author has many fantastic ideals and suggestions to rediscover one's faith but there are two that I find phenomenal: "always be Christian" and  "thrive and not just survive".   Wow those are powerful!  I want to always be a Christian whether the other individual I am talking to is or is not.
 I believe throughout our adoption process we have forgotten we are Christians and I also believe that many people around us have forgotten their Christians.  I am not accusing just making an observation.  When we found out our infertility news we lost a few friends, as the adoption process began we lost a few more, and now that we are waiting and their having babies we are out of the picture.  Friends stay from beginning to end, I know people may not know how to deal with infertility and adoption but neither did/do we.  Friends stick by one another and as Christians pray together.
I want to thrive not just survive.  I want to be alive and live not just exist.  How great would it be to do something to be remembered for?  I want to bust at the seems of enjoyment yet make a living doing it.  I have previously blogged what occupies my thoughts but what really gets me excited, head out of gutter, is my animals and garden.  I love showing people around the barns and gardens, I love seeing the excitement of the children, and I love making anything in the kitchen.  So I believe I do thrive a little but I want to go the whole way, full throttle.  Someone one said to me "when in doubt throttle out", lol.  So before this little angel comes Mom and Dad are working on thriving, we want to make sure spiritually, mentally, and physically we are ready.  Step one is to return back to church, step two is to follow through and live a Christian life, step three is reevaluate where or careers/jobs are and make sure that is where we want to be and want to continue to be,  and step four to is live like we were dying (thank you Tim McGraw).