Change is coming

I feel it in the air. Change. The air is crisp, cold and full of white stuff!

Change is wonderful!

I feel like this year is going out with a bang ... GO 2009!!!

I fell in love with the idea of a Daily December album. Im getting prepped and ready for it! I have right now 12 pages already to go with help from ScrapGirls.com and their gorgeous collections and Digital Layout templates.

hang with me!! I hope to post some of them here.

Oh, and maybe even keep up with this blog.

HUGS to you all...

Change is on its way!

Angela N.

Just for fun, here is my page, all ready to go for a Tree shot.







Products used from www.scrapgirls.com: Keri Schueller's Charm of Christmas, Melissa Renfro's Golden Memories, Erica Hite's A Joyful Season, and for font i used Amanda McGee's Thoughtful font. (template from someone, have no recollection on this one, sorry.)

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I cant forget....

9/11. It holds so many memories for many peopl. For myself it holds a mix of both happiness and sadness. Now hold on, I'm not happy in anyway for those whose lives were lost. I am not happy because there are people out there with so much hatred they would kill innocents. I am not happy that there are ones who would destroy our nation. I feel such soul pulling sadness when i think back to that day. To the images I saw later when I got off work, images that still linger. I am almost near tears to think of it.

Happy though you ask? Because we are a nation that stands! Because we have beliefs and are not pursecuted for them. Because I can have an athiest friend who wont attack my for my Christian beliefs. Because in the day that followed 9/11 God gave me one of the most beautiful gifts, my daughter. My daughter was conceived on 9/12. I know the day well. The doctor was suprised I could tell him the exact hour I know she was conceived on.

My 9/11 baby. I call her that. Because in a moment of sadness, I, unmarried sought out comfort. What followed was a blessing :). My doctor called it the 9/11 Phenonemon. He said that God was giving those souls back to us, because in the months that followed, he found a HUGE increase of women who conceived in the aftermath of 9/11.

Happy. I am happy to see that after all that sadness, all that distruction, that horror.... a baby, a pure, innocent life was given. Several given. I look at my daughter and I think of how, in the light of everything, good can come from it.

Loves to you all, Prayers to those who are missing loved ones today, may God bless you, hold you and keep you in his arms.

Angela
(image from chascarper @ flikr, Thank You)

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A Nut explaination.

Every once in awhile it hits me... you forgot your blog!! Argh!

Recently someone asked me why everyone online referred to me as the NUT, did I really want ppl thinking I was some crazy mom? I laughed and explained that when I married my dear husband, and took on his name, I also took on being a nut. You see, his last name is Nussbaum. Nuss - means Nut in German, and baum means tree. So... we are a family tree of nuts!!! Hence I married the perfect man for me!

P.S. I dont think it helps that I'm such a silly, happy, fun person... it makes me so much more nuttier.


a picture, one must have a picture for a post!
This picture came from our trip to Ohio. I wanted a picture of me and my three girls, and rather than hand my camera to someone I thought how fun to just reach out, turn the camera around and snap us! It took 4 tries to get us all in the camera!!!

Lifted from Trish Yocums Bruchetta at its best layout. All products used from www.scrapgirls.com: Thao Cosgroves Having Hope AND Lifes Canvas Collections; Cherise Olsens StitchNholesAction 8301PSE, Cheryl Barber STYLE StitchenNHoles 4102, Amanda Sok's Style Stucco, Sarah Batdorfs ACTIONS Deep Shadows PSE

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So long fustration... I have the Lord on my side!

Some of you dont know that I have spent the whole summer studing Beth Moores' Stepping up Series on the Psalms of Ascent. One thing that we really talked alot on was taking the High Road. So. I decided that i would pick out a few things in my life and very slowly start taking steps to go on the High Road.

1 - Chores, I now will start every task with a small prayer of thankfulness for all that I have. Thankfulness for having carpets, for having dishes, for having machines like a dishwasher.

2 - Children, I will now strive to take 3 breaths before speaking when i am feeling fustration. I will aim to call out to God for every time a child needs disciplined. I will also pray constantly for God to catch my children when they are misbehaving. I also want to pray especially for Sabryna as she works out this new path of becoming a teen.

