Out in service with my family

The sun is warm.
The breeze is cool.
The cooler is packed.
Smiles? Check.
Service bag? Yep!
Bible? Check.

Ready? Let's go!

Besides having amazing conversations with our fellow brothers and sisters at morning meeting; it was so refreshing to spend the morning serving Jehovah and enjoying our family.

Park time

Today at the park, Bella played on a train. Inside the train sat a polish grandma who embraced bella by calling her "Babushka". And she was reading books and singing. Even though Bella was not interested and even a little board, I found myself wanting to snuggle at this woman's feet.

I will be doing this on the 1st

I will be blogging pineapple updates. :)

Tonight's dinner

Every aspect was 100% natural.
It's so wonderful to give my children
Natural goodness.

The garlic was sooo good.

Cloth diapers

I have always been a very cloth-diaper-friendly-mama.
Ew, gross poop. But there is smoothing so natural about it. Baby never has a diaper rash, because the diaper is changed so often, and is so breathable.
I've used diaper pins in the past. I know, yikes. What if the kid moves.... Well, you poke them. But you don't pierce their tummies. You just poke them. And it hurts. And you both learn. Mama learns to be extremely efficient, and baby learns to sit still for half a second.

BUT recently, I've been introduced to this cool new, thingy.
I want one. Oh shoot, maybe two!! Obviously, reusable. But it works off the same idea of an ace bandage clamp. Super fast, super great!!!

Yes please. :)

Yummmmmy

Home made egg rolls and spicy cabbage veggies! Come to mama baby!

Man! I'm so tired from eating

These Cheerios! One after another, it's so much work!

Happy to cook

Cooking makes me so happy. But, then again, so does loads of laundry. Im easily pleased. I would be the happiest woman in the world if my husband spoiled me with expensive laundry softener that smelled like "Mango Tango." lol

But all the things that make a woman, I try to excel at. And on of those things is cooking. I love cooking.

So my son asked me to make him a HUGE breakfast for his first day of 7th grade. I was happy to oblige. My sweet son.

"Mommy time"

The bible says "Out of the mouths of babes." Bella told me couldn't clean right now "bee-cuz I need to be mama right now and my baby needs me to love her, right now, k mom?! Then I clean my house, k mom?"

Awe honey, of coarse it's ok.

If more mother spent more time loving their children, this world would be a better place.

Yes, I drew his clothes on.

How embarrassing to have a picture of yourself slapped onto the Internet, in your underwear!
And seeing as my husband is not a 13 year old hoochie on Facebook in a push up bra, I gave him the dignity of drawing him an outfit. Lol ;)

But the reason of this post: my bed has no more room. We have zig zag formations. We have strait lines. But where is mama to lay?! Usually, under or next to the baby, then Bella cuddles on my legs.

This morning, I was pinned down by babies, and had to pee; but I couldn't in pin enough to maneuver any one limb to get up. So I pleaded in the middle of the night: "Help honey!!!"

And of coarse. He did. Lol and this is what I walked into. Lol

I can, happily, imagine every single mother (human, cat, bird,etc) has this problem. The bed is not big enough. Lol

My favorite app

I've used this app for EVERY store.
It's 5 stars. Starting with today:
I used it to get a free Jamba juice.
Buy one get one free.

In the past I've used it at Target, Big 5,
Bev mo, JC Penny, Sears but not grocery stores.

I love this app!!!

Mmmmm Razzamataz smoothie. Free taste so good!

In loving arms

After a busy day of helping our family move. We all pigged out on pizza. Bella fell asleep in her uncles arms. I'm sure that white shirt is stained with pizza grease, lol, but something tells me he dosent mind. :D

Guinea pig ball

Actually it's an Ice cream maker. Billy wanted know why I was storing a guinea pig ball next to my crock pot and food processor. :D my mother bought me this so the kids could "kick it around". Well, I liked the idea, but I don't think she put into consideration the fact that my son likes to kick things into things and watch things break. And Koral likes to be the cheerleader. So, I snug bugged this guinea pig ball safe in a cabinet that I recently destroyed.

PANIC

My 12 year old son came to me at 6:30 in the morning to tell me something Horrible had happened. "Someone STOLE the cat food container."
This is a high dollar catfood container. I mean, ziplock containers are not a dime a dozen these days....oh wait.... Yes they are.

