It is a shame...

 

 

I don't usually share polotical views much, but this picture really moved me.  It is a shame that a God fearing man is not in charge of our country.  Can you imagine what he could have accomplished if he was President?  It speaks volumns that he is saying a prayer before exiting a plane to greet people.  How many prayers would he have said every day if he was President?  If he is praying over littler things, I imagine that the carpet at the White House by his bed would have been worn out had he become the President.  I feel for my children and grandchildren.  I woke up this morning to a failing stock market, Obama rasing income taxes, and gas prices that went up.  Yep, that is awesome.

Organization

I have been obsessed with organization ideas. Even more so lately. I love these ideas that I saw on a few blogs. I want to make them my own and implement them into my house. I love this cupboard idea and I want to put the chalkboard on the back of my pantry door so that I can put a weekly menu on it or a to do list.

I have a ton of these grocery reusable bags and I love how this lady stored hers. Definitely need to do this one!

I really need this one for my belts and Jason's. What a great idea. I have mine on a hanger and I like this clean look better.

How awesome would this be in the garage? I need to find someone to build me this.

Just a few ideas I need to remember. Hopefully I can make some of them possible in my life long endeavor to make my home more beautiful and functional.

Awesome Article

So, I was watching a show called "Studio 5" and they were talking about an article a mom wrote on her website. www.powerofmoms.com "Your children want YOU!"
I really really enjoyed it. She has voiced the many concerns that I live with almost everyday of my life lately. I haven't felt like the greatest "supermom" and most days I am just trying to get through the day. I don't have a pinterest account, or a facebook account, but I do look at blogs. A LOT. Funny thing is that just 2 days ago, without even reading this article yet, I went through my blog list and deleted quite a few blogs. I didn't personally know the people, just had found them through someone else, and liked the way they wrote and to see what creative things they were doing with their house. I realized that I was spending countless hours reading about peoples lives that I didn't even know. My new goal is to look at the few I have left, once or twice a week. I may have gotten a few great ideas on decorating, but it isn't worth my time. But, because of these blogs, including a burned lady in provo (most of you may know her blog), her really funny sister's blog, and other various blogs, I have been feeling less of a great mom day after day. They all seem so creative and fun. I wasn't feeling that my life was as "charmed" and fun as theirs. Also I felt that I wasn't witty or interesting enough to put down words on a blog and therefore slacked on mine. (which is dumb because it was for my kids anyway to record their history. Not to impress people to read it over and over again. :)
I am making a new New Year's Goal. Don't compare myself to others. This will NOT be an easy goal, but I hope that it will change my mindset. I am me and that's all I can be. I will do my best to be a great mom to my kids. Not for my friends, family, neighbors, or my blog.

Happy 2nd Birthday Troy!

(Dallas loves to put him in silly outfits and he thinks he is really funny)

*Weight 26 lbs

*Height inches

*Just starting saying cheese and a big smile when taking pictures, but only once for you
*He is starting to wrestle his big brother
*He has a great imagination with his animals

*MUST have 2 animals in his hands at ALL times!

*Mischeivous. I have found him behind my closet door and the bathroom door eating toothpaste, a flower bulb and doing number 2.

*Great at hide and seek. He will be quiet for minutes while you look for him. Even when mom isn't playing hide and seek

Favorites:
*Favorite Movie - Ice Age (all of them) and anything else with animals
*Favorite Toys - plastic animals, but prefers the safari ones
*Favorite Food - pasta and pears

*Favorite word - Moy (more), and Atis (a version of Dallas & Austin)

*Favorite Sound - loves to growl all of the time

Food Nanny!!

Have any of you seen the "Food Nanny" show on the BYU channel? I have seen it a few times and found it was really great! (I quit watching Rachel Ray cuz her food is awesome, but just not for little kids or myself) The food nanny provides help for "real" families and food that your kids will actually eat. She promotes having mealtime together and all of the benefits that it can provide. You can create your menu plan on her site and even print recipes that she has on there. You can choose to pick recipes based on money or time. She suggests having themed nights. Like Mondays are "Comfort food" nights, Fridays are "pizza nights", Wednesdays are "Italian", etc. Then you input the themes, recipes and print your two week plan. This is supposed to help your family with knowing what to expect every night for dinner and to shop for your two weeks worth of food so you aren't shopping so much. (ie. more family time) I wasn't totally committed to the idea, but I would like to do it and be more organized with dinner. Who doesn't need more time right? Anything to reduce stress and conflict (deciding what's for dinner at 4 or 5 pm that night) in my life.

Her site is www.byutv.org/foodnanny. If you register on her site (it's free!) we can exchange recipes and add to our menus. I would love to recipe swap with all of you, so go and register and leave feedback letting me know you did. Happy cooking!

Homecoming!

My sister is coming home TODAY! from her LDS mission in Edmonton Canada! Her flight comes in at 1:10pm. We are so excited to go and see her. Those 18 months went by really fast. See you in a few hours sis.

Major Catch Up Time!

Okay, so it's been a while...a long while since I have posted anything. Hopefully you haven't given up on me yet. I will be posting a lot because this blog thing was meant to be a journal for me. I need to back date some posts to catch up and record our lives the last couple of months. My goal for the new year is to post something weekly. Now that my life isn't so crazy with the Christmas selling season with my book business, planning the ward Christmas choral program (I am the ward choir director) and Christmas with the kids, I can hopefully focus. We are finishing our basement right now and I can't wait until it is done. Having to be here for people to come and go all day, the noise that prevents Troy from taking naps and giving me headaches, and the constant stress of making decisions is starting to annoy me. I am grateful that we have the means to finish it, but tired of the process already. They just finished drywalling so things should move quickly now. I can't wait to put "stuff" down there and have an offical office. I am so excited to have a scrapbook area. Maybe I can finally get caught up with that as well. Yeah! And a toy room for the kids! Heaven!! No more stepping on toys or pushing them to the side to get into their rooms at night. We will be needing to have a huge garage sale this spring as I clear out all of the junk that was in our basement. How does one collect so much?