Wordless Wednesday ~ Redneck Trampoline
Email Subscription
Have you noticed? You can now subscribe through email to my blog! How awesome is that?!
How? Well that is easy to answer! Take a look at my sidebar, located on the right-hand side of my blog. You see where it says Email Subscription? See the box there? Type your email address in the box and click “Sign Me Up”. Then go to your Inbox and open the email that you receive about subscribing to my blog and follow the instructions, and that’s it! Then everytime I add a new blog post, it is delivered directly to your Inbox!
See that was easy! And, now when life gets super busy and you forget that my blog is over here begging you to read it, you won’t have to miss anything because you will know each time I add a new post, just by reading your email! 🙂
An Awesome Deal~F-R-E-E!
Look what I found while blog-browsing last night!
At Mommy Maven in the Making!, she gives a PROMO code for a F-R-E-E Udder Cover! All you have to pay is the shipping, which for me was $9.95, which I think is pretty standard. The original cost per Udder Cover is $32.oo + shipping, so this is an awesome deal!
What’s an Udder Cover? It is a very stylish and chic way to cover-up while nursing your precious baby. It hangs around your neck like a necklace, and has a rigid neckline that is adjustable, allowing you to have direct eye contact with baby. Because of this design, the risk of baby pulling it off, which would leave you completely and udderly (no pun intended) embarrassed, is eliminated!
I chose the “Carson” for myself. Which one will you choose?
Can’t Sleep
So here I sit at 1:48 a.m. unable to fall asleep! I cannot clear my mind no matter how hard I try. I layed in bed for a while, but nothing…the thoughts just kept flooding in.
You see, we are in the process of packing and moving….again! I only have until Wednesday night to finish, because Thursday morning DH and helpers will begin packing everything onto the trailer, and by Thursday afternoon we should be ready to pull out, headed to LA.
I have already started packing, but it seems that the stuff is multiplying quicker than I can pack it! Seriously, where does it all come from? Until I started packing it into boxes, I really didn’t think that we had that much junk many treasures! This surprises me, because when we moved just 10 months ago, I gave away a truck load of stuff!
And to top it off, DH had to work everyday this weekend. Tomorrow I have to go buy more boxes and forward our mail, and we have a Chuck E. Cheese trip scheduled for tomorrow night. I will be able to get some packing done on Tuesday while my MIL watches the children, however, Tuesday night I will be baking and decorating my sweet EK’s birthday cake. Wednesday I will have the morning and part of the afternoon to pack, but will have to stop in the later part of the afternoon to celebrate my EK’s 3rd birthday! All while taking care of basic everyday needs!
Where, pray tell, in all of this busy-ness will I have time to pack? Please, if you happen to know any Moving Fairies, send them my way! And, please pray that it doesn’t rain Thursday, because it is the only day this week that does not show rain…for here or our scheduled destination!
Ahh…now that I have cleared my mind of those thoughts, maybe I can sleep! Good night morning, everyone!
Happy Scare Day!
My childrens’ imaginations never cease to amaze me. Sometime after moving to Arkansas, my children started celebrating “Scare Day”. It was something that they created themselves, and each child put in his/her ideas.
Tuesday is “Scare Day” in our home. JA is in charge of making the signs. He writes “Happy Scare Day” on pieces of paper and then tapes them to different walls in the apartment. Then GC and IM turn off any light that is on.
After all lights are off and all signs are hung, the children find their “hiding” places. When DH or I walk past one of these “hiding” places, whichever child is hiding there, jumps up and shouts “Happy Scare Day”! There is always a lot of giggling and much creativity put into this celebration of sorts!
I love watching my childrens’ imaginations come to life! I’m not sure why they felt like we needed a “Scare Day”, or even what made them think to create a “Scare Day”, but they enjoy it so much!
And I love that they worked on this project together, as a team! I am so thankful to God as I watch them work together, everyone included, no one left out! Watching their relationship blossom as siblings, and as best friends, brings a smile to my face and my heart!
So….
Slow Down, Please!
How is it March already? Where is the time going? I honestly am having a hard time keeping up! It seems like yesterday I was celebrating and making goals for the New Year, and today I wake up and IT IS MARCH! And, I have yet to post my goals for the New Year on my blog! I have been meaning to, but time seems to be in a race with my to do list, and well it is obvious who is winning that race.
There is never a better time than the present to catch up on some things though, right? Including posting my goals for 2010 to my blog.
Thankfully, I can say that I have either started on or accomplished some of these goals already. However, there are some that I have yet to focus on, and sadly some of those are the ones that I would consider to be most important. I have to start somewhere though, and I will continue to grow and learn, and see each day as a new start! Some of those “new starts” will be slow and wobbly, while others will be steady and well-balanced! Either way, I will persevere and strive to live out the purpose that God has planned for me!
