Skate?

I had to stop what I was doing and help Sam out. He found and brought me these little skates that we picked up at a garage sale a year ago and said, "Skate?"
Seth and I have been rollerblading a lot lately. Seth pushing the stroller and zooming around while Sam says, "Weeeeee!" with me panting and struggling to catch up. Sam will bring us our skates now when he wants to go on a "walk". If I take a turn pushing the stroller he turns around and says, "where's my dad?"...like 'come on Mom, you are so slow!'
So when he brought these to me and realized they were his I had to take him out and see what he could do. It was so fun. I guess hockey will live on. Like father, like son. His Grandpa M will be so proud.

Twins

I just think it's funny that I have 2 of the cutes boys in the world who are 21 months apart (just a reminder, the one in the dino jammies is 2 1/2, and the one in the fire truck jammies is 8 months) and they are still able to share clothes.
We laughed at the thought of Sam wearing James' hand me downs...it's not so funny now that we're almost to that point!
Here they are playing together wearing the same size jammies.


We have a taller, skinner one and a shorter, rounder one and we love them both so much!

Popcorn Puppies

These dogs belong to some friends of ours in our neighborhood and we just love them. They are a HUGE highlight for Sam on our daily walks. We love to egg them on (I'm sure our neighbors are just so happy about that!). Sam is so into dogs right now. We think he got "puppy terets" from his cousin Lucy. :)

Hip Hip Hooray for Storage

I don't think that I'm the only one who loves to organize. It is such a high. We finally got shelves in our cold storage room and garage thanks to our good friend and favorite handy man, Don. The food storage is in and oragnized and I just love to stand there and admire it. It is much better placed than it was before (in our basement family room instead of a couch!). Sam loved it too. As we were putting it all on the shelves Sam loved to run in and say, "FOOD!", grab a can and run out with it.


Our garage shelves are beautiful too. I got to use a paint sprayer and spray the garage. That was fun. Here I am in the haze of paint spraying EVERYWHERE!


We haven't quite put everything in it's place yet, but I can see the vision.


It's such a good feeling to get rid of piles, clean out, and organize. After all...a house of order is a house of God!

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The Real Life of Karen the Housewife

What a vicious, yet interesting cycle my life spins in. I usually would characterize myself as a "go-getter", the one who takes matters into her own hands and will not be beat. I found this picture on-line and thought it summed me up pretty well.


I was made for this housewife life. I love it. I love juggling the kids, the food, the cleaning...that is until it starts fighting back.
Every once in a while it seems as if my house rises to the challenge of trying to best me. I don't know how, or why, or even where the messes come from, but they always find their way in, and not just slowly. Ca-boom! It's like a time bomb goes off and everything I own is out, scattered, covered in dust, and spotted.
Today was one of those days...

This was me in the morning when I realized what had become of my house. But it was okay, I had all day, and lots of energy.



This was me about half way through the day. I can still do this...



And this is how it ended...


I must note that even though the battle was unfair and that I was definately out numberd by messes, toys, towels, etc. that I won! I found the carpet, the shiny furniture, the sinks, and best of all...the bed!

To all of you going through this same cycle be reassured. We all have these days, we all find a way through, and we all wake up to it again, and again, and again. Don't you just love your life? You should...because I sure do!