Tuesday, March 13, 2007
WHAT?!?!?!?!
I clicked on a link at Crystal's blog and read the story with my mouth hanging open. I remember plenty of times my parents would pull us out of school to start vacation early. This article made me blood pressure go up. Why you ask? Well because thats what happens when I dont agree with something. Hubby intentionally sends me links to newspaper articles just to hear me screech, "WHAT?!?!" He loves it! LOL So please read this and then hear my screech in the back of your mind!
Friday, March 9, 2007
March Habits
Health:
1. Start a notebook of all Im learning about health and nutrition. Sometimes my mind gets so bogged down with everything.
2. Get some Kefir starter to make my own kefir.
3. Plan smoothies for breakfast and snack at least 3 times a week.
4. Get up to 8 bottles of water a day.
5. Plan to start yeast free diet in April.
Home:
1. Dishes done every night before bed.
2. Sweep and Swiffer the kitchen every night.
3. Keep pantry organized
4. Get all of the boxes out of my kitchen! How did this get to be such a hotspot?
5. Keep computer desk cleaned off.
Family:
1. Look my children in the eye everyday and tell them how much I love them and how blessed I am to have them.
2. Pack a lunch for my hubby.
3. Assign a child to work with me in the kitchen every night.
4. Do scripture memorization with my kids every day.
Be Blessed!!
1. Start a notebook of all Im learning about health and nutrition. Sometimes my mind gets so bogged down with everything.
2. Get some Kefir starter to make my own kefir.
3. Plan smoothies for breakfast and snack at least 3 times a week.
4. Get up to 8 bottles of water a day.
5. Plan to start yeast free diet in April.
Home:
1. Dishes done every night before bed.
2. Sweep and Swiffer the kitchen every night.
3. Keep pantry organized
4. Get all of the boxes out of my kitchen! How did this get to be such a hotspot?
5. Keep computer desk cleaned off.
Family:
1. Look my children in the eye everyday and tell them how much I love them and how blessed I am to have them.
2. Pack a lunch for my hubby.
3. Assign a child to work with me in the kitchen every night.
4. Do scripture memorization with my kids every day.
Be Blessed!!
Thursday, March 8, 2007
February's Goals
How did I do?
Health:
1. Start on Yeast Assasin and Tummy Tune up again everyday. Almost everyday. The YA gives me a terrible headache but I think its detoxing. I really want to do this more with a yeast free diet, but so far have not been able to accomplish that.
2. Continue drinking at least three bottles of water everyday. Im almost up to 6. If I do the Water Cure I need to be at about 13 bottles. I am not doing the 1/4t of salt though. I tried that once and thought oh uh-uh! LOL
3. Make my own yogurt and find ways to use it everyday. I made my own yogurt once or twice. It was fun. I mixed it in with potatoes and oatmeal. I used it as topping for anything you would put sour cream on. I also used it in some baking. Honestly, it did not taste half bad without anything.
4. Continue the coconut oil regiment. On that note, I ordered Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Sandy Fallon from Amazon the other day. I am hoping to get it this week. I want to read up on the coconut oil some more as I have heard some differing opinions. I will let you know what I think of the book when I read it. I have been mixing this in with oatmeal and using it to cook some other stuff. I cant eat it off the spoon like some people. I have the Eat Fat, Loose Fat book but have not started it yet.
5. Make all of our bread. Done, done, done! Im so excited. I have a goal that if I make all of our bread for the rest of the year I can ask for a Bosch for Christmas.
Home:
1. Dishes done every night before bed. Almost. I still need some work in this area so Im leaving it on the March goals.
2. Sweep and swiffer kitchen floor everyday. Not even a little bit. It stays on for March.
3. Keep kitchen counters clean. Pretty much. There were a few mornings I woke up and had to clean them off. But Im definatly getting better.
Family:
1. Look my children in the eye everyday and tell them how much I love them and what a blessing they are. I thought this would be easy. Im still working on it. Keeping it for March.
