tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:04:36 +0000Christian Book ExpoAnswered PrayersGodCompany Girl CoffeeHappy DaysJoyful DaysDaily LifeThe Early YearsToo CuteA Joyful Place Begins...A Joyful Place Called HomeBargainsChildrenCompany Girl Coffee 5.8.09ENTJEaster 2009Easter Egg PartyEducationFamilyForgivenessGiftsGod LovesGrowing into LovelyHarvestHeart WorkHeart of the MatterHeart of the Matter MemeHome Redo'sHopes Goalsand Dreams iTVs Mrs. FussypantsKnees and PawsLife LessonsLoving WholeheartedlyMaking ItMoms MarblesMostly LesPerceptionsRachel Anne RidgeShe BlogsSomething SweetStep daughterTennesseeThe ExHWeddingWhat She BelievesWhat She is AboutWhere to find SweetieWhere to find Sweetie's writingmasksshe's God's girl, his wife, their mother and stepmother, Creative Strategist, Wordsmith, Educator ... sometimes a person in her own right.http://shessothere.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Les & Sweetie Berry)Blogger496125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-2854651511489807833Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:47:00 +00002011-10-22T09:47:30.024-05:00 In the pursuit of peace, one way I've realized I can simplify my life is to simply blog in one space personally.  You can find my writing at SweetieBerry.com personally and as a couple at BasicsMatter.com Thanks so much! http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/10/in-name-of-pursuing-peace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Les & Sweetie Berry)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-1141076968242137356Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:33:00 +00002011-10-12T05:33:14.142-05:00Day Twelve.  Pursuing peace in the smallest of ways is making the largest differences.  The pace and rhythm of my personal world is beginning to show the change in flow. The perspective of daily success has changed as have the goals for our big picture as Les and I continue to monitor and explore what truly bring peace in our hearts.  How many of us take time to be aware of the http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/10/day-12.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-4145633163557626795Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:08:00 +00002011-10-11T07:08:52.615-05:00 Day Eleven brings a different thought to mind in pursing peace.  Do you believe in promises unspoken?  Have you set your life to be patterned after beliefs that simply are not true by thinking them? Perhaps you imagined yourself in a certain role in life, a certain lifestyle, or financial position.  Have you so believed in your perception of that place that you have neglected to http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/10/pursuing-peace-day-11.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-3264799064016652791Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:13:00 +00002011-10-10T07:13:41.439-05:00 Did you notice day 9 is missing?  That's because part of pursuing peace for our family is realizing that Sunday is a day of rest. We worship, we gather, but we have made the decision to turn off computers, iphones, and electronics. Yesterday we spent the afternoon getting outdoors, exploring Northern Alabama as a family. We loved crunching the leaves, looking at old houses, and simply http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/10/pursuing-peace-day-10.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-2558709349105100051Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:41:00 +00002011-10-08T07:52:24.407-05:00 Pursuing peace is a discipline.  We allow into our lives many of the things, situations, and thoughts that either build us or take from us.  The last few months I have held on to too many things that I did not recognize were destroying my personal peace.  Perhaps it was stubbornness, perhaps it was steadfastness...my nature is to not give up on people or projects until they http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/10/pursuing-peace-day-8.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-1364557126060032380Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:12:00 +00002011-10-07T15:09:39.909-05:00 Pursuing peace means creating an environment that allows for rest. That may mean walking away from scheduling things, it may mean turning on music to work by, or turning it off. Sometimes that may mean simply straightening an area you cannot change much, like a hospital room, putting things in a tote as opposed to on the side table.  At home that may mean looking around and seeing what is http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/10/pursuing-peace-day-7.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-4386852982064750228Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:57:00 +00002011-10-06T06:58:09.872-05:00 Each day as our family enacts what we discussed as important, more play time, more arts and creative projects, more down time, and less focus on the future or work and more focus on being where were are.....peace returns. My focus this week has been to take time each day to do something creative. Whether its to take an hour an beautify for the fall season, create something with a yard sailing http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/10/pursuing-peace-day-5_06.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-8138371595795132837Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:08:00 +00002011-10-05T08:08:48.494-05:00 Balance means different things to different people. When I think of balance it means the ability to flex to  make things work. There is no 50/50 in work/family life in my experience. Sometimes there are surges when you are needed 90% of the time to do 90% of the work...like when a baby is new and you're the cow.  Other times we can make work life at home or elsewhere 30% of our world.http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/10/pursuing-peace-day-5.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-2642563484672717050Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:12:00 +00002011-10-04T06:12:27.333-05:00 Day Four Peace sometimes creeps away when we're carrying too many things that we didn't realize we were putting in our personal baggage, weighing us down.  Those of us who were raised to be responsible and pleasers have a special talent for owning guilt that isn't ours.  We often continue to bear the burden of choices other people made that somehow we feel responsible for that truly http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/10/31-days-of-pursuing-peace-day-4.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-735165957772023131Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:37:00 +00002011-10-03T08:37:23.503-05:00I am a blessed bride.  My husband Les is more than happy to go yard sailing with me.  We love getting out early and searching for frugal finds for our home and others.  A few weeks ago we found a perfect french provincial table for $20.00 that had leaves to expand to 128" and this week we found 4 perfect chairs for $10.00 to go with it.  I already have the end chairs  in http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/10/yard-sailing-findsfrench-chairs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-855629131004584068Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:31:00 +00002011-10-03T07:31:17.651-05:00 Day Three Pursuing peace means taking time to notice what brings you unrest.  Sometimes we are so involved in our routines and daily grind that we do not realize what actions we take that contribute to our stress load.  