Sometimes moms need homeschooling too!

I learned to sew buttons on today!!!!

I am so excited. My Amber has a little outfit that is so cute and it was missing a button on the shirt. Well, I finally bought some buttons Saturday and my sweet husband taught me how to sew them on this morning. He learned when he was younger and I never learned. But now I know and I can fix my kids clothes when they pop a button!

So I guess you could say that I had a home school lesson this morning in sewing! Now I feel like I could accomplish anything!!!

So my words of wisdom for today are:
Learn something new today. It will make you feel smarter! ;^)

debt :^(

Hello all!

I wanted to share a little about what we are going through right now. Last week I paid off our credit card!! WOO-HOO!!! Not so fast! The same day I paid it off the lower element in my oven went out. It was $50 to replace. Then a few days ago I noticed that my oven was not working on broil. I thought it may be the upper element. No it is the thermostat. $150 to replace. :0(

My husband has decided to not put anymore money into this stove. A few months ago we spent about $100-$150 to fix some other stuff that went wrong with it. So we went looking for new stoves and Sears has no payments & no interest for 12 months. So I am getting a new stove today. Don't get me wrong, I am excited. It just isn't as sweet having to go into debt for it. We will pay it off by income tax time. So it will be ok. It just seems like we go 2 steps forward financially and 3 steps back. I am having patient faith in God and trusting that He will meet all of our needs. Our plan for our income tax next year was to get a van or SUV. We have a Ford Contour and poor Jacob almost doesn't fit between the 2 car seats. He is growing so much and I am not sure how much longer he will fit. I am believing God for a miracle in our finances so we can get a bigger vehicle. Please remember us in your prayers for this matter.

Now to my new stove. I decided to get a smooth top one. I have always wanted one but wasn't sure on how to take care of it. Some people have told me that they had one and didn't like it. Do any of you have tips for me? How to clean them, how often to clean them, what to do or not to do? Any advice is GREATLY appreciated. I want this stove to last me FOREVER!!! LOL
It is supposed to be delivered today so I will be able to use an oven again!

In closing this I want to say that if you can get out of debt at all, do it. But if something happens and you have to get a new appliance or something else on credit that is necessary, don't be discouraged. If you are really trying to be out of debt, God sees your heart and knows your true intention and I believe He will bless you either way!

So my words of wisdom for today are:
Try to live debt free and be as careful as possible when you do have to go into debt. Try to do it where you don't have to pay interest. It feels much better that way!

A little bit of everything.......

Today I will be posting about a few different things.

First I want to talk about the FREE Chicken biscuit from McDonald's that I just had. Today only you can order a medium or large drink and get a free chicken biscuit until 10:30 and then from 10:30-7 tonight you can order a medium or large drink and get a free chicken sandwich. Well, I ordered a medium iced vanilla coffee and I must say that it was good but it was no Java Chiller from Sonic. Now the chicken biscuit-they are trying to make it like the one from Chick-Fil-A and it is NOT anything like it!! It was good, but Chick-Fil-A has them beat hands down!!!!!

Next we will talk about the fact that we are officially done with school for this year!!!! YAY! It has been a pretty good year, Jacob has done very well in 3rd grade. He got all A's. He has mastered multiplying and cursive writing. (I was really scared of these two things so I am glad he did so well with them.) He read 2 chapter books in Literature this year and wrote little reports on them as he went along. He doesn't feel very creative usually so this was a big deal. He has touched on division and understands it very well. He has learned about punctuation and nouns and verbs. He is so smart and picks up on all of this so quickly! We ordered next years books when we got our stimulus payment and we have already gotten them in. He was so excited! I know that he will do really well in 4th grade also.
Now to Amber and her school stuff. We began the year learning letters and numbers but in September when their paw-paw Kenny died things in this house went a little down hill. We couldn't get back into a good schedule. This has been one of those school years that we couldn't wait for it to end. In the mix of all of this Amber has still done really well. She learned to recognize a few letters, she can count better, her coloring pages look really good instead of looking like scribble, and we have worked a lot on her speech. She is talking a lot clearer now. And her imagination is out of this world!!! We have even dealt with the imaginary friend thing! Jacob never had one of those. She has learned to play on the computer this year too. She LOVES that! She is my book worm. She really loves to look at books. Amber will still only be 4 at the start of our school in the fall so we will be doing a whole year of pre-school.
Now my little Nathan. He will be 2 in July and he is really wanting to color a lot and do craft stuff. He is very hands on. He likes to pretend a lot. He has graduated from eating paper thankfully. So now we can work more on letting him look at books and not worry about him eating a snack while he reads!! LOL
I am glad the summer is here for us. I have hopes for next school year to be full of fun and lots of hands on stuff. I will spend part of the summer planning for next year and I am DETERMINED to stay on a better schedule next year!

