Just call me Martha!

Lately I've been on a HUGE redecorating kick which Ginny, Kat, and Elise can all testify to. I've been driving them all batty (and myself too) with all the constant ideas and changes I've had/made. I'm really wanting to slowly redecorate the kitchen, living room, bedroom, and bathroom but if you know me well, you know that I never do anything slow...once my mind is set, there's no changing my mind (except for what colors/patterns to use) but I'm too impatient to wait around and pick things up here and there. I will be getting a new love seat and recliner soon and am going to sell my living room furniture that I have now. However, I was afraid there wouldn't be enough seating if I just had a love seat and recliner so I thought I'd get a crazy chair to go with my "matchy matchy" furniture. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE things to match and am a symmetrical person but I'm really trying to get out of my comfort zone and realize that things don't always have to be perfect. Imperfections are sometimes the things that remind us we aren't perfect and that no matter how hard we try, we'll never be as good as Martha Stewart. A friend of mine was over the other day and as I was telling her my idea of buying a crazy chair, she suggested I just reupholster an old chair that I already had...so that's what I set out to do. After a little LOT of hunting, searching, questioning, returning, and thinking, I finally found a fabric that initially I had to be talked into buying but now that it's on the chair, I just LOVE it. It was soooo easy to do and took all of about 10 minutes! If only cooking were this easy...but don't get me started on that. I'll save those stories for another post...however, I will say I'm working on improving in the kitchen as well and am hoping I'll work up enough courage to start trying to cook again but can I just say, after assuming someone would eat six eggs at a time and burning them because I turned the burner on too high in an attempt to cook them faster, I'm still a little hesitant, so Lean Cuisines it is for now, but I digress. Here are the pictures of my project. One chair down and one more to go! Thanks to Elise, Ginny, and Kat for their help, suggestions, and patience with me!
                          The Before...

                           The in between....

                           The finished product! You like?! 

 Next post I will hopefully have a setting the house on fire cooking story!

That's what friends are for!

To be honest, I don't even know why I titled this post what I did. If you didn't know/remember, the title is also the name of a song; a song that was played at my grandfather's funeral and as sad as I get when I hear the song, I think of how many people always told me he was a true friend and would do anything for anyone, and man I aspire to be that kind of friend to someone else. Anyways...I've always been one that considers my friends to be my family and although I've always considered them a high priority in my life, it wasn't until recently when I realized how truly blessed I am to have such wonderful friends. I recently had the privelege of spending some quality time (which we don't get a lot of) with some amazing, passionate, and Godly friends and what good that does to my soul. Recently I have felt that God has kind of pulled my close friends away from me (I think he's really trying to get me to figure out who I am, be comfortable with that, and most important, fully rely on him instead of others). As much as I KNOW I need to rely fully on him, sometimes it's hard and I'm working on it but I did recently get to spend some time with some great friends and we even made a video of us acting silly (if you haven't seen it, it's on my facebook page and it's hilarious...or so I think so) :) Some people thought it was stupid and some thought it was hilarious but to me...it doesn't matter if no one else thought it was funny. That night myself, my friend Brooke, and our soon to be mommy friend, Kat laughed until we cried, pretty much all night. Believe it or not I can get a little crazy (I know, I know...it's hard to believe), but I haven't really been crazy/silly like that in a LONG time and it was medicine for my soul and I don't know how many times I've thanked God for awesome friends like that recently (not just Brooke and Kat but sooo many others) and thought "I wish I laughed like that more often and that we could hang out more often," but then again...times like those make me cherish even more the random times we do get to hang out, laugh, cry, and act crazy! After leaving that night I thought, "wow...that did my soul good...I really needed that," and yet, I don't know how many times Brooke and Kat have both told me how much THEY needed that! Isn't that what friends are for?! Thank you Lord for truly blessing me with awesome friends that I can act crazy with and they still love me!

Love is Here!

Yet again it's been forever since I last updated my blog but I PROMISE I will really try to keep up with it (as though you guys wait on pins and needles for me to update). I've been wanting to update my blog and after much thought frustration with trying to get a new background uploaded, etc, I've finally done it! I've really been thinking a lot (I know I have too much free time) about what I wanted the title of my new blog to be and have finally come up with "A Season of Change." I've really gone through a lot of seasons lately...or so it seems, and at this stage in life, I thought it was appropriate. Not only am I in a new season because of  becoming a working girl and being a recent FSU grad but I've really entered a new season with Christ. Through recent prayer, situations, and struggles that I've experienced, I feel as though God has been saying "Megan...you love me, but you're not in love with me." Two weeks ago my church had it's annual Youth Week and we had a wonderful worship leader come (who will be touring with Tenth Avenue North) and bless us with her talents. Every night we have dinner, worship, and a message and then one of the nights we have late night worship where it's for people that truly want to be there. I always love things like this because it seems more intense, yet personal and really allows you to spend time with God and not have a time line of when it needs to end based upon kids being picked up, etc. Anyways...during late night worship I was praying and asking God for wisdom and understanding with some things that have recently happened in my life and I began to weep sob during the song Love is Here and it says, "Love is Here, Love is Now...Love is flowing from his hands and from his brow. Love is Near, it satisfies, streams of mercy flowing from his side, cause Love is Here! and during this song I felt as thought God was saying, "Megan, I have you in my arms and I am all that you need." Man...I know that God has me and I know that God is all I need...but sometimes it's hard to live that out because I depend on my own ways, my own ideas, and my own ability and not on his. It's in this season that I choose and desire to really progress in my relationship with Christ, really get to know him, and know what it truly means to be in love with him.