#27 - CHECK

Number 27 on my list of 101 things to do in 1,001 days was to cook Justin a meal every night of the week. I didn't even mean to cross this one off but I did. Since I wasn't realizing that I was marking this off the list as I was doing it, I didn't take any pictures, except for one. Here's our dinner for the week (it actually started on the weekend):

• Friday - Oven fried pork chops with english peas and cream corn
• Saturday - Steak tips with steamed broccoli and carrots and brown rice
• Sunday - Hamburgers
• Monday - Chicken casserole
• Tuesday - Pork tenderloin with macaroni and cheese
• Wednesday - Grilled chicken pasta
• Friday - Grilled chicken and cheese quesadillas

You'll notice I went from Wednesday to Friday. That's because something unavoidable came up on Thursday but I didn't want to start all over because of one day. So after discussions with Justin, we decided that I would do the dishes and cook on one of the days and I'd still be able to cross it off. Justin was the one that had control of whether or not I can mark this item off so me doing dishes was what he picked to make up for it. Usually, if one of us cooks dinner, the other one washes dishes and if we both cook, we both wash dishes. So on Friday, I cooked and I washed dishes. I had a notepad that kept up with which meals I was cooking on which days (in order for me to blog about it) and I left it in the kitchen. When I called Justin to tell him I couldn't cook on Thursday night, I came home to an edited version of the list...

He cracks me up :)

Loving the Camera

I am so in love with my new camera! I've only been taking pics around the house but playing with all the settings and figuring out what the camera can do is so much fun! Here' s a few I've taken so far (there is no editing in these...I don't have software. It's straight from the camera):











Love it! Can't wait to learn more of what it's capable of!

Plan B Wrap-Up

I honestly can't describe how much I loved the book Plan B. More than that, I loved that I was able to get a small group of girls together and do a weekly bible study on it. We shared so much in our studies together and prayed for each other over the course of two months. We all loved it so much that we're wanting to start another study of another book together, but we just haven't hammered out the details of it yet.

It's hard to sum up everything I learned in Plan B. I've made a couple of posts on it (click on "Plan B" under my labels on the right navigation bar), though I will say I had all intentions of writing a post for every time we had a meeting during our study. However, life just kinda got in the way. You'll have to read Plan B for yourself, but the best way I can sum up what it's all about is to give you my favorite quotations in the book from Pete (the author). These are the big things I took away from the study:

• "You may think you're losing control, but the truth is, you never had control in the first place. The only thing you can control is how to respond to your disappointments and your unexpected obstacles" (Chapter 3)
• "If we want God's help in our lives, we need to be ready for what He's going to do. We have to be willing to wait for his signal and when He says go, we better go." (Chapter 4)
• "40% of the things we worry about never happen, 30% are things that happened in the past and can't be changed anyway, 12% are needless concerns about our personal health and 10% are petty, miscellaneous items, so 92% of our worries are pure fog with no substance at all." (Chapter 5)
• "The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else." (Chapter 5)
• "What if we viewed our hardships and challenges as opportunities to be the men or women God has created us to be? What would happen if we stopped grabbing for what we're owed and tried to receive each moment with gratitude?" (Chapter 7)
• "You may be at odds with God right now. You're not happy with the way your life is turning out. You may be praying and pleading with God. But is it possible you don't really want God? Is it possible you just want what you think God can give you?" (Chapter 10)
• "God does his best work in hopeless situations." (Chapter 11)
• "While life is uncertain, God is not. While our power is limited, God's is limitless. While our hope may be fragile, God is hope Himself. He still has the whole world in His hands." (Chapter 11)
• "The question is not CAN you trust God. Of course you can trust God. The question is can you wait? Will you wait for His perfect timing? Will you continue to hope in Him even when His timing seems all off?" (Chapter 12)
• "Plan B is only Plan B to us. It was always Plan A to God." (Marcie's quote)

These quotes do an excellent job of summing up the book. I seriously recommend this book to everyone, because it doesn't matter if you're currently living in a Plan B situation or not, at some point in your life, something will not go the way you wanted it to. That's when this book can step in and help you regain perspective on things. Go buy it!