What A Weekend!

Hearts At Home was this weekend and it was awesome! I was my mom's personal assistant for the weekend which gave us a lot of time together. Although it was an emotional roller coaster, everything went really well! My incredible husband helped out at my mom's book table for most of the weekend, which was so nice to have his support!

One of the funniest moments was right before one of my mom's workshops, she was putting on lipstick and turned to ask me how it looked. She gave me a smile, and there was this huge glop of pink lipstick right on her two front teeth. I lost it! She and I couldn't stop giggling, which totally screwed up my introduction of her, but it was so nice to laugh with her!

The picture above is my grandmother, mom and I. Three generations!

Seriously!

I am going gray! Every single day I am pulling gray hairs out! I'm 23 and I have gray! Not just a hair strand here or there...but 10 just through my bangs! I can't see the rest of my head so I'm in ignorant bliss as far as that goes. To prove it I took a picture. They look blonde in the picture, but trust me, they are GRAY! My brother's fiancee is a hairstylist and the last time she cut my hair she said, "Oh you do have some gray hairs!" and thankfully cut out a few of them.


On a more positive note, Matt and I are off to Bloomington for the National Hearts At Home Conference! I'm pretty excited! Hope to see some of you there!

Hearts At Home Conference

A picture from the Michigan Hearts Conference...there were over 2000 women in attendance!

My Weekend

Wow...what a weekend! Hearts at Home was incredible! We had a wonderful weekend serving moms and the best part was being able to hang out all weekend with my mom. We got to share a hotel room and the first night we stayed up and just talked for a few hours. It was so nice!

Matt was in his hometown all weekend visiting family and going to the playoff football game. Then, he went to Bloomington last night for the college group and to visit some friends. So, I came home to an empty house. Well, my subway didn't agree with me and I lost all of my lunch. (It had a weird taste to it and as I was eating it I thought "I think I might get food poisoning")

Anyway...I was puking and missing home, and the worst part was most everyone I loved and cared about was in Bloomington! I was exhausted and couldn't stop crying for a good two hours. I called my mom and asked her to pray with me (as I am bawling and snot is running down my nose). She prayed that I would seek God's word for my comfort and peace.

Randomly, I turned to Jonah in the Bible. In the last chapter of Jonah, he is really angry with God's compassionate heart for saving Nineveh. He goes out and lies underneath a shaded area and watches the city. God provides a vine that grows and provides shade, but overnight the vine dies. It becomes really hot and Jonah exclaims that he wants to die.

10 But the LORD said, "You have been concerned about this vine, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. 11 But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned about that great city?"

As I was reading this, I really felt like God was saying to me "Anne, I have a purpose for you and Matt here in Zion, IL. I care about the people here and you are two of my many vessels! It is my timing! Have peace and patience!"

I went right to sleep after that and when I woke up today I had fresh (and puffy) eyes!

Hearts At Home Conference

I am off to the Michigan Hearts at Home Conference! I hope you all have a great weekend!