A Salty Girls Ramblings: September 2011

Friday, September 23, 2011

Awakened

Have you ever been "awakened" by new information, when you're ENTIRE life you've believed something else?

You've spend your whole existence believing one way and all of a sudden..WHAM...you get hit with information that goes completely against what you've thought for all this time?

This recently happened to me.

I've lived my life knowing that there are certain things that I can or cannot do.

Certain things that would or would not effect me.

Certain things that have shaped me.

Certain things that have shaped my life up to this point.

Certain things that have shaped the plans I had for myself...for my future...for the rest of my life.

And in an instant...

in one conversation...

it was all changed!

I don't really know yet what to do with this information!

I mean...

I understand it.

It came from a VERY reliable source.

A person I respect and appreciate and believe has my best interest at heart ALWAYS!

But oh my goodness...

I still don't really know what to do with this informaton!

I've spent so long believing that the path my future was headed on was the best plan...

and it's a good plan!

A great plan!

I have no qualms with continuing down this path...

But now I've been put at a crossroads.

I have another path I could take.

Is it the best for me?

Is it a better option than the great plan that I already had?

I don't know!!!!!!

It's different...really different.

Chris was shocked too.

So now there are things to think about...

Things we've never thought about before.

Things we've never seriously considered because of where our mindsets were at prior to this coming about.

When I found out I didn't really know what to say.

I was so...shocked, flabberghasted, knocked off my stable block...whatever you want to call it.

The expectation of what I thought was a cut and dry issue, was so NOT what was presented to me.

There's some excitement in it!

I'm not unhappy with having this news.

It's not like I believed one way about it for so long that to be told otherwise made me upset to think I had been lied to for 31 years.

It's good news.

It's great news...in some peoples eyes I'm sure.

But I still don't know quite what to do with it.

There are a lot of questions that still float to the surface of my mind.

There are a lot of things that are unanswered.

There are definitely new experiences that would come from it.

Experiences I never thought I'd be a part of and now I'm realizing I could be.

I know God never puts us through anything we can't handle.

He never gives us more than we can carry...

He opens doors that we never thought would open...

I'm not saying I'm "all in" with this possible new path.

I'm still standing at the fork in the road, holding Chris' hand...waiting to hear what God has to say to us both about which way we should turn.

Left field? My entire life it's been so far out there...so far out of reach...

and now?

It's not that far from the right!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Hilton Head

I never really blogged about our summer vacation, did I?
I guess sometimes life is just so busy and crazy...and then other things are stuck on my mind (and the best way to get them out are to blog about them) that I just moved right on past vacay.

So sorry if you were all salivating at the thought of seeing our vacation photos.

So for you photo crazy blog readers...here is a blog full of pics.

In mid July Chris and I, along with our fabulous friends, Dan and Kristin, headed down to Hilton Head.

We left LATE Friday evening so that we would arrive around 12 the next day. *There are no pictures of the drive down because I slept most of the time ;0)

But you will all be very jealous (I'm sure) of the fact that WE got to sit at the Cracker Barrel round table (you know, the one that you and your 7 closest family and/or friends always hope to get when you arrive after church, but never can get seated at because it's ALWAYS filled...yep, that one).

Why you ask did a party of 4 get to sit at the exclusive round table?????? That would be because we OPENED the Cracker Barrel. We arrived before the rooster crowed, right when they opened their doors. We were the first customers in and got our pick of the tables. And let me tell you, it was everything we dreamed it could be and more. YUM!

We rented a condo with a 5 minute walk to the beach.

Where we spent a majority of our time...

Dan and Kristin

Yours truly

The HOT hubby..."DINO TIME" with the sand scoops

Beth (my ducky tattoo), she enjoyed the water running over her ;0)

If we were'nt at the beach, we were most likely eating...

This was the first night after we took naps ;0)

This was our dressy night.

*Please ignore the fact that it appears as though I have nothing covering my chest but a large hot pink flower!

See, I wasn't inappropriate.

The White Reese Cup donut from Flamingo's Donut Cafe

YUMMY!

We took a day trip to Savannah and visited Paula Deen's restaurant.
Best meal we had all week!

Dan and Kristin after the amazing yumminess that was Lady and Son's Restaurant

Gooey Butter Cake...it was a party in my mouth and I could have had 15 more pieces except my belly already appeared as though I was having triplets after the mass amounts of food I had eaten prior to this...*I bought the recipe though ;0)

Some other exciting things we did while in Savannah:

We went to an Antique Mall...