I Have another Confession

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Remember that post I did long ago about feeding my children?

 

http://momzoo.blogspot.com/2008/01/healthy-eating.html

I mean really, do you all think I am a heartless food Nazi?

And seriously, how can you say no to this?

Yes, I bought nine boxes of

Girl Scout Cookies.

So leave me alone, I have a date with a cookie!

 

It was all about healthy eating and how if we want our kids to eat healthy then we need to only have healthy items for them to eat. That we need to only offer healthy items so they learn to like them.

Well, I guess I am kind of a liar.

Most of the time I am pretty careful about what I serve my kids. We really don’t eat a lot of junk…

really, truly, we don’t!

But then these lovely items presented themselves.
How can I say no to a good, worthy cause such as this!

I Have a Confession

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So I am not perfect. I like to think I am trying, and that I am getting nearer to perfect. Last week I think I took several steps away from perfect. I don’t know what was wrong with me. I was so tired, I think I could have slept all day long! I had NO motivation, and it was so hard to get myself to do anything!

Here is a perfect example:

I am a very structured person, I have a hard time when my routine is interrupted, and if I get “off schedule” it is very extremely hard to get me back to where I need to be. I don’t do well with surprises. I am not a very spontaneous person. Kind of boring really.

On Monday, I do laundry, I get it all done and folded. On Tuesday I get it all put away and ironed. I do this almost every week. I dedicate my Mondays to laundry, it works for me, and it gets done.

See that big pile of laundry. That is what my living room looked like on Friday afternoon. I have all of my whites, socks, underwear, Levis and misc laundry to fold, it is Friday. I have all those hanging clothes of my girls to hang up, it is Friday. I have done zero, zip, nada, ziltch iorning…again…it is Friday.

Sigh, I just didn’t have the energy!

Oh and I dyed ALL of mine and PIC’s white “underwear” a very bright beautiful pink color! THAT is another story…!!

Love It!

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I love spring time, and almost as soon as the snow melts I am itching to get out in my yard. I love a good hard day of work in the garden. I have really been wanting to expand my garden space this year, I would like to be more self sufficient and help contribute, with good quality food, to our dinner table. A friend suggested box gardening or square foot gardening last summer, and so this spring we did it! PIC made me three 4×4 boxes and the plan is to at least make one more for our summer crops. (I found a really good article on growing potatoes in boxes, so I am going to try it). Yesterday, even though it was sooooo cold, I planted my spring vegetables.

 

In the first box, I have three types of leaf lettuce and a square of spinach. It is only 1/4 planted right now, in about three weeks I will plant the next set of squares, and so on… That way I will have good fresh lettuce until it gets too hot.

The next box has 8 squares of Sweet Peas. Have you ever smelled sweet peas? They make wonderful cut flowers, and they make the house smell really good. The other half has early cabbage (PIC’s request) and early carrots.

The very last box it full of peas. Half sweet sugar (sweet sugar anything sounds wonderful doesn’t it!) snap peas and the other half regular shelling peas.

 

I can’t wait. In about 10 days I will start seeing little shoots come up, and I promise that I will take pictures and share them with you all!!!

aren’t you so excited!

My Treasures

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This month will be my 10th wedding anniversary. I always said I wanted a diamond trinity band. I really, really want one. There is no way we can afford a diamond ring right now, unless we buy it on credit, and really, is a diamond worth more debt when we are already deeply in debt? There are so many other things our extra money needs to go to. We have a basement to finish, we need to get all our food storage, we need more savings and we need to pay off debts. I keep telling myself all the reasons we can’t get a ring, and they are all really, really good reasons, I still keep finding myself a little sad about the whole thing.

So I decided that I needed a little attitude adjustment.

I am going to count my jewels, my pearls, my diamonds. These are the jewels that I get to take with me. Real diamonds may be really pretty and sparkly, and look oh so nice on my hand, but at the end of it all that ring won’t be on my hand when I meet my maker, however, my real treasures will be there.