I love to read about different family’s Christmas Traditions and how they Celebrate this special season. Since Christmas is so close I thought it would be fun to share a few traditions our little family likes to keep each year. I love family traditions and growing up with a family rich in tradition I know these will be good memories for years to come for my sweet children.
So I’ve been seeing a recipe floating around Pinterest for homemade Soft Scrub. I love using Soft Scrub, but the price is a bit high so a cheaper do-it-yourself version got my attention. It seemed too simple to be true, but I gave it a go anyway. I recently cleaned out our garage and realized our cooler lid (which used to be white) was pretty gross. So it became my test for the homemade Soft Scrub. Please excuse the dirty garage floor, I did this in the garage last week while I was doing the garage sale between customers 🙂
Next I mixed baking soda and bleach in a glass bowl and found a dollar tree toothbrush and mixed it.
Then I scrubbed just one side of the cooler to see the before and after effects…
I was pretty pleased with the results! Thanks for stopping by and reading 🙂
Johanna
Sooooo… I have a three-year-old little girl who is full of drama. Probably not the only one in history, but one of my current dilemmas. When time out time comes for bad behaviour I find myself with a little girl on the bottom step screaming, kicking walls and not able to even calm down enough to learn her lesson. This was getting worse and worse until I told my husband, “there has to be a better way, I’m going to research this.” So I went online and read other mom’s advice, dr’s advice, psychologist’s advice, etc. Nothing was really working. Finally I saw something called a mind jar. This was a mason jar filled with water, clear gel glue and ultra fine glitter. You shake it and the glitter settles slowly as you watch you relax. The original ones I saw were to teach children to meditate (not my goal). I loved the idea of getting Bella to focus on something else and relax. Then I saw on Pinterest that some moms were using it as a timer for time out also. Genius! So I didn’t have to watch the clock or set a timer, and it would calm my Bella. Well, I did not like that it was a glass jar (she is three, and who gives a three-year-old glass?).
So I found a water bottle (Smart water was the brand) that was totally smooth and not too big around for little hands to hold.
I removed the label with goo gone (it was very sticky under that label)
Next I filled each bottle with about 3/4 (* edit 5-3-12, I used hot water so that the glue “melted” better… room temp or cold will cause it to stay separate) water, an entire bottle of glitter glue and a small tube of ultra fine glitter. I kept playing with the mixture until the glitter settled at about 5 min. I added more clear gel glue to make it go slower or more water to make it settle faster. Then I had my sweet husband (who knows when I handle glue I tend to glue body parts together accidentally) to super glue the lids on. Another thing I didn’t like about the mind jars I saw, the mason jars were not glued shut and knowing my kids they would just open them and spill or drink them (glue and glitter… not something I want my kids drinking). Here are the finished jars.
Here is one settled and one in the beginning stages of settling…
Here is one of the bottle half settled at 2 1/2 minutes and the other totally settled. Sorry they are purple and pink, those are my girl’s favorite colors (right now) but you can make them with any color glitter. I’m sure blue, purple or green ones would be really cute too.
Here are some of the products I used to make them.
Now time out in my house looks more like this….. and I love it
While making these Eric and I were amazed at how relaxing they are even to us! I think I want one, can I go to time out please? 🙂
*****UPDATE***** If you like this project you will LOVE the glow in the dark version Stars and Toothbrushes found here!
Thanks for stopping by!
Johanna
Ok, so… a while back I posted on my Facebook that I wanted to use some old bulletin boards from college days and update them to be used as art display boards for during preschool year for my girls. Well I got some great feedback and was all set to do something awesome with them when I went to Target a few weeks ago and saw these:
On CLEARANCE! For 2.49! Ok, I didn’t want to spend anything on this project but I bought 2 for 5 dollars. They were much more suited to my end goal of changing out art every week. So every little paper they brought home was proudly displayed but for a limited time (a week) then retired to the school year box. I’m really an anti-clutter girl and at the end of the year I plan on letting them choose their absolute favorites and keeping only those. These boards have a big magnetic/dry erase side that I could just put up some art with magnets. Then on the cork side there are big rubber bands so no sharp push pins needed(one of my concerns with a 3 and 4 year old) and the papers just slide under the rubber band and stay in place! Ok, and I loved the green color since the girl’s room is done in green, pink and white.
