Signing Out...

Tomorrow's the big day! 18 hours til we leave! Woo Hoo! We'll stay the night in Portland and spend some quality time with our nieces while their parents spend some time with friends. Then we'll head down the Oregon Coast. We're going to a Safari park where you get to walk thru all the animals! That's going to be so fun. I can't wait to see Jaylee's face as she sees all the animals up close.

Then Monday we'll head to San Francisco to see Uncle Steven, Dana and Una. We'll be there for a few days before we head to Yosemite. Josh is going to climb the Half Dome with his uncle and us girls will linger around camp.

We'll be home Saturday night and have Sunday to unpack and unwind. It seems like we'll be gone for a long time but we know it's going to fly.

If I have access to the internet I'll try to keep you up to date on our trip but most likely won't be back on until Sunday, the 1st. Then, I'll have some fun pictures to share!

Please keep our family in your prayers, we really appreciate it!

Lord bless and keep you all.

Life Jackets Everyone

After seven years, we're going on vacation.

While I'm super excited to get out of this town for eight days, I have to admit I'm a lil nervous. The last time we went on vacation was to celebrate our one year wedding anniversary. Two days before we were to come home, I get a call from my mom saying my dad passed away. This wasn't expected. My dad was a healthy, 40 year old guy. He went rafting with some friends and honestly, I've never asked what events led up to his death, but while rafting their boat flipped or snagged, I don't know...but my dad didn't know how to swim and he wasn't wearing a life jacket.

So, we leave on Saturday the 23rd, return Sunday the 1st, I'd appreciate it if, while we're gone, you all wore life jackets. It'll just make my vacation a little less stressful. :)

Tiara Instead, Please

So, I had a root canal this morning. Joy. Really, it wasn't too bad. The worst part was the shot to numb the roof of my mouth. They pinch your nerves together to numb them, it's been 4 hours and it's still a lil achy. Is that a word? Anyway. As I was laying there, with these really cool sunglasses on, I realized my tongue had no place to go. The doctor is drilling and filing and whatever else he was doing and it hit me that my tongue was kinda outta control of itself. Then I panicked. When you realize you don't know what to do with your tongue it gets even worse.

He asks if I'm okay, "uh huh, I think." I try to say.

Then he tells me to keep my mouth real still. Well, then don't ask me questions! Then comes the mouth guard. This balloonish material thing that covers my entire mouth causing me to be able to breathe through my nose only and I thought I was suffocating. I thought to myself, "is he putting this guard on me so I'll stop licking his fingers?" 'Cause really, my mouth was so numb, I have no idea what my tongue was doing. He said it was to protect my throat from all the stuff they were going to be doing.

Uh huh, sure.

So, two hours later, root canal complete. Now I have to be fitted for a crown.

See, Mom, I really am a Princess!

My Favorite Chore

Today, like most days, I procrastinated. I didn't do much all day. I cleaned up the breakfast dishes, caught up on my emails, started to clean up my scrapbook area, then called it a day. Then 3 o'clock rolled around and I realized my husband, who'd been working so hard all day and had to miss his lunch, would be home soon. So, I did the rest of the dishes, dusted the living room (with the help of Jaylee) and then off to my favorite chore, the bathroom. Seriously, I love to clean the bathroom. It's one room I feel you can see a huge difference in even if not much is done. Just making sure the towels are folded neatly, dried toothpaste is washed out of the sink, and the t.p. roll is facing the right way makes the room sparkle.

After cleaning the bathroom I made dinner. While making dinner I realized that if I'd done all this work in the morning, I would have had the entire day to prepare for my husband to come home without a rush. Lately the Lord has really pressed on my heart to become the Proverbs 31 woman. It seems crazy. But I know it's His will for me. To take care of my husband and my household. So, while making dinner, the verse that came to me was Proverbs 31:27, "She wathces over the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness." (NKJV)

The entire day I had been eating the bread of idleness. I was not watching over the ways of my household, I was watching daytime television. Praise the Lord for tomorrow! I am going to work on this. I go through phases where I do so well then it seems I fall off the wagon. I just realized right now why I fall off the wagon, I'm trying to do everything in my own strength. No wonder I don't get anywhere. I need His strength.

Maybe one day the bathroom won't be the only chore I love.

What's your favorite chore? What makes it your favorite?

Such a newbie

I received an email saying that on a couple of my posts you(the viewers) cannot comment. I have no idea why. I don't know what I've done differently on the last couple.

Any advice out there? Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?! Hopefully you can post a reply to help me out, but who knows.

I sure don't. Grrr....

Day 4 of my Intestinal Journey

Okay, I really thought by now something would have happened. I've been drinking 64 oz. of water each day. Taking the mix and capsules they gave me and then the herbal tea before bed. I keep saying, "today's the day!" Each day I've been wrong. I understand that it's only been 3 full days and I've just started the 4th but I'm a girl who likes to see instant results.

