My Life

My House is in Disarray

We are moving, tomorrow to be exact.

I will not be posting my weekly photography challenges this week, but hope to catch up once we are settled.

My life has looked like this for the past two weeks.  It's not fun.  It's actually quite depressing.

I do however see the light at the end of this tunnel.

We are moving less than a mile from our current home.

We will be in the same ward.

We are sad to see our house go, but know it is best for our current situation.

We are ready to move on and go forward with a fresh start not being weighed or bogged down by business stresses.

We have lots of memories here, but will make more in the next house.

It is just a house you know.  Where we are is our home because we have each other.

Things could be much worse.  We have been blessed.  I recognize that.

Our new neighbors are super friendly and we are excited to get to know them.  A far cry from our current neighbors.  I'm sure they will be happy to see us leave.

I'll have more reflections about this place later, when I'm not so busy packing and unpacking.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend with your families.

If you need something to do on Saturday, our house 9am, we have lots of heavy stuff to transport ;)

We'll have donuts, just sayin'

7/52: Body Parts

Watercoloring with the preschoolers.  They get right in there, on top of each other lots of the time. We are working on personal space.  I love their grips on the paintbrushes, parts of their handwritten names and just the overall paint mess.

Check out these photographers take on the theme:

Michelle, Kristin, Jenn, Heather, Rhonda, Tracey, Stacey, Andrea, Jessica, Andrea, Sarah, Janet, Lesli, Carla, Lena, Rose, Naomi, Tracy, Heidi, Veronica

Next week: Romance

Thankful Thursday

1.  Breakfast for dinner.

2.  The right color paint.

3.  Painters who are doing a fabulous job of sprucing up the place and one less thing for us to have to do.

4. Steve and boys getting in there and tearing down the backyard.  It's all an overwhelming task, but one that needs to be done.

5. Last day of preschool for the week.  I love those kids, but in the midst of all the happenings around here, I'm quite exhausted.

6.  Sitting down to dinner all 6 of us.  Doesn't happen all that often, love it when it does.

7.  Clean laundry.  Not folded, but clean, I'll take it.

8.  Last day of homework for the week.

9.  A 4 day weekend.  Yee Haw!

Our Year in Photos: Month 2 Week 1

The first week in the month, we focus on photographing a room in the home.

This week's room: the playroom.

Our playroom doubles as a preschool room.  Who am I kidding?  Our playroom IS the school room.  School has just taken over that room.  My kids do various things in there: watching movies, playing animals, trains, finding the paint and various manipulatives.  It's almost always a mess, or there are piles that I must at some point get to.  We do a quick straighten Monday night and that usually gets us through the preschool week.

Today the boys were watercoloring together.  That's been Brandon's favorite activity this week.  He helps himself to the materials, and finds his happy place:)  He invited Kyle to paint with him.  It is a rare occasion for these two to get along.  Kyle and Brandon had a few hours together today without the other two and it was good for them to have some bonding time.  Kyle displayed a bit of maturity and he peacefully allowed Brandon to choose what they would do.  Made my heart happy.

Boy, those two need haircuts:)

6/52: Quiet

I have a confession.  I wasn't sure what this week's word was.  I've been rather preoccupied and overwhelmed.  There isn't much quiet that happens at my house, ever. 

Lauren had an orthodontist appointment this morning and an assignment to make a cake for the YW/YM fundraiser this evening.  She decided to skip school and work on the cake.  The house was quiet as the other kids were at school and Brandon was playing happily with his friend Jack upstairs.  Here she is concentrating on starburst flowers, so I suppose this does in fact work for quiet.

I vow to be more intentional next week :)

Check out these wonderful photographers:

Michelle, Kristin, Jenn, Heather, Rhonda, Tracey, Stacey, Andrea, Jessica, Andrea, Sarah, Janet, Lesli, Carla, Lena, Rose, Naomi, Tracy, Heidi, Veronica

5/52: Sleep

I don't have cute little toddlers napping during the day in pretty light anymore.  But I do have a teenager who is zonked from the weekday activities.  She stays after school almost everyday until 5:30 for cheer  practice.  Last night she had a late game and didn't get home until 8:30.  Makes for a long day.

Michelle, Kristin, Jenn, Heather, Rhonda, Tracey, Stacey, Andrea, Jessica, Andrea, Sarah, Janet, Lesli, Carla, Lena, Rose, Naomi, Tracy, Heidi, Veronica

Thankful Thursday

1. That things work out.  That's vague, but you know, things always do work out:)

2. Family laws.  My friend Kristin posted her family laws and I instantly knew we needed to implement some sort of something.  It is working beautifully for my family.  Every member is the police always on top of those breaking the laws.  If anything, it's made us more aware of how we speak and treat one another.  There is greater peace here.

3. My jacket in this wind.

4. That baby Ruby is gaining weight and is doing well after another surgery.

5. Carson is out of the hospital. Hip, hip horray!

6. Take out pizza for dinner.