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Today started off early as all 6 of us had to be ready and out the door at 8:15 AM!  Not a fun time to be out the door on a Saturday morning or any morning (since I homeschool it's an exception, not a rule to have to be anywhere before 9 AM on any given day.)

We dropped off our son at a neighbor's house since he had his first basketball game this morning at 11 AM.  I had a friend come pick him up for his game from my neighbor's house since we were leaving at 8:15 to be at a local church across town and we didn't have time to get him to his game early.

Three times a year, my husband and I give a 30 minute presentation to about 25 engaged couples who are preparing to get married in the Catholic Church.  These couples are from all walks of life and many of them are interfaith couples (one person is Catholic, while their fiance is from a non-Catholic background).  My husband and I have been giving our presentation on Natural Family Planning (NFP) since 2001 to engaged couples, where we present what NFP is/is not, the Church's teaching on family planning, and then we tell them the many benefits of living the NFP lifestyle and how it has positively impacted our marriage.  We have been certified teachers of NFP since 2003.  This is a ministry that my husband and I have a heart for and we have been blessed with this knowledge and want to share it with all those that are open to hearing about NFP.

Then after we gave our presentation we headed back across town to meet up with our son at his game by 11 AM.  I have to add that our oldest daughter was supposed to be at  a Girl Scout Cookie Kick-off during our presentation, but she has been sick today with a fever, headache, fatigue so she reluctantly tagged along with us and even had to miss her first basketball game tonight because she wasn't feeling well. :(  I felt bad that she had to be dragged to our presentation and then her brother's game, but this was our only option under the circumstances.

After our son's great first game (he played awesome defense against one of the best players on the other team), we headed over to my in-laws who live close by and had "Bambi Biscuits" (our family name for venison biscuits) for lunch.  Yum!

When we got home I visited some blogs from the No Ordinary Blog Hop that I am co-hosting with Lynda and Anna-Marie.    It's been so fun to "meet" other bloggers and read their great posts.  One blogger that I visited was Steph and I read her post, Just what does 'sick' look like???.  In this post, Steph spoke from her heart about the struggles she has with living with chronic pain.  She posted beautiful pictures of herself on the blog and explained that although from the outside she looks healthy, she is battling many things when it comes to her health.  I was deeply inspired by her post and really thought about how much I take for granted.  Sure, I'm tired alot, but I do not have chronic pain as my cross so Steph inspired me to step back and count my blessings, no matter what.   Steph's post reminded me of this saying that I think is profound:


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I never thought I could start a blog or even have time for it, but I am taking on this challenge after I had a prompting from someone to journal one of my passions...creating and decorating birthday cakes for my 4 children (aka my 4 cupcakes). I have always said that I need to start a blog on how I don't have time to start or keep a blog. Well, here is my attempt to embrace and enjoy the blogging world hoping that it will make a positive impact on myself and on the visitors to "A Slice of Smith Life."

I have visited many blogs in the past and I hope to finally become an official "follower" of some of the blogs that I enjoy reading. I often wonder how bloggers come up with the name of their blog. What is their story of why they chose the name they did?

 Here's how I came up with my title, "A Slice of Smith Life": The title relates to the many decorated cakes I have created and sliced over the past 10 + years and this blog will also give my readers a glimpse into the other passions in my life, including Sacred Heart Academy Homeschooling, Cakes, and Natural Family Planning. I hope that by sharing some areas in my life that are fun and important to me, it will help all those who visit "A Slice of Smith Life" to be inspired and touched by what they read.