Hey, you Darling Siestas! Just a really quick post this morning. I bet a ton of you are on Spring Break this week. What are you guys doing for it?
The Houston schools are all out this week and we were supposed to have a week off from Bible study but remember that Tuesday night when I told you the whole city shut down over 17 flakes? Well, tonight’s our make-up week so that we can end on schedule. That’s fine with me though. I trust that God is going to bring us a neat group tonight even if it’s a small group.
CJ and AJ and the kids are at a high school camp right now in East Texas where he’s teaching and she’s…well…trying to entertain two small children during the day and trying to get them both to sleep at night in the same small room as their parents. The first night was pretty challenging because Annabeth is old enough to stand up in the pack-n-play and scream bloody murder for her mommy – three feet away from her – to come rescue her. And, about the time she gets quiet, Jackson is big enough to blurt out with things like, “Did Annabeff finally go to sleep?” and rouse her up again. He’s a party animal like his Bibby and LOVES all of them sleeping in the same room.
But, the Jones are troopers and, after all, the week is filled with so many fun things. Amanda is with one of her very best buddies from the Dallas-Fort Worth area where they served for several years. I was so happy for the Jones to move back to Houston but so sad to see AJ leave some of the best friends she’d ever made. For moms, I don’t know if there’s any replacing the friends you had when you all started your families. Several of those friends are still in my life and we talk about those days all the time. I will hear many good Janelle and Ella stories when the Jones get home. Janelle is one of Amanda’s BFFs and her darling Ella was born within the same few days as Jackson and in the same hospital so she is really special to us. She also made us want a little girl the second time around in the worst way.
Melissa is working like a mad woman on her thesis and her other classes this semester so she can be finished with this second Masters in May. I don’t even have to tell you that she’s chasing her tail. She’s coming in town this weekend for a wedding and I have to work over part of it but I’ll still enjoy her like crazy when we get to be together.
Good grief! I’ve got to get off of here. My handout for tonight is not finished. I just wanted to say good morning to you guys and see who was doing something out of the ordinary for Spring Break. Finances are tight this year so many of our Siestas are probably trying to get pretty creative on Stay-cations. Give each other some great ideas!
PS. For those of you who followed the comments to the last post, did you see that the young mom who collapsed into the coma has awakened and talked some? Praise You, Lord! Raise her up a living, breathing, walking, talking MIRACLE!
Lisa 
For the start of my Spring break, on Friday and Saturday I went to see a wonderful lady name Beth Moore 🙂 speak about our loving God! Then spent some fun times at a nearby hotel with my family. It's been a nice Spring break; I hope everyone has a great one!
"ANOTHER BETH": Thanks for the tip on chocolates at Target; I'm on my way!
"NELLWYN": Your hiking trip sounds AMAZING! Are you gonna blog about it? I think a weekly short online journal of sorts would be very interesting.
SPRING BREAK: I cashed in on some spa gift certs. Get this: 3 massages, 1 facial, 1 spray tan…all in 1 week! In addition, hair color, haircut, 1 night out dancing, 2 walks on the beach…sigh. I almost forgot what an amazing week I had!
Now that was a STAY-CATION.
Well, for one if anyone is near Savannah right now, its a few days of St. Patty's celebration..I get to experience it for the first time:)
(its like a BIG deal here:)
And sidenote, AJ I just sent you an email.
Hope everyone is enjoying their night and Happy St. Patty's!
angie
For Spring break I am throwing my best friend a wedding shower!!!!!
In other news, I was the girl who had posted and then re-posted that I was pregnant, but then after Christmas, had miscarried. God continues to bless us. We are pregnant again!!!! Anyone who reads this, just pray for this little babe, as well as our minds to be at peace and free from fear! THANK YOU!
I'm a senior in College. My last spring break was last week. All I did was relax with friends and family. It was wonderful!
Hey Siesta Mama!
Happy Spring!! We had a couple 64 degree days this last weekend, and after sub-zero weather and more snow than I care to remember it was glorious! I've tried really hard to work up some sympathy for your 17 flakes of snow but here in MN it's a streeeeetch. Grin. I am working for spring break and trying to find the motivation to start spring cleaning. Know where I can find me some? Love ya tons!
