Late night owiee

Well here I am.  I was all ready for bed early... I have to go back to school tomorrow.

Read some of my book (Velvet Elvis), and I started to shut my eyes to go to sleep.

Pain.

My knee.

What's going on?

My knee has been doing so well.

And right now... it has to break out into pain.

I don't know what I did wrong.

I don't know why it's in such excruciating pain.

But here I am... watching the Twins game, and icing my knee.

Great night.  

There's always room to smile, though.

I can be happy.  It's the bottom of the 5th inning... Twins tied it up on the top of the 5th... Three to Three!!!!! Go Minnesota!!!!!!

Well, all I'm asking if you're reading this tonight.... that you'd pray this pain subsides.

I'd like to get to bed.  An hour ago.

God is good all the time though.... All I'm going to say is tomorrow is definietly going to be a coffee morning if this doesn't stop.  It's hurting, but it's okay... I'm just asking for prayer for it to stop or numb up for the night... I can deal with it better tomorrow(:

Tomorrow's schedule:

::Dad leaves on business until Wed

::School

::Two hour drama practice

::Home & Homework//Work on History test for Friday

::Dinner with the mom

::SLEEP

Love and peAcE,

rebecca c

Monday off

I awoke this morning, not in my own house, not in my own bed.  Although, I was the only one residing in the house at the time.  A friend and I had a sleep over last night... she had school (I guess I woke up then, too), but then her dad had work, and her mom was substitute teaching.  Weird, but fun.

I got home around 10:30, and I took a shower, and started to put away a lot of my laundry that needed to be taken care of (two huge piles).  Soon after that I realized it was definitely time for coffee...

I drank some coffee, and some chocolate from yesterdays Easter basket (which took me about three hours to find).  It was in my cupboard behind all my food... my goodness.  It was a nice surprise, though.  

Yesterday was fabulous, Church was a great service, and then out to lunch with the parents was a great edition.  We went to one of the fam's all time favorite restaurants::: 

I have been going to this restaurant in downtown Wayzata since I was a little girl.  Every Sunday after church it seemed like we'd head on down to D'amico & Sons.  My sister is especially fond of this restaurant (being that it's an Italian restaurant).  She got me hooked onto their Gulf Shrimp Spaghetti.  Some of my favorite food in the universe.  After our lunch, we walked down by Lake Minnetonka for a little while, and then headed back home.  It was a BEAUTIFUL Easter to be reminded that our Lord is risen for us!

After I drank my coffee this morning, I cleaned and cleaned.  I don't always love cleaning, but I know the rewarding feel afterwards.  I love a clean house.  I love a clean room.  I feel way less stressed, and I feel like I can take out any stress I have on cleaning (and I'm not the only one who feels that way).  

Then I ate my left over lunch for lunch today... which was still delicious.  

And right now I am just refueling with a glass of orange juice and an encouraging word from Paul:::

"We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance.  And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.  And this hope will not lead to disappointment.  For we know how dearly God loves us, because He has given us the holy spirit to fill our hearts with his love."  Romans 5:3-5

I hope you have a blessed and beautiful week.  That God will teach in the big and the little things.  Tomorrow is back to school, and play practice is all week.  Along with Physical therapy on Wednesday. and maybe babysitting that day as well... we'll see.  Love and JoY!

Easter on the mind

Today is the day

The reason we are alive

Because he died three days ago...

and today

he conquered the grave

The one who lived a sinless life

and He calls us to arise...

watch this drama that my church did this morning for Easter Sunday

(not my church, but another church doing it).

Are we living in this love and mercy that has been given to us?

Our chains are gone,

we are free from this LIFE: addiction, hurts, lies... they're gone. There's God who has conquered death. Nothing can go past him. Our lives and pasts may be filled with things that we regret, or we are upset 

about... someone may have hurt us, but our pasts are gone. God has defeated all of that.

"Arise my love, the grave no longer has a hold on you. No more death and sting, no more 

suffering, ARISE."

Here we are. Alive, and our God is alive.

We are his beloved. No matter what we've done. no matter what we will do.

We are HIS and he is OURS

como zoo, lemons, & "marriage"

Today in MN it was HOT.  Dude, it was humid and it was GORGEOUS outside.  I loved feeling the warmth and the humidity that hasn't been penetrated into my skin in MONTHS.  Praise the Lord!

