18 Thursday Apr 2013
Posted in country inspiration, decorating, Kids
18 Thursday Apr 2013
02 Tuesday Apr 2013
03 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Blogging, Kids, Parenthood
Often times we may feel contained when boundaries are established even if it’s for our own good. I know my children question why they can’t do certain things like take someone else’s things without asking, talking back to their parents, or fibbing about their schoolwork. All of these questions are valid, and may seem unfair to their little minds. But as they start to understand who their Heavenly Father is and pursue a relationship with Him, all these “rules” will begin to make sense to them. The Holy Spirit begins to work within them and is a reminder that there is something bigger and better for them than this restrictive world.
25 Wednesday Apr 2012
Posted in Family, Girls Corner, Kids, Parenthood
A man came home from work and found his 3 children outside, still in their pyjamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn around garden, The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house and no sign of the dog, walking in the door, he found …an even bigger mess. A lamp had been knocked over, the throw rug was against one wall, In the front room the TV was on loudly with the cartoon channel, the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, the fridge door was open wide, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door.
He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she might be ill, or that something serious had happened. He was met with a small trickle of water as it made its way out the bathroom door. As he peered inside he found wet towels, scummy soap and more toys strewn over the floor. Miles of toilet paper lay in a heap and toothpaste had been smeared over the mirror and walls.
As he rushed to the bedroom, he found his wife still curled up in the bed in her pyjamas, reading a novel… She looked up at him, smiled and asked how his day went.
He looked at her bewildered and asked, “What happened here today?”
She again smiled and answered, “You know every day when you come home from work and you ask me what in the world do I do all day?…”
“Yes,” was his incredulous reply..
She answered, “Well, today I didn’t do it.”
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05 Monday Mar 2012
Posted in Kids, Products I Love
I have a son who is into all sorts of sports. I just love to help him express himself in the decorating of his room. I have looked hard and all over the Internet and many stores to try to find cool and amazing things for him. Of course you can get just general sports stuff for like baseball, football, soccer, etc. But if your kid is into BMX, motorcross, skateboarding it is a little harder to find just the right stuff.
You can get stickers, posters, and other small things but it is hard to find accessories, bedding and other things. So I wanted to share with you a great place that I found to get some of these off the wall items for your kids. I just love finding things to make my son’s room fun and a cool space he wants to hang out. So if you are one that has been looking for something special I hope this helps you like it has for me.
04 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted in Kids, Parenthood
I love to just hang out with my family. We don’t just like sitting around. As some of my friends have told me when we had kids that our kids better get use to the car, being on the road, and traveling because we are always on the go. My husband and I of course we like to sit and relax but we also don’t like to let life pass us by. We like to see things, taste things and explore things. So this means that we at times become a tourist in our own city. We totally love it. We love doing what some of our friends haven’t done in years or say “oh yeah that would be fun to do when someone comes to visit”. Why wait do it now we say.
So we have taken our kids on boat rides, taxi’s, underground tours, the bus, and more. They have flown all sorts of places too. Our son had more frequent flier miles by the time he was 2 than most adults. We just love to explore and take our kids on our journey of life with us. This last summer we decided to take a family vacation to So. California. We knew there was so much to see, eat, and do. And one thing we just wanted to add as a new and different element to the trip was to follow food truck and try them out. So we did. It was fun. We got to see all sorts of places and tried all sorts of food.
I just love doing some of these fun things because we just never know where we are going to go and what life is going to take us but we know it will be fun and that we will get to try new things and meet new people. It has helped our kids understand that there is a world outside of the walls of their home. The hard thing about it sometimes is you have favorite places, food or something that is far away. That isn’t always a bad thing because when you do get a chance to taste it again or go back you have amazing memories.
04 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted in Girls Corner, Kids, Parenthood
Well both of my kids take dance and it is so strange to go there with all of the other mom’s. Now my kids are in other sports as well and I don’t have the same issue so I am not sure it must just be a dance thing. But well when we go sometimes there is a couple of mom’s that might have known each other for a while talking but other wise no mom talks to one another. It is just really strange. I know there are new mom’s and they could benifit from getting info on how things work, what the kids are doing, if they can leave to go run to the market while they are in class. Just something with basic communication would be cool but they don’t it is crazy. I just have a hard time with it sometimes that the place I feel the most comfortable at times is in the car.
I asked the girls that work there and they said it is strange but they see it too. They don’t know why it happens and why mom’s at dance are like that. One of them too has a girl in softball and it doesn’t happen at sports like that. So we just don’t know why. So is this where some girls get the idea of how to be snobs???
02 Friday Mar 2012
19 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Kids, Parenthood, Thoughts
Today we took our kids to lunch and some shopping. Of course this ment we had to let the kids stop off at the play area. As we were watching them play we were noticing some kids and their clothing. It was kind of strange to because being at a mall surrounded by kids clothing stores to find kids that had shirts that were to tight, to short and showing tummy, pants that didn’t fit and some that had plumbers crack. It was crazy to see all that goes on in the play area at the mall. I just felt bad for the ones that some walk out of the house looking like this.
Time To Unpack 