Sunday afternoon the girls and I made a "house" in the livingroom. To most boys this would be called a fort but to Sophia it was her house. Olivia had so much fun going in and out of our house, she was also the only one short enough to stand in it lol. What joyous fun you can have with a couple tv trays some blankets and pillows. We each had our own room in the house and a light from the ceiling! Our Olivia monster kept us all laughing by lifting one of the walls and screaming at us. And my oh my all the static that was making our hair messy from rubbing on the blankets hahaha!!
We spent most of the afternoon playing in our beautiful house and making great memories. Daddy joined in too! I forgot to take pictures because I was busy having fun. We kept the house up and after church that night Sophia tried sitting on the roof and knocked it all over.....oh the laughs we had :)
I have made it my new years resolution to have less tv time and more play time with my children....and who says I have to wait until the new year to start!? We have been having so much fun playing with our girls this past two weeks and it has made our home just that much better.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Welcome to Mount-WASH-more
Every morning I am faced with piles and piles of laundry, that never seem to get smaller. I feel so over whelmed buy mountains of dirty clothes, it feels as if I'm getting suffocated by it. I often ask myself, "why can't I keep up with the laundry?" , "why can't I keep these piles of clothes off the floor?", or "Am I the only one with this problem?". I do have to say some of the reason we have this problem is the lack of space to put our clothes. It's not that we have too much clothes (we just took tons to goodwill) it is the fact that we have one very small closet and two dressers that each have a broken drawer. We are looking to get some nice dressers soon. But back to my problem.....mount-wash-more!!! My washer and dryer are in the basement and I HATE our basement!! It grosses me out down there and I don't like going in it. one of the pipes on the washer backs up easily and so water gets all over everything, which is another reason I don't like doing my laundry. I really should be thankful though because I could be walking to the river and washing by hand, or heading to the laundry mat every week.
Now folding laundry doesn't bother me. But I never seem to get around to doing it. I fold my laundry right in my room and then put it away, the problem with this is the girls are usually in the living room playing and something always happens if I'm not down there. I have tried folding my laundry in the living room but it seems to never work out. 1st, it really just adds one more step to my laundry doings, because then I have to walk up and down the stairs a couple times to put it away. 2nd, my girls like to "help" mommy fold, which usually doesn't quite work out haha.
So how do I go about getting all this laundry done?? Maybe I could hire a fairy to wave her magic wand and BAMMMM it is all done!! Or maybe I'll just take it one day at a time, load by load, keep my chin up and won't let the piles get the best of me :)
Now folding laundry doesn't bother me. But I never seem to get around to doing it. I fold my laundry right in my room and then put it away, the problem with this is the girls are usually in the living room playing and something always happens if I'm not down there. I have tried folding my laundry in the living room but it seems to never work out. 1st, it really just adds one more step to my laundry doings, because then I have to walk up and down the stairs a couple times to put it away. 2nd, my girls like to "help" mommy fold, which usually doesn't quite work out haha.
So how do I go about getting all this laundry done?? Maybe I could hire a fairy to wave her magic wand and BAMMMM it is all done!! Or maybe I'll just take it one day at a time, load by load, keep my chin up and won't let the piles get the best of me :)
Monday, December 6, 2010
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Friday, December 3, 2010
OHHH NO....what a little stinker!!!
HAHA My youngest daughter Olivia is 8 months old. Olivia just skipped right pass the walking with holding onto something stage and went right to walking! She is such a joy to our whole family with her bright blue eyes and huge, one tooth smile. I have noticed how independent she is, don't ever try to take something away from this little girl she will have a death grip on it and "scream" at you. She is also very obedient, even at 8 months old if I tell her "no" or "put it down" she listens! Olivia can sure hold her own when in a little scuffle with her big sissy Sophia. The funny part about Olivia is she is so little, Sophia was bigger than her at this age. So since she is so small it is even funnier seeing her huge personality. Making people laugh is one of her specialties, she also loves playing peek-a-boo, and picking on the cat. 
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Life...it's but a vapor
I had the chance to go to my cousin's place for a week to help out with her daughter and around her house. My cousin Melanie has a rare form of breast cancer and has been through so much. Her cancer is back and she has started treatment again, they say it won't cure her but they are hoping it will just give her a little more time. A day doesn't go by that I don't think about her and her family or cry and pray for her,it grieves my heart and I pray daily for her to have a long life raising her daughter who is now two years old.
Watching my cousin go through this has really made me look at my life. We don't know how long each of us have. How stupid and small some of our "problems" seam when we really think about it.
How can I even be so selfish to complain when my life is so wonderful? How dare I be upset about the house being a mess, when I should be thankful I have a house? How dare I get frustrated with my children for "being children" when I should be kissing and hugging them and thankful they are healthy? Or being upset that my husband is so tired all the time, when I should be thankful he works so incredibly hard to provide for us?
I have started taking time each day to thank the Lord for,
Life
health
my husband
my children
and so much more...
I have become:
a more thankful woman...
a more loving wife...
a more gentle mother...
a more understanding person all around...
I have such a blessed life and I need not to forget it. I'm not going to look at what I don't have but be thankful for the many, many things I have in my life that are worth so much more. Cherish each day you have to serve Christ and love your family, give God all the glory.
Watching my cousin go through this has really made me look at my life. We don't know how long each of us have. How stupid and small some of our "problems" seam when we really think about it.
How can I even be so selfish to complain when my life is so wonderful? How dare I be upset about the house being a mess, when I should be thankful I have a house? How dare I get frustrated with my children for "being children" when I should be kissing and hugging them and thankful they are healthy? Or being upset that my husband is so tired all the time, when I should be thankful he works so incredibly hard to provide for us?
I have started taking time each day to thank the Lord for,
Life
health
my husband
my children
and so much more...
I have become:
a more thankful woman...
a more loving wife...
a more gentle mother...
a more understanding person all around...
I have such a blessed life and I need not to forget it. I'm not going to look at what I don't have but be thankful for the many, many things I have in my life that are worth so much more. Cherish each day you have to serve Christ and love your family, give God all the glory.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
School time
I started Sophia on school today :) She did great!!! She was so excited to use the glue though and I had to keep taking it from her until it was time to use it. Today we worked on colors, coloring and gluing. I was very happy to see how well she colors, I didn't know she knew how to color. She colored the cats whiskers blue and it's feet pink lol I'm very proud of her. Then she glued kids from different countries onto a world that says "God made each of us special" she really liked the glue.
The other kids I teach did very well today. It was an easy day and they were well behaved. I just loved having them all around my kitchen table doing their school work. And they all loved that I let them eat snacks while working :) It seems like we had a great start to our school year!
The other kids I teach did very well today. It was an easy day and they were well behaved. I just loved having them all around my kitchen table doing their school work. And they all loved that I let them eat snacks while working :) It seems like we had a great start to our school year!
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Stability
I took this from the website http://www.ipresson.com/ it was written by Claudia Barba. I really enjoy this lady and what she has to say. This is something I need to work on and I wanted to share it with all of you!
Always the Same
The conversation lasted only 15 seconds, but I have never forgotten it. I greeted a pastor friend at a ministry conference and asked about his wife. “She’s fine,” he answered. Then he paused, and a grin spread across his face. “She’s the same every single day!”
What unexpected, unusual praise! I wondered at it all through the service that followed. Of all the things a man in ministry might praise about his wife (beauty, hospitality, hard work) he chose her constancy. “The same every single day”—why would he set such value on that? Why did that compliment come so quickly to his mind?
Maybe because it’s so rare. A woman, after all, is seldom the same two minutes in row. Our spirits tend to sway with our circumstances. They are flattened by small criticisms or sent soaring by the tiniest bits of praise. Since the ministry is a roller-coaster sort of life, a ministry wife has plenty of opportunities (and every excuse she could ever want) for her feelings to move up and down with it. Add in the stresses of home and children, not to mention those pesky hormones, and . . . pity her poor husband.
When he comes through the door at the end of his day, wearied by the minutiae of management, mind-numbed by hours of study, or drained by a day of circling wandering sheep, there’s nothing he longs for more than the steady companionship of the sweet wife he kissed goodbye in the morning. But sometimes--right there in his very own kitchen--he encounters the Wicked Witch of the West instead. He is bewildered by his quick-change artist of a wife, and surely he sometimes wishes she were more stable.
