Informal Study

I've been thinking and I've been wondering if there is a connection between the cleanliness of your house and the type of shoes you wear. There probably is no connection at all, but I thought I would ask and see if there might be.

So, I'm going to set up a poll to see if there's a correlation. I don't think there are many that actually read this blog, but it'll be fun anyway. :)

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is always an interesting day around here. We're not too big in the gift giving and HUGE celebrating that I know others do. I usually make cards for the kids and we always have heart shaped sugar cookies. Other than that it's just been whatever. We do also have heart shaped pizza for dinner. I figure everyone will eat it and so it's worth it. I can think of a bunch of other things that would be more special, but I can't say the kids would all eat it.

So, this year I decided that rather than making cards for the kids I made bigger heart shaped cookies for each of them as well as for Mike. They were fun to make and I think everyone enjoyed getting a cookie with their name on it. :) Here are pictures of the kids with them:











Mike's cookie card:


This year we also sent out Valentine's to all the family members. While the boys were working on theirs for school, Brigit and I worked on some for the family. Here is the Valentine that I added:

Mental Note

So maybe there are a couple of them... This is for me to remember and maybe help someone else not make the same mistake.

So, yesterday afternoon I decided that I needed to get some shredding done and the kids enjoy helping. So, we got a bunch shredded and I bagged all the little papers after we were done. I still had more shredding to do, but we needed to wait for the shredder to cool down before we could do more. We never made it back to finishing yesterday. This morning the kids were playing around and having a good time. The next thing I know one of them has picked up the bag of shredded papers and has been dumping it throughout the main areas.





Also, last night I had folded clothes and not all of them got put away before the shredded paper got dispersed.

We did get it all cleaned up, well mostly. I'm sure we'll be finding little papers around in the couch and corners for awhile.

Chore Chart News

I decided that I need to update how things have been going since I got the chore charts out. I'll be completely honest....not so well. I've decided that I'm really not good at implementing it and keeping up on checking to make sure they are done. Those of you that have charts and have it work.... How do you make sure they get done? What's your schedule like with it?

I also decided that I had too high of expectations for them to get all checks filled everyday. I can't even do that myself...I better give them some slack as well.

We are trying to do something where if you get so many checks you get to pick a special activity with just mom or dad. Last week went better than this week is going. I've got a cold this week, so maybe that's why? :) I'm sure I'm just trying to make myself feel better. It seems to be working, so I'll leave it at that for now.

Speaking of colds....I really don't like them, especially when they seem to wipe me out. If the kids just watch movies and nothing else happens, it's ok, right? We'll see how lunch and dinner go today.

Anyway, that's a quick little update for now. I don't think I can think very well right now. I'll have to post again soon. I'm going to be a better blogger!

I'm SLOW!!

Here I am, thinking that I need to get back into blogging. I'm going to try to be better. We'll see how long it goes....hopefully longer than the last phase.

We were able to invite people over a couple of weeks ago to celebrate our house with them. This process has been a LONG one as you all know and we are so glad to be here at this point. Thank you all for your support.

I really haven't taken many pictures...I've been slacking there as well. We've pretty much unpacked the boxes, but we still have a lot of organizing/decorating to do. So, I still have a bunch of boxes to empty in that reguard.

I've gotten involved in pintrest and I seem to spend plenty of time there looking at ideas and pinning things that I slack in other areas. We're working on getting chore charts up and ready to go for the kids. We really need the revamping and scheduling that they can provide. I think we're going to start using this chart found here: suttongrace.blogspot.com

If there are a few of you out there looking for something here is another site I found that lits a bunch of ideas: blogs.babble.com/family-style/2011/10/17/15-of-the-coolest-chore-charts-for-kids/?pid=7820#slideshow

While looking at chore charts for the kids...I thought I should come up with something for me. I found this blog that has a TON of ideas and a challenge that I think can help me out too. cleanmama.blogspot.com

So, this is basically what I have been up to and working on at this point. I'm hoping to get everything implemented by next week (if not today :)).

I'm here, just busy trying to organize my life and feel like we can settle into a good schedule. :)

Best Day Ever

That's what my oldest said the morning that we told him we were moving. It really did happen and we really are in our new home and trying to unpack and put things back together.

In some ways it still doesn't seem real (granted it only happened yesterday), but I do LOVE my house and the change that it has provided. As you can see, our internet is up and our phone number is now working!! YEAH!!

Now it's time to organize and unpack. We will be having an Open House Celebration in a week or so. There have been so many people involved in this that we would like you all to be able to Celebrate with us as well.

Again...Thank you all for your support through this. We are forever grateful!

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

WOW!! I really haven't been very good at blogging. New Years resolution will be to be better. :) On to my point in blogging today.

The best gift I could get this year is my new house and it looks like I will get my wish. It should come the weekend after. So, it looks like we will be into our new house in time for the New Year. We are very excited and are looking forward to this change. We should get exact times early next week. YAHOO!!! It's really going to happen.

A HUGE THANK YOU to all of you that have walked this long path with us. We have felt the prayers that have been offered and I KNOW that those prayers are being answered. I am often reminded that things don't always work out how we expect or plan, but they do always work out. We may never know why things have gone this way with our house, but I know that for some reason we needed to experience something or something had to happen and now it will be the best.

So, for now we are planning on signing on Thursday and then moving thereafter. Possibly Thursday night, but for sure Friday will be a big move day.