We did it

Well I should say my husband did it. What started out as a story I only intended to share with our Pastor and his wife ( and maybe our small group ) ended today with Gary reading "Our Story" in front of the entire congregation. For both services! A few weeks back I for some reason felt lead to write our financial story. It Documented the impact Dave Ramsey, giving, and God has had on our life. I felt lead to do so after my pastor's sermon a few weeks ago. He was revisiting Dave Ramsey and it's been 2 years since we went through FPU and I was re inspired to continue living Dave Ramsey style. "Like no one else!" After sharing with our Pastor he approached us and asked if we would be willing to share it with the church. Hello! I wanted to tell him he was crazy because I had already annoyed my husband by writing and sharing it with him and my family ( Gary is VERY private) and I told him I would not share with anyone else and here he was asking me to read it to the world! Okay so our church is not the world but it's like 200 people too many. I politely told him there was no way that I could stand in front of the entire church and read it because I would more than likely kill over from nerves alone! Does he not know how I twitch? Haha.... Anyway with out really thinking I jokingly said that maybe Gary could read it( Hello..... am I trying to get divorced!) or even better he could just read it himself. He said no deal because it would mean more coming from us. He liked the idea of Gary reading it and said he himself would edit it down to about a 5 minute story (it was really really long)and reword it coming from Gary's perspective. He said we could take a couple of days to think about it and let him know but that we should say yes and quickly....*wink wink*. He then said no pressure but we really did feel like we could not say no. I mean is it wise to reject your pastor? He's in good with God ya know. But nothing inside my husbands body wanted to do this. He felt it was my story and I wrote it and he didn't really want it shared in the first place. So he did what any decent, loving husband would do and he agreed. Isn't that sweet? I was so proud of him and I assured him I would never get us into this type of situation again! Especially since I myself could not even come through for myself and do what Anthony was asking us to do. We survived though. Yes, it was nerve wracking but I think my nerves are all settled down. Thanks Babe for coming through for us!

I heart shoes

There I said it. And yes it's shallow and yes I know there are poor people in the world who don't even have a pair of shoes and I really should try to love other things like eating broccoli and flossing my teeth but I just can't help it. Buying a new pair of shoes makes me happy! Buying a pair of shoes on sale makes me even happier! Side note **To be balanced my next post will be about how I support charities or how I recycle okay** I recently went shopping because My Christmas present cancelled his Austin tour date so with the refunded money I went and spruced up my wardrobe a bit. Well I spruced up my pedidrobe.........okay.... I just made that word up for my shoe collection but I am so excited to wear them. Can you believe I did not buy any new boots this winter?? I can't. This has to be the first time in a long time that I went a whole year with out doing so. I was frustrated about not being able to find some so I skipped boots this year and just bought heels instead. I got a new pair of pointy black Nine West Pumps. I bought a camel colored pair of rounded toe Steve Madden pumps and my last pair are some green Mary Jane style shoes from Nine West that I think are just too cute. And they were only $19.99! I'm not sure others will like them though. I'll let you judge for yourself.

Are they old ladyish? Well if so.... I am almost 35.