Random Thoughts

So I know I have neglected the ole blog recently.  It's just one of those seasons, where it falls to the bottom of my list.  But I felt like I needed to get a little post up before October hit.


We are headed to the beach this week.  Friends of our from college had a little hook-up for us all to stay at this week.  Yes, I said week.  This vacation has come at the perfect time for us.  We need some rest, relaxation, and fun.


It is a lot of work to go away.  Every time we leave for a week, I get stressed.  Why does a good thing like vacation always start out bad because of my stress.  You'd think by now, things would be different.  


We felt the need for a tv fast this week.  When your kids ask to watch tv every time they have free time, its time for a break.  I didn't realize how much I relied on it as a babysitter.  Kids, let me introduce you to your toys!  The lesson has been great, however, when this mommy just needs to pack the bags or prepare some food for our trip, it would be nice to sit the children down in front of the old idiot box.  (that's an Ed Martinism)  


Fall is here and I'm in love...again!  I love everything about fall.  The food, football, leaves changing, cooler weather, etc etc.  I'm excited to clean out the closets when we get back.  


Well back to packing...

Random Thoughts

I'm finding myself without motivation these days.  The whole excitement of summer is beginning to wear off a bit.  Maybe it has something to do with these 100 degree temps.  I think the heat is zapping my energy.  


Don't get me wrong there are a ton of things I could be doing.  Like cleaning off my kitchen counters.  Why is that just a place where anything from a screw driver to a hair bow to any and every piece of mail find their home?!  Is anybody feeling me on this?  I mean, I know what the experts say, but why is it so hard!


Or I could iron the many many shirts of my husband's that gets moved from one chair to another.  Or I could play with my first born that is at my side AT ALL TIMES!  


Do you ever have days when you don't feel like doing much of anything?  


I guess I'll be responsible and go iron my husband's clothing to only have him ask me to iron it again the day he wears it.  He's particular like that.

Random Thoughts

The last two days have been crazy here with tons of tornado watches and warnings.  Being from MD, tornadoes just weren't a big thing.  I remember moving to NC when I taught and we had to do a tornado drill.  I had to actually ask a teacher what to do during the drill.  I had no idea!  There were a couple of tornadoes that touched down in our area, but mostly just tree damage.  It got pretty exciting when at Bible study today they moved us to the hallway at one point.  

Check out my Peeps Cupcakes from our Easter Weekend!  I had fun making these.  I actually really like to bake, but it seems these days it gets the boot quite often.  For the sake of time, I just made carrot cake from the box so nothing special there.  But I grabbed Ed's, yes Ed's, decorating tools and had fun doing the icing.  So so simple and basic, but I am pleased!

Micah, the child I have been neglecting on the blog, has his first game tomorrow night.  I'm not sure if he is more excited to wear the uniform or play.  Poor guy, he wishes this were the big leagues.  He seems to forget that he is playing with Kid #1 that draws in the sand, Kid #2 that walks around the bases NO. MATTER. WHAT. Kid #3 that gets so distracted that you just know he is going to get nailed by a bat or a ball this season and it ain't gonna be pretty.  (I don't even know what kind of sentence or group of sentences that was!)

I secretly like to buy new cleaning supplies.  I have NO IDEA WHY, but I do.  And I just bought a new concentrated one that smells SO GOOD!  It is Mr. Clean and has Febreeze in it.  It's a Hawaiian scent and it smell perfect.  It isn't overbearing, and I think it makes my house smell so fresh.  Tomorrow I may just walk around with a bucket and rag wiping things just to make my house smell good!  Don't laugh!

And lastly, I'm bracing myself for what might be our busiest May in our lives thus far.  I've got 5 days until we go go go nonstop until our vacation.  That's 19 days if you're counting.  I'm really not one for going on and on how busy you are, but I deem this necessary!  So if we disappear for a while, you know why!

Oh, and I almost hate to admit it, but you may find a certain someone getting caught up in the royal wedding tomorrow.  Who doesn't like a Happily Ever After?!
 
Going to eat some Ham and Swiss Quiche with my leftover ham from Easter!

An Update with no Pics...Read ON!

So its about time for me to update the ole blog, but I just have a couple of things going on. So my goal is by the weekend I will have an update, which is Haleigh's 10 months, so I better. Not to mention my last post was her 9 month update...Oh my have we been busy ever since we got back from vacation almost a month ago! And yes, I know there are still no pics from that. Here's a little of what's been going on...

- Meetings, meetings, meetings! Woohoo! I love meetings! Not so much, but between a new school year, a new youth ministry vision and set-up, budget meetings, etc we've been doing a lot of meeting! I won't bore you with the rest of the details!

-We successfully but not without a fight took Caleb's paci away! We cut it just like we did with Micah. And Caleb of course made a joke out of it! So we all laughed, and I thought it was going to be easy. However, Caleb blessed us with those lungs of his for the next 2.5 hours! Oh that poor baby finally went to sleep and a week later, we were back in business!

-As if the paci thing wasn't enough, we then decided to make things more traumatic on our son, and move him to his big boy bed! Are we stupid?? I'm still trying to figure that out! We purchased a set of bunk beds for the boys, that we did bargain for thank you very much! We were so proud of ourselves even if we only knocked off like $50! I guess we could've come on a little stronger. ANYWAY! So after a LOT of disciplining, we have got him to stay in his bed at night. Now I am working on the morning!

-I, Katie, the most amazing wife in the world, am helping my husband put together some sunday school curriculum for this year. We are working on two separate sets and are almost done! I can't wait till I can cross that off my list! Oh did I tell you I haven't met ANY of my deadlines! Sweet.

-Consignment sale is coming next week and so I am cleaning out! I love this time because it is fun to shop but also OH SO FUN to purge! So we have clothes and toys thrown EVERYWHERE! Oh if you could see my house right now! Living room over taken by Micah's old furniture, upstairs just consumed with kids clothing, and my room, well its always like that! Sorry mom, my bad cleaning habits have tagged along with me in my marriage! (Seriously, a VERY BAD HABIT we are WORKING on!)

I could bore you with so much more, but I am going to go have some ME time because my husband is at yet another MEETING! At least I'm not there!