Philippians 4:6 (NIV) "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God."

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to check out this blog. My inspiration for creating "The Manic Mommy Diaries" is to connect with you other mommy maniacs out there who, like myself, are pulled in 1,000 different directions every day but still manage to make it all work. I know that there are mornings you must wake up like I do and think that you could not have possibly been asleep for 6.5 hours. (Yes, I said 6.5 hours. If anyone out there gets more sleep than this, kudos to you!) I have to tell you that I thrive on a full schedule. When Jesus said these words, "I have come that you may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10 NIV), I wonder if He knew that I would take those words so literal. LOL! If my day planner isn't overflowing with tasks, appointments, dinner menus or soccer schedules, I feel completely lost. You would think I would be insane trying to keep up, and I have no doubt that I would be, if not for one thing...Jesus Christ. In all the hustle and bustle, I have to keep him the center of it all or I do become a bit crazy. I can most definitely tell those days that I skipped right over prayer and devotion. My day completely starts off wrong. My goal for this blog is to help encourage and inspire other moms and women through things that God reveals to me everyday in some form or another. Sometimes it's through prayer and devotion and at others it is through my children, my job or some other unexpected avenue that God has opened up for me on that day. My plan is to post a new blog at least once a week. Yes, as you've so rightly figured out, creating this blog has added one more task to my to-do-list, one more thing to be scheduled in my day planner. Like I told you earlier, I thrive on a full schedule. I encourage you to take the scripture at the beginning of this blog and memorize it. Every morning when you wake up and you are hit in the face with a to-do-list that seems never ending, quote this scripture out loud. Don't worry...be happy. Ask God to help you make it through the day and accomplish the tasks before you and you know what? He will! Blessing to you and yours this week.

Stay Sane!

Wendy