August in the making

As I have always said, I'm really a random blogger. I have an extremely busy, yet boring mommy life. As of this week, my life has gotten busier! I am now caring for a nearly 2 month old baby girl on week days. She is precious and fits into our already girl-filled home. I am readjusting to regular feedings, diapers, spit up, and being a warm body on an ouchy tummy. As jobs go, it is awesome!

We are on the home stretch of school for the year....which year, I'm not sure. My girls have been such troopers to try and catch up to North American school schedule. I think we will take September off and have an October launch for school again. Shhhh, don't tell my girls! They are ready to have a break!

Emotionally, I've been on such a roller coaster with my hubby this summer. He will be graduating from A&M Corpus Christi in December. We had thought he would be jobless for the fall, but at the last moment, our God came through and his current job was extended through December. After December begins our great unknown. He will need an excellent job to pay off student loans, catch us up on life, and prepare for the future. In case you haven't noticed we are in a recession.... We are praying for the exact, precise, God's best job to open up (and hopefully before we go crazy wondering). Anyway, I love being the supportive wife, training, caring mother and all that, but I'm wondering exactly when and where is my spa day????

Nearly July

Oh my goodness, this has been a humdinger (not sure how to spell that properly) of a month. We are still working away at homeschool. Actually, my girls are working away at school and I am cracking the whip (not really). We have been enjoying the beach while there is still clean water out there. We are holding our breaths hoping the oil does not come here. From the 14th through the 18th we had VBS at our church. I was naive enough to be talked into being outside games coordinator. We had almost 700 kids this year! I got them in 4 shifts and had to run 6 different games; at the same time making sure each small group is at the proper game. Yes, its was insane. I was so exhausted by the end and thought I would be permanently stuck saying, "The drinking water is for your mouth!" It was so hot out there I let the kids have a water balloon war the last day. The next week (which we have just finished) my 2 oldest girls were attending another VBS across town. So, I became Mom's Taxi Service. Next week will be an art camp and then we are done! Yeah!

I have not done much sewing. Hmm, wonder why? I am still so full of ideas. Right now I'm making some stuff for my sweet girlies. They watch so much of what I make go into the closet and then the mail. I came upon a fantastic sale at JoAnn's and purchased the patterns my girls picked out for 1.99 each. So I am making them outfits by their design. Lot's of fun! I'm hoping after next week to move into full gear and get some more things in my shop.

Downhill

Well, we made it through our crazy week. My 9 year old got the dream birthday party of roller skating. She told me it was "the best party in the whole world." I'm so happy she feels that way since there were only 2 families there other than us. I made profiteroles instead of cake. My girlie is a strange one and doesn't like cake or chocolate. Actually, there are a lot of things she doesn't like, but that's another subject. She wanted a cowboy party so that her friends that are boys would feel comfortable. Sweet, huh? My birthday, the following day, I thought would be uneventful. However, my sweet hubby took us out to Padre Island to a small Italian restaurant. It was amazing! I'm a sucker for Italian anyway; especially something that tastes like it came on a cloud from Rome. They gave me a real cannoli with a candle in it. (speaking of clouds)

Now we begin a new phase! My dear hubby has short, but strong, waves of classes, studying, exams, etc. ahead of him this summer and fall. We thank the Lord he has a job for the summer. He is going to begin taking the CPA exam----major! So, my role more than ever is the supporting wife. I will probably quit my retail job (yay!) so I can be home and keep everything going smoothly. Did I say smoothly? Um, how about more or less stable. I have already begun to sew again and a dear friend gave me a whole bunch of fabric. I hope to get my 2 shops filled up again.

I need some motivation to exercise more! The bouncy mommy belly must go! (as I go burn some more calories mopping the tile floors in my house)

I just MAY get through this month

May has begun with a bang! I am always amazed at how busy my life has actually become. It is with reason that this month recognizes mothers! I know a lot of moms out there have end-of-the-school-year dashes. Finish this project, go to that recital, those games, that dr., etc. We are just over half-way in our school year. Which is quite amazing since we just started in February. My girlies have been so faithful to get up and do lots of work everyday. Coming up is our blitz week: 10th, my oldest's 9nth birthday, 11th, my birthday, 13th, anniversary. (I forgot mother's day, but that isn't a huge thing in our house yet) (insert droopy lower lip here).

I have been sewing again! I have once again been flooded in the brain with ideas and not enough time. I wake up at night and think, "Oh my goodness! that would be so cute!" But alas, there are not enough hours in the day to complete my brain projects. I still work Friday through Sunday; so that leaves me only 3 days to sew. Today I made a cute pink purse that I have had in the brain for a while. Of course, the point of the great idea is to make some money to pay for those shoes for feet that seem to grow overnight!

We are trying to be on a diet. We eat pretty healthy for the most part, but we are in a battle against the middle age rise of the nasty foe cholesterol. Both hubby and I have watched our numbers go up and we are in shock; being that we still think we are very young. So we are drinking nasty green stuff, eating lots of salad, and veggies in every imaginable way. I have a mean bean patty recipe. I will not give up taste! I loathe the thought of cardboard food. So I sit and watch the food channel and try to taste vicariously through the stars who close their eyes and utter accolades. Hm, just talking of this makes me hungry.