2. Pack a lunch for my husband. This one has to stay for March too. I dont think I did it at all.
3. Read aloud to my children everyday. I DID THIS!! We read Charlotte's Web everyday after lunch.
4. Assign one child a day to help me in the kitchen. This needs more work but I did it quiet a bit and found I enjoyed the one on one time.
Health:
1. Start on Yeast Assasin and Tummy Tune up again everyday. Almost everyday. The YA gives me a terrible headache but I think its detoxing. I really want to do this more with a yeast free diet, but so far have not been able to accomplish that.
2. Continue drinking at least three bottles of water everyday. Im almost up to 6. If I do the Water Cure I need to be at about 13 bottles. I am not doing the 1/4t of salt though. I tried that once and thought oh uh-uh! LOL
3. Make my own yogurt and find ways to use it everyday. I made my own yogurt once or twice. It was fun. I mixed it in with potatoes and oatmeal. I used it as topping for anything you would put sour cream on. I also used it in some baking. Honestly, it did not taste half bad without anything.
4. Continue the coconut oil regiment. On that note, I ordered Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Sandy Fallon from Amazon the other day. I am hoping to get it this week. I want to read up on the coconut oil some more as I have heard some differing opinions. I will let you know what I think of the book when I read it. I have been mixing this in with oatmeal and using it to cook some other stuff. I cant eat it off the spoon like some people. I have the Eat Fat, Loose Fat book but have not started it yet.
5. Make all of our bread. Done, done, done! Im so excited. I have a goal that if I make all of our bread for the rest of the year I can ask for a Bosch for Christmas.
Home:
1. Dishes done every night before bed. Almost. I still need some work in this area so Im leaving it on the March goals.
2. Sweep and swiffer kitchen floor everyday. Not even a little bit. It stays on for March.
3. Keep kitchen counters clean. Pretty much. There were a few mornings I woke up and had to clean them off. But Im definatly getting better.
Family:
1. Look my children in the eye everyday and tell them how much I love them and what a blessing they are. I thought this would be easy. Im still working on it. Keeping it for March.
2. Pack a lunch for my husband. This one has to stay for March too. I dont think I did it at all.
3. Read aloud to my children everyday. I DID THIS!! We read Charlotte's Web everyday after lunch.
4. Assign one child a day to help me in the kitchen. This needs more work but I did it quiet a bit and found I enjoyed the one on one time.
Tummy Trouble Tuesday...
I wish my Beautiful Womanhood board friend was here to see the wonderful alliteration I just came up with. She just admitted to being an alliteration junkie. LOL
Anyways Im sorry I have been so slack this week. Monday night my baby started throwing up and my other kids showed some tummy distress on Tuesday and Wednesday. Not as bad as it has been in the past which I attribute to the grace of God showing me Kefir and yogurt!
Im just now finishing up some chores around here and hope to be back in blogging mode either later tonight or tomorrow.
I miss blogging. It helps to clear my head.
Be blessed!!
Anyways Im sorry I have been so slack this week. Monday night my baby started throwing up and my other kids showed some tummy distress on Tuesday and Wednesday. Not as bad as it has been in the past which I attribute to the grace of God showing me Kefir and yogurt!
Im just now finishing up some chores around here and hope to be back in blogging mode either later tonight or tomorrow.
I miss blogging. It helps to clear my head.
Be blessed!!
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Monday's Mission: Homeschooling and Laundry
Monday: Im catching up on homeschooling. We are about a week behind. What my sweet students did not know until we started this morning is Im putting a time limit on everything. Im tired of fighting with them to get work done so now when the timer goes off we are putting away the work and moving on to the next subject. At the end of our school day they will either have free time because their work was done or they will complete their work. I told them when I started them this morning they had 30 minutes to complete the task they are working on... they have 15 min left. Hubby did a lot of laundry this weekend. The girls put all the kids laundry away and I have to put ours away. Also, I have boxes of clothes in my kitchen I need to go through and either put away or give away. My darling Kelsie has a birthday Saturday and I just sat down to order her butterfly garden. We are going to put it outside of the girls bedroom window and she will have a few minutes every morning to go out and work in her little garden.
