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!!

I Can't Think!

I sit here and stare at my monitor and wonder what in the world to blog about. I have a blog planner.... I don't ever use it.. typical. I write things down in it I would like to blog about and I get to my desk to finally blog and it just does not seem as urgent as when I wrote it down. Its near Christmas and I am seriously having issues with getting into the "spirit" of the holiday. Last time I was this out of spirit was when my husband was deployed. Yeah that is a whole nother blog in itself. So you're sitting here wondering what in the world a mother of 3 who homeschools and stays home with her kids could possibly blog about don't worry I am wondering the same thing to. Then I remember that every mom has struggles and the best way for us to deal with them is to realize that we are not the only ones struggling. We are not "Susie Homemaker". I am far from it. Its been a while since its happened but I am pretty sure the load (or two maybe three) have been sitting on my couch for about 2 days now (Maybe more). I would be lying if I said I just could not wait to fold clothes and put them away. Let me tell ya. Folding clothes is my least favorite part of my job description alongside cleaning up vomit. Yeah that is how much I despise it. Maybe I will bargain with the kids and do some of their chores so they will do some of mine.. is that wrong?!?! Probably. Homeschooling is going good... Got a planner put together that I just love love love!!! Though it has its downfalls like hearing that GASP when one of your kids spilled sweet tea all over said planner that you love so much... >.< Yeah... I just chant to myself.. "It will dry" "It will dry" "It will dry" Guess what??!? Its smudged and not as neat as it looked before but, its dry! Voila. No use crying over spilled tea. Anyway this is about all you will get outta me today. Definitely gonna try and keep up. Yeah I know I been saying that for the last 4 years. Maybe I will start using my blog planner!!! Meh... who knows! Hope everyone has a great day!

Its the Little Things!!

Have I mentioned I love Wednesdays and Thursdays. Those are the days my hubby is off. The days we do not do school work. (Unless for some reason there is make up work to do). I am sitting here at my computer sipping on my coffee reflecting on the past few weeks since I blogged last. Selfishly I have to say I am glad football is coming to an end... but I am more sad. It has been great for me and for my son. Shoot its been good for my girls too. My son really enjoys the sport. And he loves so big so I have unexpectedly adopted 17 other little boys who are now brothers to my son. There are a few he is particularly closer to than others but loves them all none the less. My girls have made some new great friends as well. They got to see a little of the cheers they may be doing next year. I am still on the fence about putting them into cheer here due to some drama issues I have heard from other parents who have daughters on the cheer team. How has it been great for me? Well I have made some new wonderful friends I get to see and socialize with a few days a week. Not to mention now that all of our sons are brothers we have become a family in the 10 weeks or more that we have been together. So yes it has been way more of a blessing than it has a burden. Some days I am like UGH football practice but once I get there and I am surrounded by great folks I enjoy it and think man I am glad I did no stay home. How has school been going? GREAT! My kiddos just breeze right along. My littlest who is not "technically" kindergarten age (she misses the cut off by 3 weeks) is rolling right along in her kindergarten school work. Not sure how that will work when I enroll her with the county buuuut we will see. One of those things were we weren't sure if she was ready for kindergarten so we would try it and if not we would back down but shes done great. I am a proud mama. My son, he can practically do all of his work on his own. Hes a great reader. He HATES writing though. When we answer questions he whines "Mama can you write it for me my hand hurts". Sorry son... Such is life. But he thoroughly enjoys having the freedom after we knock out all of his school work in less than 2 hours. My oldest... Ahhh 4th grade... Shes doing great but her favorite part is the experiments. We have jumped into the experiments this year and I am glad. We involve the younger children as well so its fun for all. We are learning about electricity and how its produced and different kinds of energy. So far the journey has been fantastic. This year they are not getting a "winter" break but a fall break. Hubby cant get Christmas time off so we are giving them a break to spend some time with their grandparents. I am so blessed to have a wonderful family and grandparents for my children who are so involved! Anyway... The holidays are coming up.. All things Christmas and pumpkin smelling. Let me state for the record that anything pumpkin flavored, tasting, or smelling is gross... I'm just saying.. You can hold that against me if you would like but just know if you come to my home it will smell like tropical flowers all year round except Christmas time when there will be a hint of Christmas Tree smell (From my REAL Christmas tree). Well that is all. Just wanted to take some time to update everyone! Hope you all have a blessed day!!! <3 p="">