Here are my set goals for 2010:
2010 Goals
*Keep My Focus on God
*My Own Personal Quiet Time (15 min/day)
*Marriage Related Bible Study w/ Joseph
*Learn/Memorize 20 Bible Verses As a Family
*Create a Prayer List
*Adopt a Widow as a Family Ministry Project
*Build and Follow a Daily Schedule
*Build a Chore Chart/Reward Chore Bucks
*Start Planning and Utilizing Weekly Menus
*Plan School (day for day)/ Planning Time on Weekends
*Character Traits (Myself/Children)
*Build a Chart; Possibly Purchase a Character Training Curriculum
*Start Teaching the children more life skills
*Teach Alex how to cook 2 “meals”
*Spend more 1 or 1 time with each child
*Change Diet: More Veggies/Fruits/Whole Grains/Water
*Visit and buy Produce/Meat/Herbs/Eggs/Possibly Milk from local farmers
*Make a Daily Nutritional Supplements List for everyone and buy them
*Start eating all meals at the dining table with the children again
*Read The Bible to them while we eat
*Start our weekly movie/game night again
*Read Bed Time Stories to the children again
*More Crafts and Hands on Learning for the children
*More Field Trips
*Buy a Keyboard/Learn To Play (Myself/Children)
*Pay off 2 bills
*Monetary Savings Account = or < 10,000 by Jan. 2011
*Remodel Minden home/Be finished by September 2010
*Wake Up Before Joseph
*Make Him Breakfast
*Add more skirts and dresses to wardrobes (Mine/Girls’)
*Create a Reading List
*Create a Books to Buy List
*Re-acquaint myself with FlyLady
*Also Create a Companies Coming Cleaning/Supply Checklist *Complete Herbal Course by January 2011
*Write Letters and Reconnect with friends and loved ones
*Exercise 3X’s/week, 20 min/session
*Make 2 new friends
*Buy Dehydrator/Learn about storing food
*Start storing food
*Smile/Laugh More
*Blog more often
What Do You Think?
I had mentioned earlier this year that I was thinking about changing the name of my blog. But after talking with my dear SIL, April, last night, I realized it wasn’t the name of my blog that I dislike, it was my blog header.
The name still holds true. I am still blessed to the point of my cup running over, and I still have a list that is so long that it runs over as well. So obviously, the name still fits.
As for the blog header though, it had no life whatsoever! Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE a good cup of coffee, but only if I am getting to consume it. You can sit a cup of coffee down in front of me, and I can only look at it for so long before I HAVE to drink it! So having a picture of a cup of coffee at the top of my blog was not only boring, it was also a tease.
April and I talked about ways that I could fix my header. She has some really good ideas, and I will eventually create a header using her ideas. Until then though, I found this. (Thank You, Sarah, for posting this valuable info.) And because it is a cold, rainy, sleep until noon, do not change out of your PJs sort of day, I have been allowing my creative juices to flow, and have created the header that now adorns the top of my blog. And the best part, it was FREE!!! 🙂
What do you think? Pretty cute, huh?
Read what others are doing to save money at LIfe As Mom.
We Won!!!!
Our landlady, Ms. Nanette, called me today to inform me that we have a check waiting for us to pick up in her office!!! Remember our cute little snowman? He won 1st place!!
When we entered the contest we only knew that 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners would be receiving a prize. However, we did not know what the prizes were. After she told me that there was a check waiting for us, because we won 1st place in the contest, I just couldn’t bring myself to ask how much the check was. I was excited, but didn’t want to sound ungrateful, so I decided that I would wait until I picked the check up to look.
We, however, are out-of-state this week, so I let her know that it would be next week before I could pick the check up, and she said that would not be a problem. Just as we were saying our goodbyes, she said “Just come by and pick up the check when you are able to. It is for $100.”
I cannot even begin to tell you how pleasantly surprised I was when I heard her say the amount! I had somewhat expected the prizes to be monetary, but never did I expect the amount to be so great! And the children were so VERY excited, when I told them! Their smiles and excitement were priceless!
I called DH, who was out running errands, and he was almost home already. I told him that the children had some exciting news and they wanted to be the ones to tell him. This kept him guessing! 😉 His first guess was that we were going to have another baby…hehe! The hard “labor” that was put into building our little snowman should qualify me as his mother.
I had the children rehearse how they were going to deliver the exciting news to their daddy, so that everyone felt like they were the one to tell him. IM said “Remember the snowman we built”. Then, EK excitedly said “We Won”, while pumping one arm up into the air as one would when shouting “hurray”. Next, GC said “1st place”, and, finally, JA said “$100 check”. And then everyone said “Yay” and clapped their hands, which then caused AA to light up with a huge smile and clap her hands too.
