Things I can't resist...

Try as I may I can not resist the following... EVER!...

• eating a fry as I drive home from the drive through! All the while I'm telling the kids we can't eat until we get home!
  
• taking a bite of a hot pocket right after I take it out of the microwave...I know it's going to burn my freakin mouth like hot lava and render me a mute but I can't resist the hunger and delicious smell combo!Burn me once shame on you! Burn me twice, shame on me! I know I know !I'll never learn nor do I want to!
  
• I have yet to meet a maple bar I didn't love! If the meir thought of a Maple bar crossed my mind I can't pass one up! I've tried! Trust me I've tried but I fail miserably! I must say...it's pretty freeing when you can realize your faults and move forward.I chose to move forward with a donut in my hand! So what?
• finishing my kids meals!
• Consumption of Mint Oreos by the sleeve. This is why I don't buy them! EVER!
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Basically most things I fall victim to are food related! I'm ok with that!

Studio 5

I know I know! It's a cryin shame I don't blog like I used to! To be 100% honest I miss it like crazy! I miss just getting on here and throwing up my feelings and ranting about life. I'm totally blaming it on Blue Cricket Design! It's a part tiem job that's for sure and by the time I'm done working on that blog I have littel energy to devote here and on my family blog! Lame! Lame! Lame!!! I know!

Just know I'm still alive! I'm still driven crazy by my kids, hate folding laundry, hate preparing for my Sunday calling, love reality and miss all my interaction with you!

Here's what's been keeping me busy this week. Studio 5! I had two days notice and busted out a handful of headbands! I loved doing this! Funny, and only the people that know me would notice but again I look super boring on tv! I'm way more off the wall and crazy in real life!

New Years

Resolution Time! I'd like to think of this time of year as a step in the right direction! All to often we set our selves up to fail! Setting endless goals that fulfill one purpose... to make us feel bad when we realize we SUCK at keeping goals! I will say this...three years ago I set a lofty goal for myself. NO MORE SODA!!! And here I sit three years later still Soda free and loving it! So I guess I'm not a total and utter failure every year!

Ok.. back to my rant... So this year I've been Inspired. I was sent an email from a reader sharing her New Years Tradition of focusing on a single word as her goal for the Year! A Beautiful tradition. She concentrated on "Simplify!" It meant wonderful things for so many aspects of her life! If she could just concentrate on the word "Simplify" it would change so much!

I loved this idea. I was taken by it simplicity and yet knew it had the potential to do so much. Immediately a word popped into my head and I knew it would be my focus for the year!

Service

Selfishly I need to Serve others. It makes me feel good. It gives me something to do outside of my own personal responsibilities. I easily get lost in my own everyday hiccups I forget to look outside and see where I could better be utilized!

So I got so excited about the thought of focusing on a single word I had a hard time just picking one. Oops! Can you tell my other word is not going to be "Simplify!" I'm not there yet!

So this year I'd like to focus on three words or concepts if you will...

Service
Following Through
Home

Following Through will be a good one for me! I have endless good intentions but following through on them is the hard part...like doing laundry! Yeah...that whole process from start to finish takes me like 5 days! From now on..."Follow Through" will haunt my subconscious! A single days task! Can you imagine!

Planing, projects, activities! So many things that clutter my mind and my space will finally get the attention they so deserve!


Home! I need to work harder to make my Home the warmest most welcoming refuge my family will ever know! I need to make more of an effort to focus on it's purpose. To comfort those who dwell in it's rooms and inspire love and safety! To me that means editing the STUFF that I once called necessities and filling it instead with loving reminders of the things that are really important. It also means focusing on meal time, traditions, order and family.

So there you have it! My "New Years Resolution!" This year I plan on devoting much of my energy on Serving others, Following through on the intentions I make and creating a Home that is a Haven!


If you were to pick one word for your New Years Focus what would it be?

hi

So I'm brunette right now! Been for about a month and I have to say I'm in love with it!

No I don't feel smarter! And yes I'm still having fun! Look at Blue...Isn't she too much! I do feel like I look more like my girls though! I think they love it too.

"mom has our hair now Molly!" says Cricket! I can tell she likes it most. Blue and Charlie share my eyes and Crick has always been apart of the "Brown team!" I wonder if she felt left out of being any part of a team I was on! But now she does and I'm quite enjoying it!

I needed a change! I needed more so to give my hair a break! Too much breakage and drying it out! So for the next chapter of life I'll be a brunette!