Thursday, March 8, 2012

Forgiveness for Moms who Fail


Are you like me and struggle almost daily with feeling like a failure of a mom? This is a great article for some encouragement...
http://biblicalcounselingcoalition.org/blogs/2012/03/07/forgiveness-for-moms-who-fail/

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Drake's Actual Birthday

So for Drake's actual birthday we ate Mexican before going to our small group. Icecream made his night!


Drake Turned Four

I know it happened back on Feb 15th, but life's been crazy! Drake's birthday request was Olive Garden and dinosaur cupcakes. Such a hard boy to please! Both sides of our families got together for our dinner out which ended up being a special evening of unlimited breadsticks for Drake! My Aunt and Uncle were even in town, why no pictures of dinner I have no idea? To busy loading up on carbs I guess ;)






Sunday, February 12, 2012

Valentine Treat

This is a festive & easy valentine treat! It was perfect to bake quick in the morning & take to our evening small group last week. Bottom half is a brownie mix with a strawberry cake mix on top. Bake & top with cream cheese frosting. Make sure you get a little of every layer in each bite!



Friday, January 20, 2012

Before I started to blog about my recent handy cleaning product I checked out my sister's latest post only to see her blogging about a cleaning product too! Boy are we sisters! Even scarier getting excited about cleaning = we ARE our mother!

I like going into the weekend having conquered something so today I decided to tackle our laundry room. This room is also our entry from the garage to our kitchen. Although I have it organized with laundry crates, several hooks for coats and a basket for shoes it was in desperate need of some disinfecting and scrubbing down. This is also where Jude still takes his baths so constant water splashes on dusty baseboards along with shoe scuff marks everywhere made for a lot of scrubbing! I tried my usual rag but it just wasn't doing the trick. Then I remembered something that my husband bought by mistake earlier in the week. We had throw up flu going on here so I sent him on a drug store run for all the flu necessities and instead of my usual Lysol disinfecting wipes he got scrub ones. Sure enough they worked perfect on everything and a little extra comet took off most the door frame scuffs. Yes, those fingerprints and black scuff marks all over your doors & frames don't have to be a permanent look! Even better my 3 yr old grabbed one & eagerly conquered wiping down the washer and dryer perfectly for me! Plus the best part is when done just toss!


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Monday, January 16, 2012

Overcoming a Gloomy Monday

Instead of giving in to my desire to crash on the couch after a busy weekend I pushed through to get tons done around the house & squeeze my workout in (did I mention I have bumped up to level 2 now, wow what a killer!) This morning I made a pot of homemade chicken soup that's been simmering on the stove & the aroma of blackberry cobbler is now filling the house (the pioneer woman recipe below/blackberries compliment of the inlaws farm.) Starting to hear noises from the boy's bedrooms so with nap time coming to an end my evening meltdown is fast approaching!

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/08/the_great_cobbl/






Photos via The Pioneer Woman