New Challenge!

Greetings dear readers!

Tomorrow, I will be embarking on a journey, not physical, but rather through my mind. I will be traveling back in time, to the mid-1800’s out in the Wild West! I am beginning a challenge with a dear friend of mine, Sarah (Check out Sarah's blog here!).

We are going to do a writing challenge for the month of August! We’re going to write 2 short stories before midnight on August 31^st! I could really use some prayer because, despite bouts of writing here and there, it’s hard to focus on writing when there is so much else to do. I am sure Sarah can attest to this.

Aside from that, daily life continues to be. I went to the city Saturday with my dad to scout out a trip that I am organizing for our church to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I have work five days a week for four hours a day. (MY NEW JOB IS AWESOME, BTW!!!)

After the writing challenge in August, I’m back to studying September 1^st! American Government; yeah! If I am motivated, I will start that earlier, but we shall see.

Just a quick update! I will keep people updated during August on here because I will deactivate my Facebook for that month. So if we’re friends on Facebook, bookmark my blog so you can keep up with me! I’ll be back sometime in the beginning of September.

Blessings!

 ~Abby

LET THE CHALLENGE BEGIN!

Time flies! It's the holidays!

Well, I have not posted anything for over a month! It is now the first of December! Christmas is around the corner. What are your upcoming plans for the holidays? How have you been, my readers?

Since I last posted, Hurricane Sandy came through and destroyed most of the East Coast. There has been much damage here in Jersey. We were safe, thank God, but I have a few friends who were affected. I would appreciate prayer for them. There are so many people who were affected and lost so much and many lost everything. It's a time for Christians to step up and help others. Don't just read about it or watch the news. Prayer is always good, but sometime, we need to get up and do something for others. God is faithful!


Thanksgiving arrived with full force. We had a full house: nine of us around the table! It was enough, believe me! But it was a great time! Two days before Thanksgiving however, my family and others from our church put together and delivered our Thanksgiving baskets. We filled up boxes with food for the holiday, including a turkey, stuffing, potatoes, and pies, and delivered it to families in our church and in the area to people who were suffering financially. It was such a great blessing to us to be able to help them at this time.

Our Thanksgiving, as I said, was great! We had the works: turkey, rice dressing, stuffing, sweet potatoes, veggies, cranberries, pies, cake, cookies, ice cream, etc! After the majority of our company left, we had a number of teenagers and young adults at the house to have some desserts with us, play some games, and just be together at the holidays!

Two friends slept over from Thanksgiving and we went shopping on Black Friday! Unlike the people who were on line at 3am, we slept then went to the mall around 10. It was busy and crowded, but not too bad. We got a lot of Christmas shopping done! It's always more fun to do things around the holidays with other people than by yourself. At least that's my opinion.

The majority of my Christmas shopping is done!!! So happy! Aside from ordering a few things here and there, I have all my presents done! Now I just have to wrap them all... the joys of the season!

Well, I promise to post soon about Christmas!

Merry Christmas! ~Abby