just so you know...

Moving is a lot of hard work!

T-minus two(ish) months until we return to the Promised Land! All this hard work will be worth it. I can't wait!

ch-ch-ch-changes.

We are in transition at the Webb household.

My husband just started training in the J-model C-130 aircraft and I am putting in my two weeks notice at my job tomorrow. Why, you ask?

Because we are moving to Texas!!!

We are scheduled to be back in the heartland, promised land, this land is my land, this summer. We will be stationed at Dyess AFB in Abilene and I am beyond thrilled!

I am definitely ready for these...

Desperately ready for these...

And these...

I am resigning a tad early in an effort to get our house ready for sale. We have quite a bit of work to do to spruce it up and there's just no way we can do it all both working full-time.

So, there we go. A new year, a new move...to TEXAS!!!!! This girl is coming home, y'all!

happy new year!

Boy, am I excited about 2012! I'm not sure why, but I just am. I am looking at this new year as a new opportunity and a fresh start. As Oprah says, it's another year to get it right.

I didn't make any New Year resolutions because I have NEVER been able to stick to them and they create more stress than I need right now. I am, however, committed to doing a few things this year or the next, or however long it takes me.

I was inspired by a friend of mine who posted that he read the Bible from cover to cover in 18 months. I want to do that. I found a calendar online that breaks it down so that you can read it in a year. I am not going to put that much pressure on myself - but I am going to do it, no matter how long it takes me. If you're interested in such a thing, you can find a calendar here. It lists the scriptures in chronological order, which I think is very cool (plus I like things linear. I blame my OCD). I just want to read it in the order in which it happened. I'm pretty sure it will be a great story ;)

Of course, I want to lose weight and de-clutter my house and be a better wife and mom and do volunteer work and make a difference and etc. etc. I always want to do those things. But I saw on our church's Facebook page to wait until today's message before committing to a resolution. So, I did. And I'm glad I did. Our pastor asked us to ask God what ONE THING He wants to do in our lives. Since we always make a laundry list of all the things we want to do in the new year and we crap out on almost all of them by Valentine's Day, I thought this was a fresh perspective.

He challenged us to ask ourselves the following questions:

1. What ONE thing do I desire from God? (Whoa, I have like, ten things).

2. What ONE thing am I missing?

3. What ONE thing do I need to let go?

4. What ONE promise do I need to hold onto?

In other words, if God was to tell you that He would do anything for you this year, what would it be?

Holy moly. Talk about challenging!

I don't have the answer to that first question yet. I am needing to take a few days to decide which of the many things I desire is the most important/most immediate. Whatever that is will be the only "resolution" I make this year. I would rather grow in ONE area and change my life in ONE way than commit to a thousand, superficial things that never pan out. Agreed?

I pray you all (whoever you are) have a wonderful and blessed 2012. Here's to good things to come!

just some inspiration for your tuesday.

I found this on pinterest.com. And I'm pretty sure I squishy-heart love it:

People are often unreasonable, irrational and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.

It was never between you and them, anyway.

hello, world.

So, yeah. It's been like, two years since I last blogged. Notice the change in the design? I paid a designer to make this blog all pretty-like and I do believe she did a great job...then, I go two years without blogging a gosh darn thing. Lame.

I am *hoping* that my blogging days will soon return because just today, I bought a wireless keyboard for my iPad2. Ever since I got this iPad2 for Mother's Day, I have spent zero to very little time on my actual iMac desktop computer. I know, I know. #FirstWorldProblems. But because the iPad is so easy to access from anywhere, I just havent had the need to get on the big computer.

Blogging on the iPad wasn't easy. I've gotten used to typing on it now, but I don't ENJOY it. Enter the wireless keyboard. This thing is awesome! I am sitting in the living room, on my couch, with my iPad docked on the couch arm, while I lay back and type, type, type away. Yay!

On a different note, I hope everyone's Christmas was magical and wonderful. Mine certainly was am I am gently fading into the post-Christmas depression I always siffer about this time of year. I hear they make a seasonal anti-depressant for the winter and if you know a guy who deals them, I'd like his pager number...

So the holiday has come and gone and now we settle in for the longest three months of the year. Winter. Blah.

I guess that's all for now. I just wanted an excuse to use my new keyboard. I know this post was pretty pathetic.

Here's hoping for more! ;)

i did it!!!

It took me ten months to gain 50 pounds. Yes, FIFTY!!! And it took me ten months to lose it.

As of this morning, I am officially my pre-pregnancy weight!

And this is how seeing that number made me feel, grey sweatpants and all!

I know I sound like I'm tooting my own horn but, well, I am.

It was no easy feat. I had to restrict calories and workout. I know, wild concept, huh? But it was soooooo worth it! Seeing that number put a little skip in my step today and made me literally do a fist pump in the bathroom.

My goal, or comfortable weight, is still ten pounds away. I can do it. I know I can. If I can lose 50 pounds, I can lose 10 more.

It's not about being hot (although that is nice, not going to lie), but more about feeling like me again. Carrying around this extra baggage brings me down. I don't feel like myself. It causes me not to be able to wear some of my favorite outfits and jeans. I just want to feel confident again, you know? Today is definitely a step in the right direction.

Fist pump!

This is what an extra 50 pounds on yours truly looks like...yikes!

beautifulness.

Lyrics to "After the Storm" by Mumford and Sons:

And after the storm,
I run and run as the rains come
And I look up, I look up,
on my knees and out of luck,
I look up.

Night has always pushed up day
You must know life to see decay
But I won't rot, I won't rot
Not this mind and not this heart,
I won't rot.

And I took you by the hand
And we stood tall,
And remembered our own land,
What we lived for.

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more
tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your
fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

And now I cling to what I knew
I saw exactly what was true
But oh no more.
That's why I hold,
That's why I hold with all I have.
That's why I hold.

I will die alone and be left there.
Well I guess I'll just go home,
Oh God knows where.
Because death is just so full and man so small.
Well I'm scared of what's behind and what's before.

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more
tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your
fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.

And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more
tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your
fears.
Get over your hill and see what you find there,
With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair.