Week 2

Week 2: My Favorite Things

So my sister in law and I had this discussion the other day. She is totally obsessed with butterflies! So when I asked her what I was obsessed with she said anything that is black, black pants, black shirts. black shoes, black cars... But there are some things that are my favorite . BOOKS! I love books. I have a gazillion books!! I have not read half of them but I will!! One day I WILL!!!

Another one of my favorite things since I was younger is Eeyore! I just love him. He is so sad its sooooo cute!!!

Printables!!! I have a ton of printables!!! I especially love the ones from Hellocuteness.com I just adore all of her cuteness! Shes so creative! I buy her calendars every year. Have for the last 3 years! LOVE THEM! 

Pink! Yeah I know... pink... really.. but I LOVE LOVE LOVE writing in pink ink. I grade papers in pink! Red.. its just so harsh!! These are my all time favorite pens!

Week 1

Okay so here is the start of my 52 week Blog challenge..  Week 1 five weeks later! My bad people my bad! So here goes catch up!!

Meet my best Friend (s)

So I can not pick just one because right now there are three!! Three women who have been there for me in the past present and all of who I hope are there in the future. The one I have known the longest so I will start with her first is my brother's wife. We may not have been the best of friends in the beginning but now she is my best friend. I was in big sister mode when she first started dating my brother and I always felt like NO ONE was good enough for him.. boy was I wrong. She is perfect for him and has been a perfect addition to our family. She has blessed me with a handsome nephew and a gorgeous niece! I love love love her so much!!!

My next bestist is my sister from another mother. Jessica and I go way back... She was dating a mutual friend of the families and we became good friends. We lost touch for a while and then hooked back up and it was all history after that. It was like we have been best friends all of our lives! What made it even better was our husbands became best friends as well!! We had some many great times together. She has 2 precious handsome little boys and another on the way! 

My last but not least best friend Brittaney I met after I moved to Florida. I was an independent consultant selling my product at a Bridal Show and her and her fiance (now husband) walked in and I literally thought at a side glance he was my husband. We all started chatting. We decided that whether our husbands liked each other or not we would be friends and here we are. a year and a half later all best friends!!! We see each other once a week and its so great! They have been a great addition to our family. 

I am beyond blessed to have such amazing people in my life!! I can not imagine my life without them!!! Thank you all so much for being a very precious part of our lives!! Our family is complete with you all included in it!!! 

52 Week Blog Challenge!!!

Since I am so horrible at blogging on a daily basis heres a WEEKLY blog challenge for me!! YAY!!! I will try to include photos as well!!! YAY! Aren't you excited!??!?! Which one are you the MOST excited about!?

Why I Chose to Homeschool...

And continue to do so. My husband and I sat down a few years ago and discussed me homeschooling. When I was pregnant with my son I was unable to work due to some health issues so I stayed home with him. I sent my oldest to regular school up until First grade. She was struggling in many ways. Mostly it was due to a potty issue. She would not completely wet her pants but just enough to give an odor and kids would make fun of her. And at least twice a week I was getting phone calls to bring her clothes (Which I always kept a spare in her bag) or pick her up. Which I am happy to say she has gotten over. Her First Grade year  my husband came home from Afghanistan for his R&R and I have to say it was like pulling teeth to get her out of school for the two weeks he was home. My Father in law had a heart attack and had to have heart surgery while on the road in Florida and I had to pull her out again. She could only get pre-approved for 3 days until I came back with a doctors note stating that it was necessary for us to be with him. Okay maybe I can see that and understand that but as soon as I returned home there was a letter in the mail from DHS saying if she had one more absence (excused or unexcused) The local Sheriff's department would be at my house. SERIOUSLY!!! Every absence my child has she had a doctors note or she had my husbands orders (because yes they needed proof of that too). But even with all of that I still got the letter. My husband also was limited on his vacation days because of where he worked and his seniority there. The only days he had available were the first two weeks of school. Of course I could not pull my daughter out of school the first two weeks of school. My husband looked at me and said "well if we home schooled we wouldn't have this problem". And thus the decision was made. Call me selfish, call me whatever you want but having the freedom of going on vacation whenever we are able to and changing our "weekend" to daddy's days off.  I also like having the option as a parent to control what my children are being taught and HOW they are being taught. Even more now so since they have started implementing Common Core.. what a joke. Little things that we took advantage of growing up they are taking out of school. You want to know why generations growing up today are Godless, schools have taken the Bible and prayer out of school for fear of offend someone else. You want to know why generations these days have less patriotism these days, They are trying to take the pledge, and our flags out of schools again for fear they would offend someone. I have chosen a Christian based curriculum and tomorrow I will explain why I chose this particular curriculum and what I have tweaked to make it work for our family. Please do not get me wrong. Some parents are not lead or have the desire to home school and that does not make you less of a parent than me. These are choices we have made for our family just as many other makes choices for their family that I would not do for mine. But I do not judge. You are their parent! YOU know what is best for your family and YOUR child. God has lead my family to this road and we are enjoying this time in our lives! Some days are a struggle but most days its a breeze! I hope all of you have a blessed day and THANK YOU for being a part of my journey! =)