DH was very proud of them, and gave them all high fives…er…as our children lovingly call them, “hand fives”. This was most definitely the highlight of our day!
BTW, snow is predicted in the forecast tonight too, making this the 5th time for us to see snow this year! Who would have ever believed that AR and LA would receive this much snow in one winter season? Not I. Guess this goes to show that God most certainly has a sense of humor, and opinion, when it comes to “Global Warming”! 😉
What became of my camera?
I know I said I would update sooner than this. However, we had family visiting this past week, so we were enjoying their company!
As for my camera, well the rice did not help the screen. Thankfully, though, my camera will still take pictures!
The other day when I realized my camera screen was broken, I assumed the entire camera was broken, but I tried to take some pics of our snowman anyway! I am so glad that I did, because this is what I saw when I uploaded the pictures from my memory card.
Isn’t he adorable???!! I have entered him into a Snow man contest that our apartment complex is holding! They will be giving away a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prize. We will find out tomorrow which Snow Man is the lucky 1st place winner!
Who could deny that face a 1st place prize? Don’t you just want to squeeze his cheeks?! 😉
Snow + Camera = Does Not Mix!
We had our 3rd snow fall for this year, today. It was so beautiful and wet enough that it would stick together enough to make snowballs and most importantly a snowman! Two weeks ago when it snowed it was just a beautiful powdery blanket of snow, and no matter how hard we tried, we could not get it to stick enough to make even the smallest snowballs.
Today was the day though! The snow was PERFECT for making snowballs and snowmen! After feeding the children a hot breakfast brunch of oatmeal, we all dressed in warm clothes and headed down stairs. We had our basket in tow, which held buttons, a cowboy hat, and a piece of material to be used as a scarf.
Why I didn’t think to make the children use the bathroom before heading downstairs escapes me completely, because as soon as we got downstairs, walked over to where we were going to build our snowman, placed AA in her Bumbo seat so she could watch us easily, I hear from EK, “I need to go potty”! I scooped her up, put JA and GC in charge of watching after their sisters and ran back upstairs as quickly as possible! Because if I hadn’t….well you know….I really could have been the mom who was frantically yelling “Don’t eat the yellow snow!!”….and that just wouldn’t have been pretty! She pottied quickly and we were back downstairs in record time!
Remember that basket I told you about…the one that held the buttons, hat, and scarf? Well it also held my camera. I had so diligently placed the cowboy hat over top of the camera, as to not let the snow fall directly on it.
Before going downstairs, I had pictured all of us working as hard as we possibly could to build one huge snowman. However, after getting downstairs it was suddenly clear that the boys must have had a non-verbal commitment to build as many snowmen…er…..snow-robots…er….snow-whatevers, as possible. Only thing, they didn’t tell me this, so I started building away on what I thought would be THE snowman.
I worked and worked and worked…with IM’s help of course. She wanted to see our snowman “come to life” as badly as I did. We made his bottom half, then his mid-section, followed by his cute little head. Then we placed some buttons on for his eyes, his nose, his mouth, and down his mid-section. I ran across the parking lot and found the most perfect set of branch arms he could have asked for! He was looking snazzy! We followed this up with his scarf, and ever so politely asked the boys if we could borrow the cowboy hat that they had taken out of the basket to use on one of their snow sculptures. They were more than happy to oblige. Then we all stood and said “WOW”, because he was the cutest, most handsomest little snowman ever!
Then it was picture time! I gathered all the children around our icy little friend, including AA, who had sat so happily in her Bumbo seat watching all the excitement. (She too was getting to take part in some of the action…well until I explained to EK, who laughingly would throw snowballs at her baby sister, that she should only start snowball fights with someone who could defend himself/herself.)
I reached into the basket to find that my camera had a bit of snow on it, not a lot, and what was on it was already melting. Apparently this is not good though, because when I turned my camera on, the screen was most certainly not working properly! All it would show were some tiny blue vertical lines on a white screen! And that is all it would show after turning it off and back on a few times. Nothing I did made it any better! When the boys, unknowingly, removed the protection of the cowboy hat from the camera, it did not take long for the camera to decide that it didn’t like having snow fall on it! And it threw itself a fit!
So now the camera is completely submerged in a container of rice, and I am praying that the rice will work to remove moisture from inside my camera in the same way that it works to remove moisture from the inside of a cell phone! I shall get back to you on how that turns out. In the meantime, I have removed the batteries and the memory card from the camera, and I will try to see if any damage has happened to the memory card, or the pictures that were already on it, tomorrow…er….later today.
Until then, word from the Learned, Do NOT allow your camera to be snowed on! Snow + Camera = Broken! 😦
My Cup Runneth Over ... and So Does My To Do List! 
