Random happenings of the day(so far)

Today was receipt day at chick-fil-a! Last Thursday if you bought lunch and kept your receipt you could bring it back today and receive the same lunch for free!!! We definitely partook in this event :-) I don't really like driving to the opposite side of town for one thing but free lunch something I was willing to do it for. Where we park at the mall, Charlie always wants to ride the "tractors" aka riding lawn mowers, see picture. So I promised we would ride them after lunch! Helped him obey and get him closer to the car.

I will be getting up from here soon to finish the packing process. Can we just be gone already?

Miss Emilia is changing so rapidly. She's getting so big! Her latest obsession is sitting and looking around at everything. She can't sit up on her own yet, obvi, she's only almost 3 months. But that girl better be looking out and sitting up if she's awake or she won't be too happy. Pictures below show this and also her getting through playtime on the floor with daddy.

Ok, so something struck cord in me today. As Charles was playing with his trains and duplos he was talking with his cow, sheep, pig, you get my drift. He kept saying, "listen and obey, pig. Need spank?" :-( talk about wake up call. Is that how he sees me? Are these the only things he's hearing me say? But he is 2 and needs to learn to listen and obey. I don't want him thinking this of me. This too shall pass? I'm hoping so. I just keep offering it up to God and wait for his guidance. How many times does God tell ME to listen and obey and I don't even listen as well as my 2year old?

Oh one more thing, Charlie built his first train track today, all by himself! I'm so proud of you buddy!!!

Anyway, on that note, I am off to finish packing and cleaning.

pre-vacation madness.

anyone who is a type B personality can understand what I am going though right now.

We leave for vacation Wednesday morning and I am all but freaking out. Not only are we traveling halfway across the country, but we are also flying...with two kids. A 2-year-old and a 2 1/2 month old. I have no expectations of how this will go. But the good thing is that we won't have to see all of those people on the airplane ever again, if things go horribly bad. Don't get me wrong, I am so incredibly excited for this, but just a little apprehensive. So yeah, instead of making all of my millions of lists, checking them twice, cleaning my house, packing (everything a type A would have already gotten done) I am sitting here blogging about it! HA. Mostly I just need to get all of this out. I'm at least doing part prep with laundry and cleaning :)

don't you just LOVE it when your 2-year-old naps for all of barely an hour :( boohoo. he just woke up and this will be the extent of my blogging today!

peace.

Today

I promise I made a post yesterday but it didn't actually work from my phone at the time.
Anyway, we have a fun relaxing weekend planned and I'm so happy husband has weekends for a few weeks. Shift work is different :-/
Off to get ready for the day.
Ah, baby sleepy smiles :-) the best. And my son is quite the ham.

Maiden voyage on mobile phone

Well, here we go. If this works my posting to not posting ratio will greatly increase in favor of posting. For funs sake, let's post a picture!

leftovers again?

dinner tonight.

Do I "bless" my husband again by remaking leftovers HA or do I start from scratch.

I have to ask myself..."what would stephen eat?" I usually try to ask him what he wants for dinner the millisecond he wakes up...that never goes over well. So now I'm faced with the decision on what to make. In a WORLD of Pinterest, food blogs, Food Network, where do you even begin? I usually end up making what I'm craving...it's a good thing I'm not pregnant again!

So, for tonight, I think we will go with some sort of pasta.  That's all the further I am going with that.

what i've done...

I think that if I just try to challenge myself to blog at least something everyday then it will soon become a habit.  I am, unfortunately, not in this habit right now so I’m needing to get with it. Even if I blog about what I did today, my favorite moment of the day or what I ate, it will be an accomplishment to me.

So, today I will talk about what I’ve done since my first post. I knew I needed to take the organizing thing in baby steps so I started with a few of my kitchen drawers. Little things like spatulas, measuring cups and spoons, bottle openers, things of this nature. I got rid of a ton of little odds and ends that I haven’t used in the 4 years I’ve been married. Speaking of that, WOW! 4 years already. Before we know it we will be going on 10, then 25 then 50 eek!Ok, back to organizing. I have been wanting to tackle my front closet, you know, coats, jackets, games, vacuum cleaner…But sometimes with a 2 year old and a 2 month old, that gets put on the back burner. I will try and get that done this week! I wish I had pictures to show of my kitchen drawers but they’re on my phone and I’m being too lazy to put them on the chomp(computer) plus I just did Jillian’s 30 day shred and I’m tired. Bah!

Until next time bloggies.

Why am I doing this?!

Let’s just start by saying I don’t really want to start a blog. I am not they type of person to keep on top of doing something like this everyday. However, I feel like I AM the type of person who needs the accountability to keep up with my goal.

My Goal: GET MY HOME ORGANIZED.

Let me explain…I don’t feel like I am necessarily a messy person. I can keep a clean home like everyone else. I just feel like I could do a better job of having a certain space for everything. No more, “Honey, where are my papers from training academy?” or “Mom, I can’t find where the toothpaste is!” Okay, that last example was a little extreme, but I think you catch my drift.

The other thing with me is, what you see is what you get. I’m not grammatically correct, I don’t keep on top of things very well, I can procrastinate, so on and so forth. So please, don’t judge me To say I have a type B personality would be putting it nicely. Oh, also, I probably won’t be one of those awesome bloggy-blogger women who will post amazing pictures, awesome organizing ideas and witty posts. I will most definitely share other awesome organizing ideas I find from other people and will talk an awful lot about food. amen.

I owe it to my family to get our home in a functional working order. 

So there it is.

I’m about to share with the world the ups and downs of my roller-coaster ride to organization.