Now to sleep. And by that I mean that the last few weeks Nathan has been trying to take my pillow at night. We put him to bed in Amber's bed and usually in the middle of the night he comes to my bed and stays until morning. Well, last night I decided to give him a pillow when I put him in Amber's bed and he slept in her bed ALL NIGHT!!!! I was trilled and a little confused this morning when I woke up! I kept thinking that George was Nathan all night! LOL
So I hope that this is the beginning of something beautiful for me. All of my children sleeping all night in their own spaces that do not include my bed!!!!!

So now that I have taken up so much of your time I will bring this to an end. As your school year comes to an end(or maybe not to those who school year round) and summer approaches, evaluate your year and make a plan of what you may want to do different next year. Make this summer a great one for your children. Plan lots of fun stuff for the summer.

So my words of wisdom for today are:
Have a plan for next year and have lots of fun this summer!!!

Update on weight loss blog

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"You made my feelings cry!"

Hello all! I wanted to share a cute little thing about my sweet little girl, Amber. She is such a great kid for the most part.(she is a female and I believe some days she already has PMS!)


This is something that our family has gotten used to hearing but this morning I was talking to a friend and she heard Amber say it and she said that I HAD to blog about it. So here it goes Meladie!

Any time that the boys do anything to make Amber cry we will ask her what is wrong and she tells us,"He made my feelings cry!"

I think this is too cute. A few months ago she was trying to explain why she was crying after Jacob had done something to upset her and the only way she could make me understand was,"He made my feelings cry!"

So now we have all adopted this saying instead of "hurt my feelings" it is now "made my feelings cry".


She really is precious. But I was telling my husband this morning that she is so much like me when I was her age. Jacob and Nathan can be up early in the morning and be ok with it. And by early I mean before 7 am. Now Amber could sleep until 9 am if I let her. And the boys are pretty talkative when they first get up, it isn't a huge deal to get out of the bed. But Amber is a TOTALLY different story! Take this morning for instance, it was about 8 am and everyone had eaten breakfast except Amber. Why you ask? Because she was still asleep. So I go in to lovingly wake her up. I rub her back and talk really sweet to her and tell her she can have a Pop-Tart. So she begins to move a little and Jacob comes in being cheerful and jumping on the bed and Amber begins to growl and scream. So I had to get her back in line. Then I had to correct Jacob. So the way she is just like I was when I was her age is that I didn't like getting up out of the bed either. It would take me a good 30 minutes to even want to look at anyone much less wake up. And my sweet Amber is just like that.


So I wanted to share a little about my sweet angel. Here is her precious face. Isn't it amazing how a face this sweet could be so angry first thing in the morning! LOL

Happy Mother's Day!!!

I wanted to post really quick and say Happy Mother's Day to you all as I sit in my new comfy desk chair that I got for Mother's Day. All I have had since I got a computer about 4 years ago was one from Wal-Mart, you know the ones you have to spin to get them to go up or down. I have wanted a new one for a while and my sweet hubby decided to get me a new one.

So I hope you all enjoyed your mother's day and I hope you enjoyed your sweet children today also.

Maybe I will have some sort of wisdom to share in a few days! ;0)

Change, once again

Well, once again it has been a while.

We are coming to a close of our school year and as always we have gotten into a funk. Change is tough for me, weather it is for better or for worse. I have learned in the last few years to embrace it(change) but it still makes me cringe a little. There is a lot of change going on in my family right now. School is coming to an end, Nathan has totally let go of his pacifier, we are about to attempt the beginning of potty training for Nathan, trying to get into this season of soccer with Jacob, signing up for fall soccer already. Just to name a few. Amber is moving out of toddlerhood and into a big kid.(that is really hard for me)

On a more serious note of change, our family is reevaluating the future of us as a family. What is our purpose as a family? We had a missionary speak at our church on Sunday who is from Africa and it just made me begin to wonder,"God, what is our purpose as a family unit?" I don't think He will say for us to go to Africa or anything, I am just really searching right now. When my children are older will they be able to look back and know what our family did to make an impact on this world for Christ? I know it is really important to teach our children how to be great Christian adults and I know we are supposed to be homeschooling. But what is our "thing"?

I know families that are always doing ministry together and I am realizing that I have got to find my own dream and passion for my family(well, God and my husband and I together all need to figure it out not just me ;0)). I know what my passions are and what I enjoy doing ministry wise, but does that include my family? It has got to include my family. I want us to impact this world for Christ together, as a unit.

I am not sure what revelation I will get at the end of this transformation. It may be something huge and it may be something really small. Whatever it is, Lord, I am willing and ready to do Your will!

So my words of wisdom for today are:
Do some kind of ministry with your children, let's raise up a legacy in the generation to come!