1. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/93168286015320428/
2. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/93168286015320430/
Your opinions are greatly welcome!?!?!?
Friday, January 24, 2014
Valentine Project
I have always wanted to make the cutest Valentine cards for Alexander to pass out at school, but with running a small business I have failed the last two years and resorted to standard candy and cards. Well not this year!!! With Pinterest at my side I am going to do something different and fun. I am looking into the "no candy" options because I like those the best, but I had to add a couple because, well they are kids and they like to get candy. I have several ideas on my Pinterest account, but hese are my top 5 picks that I am trying to decide between.
1. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/93168286015320428/
2. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/93168286015320430/
1. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/93168286015320428/
2. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/93168286015320430/
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Taking care of me
With all the things I do to take care of my family I quickly and very easily forget to take care of myself. I have never wanted to be a high maintenance kinda girl but there is a line that needs to be drawn between taking too much time and not taking enough. I very easily fall below that line of not taking enough time, so today during my precious baby's nap my husband stayed home so I could have some me time. I was able to go to my salon and get a little pampering done. I never like spending the money but I know my husband appreciates it therefore it really is worth the time and money.
It know this is a fairly well known verse but it is a good reminder that taking care of ourself is a biblical thing to do. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says, "do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body." I believe this verse has everything to do with eating right, exercising but also taking daily care of your body to show that you respect the one that God gave you!
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Abiding during his nap
I mentioned in my last post that I have begun a daily routine recently. I wanted to share a little bit more about how much this routine and specifically my now consistent quiet time really has affected me.
As a Christian you frequently hear, "make sure you have a consistent quiet time, have you had your quiet time today, what did you learn in your quiet time this morning?" Although I know the importance of it I never actually made it a top priority, until now. Each day goes like this...We get up and get Alexander to school, come home eat breakfast, play for about an hour and then I lay Asher down for his first nap. Then I grab a cup of tea, my Bible study and my calendar. Then I sit down say a prayer and get going. For the next 30 minutes at least I read my daily Scripture do my Bible study lessons and journal any thoughts, on going concerns, or things I've learned in my quiet time that I want to make sure I remember. I cannot tell you how much this consistency has affected me. I look forward to this time and feel a little off if for some reason it doesn't happen that day and I'm not exaggerating when I say the days I spend this time with the Lord are my most productive days.
I decided that if I was going to make any decisions in life according to what I believed God wanted me to do I need to spend time with Him to know Him and be able to hear His voice. John 15: 4-27 says, "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you." The reason this verse hits so close to my heart is because of my love for gardening I think about this verse when I am pruning my strawberry bushes my tomato plants or anything else in my garden that has dead leaves on it. I don't want to be a dead leaf! And I know the only way I can ensure that doesn't happen if I spend time with my one true God.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Changing Gears
Where to start?!? Life with two boys has been a TON of fun, okay maybe not at first, but definitely the last few months. Now that we have gotten into our grove and are living life more than just one day at a time, I thought it would be fun to get back into blogging. I love having a place to share my thoughts, but unlike Facebook, the people that read blogs do so because they intentionally went to a blog not just because it pops up on their news feed.
So the new direction. Just today I changed the name of my blog to "Nap Time Projects" I did this because any mom knows, nap time is precious. You make the most out of every minute your precious children are sleeping. Well just recently I have been doing all I can to maximize this time to the fullest. I am currently doing a bible study by Donna Partow called Becoming the Woman God Wants Me to Be. One of the first things she has you do is make a daily routine. I LOVE routine and thrive in those type of environments, but I have not been so good at sticking to them since the arrival of our second child. So with pen in hand I sat down and laid out my day, if nothing else I wanted to stick to the portion of the schedule that run up until our oldest son came home from school. I am now on day 24 and let me tell you, it has been awesome! Even the days that Asher (our baby) doesn't take his usual two-hour morning nap, I am fitting in my quiet time and at least one chore. Routine just works for me!
Today I was able to take Alexander (our oldest) to school, on time I might add), feed Asher and myself breakfast, have play time with Asher before his nap, do my bible study, start a Read the bible in a year plan, get work done for my business (I'm a wedding planner) and play Hay Day with my friend Mary. All this before noon. Then once we had lunch, I started in on a project I have been wanting to do for a while, refinish some picture frames. I pulled them down and prepped while Asher was up, but when he went down for his second nap I painted up a storm! I won't bore you with all the other things I accomplished today but I will say that I got 6 more things done on my task list. I wanted to share all this because I wanted to encourage anyone who happens to read this. I encourage you that if you are feeling overwhelmed or that you have so much to get done that you just don't know where to start, sit down, take a deep breath and draw your focus back to where it matters. For me it is getting that quiet time to do my bible study and journal my thoughts for the day. Doing this starts my day out in a positive way and gets my focus pointed so that I can do the tasks that matter so that I can play around and to have time to do the fun things that really don't matter.
So here is a picture of the picture wall. Sorry the second shot is blurry, when you are holding a toddler, well, they wiggle a lot. I will post more of my up coming project and oh boy, I have a lot of them I want to do!!!!!
So the new direction. Just today I changed the name of my blog to "Nap Time Projects" I did this because any mom knows, nap time is precious. You make the most out of every minute your precious children are sleeping. Well just recently I have been doing all I can to maximize this time to the fullest. I am currently doing a bible study by Donna Partow called Becoming the Woman God Wants Me to Be. One of the first things she has you do is make a daily routine. I LOVE routine and thrive in those type of environments, but I have not been so good at sticking to them since the arrival of our second child. So with pen in hand I sat down and laid out my day, if nothing else I wanted to stick to the portion of the schedule that run up until our oldest son came home from school. I am now on day 24 and let me tell you, it has been awesome! Even the days that Asher (our baby) doesn't take his usual two-hour morning nap, I am fitting in my quiet time and at least one chore. Routine just works for me!
Today I was able to take Alexander (our oldest) to school, on time I might add), feed Asher and myself breakfast, have play time with Asher before his nap, do my bible study, start a Read the bible in a year plan, get work done for my business (I'm a wedding planner) and play Hay Day with my friend Mary. All this before noon. Then once we had lunch, I started in on a project I have been wanting to do for a while, refinish some picture frames. I pulled them down and prepped while Asher was up, but when he went down for his second nap I painted up a storm! I won't bore you with all the other things I accomplished today but I will say that I got 6 more things done on my task list. I wanted to share all this because I wanted to encourage anyone who happens to read this. I encourage you that if you are feeling overwhelmed or that you have so much to get done that you just don't know where to start, sit down, take a deep breath and draw your focus back to where it matters. For me it is getting that quiet time to do my bible study and journal my thoughts for the day. Doing this starts my day out in a positive way and gets my focus pointed so that I can do the tasks that matter so that I can play around and to have time to do the fun things that really don't matter.
So here is a picture of the picture wall. Sorry the second shot is blurry, when you are holding a toddler, well, they wiggle a lot. I will post more of my up coming project and oh boy, I have a lot of them I want to do!!!!!
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