Tammy, I think it is so cool that you live on a ranch and your husband judges rodeo? Can we come stay with you? Sounds like fun! and I ask, where is Wetumpka? I love the name! I work at a community college but I didn't get spring break. I got to be in a refreshing "retreat" at work. But one of my daughters came to-guess where? – HOUSTON! Wish I could have come too! You all should come to the Tabernacle reproduction in Lancaster PA! Now thats an awesome visit! I hear the creation museum is amazing. Have fun! I love you all! You are so fun! Blessings
Painting and more painting. Our spring break is not until April. My husband and myself both teach but we are also in the process of "flipping" two houses. We also moved into a new house this fall, that still needs some updating. I hate paying someone to do something I can do. Its much cheaper and sometimes I do a much neater job. I hope to do a little shopping to. 🙂
Erin in Ky
At church right now waiting for my ladies to arrive. Got 21 of 'em and we're doing "Me, Myself and Lies"…..I did it last summer with ya.
Anyway our spring break is the last week of March and sadly we are not going anywhere. Money. But maybe we will try and take some time to go someplace fun to eat….say, in Billings. Make a day of it. Be glad we have jobs and a loving family.
Love you, Beth.
Melana
Sheridan WY
Well while lots of my students are hitting the beach, we are heading to the mountains tomorrow to have Christmas, yes I said Christmas, with our families.
There was too much snow to go home in December so here we go to WV, where by the way there is still snow, ho,ho,ho.
Prayed for you and your class earlier. Hope all went well!
Much love and Merry Christmas!
Well … we aren't planning to go anywhere for spring break, but my husband and I have decided to take a weekend every 3-4 months to get away. Even if that means staying in town or getting a hotel room in a nearby suburb. Next weekend, we're going to Montgomery, AL to take advantage of a hotel deal through my husband's work. A night in a fancy hotel and a massage for each of us! We're so excited!!!
i had surgery on my nose for a deviated septum today! so my husband is taking off a few "vacation days" to stay home and take care of me and our 3 kiddos 4 and under! he is an awesome guy!
Well, you already know that I started spring break by nearly losing my mind! Today has been much better. In fact, the kids cleaned their rooms and Jeremiah did the dishes (is it too much to ask for more of the same for the rest of vacation?) Right now they're at the park with daddy with bats and balls and gloves and doing whatever else they like to do at the park. I hope they stay gone a while, so I can finish up on here and maybe actually get to my Chapter nine lesson. I just have so much to catch up on! Last week, they all got the stomach flu or I'd probably already be done. I knew I was going to need it done for this week, so planning on it Thursday last week and then 3 a.m. Thursday morning, probably before you even posted the new assignment, Jeremiah woke up throwing up, and shortly afterward Chloe came in my room to tell me her tummy hurt. Later on that day I got a phone call from school that I needed to pick up Angela because she was throwing up. I've never seen my oldest two that sick in my life. Chloe never got quite as sick as they did, thank God! Poor things. This flu was so bad that two days earlier when Josh (my husband) got it, we thought it was food poisoning! It wasn't until that Thursday morning we knew it wasn't. Good thing Josh got it first so I didn't rush the kids to the hospital thinking they were dying!
By the way, the anonymous siesta that talked about being jealous of other siestas getting comments from you? I know the feeling, although, I've told myself a million times it's stupid. Like you could possibly read all the thousands of comments that come in! No way! So, good to know none of us are being intentionally ignored or something! Of course, I was pretty convinced of it before, but having a hard time convincing my heart. Like she said, don't let it stop you from commenting. Just me always feeling invisible up here in little north idaho! Oh, God, please don't let that noise outside be my kids coming home! Praise God for husband's who know when you need them taken away for a while!
Over the weekend the hubs and I went back to my hometown of Crandall to hang out with my side of the family. We always have such a great time catching up with them. We made sure to visit my maw maw who had eye surgery today, and I just found out that everything turned out wonderful for her.
The rest of this week I'm doing stuff that normally doesn't get done during the school year-cleaning, laundry, etc. I'm also getting ready for my Home Show on Saturday for my new business that I'm starting this . Check us out http://www.everythingbutthebarndoor.shutterfly.com
I hope everyone has a blessed Spring Break!
Well, Spring Break doesn't apply to us anymore, BUT we are going away this week! First, my husband and I are going to a Joyce Meyer Conference (Martin Smith of Delirious is leading worship, love him… and Joyce!). Then we leave Sunday to spend 4 days at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville!!! 8000 acres to roam around and we can't wait!
Jessica
Greensboro NC
We are staying close to home during Spring Break. Monday was spent grocery shopping and hanging out enjoying time together. Today we went to the Memphis Zoo, using our membership and enjoying the company of friends. Tomorrow we may go bowling or to the park, not sure yet which one. Thursday we are going to Chuck E. Cheese's with friends. Friday we may go to the park and/or bowling again. (We love to bowl.)
