Hi friends - I just felt like "talking"... but I am really not sure about what! Chores make me do that - search for something, anything to do instead. Today I found a strategically placed magazine article (placed by my loving husband) entitled "Cluttered rooms cause cluttered minds". Hmmmm, I am pretty sure that is a hint... a huge one!
I know we have stuff. I know that I have stuff. I guess I just put sentiment into everything and so have trouble letting go of stuff. I also can't seem to carve out the chunk of time needed to clear a whole load of stuff... maybe I need to tackle it corner by corner in 15mins. time blocks? Sounds doable but it will take so long that way. I sound whiny! Better do something than not do anything though.
Ok, ok - I got the hint... the little minds and spirits in our home need space to grow. I better get off the computer and clean up for 15 mins before bed! Good night :)
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Hi Hi Hi - Happy 'back to school' everyone :)
After buying all the school clothes and supplies (we actually budgeted this year...hard lesson learned) the kids still come home needing more stuff! We will be searching our boxes of craft/desk supplies that have accumulated over the years first before I even think about going back into a store again... at least for a few more days. We have so many pencil crayons and rulers around here - I just have to find them!!!!
I got teary-eyed saying goodbyes and goodlucks to my crew today - E in gr.9, J in gr.7, R in gr.4 and even M in kindergarten. I really miss them when they are at school. Well, not the fighting part but the fun company part. Don't worry, I have a life - my life is being a mom and I love it! My house keeping skills need some work but I sure find playing with our kids easy. I enjoy this chapter of my life. It is a long chapter but a good one!
Little Gemma and a few extra dayhome kids keep me going all morning still. So I am not exactly sitting on the couch eating bonbons! I love being with kids and I am so glad that they seem to like being with me. I love to watch children learn through play - it is magical. And I think that the sweetest sound is a child's laugh; a real laugh- right from the core of their little beings. It is a sound of pure joy!
My husband thinks I am crazy. Maybe others do too... ah well, maybe they are jealous that I play all day! :) bye ~K
After buying all the school clothes and supplies (we actually budgeted this year...hard lesson learned) the kids still come home needing more stuff! We will be searching our boxes of craft/desk supplies that have accumulated over the years first before I even think about going back into a store again... at least for a few more days. We have so many pencil crayons and rulers around here - I just have to find them!!!!
I got teary-eyed saying goodbyes and goodlucks to my crew today - E in gr.9, J in gr.7, R in gr.4 and even M in kindergarten. I really miss them when they are at school. Well, not the fighting part but the fun company part. Don't worry, I have a life - my life is being a mom and I love it! My house keeping skills need some work but I sure find playing with our kids easy. I enjoy this chapter of my life. It is a long chapter but a good one!
Little Gemma and a few extra dayhome kids keep me going all morning still. So I am not exactly sitting on the couch eating bonbons! I love being with kids and I am so glad that they seem to like being with me. I love to watch children learn through play - it is magical. And I think that the sweetest sound is a child's laugh; a real laugh- right from the core of their little beings. It is a sound of pure joy!
My husband thinks I am crazy. Maybe others do too... ah well, maybe they are jealous that I play all day! :) bye ~K
Saturday, August 21, 2010
I am up at 4 in the morning... I'm not nursing a fussy infant, I didn't have a nightmare, I don't have any sickness to complain about. I am just up. The house is quiet - everyone else is far off in dreamland. I will be needing a nap around 10 am to keep up with them!
Maybe I am the proverbial "early worm" or is it "early bird"?! Oh yeah - the early bird gets the worm... poor worm. He should have kept sleeping!
I had such a great time with my visiting teaching buddies yesterday. I realize I need more girl friends... but I don't have time. I had such a fun time chatting and hanging out with these amazing women that maybe don't realize how amazing they are. They are doing their best with the "loads/burdens/challenges" they are carrying. Sometimes our burdens are huge and impossible to lift, let alone carry, by ourselves - thank goodness for the blessing of family & friends that lend a hand.
Sometimes our loads seem trivial... well, maybe to others - but some of those little personal challenges can be pretty heavy too. Heavy on the heart. Good to just talk it out, whether a solution is found or not. My ears are always open. :)
I realized once again how important the visiting teaching program is. Not just to the "visited" but to the "visitor". I am totally selfish about getting my visits done - it is all for me. Well, maybe not all.... but I do enjoy getting to know church friends, who I can then truly call friends.