Football Mom

I am a proud mom to an awesome son who is now a football player. Yes he is 6 and yes it is contact football. I know some people are concerned and for good reason but I am writing this little blog to reassure those who are worried. I agree that throwing a child into full contact football is dangerous.. as I have learned letting your child play on the playground is dangerous as well too. My sweet 3 year old got ran over by a bigger kid who did not see her and she got a concussion when she smacked her little head on the concrete. The reassurance I can give to those friends and family who are concerned is that we have truly lucked out with Beast's (He says that is his new nickname) team and coaches. They are very focused on fundamentals. learning the plays and making sure these boys are stretching correctly, warming up efficiently, blocking correctly, and teaching them why learning the correct way to do these things keeps them safe and allows better efficiency. The common sense ones are making sure these boys have a time to take a breather and get some hydration and they do. Most of the boo boos (and I call them boo boos because they are not technically injuries) are from running into each other and hitting elbows, accidentally stepping on someones hand, and in many cases not paying attention  which I might add they could do playing without pads on a playground. This game, if taught and enforced by the PARENTS correctly, can enforce self control, confidence, focus, and teamwork. I have to brag a little bit... Our team has gone undefeated because of the fundamental focus. So this is not a blog to discredit necessary concern because when it comes to children their safety to should be a concern on the forefront of every parents mind. This blog is to reassure you all that we are fully aware of the concerns and we appreciate them and that he is being taken very good care of.. If you did not care you would not be concerned. =) We love you all and thank you all so much for your unfailing support and encouragement.

Good Morning

Well hubbs had to work early today so naturally I woke up when he got up and now I can not get back to sleep. So here I am sitting in bed watching the news with my headphones in (because my 6 year old crawled in the bed sometime last night) and blogging on my phone. Again. Gotta admit watching the news first thing in the morning may not be the best start to someone's day. It's all bad news these days isn't it? Sigh.. course at 5 am there's really nothing else on TV other than cartoons. So.. news it is. Desperately wanting a nice big cup of coffee but I don't drink coffee anymore.  Anyways. Today is one of those days where you don't wanna get out if bed. Kind of let my duties get a little piled up (which I normally don't do). Busy busy. School, football practice, bible study, daily duties just been busy. No time to sit. Of course that's the life of a mommy and wife right. Don't be mistaken I truly love what I do and feel extremely blessed. Gotta find some time today to get some things done here and there and get my walk in. I want to get healthy enough to start running again. Struggle Ruth ah in splints but I got some shoe inserts that will hopefully help out with that. =) Watching my son sleep it just fills my heart with hoy and sadness to see that they are growing up so fast. I mean my BABY is about to be 5... you blink and all of a sudden your babies are turning into little people. My 9 year old Is literally 9 going on 19. She is so grown.  Well this is all the ramblings I have going on today. I hope everyone has a blessed day. Remember to smile. A simple smile is an act of kindness that can completely change someone's day!! God bless you all!

I CAN DO IT!!!!

So it has been a few weeks since I blogged last and since school has started and I have to admit. It has been going pretty smooth. My 9 year old is not wanting to read on her own but I have gotten a lot of encouragement and tips to get through this. My littlest missed the kindergarten cutoff by a couple of weeks but after praying about it and doing some serious thinking I decided to start her on kindergarten work. She is breezing right through it. The good thing is I can take is slow with her if she starts struggling. My son is doing fantastic. We have put him in full contact football. At first he was struggling with hitting and getting more confident in it. Partly because he has been the biggest kid in his age group we have encouraged him not to hit. But now that he is picking up on it he's a beast! I am awful with blogging and keeping up with it but I am going to try.... again...... lol. Life is great right now. Back into Bible Study. Another Beth Moore one so those are always fantastic. It's late now so I will update more tomorrow when I'm not blogging on my phone. Hope everyone has had a great day and all sleep well!!!

2 Days till Day 1!

So I have two more days well less than that until the first day of school!! I have decided to go ahead and work my littlest into Kindergarten. She misses the cutoff by a couple of weeks and I think shes ready for it. Just have to be persistent in teaching her. My lil man is looking forward to it. The oldest however is less than thrilled but she will survive. Some things I have been working on are getting organized and scheduling worked out. Im not sure if I want to go by a strict schedule or if I want to just play each day by ear. Schedules have never been a bad thing so I am going to try that first. I am probably the most organized unorganized person I know. I have decided to go with Sonlight again this year because I loved it so much last year. Fun part was when I got my books in the mail my mom and sister in law were here for me to divvy out the books, label and organize them. Because there is so much material I have most of the school work broken down by 6 weeks. Just have to finish printing off worksheets. I am super stoked! I can not wait. But then again the pressures of homeschooling terrify me to no end. I started playing World of Warcraft over the summer but have decided with school coming up I do not know how much spare time I will have so I cancelled it for now. Priorities. Anyway here are some photos of my classroom/dining room! Please excuse the mess!

I got the Morning High Five idea from a lady named Jessica Here but I tweaked my pics a little bit to work with my household. 

Well thats all for today!!! I hope everyone has a wonderful and restful weekend!!! Happy Back to school time!!!! =)