Living Life One Cheerio at a Time

Today my friends, my heart is breaking. Its breaking for a family who lost their friend, wife, sister and mother. Melissa was a college classmate. She radiated Jesus! You can read her sister's blog about her stuggle here . Or listen to Melissa's own testimony here.  You will surely be encouraged by this 34 year old mother of 3. I am priveleged and blessed to have known her!

Its been awhil but life is getting in the way of blogging and all my other social network habits. I am currently in school and it is keeping my busy! But we still have to eat... porkchops in the crockpot turkey breast in the crock pot ravioli shrimp and fries chrori pollo/cheese quesadillas see what's cookin' over here

Slow.as.a.snail. That's how I would describe child #1 in the morning. She likes to get up at the crack of dawn but takes her sweet ol' time getting ready. And is distracted many times along the way. Last year I had her take pictures of what things she needed to get done. Hoping that it would keep her from getting distracted and forgetting what needs to be done. To eliminate any morning hang ups she and I pick out her clothes for the week and they are laid out ready to grab and go. Her sandwiches are made and all her lunch items are organized in a basket in the fridge/pantry for easy packing.  It works to a degree, at least I don't find myself yelling and getting frustrated trying to remember what needs to get done on her list while trying to get myself and the babies ready. Breakfast is the last thing on the list, in hopes that a growling stomach will be motivation. Sometimes it is, sometimes its not. But I still find myself saying {in my head} "why can't you s...

Happy Labor Day! BBQ grilled chicken Snowball pizza Fajitas Lasagna Kabobs Go and see what other's are  cookin' up!

My girls love to dance! They dance everywhere: the grocery store, outside and throughout the house. When child #1 turned 2 she began asking when she could take dance class. I told her when she was 3 we would enroll her. We found a studio that was close by and had pre-dance classes. It was a 1 hour class (20 minutes of tap, ballet, and tumbling). She took 2 years of pre-dance and 1 year of tap. It was great and we had teachers who chose appropriate music and recital outfits. BUT as I was sitting there last year with my 2 other children once a week, we would hear the questionable music and see the questionable outfit choices. I mean one song we heard OVER AND OVER again was "big coconuts" and they weren't talking about the food. {CLEARING THROAT!} And these were 9 year old girls in barely there outfits grooving to this music. We've had great outfit choices so far but I knew that this was our future. I was not pleased! Not for my girls who would be paraded in these cho...