Well that was Monday's assignment. How did I do? The timing thing went great. We got so much more work done. Praise the Lord. I got most of the laundry put away, still one or two more stacks left. The butterfly seeds should be here tomorrow. We are taking Kelsie out for her birthday Friday night, but probably wont give her her present until Saturday when the other kids can be there with us. We like to take the birthday kid out to dinner and something fun. One or one with mommy and daddy.
Be Blessed!
Well that was Monday's assignment. How did I do? The timing thing went great. We got so much more work done. Praise the Lord. I got most of the laundry put away, still one or two more stacks left. The butterfly seeds should be here tomorrow. We are taking Kelsie out for her birthday Friday night, but probably wont give her her present until Saturday when the other kids can be there with us. We like to take the birthday kid out to dinner and something fun. One or one with mommy and daddy.
Be Blessed!
Monday, March 5, 2007
March 5 - March 9
I really enjoyed writing out everything I needed to get done a couple of weeks ago and reporting on them everyday. I am going to try to do it weekly. So here we go!
Monday: Im catching up on homeschooling. We are about a week behind. What my sweet students did not know until we started this morning is Im putting a time limit on everything. Im tired of fighting with them to get work done so now when the timer goes off we are putting away the work and moving on to the next subject. At the end of our school day they will either have free time because their work was done or they will complete their work. I told them when I started them this morning they had 30 minutes to complete the task they are working on... they have 15 min left.
Hubby did a lot of laundry this weekend. The girls put all the kids laundry away and I have to put ours away. Also, I have boxes of clothes in my kitchen I need to go through and either put away or give away. My darling Kelsie has a birthday Saturday and I just sat down to order her butterfly garden. We are going to put it outside of the girls bedroom window and she will have a few minutes every morning to go out and work in her little garden.
Tuesday: Mom is taking the girls to get their picture taken tomorrow. We did the boys last month and now we are doing the girls. Next month we will do the family. We also need to go across town to deliver a birthday present to my cousin's little girl since we missed her party this weekend. Im hoping to have time to bake four loaves of bread in all of this and mix up a jar of yogurt. I also need to work to declutter the rest of my kitchen. For some reason it has become the catch all room these last few weeks and that is not acceptable. LOL.
Wednesday: Im going back into my bedroom. I have some more decluttering to finish in there. I also would love to finish rearranging my great room. I need to move bookshelves across the room and declutter the toy box. Thats enough work to last me all day on top of homeschooling. LOL
Thursday: Im going to finish cleaning my bedroom and then move to the girls room. I need to weed through thier clothes again as the closet is getting too full again. We will be blessing some other little girl greatly in the next few weeks I imagine.
Friday: I have to fix up the boys room. I want to move Jonathan in there completly meaning clothes and all. Im hoping hubby will have some time this weekend to put together the twin bed in there so Adrian can move into the big bed. Right now he is in a toddler bed, but I told him when he was potty trained he could move to the big boy big. He is pretty much trained only having accidents at night. I finally gave in and put him in pullups at night for my saniy. LOL. On this day I will also clean out our dining room. We have a busy weekend planned but Im hoping we can finish laying the floor in the dining room and get up our storage shelf/cabinet thing which will house some extra serving dishes and my sewing machine and current projects. Im excited about this! Finally a home for the wandering sewing machine.
