December Already!!

First of all, I had posted a while back about finally finishing my curtains in the living room...Well they weren't quit right so I fixed it and now it's a whole lot better. I don't know what I was thinking the first time. This is the way it is supposed to look. :)

The four day Thanksgiving weekend was pretty good. We spent most of it at my husband's parent's place. Black Friday we always put the Christmas lights up on their house with them. It's tradition. The kids love helping. In this way it is nice living 10 minutes away (if you drive). We will be helping them decorate their Christmas tree too, yet another tradition the kids love.

Sorry not a whole lot of photos taken.

This afternoon we headed out to find that perfect Christmas tree. We got the perfect one!! No the one here isn't it...this belongs to Charlie Brown...the kids were bummed. I will have photos of course when the lighting is better.

We love searching for the perfect tree, but I can't figure out why we always pick the end of the day as the sun is going down...I can't see anything during dusk...and I don't ever get any good photos. It is hard to believe how outdated my camera really is. ;)

Tomorrow is the first day of December!! I think this month is going to be gone in a blink of an eye. I don't even know how I will remember everything that happened this year...I do thank God for cameras though because if you can't remember you can always go over the photos you have taken which can then hit something in your brain that makes you remember. I seriously wish I could remember a lot of things that have happened through out the years...it is frustrating to me.

So more cleaning to do tomorrow around the house and need to get school in...there wasn't a whole lot happening last week.

Just wanted to say,
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope your day tomorrow is filled with family and much laughter and gratefulness.

And I have added some of my handbags back into my etsy shop
http://www.sleeplessstitch.etsy.com

My Zazzle shop is also full of many gift ideas for the Holidays!
zazzle.com/momasart* There are always great deals available too!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!!

Thankful

This is the week of Thanksgiving and I can be thankful for a lot.

Thankful for those tiny little flowers that are holding onto summer.

Thankful for the beautiful fall leaves that have blanketed the ground.

Thankful for my children even when it doesn't seem so.

Thankful for my husband who is trying so hard to take care of us.

Thankful for an encouraging church body,

who even in their times of struggle still take the time to care for others.

Thankful for my health even though at the moment it doesn't seem good.

Thankful for the sunshine that has shared it's warmth even in the cold.

Thankful for the things that have not been seen yet.

What are you thankful for this week???

You can write as much as you would like.

Saying what you are thankful for makes tuff times easier to handle.

Have a blessed week everyone and enjoy your family that is around you.

Breathing Again

This has been a week of being sick and not getting much done. I can say though I am dressed today and my hair is done, the curtains are open to let in the lovely sunshine though the air is cold. The photo above was taken yesterday evening, took it through my living room window...I love it when the sun is trying to shine through the grey clouds and it makes everything seem brighter in color. Perfect when the leaves are changing. I can't believe my hydrangea which is normally blue is still holding on. It's beautiful!!

I just through this one in. This explains my daughter in so many ways. She is a character, strong willed, determined, funny, beautiful, sweet, comedian, and from her voice you would think she was from Brooklyn, New York. I tell ya she is going to make a man very happy one day.

I hope and pray she never loses her joy.

I wanted to post a video today but can never find what I am looking for.
My oldest is 9 today. My husband is coming home with the movie Wall-E for him, we haven't seen it yet but we pre-ordered it a month or so ago. I am excited to watch it.
Today was alright, fighting a head cold so my head is really achy to the point that I just want to sit and veg. So watched White Christmas and Big J finished his tests for the first set of units. T and lil' J did some school work also. T is doing subtraction and lil' J is working on letters, she is the only left handed one in the house so I still haven't figured out how to show her but we are working on it and she is doing pretty good.

I am officially done writing on my home school blog that I had, it was really just sitting there collecting cyber dust. It has taken me a long time to give it up because, well I guess I thought I would miss something if I got rid of it. Nope nothing missed, I just needed to be done with it.

My boy is 9!!! I don't think it shocks me but it just amazes me that we have come this far.

He wasn't supposed to be born on this day, his actual birth date was December 1st but the Lord brought him into our lives early. He was 5lbs. 11oz.

The placenta was 10% dead...don't have any idea why but I knew that he was coming early.

5 days of none stop hard labor and only 15 min. of pushing. He seemed to be the biggest baby in the nato care (I think that is what they called it) and all he needed was a feeding tube. We got to bring him home on Thanksgiving day!! And now he seems all grown up...I can't wait to see what he becomes, I am excited to see what the Lord has planned for him. He has such a sweet heart for others and loves worshiping the Lord...who knows maybe he will be a youth pastor or a worship leader. He belongs to the Lord and I am blessed!

Goodness I need to work on being patient with my camera again. Sorry so blurry.

