I am so excited!

Today I went to a mom's meetup group. A friend of mine sent me a link to a Christian parenting group that just started up. They were once a MOPS group and have branched off and is now called Niles Westside Moms. Today was our first get together:) We all met up at Krispy Kremes for national cream filled doughnut day lol! The kids all loved watching the doughnuts being made and of course eating them! I even had a mini one mmm mmm!

Afterwards a few of us decided to head to the park and let the kiddos run off that sugar buzz! My friend Missy who I met at a core/yoga class in the YMCA about a year ago is the one who sent me the info on this group and is also the one who started our book club. I was speaking about how I have enrolled my girls in Wednesday evening bible study and how I would like to do one as well. So we are starting one up! I am so excited about this. I have been thinking about this all summer and I think the time is finally right.

So much to look forward to:)

Simplicity is bliss....

I am not sure where to start. I can say that over the past few months I feel like so much has changed. My eyes are now open wide as well as my heart. I just want to rid all of the stressful and NOT-important things from my life as well as my families. I want our lifes to be filled with love and respect for eachother.

I am learning that NOTHING in life is more important that God and my family. I want to teach my girls how to be good people. I want them to grow up to be giving and loving. Being a mom and a wife is the hardest job on earth. I don't care what anyone says. We as mother's have to set an example for our children each and every day. Its exhausting as well as rewarding. I wouldn't change being a mother to my girls' for anything in this world...but a little peace and quiet time would be wonderful:)

I have to say that in order to simplify my life (our) life I have made some choices. I am going to become more active in my church. I will surround myself and my children by positive and loving individuals. Not ones with hidden agendas or FALSE values. Another big step is I have decided to live on a strickter budget and not SPLURGE any longer. I have to say this is going to be VERY hard for me. Shopping is my therapy and weakness! But no longer. And to ensure that I won't spend outside our budget. I have CUT UP my credit cards! Gulp! It was like an out of body experience...I didn't think I could do it but I did! Now if they aren't in my wallet I can't use them right?? Our new motto is if we can't pay for it in cash...then we won't buy it. We will do it the old fashion way and SAVE up for it. It means so much more when you save your hard earned $$ for something that you reall NEED. And we are teaching our children in the process how to save and the importance of using money correctly.

Well I will have to blog more later. I am off to spend the afternoon with the girls at my grandparents house:) Only a few days before back to school:(

Just another day...

I really hope that I get the hang of this. I love this blog page so much:) April you are a sweet heart! Its perfect! Lisa if it wasn't for you I would have forgotten that I even attempted a blog at one time:)

Today was a very busy but fun day for the girls and I. We got up and decided that we were going to have a picnic lunch. The weather luckily cooperated for us...although it was a bit chilly for August. We were pulling out of the driveway and I decided that we all needed to change into pants! Yes it was that cold. It felt like Fall!!!

We went to this really fun park. Its brand new and right outside the zoo. We met up with my friend Missy and her three kids...we have hardly seen each other this summer. Heck I have hardly seen much of anyone lately. This summer has been pretty tricky juggling my teenage daughters activities my two very busy little girls and my newborn. So anyways we met up and had a picnic. It was great accept for ALL the bees! They were swarming us, especially me for some reason. I was running around like a crazy lady!

From the park I met up with my mother and we went to mmm Starbucks. By the way I will have to rant about Starbucks soon. I read an article today about them and it sort of ticked me off! So anyways from there we headed to the hospital to visit my aunt who is thankfully recovering from her surgery. Abbie was a little nervous in the room, but Macy was full of questions!! And was so concerned:) What a sweetheart she is. From there Macy went to my mom's for her sleepover all by herself! She has been talking about it all week!!!

Lastly we went shoe shopping for Abbie's back to school shoes!! She decided on a new pair of high top Sketchers. They are so Abbie!! Funky and bright. They look like they are right out of the 80's. Its so funny because when Allie and I were at the mall a few weeks ago we saw the same exact shoes and we both thought Abbie would lOVE them!

Today was a very good day. Busy but good. I am hoping that I will get some quality time with Brent tomorrow;)

Until next time...