There are so many new opportunities that have opened up to me. There is a big world out there, but the internet shrinks it down. Meeting new people has a become easier and blogging is now more fun.
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Up and At’Em
Looking out my window, there it is the bright morning sun shining bright saying “Good morning.” I really pray that this will be a good morning. I have been a bit tired lately and so my mornings have been hard. After a long night of dealing with my kids and trying to get some rest, I wake up in the morning and I am not yet rejuvenated, but God has graced me. Well, this morning I want more. This morning is going to be different. Even now as I type, my kids are screaming and hollering. They are fighting over the pictures on the refrigerator and who will get to play with the magnetic letters. Truth be told, they will be ok. And look they are. They worked it out among themselves. Now they are playing just fine.
Pushing through, isn’t always easy, but I have to do it. I have to get back in a routine. There used to be an order to my day. I know why my life got out of order, but honestly I don’t want to get into that right now. What I want to focus on is, moving forward. So, what am I going to do to move forward. I am going to do what I already started. I got up this morning and prayed. I read my word and now I’m gonna have a nice hot cup of coffee and some sugar cookies. Then I’m gonna make a list of what I need to do today in my planner, make the grocery list, and get me and my kids dressed. This day will be a successful one. What does that mean? It means that all that God has for me to do today will be accomplished. I’m not gonna be a couch potato today, tired and laying down with a lack of focus, but I am choosing to be productive. Kids crying and all, we have things to do and they are gonna get done. It’s funny because, I didn’t even know how to make the coffee. I had to call my mom and she told me to just add water.
Just add water, I have added the water of life to my recipe today and so I know it will be better than good. It will be a great day. God never fails me nor does he let me down. Just add water, I had some of the Living water this morning and now I am feeling refreshed.
Now I’m ready…
Blogger’s Voice To Be Heard
Aren’t we all having a great time blog
hopping?! I don’t know about you but I am. It is really nice to see
all of the websites and blogs.
Thank you 5 Minutes for Mom for coming up with such a great idea and
then taking it to such great heights, that the world of each woman has could be expanded from the four walls of her home and reached across the
globe.
As I continue all of the blog hopping with
5minutesformom’s Ultimate Blog Party 2011, I am realizing that the majority
of us, the participants, really want to get our blog, facebook,
and twitter information out in the online world. Don’t get me wrong, it is fun (I will definitely do it again) and there are some blog
visits that I have been able to really sit down and read, but then
there are others that I kinda through because I know there are
so many to see in only a weeks time; plus I want my site to get
noticed as well. As I hop around from blog to blog, I am thankful for the
wonderful women at 5 minutes who had such a great idea, yet I realize that
it just makes me want more.
What more could there be you ask? As I work on my blog and I
hop around to others, I realized that each blogger has put in the
time to express themselves in their own corner of the blog world. I
realize that these aren’t just pictures on a site nor are is it just
music playing in my ears. Instead, these are the voices of women in
different parts of the earth waiting to be heard.
I know you are still thinking…”more, what more could there be?” I
have decided to make room for the opportunity to connect again with
those women. Randomly I will be selecting a blog/website to review
and to read the posts. Then I will feature the site on my blog under
Blogger’s Voice To Be Heard For The Week.
The list will come from blogs listed on my twitter page followers,
facebook friend, off the web, and lists that I have accumulated from the
Ultimate Blog Party. If you would like to be included in that list,
please enter your information in the Linky below and don’t forget to
follow me on twitter.
Once the site has been reviewed, it will be added to the blogroll for Blog Voices To Be Heard. Be encouraged and keep on blogging, someone is
listening.
ULTIMATE BLOG PARTY 2011
For all of you visiting my blog for the first time. I am married to a wonderful man and we have three great children. Now I know that every mom says that about their kids, but I really mean it. When I say great, I mean…My kids are adventurous, intelligent, fun, loving, caring, athletic, and did I say, adventurous? I know I probably did, but I just need you to understand that my kids give me a ride and although sometimes, I’m holding on by a thread, it is so much fun being their mom.
