keep on keepin' on

STILL PREGNANT

&

FALSE LABOR STINKS

I have had about 3 false starts since my nesting post! NOT nice son!

Remember the Nesting list?

• Vacuum/clean out my SUV
• Install infant car-seat and put snap-n-go in the trunk 
• Pack my bag and baby's bag for the Birth Center
• Buy more diapers, {we were gifted with almost 800 diapers from my hubs soccer team}
• Wash remaining baby clothes
• Send emails to my friend Andrea for the Care Calendar ( SO excited about not cooking!)
• Arrange for my 2 hours of house cleaning (Baby shower gift)
• Hang picture collage over my couch {bought some frame at the thrift store}
• Make a clothespin chandler from Young House Love {not because it's done I'm just taking it off the list!
• Make Goodwill, Kid to Kid, Half Price Books and Clothes Mentor drop offs

Got some things done and still have more to do. Plan on working on the collage today and tomorrow borrowing I don't go into labor. 

My sweet mother-in-love came over and helped clean some. So now I can schedule that Groupon for house cleaning. My sweet husband doesn't understand why I would clean before having professionals come clean. I don't think this is one will ever be understood my males! But I want the house cleaners to clean the stuff I don't want to. You know deep clean

~Bathroom {need I say more} 

~Baseboards

~Mop

~Wash windows

~Mini blinds

~Fans/light fixtures

~Dust my surfaces 

That can't be done if piles of clutter are everywhere. So I plan to schedule them to come probably next week which means I will probably beg ask my mom to come over and help me prep for the cleaning people!

What are you doing this week that is productive/non productive?

Thankful Thursday

So it happens this time of year that everyone talks about what they are thankful for. I see no reason to change this. It is something I should do daily. I may have to start a once a week or month ' Thankful Thursday' post. So I am starting today Thanksgiving Day to give thanks

• First and foremost I am thankful for my Lord and Savior, who laid down his life so that I might be saved
• My little family of almost 4; Robert, David and Elliot(just 6 weeks left little man), I love my men
• My immediate family, my parents and sibling, and Robert's parents and siblings. 
• My extended family, grandparents (all of mine are still living!) aunts, uncles and cousins
• That I have a hard working husband who on any given week works 3-4 jobs so that we can have the necessities and some luxuries
• Those necessities being, a home, food, electricity, clothing, running water
• Those luxuries, 2 cars, gasoline, fancy cellphones, a computer,
• Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University. Learning now to avoid many mistakes American's make with the money God has given them
• Watermark Community Church. A loving body of believers who serve, equip, teach, and love each other
• My church playgroup, MOPS, and Building Blocks, 
• Friends
• Mary Kay

These are the big things, each of these could be broken down even further, but I will do that in my regular Thankful Thursday.

I can always find something to be thankful for. All have to do is think about families who don't have a home, food, or a job. I can think about children who are fatherless/motherless. I can think about countries stricken with famine and genocide.

I have MUCH to be thankful for, so do you! If you are able to read this post that means you have internet, or a phone w/ internet capability, or access to friend, family or library with it. That right there is a luxury that we, that I take for granted.

I hope to live this next year more thankful than the last, that I can teach my sons to be thankful. That most of the things in life we come to expect are really privileges. I hope that my family will spend 2011 blessing others who feel that they don't have much to be thankful for. That the Lord will use me to be light to those who are in darkness, so that they can have a Heavenly Father to be thankful for!

God Bless

Nesting

Oh my I am becoming a organizing/cleaning freak! I have been buying shelves, bins and baskets. I have purged, shredded and thrown away so much. Vacuumed, scrubbed, wiped, and swept my who apartment. I have a new love, organization! There are so many ideas for being more organized. Some of my favorites are magi zine holders, notebooks and binders. In a earlier post I talked about this women's idea for list. Well I want to show mine

So I just for this 5 by 7 notebook with 100 pages,

something that will easily fit in my purse.

I put tabs throughout the notebook.

My labels are:

1. Misc.
2. Movies to see/Books to read
3. Websites to look up
4. Blogs to write
5. Gifts idea (for anyone I think of!)
6. Date night ideas
7. Family outing ideas
8. David's Info (have a tab for each child)
9. Robert's info ( have things like his clothing sizes so I know when I am out shopping)
10. ME!!!
11. Project to do

Having this list helps me a) not have small pieces of paper with info on them everywhere, and b) not have to remember where I put that small piece of paper. So on to more cleaning and organizing, wonder how long after David it will last!