Headcold Ramblings

I love when the leaves are red...we don't have any in our yard, I actually found these when we were taking pop cans back to the store.

My oldest painted this picture the other day...had to frame it, it is a bird...looks like a crane.

Our new little friend. She spent all day on our back porch on Friday. She always comes over and cries so that we let her in...I confess she has come in the door a few times but that is as far as she gets. You can hear her purring through the door! It is incredibly loud. I love it.

My oldest turns 9 on the 18th!!! We had a little party for him yesterday and this is the only photo that came out perfect. I love making cupcakes/cakes. These weren't from scratch but they were SOOO GOOOD!

And I made a new bag for myself! I LOVE this fabric!! I will post a full photo of it when I get a good one. I made it bigger then what I have been making and it turned out really nice. There is enough to make one more bag with this fabric and when I get another chance to sit down at the sewing machine I will finish it and put it in my shop.

So...ya...life is ruff big time right now but I am so incredibly blessed and thankful that we have the Lord to take care of us!! We would fall if we didn't have Him.

"When my world is shaking, heaven stand. When my heart is breaking, I never leave Your hands. Your hands that shaped the world are holding me."-JJ Heller

"Hope means holding on to You...Grace means You're holding me too."-JJ Heller

I love listening to JJ Heller's sweet songs of worship...Her words have been so encouraging to me lately. http://www.jjheller.com/home.asp

Ants, Work, Christmas O My ;)

Finally got to sleep all night long!! Of course I was woken up before my husband's alarm went off at 6:30. The little munchkin gets up before we do! She was headed for the bathroom but didn't get very far because she noticed that there were tiny ants all over the place!!! My lovely children put their apple cores in the bathroom garbage (I don't know why the kitchen was closer) which brought the ants once again into the room. They come out of the floor vents. My only defence was my hair spray which instantly killed them but now I have to start all over again to get rid of them for good. I swear the little buggers live in our walls!
And of course the rain outside doesn't help. And with my OC habits I will be scrubbing every single nook and cranny in our home the next few days.
They seem to be the tiniest ants out there but they have bigger brothers and I don't want them in the house again either!
Ugh!!

I was going to sew today and try and figure out what I am going to make for my children for Christmas, everything I think of takes some money : ( ...I wish I could give them all that they need but at this point there is no money for Christmas. I know that we will be taken care of, the Lord has always blessed us with what we needed each December but the road getting there really sucks, if that is a bad word in your book sorry...I couldn't think of any other. A great gift would be that my husband gets officially hired where he is working! That would be nice. He is doing such a good job there from what I have heard.
Funny I always freak out ahead of schedule...we don't really hit heavy winter until Jan. Feb. sometimes and that is when it really hurts us. But he is at this new job and looks like they don't have winter hours...praise God!! At the old job they had winter hours which meant that he lost an hour of work.
Ok I'm rambling now. Not many care to hear about stuff like that. You want to hear about the ants! Me too. ; ) They will hopefully be gone soon and I am praying that I don't find them anywhere else in the house. We moved into this house with ants already here and it took me a good year to fully get rid of them.

Oh and tomorrow we are having Thanksgiving dinner at our church!!! This is the first time we have done this (the church I mean) It is going to be such an awesome time of fellowship and food and family!! We love our little church...the Lord has blessed everyone there abundantly! I will take my camera and get pictures. I can't wait!! I really do love the holidays...have been listening to Christmas music almost all day every day for the past few weeks! LOVE IT!!!

Wool Madness and a Sleepless Night

I played in my flickr a bit to bring out the colors in the above photo. My son wasn't very cooperative but it worked out when I didn't show his whole face. He was giving me a dopey look.

This is a scarf/table runner...I know a weird combination of jobs but that is what it is good for.
And I am still staring and refolding this wool fabric below. I just don't know what to do with them. Most all of them could fit a twin size bed. I did think blankets but what should I do to finish them off and they aren't that soft being a wool mix. I thought of adding a soft backing to them and finishing the sides...But I just don't know!!!!
Does anyone have any ideas???

The one here on the left would be a really nice winter wrap skirt...All I would need are buttons. Already have a long slip that would work underneath it...I don't like itchy fabric.
So yup, I could really use some ideas.

I am so tired, didn't get any sleep last night it seemed I was up every 15 min. putting my middle guy back to bed...he keeps getting in our bed at night and it is starting to get old. We tell him to stay in his bed, we always make him go back to his bed at night...but he still does it.

Ok off to eat my homemade tomato soup...it's the perfect day for it.

Chin Up!

Loving the little colour that is outside my window today...It was a beautiful day today!

Enjoying my pumpkin spice latte...Free cause I made it and that makes me feel good.

And finally finished off my curtains in the living room...the printed fabric wasn't wide enough to cover the whole window. And the cost was absolutely nothing because the fabric was given to me a while ago.

