Just noticed that the previous post was my 1000th post! wow, how'd that happen?! Do I really have that much to say? haaaa
We had a bit of tick explosion in our backyard in May and June. Needless to say, we opted for the children not to go back into the woods anytime soon. Yes, it was that gross. Nasty. A friend of mine told me to freeze the little stinkers in a baggie and write the name/date/location of the tick found so that if there were any reactions, they could test the stinker and find out if Lyme's disease or whatever. All those ticks on my kids and then finding out a dear friend was stricken with a terrible case of Lyme's along with some bacterial infection due to a tick made me shy away from kids outside. Finally, as in just a few days ago, I have let loose with them in hopes of a good outcome with no ticks and thanks be to God, we have been tick free so far. We sure had some time in our house these past few months.
Which leads me to the POOL! Yahoo! We have joined our pool, finally. I do have some reservations about it and the modesty there. Or rather the lack there of. Even my kids comment on it. I am not just talking about the girls/women. It is also the lifeguards. Since when is it appropriate for them to wear bikini's?!?!! I mean, c'mon! I do not think those things would be staying on if someone was to drown. Life is way more important to save rather than a bikini top or bottom. Gee wilikers, lifeguards! We try to go off hours, like when it JUST opens up. And so far, so good. But, its too bad that a pool has to be that way. Bummer.
My girls are all about dolls. Still. And I absolutely love it. They are learning the best possible home ec class ever hovering over dolls and baby dolls all day. My heart is very pleased.
Talking about babies...I am 3 and 1/2 months now! All looks and SOUNDS good!!! Praise be to God. What a gift. Truly a gift.
Also, about babies....remember my dear friend I asked you to pray about? Sam? Well, her sweet baby Steven Thomas went to be with Jesus. See HERE and HERE.
Wasn't that the most sweetest and yet heart wrenching story. She is a strong woman upheld by Her God, her strength.
We went on vacation a few weeks ago. It was amazing and exhausting all at the same time. We were blessed with such great spiritual direction preparing us for what is to come.
Must go now....my children need their Momma!
God bless you,
Mary
Showing posts with label quick takes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quick takes. Show all posts
Friday, August 10, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Quick Takes Memorial Wknd Edition
1. A bag full of cheesy old style non-Nerf guns for $1 goes a loooooooooooong way to make little people very giddy and happy!
2. Went for the 1st time to a Farmers Market and it was awesome! Why oh why have I not done this before? And I know our food will be depleted very soon....as in less than 3 or 4 days but oh well! This food is delicious- we can totally taste the difference.
3. My amazing hubby and boys are making some bird houses for me :) It was supposed to be more of a late mothers day gift and I am so thankful. So very blessed. Have I told you how much I love birds?
4. At that farmers market I bought my first tomato plant of the season. Should I have bought more? Not sure! :) So far, the kidos are liking it a lot and only pulled off ONE tomato. I told them HANDS OFF MY BOB!
5. Yes, I said Bob. I named my fellow plant, BOB. After Bob the Tomato from Veggie tales :)
6. Hand me down clothes are great. We waited a very very long time to get a few bags (as in almost over a year, I think) and in those bags was a Bob the Tomato red t-shirt for my 5 yr old teddy bear!!! He loves it and so do I. Reason why I named my plant Bob. Heee heee
7. I made eggplant Parmesan for dinner tonight and it smells soooooooooo good in here! My hubby came back from Home depot buying the wood and supplies needed for the bird houses and he was quite happy w/that smell too! I love to make my man happy with the food I make!!! A little joy for me b/c I love to cook and I made it and for him too b/c he gets to eat it!
8. Last year this time we were back in our old stomping grounds up North, spending time w/family and getting ready to run the 20 K for my hubby and my oldest ran the 4K while all my little kidos ran the kids run. They just don't have a lot of them down here. Bummmer.... In fact, my hubby was thinking of signing up for a marathon again (tried 3 yrs ago and was up to 22 miles in training w/3 weeks left and hurt both his knees ---poor guy). They were sold out! Can you imagine that?!?!? Only living down here with this population would a marathon sold out. gee wiz.
9. We finished those CAT TESTS!!!!! Yes! But I am such a mean mom...b/c I am still making them do school work. Low key school work and reading but still some to do! :) Lots of fun ways to learn-games, card games, board games, computer games- all w/ a style of learning and having gun while doing it. Lots of reading too. Lots of read alouds and I am going to make some type of a reading worm and have a little competition on who can read the most books in their age group!!! :)
10. Biggest goal of this summer: Learn how to SEW! Sewing machine SEW!!! I am pretty excited and pretty nervous! My dream would be to make a quilt with some clothes that my kids out grew that I am sentimental about. We'll see.
11. Not sure about joining the pool. So much immodesty there!!! But SO hot here!!! HUMID HOT!!! Praying on that one. Maybe I'll just buy a big ol TROUGH. Whatta think? ha! :) But I am pretty serious. Kinda. Yeah.
12. I gave my kids an end of the school year home school questionnaire and that was totally an inspiration from the Holy Spirit. It was SO cool!!! I thought that I knew what they would answer and I think for the most part, I was right on but it was awesome to find out some things that were so surprising! I loved this! I am so going to do this every year! :)
Best go now~!!!
God bless, Mary
2. Went for the 1st time to a Farmers Market and it was awesome! Why oh why have I not done this before? And I know our food will be depleted very soon....as in less than 3 or 4 days but oh well! This food is delicious- we can totally taste the difference.
3. My amazing hubby and boys are making some bird houses for me :) It was supposed to be more of a late mothers day gift and I am so thankful. So very blessed. Have I told you how much I love birds?
4. At that farmers market I bought my first tomato plant of the season. Should I have bought more? Not sure! :) So far, the kidos are liking it a lot and only pulled off ONE tomato. I told them HANDS OFF MY BOB!
5. Yes, I said Bob. I named my fellow plant, BOB. After Bob the Tomato from Veggie tales :)
6. Hand me down clothes are great. We waited a very very long time to get a few bags (as in almost over a year, I think) and in those bags was a Bob the Tomato red t-shirt for my 5 yr old teddy bear!!! He loves it and so do I. Reason why I named my plant Bob. Heee heee
7. I made eggplant Parmesan for dinner tonight and it smells soooooooooo good in here! My hubby came back from Home depot buying the wood and supplies needed for the bird houses and he was quite happy w/that smell too! I love to make my man happy with the food I make!!! A little joy for me b/c I love to cook and I made it and for him too b/c he gets to eat it!
