:: mumford & sons

This is my favorite band for October just a week early :)  Enjoy

:: my goal this week ::

Oh this is a doosy of a goal!  My kitchen cabinets, fridge and pantry are full of food and whatever that I need to do a big clean out of it and use up stuff and get it eaten and cleaned up.  I have couponed alot and stocked my pantry up and now I need to use it up.  I started this goal this weekend I am going to try to use up as much as I can without going to the grocery store to buy more food.  I will still go to the store to get the kids there must have's but other then that we are going to clean up and use up what I have.  I am doing this to get all my expired stuff out and try something new!  I bought a book that I am so excited to get! 

http://www.easylunchboxes.com/trader-joes-book/

And I love Trader Jo's!  But I want to go on my first big food shopping trip to TJ's and not have to worry about where to put everything in my fridge, freezer, cabinets, and pantry cause I have no room!  So will see how my big clean up goes and the best part is I will be saving money this week which is another good thing :)  Will see how creative I can get with what we have the kids are gonna love me they are such picky eaters this will be fun!

Also, promise to take pictures with my awesome camera!  I went to put batteries in it but I don't have the right kind!  So when I do make it to the store sometime it is on my list to get said batteries then watch out world pictures will be taken and put on my blog!

:: life ::

 

This is me in a nut shell...

 

  *** Right now I have one whomper asleep and one awake and I have Keith Urban going on my iTunes on the computer.  This is just another night in my life.  :) 

*** Both my whomps are in school!  This is the first year ever and let me tell you it is alot to keep up with it but I am secretly liking it.  Don't tell anyone.

***  I have made 2 Pioneer Woman recipes in the last 2 days this is so a record!  I am getting better at this thing called cooking. :)

*** I am so much stronger that I love it when someone calls me Boss it makes me feel in charge!  Cause I guess I kinda am and I am liking it, alot!  No lie :)

***  I probably drink to much wine, but if you were a single parent most of the month you might drink too much wine, too.  Just saying.  It makes me feel like an adult after I have worked all day and then I need to be the parent to my whomps who need me the most right now.

***  Larry might start going back to Canada and go back to his previous job but different position and something more cool for him.

*** My buddy can read like no other.  He can ready level 3 books and I can't keep up with him and his reading.  He amazes me.  He hates to color but loves to learn.

*** My big girl is finally excited to go to her first year of Preschool!  It took 3 days of going and now she is set and is excited to go tomorrow!  She is not to far behind her brother in how smart she is.  She learns from him and soaks in all he learns and runs with it.

*** I am overwhelmed with the housework on the weekends but by Sunday I get a hand on it and take over and get it done.  Last weekend I tackled the outside.  Baby steps but it is starting to look better.

*** I still haven't started walking for my goal of doing a half marathon next year but I will start soon, promise!


I was going to try to download a picture of my whomps but I don't have any!  They are all on my phone so I will see what I can do tomorrow!

Night.

hugs,
me

:: camera ::

I finally took my camera out of the house in I don't know how many months.  I got a new camera strap that made it more spiffy and it was more padded then my last strap and I was so excited to use my camera!  And take tons of pictures for you all!  But I forgot to check the battery in it and it was dead so I went to my old stand by my awesome phone.  On my list of things to do is get batteries for my camera :)

I jazzed my blog up a bit and added my boys pic instead.  I got lots going on and can't wait to blog it!  Back on FB but I think I am going to slow down on that and blog more.  Lucky for you all who read my blog :)

hugs, me.

:: meet and greets ::

Today was BOTH my kids meet and greets for school!  Seriously, this is a big day for me!  My baby is in her first year of Preschool and my oldest is in Kindergarten!  Please make them stop growing!  This was my first official day going back to working 4 days a week and now I have Thursday's off!  Whoo Hoo!  Not great on the paycheck but I am thinking being a mom once a week and taking my kids to school and picking them up is going to make me feel better about not doing it the other 4 days and having to work and rely on family to help me.  So, my first Thursday off I got to go to both my kids meet and greets!  Yeah!  It was fun!  We started off the morning dropping Hunter off at Nana's and Larry and I took Grace to Hunter's old Preschool and she got to officially go in his old class and do stuff that Hunter got to do and she didn't and she was a happy little clam.  She get's to have one of Hunter's teachers and meet a new one and she fit in pretty good.  The only thing she didn't do was talk to the boys in her class but that will have to come with time.  She is so excited to be in Hunter's old school I think she will do ok there.  Will see next week that is when she starts!  It is so weird for me to put my baby in a school and know she isn't with me and her brother who she depends on all the time but thank goodness she knows one of the teachers and she knows one of the girlies in her class! 

My buddy had his meet and greet today and this one is harder for me.  He is getting so big and it is a a class he goes in 5 days a week and that is a big step for me.  He also has to do buses for a couple of the days and that is hard for me.  I wish I could be a stay at home mom so my kiddos don't have to go through this but it isn't going to happen.  He met his teacher and he was a little shy but I think he will come around.  His teacher said his class has alot more boys then girls in it the most she has ever had so maybe it will be good for him to be around this many boys but in Preschool is fav was a girl :). 

It was a hard day for this mama and I think next week will be harder.  I am going to try my best to make it to both kids first day and pick them both up but with work it is tough but I am going to try my best for me and for my whomps.  Crazy that they are both in school!  But they both need it cause they are so smart and they need the socialization and this is the best way I think I can give it to them. 

We survived meet and greet will see how next week goes :)