Category Archives: Five Minute Friday

Living the Crazy- 5 minute Friday

Posted on June 17, 2011 by FunkyFaithGirl • 1 Comment

GO:

My home is not exactly normal.  Ok, what IS normal exactly anyway?  We are a house of crazy.  Not only do I have 2 boys who are autistic, have sensory disorder and adhd; my daughter is gifted and is extremely needy for attention and activities.  My husband is very laid back and I USED to be very organized and tidy.

Well, Now I just try to stay showered and sain.  Right now as I get my “5 minutes” 2 of my children are running in circles screaming and I need to change a dirty diaper.  Oh, and they’re pretending my 3 year old is a dog?? What?  Oh the words out of the mouths of babes!  I’m ignoring the crazy for 5 minutes.

But I have to choose to embrace it.  Rather than always crying and screaming and disciplining….I have to embrace what God’s given me and try to take the peaceful and loving route.

This is not always easy.  But embracing our current life is important to God.  It’s important to my survival of sanity and God’s will for me.  So I will keep truckin’ and trying!

STOP.

 

I’m linking up to the Gypsy Mama…..go on over, check out the “rules” and link up!!

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5 Minute Friday- (Backwards)

Posted on June 10, 2011 by FunkyFaithGirl • 1 Comment

5 Minutes of writing, unscripted…just me.  Let’s see what happens.

Backwards


Go:

Lately I’ve been noticing that my daughter always asks me if I’m working on my phone, or when I can stop working on the computer.  It seems as though since I’ve turned blogging into my quote “job”, that it takes more of my time, logically.  However, this Should NOT take away time from my calling of being a mother, especially a Stay at Home Mom.

You see, I’m all mixed up, all backwards.  I should be taking in all of the glorious minutes and time with my children while they’re young.  It will pass by in a second.  So many things have already passed by.  You see, God tells us our place…. God first, then spouse, family, friends & others, then SELF.  So I should be last.  I think there’s a difference in providing for your family and making time for your family.  It can become and invisible line….but that’s why we need to be careful and look forwards.  Look to the future.  So we can focus on the true things we should be.

Stop.

Now you try.  Write all you can about God and his word/works on the above subject and link up over at The Gypsy Mama.

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5 Minute Friday-When Seasons Change

Posted on May 20, 2011 by FunkyFaithGirl • 3 Comments

What is this all about? This is what Gypsy Mama has to say:

Got five minutes? Let’s write. Let’s write in shades of real and brave and unscripted.
Let’s just write and not worry if it’s just right or not.

1. Write for 5 minutes flat for pure unedited love of the written word.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.
3. Go buck wild with encouragement for the five minuter who linked up before you.


When Seasons Change.

Go:
When the seasons change it’s as if new life is beginning or ending. But new things are always to come. I happen to love the change of the seasons. It reminds me of not only the beauty of God’s earth and all it’s beauty, but one of my favorite chapters in the whole bible.
John 15: 1
I am the true grapevine and my father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce frueit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.

This is God telling us that no matter what season in your life is changing and if you’re excited or scared….he is just pruning you for better. His pruning may hurt but it’s for us to grow.

STOP.

Lol, my son wanted me to draw with him so I was cut super short today.

 

 

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5 Minute Friday-Deep Breath @thegypsymama

Posted on May 13, 2011 by FunkyFaithGirl • 8 Comments

 

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Deep Breath.  The summer is only 2 weeks away.  This means that my world gets smaller, harder, and much more hectic.  But God will bring me thru it.  He always does.  But this summer I want to more than survive.  I want to LIVE.  I want to not be on edge with stress of a strict schedule and constantly having to be a teacher all day.

(fyi: my 2 autistic boys require this….it’s not good for me with no teacher bone in my body Lol.)

But God has provided this last week.  Slowly exhale sigh of relief.  Noah qualifies for ESY(extended school year) for the month of June).  WHEW!  The sweat was pouring for  minute.  And for just a minute know I feel little more at ease.  I feel a little more like I can survive, I can do this.  With grace that is.  That’s the thing isn’t it?  That we not only get thru the rough times, but that we can do it with grace and love.  Geez, wish that what always easy.