So, for the sake of those of you reading this, maybe it's good nothing's happened. As for me, I really wish something would happen.

I'm going to quit brushing my teeth

Fear not, I don't mean it, but I'm considering putting Jaylee in some sort of prison while I do it. Last week we had the butter crisis while I brushed my teeth and this morning...I come out of the bathroom and she's M.I.A. We don't have a very large house. I scanned the 2 bedrooms, the bathroom, living room and kitchen. No where to be found. Then I hear the pitter patter of little feet running upstairs. "No way." I say to myself. But oh, yes. I look up the stairs to see her smiling at me with her 3.5 teeth at the top of the stairs. I couldn't believe it. Those of you who've been here know that the 11 steps going up are incredibly steep and quite dangerous. Her proud little face made it impossible to scold her. I picked her up, told her she did a good job and said that next time she needed Daddy or Mommy to help her. And being the brilliant 15 month old that she is, I'm sure she understood every word I said.
I don't mind her climbing up, she seems to do a very good job, I'm just worried for the day she decides to try to come down.

For now, she's too afraid to even attempt it.

Beginning of a Journey

Can't believe I'm going to share this with whoever decides to read this, but oh well, here goes.

I've decided to do a colon cleanse. And I'm going to keep you all up to date on the wonders of what it does to the human body.

Maybe you've done this before, please, tell me what I'm in for...maybe you don't need a colon cleanse, whatever to you...and maybe you think I'm outta my mind, I most likely am. Either way, I started my Intestinal Journey today. So far there isn't much to tell.

I have to take a couple pills in the morning, no problem, except that I had to drink a full 8 oz glass of water. Then, I have to have a fiber mix that I can mix into the beverage of my choice. I chose Nestles Quik. It wasn't half bad. The bad part, after the fiber drink is done, I have to follow it with yet anooother glass of water. Many of you know I hate water, I don't know why since it doesn't taste like anything, but to me, it's a waste of filling my belly with something that has no flavor.

The next step is to drink a tea tonight before bed. The tea is supposed to be calming and help me have a wonderful night of sleep. This will be nice since I have a Show tonight and I'm always wired afterward.

So, that's the start of my journey, nothing amazing has happened yet. Could take up to four days. Lovely...right before our trip to San Fran.

Now that I've put everyone to sleep...I'll end this post.

Slippery Situation

1 minute. That's all it takes for a child to turn herself into a butterball. I sit her at the table with her cup, that she calls "bobby"(no idea where that name came from) and go into the bathroom to brush my teeth. I come out, seriously, like a minute later (I know, you're supposed to brush for 2 minutes...I don't do that, hmmm, maybe that's why I have to have a root canal next Wed.) anyway, I come out to see that Jaylee has a butter knife and is pounding it into the butter on the table. She has butter all over her face, hands and chair.

The joys of being a mommy...and a 15 month old.

My Little Ham

Most of you know that our little Jaylee girl is a very good eater. She eats pretty much anything. Today, however, was not the case.
It was lunch time so being the amazing, creative mommy that I am, I decided she'd eat some ham and grapes. I place her in her lil chair (thank you, Treena) strap her in and she patiently waits for her food by pounding her cup on the table. You see she has a place on her tray where she could set her cup but for today she's decided not to use it for that. I give her the ham and grapes. About a minute later I turn around to see that it's all gone! I was so proud. But she had a look on her face that was a lil mischevious. So, I look to see that she's placed all her ham in the little area where her cup is supposed to go.

Guess she only wanted grapes for lunch today.

It's official...I'm a blogger!

I've been contemplating this for a while now and I've decided to go ahead and do it. I can delete it at any time. But I think it might be fun.

I'm so computer illiterate that I didn't know what a "blog" was. Honestly, I still don't. All I know is that I got a link to a friends' blog and thought, "that looks fun, I wanna dooo it, too!!!" So, here I am. Starting my own.

Took a while to come up with a blog name but awhile back I heard the term "Organized Chaos" and thought, "yup,that's us." Not that I'm totally organized, 'cause I'm really not, but..well I guess chaos describes us best. Who am I trying to fool?!

I've been trying to decide if I should have a certain rhythm to my blog but I doubt that would work. So, I'm just going to fly by the seat of my pants. Some days I may just ramble (like now) other days may be about my amazing husband, my silly daughter, our cranky beagle, our stolen kitten, cooking, cleaning, well, as you can see the list goes on and on about what the topic of the day could be.

Well, this is the end to my very first post and I'm quite excited that I finished it! I'm sure I'll probably add to it before the sun goes down.

Lord bless and keep you all.