Lets take tonight for instance. We all know, well those of us who have been anticipating the ultimate blog party, that we needed to get ready for April 1st. Well, although I knew I needed to get ready, I wasn’t sure what I needed to do, so I naturally I got the kids in the bed early and I thought that I would have time to do all that needed to be done for the party. Well as I sat in my living room on my netbook reading the posts on 5minutes for mom, my oldest son, X-man came out of his room and told me that his little brother, Ice Man, had gone into his room and taken his scissors. I was concerned, but I knew that nothing terrible had happened because Isaiah has had scissors before and the worst thing that he has ever done was cut his blanket in half. Yes, I know that’s bad, but at least he hadn’t attempted to cut his or anyone else’s hair. Yet…yes, I did say yet. X-man explained that Ice Man was in the bathroom with the scissors pretending to cut the lines in the bathroom. He was only pretending, right?! Well, as Isaiah stood in front of me with this really innocent look on his face, I realized that it looked like a patch of his hair was missing. He grabbed his hair and said, “What’s this in my hair?” I thought to myself, caught between an frown and a smile, “You have got to be kidding me!!!” I just knew that my son had not cut his hair. Boy was I wrong. He cut it down like someone had put a clipper to his head and gave him a one in a circle. Well, I talked to him and punished him. I collected all of the scissors from around the house and I sent him to bed.
My daughter kept calling my name saying that she needed to be changed, so I to her to check, because she often times plays tricks on me just to get me to take her out of bed, only to find that she really did need to be changed. While changing her, I noticed that there were balls of hair on her clothes…you guessed it. Isaiah had decided that he wanted to play barber and cut some of his sister’s hair too. Now thank God that neither case is extremely bad, but it all happened as I was trying to prepare.
This is just a little taste of my life as a mom. Its fun and funny. As I thought of what had just happened, I was tickled by the way that it happened. I even took a picture and laughed at the face Isaiah made as he stood there not knowing if he was taking a mug shot or a photo for grandma and granddaddy.
Remember…they are really great kids, just adventurous…
I’m just a fun going mom. I am always looking for great things to do with my friend, family, and kids. I enjoy knitting, reading, singing, dancing, and I love God with all of my heart. I am extremely excited about this UBP2011 and I look forward to meeting you.
Weekend Rush
Wow! Talk about a busy weekend. We moved so fast it was like I blinked and the weekend was over. It is already 1:45am, Monday morning and I didn’t get to do any of the “blog” work that I wanted to do.
There are some videos that I want to post and some stories that I have been collecting to blog about, but I am realizing that I am really going to have to work out my time schedule when it comes to this, or else I won’t be blogging at all…and I really want to blog.
One thing I did do this weekend was sit down and write out all of my responsibilities and the goals. I will now have to take the time to place them on the calendar.
My kids had a very busy weekend. It may seem weird, but I can’t really remember what we did. It all seems like a blur. All I know is that we were busy. I mean there were times where we were able to just sit down and do nothing, but when I look back on it, for some reason, it feels like I didn’t have any time to sit down. Honestly, I know why I feel that way. It’s because I’ve been chasing after my 4 year old and my 2 year old all weekend. And by chasing, I mean two different types of chasing. The first type is where the pointer finger is out and my eyebrows are squinted up, and my neighbors can hear me out side saying “don’t do that or that’s not nice.” The other chasing is where my neighbors hear and see me chasing after my kids playing tag. Either way it goes, my neighbors hear me, and they want to come and hang out. At least that’s the way I see it. Why do I see it that way, you ask? Well, my neighbors on both sides have small children like I do. And we all know how it is when someone is around with small children playing outside. We are thinking “HUH…it is possible that they could all play really nice together.” But what is it that stops us from going outside to let our kids play with the neighbors kids and talking to the nice mommy? I think its the fear of not wanting to bug the neighbor. I think we are just gonna have to get over it, a little…well, a lot. How are we ever going to make friends if we don’t get out there and talk?