So in my head I'm imagining a man in all black creeping past my husbands car, past the side gate, forget about the kitchen window, no---JACK POT--- plastic cat food container. It's a snatch and run. The masked man runs as fast as he can down the street screaming "Johnny I got it GO GO GO" as he jumps in his get away car.

Lol. Seriously? The wind couldn't of knocked it over when it was empty last night? No. SOMEONE TOOK IT!!!

:D

Our almost hallway

I am a proud mama. I love all my childrens art work and I want to display it like a gallery of masterpieces. But having so many children creates a big ol mess on my walls. My husband came up with the idea of chalkboard paint. All hallway walls. So here is step one: paint walls. Next comes the bright blue sky, with fluffy loony toon clouds, and then the upper molding. Then I have to fix the bottom molding. But I am so excited to see my children's art work. What a wonderful idea my hubby had.

Texting....or doing the dishes?

Humm.... She appears to be slumped over, diligently applying her effort at the dish. But dish it is not. No, it's her cell phone. When she sees the flash of the camera, the phone slides across the counter, dishes start flying everywhere, and she starts whining. "I thought you were sopost to be doing dishes?"
She replies "But...BUT.... But?....Nicki."
I don't even open my and she knows what she should be doing. And she starts doing what's right.

Welcome: 14. The land of no return.

Ok....so....I'm old

And I know a little bit about a lot of cool techy stuff. But this makes my mind stop. A projector (a devise that makes a small picture bigger by using mirrors {old school} or lens) but its interactive.
What?!?! How can a picture of a picture be interactive?!?! Please explain this to me. Anyone? If this is true.... IRobot is right around the corner and I'm moving to Tenn. because I can't handle the creepy robot idea. But seriously, is this a computer? Do you plug your iPhone into this? Where is the information coming from?

Most importantly, how much is it? Because I want to buy it!!!! :) drop apple juice on this keyboard Bella! Ain't no thing baby!

Fried red potatoes

When your 2 year old comes into your bedroom at 6 am, kind of sad, kind of desperate, kind of crippled; and begs you for "a po-tae-toe." Do yourself a favor and don't panic. Don't run into the kitchen and start chopping red po-ta-toes, and heat up the cast iron pan. Dont add garlic salt and fresh cracked pepper. Don't serve it on a platter with a flower, and oj and a fork and napkin. Don't ask her to sit at the end of the bed while watching "Nora, the ESS-plora." no. Do yourself a favor and just get her a glass of milk.
Because that's what she really wants.
A big ol glass of chocolate milk.

So dear reader, as I eat my fried red potato, and contemplate why I jump for these rats at 6 am in the morning, I say to you:

It was my pleasure to cook for you my dear. And I will probably do it again tomorrow.

Why? Because that's my job. To be there for my babies. 6 am, fryin taters. Midnight, drug store runs. Sunday at 2pm or Monday at 1 am. It's my role. My job. My pleasure.

Color coded fun

It's 6:30 am. My sweet toddler is gently playing with oversized legos. And I hear grunting and see blue, green and red blocks flying into the air, as she's digging for a orange one. "It match mamma." lol. Maybe I should be concerned. OCD? Maybe I should be proud, extreme notice of detail. But surprised I'm not. This child has been detail orintated from the beginning. I'm eager to see her schooling, her choices. My cute little detailed baby.

This is awesome!!!

I found this through an app called "Fancy". How cool is this?

Not a problem

Sometimes, there's an off day.
Sometimes, there is an item that makes her nose scrunch. But for the most part, all my kids eat very well.
For example today my 2 year old asked for a second helping of calamari, and passed up the fresh kiwi for some more broccoli and cheese. Really? What is there to complain about?

So hot

My poor large, black dog.
It's so hot.
She's so big.
Her fur is black.
So what do I do? More importantly what does she love?

Eating ice! So here she is, munching on a LARGE piece of Ice we froze last night. Good girl puppy.

Sound deafiner 6000

An original invention by the new upcoming scientist: Billy Martin.
His new invention: "Be used as a head rest. Transforms into a sound deaf-in-ing devise that you can sleep on, and block out children screaming."

For low low price of a scoop of Ice cream.

Who knew?