She can be, but not by herself. Stability is not innate or effortless for most of us female-type humans. Only in Christ is “no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” He is the solid, immutable Rock of Ages, and He can keep you stable. When your earth quakes, anchor your thoughts to His unchanging promises. When storms roll in, hide in His shadow. When you’re too tired to handle the demands of the day, let Him be the Rock of your strength. When your heart is unsatisfied, let the sweet water flowing from the Rock quench your thirst. Whenever any scary or upsetting thing happens, just run straight to the Rock. Climb on, settle down, and stay there. Your emotions will stabilize, your inner witch will melt away, and you (to your husband’s delight) will become more and more like your Savior--the same every single day.
“For who is God, save the LORD? And who is a rock, save our God?” (2 Samuel 22:32).
Always the Same
The conversation lasted only 15 seconds, but I have never forgotten it. I greeted a pastor friend at a ministry conference and asked about his wife. “She’s fine,” he answered. Then he paused, and a grin spread across his face. “She’s the same every single day!”
What unexpected, unusual praise! I wondered at it all through the service that followed. Of all the things a man in ministry might praise about his wife (beauty, hospitality, hard work) he chose her constancy. “The same every single day”—why would he set such value on that? Why did that compliment come so quickly to his mind?
Maybe because it’s so rare. A woman, after all, is seldom the same two minutes in row. Our spirits tend to sway with our circumstances. They are flattened by small criticisms or sent soaring by the tiniest bits of praise. Since the ministry is a roller-coaster sort of life, a ministry wife has plenty of opportunities (and every excuse she could ever want) for her feelings to move up and down with it. Add in the stresses of home and children, not to mention those pesky hormones, and . . . pity her poor husband.
When he comes through the door at the end of his day, wearied by the minutiae of management, mind-numbed by hours of study, or drained by a day of circling wandering sheep, there’s nothing he longs for more than the steady companionship of the sweet wife he kissed goodbye in the morning. But sometimes--right there in his very own kitchen--he encounters the Wicked Witch of the West instead. He is bewildered by his quick-change artist of a wife, and surely he sometimes wishes she were more stable.
She can be, but not by herself. Stability is not innate or effortless for most of us female-type humans. Only in Christ is “no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” He is the solid, immutable Rock of Ages, and He can keep you stable. When your earth quakes, anchor your thoughts to His unchanging promises. When storms roll in, hide in His shadow. When you’re too tired to handle the demands of the day, let Him be the Rock of your strength. When your heart is unsatisfied, let the sweet water flowing from the Rock quench your thirst. Whenever any scary or upsetting thing happens, just run straight to the Rock. Climb on, settle down, and stay there. Your emotions will stabilize, your inner witch will melt away, and you (to your husband’s delight) will become more and more like your Savior--the same every single day.
“For who is God, save the LORD? And who is a rock, save our God?” (2 Samuel 22:32).
CHAOS!!!
I have made up my mind...NO MORE CHAOS!!! My house has just been out of control, dirty/clean laundry everywhere, toys all over, dirty dishes miles high, clutter clutter clutter, and we can never see our kitchen table!!! Well my friends I say "bye-bye clutter", "bye- bye piles of laundry", and "hello clean and peaceful house"! I started following Flylady (check it out flylady.net) so now I'm taking baby step to a clean house and a happier family. For the most part this week our kitchen and livingroom have stayed pretty clean and not so cluttered. I'm really bad at being a pack-rat, it runs in my family, but I'm stopping it here! I'm teaching my girls to stay de-cluttered and keep a clean home.
Sophia has her small chores she does like, putting the silverware away and matching our shoes and putting them by the door. She really loves doing her chores. The minute I open the dishwasher Sophia runs right over to help, even if I'm loading it. I'm glad that I can teach my girls to take care of the house and stuff God gave us.