Speaking of getting out there and meeting other people. In the next coming week, April thru April 8th, 5 Minutes For Mom will be hosting the annual Blog Party. This is my first blog party and I am very excited. I believe I joined the blog community just in time for all of the festivities. How awesome is that?! I get to stay in my home with my kids and meet other moms around the world who are probably doing and saying the same thing that I am doing and saying to my kids. I am really excited. The only thing is, I have to go to the website and find out how it all works.
Ok, back to the posts that I was supposed to be making this past week. I have a question answer session that I will be posting. There is a very heartfelt story about a 9 yr search going on in my area that I plan on writing about. There are a couple of videos that I want to write about and I want to tell you all about my other blogs. You know, I was supposed to be using this page to talk about the kids and the Me page to discuss what has been going on with me, but I think it will be ok. I’ll just categorize it.
You know, I am wondering how often I should plan on blogging. I was planning on doing it everyday, but that hasn’t worked out very well. So, I am thinking about once or twice a week. I wonder what works for other mom bloggers…What shall I do?
Leave you comments below, please. Say something to me, so that I know you are reading. Oh and be nice, I am new to blogging. Follow me on Twitter or friend me on Facebook and if you are a blogging Mommy, I hope to see you soon at the Blog Party…
Until next time…God Bless You!
The Joys Of Mothering
I absolutely love those days where our agenda isn’t full and there is time to do anything that we want to do. Those are the days when we just laugh so much that our faces hurt and and the spot behind our ears ache from smiling so much. On these days, my husband, my kids, and I go outside and play tag or jump on the trapoline.
Today was…well, it still is one of those days. I wanted to take my kids out somewhere but when we got there my daughter had an accident and I didn’t have a change of clothes so we had to make a u-turn and go back home. Once back at our palace, I decided to go outside with the kids to play. While outside my daughter, Precious, ran to a corner of the house and started counting. At the end, she screamed in the cutenessss way, because she’s only two, “Ready or not, here I come!” The boys, X-Man and Ice Man, looked around as if they couldn’t believe that she really wanted to play. I watched today as these there beautiful children of mine, played. I was thrilled because for at least 30 minutes, there was no arguing, only laughter and smiles.
I couldn’t help but grab my netbook and blog about the joy that I was experiencing. I believe that it is every parents dream to sit and relax at the end of a busy day and listen to laughter of their children as the giggle in a way that only children can. Coupled together with the sound of the birds chirping as I felt the soft breeze, this was for today, my taste of heaven. God had heard my prayer and led me beside the still waters.
Oh how, I enjoyed those moments…and I look forward to more.
Until next time…God Bless You and enjoy the rest of your day!
Busy Bee, Busy Me
BUZZ!!! Busy Bee…
It was a very busy week, last week. There are so many things that I want to blog about on the Being Mom 3 page, but I’m going to have to actually sit down and think about the days of the past week and organize my thoughts. I am excited about all of the different resources that I have found to blog about.
On the flip side of being so busy, I am always looking for a bit of down time. Yet when I find some, I don’t know what to do with myself. I enjoy doing so many things that it is hard to decide what to do. I know that I don’t just want to sit down and do nothing…at least that is what I think. There are just so many possibilities.
There is
- knitting
- crocheting
- scrapbooking
- singing
- writing
- my hair
- my nails
- clean
- laundry
- reading
- researching
- blogging
- face-booking
- watching a movie
- listening to music
- nothing…
I’m sure that there is a lot more that I think about doing. For instance, I just realized that I have other websites that I maintain.
Yesterday was Sunday and I decided not to do much on the computer, so I played outside with the kids for a while. Then I worked on a knitted sock that I am working on. It’s a nice plum purple color. Knitting helps me to relax and so that is something that I often find myself wanting to do.
This week, I have a lot planned also. I think I am going to have to sit down and really work out my schedule. Perhaps I should look at the things that I have to get done verses the things that I want to get done and see how that works.
Well, I just wanted to take a moment to blog…that was my moment.