Chapter 1

Starting Today

This really isn't the first chapter of my life. I have lived several decades before today. Today, though, I made a decision that I wanted to record my life. Not record visually, but in the journalling sense. I have tried to keep journals, the notebook always gets lost, or torn, or half used and then there is a bunch of half used notebooks lying around. If I start here, then I can only lose my password or login name, but there will never be any unused pages.

I don't really care if others read this; that was never my intention. I want to chronicle both my emotional and my spiritual life. My Facebook page is for the rest of my life viewers. Though to be honest, there will be crossovers from both pages.

I hope to not forget to write. That is where my attempts always lag. If something goes on for so long without a reasonable conclusion, my interest wanes. Life, however and hopefully, last a lot longer than a good work of fiction.

Here it begins.

I stay at home with my 19 month old son, and 4 days a week I watch my 26 month old nephew. I wouldn't trade this job/career for the world, but it does have it's ups and downs. I actually attribute most of the downs to my own attitude that develops during the day. I really don't have it all that bad, but my mind gets things a little warped. Especially at this age, they play well, and general entertain one another. The only things that I have to do are: change diapers, make lunch, pick up toys, give out snacks, refill juice cups, and put in a new movie. Ouch that was hard. So what, I ask you, do I have to get upset about during the day? Something being broken? No, they are just things. Fighting? That happens everywhere. Poop? Give me a break.
Nothing. In A Christ Centered Life by C. J. Mahaney give us a tip. Wake up with Christ as your center thought. I've failed at this recently. I did this for quite a while and it worked great. I think I will try this again. Today is already half over . . . I will start first thing tomorrow morning.

Today I did not watch my nephew, Kole. Carter didn't feel well yesterday, so Kole's Great Grandma Lynn watched him. He preceded to throw up several times. I'm not sure that I would have been the best person to take care of that. I'm sure that I would have done just fine, but I believe that Grandma Lynn did a better job than I. Thank you, Lord, for working things out just right, except for the sick part.
I covered a lot today. There's more to say, but I"ll save it or the next chapter.