So once I got my cheap finds home I decided to personalize them with their initials in a girly wooden cutout from hobby lobby (99 cents each, plus 40% off coupons made them 59 cents each). I painted the initials pink and used a white paint pen to put polka dots on them. I hot glued the initials in the lower right corner of the boards.
I also wanted to make magnets to match, so I got 8 clothespins and painted them with the same pink and then dotted them with the white paint pen also.
Next I found some plain magnets from a past project.
I painted them pink also because the show under the clothespins.
Then I hot glued them to the clothespins and each girl’s board got four of these each.
I hung them in the hallway right outside their room so they can see their work displayed every day! My girls loved it and I like how it turned out also. My total cost was less than 7 dollars.
Now, I am redoing the other old boards for my craft room 🙂 I’ll post on those when they are done!
Happy crafting!
Johanna 🙂
So this year Katie asked me for a Rapunzel party… at first I was a bit overwhelmed since we have been watching this movie all summer and its pretty amazing. I knew she would want all kinds of details from the movie. So I started by asking her which parts of the movie were important to her for her party. She was quick to answer! A tower cake, a tower in the house, floating lanterns, banners, and a Rapunzel dress and hair… tall orders and small budget. So I wrote it all down and did some looking through my craft stuff.
Banners: I found purple card stock and cut it in half and found a sun stencil at Walmart for 1 dollar and I had gold paint. So I stenciled suns on the card stock which I cut in half and hot glued to a ribbon every other horizontally and vertically to mimic the movie banners from the scene in the city. I made two rows of 6 each, I saw that you could buy some online 6 per row for 12.99 each row, I made them for 1 dollar for two rows. They may not have looked as professional but Katie loved them and that’s what counts.
Flower wall: Katie loves the theme of flowers everywhere throughout the movie so I decided to make a flower wall that says happy 4th birthday Katie. I had lots of old tissue paper that I kept from past gifts (I know its strange, and I don’t care… I use it and it saves us lots of money on tissue and my silly crafts like this one) . So I gathered lots of pink, purple and green and twisted and taped and came up with a flowery wall with vines and wrote Happy 4th Birthday Katie in curly lettering on some paper and taped it up to the wall also. Soooo, this was the result… not gorgeous but cute and she loved the girliness of it.
Floating Lights: Now this was one I had no idea what to do and then just two days before her party I remembered in a box downstairs in our wedding stuff was the round paper lanterns from our wedding reception! I went and found three of the white ones and got the cords and light bulbs that would fit and with my tall hubby’s help got them hung in the living room where her party was to take place. When we turned them on they were just ok, so I remembered from the movie they were more cylindrical and different colors of purple, yellow and orange. So back to the tissue paper (see, useful to keep 🙂 ) I taped purple, yellow and orange tissue to the lanterns and…. the glow they gave off was magical to Katie! Again not professional or perfect but Katie loved it and that’s my goal.
Rapunzel Dress and Hair: Ok so this one we got some big help from Eric’s Mom and Dad. They sent Katie a gift card for Toys R Us and she immediately wanted a Rapunzel dress and got it with gift card left over still! Thanks Grammie and Grampie…. she adores it and wears it all the time! Now, the hair. That is one of my crafty free ideas… I went through all of my scrap fabrics looking for shades of gold. I found three fabrics with gold colors, one was shiny gold satin and the other two were goldish tulle. Each was just a thin long strip of fabric so I decided to braid them and then braid into her hair. I’m glad two were just tulle because the braid is long but not heavy at all. She pointed out that Rapunzel in the movie when her hair was braided there were lots of flowers in it. So I went to her bow drawer and pulled out about 8 flower bows that I’ve made her and randomly put them throughout the braid. She loved it and wanted to wear it everywhere, she even wore her outfit and braid the next day to church since I let them all wear whatever they want on their actual birthday. 🙂 Again not a professional wig like they sell in stores (20-40 dollars each) but it was free and she loved it!
Tower in our house: I needed to cover the cords from the lanterns anyway so I found some blue fabric and tacked it up to the wall and put a strip of silver satin I found up on the blue for a tower “in the sky”. I also crumpled some white tissue paper (useful!) and taped it to the blue sky fabric as clouds. I found some purple tissue paper and folded it into a triangle for the top of the tower and when I stepped back to check out my work, Katie said, “where am I in my tower?!” Well I had to remedy this fast so I went and got one of her school pics not in a frame and taped it to the tower. She then said, “Where is all my long golden hair?” OK, I ran down to my craft room and searched for something to make her hair long and come off the tower… I found some gold satin ribbon I’d gotten for 10 cents at a garage sale a long time ago. It was perfect, I tacked it behind her pic and trailed it out of the tower and spelled her name next to the tower with it. Her final critique was, “Its perfect mommy!” This made my heart smile 🙂 Again not professional wall art but my four year old to be loved it!