This weekend we will have a welcoming bbq for our new pastor and his wife on Saturday. We will then have a special guest at our church on Sunday morning and lunch afterwards with her. The special guest is a dear women who went to our old church with us and moved away about a year or two ago. She is an adoptive mom of two beautiful baby girls. Well I guess they are not so much babies anymore since the youngest is 3 now. She also has an older son from a first marriage in which she was widowed in and a son who is probably 10 now with her current husband. Her older son's father was from Puerto Rico, the younger son is blond and fair, the older daughter is Native American, and the younger daughter is a mixture of Cuacasion and African American. She calls her family the Village People. They are all beautiful children. And she and her husband are wonderful Christians. Im so excited she will be joining us Sunday morning as she encouraged us a lot through the adoption process.
I have a few more posts to put up today and throughout the week as Im finishing up stuff in the drafts folder.
Be Blessed!
Monday: Im catching up on homeschooling. We are about a week behind. What my sweet students did not know until we started this morning is Im putting a time limit on everything. Im tired of fighting with them to get work done so now when the timer goes off we are putting away the work and moving on to the next subject. At the end of our school day they will either have free time because their work was done or they will complete their work. I told them when I started them this morning they had 30 minutes to complete the task they are working on... they have 15 min left.
Hubby did a lot of laundry this weekend. The girls put all the kids laundry away and I have to put ours away. Also, I have boxes of clothes in my kitchen I need to go through and either put away or give away. My darling Kelsie has a birthday Saturday and I just sat down to order her butterfly garden. We are going to put it outside of the girls bedroom window and she will have a few minutes every morning to go out and work in her little garden.
Tuesday: Mom is taking the girls to get their picture taken tomorrow. We did the boys last month and now we are doing the girls. Next month we will do the family. We also need to go across town to deliver a birthday present to my cousin's little girl since we missed her party this weekend. Im hoping to have time to bake four loaves of bread in all of this and mix up a jar of yogurt. I also need to work to declutter the rest of my kitchen. For some reason it has become the catch all room these last few weeks and that is not acceptable. LOL.
Wednesday: Im going back into my bedroom. I have some more decluttering to finish in there. I also would love to finish rearranging my great room. I need to move bookshelves across the room and declutter the toy box. Thats enough work to last me all day on top of homeschooling. LOL
Thursday: Im going to finish cleaning my bedroom and then move to the girls room. I need to weed through thier clothes again as the closet is getting too full again. We will be blessing some other little girl greatly in the next few weeks I imagine.
Friday: I have to fix up the boys room. I want to move Jonathan in there completly meaning clothes and all. Im hoping hubby will have some time this weekend to put together the twin bed in there so Adrian can move into the big bed. Right now he is in a toddler bed, but I told him when he was potty trained he could move to the big boy big. He is pretty much trained only having accidents at night. I finally gave in and put him in pullups at night for my saniy. LOL. On this day I will also clean out our dining room. We have a busy weekend planned but Im hoping we can finish laying the floor in the dining room and get up our storage shelf/cabinet thing which will house some extra serving dishes and my sewing machine and current projects. Im excited about this! Finally a home for the wandering sewing machine.
This weekend we will have a welcoming bbq for our new pastor and his wife on Saturday. We will then have a special guest at our church on Sunday morning and lunch afterwards with her. The special guest is a dear women who went to our old church with us and moved away about a year or two ago. She is an adoptive mom of two beautiful baby girls. Well I guess they are not so much babies anymore since the youngest is 3 now. She also has an older son from a first marriage in which she was widowed in and a son who is probably 10 now with her current husband. Her older son's father was from Puerto Rico, the younger son is blond and fair, the older daughter is Native American, and the younger daughter is a mixture of Cuacasion and African American. She calls her family the Village People. They are all beautiful children. And she and her husband are wonderful Christians. Im so excited she will be joining us Sunday morning as she encouraged us a lot through the adoption process.
I have a few more posts to put up today and throughout the week as Im finishing up stuff in the drafts folder.
Be Blessed!
Thursday, March 1, 2007
The Best News EVER!!!
Ice Cream
I am dancing in the streets and singing praise to the Lord for this one. He knows what I need and he made it something good. LOL!
I am dancing in the streets and singing praise to the Lord for this one. He knows what I need and he made it something good. LOL!
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