Wonderful days!

This last convention really confirmed what the last one had started working on, letting my Father take control of the reins of my life. I'm also finally listening and getting off FaceBook. I've been feeling uneasy about it for a little while and, since I contact some of my clients through it, I thought that I'd just check it now and again but when I got on this evening I just a had a real conviction that I needed to completely get off. We heard today that we need to start what's been laid on the heart NOW. The steps taken now will set the direction for the next year so.... First step is starting. My goal this year is to draw closer and closer to my Father. He's given me so much infallible proof that he's there helping and yet it can be so hard to give my own will up!!! We heard that there's so much blessing in obeying when it comes from the heart. No,'Fine i'll do it.' That attitude gets us nowhere! And the peace and rest that's there makes it doubly worth it!

I love the way things work too! My daughter met a girl real close to her age in the dorm. I met a lady in the restroom of all places. Both of us got to talking with the ones we met. We exchanged contact info with them. Come to find out they're mother and daughter! Very, very nice family. Even more interesting is they are from the town that my grandma was from. We'd moved my grandma out of her place just before they moved there so they didn't know her. However they've heard many, many stories about her! So now they have a face to put to the family that they've heard so many stories about!

Since I'm getting off FaceBook I'll try and update this blog more often. I'm going to shoot for once a week or so but we'll see if that happens! :)

Big Changes in store and a special thought....

There's lots of changes in store business wise these next few months... maybe for the year? We'll see how it goes. I had a client I just couldn't seem to get on the same page with and it built to the point we were both beyond frustrated. Luckily I have an awesome accountant that I work with and since she was his accountant as well she stepped in and has managed to sort of, kind of smooth things over. I won't be working directly for my former client but may help in getting the rest of the stuff sorted out by working for her a couple of days a week. We'll see where working with/for her a couple of days a week leads in the next year. I have a lot that I can learn from her. I actually wonder if this wasn't God's plan the whole time.... If all goes well the thought is to join forces and Erika helps with taxes and I do more of the bookkeeping side of things and Erika and I handle the payroll. It really appears that the payroll side of the business is booming. I never planned on being a payroll business but it seems to be happening!!

I'm ready to seriously cut back on  traveling around town so I'm hoping to take quite a few clients to some kind of remote service by the first of the year. There's a handful that I will still do on site but not everyday all day. At least I hope not!!! I needed that traveling the last few years to keep myself working and earning a living. Going to somebody else's place of business forced me to work, I just couldn't get myself motivated to work properly at home but I'm hoping that side of the healing process is complete!!

There was something mentioned last week that has really stuck with me. Our soul cries out for our Father. It's the piece of Him that is in all of us. It's up to us to decide if our soul is going to be satisfied or not. The connection I made was my anxiety this last couple of months, I was trying to figure it out all on my own and was leaving my Father out of the mix. That anxiety was my soul crying out for my Father. It needed soothed, I needed it soothed and it was trying to let me know that there was a remedy but I wasn't listening! I don't know if that makes sense but it's how it spoke to me! The anxiety was probably on level with where it was when Dave left, or awfully close! A thought I need to remember!

I'm now looking forward to another few days of special fellowship and more revelations that will help me to grow closer to my Father!

Business building and building....

This has been a pretty amazing summer! Business has been booming and somehow I'm becoming more of a payroll company! I'm actually going to be combining forces with a CPA that I've networked with for the last three years. Her and I get along really well and have the same set of values. We'll keep our own businesses but Erika will most likely work for both of us. I'm really excited and a bit nervous at the same time for this next step of business! Trying to fit all my work into this month with church conventions coming up this month makes for a very, very busy month!!!

Then there's the issues that come with a building business. One of my bigger clients and I have been struggling to get on the same page in what he wants. I believe we are now there but it has really shown me the need to leave things in my Father's hands. It's caused me some tremendous anxiety in the last couple of weeks since I've never ran into this problem. But when it comes right down to it when I allow anxiety to build that means that I'm not leaving it in my Father's hands. And I need to ask for the help in dealing with it. Ask and ye shall receive. Help doesn't come without asking. It's been a very good lesson for me! I'm always thankful to get a spiritual lesson out of a tough experience. As was spoken on last week, we choose what we dwell on.

Bookkeeping, payroll, in the cloud bookkeeping. Lots of different things that we do! 3 1/2 years has brought more changes than I could have ever dreamed. And they're all good changes. I can hardly wait for the last 2 weeks of the month!!

Scarlet Update #2

We finally got the results for what type of diabetes that Scarlet has. It took 10 weeks and is indeed neonatal, she has a gene mutation that has led to it. Everything pointed to that but they needed to do the genetic testing to make sure. Next to no weight gain the last month in the womb, urinating A LOT, somewhat cranky over all but not horrible. The one thing that I would say sticks out is that she didn't smile real easy. She'd give a twitch of the lip but to REALLY smile and laugh, she rarely did that. She was sick almost all the time, she might have went a week at time without being sick. Her body just got to the point that it couldn't handle it anymore and when she got the flu from Teagan at 7 months it caused her ketones to build and sent her into a diabetic coma. I'm going to take a guess that it took so long due to the type of neonatal diabetes that she has. There is a 1 in 300,000 to 500,000 chance of neonatal happening so it's very rare and for being so rare there are 5 different types! She has the type that could possibly be temporary, but it's rare that it is temporary. I guess the typical age is around 18 months to 2 years that it goes away if it is temporary. But it could possibly come back when she gets older; it would act as type 2 diabetes. So it sounds like to me her body may still be making some insulin, unlike type 1 diabetics. If she were to ever get pregnant she would have gestational diabetes, of course that's only if it were temporary. She could possibly end up on an insulin pump if it doesn't go away. Even if it is temporary she will need to keep track of blood sugar her whole life.

She is such a happy little girl now! The only time she really has issues is when she's teething and sick, or gets her shots and is teething. Those two instances have triggered ketones. Then she's pretty cranky. Erika and Blake have done an absolute wonderful job with managing the diabetes. You learn to play with the long lasting insulin a bit if you know it's going to be an active day the next day. Give a little less so there's sugar to burn and then the sugar doesn't get near as low as it would have otherwise. Scarlet went to the babysitter at 160 the other day but by the time her morning nap came and went she was down to mid 50's! The babysitter then gives her food that will bump her sugar back up. It really doesn't take a lot though! Except, as in instances mentioned above, she rarely even needs the short lasting insulin. Probably because of the type of neonatal diabetes that it is.  Below is one of my favorite pictures so far! She is so HAPPY!!! (She's the black and white dress)