A Lot

Wow.

Almost a month since I last posted. I have to admit that I have lost some of my motivation to write anything or to take pictures for either of my blogs. This is greatly due to the fact that most of my friends have abandoned me for Facebook which I do not take part in. It would probably be a dangerous place for me. If for no other reason than that I would be online even more than I am now.

Another reason is that there seems to be so much going on these days. Just not enough time to fit everything in.

Lots of exciting things have been going on though.

Last week Jay was on vacation so we loaded up the 5th-wheel and the truck & headed to the Oregon coast. Well, we got as far as CDA, spent the entire day at the transmission shop, were out $115 dollars, and headed home with the problem unresolved. So we camped locally for a couple of days and then pretty much just lazed about the rest of the week. Bummer. If I knew we were going to stay home for vacation I would have preferred to get some major projects done but the kiddos had their hearts set on camping. We just couldn't let them down.

Tonight Adam is at Grami & Grampa's house with Camden. And I have two little guests. Their names are Jude & Gwyneth. They are currently giggling their hearts out with Rowan & Avril while scarfing a late dinner of Papa Murphey's.

My daughter has gone through the entire day peeing on the potty. She pooed in her diaper and she wet it at nap but other than that she has not gone in her diaper today at all. The really exciting part is that this is the first day I have even tried potty training her. YAY! Tomorrow we try no diaper. I am a bit nervous.

Jay is participating in leading worship every evening this week at teen camp. He is enjoying it but we miss him.

Have you all heard of Erin Cobb(http://erincobb.com/ThePigBear/)? She's an amazing photographer in Alabama and I love looking at her pictures and reading her family blog. I have been reading it for about three years now and when I first started she did a series of posts called Mama Mondays. It was just a post each Monday about how she did a certain motherly duty. Anything from lunches to getting the kids to help with chores. I loved it. She also had friends buddy post about how they did the same thing. Each week was different and I gleaned a lot of ideas from it.

Well, I am going to start my own Mama Mondays. Each week I will pick a certain topic about mothering or household duties that we all have to do and tell you how we do it around my home. If you would like to participate you can tell how you do it in the comments section or post on your own blog and I will put a link to yours at the end of my post. If there is a particular topic you would like to cover let me know. I love sharing this kind of stuff because it really helps me to fine-tune the way I run my household. I am not an organized wife/mother but I am striving to improve. I have things that I have been changing lately that work quite well and others that are in desperate need of improvement. I think this a good way for "iron to sharpen iron".  Check out Erin's blog to see what I am talking about. I will cover many of the same topics that she did but have a few new ones of my own.

I am also excited to say that we should be starting on the school room next week or shortly thereafter. Considering we have about eight weeks until school starts, I am very hopeful that it will be finished by then. It is going to be big in the way of keeping things organized around here. No more books and boxes piled in our bedroom!

Speaking of school, I just ordered our new curriculum yesterday. I'll post about it when it arrives. I am very excited. I love getting new books and such.

The next two weeks I have the priveledge of teaching the Toddler Class at church. This week it's about ants and what the Bible has to say about them. I am most excited about this. Next week, stick bugs and walking with God.

I am very excited about getting back into blogging. I hope you all join me!