Friday, November 29, 2013

Top Things I’m Thankful for




  •    I am thankful for my salvation. There is nothing like living in the peace that comes through Jesus Christ.
  •   The hubs. He’s hot and he’s mine.
  • My amazing kids. They are continually growing me as a mom and teacher, and doing ridiculous things that make us laugh!
  •      Fuzzy socks- rock in the winter time, when your house is made of title.
  •     Our house. We have a roof over our head with lots of land to grow things on.
  •   My dogs, because they love me unconditionally…even when I forget to feed them…
  •     My job! Getting a job the way I did, is completely God, and I am so thankful that I have a job where I can take my daughter with me and she can learn.
  •     My family. I have some many extended member that have made me the person I am today. I am truly thankful for them and their love and support though this transition time.
  •    I’m thankful for technology. In an age where it might be going too far, I’m still happy I have things like cell phones, cars, facebook, pinterest, blogs, netflixs, and many other devices-like toilets…
  •    I am thankful for pumpkin brownies. I’m not sure where I got the idea, but there were plenty of videos on youtube. So I decided to make them around 9 on Wednesday before Thanksgiving. The only problem was that C wanted to stay awake until I pulled them out of the over. She kept saying pumpkin brownies? Poor girl…I made her wait til the morning. 

Sunday, November 17, 2013

The Story of My Life



So it takes a million no’s, until you get one yes. Success is a process of struggle, hard work, and persistence.

What have I been up to lately? A whole bunch of random stuff- trying to sell jewelry when you’re not a sells person equals a lot of work and disappointment, but I’m hanging in there. C and I went to a dance center that is literally 5 minutes from my house and I put myself out there to teach a class. The owner was really sweet, but not looking to rent/hire anyone.

 On another front, I just did these turkey hand prints with my students. Love them! I found an even cuter turkey poem on pinterest, but I had already done these, so at least I have my next years project! In the "corn" is G's fingers. It was pretty much torture putting paint on his fingers...

 

I let C paint with her butterfly bracelets and she freaked! Every time she placed the painted butterfly on the paper she let out a gasp. It was really cute. 



C's teacher said that she had a premature grip on scissors, so of course I went into let’s fix this mode. I brought home kid friendly scissors and a Dollar store bin and let her cut paper. At first I gave her construction paper, but I was thinking I want to keep this for crafts, so I came up with an even better solution…junk mail! It’s going to get shredded anyways, why not let her practice her cutting skills? It was a proud mommy moment for me.




I hope everyone enjoys reading and I hope I do a better job of keeping you up with us ;)

Monday, November 4, 2013

Happy a couple days after Halloween!




Hey better late than never right?
In case you didn’t know Halloween is C’s favorite holiday. She loves to be scared and loves candy (What kid doesn’t?) Well the day started out with a pumpkin party at school. I had a monster theme going on for my party; I’ll post pictures on that later. At the end of the party time, C’s classroom and mine had a costume parade and we got candy from the office. It was a fun, new experience!

After school we went to the fire department where they had a horror house. C didn’t like the noodles and blood coming out of the manikin’s nose. Afterwards, we hit the streets and collected some candy. We ended our trip stopping at a local church for a trunk and treat. Oh, I forgot to mention, it rained the entire time we trick or treated. I actually think I would have preferred snow opposed to rain. Some of our candy was ruined because it got wet :( sad times, I know…

These pictures are actually from the weekend before. We hit up another local church’s trick or treat. It wasn’t raining, but it was sure cold!