Hope everyone has a blessed Spring Break!
Michelle
Southaven, MS
Working puzzles, memorizing Scriptures (which is our family Lent celebration), playing games, and rescuing doves from our bird-dog. We used washable markers to draw mustaches and tattoos on our kiddos today for something fun because it is cold and rainy weather. They ran to the bathroom mirror ever couple of minutes just to laugh at themselves. We baked cookies, played some Wii games, and scrubbed our tiles floors, old-school, which was a great work-out!
I am so excited because a couple of my Bible study friends and I are going to Dallas to spend the night Thursday and we'll be at your book signing Friday morning!
I'll have my Scripture Memorization T-shirt on!
Hopefully I'll get to hug your neck!!
Hi Beth… glad you made it to T.O…. Was that an amazing time or what… the talk up here is that… that was the most Christ honouring conference people had ever been to… right from worship to teaching… Thank you Beth for inspiring me to delve into the Word with a ravenous hunger… please pray for me that kind of passion and discipline does not cease!!! Hope you got the letter from me that I left for you on the worship teams chairs… if you didn't please let me know… Hope everyone down south is having a great Spring Break…
Sheri C. in Toronto
We are empty nesters so Spring Break really doesn't make much difference in our lives. Our pregnancy testing center where I volunteer is closed this week and that is where we meet for our Bible study Tuesday mornings for Daniel. But, like you, we met this morning anyway to make up our snow day. We have borrowed the Daniel DVD's from the County Baptist Association and have to have it back at a certain time. Oh, Beth….we are all SO loving this Bible study! We had Session 6 today and there were some lively discussions afterwards!
Hope you week is a wonderful one!
Marilyn…in Mississippi
Just a note about being a party animal.. I teach high school Spanish (and this is also relevant to your "siesta"!) and I had a student ask me how to say that he's a party animal. And he also wanted to know how to say beach. So he says, "Soy animal de fiesta en la playa" which means "I am a party animal at the beach." Hilarious!
Would I be horribly pesky if I commented a 2nd time w/ a prayer request? I have just acquired the VHS tapes for to "To Live as Christ
Bible Study Tapes" and I have been thinking I would call my Pastor's wife and loan them to her so that she could lead a bible study. But I keep looking skyward and saying "Lord, are you kidding me?"
Cuz I feel He's leading me to do it! Do you have any idea how far out of my comfort zone that is?!
Good thing I'm reading So Long Insecurity Huh? Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!
My son (25) who teaches orchestra in the Round Rock school district came home, my daughter (19) who is at TTU came home, my son (22) lives at home goes to MSU and my husband is on vacation. I, of course, am working. But, on Friday, we will all be headed to Midland to help my parents celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. WOW 50 years is a long time. Congrats to them.
If Amanda and her family are in Tyler, Texas…I'd be honored to show her some roses!
I am just finding this blog. Love it. And you, Beth. Our ladies group is studying Esther. What a blessing it has been. Our family has been and is going through some troubled times. I ask that my newly found Siestas pray for us. I know that God is in control. It is hard to wait for answers!! God is using the study of Esther to give me strength. And blessings. Thank you so much for allowing God to use you. Love you. My spring break is going to be pretty laid back. Much needed time of R & R.
I'm a nursing clinical instructor with 2 weeks off for spring break! Wahoo! My husband does not get a break until Easter however but we will be flying to Alabama (from Ohio) to visit my aunt and her new husband. Looking forward to some warm weather :~) Until then I will be working on homework for graduate school and finishing the Breaking Free Bible study…(I have also read the book and I highly recommend both:) I have also done Esther and Believing God and also just finished So Long Insecurity. The next book I will tackle probably next week is The Beloved Disciple (Because I long to be one!!) I can't get enough of my Jesus and I'm so thankful for some great downtime to spend with him. Enjoy the SONshine all have a blessed day!!
oh, Beth – praising God for the miracle in that woman's life! He is the miracle maker and I rejoice with that family!
A young girl in our church family has been in coma for 32 days after being hit by a car. She is off the vent and breathing on her own, but is still in a coma. THe doctors say she is a miracle at this point. She had serious brain trauma and a brain stem contusion, but the Lord has had His hand upon her so far. Please pray for her! Her name is Chelsea and she is 17 years old.
Love you so!