Disorderly Organized

It does not make sense does it? I feel like the more I get myself organized the more unorganized I feel like I am. I have certain things that go in certain places but I have more that just gets dumped into random places whenever I feel like it. LoL! Yeah I know.. I can not be the only one I know who does this... I have a planner for EVERYTHING but I don't ever stick with it. Yeah that includes my kids school work. Some days we do a couple days worth of work (especially if the kids get it) and some days we are lucky we get through one lesson on one subject. I have 6 weeks at a time planned out with the school work already separated and printed out. So that is one thing I do not have to worry about. With that being said I have to share a website that I LOVE LOVE LOVE getting most of my home organizing calendars from. She has such cute monthly calendars and I get my meal planners from her site and now shes got a weekly  planner!!! OH I just LOVE them ALL! Follow her on Facebook here at HelloCuteness there should be a link on her facebook that will send you to her site for all her freebies and to purchase her products!! So far 2015 has been good to us. I am extremely blessed however a weight is heavy on my heart for this planet. I do fear that our world is walking right into its demise. The Bible says it will happen one day, I guess deep down I was hoping it would not be during my generation but it has started. I fear for my children as they grow up in this world. Tragedy everywhere. I do not want to shun them away from all the bad in this world but I do want them to see that there is GOOD and BAD in this world and they have a choice which path they want to go down. I am optimistic as any parent, though I have my days where I doubt my parenting, that I am raising them to do the right thing and follow their heart and pray that whatever path they choose and they go down I have the strength to support them in all they do. But enough of the deep deep. I love my precious family and friends and have been extremely blessed. <3 a="" blessed="" day="" everyone="" friends="" has="" hope="" i="" my="" nbsp="" next="" p="" time="" until="" wonderfully="">

I'm a Bad Housewife!

But lucky for me my sweet husband understands that sometimes its ok to do nothing and focus on spending time with each other. These past three weeks have been so crazy. Between traveling and visiting and the holidays. You all know how it goes I am sure. Christmas we went back to our hometown to see our families. My dad, step mom, littlest brother and littlest sister came down to visit before they went on vacation. Its been great.. however I have been letting my wifely duties slip through the drain. As I am typing this the washer, dryer, diswasher and kiddos are working on their chores. There is a mountain of clothes on the couch waiting for me to get off my tush and get started on them. The kitchen floor needs mopping, I need to vacuum. AHHH!!! On top of all of that daily duties need to be done. Meals and school work. So today is the day I play catch up. that way hopefully on my hubbys days off he does not have to do anything. Not that he has too but he likes to be busy and do things and if I do not do it before he does, well he does it. He has been workin so hard I would like to get it all done and force him to take the day and do nothing. =) I missed church today. He had to work a double so I urged him to take the truck so he would not have to work a 16 hour day on 4 hours of sleep and be on the motorcycle. We will try and hopefully make it next week. Still struggling to find a church home but that is an entire separate blog post in its self. But today I will hopefully catching up on housework, doing some organizing, and I have blogged so I already have one thing checked off! YAY! I hope you all have a blessed day!!