Sunday is so crazy for me - just getting to church is a miracle sometimes! Never mind actually talking one-on-one with anyone. Even a quick hi is too rushed... I am trying to get 5 kids to sit (way at the back to hide!) for a block of time and then get them to help eachother to their classes because I have a roomful of Nursery kids all waiting for the toy closet to open! (How do you parents get your little ones there so fast?!!!- oh I know, you all need a break from trying to get them to sit for that same block of time!) I promise to never take a Nursery Leader for granted ever again!!!! :}
Anyway, back to visiting teaching... I am thankful for this program that "forces" us to check on one another. We get so busy with our little worlds that we forget to make time for the good, real, and spiritual things of our existance here on this world... family time, friend time, "God time". I know that I need to slow down, but when the world doesn't let me... I will keep and cherish my visiting teaching appointments and try not to stay too long... try! :)
Maybe I am the proverbial "early worm" or is it "early bird"?! Oh yeah - the early bird gets the worm... poor worm. He should have kept sleeping!
I had such a great time with my visiting teaching buddies yesterday. I realize I need more girl friends... but I don't have time. I had such a fun time chatting and hanging out with these amazing women that maybe don't realize how amazing they are. They are doing their best with the "loads/burdens/challenges" they are carrying. Sometimes our burdens are huge and impossible to lift, let alone carry, by ourselves - thank goodness for the blessing of family & friends that lend a hand.
Sometimes our loads seem trivial... well, maybe to others - but some of those little personal challenges can be pretty heavy too. Heavy on the heart. Good to just talk it out, whether a solution is found or not. My ears are always open. :)
I realized once again how important the visiting teaching program is. Not just to the "visited" but to the "visitor". I am totally selfish about getting my visits done - it is all for me. Well, maybe not all.... but I do enjoy getting to know church friends, who I can then truly call friends.
Sunday is so crazy for me - just getting to church is a miracle sometimes! Never mind actually talking one-on-one with anyone. Even a quick hi is too rushed... I am trying to get 5 kids to sit (way at the back to hide!) for a block of time and then get them to help eachother to their classes because I have a roomful of Nursery kids all waiting for the toy closet to open! (How do you parents get your little ones there so fast?!!!- oh I know, you all need a break from trying to get them to sit for that same block of time!) I promise to never take a Nursery Leader for granted ever again!!!! :}
Anyway, back to visiting teaching... I am thankful for this program that "forces" us to check on one another. We get so busy with our little worlds that we forget to make time for the good, real, and spiritual things of our existance here on this world... family time, friend time, "God time". I know that I need to slow down, but when the world doesn't let me... I will keep and cherish my visiting teaching appointments and try not to stay too long... try! :)
Friday, July 30, 2010
Hi - I am up late worrying about the value of marriage. My brother announced today to the family that he is getting a divorce. I am sad. That makes me the only one, out of 3 kids, to still be married. I know that marriage is a challenge. I know that it takes a lot of work. I also know that people change and feelings change and sometimes everything changes. Sometimes divorce is the only answer left...
But I feel so blessed to have married my best friend. I know we get on each other's nerves at times, those idiosyncresies..(no idea how to spell that one!). But we still love each other. Well, maybe the better word is actually like each other. We like being together even in a crowded, noisy, child-in-every-corner home (with 5 kids + a dayhome it can get crazy!). Somehow we hang on.
Maybe that is the secret. Hanging on to eachother. Hanging on to the goodness we know is in the other. Hanging on to the reason we fell in love in the first place... we liked being together!
I need to remember that as I juggle my life's bouncy balls of "things to do/should have already done", that I need to keep doing the basics for my marriage. A real kiss when we come home from work, a sincere thanks/compliment/smile across a loud dinner table, a hug to reconnect as a couple and not just as roomates, time together - NO KIDS ALLOWED.
The basics keep the foundation from cracking from life's pressures. Usually. I'll keep using them for eternity... which is how long I plan to be married for. Don't tell Chris though.... he might have second thoughts!! :} Some days, eternity seems a very long time! :) bye for now~
But I feel so blessed to have married my best friend. I know we get on each other's nerves at times, those idiosyncresies..(no idea how to spell that one!). But we still love each other. Well, maybe the better word is actually like each other. We like being together even in a crowded, noisy, child-in-every-corner home (with 5 kids + a dayhome it can get crazy!). Somehow we hang on.