I love the orangoutangs.  They are so cute, and they also had a SLED @ the Como Zoo.  I suspected that those three orangoutangs were a family (Dad, mom, and baby).  It was so cute to watch them interact with each other, and play with the sled (and also their easter eggs).  I loved all the animals... it was so cool to go back to the Zoo today and see all of them playing around and doing whatever.  Also, watching all the little kids just LOVE the animals.  I loved that.  Dearly.

My mom, kate, & i took a stop into the conservatory.  My mom could name all of the plants//flowers in there.  I promise you.  It was very pretty and lovely to smell.  It was truly a fun day! And I know I got my exercise in for a while ;).

On our way home we decided we wanted some lemonade to top off all our walking + seeing.  We took a pit stop @ Cub foods and got some lemons (and other things)... anyway, the point is we got home and we made fresh squeezed lemonade! It was delicious (after we found the right amount of sugar to go in).  

Then some recording was inspired after this treat of ours, and then a walk around Plymouth (I picked up some dinner), and back home I was but only for a little bit.

I got to hang out with some of my fav kids ever.

All three of us headed outside to catch some of the GREAT weather when I arrived at their house.  We did a lot of fun stuff in the back yard (swing set, tag, ect).  For around 2 hours.  It was fabulous.  This explains the whole "marriage" things on top.

Picture yourself when you were little.  On a swing set.  With someone else swinging right beside you//in sync... "We're married!" "We're divorced!"

We went on all these hilarious circumstances between this brother and sister.... oh you're married now! nope we're divorced! we're married again! it was extremely hilarious.

After our outdoor adventures, we went inside because it was getting dark.

I was the ref, and they played a one-on-one game of basketball (KSU vs. KU).  Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!!! (I wasn't picking sides, I promise, I was being fair to both).  Anyway, it was a fun game, and it was hilarious being the announcer//referee.  

After the game they were hungry, so we got a snack and drew some pictures.  And watched a stunting show that they love.  They kept commenting on how stupid the people were for doing such horrendous things.  I laughed.  It was a fun fun night and the girl drew me an adorable picture that I love.  She even drew hearts around the letters "ku" because she knows I am just maybe slightly a fan of the jayhawks... even though she and her parents are strict Wildcats.

I apologize for the length of this post,

but I hope you all have a MARVELOUS night and Good Friday tomorrow.

may mercy + forgiveness wash over all of you this easter Sunday!

Last but NOT least tomorrow's WEATHER!!!!!!

Fri

65°F | 44°F

A THUNDERSTORM!!!!!!

love,

rebeCCA c

78 degrees and animals are roaming

Today I'm kick starting my day with a cup of coffee + oatmeal.

And in 20 minutes I'm leaving to go to the ZOO.

Do I sound like a little kid?

Maybe, but I love animals.  And I love the zoo.

A friend + I were supposed to go on Tuesday, but that soon didn't work.

So today is the day! and the sun is blazing outside, and it's only 9:40 in the morning.  

The weather channel is saying a good day!

Today
Partly Cloudy High 76°F Precip 10% Wind: From E at 17 mph Max. Humidity: 46% UV Index: 4 Moderate Sunrise: 6:55 AM CT Avg. High: 50°F Record High: 75°F (1963)

Looks like a good day ahead! I am looking forward to the time spent @ the zoo today.  Pictures to come! 

I want to say I am extremely thankful for the friends in my life right now.

I am SURROUNDED by such great witnesses of Christ, who know how to have fun, and know how to care and love.  I know if I were in trouble any of them would come and help me out.  As me to them.  I am sooooo blessed to have incredible friends.  I am so thankful.

Also,

Yesterday one of my friends showed me a verse.

:::Psalm 116:7:::

I said to myself, "relax, because the LORD takes care of you."

And last night, I cracked open my bible to whatever the Lord was feeling to teach me (i love those days)... and there was Psalm 116.  My eyes fell to the words... "He heard my cry for mercy..."

And I kept reading, and I was overwhelmed.  

God wants us to relax.

He wants us to let go of our sin and weight.

He wants us to go to him.

He loves us

+

He wants us to know that so deeply...

Let's keep this beautiful thought on our minds as easter Sunday approaches us, and Good Friday is tomorrow.  The day Jesus died for us.  Left this life, and gave up his sinless life for us... sinners and tax collectors, ect.  Lay your sins and guilt @ the cross.  We all have sinned.  We all mess up.  It's time to let go.

I'll leave you guys there for now! 

I'll probably blog later! 

Today's schedule:

-Zoo

-Hang out @ home

-Babysit awesome kids tonight! 

Going to be a fun day!

