Babbling On and On (sorry)

My baby angel is going to be turning 1 in less than 2 months! I am in utter shock and just can not understand how this has happened, where did the time go? A year.. unfathomable and as whats his name from Princess Bride would say... Inconceivable! I sat and looked at her today and couldn't get over first of all how absolutely A-dorable she is but also how ENORMOUS she is. 20 pounds now I am sure! Almost time to invest in a new frontward facing carseat :0), that is a little exciting. She is pulling up on everything and practicing her balance as she lets go to stand alone, it will not be long before she is walking. Butterflies will be her birthday party theme, of course, and I can't wait to have oh so MUCH fun with it!

Other things floating around in my brain is the enormous amount of "things" taking up space in my backyard. I can hardly think of anything else. It is... just... a monsterous mess, that is all and I am anxious to get rid of it all. We have company coming in town Thursday night some of my lovely in-laws. It will be a wonderful time, as always.

Life for me is always a never ceasing cluttered mess. Not life itself but all the things in my life or really in my house. I can not seem to "get it together" for the life of me. I clean, deep clean, schedule, declutter, organize, set out routine after routine and yet day in and day out I always feel like I am still lagging behind. I know, I know it is all about creating better habits and some how encouraging my family to in that direction. We are happy though in our never ceasing cluttered mess. One day... One day...

Okay, so I am not sure where this babbling post came from. I couldn't think of anything important to post about and then just decided to be me for a moment, the me my husband knows, the babbling me after all the kids are in bed.

To Bed... To Bed...

11:47 and I am still awake at my computer. It is work that calls my fingers to tap this time. I have finally made a nursery worker schedule. I am the Nursery Cordinater at our church and for the many months that I have taken this job I have been the main worker in our charming little nursery. I don't mind all that much but it does become very draining to ones spiritual thirst. This schedule will allow me to enjoy some spoken words of God through His mighty vessel Marq Toombs and I can not tell you how excited I am about that! I pray that everyone will be pleased with the schedule. I really struggled with this because I have a phobia of upsetting people and so the idea of assigning people to work on certain Sundays just makes me a little lot uncomfortable. This is something that I would really like to get over. I have never enjoyed being an extremely passive person. Alrighty, I have set my printer for 20 copies and now I must finish up my last Saturday night preperations for the madness of Sunday morning.

Be blessed... Good Night!

Rationally Complaining?

I did 4 loads of laundry today and put one of them away! Woo hoo for me. There is a basket of folded socks and hanging clothes on the couch, a basket on the floor under it with t-shirts, a blob of clean boy shirst, pjs and socks on the dryer, some clean shirts and pants in their room on the floor (where it can't be seen of course or tripped over) and sitting in the dryer is Butterfly's bedding. I am still playing catch up from our trip. While in my room I was thinking well, the clothes are clean... and I grabbed an assumed dirty shirt of Expresso's off the bed to toss in the dirty hamper only to find it grossly overflowing... sigh. I wonder where oh where do all of these hideous clothes come from... not my house. I can hear the comment now, "Do I have any clean jeans?". Will it ever stop? Will I ever catch up? I want to rip through everyone's drawers pulling out all of the items that are cluttering up and causing havic in my laundry room/kitchen. Really, do we really "need" all of these clothes?

Do you ever do that? Just complain until you have found some rationality. I write a lot of invisible post like these only to delete them or have them sit in "drafts". I decided to allow this one to pass through the gates of publish. I am sitting at my kitchen table with my bible opened to Genesis 6. I wasn't going to blog right now... how I started I can't really tell you my fingers just started dancing.

Today Thoughts....

So I didn't get up at 5:00 this morning to meet with my King, which put me in an imediate grumpy mood, just ask Expresso. I had to within the first few minutes of my morning push the roof off and pull the walls down, which simply means had to ask God to forgive me (roof off) for my sinful behavior and my husband(walls down). I even went to bed at an early hour of 9:30. Mornings are always hard no matter what time I go to bed, I just personally hate them! I wish they would leave me alone, but I know that is impossible and must learn to love them, just like those difficult people in my life. Nancy Leigh Demoss expresses my thoughts exactly:

I battle my flesh, which loves to sleep, is easily distracted, and does not like to sit still and be quiet. I battle my schedule with its never-ending "to do" list. I battle interruptions-many of my own making. There are many mornings when I allow my pillow, the phone, or piles of office work to win out, and have ended up spending only a few hurried moments with Him.

A few hurried moments describes my devotional time this morning... that darn pillow! Maybe I should get a rock to sleep on, that would be less tempting to go back to sleep on.

Later in my morning I got a call from my friend who had to cancel our evening dinner plans due to sickness. I can't tell you how much I was looking forward to our fellowship with my friend, I have been looking forward to it since last Thursday but quickly got over it realizing that there is a reason for everything.

I do have some good news though... I made my own homemade babyfood last night saving a good bit of money. It was fun! I made green beans and blueberries. This morning I used the blueberry juice leftover from the food for her cereal, she loved it. I still have some breads to make today.

Also, I only spent 78.76 yesterday at the grocery store! But it isn't going to stay that way if I don't get busy baking some snacks and bread. That is good, but not good enough. There is still more room for improvement. Today I am going to print out my price book pages and record my prices from yesterday.