One of the "aha" moments for my personal life was when I realized that my child who often left his lunch as a small child would not go hungry at school if I simply http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-monday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-1070460857373436603Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:51:00 +00002011-09-29T09:10:08.393-05:00October is the 31 Days project and this year I have decided to participate.  If you have a goal in mind please join us. You can find out more about 31 Days here. Since personal peace has been on my mind lately, October will be dedicated to 31 days of activities to pursue peace at home. Hope you'll join us! http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/09/31-days-of-pursueing-peace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-6596075839710142109Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:10:00 +00002011-09-28T09:10:43.267-05:00Today I blogged over at BasicsMatter. com on the Pursuit of Peace. There has been a post it on my computer screen since May that simply says The Pursuit of Peace.  May was when I realized  it simply wasn't working.....what wasn't working?  My life. I've lived a life that typically involved a daily amount of joy and peace.  Somehow in the two most financially successful years http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/09/personal-pursuit-of-peace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-2789498961899041032Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:30:00 +00002011-09-26T08:30:51.503-05:00September 26- Oct 1 Monday- Crispy Chicken Legs, mashed potatoes, and green beans Tuesday- Mini meatloafs, mashed potatoes, and green peas Wednesday- Eat at church  night Thursday- Potato soup, toast sticks and fresh broccoli Friday- homemade chicken fajitas, roasted vegetable chips, guacamole Saturday- Breakfast for dinnner Sunday- Pot roast, carrots, potatoes, and homemade banana pudding http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/09/monday-menu.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-7398421919244634272Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:24:00 +00002011-09-22T08:24:33.857-05:00This week our youngest and I are on a roadtrip to my childhood home.  I love driving the six hundred miles, it wouldn't matter much if I didn't, for flying in is still an adventure which leaves you one hundred miles from the destination without rental car possibilities...and so we drive. I always imagine that Madi and I are driving in this but the truth is we need the CRV because we alwayshttp://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/09/road-trips.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-7508145671692509875Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:50:00 +00002011-09-21T17:19:16.523-05:00I have to laugh every time I see an ad created for She's So There the part that tickles me is the wonderwoman part.  Wonderwoman implies invincible.  I am surely not that.  My high energy, creative nature,and perhaps plain joy in creating helps me work through a good amount of things, however I am far far from invincible.  It is true that I like to help others "get it http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-have-to-laugh-every-time-i-see-ad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-1526631678303213333Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:01:00 +00002011-09-19T06:01:15.690-05:00Approval or Obedience Which do I seek?  It becomes all too easy in this life to slip into approval mode in daily life.  God reminds me daily though that approval and "likeability" is not important to Him, but obedience is.  Ouch.  No one has to understand why we make the choices we make, no one else has to be at peace about the choices made. It seems the world has the http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/09/ask-hard-questions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-540968462656378515Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:25:00 +00002011-09-16T09:25:46.668-05:00This morning the fall air is crisp.  Les is busy working on our washer, which had an unfortunate relationship with a too fussy blanket, washed by accident by a young lady in our home.  Two or three emptying later, we're still working on unclogging the filters. It's a big visual today of what happens when we hold on to things we were never intended to hold onto. The water is murky, http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-release.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-1407088224120849961Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:01:00 +00002011-09-15T09:11:05.098-05:00A year ago my daughter Madison gave me a hybrid rose bush. The colors of this exquisite gift are so unusual. The rose blooms deepen in color as they bloom from blush to  deep raspberry pink....simply divine I appreciate this prayer by author Mary DeMuth: Jesus, You are the Great I Am, the beginning of our stories, the middle and the end. Help us to trust You as the http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-roses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-8876001999130522811Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:53:00 +00002011-09-15T02:53:37.496-05:00It is my belief and experience that the choice to love others is never wasted. http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/09/frugality-and-abundance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-408572143374381407Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:38:00 +00002011-09-13T20:38:31.871-05:00A very popular speaker and leader recently announced he was unfollowing all of his one hundred thousand twitter followers and then only refollowing some of them.  It sparked a good bit of conversation online and off on what the role of leadership to the unknowns should be.  The same week saw the death of one of Social Medias loved leaders by suicide.  Again, the action sparked manyhttp://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/09/making-cut.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-5230358700859476850Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:27:00 +00002011-09-03T07:28:13.654-05:00September is here again. How very fast this year has gone by.  September is a gateway for me, the passage to one of my favorite times of year, a time to be excited for new beginnings as schools re open and for creativity as my own homeschooling Madison kicks into a smooth schedule  by September 4th.  We have so much before us each year that we want to experience, its hard to narrowhttp://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-is-here-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-4772565430793137459Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:50:00 +00002011-08-19T10:51:20.671-05:00Hello Friends,   It's been a great week of blessings in our home. Baby Grace is one week old today and Mom Kelly and baby are doing well. Son Chaser is now a college freshman and Madison began high school this week. Whew, life is changing!      I've spent a good bit of time this week reflecting on how often we simply forget to celebrate each blessing in our life. This week http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/08/company-girl-coffee.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-314957967226741944Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:10:00 +00002011-08-18T10:10:14.659-05:00 http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/08/do-you-need-some-tlc_18.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866014462189824695.post-2197743769792430525Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:03:00 +00002011-08-18T10:03:10.452-05:00 http://shessothere.blogspot.com/2011/08/do-you-need-some-tlc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0