Makeup Praying

Are you curious about the title? As I was putting on my makeup this morning it hit me to blog about this. No, not about putting my makeup on but what I do while putting my makeup on. I have every so often prayed while putting my makeup on. Think about it, it doesn't take rocket science to put it on. We do it just about every day without even thinking. What a waste of time! (sort of :) ) If you are like me, my mind wanders as I put it on, thinking of a million different things. If someone comes to mind I just start praying about them right then. So it hit me today, what if I make a point to pray every time I'm putting my make up on! So I have done the math. Now I'm not the greatest at math so I hope I calculated correctly. Correct me if I'm wrong but: There are 365 days in a year. Lets just say that you put it on every day. Now lets just say it takes you 10 min. to do it. Some people might not take as long, some might take longer but I'm just getting a good even figure. So you multiply 365 by 10 min. which equals 3650 min. that you use to put on makeup divide that by 60 secs. and that gives you 60.8 hours that you spend a year putting make up on. Right?! Hope I did the math right. Even if its not right you get the point. We spend A LOT of time putting makeup on. And God doesn't care when you talk to him, just talk to him! Even if you have a toddler running in and out interrupting God doesn't mind.

So the next time you do this:

Do a little of this:

Snow

I truly believe we brought the snow with us when we moved back to Memphis. Memphis has never seen this much snow during winter before! Granted its still not close to what we had in St. Joe. Which they have been hit even worse this winter, I couldn't imagine being in that with my toddler. Especially since my precious little girl doesn't really care for the snow as of now. I took her out in it when Memphis got the first big snow to come through and well she didn't want to wear her gloves and right when I put her down in it she fell and she did not like that at all!! So it took us more time to get all bundle up then it did out in the snow. Good thing she is still in diapers because I told her as I was bundling her up that if she was potty trained this would be the time that you would say I have to go potty. :)

The other night after another big storm came through we were stuck at my parents house and they have an innertube. We bundled her up and put her in it and my dad drug her around the back yard. She didn't smile but she wasn't crying either, she just sat there. So we didn't do it for long and then we came in. My dad stayed out there doing something so Amber started to cry and we thought it was because Grandpa was out there and she wanted to be with him. Well, today I went over to my moms and Amber ran to the back door and the innertube was still out there. She started squealing and we didn't know why until we looked, the innertube!! Apparently, she DID have a good time in it :)

However to say all that, the snow really CAN stay away and the Gipson family will be just fine!!! 

The Notebook

No, I'm not talking about the movie, "The Notebook". I'm talking about a notebook that I put together. It is a notebook of ideas. I have had the idea of this notebook for awhile and finally got around to putting it together. What made me think of doing this kind of notebook was having different ideas, games, learning tools, information that I would like to use or need later down the road but not at the moment. Haven't you always heard of a good idea that someone has had and think, I need to remember that for when...but then you never do! Drives me crazy! Well I have been sent in the mail by Pampers information on Potty Training even a free pull up came with. I also had a friend share some Bible verses that her toddler was learning and it went along with the ABC's. I have also gathered craft ideas and Thanksgiving info and Christmas info. However, Amber is not ready to memorize bible verses, let alone potty train. So where was I got to put all that info and also remember to use it when I wanted it?! Then it hit me to make a notebook with dividers of different topics and I could put it in there. The Idea Notebook was born. So I have a potty training section, ABC Bible Verses section, Craft section, Thanksgiving section and a Christmas section for now but I can always add to it. I didn't have any normal tabs and dividers and I really didn't want to spend the money on buying some. So I just used some manila folders and cut them in half and used the half that has the tab on it already. I have a label machine so I just made labels for a neater look. I am glad I made this and hopefully now I can remember to go to the idea notebook and use it!!