8. Last year this time we were back in our old stomping grounds up North, spending time w/family and getting ready to run the 20 K for my hubby and my oldest ran the 4K while all my little kidos ran the kids run. They just don't have a lot of them down here. Bummmer.... In fact, my hubby was thinking of signing up for a marathon again (tried 3 yrs ago and was up to 22 miles in training w/3 weeks left and hurt both his knees ---poor guy). They were sold out! Can you imagine that?!?!? Only living down here with this population would a marathon sold out. gee wiz.
9. We finished those CAT TESTS!!!!! Yes! But I am such a mean mom...b/c I am still making them do school work. Low key school work and reading but still some to do! :) Lots of fun ways to learn-games, card games, board games, computer games- all w/ a style of learning and having gun while doing it. Lots of reading too. Lots of read alouds and I am going to make some type of a reading worm and have a little competition on who can read the most books in their age group!!! :)
10. Biggest goal of this summer: Learn how to SEW! Sewing machine SEW!!! I am pretty excited and pretty nervous! My dream would be to make a quilt with some clothes that my kids out grew that I am sentimental about. We'll see.
11. Not sure about joining the pool. So much immodesty there!!! But SO hot here!!! HUMID HOT!!! Praying on that one. Maybe I'll just buy a big ol TROUGH. Whatta think? ha! :) But I am pretty serious. Kinda. Yeah.
12. I gave my kids an end of the school year home school questionnaire and that was totally an inspiration from the Holy Spirit. It was SO cool!!! I thought that I knew what they would answer and I think for the most part, I was right on but it was awesome to find out some things that were so surprising! I loved this! I am so going to do this every year! :)
Best go now~!!!
God bless, Mary
Monday, May 7, 2012
Quick Takes May 2012
Not sure where to start....so, it'll be more a 'quick takes' about our life recently.
1. Just got back from an eye dr. appt for one of my children. The appt was at 2:35 and we got home by 5:45. Lovely. Trying hard not to complain! :)
2. As for complaining-it's been a bit rampant around here lately. So, I have instituted a little reminder. When someone does (me and Daddy included) and if someone else notices, we squeeze our noses b/c....let's face it-COMPLAINING STINKS! haa haaa. Seriously!
3. As for the eye dr. appt-they were not too happy with us. What is up w/that?!?? I mean, it IS a pediatric stinkin' eye doctors-aren't they used to a bit of noise and play? argh. The appt went fine. No glasses needed and all is ok. (for now, at least!)
4. We are going green. As in natural-baby. Yup, all organic and natural and no preservatives or additives ..yadda yadda yadda. More $? You bet. But not too much more and the GREAT thing is that my kidos are really liking the taste of the new food deal! Yeah.
5. Why are we going granola? Well, for a number of reasons. The nasty bad food really does affect kids' behavior....as in bad behavior. We all feel better and we (as in MOMMMA AND DADDY!) have MORE energy. And we'll take any extra energy we can get to keep up w/the kids! They are sleeping! did you hear me???? SLEEEEEEPING! woohoo!!
6. We only have 20 more days of school. we are in the stretch and the kids are lovin' it! we have made a cute little countdown calender and they are finishing up books as each day passes. Granted our break will probably only last about 3 weeks (always does!) till the 'free for all' wears off and then they start asking to do school. Oh, yes, we homeschool. Another great joy-they ASK to do schoolwork!!!
7. The kids are all asking God for another baby. How sweet!!! He has not found that it is in His timing but we are waiting and waiting to see what God has in store for us. His will be done.
8. I have some grand plans for the summer. Stay tuned.
9. I have a "new look" and my hubby loves it. As in LOVES it!!! :) My hair is down almost every day and it is straight!! :) Thank God for those FLAT IRONS!!! :) I never used one before and now I think I'll never go without it!
10. I am still trying to keep up w/exercise and walking a few times a week. We had some nasty humid days so I didn't even venture out. But now it has been so lovely-I don't want to come in!
11. I was at a new store last week w/ ALL THE KIDS (remember I hate to go food shopping w/the kids!?!? yeah...) I went with them and we literally had a caravan. Just about all the customers stopped and looked and looked and looked. I am pretty used to a look, a glance, a smile and the shocked looks but this was WAY over the top! Some of the people were literally like yelling. It was so embarrassing. My kids all looked at me with bugged out eyes like "What's the big deal?" haaaahaa
12. This past weekend, 2 of my kids made their 1st Holy Communion. It was beautiful. Amazing and sweet. I loved this weekend. We had both sets of grandparents here to join us. Couldn't get better than that. Now they are gone and we're all a bit sad. Being so far from family is SO hard....
God bless you and your families,
Mary
1. Just got back from an eye dr. appt for one of my children. The appt was at 2:35 and we got home by 5:45. Lovely. Trying hard not to complain! :)
2. As for complaining-it's been a bit rampant around here lately. So, I have instituted a little reminder. When someone does (me and Daddy included) and if someone else notices, we squeeze our noses b/c....let's face it-COMPLAINING STINKS! haa haaa. Seriously!
3. As for the eye dr. appt-they were not too happy with us. What is up w/that?!?? I mean, it IS a pediatric stinkin' eye doctors-aren't they used to a bit of noise and play? argh. The appt went fine. No glasses needed and all is ok. (for now, at least!)
4. We are going green. As in natural-baby. Yup, all organic and natural and no preservatives or additives ..yadda yadda yadda. More $? You bet. But not too much more and the GREAT thing is that my kidos are really liking the taste of the new food deal! Yeah.
5. Why are we going granola? Well, for a number of reasons. The nasty bad food really does affect kids' behavior....as in bad behavior. We all feel better and we (as in MOMMMA AND DADDY!) have MORE energy. And we'll take any extra energy we can get to keep up w/the kids! They are sleeping! did you hear me???? SLEEEEEEPING! woohoo!!
