Sunday, January 10, 2010
Sooo. I made a silly video about my sis and me making the scratchy cake. I'm just finding out that I have a movie maker program that came with Windows (I know! I'm soooo behind!) so I have been playing with it. And since I don't have much material to work with (right now, anyway!) I used the stuff we shot while making the cake. It's verrrrry captivating. It will definitely change your life! :o)
Now that you wasted 1 minute and 52 seconds of your life, ready to waste some more? Yes?? Well, here ya go, then:
I am still trying to recooperate from the holidays. I know, I know. It's been 2 weeks (ish). I start back up with schooling M this week. Our school week runs Wednesday - Saturday. He's only in kindergarten so we take a much more laid back approach to school, but we do try to sit down and formerly spend about 2 hours a day with books, and words, and numbers, and so on. But everything is "school" for us. Shopping. Driving. TV, even. Church. Everything is a learning adventure. I'm trying to tune into him more to pick up on prime opportunities to teach.
I come from a family who really didn't pay too much attention to children. Not that I ever felt unloved, it was just they were always seemed too busy to teach or explore with me. They never were too interested in the things that a 5 year old found very interesting. Or a 10 year old. Or a 15 year old for that matter. They were always so caught up in their worries of making a great life for us that they didn't slow down and see the little things that mattered to us. I want to slow down for my children. I already see the habits my parents had forming in me. I want to shoo that away as soon as possible. When M tells me his imaginary scenerio of how the army man is jumping from the plane to save the little man in the water, which is really just a weird grouping of legos to me, I want to be TRULY interested and actually play along. Not just wave him off with a "uh-huh" and not even a glance in his direction (which I tend to do, shamefully). My goal this week (man, my list keeps piling up) is to start making an effort to slow down for them and with them.
Goals To Start This Week:
*Slow down with my babies
*Spend time daily with the Lord with my attention completely on Him, deep in His word (what that really means, I have no idea...I just know it needs to be done)
*Stop using my kids as gophers - I bet I'd loose 10 pounds in a week just by getting up and shutting the front door myself. (Eek! I can't believe I just admitted that..)
*NO EATING OUT (...pray for me...)
*Plan more veggie-full meals - I like them only when cooked SOUTHERN style! I'm going to change that! (...pray for me...)
*Plan meals period. Oh, boy.
OH! I also happened upon a video that was saying that milk is poisonous! To watch the video click here.
WHAT?! Every time I go looking for healthy things to do, eat, or be (???) I find out something else is bad for us. I texted Randi today telling her this and she said she doesn't stress milk. That her kids get their dairy from yogurt and cheese. They drink organic juice halved with water. BUT -- juice isn't good either. It has too many sugars. So. Water, then? BUT -- water (unless filtered, but even then..) has tons of contaminents! Oh, man. What's a mama to do??!??
So. I'm just going to continue to try and feed my family as healthy as I can, and let the Lord's grace fill in the gaps. They're His children after all. He loves them more than I ever could (which is really hard to imagine, huh?) I just pray I don't go crazy with my need to research everything. I get on the computer looking for answers only to come away with more questions...
God's peace. His peace. His peace. His peace.
Well. I'm headed to bed now. Tomorrow Nana getst the kids for the day (and night). She's such a blessing. Now, if I could just remember that when she does something that annoys the heck out of me!
Saturday, January 09, 2010
So, today I celebrated my 6th year of being a mama. It was sweet. The day started by my doing my traditional French Toast Breakfast, but this time I used cinnamon raisin bread to make it. I always add cinnamon and vanilla to my "batter". Here's what it looked like.
It was oh, so yummy! Then I had to run to actually get his present, which was his very first bike! N got one on his 3rd birthday two weeks ago in red. M's was blue. Their favorite colors, of course. With....matching helmets!!
While I was out I needed to get stuff to make him a cake. I was just going to get the regular box mix, but since I was with Betty Crocker (aka my sister) she inspired me to get stuff to make a cake from scratch. Mind you, I am NOT the greatest at make a box cake, let alone a cake from scratch. I wasn't worried! My sis had a super mixer she had gotten for Christmas and we were dying to use it!
Me with the milk! 
Sis with the bowl!So, I (with the help of my sister, Betty Crocker) made a cake. From scratch. It was AMAZING! They actually taste different when you make them from scratch. I never knew.
