So........

So, I know what you are thinking.... another blog, right? Everyone seems to be jumping on this idea like everyone has a Facebook. So, why me? Why Ashley Adams? 

I am not all that great at writing. I stay at home all day. You guessed it! I'm a homemaker! I'm a wife. I'm a mom. Blah, Blah. Are you bored yet?

Well, I had one of those days. One of those days where you are being hard on yourself. One of those days where the negative thoughts take over and get the best of you. Or as I would like to sum it up as, one of those days where the enemy likes to quietly tell you about yourself, or should I say, his lies about yourself.  

And then, the God inside of me took over and counteracted everything and I had a total God download moment. 

'You are a ministry, Ashley...

in your marriage and as a wife, 

in motherhood (and of TWINS, at that)

and in playtime,

in your creativity,

in your homemaking and starting a home, 

in your struggles,

and in your joys!

(The whole cupboard full)

Romans 12:2 (The Message) 1-2 summed it up best: 

"So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going -to-work, and walking around life- and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you."

In other words, I am Ashley Adams and I do have a LOT to offer. God has blessed me with so much that my cup(s) overflow on the daily.

So, for just another Blog, I pray that my cup of God's joy and favor will overflow to all those read. May you be inspired in new ways in your home, in your heart, and in your life.

So here goes.......