6. We only have 20 more days of school. we are in the stretch and the kids are lovin' it! we have made a cute little countdown calender and they are finishing up books as each day passes. Granted our break will probably only last about 3 weeks (always does!) till the 'free for all' wears off and then they start asking to do school. Oh, yes, we homeschool. Another great joy-they ASK to do schoolwork!!!
7. The kids are all asking God for another baby. How sweet!!! He has not found that it is in His timing but we are waiting and waiting to see what God has in store for us. His will be done.
8. I have some grand plans for the summer. Stay tuned.
9. I have a "new look" and my hubby loves it. As in LOVES it!!! :) My hair is down almost every day and it is straight!! :) Thank God for those FLAT IRONS!!! :) I never used one before and now I think I'll never go without it!
10. I am still trying to keep up w/exercise and walking a few times a week. We had some nasty humid days so I didn't even venture out. But now it has been so lovely-I don't want to come in!
11. I was at a new store last week w/ ALL THE KIDS (remember I hate to go food shopping w/the kids!?!? yeah...) I went with them and we literally had a caravan. Just about all the customers stopped and looked and looked and looked. I am pretty used to a look, a glance, a smile and the shocked looks but this was WAY over the top! Some of the people were literally like yelling. It was so embarrassing. My kids all looked at me with bugged out eyes like "What's the big deal?" haaaahaa
12. This past weekend, 2 of my kids made their 1st Holy Communion. It was beautiful. Amazing and sweet. I loved this weekend. We had both sets of grandparents here to join us. Couldn't get better than that. Now they are gone and we're all a bit sad. Being so far from family is SO hard....
God bless you and your families,
Mary
Friday, April 1, 2011
Quick Takes on 1st Friday
1. Prayer Request....for a friend who just found out some not-so-good news health wise. I don't want to go into details until I ask her permission :). Thanks for praying! She has 5 kids under age 10 and a baby that still nurses and she cannot nurse. My heart goes out for them all. Please pray for this family.
2. I woke up today to NO COFFEE in the house!!! For those of us that depend on our caffeine jolts, that can be detrimental to a momma!!! haaa! So, quickly I made that judgement call to gather the kids up and I told them that it doesn't matter what they wore or what shoes b/c just a drive thru...or so I thought---look at #3! yikes!
3. Since we were out so early---it made me realize that I can actually get out that early in the morning if I let down my guard of having the kids look 'oh-so-nice' and I may actually be able to get to daily mass every now and then. See how pumped I was to get my jolt of coffee?!?! Made me realize how I can be just as pumped to get to Mass that way too!!! Well, we'll see how that goes...I am going to try, though.
And since we were out so early....and it was nice to be driving around with not too much traffic...and the kids and I were listening to some music and singing along.....I asked them if they wanted to go back home the LONG way to count how many school buses we saw. Of course they were up for that! Going the long way home put us on the road that EXACTLY led to one of the parishes around here and also EXACTLY the time to get to uh...Mass....First Friday Mass, no less.
And no matter how I tried to convince myself it may not be the best (now, in retrospect how ridiculous I was to try to avoid Mass....oh, when will I ever learn?!:( ) there were signs everywhere for me to get to MASS! Besides the road, the time it was...it was also the songs on the radio said 'church' right at that moment.
I bought that really big coffee and I took a sip and burnt my tongue and mouth-should have been a sign to not drink it an hour before MASS!!! So, then I thought to myself not a good idea to go to Mass b/c I just drank coffee, albeit a SIP, but a sip is still a sip.
Then there was me trying to convince myself that I had all the kids, why in the world would I do that all by myself? Besides, the baby was up and crying on/off in the car seat as I drove around and I did not have the most needed pouch/sling while at Mass...but wait a minute....now she was asleep in her car seat.
Oh, but my 4 yr old has flip flops on and my sons were all wearing jeans/sweats/no collar shirts...to which my oldest said on the way there was "Mom, I have NEVER been dressed like this going to Mass." What would be my excuse now? Right. Nothing. So I called my hubby to tell him I was going to Mass. What a hoot that I would do this, I obviously needed someone to cheer me on. Tyring once more to make sure I should go, hubby added in that a sip of coffee is still a sip and it was too close to receive at Mass but Mass is still Mass and it'd be so good to go.
OK, so we went. I felt pumped to handle anything. Even going to 9am Daily Mass...by myself with 7 kids. It was not a total craze but it was not easy. Why would I think it would be?
About 5 mins into Mass, little lady woke up. And the rest of the Mass, I was squished in the 'crying room' with my little lady, my 2 double trouble boys and about 5 other moms with little ones. One mom was having a horrendous time with her 2 yr old having tantrums and oh, I know how she felt but I could not do anything about it. And since we were out of the house in record timing, I did not worry to change my little lady out of her BOY pajamas-yes, boy outfit complete with blue and trucks and cars. And one of the moms handed me a tissue b/c my 'boy' spit up! haa haaa! lol.
It was Mass and I was there. We were there. All 8 of us. First Friday. All of us to offer up our Mass for our friend who was told yesterday that not-so-good health news (see #1). And if it's all we do today, so be it. It is the BEST thing we can do today, the BEST.
God is good. ALL THE TIME.
Gratitude...
Dear Lord, Thanks for that push of actual grace to get my gang and I to Mass!!!
Thanks for helping me to say YES to that grace and all those graces you bestow on me and my family. Thanks for speaking through my husband to make sure that I heard you! Thanks for the sun today-it's been a long week. Thanks for reminding me that it's perfectly OK to respond to Your promptings, even if it's not at the time I think is best, but Your time, no matter what the world may say about it. Amen.
God bless,
M
2. I woke up today to NO COFFEE in the house!!! For those of us that depend on our caffeine jolts, that can be detrimental to a momma!!! haaa! So, quickly I made that judgement call to gather the kids up and I told them that it doesn't matter what they wore or what shoes b/c just a drive thru...or so I thought---look at #3! yikes!
3. Since we were out so early---it made me realize that I can actually get out that early in the morning if I let down my guard of having the kids look 'oh-so-nice' and I may actually be able to get to daily mass every now and then. See how pumped I was to get my jolt of coffee?!?! Made me realize how I can be just as pumped to get to Mass that way too!!! Well, we'll see how that goes...I am going to try, though.