Tower cake: Ok so as for the tower cake, I tried and failed and finally succeeded… I knew this would be a tough cake but I tried to do it the day of the party. My biggest mistake. I have seen towers online done with rice krispie treats, so I assumed I could do this also. Well I tried it and when I put icing on it the tower just kept sliding downward and I learned that to do this properly I needed to let the rice krispie treats dry in tower shape for a few days so that the marshmallow isn’t so soft and holds shape better. So plan B, I also saw an non-edible option of taking a paper towel roll and covering it in icing. So I went with it a few hours before the party and was desperate. The base is a large strawberry cake (Katie asked for Strawberry and chocolate) covered in a chocolate fudge icing and then covered in fondant. I placed the tower on it and then positioned the characters we got her as a gift. Next I decided that I wanted to spell out her name in fondant “hair”. My immediate thought was to find the kid’s play dough press that makes the play dough into long thin strips. Then I decided I had to have something similar that was only used for food. I found my garlic press and it worked great! My sweet husband even offered some muscle for the cause 🙂 So I wrapped the fondant “hair” around the entire cake and then spelled Katie’s 4 with it. I also made small purple fondant flowers and shimmer dusted them and placed them all over the tower and cake. She went nuts over the cake. It was ok, not my best but cute.
So here are a few more pics from her party and afterwards. I did buy a plastic Rapunzel table cloth, plates and napkins from Walmart, so after everything cake, food and all her party cost less than 30 dollars. So even with a low budget Katie got a Rapunzel party that she still talks about two weeks later 🙂 I spend a lot of time and effort on my kids and that’s just the way I like it. I want her to always know she is loved, I hope this is just one little memory among many that remind her of my love.
So she loved her party and felt like a princess! Goal acheived 🙂 She got many more wonderful gifts but we got so into the party we didn’t get all the pictures we wanted. That always seems to happen! Maybe we need to ask someone to come that barely knows us and can focus on picture taking so we have the pics later but can be focused on the party 🙂 I love my brand new 4 year old! She is so vibrant, artsy, happy, sweet and loving. I’m blessed beyond what I deserve to be her momma.
Happy Birthday sweet girl 🙂
OK so today is the first day of preschool……
Well in preparation for preschool we needed a few things. Especially since this will be Bella’s first year. Grandma Fish got her a backpack and matching lunchbox but she still needed a nap mat. Last year we sent K with a 3 dollar roll out mat that looked like a yoga mat and her dora blanket and a small pillow. This year I was determined they would have something more practical, simple and pretty. So I started doing some nap mat research. There seemed to be a few types ranging from ugly blue on one side red on the other plastic folded up ones like I had as a kid 20 something years ago all the way up to adorable built in pillow and blanket pretty fabric ones that rolled up and had a carrying handle. OK, so the practical, simple (all-in-one, mat/pillow/blanket) and pretty was best represented by the most expensive ones out there. These ranged in price from 40-80 dollars each! Now with two girls that are almost twins (10 months 3 weeks apart) who want everything their sister has…. the price would be 80-160 dollars… plus shipping! OK well if you don’t know, minister’s families have tight budgets, and youth minister’s families have tighter budgets. So I knew trying to convince my husband that these were a-dor-a-ble and simple and practical wasn’t worth my breath for that price. Also I couldn’t justify the price to myself either 😦 so I was sad and frustrated by it all. Until I saw that some crafty moms had attempted sewing their own. I sew! It looks semi-difficult, but I’m always up for a challenge!
I was now a momma on a mission! I decided I would not spend more than 10 dollars per child to make them and do my best to use some materials I already had. So off to Hobby Lobby I went and found the sweetest corduroy in a chocolate-brown with bright flowers all over it.