I use to think the more stuff I had in my house the more it would look like a home. But then it just got stuffy in our house, we didn't have anywhere to live!! Since I started tossing stuff we didn't need, cleaning has been so much easier and not overwhelming. I quickly pick up toys and dishes before bed and when I wake up in the morning I'm faced with a clean downstairs.....aaaahhhhh what a nice feeling. I actually get up earlier now because I'm not staying in bed dreading going downstairs to chaos :)
Goals for the rest of this week:
finish laundry
clean bedrooms
pack for trip
Sophia has her small chores she does like, putting the silverware away and matching our shoes and putting them by the door. She really loves doing her chores. The minute I open the dishwasher Sophia runs right over to help, even if I'm loading it. I'm glad that I can teach my girls to take care of the house and stuff God gave us.
I use to think the more stuff I had in my house the more it would look like a home. But then it just got stuffy in our house, we didn't have anywhere to live!! Since I started tossing stuff we didn't need, cleaning has been so much easier and not overwhelming. I quickly pick up toys and dishes before bed and when I wake up in the morning I'm faced with a clean downstairs.....aaaahhhhh what a nice feeling. I actually get up earlier now because I'm not staying in bed dreading going downstairs to chaos :)
Goals for the rest of this week:
finish laundry
clean bedrooms
pack for trip
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
update on the girls
Sophia is 2 years old now and we are potty training...uuuuggghhhh I know she will get it soon but it would be nice if she was already potty trained haha. Today so far she has wet herself two times but she has also used the potty two times :) we have never made it twice to the potty in one day so that made me happy. Sophia also told me, "no pee-pee in undies" and when I asked where we pee-pee she said, "the potty" this is really big because before when I would ask her if we go pee-pee in our undies she would say, "ok". So for her to tell me no pee-pee in undies is a really big deal. We also started a sticker chart for her potty, which she really likes, and it is great!! She loves putting her sticker on when she goes :) Sophia also is learning to count. I got her sparkly craft fuzzy balls and we count them. She can count to 12 but she always misses 8. She can also count to 8 in spanish. Each day Sophia amazes me more and more. She is getting so smart and I'm very proud of her. She also loves to sing, it is the cutest thing ever to listen to.
Olivia is 5 months now and growing like a weed!!! She crawls everywhere and loves playing with the cat. Her first tooth popped up this week, that explains why she has been so crabby. I started Olivia on rice cereal (I know they say wait til 6 months but I didn't with Sophia either) Olivia really likes eating from a spoon, and she is getting really good at it. When she isn't crabby from teething she is such a happy girl always giving the biggest smile :) Olivia is also a thumb sucker....oh no... haha
I love my girls so much and I'm so blessed by God to have them to raise.
Olivia is 5 months now and growing like a weed!!! She crawls everywhere and loves playing with the cat. Her first tooth popped up this week, that explains why she has been so crabby. I started Olivia on rice cereal (I know they say wait til 6 months but I didn't with Sophia either) Olivia really likes eating from a spoon, and she is getting really good at it. When she isn't crabby from teething she is such a happy girl always giving the biggest smile :) Olivia is also a thumb sucker....oh no... haha
I love my girls so much and I'm so blessed by God to have them to raise.
Friday, June 25, 2010
New to this
This is my first post on my blog!! I hope you all enjoy reading this. Well today I took the girls to town with me to run some errands, we went to the bank to cash Sophia's birthday checks so we can put it in her piggy bank. I hopefully will set up a savings account for each of the girls and put some money into cd's for them both. Well anyway Sophia got a sticker and a sucker from the bank (she was super excited!) then off to walmart we went (fyi I HATE walmart!) we got our food and a birthday present for a friend and left. It rained hard in town, by beef-a-roo the road was pretty much flooded. It was crazy driving, but it was just drizzling in Harvey and the rest of the way home, so that was nice. Olivia and Sophia were so well behaved in town I'm so proud of them. They make me so happy I love my girls oh so much!!
Tonight is RU so it's going to be a late night for me. I have promised myself I'm going to start getting up before Jeremy goes to work so that I can run. (we'll see how that goes) Well I have to get ready for tonight so I guess this is all for now.
Tonight is RU so it's going to be a late night for me. I have promised myself I'm going to start getting up before Jeremy goes to work so that I can run. (we'll see how that goes) Well I have to get ready for tonight so I guess this is all for now.
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