But no one ever said kids were easy.  They just say they’re cute and cuddly.  Which mine totally are!  So now, Deep breath.  I can do this.  Christ has given me strength once again.

STOP.

What is your deep breath right now?

 

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5 Minute Friday-Motherhood Should Come With……

Posted on May 6, 2011 by FunkyFaithGirl • 0 Comments

 

 

Write. For five minutes flat. The rules are easy. Head over to The Gypsy Mama to link up your post.

GO:
Motherhood should come with a salary. No, really. Not because of the obvious reasons of the constant cleaning, bickering control, time management, organization, taxi driving, and general home-keeper duties. We deserve it because it’s a neverending, time consuming, life swallowing, emotionally exhausting job. Yes, I said job.

Now, I will proudfully (not a word) admit that I have dreamt of being a mom since I was little. I always wanted a big warm family. Now I have it and LOVE it. I feed off of the crazy and the constant challenges. It suites me fine. Sometimes it sucks though. We all know that. That’s one of the reasons God provides forgiveness. Because I slip up as a mom and my kids need constant direction.

Anyway, motherhood should come with many things….one being a salary. Can I get an Amen? It should also come with a book telling you it is that it is the hardest thing you’ll ever do. Harder than Army training camp(i actually don’t know 1st hand what this is like….@bookieboo??), hurting more than getting a tattoo, needing more from you than anything in the world. It will suck the life out of you, and luckily it will give you life back too!

STOP!

Now What do YOU think motherhood should come with?

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5 Minute Friday-If I knew I could I would…(late)

Posted on April 29, 2011 by FunkyFaithGirl • 1 Comment

 

Fridays around these parts we have a little tradition. We throw caution (editing, revising, and worrying) to the winds and just write. Without wondering if it’s just right or not.

For five minutes flat. You’re welcome to play along. The rules are easy.

1. Write your heart out for five minutes and show us what you’ve got.

2. Tell your readers you’re linking up here and invite them to play along.

3. And most importantly, go visit, read, and encourage the fellow five-minuter who linked up right before you.{Pretty please turn off word verification for the day to make this easier!}

If I knew I could, I would…..


GO:

If I knew I could, I would make myself the perfect mom and wife.  I would be able to listen to the whining of children and laugh while ignoring it.  I would be able to balance laundry, cleaning, discipline, taxi driving, therapy, ARD’s, and our finances all with a blink of an eye.  I would be graceful, never shouting or raising my voice.  I would be able to hold my tongue, my temper.  I would be able to ignore my husbands qualities that I consider imperfect and I would love him completely and fully all of the time.  I would be fully dressed with makeup and in comfy yet cute clothes with hair that didn’t frizz so to look put together.  I would have meals on the table on time, and they would be nutritious even if no one but me ate them.

But yet, I cannot do any of this….I can try, but I will fail.  I have no shame of being a complete failure.  I may not like it, but I TRY to embrace it.  I try to embrace the imperfectness that God has made of me.  It’s what makes me real.  It’s what makes me worthy of his grace of of his heaven one day.

 

STOP.

Ok, Your turn! ….Link me your 5 Minute Friday post, I’d love to read it!!

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5 Minute Friday-The Hard Love

Posted on April 22, 2011 by FunkyFaithGirl • 5 Comments

 

 

Here’s what you do……..

1. Write for 5 minutes flat with no editing or tweaking.

2. Link back here and invite others to join in {you can grab the button code in my right side bar}

3. Go and tell the person who linked up before you what their words meant to you. Every writer longs to feel heard. {And if you love us, consider turning off word verification for the day to make it easier for folks to leave you some encouragement}

Go:

Wow, The Hard Love.  I think all love is hard.  It’s when we give ourselves first to someone else, and we come second.  This is really hard for me a lot of the time.  As a mother I know it is hard to love our children when they are sassing or talking back to us, when they are disobeying, and when they are downright rude.  For me, I have 2 autistic boys.  It is really hard sometimes to love someone unconditionally when they hit you or throw things at you.  Especially when they can’t help it.  That’s how they express their emotions.  This has called me to more patience.  All of that love AND extra patience.  What, you mean my kids need more???