I was in love with the soft pretty corduroy but not in love with the price, 9.99 a yd. and well I needed 3 yds of this. Thank goodness I got 40 % off though because it was a seasonal (fall I guess) fabric so it was really 5.99 a yd and cost 18 dollars total. So with very little of my 20 dollar budget left I got a roll of matching hot pink/magenta ribbon (half off) for a dollar to make the ties with. Now down to zero money left I had to come up with everything else from my craft supplies. So I went home and found a fleece blanket in the same bright green as the fabric I’d bought cut it in half and used it as the attached blanket. I found a barely used bag of polyfil, to stuff the pillows with and took two old baby blankets from the girls boxes of baby stuff and used them as the liner for the mat part. There were a few more things like buttons, thread etc. but you get the idea. So after many hours measuring, cutting, pinning, sewing on machine and by hand, a little seam ripping, and stuffing…. the girls have cutesy, made with love, not-so-professional-looking nap mats for preschool.
I am happy with them all in all. They aren’t perfect, but they only cost me 20 dollars and some time. Total savings 60-140 dollars! The girls love them and know I worked hard on them out of love for them, that is more important than buying them any day even if we could.
Happy napping to my girls…. 🙂
Johanna
Ok, wow! Summers are super crazy in our house and just before the summer started our house experienced a very rough few months with our son. He had ear infections constantly. This meant very little sleep, lots of crying/fussing, and a very sad and in pain baby boy and with two girls 2 and 3 who had plenty of sleep…. this mommy’s sanity was definitely in question more days than not. Praise God he had surgery to have tubes inserted (on his one year old birthday) and we have been ear infection free ever since! Then the summer started, and if you are in the youth ministry you know this is the craziest and busiest time of the year. Trips, VBS, camps, conferences, splash days, concerts, etc. Its crazy but wonderful and such a blessing in more ways than I can count. Now that school is starting and the dust is beginning to settle I am excited for this new season of schedules, less trips, more family time, seeing my girls grow and learn in preschool, focusing on my son those 2 days a week the girls go to school, fall, college football, and so much more. I’m going to try and be a more consistent blogger also. Its something I enjoy and much like my many journals its relaxing. It also saves me a lot of time catching friends and family up on our lives, and sharing photos of the the kids.
So I guess I’ll give a quick review of the last few months:
April – Noah had ear infections and sleep deprivation and stress, is all I really remember
May – Noah’s ear tube surgery! Noah’s first birthday (Noah’s ark themed, yeah yeah I know, I figured it was the only year I could get away with being corny with his name without him complaining about it 🙂 )
June – Our 7 year anniversary, we celebrated in Austin, TX a very artsy city which I adored. Lots of gardening! Church softball (Eric injured his ankle…. I did too but not a cool softball injury like his, mine was my lame clumsiness). Went to Joplin a lot to help with the victims of the tornadoes (gave me a new appreciation for how devastating natural disasters can be) Got to see Taylor Mason for the 3rd time in person, loved it! Made a fun spiderman cake for an adorable four year old boy. Eric turned 28, we had a dinner mystery party for him in TX. Went to Woolaroc kidsfest (amazing, seriously so much fun). Got to see Hillsong United in concert, for free! A great friend won backstage passes, dinner with the band, and concert tickets for Eric through a youth minister contest! indescribable worship experience. Girls attended a summer program at their preschool one day a week, which they loved.
July – My girls called american flags “a-miracle flags” all through the 4th of July season, it was so adorable I couldn’t bring myself to correct them. Bella turned 3 so we had a bubble guppies party for her. I had two 3 year olds for a month and a week and can I say C-R-A-Z-Y??? We went to church camp, for a great week and I got to do some worship art and teach a class on it. We went to Lake of the Ozarks for CIY and it was a lot of walking but a powerful message. We also did some mission work with a small church and then at a homeless day shelter called Hope Faith Ministries in Kansas City. Life Changing is all I can say about this great trip with 18 teens and 7 adults. I can’t wait to go back to Hope Faith and work there again! We took the kids to Dallas and back in there too. Lots of traveling and packing and unpacking. Oh and an elementary kids splash day.
More to come soon 🙂 I’ve been crafting and painting lately so I’ll post on those soon!
Wow! I’m not sure why but February and March were crazy and I blogged none! Not that my life is any slower today, in fact that is what my entry is about. At the end of each day (being when all three of my kiddos are snoring, yes snoring just like their dad) I feel like I’ve accomplished nothing and everything all at once. So today I decided to keep a running log of all my day entails and it has even surprised me! Well here it goes, please don’t judge me I’m doing my best I promise!
A.M.