And since we were out so early....and it was nice to be driving around with not too much traffic...and the kids and I were listening to some music and singing along.....I asked them if they wanted to go back home the LONG way to count how many school buses we saw. Of course they were up for that! Going the long way home put us on the road that EXACTLY led to one of the parishes around here and also EXACTLY the time to get to uh...Mass....First Friday Mass, no less.
And no matter how I tried to convince myself it may not be the best (now, in retrospect how ridiculous I was to try to avoid Mass....oh, when will I ever learn?!:( ) there were signs everywhere for me to get to MASS! Besides the road, the time it was...it was also the songs on the radio said 'church' right at that moment.
I bought that really big coffee and I took a sip and burnt my tongue and mouth-should have been a sign to not drink it an hour before MASS!!! So, then I thought to myself not a good idea to go to Mass b/c I just drank coffee, albeit a SIP, but a sip is still a sip.
Then there was me trying to convince myself that I had all the kids, why in the world would I do that all by myself? Besides, the baby was up and crying on/off in the car seat as I drove around and I did not have the most needed pouch/sling while at Mass...but wait a minute....now she was asleep in her car seat.
Oh, but my 4 yr old has flip flops on and my sons were all wearing jeans/sweats/no collar shirts...to which my oldest said on the way there was "Mom, I have NEVER been dressed like this going to Mass." What would be my excuse now? Right. Nothing. So I called my hubby to tell him I was going to Mass. What a hoot that I would do this, I obviously needed someone to cheer me on. Tyring once more to make sure I should go, hubby added in that a sip of coffee is still a sip and it was too close to receive at Mass but Mass is still Mass and it'd be so good to go.
OK, so we went. I felt pumped to handle anything. Even going to 9am Daily Mass...by myself with 7 kids. It was not a total craze but it was not easy. Why would I think it would be?
About 5 mins into Mass, little lady woke up. And the rest of the Mass, I was squished in the 'crying room' with my little lady, my 2 double trouble boys and about 5 other moms with little ones. One mom was having a horrendous time with her 2 yr old having tantrums and oh, I know how she felt but I could not do anything about it. And since we were out of the house in record timing, I did not worry to change my little lady out of her BOY pajamas-yes, boy outfit complete with blue and trucks and cars. And one of the moms handed me a tissue b/c my 'boy' spit up! haa haaa! lol.
It was Mass and I was there. We were there. All 8 of us. First Friday. All of us to offer up our Mass for our friend who was told yesterday that not-so-good health news (see #1). And if it's all we do today, so be it. It is the BEST thing we can do today, the BEST.
God is good. ALL THE TIME.
Gratitude...
Dear Lord, Thanks for that push of actual grace to get my gang and I to Mass!!!
Thanks for helping me to say YES to that grace and all those graces you bestow on me and my family. Thanks for speaking through my husband to make sure that I heard you! Thanks for the sun today-it's been a long week. Thanks for reminding me that it's perfectly OK to respond to Your promptings, even if it's not at the time I think is best, but Your time, no matter what the world may say about it. Amen.
God bless,
M
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Random---ness Quick Takes
1.......My 2 girls and 2 little boys are making tents out of blankets, cushions, couches-whatever....you name it, they are using it.
2......My 2 big boys are playing with matchbox cars and BLUTRACK race car track.
3.....We made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies and hot chocolate. Some rainy days just need those 2!!!: )
4......I found a few great links on how to live frugally. For some odd reason I cannot seem to link up anything!!! (very annoying!)
Once it works again, I'll post them for sure...
5.....We made an easy dinner for tonight. So easy my 3 and 5 yr old pretty much did it themselves (well, I did brown the meat first!!!)
1 1/2 lbs ground beef
can or frozen green beans
1 can garbonzo beans
2 cans of cream of mushroom soup (do not add milk)
1 bag of french fried onions
2 bags of tator tots on top
brown meat, drain and put in 9 x 13 dish
drain can green beans or just put on frozen green beans
drain and put on 1 can garbonzo bean (chick peas)
smooth on the cream of mushroom soup
put on top the onion and then layer the tator tots on top of that!
EASY PEASY!
Yummy! All my kidos eat tons of this dinner! :)
We always bake up whatever tator tots were not used on top...my kids love love tator tots!
God bless,
M
2......My 2 big boys are playing with matchbox cars and BLUTRACK race car track.
3.....We made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies and hot chocolate. Some rainy days just need those 2!!!: )
4......I found a few great links on how to live frugally. For some odd reason I cannot seem to link up anything!!! (very annoying!)
Once it works again, I'll post them for sure...
5.....We made an easy dinner for tonight. So easy my 3 and 5 yr old pretty much did it themselves (well, I did brown the meat first!!!)
1 1/2 lbs ground beef
can or frozen green beans
1 can garbonzo beans
2 cans of cream of mushroom soup (do not add milk)
1 bag of french fried onions
2 bags of tator tots on top
brown meat, drain and put in 9 x 13 dish
drain can green beans or just put on frozen green beans
drain and put on 1 can garbonzo bean (chick peas)
smooth on the cream of mushroom soup
put on top the onion and then layer the tator tots on top of that!
EASY PEASY!
Yummy! All my kidos eat tons of this dinner! :)
We always bake up whatever tator tots were not used on top...my kids love love tator tots!
God bless,
M
Monday, July 19, 2010
Quick Takes for Today
1. Pickles taste very very good to me lately ;) I am close to 4 months now ;).
2. When its this hot out, there is only one thing to do...SWIM and SWIM alot!
3. When there is actually a real playroom in a house, how come the kids don't play in it?
4. Those massive huge rubber bands from moving companies are fun toys for the kids to keep them occupied. But what a worry they are also! yikes.
5. You can never play enough hide and seek, esp. in a new house.
6. A certain 3 year old will undoubtly complain that his 'tummy hurts' just to soften his momma to give him ginger ale. Every. Single. Day. Every day. Yup.
7. Dress up clothes are so fun for the kids and so much fun for momma to see them having fun doing! I get them and any random accessory at tag/yard sales-super cheap too! (psst. I sometimes join in too!:)
8. Lastly, if your kids have a hide out and a secret password to use to get in. You may not know what it is but try this one, b/c it may just work...try "Ag Gold"! If you see this post, you'll know why! haaa haaa
God bless!