Ok, going to fix a glass of green tea. Want some?

I must be the once every 3 months blogger

Goodness, life has not slowed one bit since we moved. I did make one purse for my shop last month and am working on one right now. I continue my retail job; which I go to from Thursday through Sunday evenings. I am so tired of that. I am a definite stay at home type. I love cooking and cleaning for my family, and most importantly being with my family. My three year old still hates it when I leave for work. That upsets me. But, here we are. Hubby will finish his masters of accounting in December (woohoo! so proud of him), but until then we do what we can to make ends meet. This economy is just so fun, right?

So, what's been going on with us? We are in hyper-drive with homeschooling. We are on a South American schedule of February to November, but would like to switch to North American schedule. So, We are doing our whole year in less than 6 months. The girls are tired, but troopers! I know they want summers off like everybody else. We were thinking of putting them in public school for the sports programs and social aspects, but found out that the school in our area was pretty bad. So, we nixed that idea. We will just be looking for sports and dance and such that they can be involved in while still homeschooling.

I am so happy that beach weather is returning! We actually live closer to the beach since we moved. I can hear it calling me! Ok, maybe that was just the seagulls in the dumpster, but I will be happy to start our weekly trips to the beach again.

Hubby and I are both teaching Sunday school classes at church; which makes us a little scattered on Sundays. I facilitate a class for adults that is an open forum type study. Hubby teaches a class on the book of Galatians (6 week class). We eventually find each other and go to worship together. Then most Sundays I have to work after lunch, bummer. I miss nice lazy Sunday afternoons and naps, I really miss naps.

So that's basically our lives. I promise to blog sooner about something more interesting!

Please tell me where January went!

I can't believe January is almost over. Of course, I spent the first part of the month appeasing post holiday shoppers 5-6 days a week. After the retail demand put on the brakes I have only worked 2 days a week. What do I do with my spare time? Very funny. We are moving in 2 days! We are currently living in an overpriced apartment and are going to live in a more reasonably price townhouse. We will be closer to where my hubby goes to his evening masters classes and where he works. So, I am up to my eyeballs in cardboard boxes and dry skin (from the carboard boxes). I am so happy to be moving, though. Our apartment has a ridiculously tiny kitchen and the place we are moving to has a nice big kitchen. Ah, bliss. I can already imagine myself digging into the Barefoot Contessa cookbook I got for Christmas. Alright enough imagination here.

My girls have been on our "summer" vacation since the first of December. We will start up school again after we get settled into our new house. They have absolutely loved our vacation, except for not exactly being lovely run and play outside weather. They hate waiting for friends to get home from regular school to play with them. I say at least 5 times a day, "They aren't home yet!" Don't ya love homeschool? Today in the car I was telling Ellie (my 8 year old) about the countries included in the term "Latin". So, school continues whether they like it or not.

Yesterday I packed my sewing machine. I patted it lovingly and assured it that I will soon use it again. I'm hoping to have more time once we move and get settled. Why am I such an optimist? I'll blame it on dad and his dominant genes.

Anyway, I hope everyone has begun 2010 in a peaceful way. I put in fb status on January 1, that I am so glad I don't need to concern myself with a whole entire year. I only need to be thankful that God's mercy is new every morning for me.

The end of the most wonderful

It has been so long since I've blogged! My job during December made my life interesting to say the least. Working in retail during December is like playing one of those never ending video games. My first day was Black Friday! Thankfully, I was only a bagger. However, my feet still killed me and my shoulders were sore. Over all, I decided I was going to love working there; since I just really like people. Anyway, as December charged on I was trained on the register and became a cashier. I had a couple of days where I thought perhaps I would cry or faint from the utter meanness of some people. For the most part, though, I can smile and do my job without grief.

My house, oh my house! My hubby is a gem and does what he can, but toilets are not his thing. I AM NOT AN OCD! But, I do like to keep my house pretty clean. So my mornings are crammed with breakfast, checking email and facebook, washing dishes, cleaning surfaces, folding laundry, and normal mommy things. I usually work all afternoon until after supper. That leaves my poor hubby to scrounge up something to feed the birdies. (our 3 girls). He is being stretched in his culinary expertise or lack thereof. We manage!

Christmas was lovely! I had off the 24th (my second daughter's birthday) and 25th; so we went to Houston to stay with my mother in law. I slept for 3 hours after we sufficiently celebrated my daughter's birthday. The hours of standing and smiling had caught up with me! My mother in law graciously offered to keep the girls for 4 more days! So, hubby and I came home and missed our girlies. I had to work the 26th and 27th and was hit with hurrican force by a cold. All my customers came up and said, "Ew, you are sick, aren't you?" So comforting. I suppose they all thought I would give them swine flu if I handed them their receipt. So I methodically washed my hands with sanitizer after vain attempts to stay the flow out of my nose. Thank the Lord I had yesterday off to lay around and recuperate. My hubby even made me a yummy sandwich for lunch. Such a sweetie!

So, my girls come home today and then I will have to go to work a few minutes later, bummer. Oh well, I can hug them and sqeeze them and call them George tonight. (looney toons flashback)