~sweet moments~ Have you ever noticed that when you vow to do something or to not do something, it suddenly becomes harder than ever to do/not do that thing?? It reminds me of a Bible passage that we discussed in our Sunday School class last week: 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I […]
» Read moreI mentioned in a previous post: new-years-check-up, that one of my missions this year is to get back on track with our budget. With four kids in tow, we really need to chill it on the spending! I decided a great way to help me focus on this mission would be to read this book: Here’s my only problem: In chapter two she says you should de-clutter your house. In fact, she recommends getting a babysitter […]
» Read moreLet’s face it: when you’re a SAHM, jeans are pretty much your dress clothes. Catch me at home, and I’m wearing yoga pants, but put me in public, and I go digging for my blue jeans. Warning to my three most faithful readers: Alan, Dad, and DaddyO: this post really is about pants. I’m so sorry. Actually, let me stop right here and acknowledge that my FAVORITE pants of ALL time are neither jogging pants nor blue jeans: New […]
» Read moreJoshua, Caleb, Daniel, and John David all at 6 months old Somewhere during that whole Christmas schmorgasborg, John David turned 6 months old! Oh, he is such a SWEET, sweet, sweet little thing. I would say he favors his brothers, wouldn’t you?? I was so excited to finally figure out how to make that collage! I learned about picmonkey.com from a fellow blogger: www.doofydizee.com. Her name keeps coming up on here! I promise I’m not stalking you, Di! She […]
» Read moreAlan took both boys out to shoot BB guns over Christmas. Alan said that while Joshua wasn’t holding it right at all, he hit his target dead on. A dad taking his boys out to shoot. That’s a tradition as old as time. I guess originally it would’ve been the dad taking the boys out to use sticks and bows and arrows and the like. Either way, the bonding and learning is the same. They were both […]
» Read moreGoal: Be anywhere near as happy as Dan…That’d be great! As I wrote in a previous post, my goal for 2014 is to chill. I want to calm down, enjoy my children, and not get all worked up about a bunch of stuff that doesn’t even matter all that much! I was doing pretty great on day one, but then January 2nd hit, and Alan went back to work. I don’t think ‘calm’ or ‘happy’ would be the […]
» Read moreThis was SO EXCITING, ya’ll. Now that JD can sit and play with toys, Daniel is beginning to view him as a buddy. : ) They played in Dan’s room together (as in close by, simultaneously playing) for 30 minutes today. Daniel was having a ball putting Lightning McQueen in and out of the Mac trucks while JD LOVED the shape sorter. He kept grabbing it, shaking it, and throwing it. Dan has three months left of being […]
» Read moreHappy New Year!!! So is 2014 off to a good start for ya? Our day wasn’t too bad. For starters, I slept until after 9am this morning. Whoot!! That kind of made me feel behind from the get-go, though. Isn’t that ridiculous? Remember when you could sleep in with no guilt whatsoever??? Nope. No, I actually don’t. Even when I was a kid, if I slept later than my dad felt was appropriate, I would be teased mercilessly […]
» Read moreDon’t you just love the whole “New Year” thing? I do. I’ve loved the idea of a clean slate for as long as I can remember. 2013 was one of our harder years, just adjusting to the new baby, and I just wasn’t well for a while there. The baby fog is lifting, though, and I’m feeling down right normal now! I’m actually enjoying talking to people again, laughing when appropriate, and even getting stuff done! Having a […]
» Read moreLet me tell you a story about the time we had our own real life nightmare before Christmas. There are times when things just don’t go the way that you had hoped. Embarking on a looong car trip with four children is a foolish brave thing to do. It all began around 10pm the night before we left. I walked into Dan’s room to get something, and I noticed he had a very wet sounding snore. “Oh no,” I thought. Around […]
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