Mary
2. When its this hot out, there is only one thing to do...SWIM and SWIM alot!
3. When there is actually a real playroom in a house, how come the kids don't play in it?
4. Those massive huge rubber bands from moving companies are fun toys for the kids to keep them occupied. But what a worry they are also! yikes.
5. You can never play enough hide and seek, esp. in a new house.
6. A certain 3 year old will undoubtly complain that his 'tummy hurts' just to soften his momma to give him ginger ale. Every. Single. Day. Every day. Yup.
7. Dress up clothes are so fun for the kids and so much fun for momma to see them having fun doing! I get them and any random accessory at tag/yard sales-super cheap too! (psst. I sometimes join in too!:)
8. Lastly, if your kids have a hide out and a secret password to use to get in. You may not know what it is but try this one, b/c it may just work...try "Ag Gold"! If you see this post, you'll know why! haaa haaa
God bless!
Mary
Monday, June 21, 2010
Quick Takes: Early Summer 2010
1. We're just busy keeping cool with the humid weather.
2. Busy enjoying friends' pools. Thank God for friends with pools! Sometimes all that is needed is a pool to cool off in for even a half hour. Does wonders!
3. Our last day of school was last Friday. I did not set that in stone till last Tuesday! I just got to that point and had enough. We all had enough. It is summer now. Time to step back from the heavy duty schooling and enjoy each other without that stress. What relief! Ahhhh....I feel like I can breath now.
4. I bought a bunch of new *washable* markers and big white paper (100 sheets) and my kids are LOVING it! My son, 6 yr old, is so artistic! He says he'd like to have an art gallery and show and explain his drawings. He is so cute!!! I should post some of those. Maybe I will. So check back and see :)
5. Lots of paper plates being used up.
6. Lots of ice pops-those rocket pops-'red-white-blue' ones...those are so fun.
7. Posion Ivy has attacked some of our kids. I think it was what they were doing HERE. Whoops! So out comes the calamine lotion and our kids have little pink dots all around!
Note to self: Make sure you take out all the matchbox cars from your 3 yr old's crib. If not, if will make some for some really loud tossing and turning all night long!
God bless,
Mary
2. Busy enjoying friends' pools. Thank God for friends with pools! Sometimes all that is needed is a pool to cool off in for even a half hour. Does wonders!
3. Our last day of school was last Friday. I did not set that in stone till last Tuesday! I just got to that point and had enough. We all had enough. It is summer now. Time to step back from the heavy duty schooling and enjoy each other without that stress. What relief! Ahhhh....I feel like I can breath now.
4. I bought a bunch of new *washable* markers and big white paper (100 sheets) and my kids are LOVING it! My son, 6 yr old, is so artistic! He says he'd like to have an art gallery and show and explain his drawings. He is so cute!!! I should post some of those. Maybe I will. So check back and see :)
5. Lots of paper plates being used up.
6. Lots of ice pops-those rocket pops-'red-white-blue' ones...those are so fun.
7. Posion Ivy has attacked some of our kids. I think it was what they were doing HERE. Whoops! So out comes the calamine lotion and our kids have little pink dots all around!
Note to self: Make sure you take out all the matchbox cars from your 3 yr old's crib. If not, if will make some for some really loud tossing and turning all night long!
God bless,
Mary
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Quick Takes-Sunday Edition
1. How do you like the new look of my blog? The other one was cute, but a bit overloaded with flowers and pastels galore. My daughter loved it and I could not disappoint her and so I kept it for a while. But now I found this nice layout and the colors are a bit more relaxing to me. Seems that lots of things can get on my hormonal nerves lately and that other blog just had to go. So, do you like this new one? Either way, I'm keeping it!!! :) LOL
2. My hubby is at his high school baseball team championship game right now. What joy for him! He played in HS and college so to see them get this far and being able to make the game is quite a thrill for him. I'm pretty excited too! I hope they win! And the other good, really good part is that he took 2 of our boys with him to capture the moment. I am so happy-what a treasure of a daddy and hubby he is! Love him!
3. I don't mean to complain but I have to say that this weather pretty much stinks around here. 'Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms likely' has been the forecast for just about the last week. That means that we've been indoors a lot and if they do go outside, I have to be ready for lots of mud, hence lots of laundry. I'm really sick of laundry. (hormonal annoyance again, see?).
4. We are moving? Whoops! Did I say something to get your ears perked up? Never a dull moment around here, huh?!?! Yup, my hubby got a new job and it is a great one. We feel so blessed and so fortunate. God has truly been watching out for us and we know He continues throughout this whole carzy orderal fo selling our house. Quite the test of faith for us. We continue to surrender, and it is very hard for us to do. He daily reminds us to trust Him, trust Him, TRUST HIM!
5. What's up with the birds lately? I dearly love birds, love watching them, learning about them, and listening to their beautiful music...but not at 4:45am every day. Thank God I can usually fall back to sleep but having to wake up b/c of birds is just....well, annoying. I am up enough as it is already. Let me sleep already. (sorry!!!)
6. We have been watching "Chicken Little" movie and we think it is pretty hilarious! Good laughter is good medicine for our family. It was much needed!
7. My cravings have to do with spicy foods and salty foods and vegetables! Funny how different each pregnancy is! I am loving a good salad with cheeses and vegetables and loaded with ranch or zesty italian dressing. YUM! (oh, and of course ice cream too!:)
8. My due date has changed a wee bit. Well, I guess it was more my fault of not calculating correctly. Haa haaa. With my 7th baby, you'd think I got this all figured out, right? So wrong! But good news is that I am further along than I thought and my due date is January 13th :) That means not so long with the morning/day sickness. Yay!
9. 7th child= wearing maternity clothes very early. my body just flopps out now! haaa haaa. (Pssst! I secretly like all my maternity clothing better anyway! haaa haaaa!)
10. Last quick take, I promise. And it has to do with this sweet little baby on the way. Let me introduce you to...(oh man, I was all set to show you the ultrasound pic of our newest baby but I cannot figure out how to do it. If anyone knows, please let me know b/c you'll be amazed at the picture. It is so very very clear-the ultrasound tech could not believe how clear it was at 8weeks old to see the head, the eye sockets, the body, arms, legs!)
