Spring Break!!!

Ohhh boy am I excited for this mini vacation, even though all I will be doing it playing catch up with school.
 Trenton and i are going to start reading Harry Potter!! I am planning tons of trips to the library, cleaning, napping and watching lots of movies... oh yeah, and working out because it is the last week of our competition before final weigh in, and I am shooting to lose another 8 lbs to hit the 30lbs lost mark. We will see.


Love this song! It makes me happy and a reminder of the summer to come.

I am starting my spring planting plans, and I hope this summer goes better than the last for flowers and plants.

Ahhh Moments

I re-uped our news paper subscription, and boy does it feel nice! I love reading the paper everyday!

Another Ahhhh moment..l Rex started graveyard shift yesterday, and it is not as bad as I thought it would be. We actually have more time together! Very nice.

Busy week ahead of us all. Scruffy is at the vet now, getting neutered, it was sad leaving him this morning. tomorrow is mutual, which means lots of preparing for New Beginnings. I have some homework to do, a math test to take, math class on Saturday, Trenton has basketball Saturday as well, church on Sunday, new Beginnings on Sunday and Super Bowl.. GO PACKERS! Busy busy busy!

Taxes are done ( I love doing our own taxes!) cars are serviced, bills are paid and besides our house, we are DEBT FREE! What an awesome feeling!


5 grateful things
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Wishing Away Time

There are so many days that I try and treasure. I try to hold on the the great moments, and remember the details of these days. There are so many days that I regrettably wish away the days though too. I forgot how hard 2 year olds are. - And 5 year olds- and 7 year olds. Trying to get anything done lately is difficult. Benji is getting in molars, not sleeping much, and loving to share trying to share. It it so difficult. It is hard some days to enjoy the younger days of the boys, but I try and think of at least 3 great moments at night that we had and move on. So, I will try to not wish away the time I have with them and enjoy what is left of the days of hugs, kisses, sticky door knobs, crayon marked doors, spills, giggles and screaming matches. Life is too short to wish for older children.

5 grateful things
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Pups For Sale, School, Life and Wells Fargo

 Loralie and Luke

 Loralie

Luke 

Yes, I have a problem and an addiction and I am coping with that just fine . So the pups are almost 6 weeks old and ready for selling! I love them to pieces, but I do not need another thing to take care of at this point. 

Aside from the pups, school started this week. It is not going as smoothly as last semester, I am having communication issues with one of my professors. Sadly it is an education class, and she is the only one who teaches it and Oh yeah! She is my adviser. Yippy. I am sure it will all work out but I am totally out of my comfort zone. My first day of math is tomorrow, I am not looking forward to going to class every Saturday but I am sure that will work out too.

Life has been nuts around here. Rex is moving to graveyard shift soon, Trenton is in basketball, Joe is starting basketball soon, Rex just got a calling and it is not a tiny one by any means, and our New Beginnings for Young Womens is right around the corner and we are no where near ready! Ughh, busy busy busy. 

I am on strike from Wells Fargo as of today. Come Monday.. goodbye! We are going back to US bank. Wells Fargo has jipped us way too many times and I am done !

For a Friday- and a day that Trenton did not have school, it was a stressful crazy and LONG day. I am ready for tomorrow.

5 grateful things

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Self

Being a mother, wife, friend, student, teacher, cook, landscaper, decorator and more, sometimes you need to remember yourself. Where you came from, how you got here, and what made you who you are today. I have been reflecting a lot the last 2 days as I have been preparing my Young Women's lesson for Sunday. I love how everything in the scriptures connects. If you follow and abide by one thing, you will do so with others and make continuous good choices. Same thing in reverse. I cannot wait to see what my girls have to say and what new insight they can give me.

1 John 4:16-19, "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us."

Less is More

This was shared with us this morning. It really puts some things into perspective. Especially right now for our family since we trying to figure out a new way of living and making it by.

Even the rich are catching on--it's not cool to consume--at least to make consumption such a central concern.

According to the N.Y. Times (3/10) Sacha Taylor, a regular on the New York charity gala circuit, is wearing a 10-year-old dress to the latest society party. Ethel Knox, married to a pediatrician, is cleaning out her closet and the "stuff" in her storage unit and giving it all away. "I just feel so decadent with all the stuff I've got," she explained.

Maybe all of us who have more than we need--and that includes me--are reassessing our spending habits and asking ourselves why we are living with more appliances, clothing, and even books than we actually use. Why do we act like squirrels, packing it away for a time when "I might need it," when 99 times out of 100, we won't? Why do we clutter our living space with material goods that also end up cluttering our minds and hearts? Living simply is not just a prudent financial move--it is a spiritual necessity.

Gandhi started his career in South Africa as a lawyer. Early pictures show him as a young dandy. But as he became committed to seeking justice for his colonized people, he traded in his fancy lawyer's clothes for a loin cloth. There is a lesson here. No, I'm not suggesting that we should all mimic Gandhi or stand in the village square like St. Francis and strip off every single thread of clothing. I am suggesting that many of us are beginning to recognize our part in the mindless consumption of the United States and are beginning to understand that our spirits will sustain this way of living no more easily than will our earth.

So what do we do, as individuals? We start where we are. We wear the 10-year old dress to the charity ball--and perhaps at some point later, we question the purpose of charity balls. We clean out our closets and give the stuff away--and then stop filling up the closet with new stuff. We get rid of the third, or even the second and the third, car--and see what it's like to meet the amazing variety of people who ride the bus and the streetcar each day.

Spiritually speaking, we're on the right track. We're all discovering that less is really more.

Marilyn Sewell

Who Knew!?

I keep forgetting that we are a family of 5 now. The fact that one extra person could create so much extra laundry is still baffling me. I am doing at least one load of laundry a day now. I feel like I cannot keep up at times and it drives me nuts when the house gets out of order. Rex keeps telling me to take a step back and enjoy what is right in front of me and not to focus on the things that can be handled at a later time. It is hard to do but I am trying.

In another note, I am doing some deep searching within my self and research wise into what I want to be when I "grow up" As I stated in an earlier post ( being very vague and mysterious) I am looking into things and thinking a lot. Well, I am considering going into the medical field, into nursing. I never really considered the idea before until my labor nurse called to check up on me and told me that I would make a great nurse and should think about the idea of becoming one. There is such a demand in the field and a wide variety of choices of what kind of nurse I could be. I am enjoying the research and the thought of going back to school and graduating with a degree that carried some purpose.

Anywho, that is all for now. I must return to the whirl wind I call life!