6:16 – Woke up to Katie excitedly telling me she wore her big girl panties all night with no accident and in her excitement peed my bed telling me about her accomplishment… sigh
6:17-6:45 – bathing me and Katie, changing our clothes, throwing the peed on clothes in the hamper, stripping the sheets, cleaning the bed with my upholstery steam cleaner, drying the bed with towels, putting new sheets on the bed…
6:45 – realizing Katie is crying and assuring her that I love her and am not upset with her, she did a great job all night and next time she can just run to the bathroom first before coming to tell me and it will be fine, that I love her and am proud of her and don’t mind changing my sheets before 7 am. I kissed and hugged her and my mommy heart was full 🙂
7:00 – Bella comes in with her first disaster of the day her tiny baby bear she “stole” from my mom’s house is missing… so off to search the covers, pillows, toys and blankets for a very small white bear that will make or break Bella’s day
7:08- Bear found! Inside of a large fish toy that has a way to shove things in his belly (he is a stuffed Jonah and the Big Fish play set, so you can take Jonah in and out of the Big fish’s stomach… gross I know) So I rescued Bell’s bear from the bowels of the fish and the girls did a lot of giggling and celebration dancing and singing the Jonah song (you know the who did? who did? who did? who did? who did swallow Jo Jo Jonah…, no? well you would think it is cute)
7:10- Went to get Noah from his crib, as always my sweet boy was super happy to see me (all my worries melt away when I see his deep love for his momma) and reached for me with mucus covered hands… wait… yes mucus covered hands. Upon closer examination of my sweet 10 month old’s face I realized it definitely looks like he has been attacked by a slime monster and I sigh realizing the third bath of the morning is in order.
7:12 – I undress Noah, rush him to the bathroom (hey, he is a boy) and he laughs and giggles the whole time obviously unphased by the large amounts of mucus and grossed out mom. I sing songs to him while bathing him trying to sneak in something semi-educational (ABCs, Jesus loves me, twinkle twinkle and his favorite lately patty cake).
7:20- bath over and rush him to his room (again, boy) and diaper him fast. Pick him back up to find some clothes, then dress him fully knowing that after breakfast and much more snot he will need another outfit… but he is so handsome and clean right now I play peek a boo with my happy son, his giggle is the most amazing sound.
7:34- holding a clean, dressed baby happy with my efforts I sadly realize the girls are quiet and a panic comes over me… I run to their room to find them standing in the middle of a pile of ever piece of clothing from their dressers and closet. Hang up clothes, pants, skirts, shorts, pjs, socks, shoes, underwear, tights and my girls standing on top of this small mountain with expressions of pride and joy. I took a deep breath and walked back to Noah’s room, put him in the crib with three or four toys.
7:38- Went to my room, shut the door and made the bed and cleaned my room (my own calming down, I know strange) while repeating some Bible verses about patience and the fruit of the spirit (something my dad used to make me do when he found me being impatient)
7:45- went back in the girls room and calmly asked them to help me pick up all the clothes and help me fold them, hang them, match them and put it all back where it belongs. All the while telling myself (and them) this was an opportunity to teach them about taking care of our clothes and keeping them nice because we need to be good stewards, not screaming that it was way too early for this type of crazy.
8:53- second guessing writing this inventory of my day… take a deep breath and try to encourage the girls (and myself) that it will be a great day despite our morning and we all head downstairs with a positive attitude for breakfast. I put everyone in their chair/highchair/booster seat
9:00- make Katie and Bella “chocolate milkshakes” (chocolate milk) and give it to them. Give Noah a tray full of cheerios, turn on Bubble Guppies and then set about making breakfast. Scrambled cheese eggs and yogurt for the girls and rice cereal with apple juice for Noah. Checked/updated Facebook, got some much-needed encouragement from far away friends,while waited on eggs to heat up.