God bless,
Mary
2. My hubby is at his high school baseball team championship game right now. What joy for him! He played in HS and college so to see them get this far and being able to make the game is quite a thrill for him. I'm pretty excited too! I hope they win! And the other good, really good part is that he took 2 of our boys with him to capture the moment. I am so happy-what a treasure of a daddy and hubby he is! Love him!
3. I don't mean to complain but I have to say that this weather pretty much stinks around here. 'Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms likely' has been the forecast for just about the last week. That means that we've been indoors a lot and if they do go outside, I have to be ready for lots of mud, hence lots of laundry. I'm really sick of laundry. (hormonal annoyance again, see?).
4. We are moving? Whoops! Did I say something to get your ears perked up? Never a dull moment around here, huh?!?! Yup, my hubby got a new job and it is a great one. We feel so blessed and so fortunate. God has truly been watching out for us and we know He continues throughout this whole carzy orderal fo selling our house. Quite the test of faith for us. We continue to surrender, and it is very hard for us to do. He daily reminds us to trust Him, trust Him, TRUST HIM!
5. What's up with the birds lately? I dearly love birds, love watching them, learning about them, and listening to their beautiful music...but not at 4:45am every day. Thank God I can usually fall back to sleep but having to wake up b/c of birds is just....well, annoying. I am up enough as it is already. Let me sleep already. (sorry!!!)
6. We have been watching "Chicken Little" movie and we think it is pretty hilarious! Good laughter is good medicine for our family. It was much needed!
7. My cravings have to do with spicy foods and salty foods and vegetables! Funny how different each pregnancy is! I am loving a good salad with cheeses and vegetables and loaded with ranch or zesty italian dressing. YUM! (oh, and of course ice cream too!:)
8. My due date has changed a wee bit. Well, I guess it was more my fault of not calculating correctly. Haa haaa. With my 7th baby, you'd think I got this all figured out, right? So wrong! But good news is that I am further along than I thought and my due date is January 13th :) That means not so long with the morning/day sickness. Yay!
9. 7th child= wearing maternity clothes very early. my body just flopps out now! haaa haaa. (Pssst! I secretly like all my maternity clothing better anyway! haaa haaaa!)
10. Last quick take, I promise. And it has to do with this sweet little baby on the way. Let me introduce you to...(oh man, I was all set to show you the ultrasound pic of our newest baby but I cannot figure out how to do it. If anyone knows, please let me know b/c you'll be amazed at the picture. It is so very very clear-the ultrasound tech could not believe how clear it was at 8weeks old to see the head, the eye sockets, the body, arms, legs!)
God bless,
Mary
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Quick Takes-TGIS!!!
1. It is Saturday morning at 7am and 3 of my children are still sleeping!!! This is huge b/c our little guys are usually up quite early. But I guess I should add that our baby was up at 5:48am...but still! I will take some late sleepers around here! THis is great!
2. WIth this late sleeping going on....I am making homemade waffles-yum!
3. My 3 year old is cutting strawberries up all by himself for us all for breakfast today! What a big boy ;)
4. My oldest son had his last Astronomy class for the year on Wednesday night...his did great! He got a certificate and they stayed outside with the teachers' super deee-duper telescope till uh, 9:30 pm! AND let me tell you that the house we have the class at is almost 40 minutes away! I was a weeee bit tired that night as you can imagine.
5. Also that day I decided to pack it all up and head to the beach to have a little science field trip. It was awesome, great weather too and we went w/ a friend w/ her 4 kids. It was a blast-AND there was a Nature Center teacher there teaching these middle school kids and they invited our kids to learn about all the stuff too. Talk about a free science trip! COOL!
6. My husband is doing some painting around the house, we have to make some runs to the local town dump, and we are cleaning. Spring cleaning at its best!
God bless,
Mary
2. WIth this late sleeping going on....I am making homemade waffles-yum!
3. My 3 year old is cutting strawberries up all by himself for us all for breakfast today! What a big boy ;)
4. My oldest son had his last Astronomy class for the year on Wednesday night...his did great! He got a certificate and they stayed outside with the teachers' super deee-duper telescope till uh, 9:30 pm! AND let me tell you that the house we have the class at is almost 40 minutes away! I was a weeee bit tired that night as you can imagine.
5. Also that day I decided to pack it all up and head to the beach to have a little science field trip. It was awesome, great weather too and we went w/ a friend w/ her 4 kids. It was a blast-AND there was a Nature Center teacher there teaching these middle school kids and they invited our kids to learn about all the stuff too. Talk about a free science trip! COOL!
6. My husband is doing some painting around the house, we have to make some runs to the local town dump, and we are cleaning. Spring cleaning at its best!
God bless,
Mary
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Quick Takes for Sundays
1. So, how about that? We made it! It is finally the last day of February and we cruised along the month doing just fine. Praise God that tomorrow is March 1st. Only 2 more weeks till we turn the clocks AHEAD one hour! Yeah!
2. It seems that the hot topic lately is us, stay at home moms, are feeling that we are being a tad bit overlooked. We have taken notice that those "pat on the backs" and words of affirmation are far and wide between. This is not new to us. We even get used to it after a while. But there are times and moments that it seems to creep up on us, esp. during these dark and dreary months. I have had several conversations about this in the past week, that leads me to have a hopeful frame of mind that... Spring is right around the corner! These dark winter months are tough on lots of people. Feeling overwhelmed, feeling behind on school work, feeling inadequate in being able to make it through yet another week! I am so thankful about how honest other moms have been about telling me how they are feeling. (Thank you friends!) We can easily forget to be a support for one another in these times. I do think we are all ready for the sun, the warmth, and the outside play times!
3. We watched 1/2 of the movie called "An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving" and we just finished the other half now. It is based on the short story by Louisa May Alcott, the famous author of Little Women. All my children enjoy that one too. Of course my girls are loving this movie (my 4 and 7 yr old girls!) and my boys are tolerating it very well. They are such good sports! It was a family movie night last night full of cushions off the couches, sleeping bags, ice cream pops and memories. (Whoops!-we forgot the popcorn again!) These Saturday nights are our favorite nights to spend together!
