Miscellany Monday on Tuesday

So I have this friend who participates in Miscellany Monday at another girl's blog...looks like fun, but I never have that many random things to talk about come Monday. This week however, I am feeling all over the place and want to blog about so much...so I will just put it all here in one random misecellany post!

1. My garden is growing. However, did you know that you have to get your plants "pregnant" for them to produce fruit! ::waiting for my bro in law to stop laughing...:: I told you I am a gardening dummy. I just thought you planted stuff, watered it and a few months later produce would be filling my belly. Makes the whole birds and the bees saying much more applicable now. However, I just kept waiting for my zucchini plants to give me zucchinis, finally I did some 'research' and I needed to do a bee's job and pollinate. So every few days I go out there with my cotton swab and pollinate and now:
I have 1 teeny tiny zuc growing! I am so proud! Now if my other plants would take off I would be happy!

2. I also hate my garden because of this guy:
We have had THREE toads come and take up residence. Each time one would show up I MADE my hubby take them to the lake/pond across the street from our home, and then a week later another one would show up. And NO, it isn't the same toad, I know. I have a fear of toads, I don't like how they hop. So now I have no desire to go near my garden. Chad said he would take over...can't be any worse than me!

3. Tucker our 'oldest' drives me bananas. I can not sit outside and enjoy this ungodly heat without him whining incessantly for me to throw this:
Over and over and over and over again. I think he would chase after this Frisbee until he died.

4. Then after a long hard day of sleeping and doing nothing they are ready for bed. I have no idea why I am tired each day, since there is so much room up here for everyone!
What is funny about these two is Tuck (on the right/Chad's side) is exactly like me and he like Chad best and Toby (on the left/my side) is exactly like Chad and likes me best...things that make you go hmmm.

5. Hurricane season has begun. And while I live in the mid-west we are still afflicted daily by a hurricane. Hurricane Leighton to be exact, she is a category 5 on her best day and leaves a wake of destruction where ever she goes...
Why do I even bother picking up after her?! I would actually rate this a category 3, b/c this looks good compared to most days, but then again it was only 9am!

6. We finally go our "baby" pool aired up and filled. It is 10'x6' so nice size. Lo took her first swim of the season today and after face planting a few times started to enjoy it. I am looking forward to doing this everyday! I heart swimming!!!

Well, that wraps up my miscellany Monday on Tuesday. May you too have a completely random week!

What God is teaching me...

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus after you have suffered awhile perfect, establish, strengthen and settle you.
1 Peter 5:10

This verse was laid on my heart this morning. Actually, it has been on my heart for awhile. I always feel uncomfortable unqualified to talk about such things, but God prompted me to share so I am.

I am a natural worrier by nature. While I don't really want to know the future, I want to know the future.
Trusting in God's plan for my life has been a common theme in my daily devotional lately: Do I really trust God to orchestrate my life or am I still trying to make things bend to my will?

Sadly, more often than not it is the later.
However, God calls us to be thankful in all situations. Man that is tough, but I am really trying. I know God loves me and has my best interest in mind. Sort of the same way Lo doesn't always understand I have her best interest in mind when I tell her "no."

What I love about that verse is God is using my "suffering" (aka infertility) to perfect, establish, strengthen and settle me! He is strengthening my character and faith in Him. That is awesome, that God is choosing me for this journey.
While we don't know if Lo Lo will ever get the chance to be a big sister, I know that I am confident that the Lord has great plans for our family, I am settled in that and for that I am truly thankful for that peace.

And being settled in that peace allows God to:

Now glory be to God who by His MIGHTY power at work within you is able to do far more than you would ever DARE to ask or even DREAM of. Infinitely beyond your highest prayers, desires, thoughts or HOPES.
Ephesians 3:20-21

Now that verse excites me!

Editor's Note: I don't want people to think I am "perfect" in this journey or that I have it together by any stretch of the imagination. My struggle is definitely made easier by having my Lo Lo sister and supportive hubby. There are plenty of days I don't cling to these verses and get down right upset that this is the journey we are faced with in the future. But ultimately I know what I believe and WHO to cling to.

The Things Daddy Says

My hubby cracks me up on a daily basis. Sometimes it is funny haha and sometimes it is just like seriously?

Our actual conversation
Yesterday PM

Chad: We only have TWO rolls of toilet paper left!
Me: Seriously, I could have sworn I just bought some.
Chad: Well this is all there is I didn't see any more down there.
Me: Ok (thinking he didn't even look I am sure there is more...)

This AM
As I am picking up after hurricane Leighton, Tucker and Toby, I enter our storage room.
There sits a completely unopened package of 24 rolls of TP.

Me: Chad, what is this?
Chad: Well, that is not where you normal keep it.
Me ::roll eyes:: it is right there in the middle of the storage room in plain sight.
Chad: you know for someone who has above perfect vision I don't see too well.
Me: You think.

And that is it. I will never understand how he misses these things.