Fun day...Bowling...lots of kids

I started volunteering at my church, with the childrens ministry. I do a weekly program. We started bringing in children from an apartment complex on the church bus. Its alot of fun. And, it didnt take long to fall in love with these kids.

After we started this, my church "adopted" this apartment complex. I was thrilled. I knew immediatley this is my passion....without a doubt. Im not sure the who,what, where or when yet....I just know Im on board. Im so excited to see what God is gonna do and how he is going to use me.

While Im waiting for a team, meetings, ideas, plans, etc.....I figured I'll just start by getting to know these kids more. I've been meeting their parents and learning their stories.

I have tons of ideas...one i hope for is to do a womens bible study there at the apartments.

So, today me and Renee (thank heavens she volunteered to come with me) took the kids bowling, mcd's and to the park. Everyone had a great day!

Anthony

The whole bunch!

(Renee, Dj, Nathaniel, Anthony, Me, Julia, Keke, Ricky, Joshua

Darius, Aj, Gabriel, Freedom, Noah)

Ke ke

A Date with Jesus

Can you remember ever going on a date....and coming home in ''dreamland''?
I do...many times. I remember coming home, laying down in my bed and dreaming. Being so happy, so excited, thinking how cute the guy was, how nice, dreaming of my whole future with him.
Not too long ago....offer me the choice of a night out with a bunch of women at a bible study or a hot date.....with no doubt i would choose the date! The bible study with the women just didnt sound that much fun.
Last night i went to my womens bible study (btw..there was no date option). I was tired from work..but still went...mostly because im commited.
..And boi am I so glad I went....it turned out to be so much fun...and a DATE WITH JESUS!
When I came home...I layed down in my bed...and my mind started swirling with thoughts. Thoughts of love....thoughts of my evening with the girls....thoughts of the words of Beth Moore...thoughts of scriptures from the bible...thoughts of hope....thought of patience....thoughts of longing....thoughts of waiting....thoughts of passion.
I feel asleep with all of this and woke up this morning still feeling Jesus!
I feel like last night I had a fabulous night out with Jesus.....a thousand times better than any date I've ever had with a man!

Plan B

I had a plan to do "Donate your tips" day at my restaurant every other month, to raise money for items and money Uganda.
We did it once and it was a success, but I had no takers when I put up a volunteer list for a second one.
So, today, I was like forget it.
Then I came home and got a letter in the mail from brandi saying how much they were able to accomplish the last trip in uganda because of donations and specifically the expression of joy Joan(my little girl) had on her face when brandi told her that her sponsor made special effort for the children.
Soooo, I couldn't be like forget it......I had to come up with plan B.

This is what I'm going to post for my servers tommorrow:

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DO YOU WANT ME TO DO YOUR SIDEWORK?

You guys know I’m collecting things for Africa. I am going to offer to do your sidework in exchange for donations!

I am collecting: white chalk
Crayons – crayola or rose art
Color pencils – crayola or rose art
Money

If you donate: 3 items listed above (like 3packs of crayons or 1pack chalk and 2 packs color pencils ) or $5 , then I will do your tables or sidework.

If you donate: 2 items above or $3, I will do your extra sidework

If you donate : 1 item above or $2, I will do you silver ware or windows.

I will give you coupons for each donation. I will accept donations and give coupons thru June , so hurry up!

You can donate and collect as many coupons as you like, I will keep honoring them thru July.

The only catch is you must give me the coupons at the beginning of your shift (over night people – I will take one persons coupons only when I arrive in the morning )

And I can only take a few coupons each day.

I hope you guys have fun and participate….its really for a good cause! All the money I collect will go towards a good quality sports ball set for the school at Rapha orphanage in Uganda, buying more of the supplys listed above, and of course food........and you know its gonna be fun watching me work so hard!

Amy
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I pray that it works! I'll post an update at the end of the month. Sidework is close to torture so I'm sure they will take advantage of this.

Today I.....

Did all my regular mom stuff (way too many things to even think about listing).............and I also :

Made 50 cupcakes......with a baby involved.....and a 6 year old '''helper'''.....and no one got hurt!

................And me and my daughter went to get tatoos *************

Julia's

Mine

......And I didn't forget to Feed the Forgotten!

Yes! I am very pleased wth my phone.
I have a slideout keyboard, i can yahoo,twitter,and blogspot.
It was a free upgrade and im not paying extra a month.

Seeing if i can do posts from my phone

Mommy and me days

About two times a year, I give my children a special day with just me. They can basically choose what we are going to do that day. We plan it out about a month ahead, so they have plenty of time to get really excited.

Aj chose Holy Land. We went on my Birthday, so I got in free and it was only $15 for him (great deal!). We both had never been there before so we had a lot of fun!
His main goal for the day was to get a mountain dew and an ice cream....mission accomplished!

Me and Darius went to Aquatica. We have passes and been before, but I never can ride the rides with him because I always have the little ones. So, his main goal for the day was for me to ride all the rides with him................mission accomplished! We rode each ride twice, there were no lines. and no lines is not always a good thing when you are out of shape and climbing about 2000 stairs for each ride. I couldnt even feel my legs anymore. But we had a lot of fun.

Me and Julia are going next week for our day. We are going to donate blood and then get tatoos. Sounds crazy, I know.

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