The Gift of Homemade Gifts

This year our family decided to make homemade gifts for the holidays and birthdays. I'm making crocheted or knitted belts, purses, jewelry and bath salts as gifts. I found some really good websites for the bath salts and belts.

Our main goal is not to spend a lot of money. We'll only spend for the things we need to make the gifts. I have also signed up with the "Blogger Craft Club".

I think that is a great way for me to stay focused and continue making my gifts, without getting sidetracked. Staying on track with my gifts was one of my New Years Goals.

“What Is A Blog”?

Last week I watched NCIS with my dad. Their suspect was the younger sister of one of the NCIS colleagues. During one of their interrogations the girlfriend of the victim was questioned. She explained that the suspect disliked her because the victim used to be the suspect’s boyfriend and now she had him.

She went on to reveal how the suspect had released her anger for the world to see by trash talking her on some “blog”. The interrogator then responded,

Interrogator: What is a blog?
Victims Girlfriend: You know a blog.
Interrogator: No, I don’t know.
Victims Girlfriend: It’s a place where losers waste their time writing about their life and trash talking other people for the world to see.

Later the interrogator asked one of his colleagues “Do you know what a blog is”?

Colleague: Isn’t it something to clog the sink?
Interrogator: No, I mean the blog on the internet.
Colleague: I thought that was what a blog is unless it has another definition.

I found this hilarious. My dad and I thought about my mom and burst out laughing. I don’t think my mom is a loser for blogging because I blog too. Although she spends excessive time reading other blogs and updating her own. I guess it’s one of her “hobbies” if blogging is considered one. Before my mom began blogging I might have answered that question with a similar answer.

It surprises me that with the millions of blogs out there, if you were to walk up to someone and ask them “Do you know what a blog is”? They most likely would have no clue.

The Kind of Woman I Wish To Be

For exam week it wasn't exactly anything I thought it would be. It was kinda like a regular school week. My mom gave me a list that listed each subject and the things I was required to do. One of the subjects was marked Bible. Under that listing I am required to describe the kind of woman I wish to be. This is what I came up with:
It is hard to describe what kind of woman I wish to be. There are things I want to do, and there are things God has already set for me to do as a woman. I am already set that I want to get married whenever I meet the right person. By meeting the right person I mean a guy that hopefully my parents would approve of. A guy that has a plan for his life, and mainly a guy that is a son of God and is not afraid to show it.

As a woman another thing I want to do is attend and finish college. I would like to take up acting or being a lawyer. Although I feel God has something destined for me working with children, such as teaching or being a mentor. Which I have no problem with, I already work with kids on a regular basis.

My mind is not set on the whole homemaker thing. Although I think whichever woman out there who are homemakers or have decided to be homemakers, that's great! I do want to be a mother though. I want many kids. I want to participate in adopting kids also. I think it's good to have your own children but there are also so many other kids out there who's parents have abandoned them.

Mainly I want to be a wonderful wife. I want to be a woman whom God would look down and smile upon. I want to be a woman who is there for her family and a woman God has set for me to be.