Beth Herring
We planned a ski vacation & then our 16-yr-old son was in a dirtbike accident that split his spleen in two….Emergency surgery last Sat. night…he almost didn't make it….Wow, God did some amazing things…The dr. said today that the hosp. recorded that Rhett had lost 5 liters of blood ~ but he said, "That's impossible – that's all of his blood"….in other words, he wouldn't have made it. Well, we believe in miracles and we believe God answered our desperate prayers for RHett. So, our SPring Break is especially SWEET this year, taking care of him! THANK YOU JESUS!
Sharon, in Katy, TX
My mom and I took a road trip. We went to see my son Mat in Jacksonville, Fl where he has been living for the past 6 months. Met his beautiful ladies in his life, Katie and her daughter Lanie. It was an interesting trip. Spent Saturday getting there, Sunday with Mat and Lanie seeing the sights, Monday mom and I had Lanie shopping and then Jacksonville Zoo. Then home today. Back to work Wednesday.
Becky
Attalla, Al
Our Spring Break was last week and after three days of cloud and rain, the last four days were warm and sunny. I spent them outside in my backyard, grinning from ear to ear when I heard our first pairs of purple martins. They warbled and chirped while checking out the "rooms" in the martin houses. Usually, we get them by mid-February, but the cold weather has kept them away longer. Our hummingbirds haven't arrived yet due to the azaleas which haven't bloomed yet. The weather has turned cold again. But that's okay. The longer the cold stays, the colder the Gulf of Mexico gets and that means less chance of hurricanes this summer.
Dear Siestas,
Please pray for my precious daughter. She has her first "grown-up" job and has made some big mistakes. She is a Christian, but the mistakes are huge and could be devastating to her future. Please pray God's protection over her. Satan would like nothing better than to destroy her witness and God's calling on her life.
Thank you so much Siestas!
Hey, Bethie! Bet you thought I fell off the planet… I've just been spending the last several weeks running about as hard and fast as I can go… (I've added a ton of new violin students this semester.)
Spring break for us is next week. I need it! I need to catch up on reading and homework for Breaking Free…and maybe catching up on some of the posts from SLI, too. I haven't had time to even read those! (But I have been staying up to date on the reading… just no time to comment or read the comments.)
Hunky Hubby and I will be hanging out at the house here next week, not doing much of anything, if I have anything to say about it… (I need that time to myself… and I relish it.)
Have fun with Melissa! 🙂
Going to Destin on Thursday. No kids in the house all are grown with kids of their own.
Spring break in my part of Tampa is the week of March 29. My husband and I (emptynesters) will be going to visit friends in North Carolina and then to our cabin in the mountains for a few days. Right now deep in the new edition of Breaking Free. Just viewed Session 8 video last night at class. I was a student of the first Breaking Free in 1999 (life-changing at a very personal level). Then led it in 2003. Couldn't imagine what it would be like leading it again with the new edition. God bless you Beth for all you have brought to the page and through video lessons. We are all being challenged – discussions powerful and some have realized the need for help outside of class. Prayers needed that healing will come where needed. By the way, looking forward to your coming to Tampa! Take care and God bless you and yours.
Hi Beth and fellow Seiestas
Wow Toronto was AWESOME! Some people that I talked with said that it was the best Christ centred conference they had been to … right from the worship to the teaching… thank you Beth for providing the opportunity and forum for me to experience God in such a powerful way… Please pray for me that I will continue to have such passion and discipline to seek Him through His Word especially…
Hope you all have a great spring break!
Sheri C. from Toronto
My sweet husband flew my two daughters and two daughters-in-law all the way from Texas to Illinois for us to have "girls' week". We have laughed & danced & played & prayed & shared stories. I'm so very thankful for this gift of godly young women for my sons as well as our own precious daughters. It is a blessing, & I am grateful!!!!
We are in the middle of moving out of this house into an apt until we find the house we want. But had to give the kids some kind of a break from the chaos! (poor babies!)
So we head to Dallas for some shopping, museums, good food and sweet SIL who is always happy to have us! Thank God for family close by to save our spring break to actually be a break!!
Having a staycation; saving money for our honeymoon in August. So exciting…new beginning for me (after 1st marriage of 28 years; many very difficult years). Peter is a Baptist minister and I am thrilled to bits that God has done this amazing thing. Our little church is all invited as well as the Women's Bible Study Group (we're doing Living Beyond Yourself now). I will have a procession of these beautiful women to lead me down the aisle. We've been through alot together and we will celebrate together too.
We are in the middle of moving out of this house into an apt until we find the house we want. But had to give the kids some kind of a break from the chaos! (poor babies!)