4. I am a bit behind on getting the lessons planned out for this week. I do know that there will be some tests for my older students and trying to wrap up yet another quarter in the school year. For my younger ones, we will be focusing on the letter O this week. Any ideas to share?
5. A terrible thing happened yesterday morning while I was out shopping and going to confession. The door on our washing machine was closed a bit too roughly and it is now not closing and locking properly, therefore not working at all! I am sure you can only imagine how uncomfortable I am about this situation and how I may become a bit frantic if the workers, who we will call early Monday morning, cannot get here as fast as they can.
6. That's it for now. Time for a quick cat nap then family game time!
Happy Sunday and God bless you,
Mary
2. It seems that the hot topic lately is us, stay at home moms, are feeling that we are being a tad bit overlooked. We have taken notice that those "pat on the backs" and words of affirmation are far and wide between. This is not new to us. We even get used to it after a while. But there are times and moments that it seems to creep up on us, esp. during these dark and dreary months. I have had several conversations about this in the past week, that leads me to have a hopeful frame of mind that... Spring is right around the corner! These dark winter months are tough on lots of people. Feeling overwhelmed, feeling behind on school work, feeling inadequate in being able to make it through yet another week! I am so thankful about how honest other moms have been about telling me how they are feeling. (Thank you friends!) We can easily forget to be a support for one another in these times. I do think we are all ready for the sun, the warmth, and the outside play times!
3. We watched 1/2 of the movie called "An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving" and we just finished the other half now. It is based on the short story by Louisa May Alcott, the famous author of Little Women. All my children enjoy that one too. Of course my girls are loving this movie (my 4 and 7 yr old girls!) and my boys are tolerating it very well. They are such good sports! It was a family movie night last night full of cushions off the couches, sleeping bags, ice cream pops and memories. (Whoops!-we forgot the popcorn again!) These Saturday nights are our favorite nights to spend together!
4. I am a bit behind on getting the lessons planned out for this week. I do know that there will be some tests for my older students and trying to wrap up yet another quarter in the school year. For my younger ones, we will be focusing on the letter O this week. Any ideas to share?
5. A terrible thing happened yesterday morning while I was out shopping and going to confession. The door on our washing machine was closed a bit too roughly and it is now not closing and locking properly, therefore not working at all! I am sure you can only imagine how uncomfortable I am about this situation and how I may become a bit frantic if the workers, who we will call early Monday morning, cannot get here as fast as they can.
6. That's it for now. Time for a quick cat nap then family game time!
Happy Sunday and God bless you,
Mary
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Quick Takes-Sunday Edition
It's been a few days since I have posted anything. As you may have noticed (or not! heeeheee!). We have just been busy with life-going places, doing things. Time flies by and those small free moments that do come along, I don't think to post or I can't seem to think at all of what to post about!
That's the great thing about life-it's always changing, different seasons of life all the time.
Once again, I think I will be putting up a "Quick Takes" post. So, here it goes...
1. My boys are in desperate need of haircuts- the shaggy look over the ears is not cutting it in our "military style hair" in our family! This will be on my list for today.
2. I am coming to the conclusion that we may just have way too many books. It's hard to acknowledge this fact since my children LOVE to read books, be read to, and to look through them. For a long time, I have been pushing this fact out of my mind and accumulating more and more books. How can any homeschooling momma turn away free books? Well, I may not turn away any offers still, but I am going to make up some bags for me to give away to others!
3. Our parish is collecting "soles for souls" --old and used shoes to be sent to Haiti-isn't that a great idea? We have so many shoes-yet another reason to declutter!
4. Talking about decluttering and giving away....have you heard of the "40 Bags in 40 days" idea during Lent- to give away a total of 40 bags of stuff? I find this very intriguing but wonder if I have enough gusto and enough stuff to give that much away...I wonder what God is asking of me and I am glad I have more days to think and pray about it until the beginning of Lent.
What would you do? Would you have enough pizazz to give away 40 bags?!?! Oh, tell me please...I may be inspired to do it too!
5. As you can see...I am on the computer at 8:30/9am this morning which means that...yes, we are still going to separate Masses this week. I think we may try to get back together for next Sunday.
6. My (now!) 3 year old has informed me that after "asking God lots and lots of times for another baby" that God said "Yes!" and that "God will put that baby in Momma's tummy soon." That sounds pretty good!
7. This week I am going to try to put together a post on our schooling. I have been asked to so that may be just enough to get me to actually do it!!!
Happy Sunday and may God bless you and your families abundantly!
God bless,
Mary
That's the great thing about life-it's always changing, different seasons of life all the time.
Once again, I think I will be putting up a "Quick Takes" post. So, here it goes...
1. My boys are in desperate need of haircuts- the shaggy look over the ears is not cutting it in our "military style hair" in our family! This will be on my list for today.
2. I am coming to the conclusion that we may just have way too many books. It's hard to acknowledge this fact since my children LOVE to read books, be read to, and to look through them. For a long time, I have been pushing this fact out of my mind and accumulating more and more books. How can any homeschooling momma turn away free books? Well, I may not turn away any offers still, but I am going to make up some bags for me to give away to others!
3. Our parish is collecting "soles for souls" --old and used shoes to be sent to Haiti-isn't that a great idea? We have so many shoes-yet another reason to declutter!
4. Talking about decluttering and giving away....have you heard of the "40 Bags in 40 days" idea during Lent- to give away a total of 40 bags of stuff? I find this very intriguing but wonder if I have enough gusto and enough stuff to give that much away...I wonder what God is asking of me and I am glad I have more days to think and pray about it until the beginning of Lent.
What would you do? Would you have enough pizazz to give away 40 bags?!?! Oh, tell me please...I may be inspired to do it too!
5. As you can see...I am on the computer at 8:30/9am this morning which means that...yes, we are still going to separate Masses this week. I think we may try to get back together for next Sunday.
6. My (now!) 3 year old has informed me that after "asking God lots and lots of times for another baby" that God said "Yes!" and that "God will put that baby in Momma's tummy soon." That sounds pretty good!
7. This week I am going to try to put together a post on our schooling. I have been asked to so that may be just enough to get me to actually do it!!!
