A thought for the evening

Today made me value my little family that much more and value the time we have with eachother and realize life is great and God is greater!
I made choices in life that brought be to where I am and where we r headed and I take the good and the bad and put it to work for me. It has all in one way or another made me so very grateful for what we have as this little family of ours continues to grow by the blessings of our God.

As I lay me down to sleep I thank the Lord my soul to keep, keep me safely through the night and wake me with the morning light.
Amen

I used to say this every night as a little girl it was sewn on a embroidered picture my grandmother made to hang in our room and I have never forgotten it. I wish I still had, it but I think I may have just put another craft on my "to-do" list for my girls room :-)

I think that's all for today...

Our special day

So, today was a special day for us and our little family. We all (my husband & I, Adrian, Sarah, & Sophia) went up in front of our congregation and in front of them and our Lord and savior we dedicated to raise our little Sophia knowing our God. We did this along with our church family coming along side us to help guide our children and raise them in knowing Him. It was a special day for us and for our church. So glad we did this and at a place we call our home church.

May we do our best to raise our children knowing Him and loving Him,

Amen.

we will remember this day and cant wait for next year to do the same with Sydney :)

Mobile uploads

Hum I think this is perfect! Since most of my blogging is random and just spur of the moment thoughts amyway! So now I can blog from my iPhone which is way convenient for me since I dint have much time to sit at the comp. I likey

Sickness

So that was a wild adventure! Glad its over with!

for the past 24hrs i had a nasty stomach bug that left me pretty much disabled to even care for my own children... Thank God for my mother in law who came to the rescue and picked up the girls for a over night stay. I spent the day sick and out of it and really praying for a 24hr bug only. I slept alot and tried to regain my strength.

I woke up this morning feeling soooooo much better i cleaned, sanitized, and showered. I got it all back to working order in the house and while my little Sarah doesnt want to come home I am missing them like crazy.

My husband had to work last night so he can be off tonight. Im resting and waiting patiently for him to awake so we can go get our girls.!

Ill take this time to rest and recover and rehydrate myself, and baby Sydney who i think is very happy now that im not throwing every thing up (sorry).

We usually dont get sick much but it seems this winter everything is going around and we have been catching most of it. I wish people with sick kids no matter how hard it is to stay indoors would. Its so not fun to pass things around. Even if it means missing a fun event its better in the long run to just laylow and recover so that not everyone and their mom gets it!

with that all said im gonna go enjoy some online retail therapy. it always seems to cheer me up. :)

my thoughts for this moment there will be more hehehe

Finally I'm back i have so much to write and so little time! but I've been locked out of my account for some reason and haven't had time to really explore why. well long story short I'm back and very happy to update :)

I have been finding myself reflecting on my life and reflecting on how blessed and lucky I am as a wife, mother and woman. These days its hard to focus on the good and positive but I refuse to fall into all the negativity I see or hear everyday. Someone's always complaining about how hard and stressful their life is and I find myself filled with emotions of frustrations cause yeah we all have our days or moments when we feel overwhelmed with life but man I so am grateful for my bad moments cause I know it could be a lot worse and choose not to dwell in it. I thank God every day for my kids and my life, I thank him for this season in life and that I am so blessed to be here. So blessed to change poopy diapers(yep you read right), so blessed to clean snot off my kids nose(yep you read right again), and so blessed to clean up all the messes life throws at me. cause I know its only for a season and soon my kids will be grown and out of my hands care and out of my warm nest and thrown into a world I cannot control. I am on this soap box and I will remain on my soap box... heheheh i just dont like complainers.

anyway, my life these days has been filled with love, laughter and joy, yep im not sugar coating anything it really has, I am an optimist and always have been I can find good in anything and choose to live my life that way every day in every way I can!  and with the celebration of our Lord Jesus Christ around the corner i will continue to be merry and cheerful :)

My girls are growing up so fast my Sarah girl is going to be 4yrs old in a couple of months!! and my Sophia girl just 8 weeks away from being 1yrs old! cant wait to throw a big party for her and celebrate her big "1" ~! they are such joys and are my happy girls who bring joy to so many lives around us.

AND #3 is on his/her way and will be here in 5  more months!! can u believe it 5 more months? I cant believe it! i am sooooo excited to meet third baby and welcome him/her into our family! we get to find out next week what the sex of the baby is if the baby lets us see... we tried the early detection ultrasound and the baby would not let us see even after i did a sumersault in the office! yes i really did a sumersault! i tried everything! and the baby was sound asleep! another lazy baby? man this is the life... lol God is so good cause i dont care what the sex is im just so excited to have 3 kids! :) holidays are gonna be a blast and only will get better as the years go on! I hope they love eacother and cherish eachother and really value family  and most of all love God!... thats my goal. :) 

thats all on my mind as i wrap everything up here and clim into bed :)

my choice not yours.

So this blog is gonna be about my choice to do preschool homeschool and then if God leads me one year at a time for as long as I feel my child and I will benefit from it. I have done my research and read plenty of articles and Im not writing to to discus them. just writing this to say that this is my choice not yours and Im not looking for approval but yet looking for support. I will not judge those who send their kids off to preschool. I choose to believe the research in that my child can learn just as fast if not faster at home with me while having fun and enjoying taking part in teaching her! Such a blessing! 

So anyway now on to the fun stuff... 

Im so excited and cant wait till Sept 1st rolls around! I have our lesson plans down for the rest of the year! each month has been prayed over and led by God. I am so excited to teach moral values to my preschooler and prepare her for kindergarden. I love each lesson plan so much I myself cant wait to do the crafts and projects and most of all the daily Bible reading story time! 

I plan to write and blog about our weekly adventures, field trips, and our super duper fun snacks :)

 

Vacation Bible School

VBS! so at our church we offer a free VBS and I have never tried something like this with Sarah yet I dont think before this age she would really get something out of it but this year she seems to be ready and eager to learn so we decided to give it a try. I have never left her longer then a church service before, so i thought this was going to be a difficult thing but it was so the opposite of difficult! I was so proud of my little 3yr old. She did awesome! dropped her off and said goodbye and she didn't even look back at me lol off she went to go learn about God! yay!! I had such a good feeling walking away knowing she will be loved and cared for and all while being taught about our Lord! so exciting! they have so much fun planned for them from playing and learning and adventure and plays, and best of snacks and lunch! what a great little summer program all revolving around our God! 

I got to head down to the nursery with Sosi and meet other babies. It was fun to spend time with other moms and chat while caring for the babies we were so blessed to take care of. 

I cant wait for tomorrow and to blog about it and cant wait for the end of the week to see pictures of the whole thing! 

When I went to go pick up Sarah she was so happy to see me and tell me about all the fun she had, we talked about it all the way to the grocery store, in the grocery store and all the way home. 

I hope and pray she has this much fun tomorrow! :)