But Christ gave us everything.  I have done and continue to do stupid things all of the time.  I am not a perfect parent and will never be.  But Christ gave me a gift of forever forgiveness.  A wonderful unconditional gift.  Why can’t I do the same as a mother? Don’t my children deserve that too?

Done.

 

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5 Minute Friday-Distance

Posted on April 15, 2011 by FunkyFaithGirl • 4 Comments

 

GO:

Distance between current home and home we left last summer- 65 miles.

Miles I drive each week because of said move- 500 (approx)

Distance between the broken pieces of my heart- Millions

There’s no secret that I HATED leaving our old home. HATED. We were in a fabulous school district for special needs, and I have 2 boys who needed it. My son loved it. I loved the teachers. My friends were close, I was surrounded by close friends who supported and loved me, and of course I had a super Target and Starbucks a block away.
Instead now, Super Target is 30 minutes away and Starbucks 10 minutes. WOAH. This sucks.

But when you get laid off for the second time in a year you are thrown through a different kind of loop.

We not only had to move, but needed to. We moved out onto my parents land and live in their garage apartment. We of course having 3 kids have turned it into a home and added 2 bedrooms to this 1 bedroom apt.
We may miss our old life, being convenient to everything and loving the city. But our life out here is just plain wonderful as well.

Distance of land I’m surrounded by- 70 acres

Distance of yard my kids can run on- 3 acres

Distance of how big my heart and faith have grown- A LOT!

STOP.

Visit The Gypsy Mama and link up your own 5 minute Friday.

 

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Five Minute Friday-If you met Me.

Posted on April 8, 2011 by FunkyFaithGirl • 7 Comments

If you met me, I may or may not look put together depending on the day.  I usually try to look assembled and pretty since I’m usually in pajama pants and a tee shirt with paint on it at home.  I’d probably be with my crazy but lovable children and be yelling (ok, screaming) at Noah to stop running or counting to 3.  I would love to find out a lot about you, but I usually have so much to say.  Apparently God has blessed me with busyness, and I have a problem shutting my mouth to listen to others.  But I’m working on it.

I’d surely have a crazy story of some sort that had happened to me that week.  It’s pretty usual.  But I’d really like to hear about you, what your life is like.  What’s going on in your home, your daily life, and if you are struggling in any way.  I love to feel connected to others, to see if I can be supportive.  I love to share things that have helped me.  That is what I like to do with the gift of gab. Lol.

Of course ideally we’d be at a Starbucks having coffee or at a mexican restaurant with queso…(sans kids of course).  But that’s in my dreams I’m sure.  :)

Times Up!  Tell me what we would chat about if I met you!

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Five Minute Friday- Waking UP!

Posted on March 25, 2011 by FunkyFaithGirl • 2 Comments


Well it’s 12noon here and I’m still waking up. From being sick all week and still drugged on benadryl and sinus meds. But this morning after reading the Incourage post and a recent post by Sarah Mae I REALLY woke up. I woke up to a dirty house, I woke up to reality.
I’ve now made a cup of coffee and have a new outlook. Spring clean. In a small way. In a way I can accomplish in a day. In small increments. My living room is covered in laundry and winter coats and toys and a goodwill pile and more junk. It needs to be decluttered. In a small amount of time. I need just ONE clean cozy room in my home. And this is it. I will take today with my husband and do this. For my and my family to just feel at peace. Even if the cleanliness only lasts for a day. It’ll be worth it.

The paint swatches on the walls and the unpainted furniture I’ve built will be ignored and it’ll be fine. I’ll deal with the unfinished. But the room will be uncluttered and I will be happy. Just for once.

Then end is here, So long!

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