So, yeah...the frosting (also made from scratch) was quite runny. My sis completely did that one all on her own. We ended up with a frosting pool around the entire cake. It was yummy though. Can anyone tell me what we did wrong???
He was super excited about his bike, and matching helmet! "IT'S BLUE! That's my favorite!", like I didn't know! (I'm still debating whether or not to put pictures of my children on here...so right now, no picture of him seeing his bike.)
Okay. At this moment, N and C are in bed. Crying, but in bed. M is on the couch watching Ratttaatooouuuiieee (yeah, I couldn't spell it so I went all out). C is 19 months old for those who are wondering. She is crying...and has been for a good 15 minutes. Most times she doesn't cry. She cries for a few minutes then kinda whines then cries again, if she does at all, . That's what she's been doing but it's lasted longer than normal. Should I go in there? If I do it will just upset her when I leave her in there after comforting her and the process will start over. I guess I just answered my question. I've never had babies who have a hard time going to sleep in their own rooms (with the door shut, but I only started doing the door shut thing with C).
Okay. Now she's asleep. I'm gonna go play with my video making software thingy. I hope everyone's doing great! Church tomorrow! See ya there! :o)
Friday, January 08, 2010
I love Zumba! Like seriously love it. I am not all that good at it (besides the booty shaking thing, because mine has a mind of it's own!) but it is such a stress reliever for me. This is my second day back at it since I had to quit going over a month ago since we were down to one car. I feel sooo good! Luckily today was the low-impact class which was good because the other day I thought I was literally going to keel over! There were a lot of older folks in there and that made me smile BIG! I LOVE seeing those older women shake what their mama gave 'em! It inspires me, truly.
Andddd. Chicken tortilla (minus the tortillas because I didn't have any) salad, is oh, so yummy! Mmmm. That's what I made myself for lunch. I'm a fast food, eat-out addict! There! I admitted it! It's awful! I hate it. My kids eat sooo much healthier than I ever have. I'm seeking to change that. Me eating healthier, not them joining my addiction, that is.
Today we are taking M to the movies to see Avatar for his birthday which is tomorrow. We are also taking the whole family to dinner which is our "tradition". He chose, Chinese. He is a child after my own heart! I love having two boys. The girls great, too :o) But brothers are special. Maybe one day we'll add a third one on to that chain. I hope!
Well, I'm going to finish my lunch and put the kids (who are now done with their lunch and running screaming down the hall!) to bed. I am working on making a youtube channel full of interesting (aka boring) videos! Blogging, vlogging, man what's next! Flogging?!
Thursday, January 07, 2010
I can't believe I'm actually starting this. The actual blog, that is. I know I'm a little late in joining the bandwagon because it seems EVERYONE blogs now, but I just didn't see the point in it. Until, I started reading other people's blogs and realized that they helped me. Even if with little things. Mom things, of course.
I don't actually expect anyone to happen upon this, but if you are reading this then, I hope it will inspire (in some way) and intrigue you! I'm tired of comparing my little life to others who don't have children and determining that mine is "boring". I'm tired of bringing my "issues" to the Christain folk at church and have them tell me the same thing I've heard every...day...of...my life! I've been at the same church for 18 years! I know what you're going to say before I even tell you the "problem" (I say these "words" carefully because I KNOW my "issues" and "problems" are so minor compared to so many).
There's so much I have left to find. So many secrets of Him that I just plain can't understand. I know the journey will be a long one, finding Him, and I know I will never truly "get it" all until I've left this world. That's fine with me...I think.
There's so much I have left to find. So many secrets of Him that I just plain can't understand. I know the journey will be a long one, finding Him, and I know I will never truly "get it" all until I've left this world. That's fine with me...I think.
Being a control freak, it aggravates the CRAP out of me that I can't figure Him out. Just when I think I get it, He does something and I feel like I've started all over. He probably laughs like crazy when that stuff happens. I know He knows the beggining and the end (along with the bumpy middle) of my story, so I shouldn't worry, shouldn't constantly try to figure out exactly what's going on but just trust Him. For me, it's not been that easy...
I believe God has big changes in store for my family other this next year. I believe He has big chances in my walk and relationship with Him, alone. I hope those changes overflow into my responsiblities to my children; to show them who He is. I want to seek after Him harder than ever this year. I'll be seeking Him, teaching my children to seek Him, learning to CALM DOWN and let Him guide me, all the while I'll be doing laundry and teaching ABC's! :o)
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