<3 rebecca C

Sometimes we're wrong

Today I was reminded of an obvious, yet an important lesson.

I was getting an item @ cub foods.  A stick of deodorant

(I know great lesson, right?)

"Hey, she looks kind of grouchy" me

"Maybe she's nice... I bet she is" friend

I stereo typed.

"This is all for you today?" clerk

"Yes maam" me

"Thanks for making my day... light and easy." 

(with a sweet smile) -clerk

She was a super nice lady.

Now you're probably saying//asking.... Rebe how could you be so rude or blind?

Well, I was blinded and hard hearted to someone I didn't even know.

I looked at her features.  

Not internally.

She was a super sweet lady.  Someone I was honored to talk to.

Taking time:

-Do we take the time to look deeper?

-Do we allow God to show us sometimes that we're wrong?

-Will we admit that we are wrong?

-Do we ask God to open our hearts to someone//something we are doubting or don't have much of a desire to do?

• Sometimes we need to take more time than we think we have
• We are called to serve those in need
• We need to obey and love those whom are unloveable - or we doubt

So the next time you go to a grocery store, a restaurant, movie theater, ect, don't stereo type people just because of what they do for a living, what they look like... but take a little more time than usual and get to know them.  Get to know their internal beauty.

Updates:

My knee is doing great! Last night I went for my first legit bike ride (on a real bike that moves).  The first week out of surgery they had me on the non-moving bike, but very slow and it was just an effort to get my legs to move the full circle.  I was very thankful for the breeze, and the beautiful sunset at my sight. 

In this picture my scar doesn't look much different from former pictures... but I cannot tell you how much healing is coming from this surgery.  I am so thankful for all the prayers, the sweet calls and just caring of others who ask how my knee is doing.... it has truly been a blessing.

 

I'm kind of a strange child.  And I'm on spring break.  What else would I be doing but being silly? I'm just joking.  But it has been SO nice to sleep in and relax.  On Sunday night I had forgotten to turn my school alarms.  So Monday morning @ 5:20 my phone went off...... of course I thought as to who would be calling me, to find only it was my alarm.  Thank goodness I knew it was spring break... so I switched my two alarms off and slept a good long while.  I am learning that sleep is a wonderful and beautiful thing.  Something that has felt extremely unfamiliar.

Tonight:

-Watch some Gilmore Girls

-Read some more Last Light by: Terri Blackstock (good book)!!!!

-Go to sleep

peace out & i LoVe you!

the feeling so unfamiliar

As you may know from my last post (I believe), that I am on spring break.

No school.

No work.

Sleeping past 5:45.

Reading until 2 am.

Lunches and Coffee with no study involved.

This feeling... is so unfamiliar.

Even from Christmas break.  I felt like it was just enough work to get out of bed (because of my surgery) + I would wake up no later than 7 am because of pain, or just because my body was not used to all the stuff that was going on.

This feeling has been so far from me.

And here it is, right in front of my face.

What do I do with all this time?

So I had a little fun with the mac.  

I will be doing many things with my time:

*Reading

*Sleeping (a lot)

*Running

*Seeing a movie 

*BABYSITTING

*Going out to lunch

*Going to Easter service

*Staying up late

--And I know there is so much more over this time I spend @ home--

I have been counting my blessings the past few nights... Just through some hard things that have come, and gone.  I want to say that I am very thankful for numerous things:

-Coffee and little kids

-Music

-Taking pictures

-Seeing hilarious cousins + family

-Having my mom bring home more china than we own from her parents (all of our plates, bowls, ect are china).

-Knowing you can sleep in

-Having no bed time

-Spending time with the people I love

-Laughing the guts out

-Having time to think

-Having time in general

-Skype

-A place to live

-A place to sleep every night

-Food @ my finger tips all the time

-Water and other unnecessary beverages

-Moisturizer

-Not being scared of killing a spider

-Having the ability to play my guitar whenever needed

-Pandora radio

-My family + friends

Many of those things are unnecessary in life, and irrelevant, but it shows how much sometimes I need to cut down and live with just the things I need.

I have clothes.  I have a place to live.  I have my family (WHAT A BLESSING).  I have food.  I have water.  I have a bed.  And I have way many more things that I've just wanted than needed.  I don't need a fan for bed time (even if it helps me fall asleep).  I don't need a computer.  I don't need a desk.  I don't need many things.  Even though a lot of times I don't think I could "survive" without these things.  The ugly truth of many of us...

I just want to say I'm thankful.  I am thankful for so many things.

Live in harmony this week.

Peace,

reeb