Maybe that is the secret. Hanging on to eachother. Hanging on to the goodness we know is in the other. Hanging on to the reason we fell in love in the first place... we liked being together!
I need to remember that as I juggle my life's bouncy balls of "things to do/should have already done", that I need to keep doing the basics for my marriage. A real kiss when we come home from work, a sincere thanks/compliment/smile across a loud dinner table, a hug to reconnect as a couple and not just as roomates, time together - NO KIDS ALLOWED.
The basics keep the foundation from cracking from life's pressures. Usually. I'll keep using them for eternity... which is how long I plan to be married for. Don't tell Chris though.... he might have second thoughts!! :} Some days, eternity seems a very long time! :) bye for now~
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Just when I thought that my plate was overflowing... something new hops on and I am juggling another ball! Or spinning another plate... or madly searching for the duct tape to hold my plate together!!! Well ok - you might be able to figure out what I am trying to say if I could describe it better but apparently my mind is so overfilled that words are not coming easily. Except to babble!
When life gets too full of "blessings" I try to focus on the basics. I am breathing. I am a child of God. I am appreciating the tropical breeze that the fan beside me is creating. I can do anything for short periods of time!
And so my 5 minute blog time is over... with the help of interupting, and I will have to admit cute, blessings that want ice cream before bed. It has been a moment of regrouping my thoughts and adjusting my attitude to feel better about my full plate.
By the way, I found the "duct tape" - it was in my daughter's hug. :)
Hugs to all ~ K
When life gets too full of "blessings" I try to focus on the basics. I am breathing. I am a child of God. I am appreciating the tropical breeze that the fan beside me is creating. I can do anything for short periods of time!
And so my 5 minute blog time is over... with the help of interupting, and I will have to admit cute, blessings that want ice cream before bed. It has been a moment of regrouping my thoughts and adjusting my attitude to feel better about my full plate.
By the way, I found the "duct tape" - it was in my daughter's hug. :)
Hugs to all ~ K
Thursday, July 8, 2010
wow!
wow! I am so excited... I have a follower!!!! Hi Marni :) I just never thought that anyone would want to read about me - not very interesting life. Busy but not that interesting :} Anyway, summer is here and the sprinkler is on. Kids are more muddy than wet though! That is my life= play, cleanup and play again! Not too hard. At least there is no commute! Gotta like that in winter... but now to enjoy the sun! While it lasts!!!! bye for now :)
Monday, June 7, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
I was wondering how all of you "bloggers" make your pages so pretty/fancy/cool... but then I realized that I have no real desire/energy to carry out any instructions that might come my way after all. So I guess that I am just a polkadot kind of girl and easy is just fine as long as I am having fun babbling to nobody/anybody/you (whoever is reading!).
I guess I am that kind of mom too. No fancy braids in my 3 daughters hair for... anytime. No ironing of pant pleats, out of the dryer and folded with the seams is all you get. No gourmet meals by candlelight... unless the power goes out. And then the gourmet meal would be peanut butter sandwiches by candlelight :}
I don't think that I am lazy. Perhaps selective would be a nicer statement. Well, ok, I have my moments. Like my emotions, my energy to be productive is like a rollercoaster. Or maybe I am more hare than turtle... fast for some things, slow & steady for others. Maybe I am a combo of the two... a hartle, a turare, .... a procrastinator!!!! Yes - that is the creature name for me!
At this moment little ones are finished their lunches and ready to nap. I will tackle my to-do list of chores and then start on my gourmet supper. Well, maybe!
Bye for now... whoever :)
I guess I am that kind of mom too. No fancy braids in my 3 daughters hair for... anytime. No ironing of pant pleats, out of the dryer and folded with the seams is all you get. No gourmet meals by candlelight... unless the power goes out. And then the gourmet meal would be peanut butter sandwiches by candlelight :}
I don't think that I am lazy. Perhaps selective would be a nicer statement. Well, ok, I have my moments. Like my emotions, my energy to be productive is like a rollercoaster. Or maybe I am more hare than turtle... fast for some things, slow & steady for others. Maybe I am a combo of the two... a hartle, a turare, .... a procrastinator!!!! Yes - that is the creature name for me!
At this moment little ones are finished their lunches and ready to nap. I will tackle my to-do list of chores and then start on my gourmet supper. Well, maybe!
Bye for now... whoever :)
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