3 - Work, I will STOP feeling the need to procrastinate. While all my tasks are done on time, I will stop waiting to the last minute. I will plan on creating a work schedual and adhearing to it. I also will pray over my work, my co-workers, and the customers who are my friends.

4 - Marriage, I will STOP praying for my husband to become something he is not. Instead I will pray that God helps me to see the man that I love, and to encourage him as he is. I will no longer seek to change him, but leave him in God's hands, as he has the perfect plan.

5 - Image, I will now see myself as a Princess. I am worthy of His love, His affection. I will no longer shoot myself down with negative thoughts of image, and self worth. I will pray that God will work change in me so that others will be moved by me.

6 - Spiritually, I will now imerse myself in the Word of God. I will try to memorize scriptures, and seek him more often. I will also seek to pray and read the Word of God with my husband and my family. I will also forgive as 2nd Corinthians 2:10-11 tells us too, encourage as Hebrews 10:24-26 tells us, and love as 1st Peter 4:7-8 asks us.

I am going to make these work. I so dearly yearn for a closer relationship with God, and I just know that with His help, I can over come.

Do you have things in your life where you need to take the High Road?

Lovingly,
Angela N.















A fun and neat photo of my daughter Sabryna. She is a source of great joy to me. (Brushes by JessicaSprauge)

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Minne "SODA"

Converastion last night.

Angelique "Daddy what is Minnesota?"
Daddy "um, its a state"
Angelique "Is it where soda comes from?"
Daddy "um, no, soda comes from everywhere"
Angelique "then why is Soda in Minnesota?"
Daddy "Angelique, are you done eating?"
Angelique "Is soda older than Minnesota?"
Daddy "No, i think Minnesota became a state in 1850's, Soda more recent."

And then began a big discussion on looking at a map of states that includes statehood information!

LOL!

Thought ya'll would enjoy that.

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Sacks of Potatos are worth their weight!

Angelique and Sabryna tetertottering from Angela Nussbaum on Vimeo.

This was so crazy! Sabryna kept complaining about the tetertotter because she had to do all the work, Angelique just didnt weigh enough to come down all the way. I was sitting near by and said "Angelique, what you need is to gain about 10 pounds" She asked me what was 10 pounds, and i replied a sack of potatos. Next think I know she goes running into ask her Aunt for a bag of potatos. The funny thing was, it worked!

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Working from Home - All is better!

Its been a bit since i posted. Such a hectic life i now lead!! Im so glad summer is here.

Where have i been you ask? Well besides the end of the year with MOPS, end of school year and a rather interesting vacation (from which im writing from)... I have also been glued to a new book.

Some of you, my friends, have heard me already sing the books praise since i started reading it a few weeks ago. I was only on chapter 3 when i knew it already changed my life as a "WORK AT HOME" mom. So now i want to share this book with all you my friends.

The book is called "Making work at home work" and its written by Mary M. Byers. For such a long time i struggled with fitting how to be the stay at home mom i am, with the fact that i do have a part time job. I have been trying to juggle in things like volunteering and being at the kids school, with deadlines. UGH! Its just too frustrating. One of the things i have learned from Mary is to no longer look at myself as a stay at home mom.

While some of her book was hard for me to relate too, I don't fully own my own business, there were many points that has helped me tremendously with my job at ScrapGirls.com - Like: How to be systematic, take a break, how to face a dinner dilemma (neat recipes included) and getting past the guilt of working from home.


If you work from home, either working for someone else or running your own business, please go get this book. I plan on going out to purchase a few copies to give as gifts to a few friends i know could use it!

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I am a nutty mom... look what i let happen.

We had that huge blizzard this last weekend. Got at least 2 feet of snow and drifts as high as 3 feet. Its all melting in 2 days! Totally amazing.

The setup we have for our playground area is surrounded by railroad ties, in the attempt to keep mulch in the area. Every time the snow melts, a pool forms. Zoey came home and exclaimed, "Swimming mommy!" and wanted to put on her swimsuit. My first instinct was, um.. melted snow, COLD!!! But then the nut in my head said "ah mom, let her do it." So i did. Here she is. (oh and sister Angelique did join her but i didnt get a video..)


Melted Snow Swimming Pool from Angela Nussbaum on Vimeo.

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