Happy Sunday and may God bless you and your families abundantly!
God bless,
Mary
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Quick Takes
My mind is full of random thoughts and possible postings so instead of picking just one and elaborating on it...here are some of my Quick Takes for the weekend:
1. We are splitting up the family to take the older kids to Mass this weekend. Yes, we hit that point that the positives outweigh the negatives of going to Mass as a family. Our patience and nerves are shot. Not to mention the poor people sitting near us week after week. What a show we provide for them! At least they are entertained. I think. Anyway, we'll re-evaluate next weekend in hopes it could be better. We'll see.
2. I took the girls to Mass yesterday, Saturday vigil. Haven't done that in quite a while. It showed when the lady in front of us turned around at the concluding song, told me she has not seen me here before and told me quite loudly that I have a very very nice voice (eeeeeek!!!) and handed me a business card (I was is such shock that I dropped it which of course made everyone notice even more!!!). Apparently she is involved in some chorus and wants me to join! My grin was enormous hearing this (and I bet others that were around us were giggling too. For the record, I do not think that I have that great of a voice! haaa haaa!!!)
3. My sweet baby is into climbing. Ay yi yi. Chairs. Couches. Stools. I wonder how I am keeping one step ahead of that lil monkey.
4. My hubby just (sorta) bundled up the 3 boys (minus baby and girls) and took them bike riding. I emphasize sorta. Nice huh? I think so ...sorta. It is sunny out... but it is only registering 27* right now. Something tells me they'll be back very soon and I better make some hot cocoa.
5. It is so very cold out. So cold that 8 minutes is the top limit for my kids, esp. my boys. Did I mention I have 4 of them boys? This is such not a good combo. Lord, help me.
6. I am already 1/2 way done w/dinner tonight! Yay for me! I put a pot roast w/ a can of cranberries in the crock pot early this morning. It smells delicious and I am going to peel some potatoes and carrots in a few minutes. Easy and warm winter dinners are the best!
7. My hubby and I watched a movie we got from Netflix last night called Flywheel. (The same guys who put out Facing the Giants and Fireproof- 2 GREAT movies too!). Wow! It was a great movie that we both enjoyed. I love how the noted before the movie even started that it was on a $20,000 budget and they still created it! So impressive. Good to know that beforehand b/c it did not have any special features and some lighting was off and immature acting at times. BUT it was Christian based and solid in honoring God in its production. Worth the watch (as with the other 2 noted above). As my hubby and I both agree, it did not make you feel guilty after watching it. Enough said.
8. Last quick take...We also watched as a family, the movie BOLT. It was oooooo-kay, I guess. We had to fast forward through some points b/c of some evil dudes. Enough to make 2 of my kids up b/c having bad dreams-argh. Those Disney movies do it all the time! There always has to be some evil side to each of them. I miss the good ol' wholesome movies.
Do you recommend any for the children, besides some I know of already? Please share if you do, maybe I can compile a list to share w/everyone. That would be great! There were some really funny parts to it that my hubby and I were cracking up to and the kids were looking at us as if "What is going on? Did I miss something?" Which made it even more funny!
Gotta go now!
God bless and Happy Sunday.
It will be a looooooooooong February, so get ready.
God bless,
Mary
1. We are splitting up the family to take the older kids to Mass this weekend. Yes, we hit that point that the positives outweigh the negatives of going to Mass as a family. Our patience and nerves are shot. Not to mention the poor people sitting near us week after week. What a show we provide for them! At least they are entertained. I think. Anyway, we'll re-evaluate next weekend in hopes it could be better. We'll see.
2. I took the girls to Mass yesterday, Saturday vigil. Haven't done that in quite a while. It showed when the lady in front of us turned around at the concluding song, told me she has not seen me here before and told me quite loudly that I have a very very nice voice (eeeeeek!!!) and handed me a business card (I was is such shock that I dropped it which of course made everyone notice even more!!!). Apparently she is involved in some chorus and wants me to join! My grin was enormous hearing this (and I bet others that were around us were giggling too. For the record, I do not think that I have that great of a voice! haaa haaa!!!)
3. My sweet baby is into climbing. Ay yi yi. Chairs. Couches. Stools. I wonder how I am keeping one step ahead of that lil monkey.
4. My hubby just (sorta) bundled up the 3 boys (minus baby and girls) and took them bike riding. I emphasize sorta. Nice huh? I think so ...sorta. It is sunny out... but it is only registering 27* right now. Something tells me they'll be back very soon and I better make some hot cocoa.
5. It is so very cold out. So cold that 8 minutes is the top limit for my kids, esp. my boys. Did I mention I have 4 of them boys? This is such not a good combo. Lord, help me.
6. I am already 1/2 way done w/dinner tonight! Yay for me! I put a pot roast w/ a can of cranberries in the crock pot early this morning. It smells delicious and I am going to peel some potatoes and carrots in a few minutes. Easy and warm winter dinners are the best!
7. My hubby and I watched a movie we got from Netflix last night called Flywheel. (The same guys who put out Facing the Giants and Fireproof- 2 GREAT movies too!). Wow! It was a great movie that we both enjoyed. I love how the noted before the movie even started that it was on a $20,000 budget and they still created it! So impressive. Good to know that beforehand b/c it did not have any special features and some lighting was off and immature acting at times. BUT it was Christian based and solid in honoring God in its production. Worth the watch (as with the other 2 noted above). As my hubby and I both agree, it did not make you feel guilty after watching it. Enough said.
8. Last quick take...We also watched as a family, the movie BOLT. It was oooooo-kay, I guess. We had to fast forward through some points b/c of some evil dudes. Enough to make 2 of my kids up b/c having bad dreams-argh. Those Disney movies do it all the time! There always has to be some evil side to each of them. I miss the good ol' wholesome movies.
Do you recommend any for the children, besides some I know of already? Please share if you do, maybe I can compile a list to share w/everyone. That would be great! There were some really funny parts to it that my hubby and I were cracking up to and the kids were looking at us as if "What is going on? Did I miss something?" Which made it even more funny!
Gotta go now!
God bless and Happy Sunday.
It will be a looooooooooong February, so get ready.
God bless,
Mary
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