So we head to Dallas for some shopping, museums, good food and sweet SIL who is always happy to have us! Thank God for family close by to save our spring break to actually be a break!!
Beth,
Do you have a Facebook page? There is a page that looks like yours and I was accepted as a friend on it, but it says you are a fan of Ellen Degeneras taking over the world. That does not sound like you. Is it really your page? It has your picture as the profile picture.
My 17 year old son was invited to go on a mission trip to Panama, Central America with a group of wonderful, godly college students just last week. One of these students has become part of our family while he is away from his family, and is my son's "big brother" and mentor. Since I homeschool him, his schedule allowed him to take his spring break on their schedule.
Now, I am waiting to see what seeds God planted in his heart as they begin to take root and grow.
We are leaving in the morning for a long weekend in New York and New Jersey. One of my best girlfriends lives in Connecticut so I get to see her!! She is the one who brought me to my first Beth Moore Bible Study when Kim Hill was the guest artist and it was at the brand new Second Baptist Church out in Katy!! I could't even have imagined the wild ride this would have been!!! God surely knew!!
God is so creative and amazing! My son, husband, and I will all be traveling together so I am looking forward to maybe being able to utter more than just a few syllables to my son. He may even do more than just "grunt" back!!
Did I mention that my only image is 15 years old?!?!?
He is precious and I am one blessed Siesta!!
Prayers for health, rest, and safety over all of my siestas out there!!
Sprint Cleaning!!! Woo Hoo!!!
I mean Spring Cleaning!! Woo Hoo!!!
Spring Break??? My 17 yr old son tried to slyly slip in a comment the other night… "My friends and I want to go to the (Jersey) shore for Spring break."… and he continued the rest of his conversation. WHAT??? You hear so many horror stories of kids getting into such trouble on these spring break outings, the idea's already spoiled with me. A group of 17 yr olds going for a week UNACCOMPANIED by adults to a beach community?? I don't think so!! Besides, I thought spring break stuff was for seniors! My son's a junior. I thought I still had a year before I had to deal with this. Lord, Help me.
Now, last week, my husband and I spent a gorgeous day at a place north of Philadelphia called "Longwood Gardens." Absolutely the most beautiful day we've seen yet this year! They're having their "Orchid Extravaganza" and we were in such awe! Did you know there are over 3200 species of orchids??!! Isn't God just so amazing?!!!
Now THAT was a spring break!!
We are loading up from the Dallas area and heading to Houston for partial week and weekend to see my in-laws. They are getting up there in age and our 9 month old just started walking so we want them to get to see him walk. I will be taking SLI book with me!
Wendy
30's
Celina, Tx
married
Hey sweet Beth … we are not doing too much this week, as our eyes and wallets are focused (next to the Lord) on Disney at the end of the year! But our youngest daughter, our cancer survivor, turns 10 this week! Yea, God!! When she was 13 months old, I didn't know if she'd live to be two! And here we are turning big, double-digit "10"!! We are meeting our best friends in Abilene to celebrate at Chuck E Cheese. Then we are heading to Wichita Falls … my former FBC Sunday school director and good friend is having a tea party for the girls on her new Mad Hatter tea table and then we plan to go see Alice in Wonderland together! Fun, Fun!!
Love, Shelli
Fort Worth, TX
Yep – My children are on Spring Break and my mother came from Missouri to help. I still have work and so my schedule isn't changed much, just a bit more relaxed.
I would normally spend my time being busy and loving on my grandson, but God had other plans. His other grandparents asked to spend time with him and I have enjoyed some much needed time with just me and Jesus. I am so thankful for bible study and have been praying that God give me a greater desire to love his word and to have a heart like his. Thank you for serving and for your transparency in sharing your heart. The law of the LORD is prefect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes. The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous. They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold;they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb. By them is your servant warned;in keeping them there is great reward. Psalm 19:7-11
Not doing anything out of the ordinary, but, I did take time to read almost every post on this blog and OH MY how sweet and endearing every lady seems, I do not always have the time. I feel blessed just to know that I have something in common with so many sweet women. Sometimes life gets so busy that even with many people around me I feel isolated, reading these was a blessing! I pray a special blessing on you Beth and Amanda as you continue this blog and community of busy women who love the Lord. And Melissa, while I do not have the blessed opportunity to study formally as you do, I study ALL the time I can, it seems the older I get the more I realize what I do not know, there is more to know than we can ever know on this earth . Study hard for us who cannot for some day it will be your books we are studying. Shalom