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!
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