So today started out pretty...well lets just say I have been one big puddle this week with everything going on and my hormones being out of whack and problems with our food money...but the Lord has been in total control and He is taking care of us.

It has turned out to be a day of blessings for me and I am thankful. : )

For Mother's Daughter's Wive's and Friend's

I designed this hoodie this morning and thought,

What a sweet and perfect gift for a mother, wife, daughter, or friend!

It displays Proverbs 31:30 on the back and on the front it simply says, "Virtuous"

There are many sizes, three different styles, and you can also find three different colours depending on what style you choose.

zazzle.com/momasart*

It is really perfect for any occasion...Christmas, Birthdays, Mother's Day, Grandparent's Day, Valentines Day. Any day really. I am going to save up and get one for myself...I really love it!

Virtuous by momasart
Make embroidered shirts at zazzle
Browse Virtues Embroidered Shirts

We pulled our old 35mm out a few weeks ago, got new batteries and some film and we have been taking pictures with that. Well my husband doesn't like me taking pictures but I sneak some in every once in a while.

Here are a few....

My daughter is fearless. Of course she does have two older brothers.

Every time she falls or hurts herself she jumps up and says, "That was totally awesome!"

Do you think when she is older she will be jumping out of planes??? She is seriously giving her mother a heart attack but I love her excitement and determination in life. I pray that the Lord will send her a man that can put up with her quirky character.

And below is of my most favorite plant in my front yard! I honestly don't remember what it is called but I got it last year as a small little plant and it has quadrupled in size just this year! In the spring it has the tiniest little purple flowers that cover everything and when they fall it is like snow on the ground. I truely love looking at it outside my kitchen window.

Still re-learning everything and learning new things. And hoping to get some really good photos in the future.

Well off to keep cleaning! Have a blessed week.

What do you do when your anxiously awaiting an important answer???

Today I am anxious about what tomorrow may bring. I have never been this way about any election but I am today.

So what do you do when you are waiting for that life changing answer?

I apparently clean like a mad women.

Closets in the hall are all rearranged and in order,

Boy's room is cleaned and de-cluttered...why they had a whole black bag full of garbage (paper stuff) I will never know, but that is what I took out of their room when we were finished.

Josie cleaned up her room with out complaining but I know I will need to go in there and go through her closet, which is our storage, and clean it out.

Laundry is clean and folded and almost all put away.

Desk here is clean from top to bottom and is now a welcoming sight once again...of course the clutter that was once on the desk is now sitting on the table.

I even had the urge to push out the dining room wall into the garage to enlarge the space, thank goodness we rent or I would have seriously done it the moment I thought of it. ; )

Listened to the Oldies Christmas music channel on our cable...I totally forgot that I could listen to music 24/7 on there!!! WOO HOO Christmas music!!!

So even though I have gotten a lot done...the house is a total disaster there is stuff all over...Need to put it all in the van and take it to Goodwill. I also need to find a place that needs blankets for the homeless or something. They are no good to us here and it isn't right to be holding on to something that someone else could desperately need.

Ok, I am writing as if I am on caffeine but that's not true today. : ) Just anxious. ; )

Oh and did I tell you I vacuumed up a large spider...I am waiting to see if it will return to torment me or just stay in there and die.

Ok really need to go get dinner done the natives are restless!!!!

Baby Sling is in my Etsy shop!

You can get it here:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16886823

What an awesome encouragment!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0DRk8dFjI

I wanted to post the actual video for you but my brain is frozen and I can't figure it out.

This video was such a blessing to see this morning that I wanted to share.

Don't forget your box of kleenex!!

Have a great week.

The weather changed...

and it is making sore and sleepy. I am so loving the bright beautiful colours that are showing though! That makes things bearable.
Not very talkative I guess all though I do have a lot on my mind. Can't believe it is November already and My oldest will be 9 in a few weeks! Kind of interesting chapter we are heading into, not sure how I am going to handle it. Not that I am going to get all "empty nest, growing up so fast" or what ever you call it when your child gets one year closer to being a teen.

Not really nervous about the elections but wondering what the next few years will bring.

Depression and that down feeling is trying to set in...it does everytime the skies turn grey and wet...I guess you could call it seasonal depression. It just happens, not really a whole lot I can do for it but choose to have a positive attitude each day and remind myself who is in control.
Life is good, my children are healthy, my husband is working, we are being taken care of in all aspects, and the things that are hard now will get easier down the road.

I will take in as much sunshine that comes my way and take in all the beautiful fall colours as long as the wind and rain allow the leaves to stick around for a little while longer. I think they might and I love that!
Off to get some cleaning done...yup, always cleaning. : ) It's good for me ; )
Have a really good week everyone!