I Don't Love My Kids

My mom told me; apprently my dad was appalled that my children did not have flannel sheets for their beds.



Really?

"She lives in Minnesota right? It's cold there, why hasn't she bought those children flannel sheets?"



My mom: "Apprently she's very self centered and doesn't love them enough."


My dad: "But she has flannel sheets for her bed? That's stupid, we're buying the children flannel sheets for Christmas."

Mom: "I already have all of their Christmas packages."

Dad: "I don't care.. she may not love them enough, but I certainly do."

Christmas

Christmas was fabulous.

There just arn't words to describe how blessed I am to have a family who understands the true meaning of Christmas and doesn't get blinded by all of the packages.

I mean we had a lot of packages.

But on top of it, first and foremost my children know it's Christ's birthday.

I'm so blesssed.

We celebrated with family on the Eve. Which was also a blessing as there has been a family feud for the past 6 months, that was sucessfully set aside for Christmas and everybody came together to celebrate.... EVERYBODY.....EVERYBODY....

Yup all 16 kids and 15 adults....

Wow we've got a big family.


God is Great. Life is good. Kids make me crazy.... LOL!

Projects

Had a huge fight with my husband today... not so much a fight as an intense discussion...

He says I do to many projects. It's frustrating. I like my projects.

He says I'm investing to much time in them.

I'm frustated.

Let me show you some projects of mine...










Then there are these:









Then my daughter's Christmas dress...





He says I do to much and I need to cut back... maybe I do... I enjoy it too much. So I probably won't.

Discipline

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.....Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. Hebrews 12: 11 & 14

I'm asking God to change my heart because I can't change my situation.... I'm sure it's a discipline of some form. Because it's painful...

I'm irritated that my husband isn't home. He hasn't been home since Thursday. He won't be home until *next* Tuesday or so.

That's right before Christmas

I'm irritated.


I'm trying so very hard not to take it out on my kids.

I'm suceeding for the most part.

I'm taking it out on the snow when I shovel it.
okay so its not quite this bad. but it could be. :D

I'm missing my husband.

If for nothing else, just to be able to walk into his arms for a hug.

I hate it when he goes but understand the need.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder?

*snort*

Absence makes for good "Welcome home Nookie"


hee hee hee

Yup.

Getting more healthy...

More of this...




A few more of these



A bit of this.... ew.




and hopefully I'll have a bit of this...




I'm not obsessive about having to lose weight.... maybe that's my problem.

I hate exercise... like Haaaaate it... which pisses my husband off to no end... so if nothing else I'm going to try and stop pissing off my husband...

The sad thing is I have a treamill in my basement... it's covered with stuff... like I'm sure over half of the nation deals with the same problem...



But I'm going to get up earlier and get a bit more fit...

Keep your fingers crossed for me.


*sigh*

...and all was right with the world.

So my bestie came home Friday night.

I can't even put into words what that means.

This was my world...



It was still mostly there, and the blessings were HUGE in it. How could I feel that lacking with my family around me... but she was gone for 10 weeks.

SO much happened... so much that I wanted my BFF here for. I needed her here for...



So many times I needed a shoulder to cry on, a shopping spree gone wild, a friend to just listen and not add the extra .02 I wasn't looking for. Someone to understand me without me speaking a word.

There just arn't enough words to help me explain what was missing.




......



We hung out last night for the firs time.

We decorated my Christmas tree, ate good food, and vegged on the couch watching White Christmas.

All is good in the world.

Black Friday

Black Friday was the coolest ever.

I know I'm a glutton for punishment.

Wanna know what I got that was the coolest?


hee hee


SHOES of course! LOL

Actually got a lot of stuff, but not going to post it for fear the recepiants of said deals will be browsing and see what I got them..


But I wanted to show you my shoes...


Ready?


Here they are...



Dude....


They got tread. :D

I was going to get these...



But my husband prefers something with a wider heel as he knows what a clutz I am... so I settled on the first and am completely happy...

I'm such a shoe freak. :D

My little piece of heaven

So YUM.

Dove has new chocolate out.


Half Dark Chocolate.


Half Peppermint Bark.



OMG ALL YUM!




you should get some.... and get me some while you're at it.

Mall of America and the Pioneer Woman

First of all let me just say.

Ree Drummond Rocks.

I went to see her at Mall of America on Saturday.

I waited in line for 5 hours to see her.

You're wondering who she is right?

www.thepioneerwoman.com

She is one of the coolest ladies I know and I swear we could be sisters. Or something. Not in a stalker sort of way.

She is a city girl, who fell in love, moved to the country and fell in love with it.

I'm a country girl who fell in love, moved to the city, and now my guy and I are trying to get moved back out to the country that we love.

She homeschools.

I homeschoool.

She cooks.

I cook.

There are a lot of other similarites but the most is that she has this wicked sweet cookbook out, of which I stood in line for 5 hours to get signed.



Everything in it, from the recipes to the anticdotes, I love. I connect with.

She rocks.

Here's a few shots from the day at MOA.




I would have liked to have had a few more seconds, that's right seconds, with her, but when over 500 people came to see her, I couldn't be greedy. I just hope she likes the stuff I gave her. Homeade Pumpkin Toffee Pecan cookies, a festive holiday apron that I made and a bag of my favorite coffee... see posts below. :D

Thanks Ree~ You Rock.

Pre-Thanksgiving

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.

Duh right?

Well today I'm crazy busy with other stuff besides the rat race of getting turkey stuffs ready. I have homeschool with the kids until noon, a Chiro appt at 1:30, then more homeschool stuffs starting at 3, when my nieces and newphew come over for craft time.

Their mom isn't big into crafts and well... I am. So we hang out, do crafts and visit. It's a good excuse.

I like good excuses for things.

Like when I purposly wear "owie" shoes so I can buy new ones.

Come on, who HASN'T done that?...

...

Let me rephrase... what woman, who is as much of a shoe horse as I am, hasnt'?

There we go... that makes sense.


So today we're working on Christmas presents.

Not sure exactly what yet, but it should be fun. I'm pretty sure with all the extra crafty crap I have laying around we'll find something useful to do with it.

Monday, Monday <--this is singing of course.

So the cake turned out.

And the kitchen is now 90% clean.

Today is another day however it is a very full day.







Alright, so these are my new favorite thing...






Today I will be drinking multiple of these.

And then I will be going to bed when the sun goes down... which these days is around 4.

But this morning, with my first sip of go go juice... my body sighs and all is good in the world.

Here's what I'm drinking.




It's like an orgasm in a decent sized to-go cup that you don't throw away... Life is good day... Life is good today.

Adios and Via Con Dios...