Five Minute Friday: What Mama Did

 

 

 

 

This is my mom. My mom grew up on a farm in northern Indiana. She met my dad who is a southern boy, fell in love, got married, and seven years later I came along. Yes, I am now taller than my mom, even without high-heels. I had the best mom ever. My mom homeschooled me from K-4 to 4th grade. She taught me how to read, write, spell, arithmatic, and the Bible. She taught me how to do puzzles. Dressed me up in pretty dresses....big bows in my hair.

 

The biggest thing I remember about my mom are her "mommy marks." A "mommy mark" was when she would put her lipstick on then kiss the top of my hand...I would have the print of her lips on my hand. I loved my mommy marks growing up and miss them at times. I remember I wouldn't want to wash it off.

 

She gave me a love for the kitchen, although she hardly let me cook in hers...because I made such a mess....but she would let me watch.

 

I LOVE MY MOM!

Something Fun!

My first name is Rebecca. My middle name is Joy. My last name is Page. My favorite soda is coke. My birthday is June 20. My favorite color is pink. My natural hair color is dark brown. My nickname that almost everyone uses Beccaboo (my parents and best friends...one friend calls me Vern). My best friend that is a GIRL is Amy, Hannah, Angela, and Lori. My best friend that is a GUY is Tony {love him like a brother from another mother}. Something I can't live without is God and coffee and my favorite animal is a panda bear. :)

Five Minute Friday: Beloved

Well, I know its Tuesday....and that Friday is long gone....but for one I don't have a computer at the moment at my house since my hard drive decided to get sick and start to fail on me. I have a computer for school, but was so busy Friday and had to get to the store and home to prepare dinner after I had cleaned my classroom and done lesson plans. So needless to say I really didn't have five minutes to sit and write.

I have although been trying to rack my brain and words on what to say about the word beloved. For me the word means to love. What do I love? I love coffee, spring time, the wind, coffee, Starbucks, coffee, crocheting things for best friends, reading, roses, daisies, laughter, movies---romantic comedies, tear jerkers, suspense, adventure....but those are temporal things that I love...things that when I go to heaven will be left on this earth.

Who do I love?
1) God
2) My family--I adore my family and miss them! I miss my uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. I miss my parents and my sister
3) My students--oh how I ADORE my students. I cannot go an hour in a group without talking about my students and what they do and how they drive me nuts, and how much I love them. They make me laugh smile, and sometimes cry.
4) My church- God has given me a wonderful church family----people to genuinly care for me.
5) My friends- I love my friends. I have decided I rather have a small intimate group of friends.


Well time is up {and my students are coming back} Good bye!

Hannah

I met Hannah at Bob Jones, through a mutual friend. She came to visit one of my best friends and through that we met. We became instant friends. I told her about all my troubles day one from knowing her--I have to admit it was nice to have someone to talk to and someone to listen. Hannah came to BJ the next year and we spend almost every  moment we could together. I taught her about a quarter after and quarter till in the dining common using a tortillia. :) Hannah is now married, and is expecting her first baby. I am excited about baby Peter coming. I wanted to do something special fro my friend so I crocheted her {er Peter} a blanket. It was fun (and somewhat tiring to make)....but as I did each stitch I was able to think and pray over Peter, Hannah, and Lech. I pray that Peter grows to love the Lord someday and to serve Him with all his heart. I can't wait to hold and kiss Peter soon...Lord willing. I love you Hannah and I am so happy for you!

Five Minute Friday: Bare

August 2007, I moved. I looked at the bare walls of my new bedroom in Florida...wondering what in the world I was thinking moving away from everything and everyone I knew to a place where I knew no one--but one person. I was overwhelmned. Soon, my room began to fill with furniture, curtains were hung, bookshelf put together, and a room was put together. I smiled thinking this is exactly where God wants me.

I then go to my classroom and look at the walls and wonder again how the Lord was going to use me here at a small Christian school. The months have passed by and now I am in my 6th year of teaching. I have moved to a new house-have moved three times to new classroom...have decorated and prayed over my students as I fill the walls with posters, alphabet cards, numbers, and pictures.

I then smile and am thankful that the Lord sent me to that empty room that soon filled with smiles and to an empty classroom where through the years I have touched over 100 students hearts and lives.

God Provides

Phillipians 4:19 says,But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus..."
 

This past pay period has been tough for me finacially. After sitting down and paying my phone bill, school loan, a doctor bill, Netflix, buying a few groceries, and putting gas in my car I didn't have much left. I looked at my account and thought I was going to do. I knew I wouldn't even have enough money for a beloved Starbucks coffee. I was running out of shampoo, I was out of coffee creamer, and I had no clue what I was going to do. Then even before I knew it God was working. First, He provided through a former high school teacher Starbucks....she sent me some giftcards. Then a friend took me out to eat, another friend had me over, and I found coffee syrup in my cabinent. Then to the shampoo....I was out of shampoo....I couldn't wash my hair with body was for a week...I mean I could but it really wouldn't work well. Then last night, while going through some cabinents I found some shampoo that I never used but had kept. Today, He also provided me some coffee creamer! God is good, and God has been a great provider providing for my needs....I am thankful to have such a great God!

Five Minute Friday: Afraid

The above song is one of my favorite songs to sing. It really helps me to turn my focus and thoughts on Christ when I am afraid. "How can I Fear with Jesus?"--I am thankful that every moment of everyday that God is with me. There are times I am so scared and nervous and night that I have to turn my focus on God to get some sleep. I am thankful for the passage

 Psalm 56:3 "What time I am afraid I will trust in thee."

 

All I need to do when I am afraid is trust in God. God is always with me and God will always be with me.


Now for some humorous stories for when I was afraid (but yet God was with  me)

****I live in an interesting part of town. A day does not go by when I do not hear sirens....sometimes I might hear the search helicopter. My first year living in a house all by myself was a restless time....then one night I hear a helicopter. Well my curiosity got the better of me and I peek out my door and there was a helicopter flying around with  a light shining it around the are I lived....okay well for a single girl on her own and by herself I was terrified. I go crawling along the floor in hopes that the guy they was looking for wouldn't see my shawdow...well needless to say who did I call---DAD who was eight hours away! He did make me feel better....but I was still a little scared BUT GOD WAS WITH ME.

***Coming to Florida for a job interview where I knew no one was terrifying. I do not do well in new places and new situations. A 8-9 year old girl on the plane reassured me flying was fun and not scary at all


Sadly, I admit I went over time telling me stories...but I am a Kindergarten teacher....therefore a story teller! :)