9:18- Breakfast served/fed. Had mucus and cereal sneezed on me twice. (rejoicing always gets hard at times like that for a germaphobe)
9:23- Noah is nauseated from the drainage and he pukes, I clean him, the chair, me and put him in outfit # 3 for the day…
9:39-Finished answering emails, messages from Facebook while munching on a granola bar (bella took two bites for every one of mine, so I had probably about 1/3 of it). Researched ear tubes for Noah (I’m an over analyzing parent I know), while the kids colored (each other and the papers I gave them). Cleaned up my girls. Cleaned up all the breakfast stuff, cleaned/scrubbed my kitchen table due to beginning to harden spilled yogurt. Katie ran up and hugged me thanking me for cleaning up (yes my heart melted)
9:50- Fed Noah his bottle (pure bonding wonderfulness), and put him down for morning nap upstairs, grab a load of laundry to take downstairs with me (hey can’t waste trips)
10:03- Bella gets arm stuck in my elliptical machine (screams like she is dying, pretty sure the neighbors are convinced I’m beating the kids with how much they scream)… pry her out, console her, tell her its not a toy, give her an ice buddy (we still freeze their old teething toys for boo boos) and turn on her favorite veggie tale and hold her for a while
10:30- Decide lunch is coming soon, need to start something now. Bring girls in the kitchen to “cook” at their mini kitchen (Katie said they were making green bean frozen yogurt with carrot topping… yes my kids LOVE veggies and I’m fine with it) while I make my double batch of pizza dough, clean out my fridge, empty and reload the dishwasher, make a grocery list and organize my coupons
11:14- I hear Noah, so I give the girls an art project to do at the table with foam stickers and crayons. Run upstairs to change a biohazardous diaper, change Noah (into new outfit #4) and wash his once again slimed face. Poor boy.
11:26- Bring Noah downstairs and put him in his playpen so I can vacuum from the girls/breakfast so he can play on the floor without choking on some tiny piece of food or toy (mostly Barbie shoes). Put him in the middle of the floor after putting away all the girls toys and putting out some blocks for him to ignore and crawl to the coffee table and chew on it…. thankfully he still only has two bottom teeth!
11:35- Roll out pizza dough and breadsticks, make and begin baking lunch. Get interrupted several times by my girls insisting I dress their naked Barbies so they can go to a Ball. Try to launch my favorite Christian Radio station 89.7 power fm, only to turn the screen of our dinosaur of a computer to see the blue screen of death and I want to weep a little (fourth time this week and its only Wednesday) reboot and pray.
12:10- pizza taken out of the oven and cut into adult and kid pieces (yes they are very different, I use cookie cutters to make “shape pizzas” of their choice) make Noah some baby food. Fight all three to get them to the table and back in their chair/highchair/booster seat, promising a yummy lunch and dessert of fruit later. Ended up having a good conversation about obeying God and parents. Katie prayed, “Thank you God for our food, guinea pigs, eggs, toenails, slides and Noah’s booger face” (I stifled my laugh not wanting to discourage her prayer and cherished the sweet innocence of her talking to God so honestly)
12:30- feed all three kids, jumping up constantly for a napkin, clean a spill, extra piece of cheese, wipe sauce out of Bella’s hair, repeating over and over for Bell to stop trying to pick Noah’s obviously runny nose even if it looks like he needs it. After all this I’m not hungry (booger-fest did me in), so I give Noah a bottle and take them all up to bed for nap time.
1:00- silence….. breathe…..
1:01- rush around doing laundry, cleaning the massacre that is my dinning room table after two toddlers and a baby have eaten lunch there. Sweep and vacuum again, pick up the toys again (I’m pretty sure they explode out of the toy box randomly even without my kids help sometimes, because they can be everywhere when I’ve never seen the kids get them out)
1:58 – my first trip to the bathroom of the day alone (I don’t have time to drink, but I’ve refilled at least 12 juice/milk cups and three bottles at this point in my day)
2:00- look in the mirror and realize my face is pale because I’ve been not sleeping but 2 or 3 hrs a night lately mostly due to sinus junk and I feel kinda faint, so I go to my room to lay down.
2:02- (I KNOW they have some kind of radar that goes off when I dare to sit/lay down) I hear a thump, boom, boom, boom, boom…. running in my room is Bella who I forgot to put in a pull up before nap has peed her bed….
2:03- cleaning Belle, and now everyone has had a bath today 
She gives me wet hugs (I can’t make myself stop her, this wont be forever right?) and lots of splashing ensues, soaks me and I have to change again too, and sop up the bathroom floors, teaching Bella to help me wipe up the water. Let her lay with me in my bed watching Bubble Guppies so I don’t wake up Katie and wait to clean the bed sheets on her bed
2:18- (radar) Katie runs in screaming where is my Bella (oh the drama my girls contain in such small packages) Reunited I savor the moment seeing them hug each other and tell each other they love each other…. then I remember I must strip, clean and resheet their bed (a maid couldn’t handle my kids)
2:20 – Noah is up from the ruckus and is once again slimed 😦 sigh (outfit #5)
This is where I ended my inventory…. its crazy, but its blessed and I wouldn’t trade it for anything 🙂
My Crazy Blessed Life! 