So I disappeared again, my intentions are good. I just have a hard time finding things to right. I started vlogmas a little late but I finished strong. That was a shocker... my videos may have been late sometimes but I was able to get them up. Not because I was lazy but because my internet connection was slow or off. We were blessed with a ice storm and it cut off a lot of service and electric for people in this area. Right now there are still over 500 people without electric. Crazy. I hope you everyone had a awesome Christmas. Can you guys believe we are already ending 2015? Sad but true. I am excited for what 2016 has in store for me. If you have not been watching my videos I recently announced a challenge. I have partnered with Melody from Transforming Melody. She is a awesome person in God and a great friend. She contacted me to do this challenge with her and I took it. We are transforming our lives to be better example for Christ. I am stoked! If you are interested inn what its all about check out my video
I also did my first intro to the this today and I am happy about the turn out. Everyone is so supportive and I can not wait to see what happens. I also put a video announcing my schedule for videoing for 2016. Be sure to check it out as well
I hope everyone is ready for the next year. I also pray that everyone has a safe and happy New Year. Know this I will be posting my New Years Goal soon so be looking for that. WOO HOO! 2016!!!!
Yes I have been gone quiet some time. I had been on a ball with this then all of a sudden I fell off the face of this earth. Well quiet honestly I lost motivation and did not know quiet what to say. My last post was September 11th and today is November 24. I have no excuses but my mojo had left the building. I still have been posting videos, but not faithfully as I want to. Am I unreliable....depends on the matter. I have been trying to find some inspiration on blogging and videos, and unto my surprise I may have found something. Regardless of whether it is a chat with you or a GRWM or a haul, DIY or even home décor, or cleaning I am going to do my best to share. I want to encourage everyone and make a difference and I am not going to be able to do that if I don't put myself out there and make it available. Right? So we are here upon Thanksgiving and I decorated the house in fall then took it down. I did not even leave it up for Thanksgiving. I am looking at things to be inspired for Christmas decorating and there are so many good ideas out there. I just don't want it to come out cheap and gaudy. It can be cheap just not look cheap. My kids tell me they are tired of the silver and gold theme I do every year. I can understand that but it is so pretty. A friend of mine told me to change some of it by spray painting the ornaments without having to spend money on new ones. You bet, that got my wheels spinning. So now I am looking into that and wanting to use a color that will flow through the house. Which could be every color in the rainbow, if you were to ask my kids. They say I have a collective taste. I collect anything that I like, not just what matches and goes. I am trying but its hard. LOL I have done a few collab videos and I am excited at the new one I am getting ready to do that is due December 4th. It is...you guessed it. $5 Goodwill challenge. I love those. I enjoy a lot of them but that was my first collab ever. They are always near and dear to my heart. Be sure to go and check out some of the other videos and watch out for that one coming soon. Who has seen the new Mocking Jay video? I have not but have read the books. I am waiting until either it goes to the dollar theater or I buy it. I love the series and can not wait to see it. I hear it is a great movie. I recently celebrated my 45th birthday and can not believe how fast time has gone. I can still remember sitting in my pink room as a kid listening to music and riding my bike all over the place. Not that I want those times back, I love the time I am in. I just can not believe I have come this far. God has been good to me. Anyways, I have rambled enough. I pray you guys have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving. Always be thankful, not just this day but everyday. It is a gift. Smooches!
Hello everyone! I went to blog yesterday but my heart was not in it. Thinking a lot about what I am doing and trying to spend my time more productive and prioritize my list of things I need to do and after some of the things I had to do was done I just didn't have the heart to blog. Sorry but that is reality. Anyway today is day that the world is remembering of the heart ache and pain that America suffered from what ever people want to believe happened. There are words of terrorist attack and there are words of our own government. As for what I believe.... HMMMM, yeah I don't care to go into that. I do however wonder if the families that this affected still replay everything that happened that day in their head, year after year, at this time every year? If they still feel that stabbing in their chest as they watched tv and seen what was displayed for everyone to see. Even the survivors if they still have flash back on this day and recall the things they saw and the noises inside? My mind cant even imagine what they have went through and continue to go through. I sit here and still recall what I was doing and where I was at when I heard and watched it on tv. I was standing at the kitchen sink washing breakfast dishes when my husband (at the time) called and asked if I was watching the news and I said no. He told me to turn the tv on something bad has happened. Him driving truck did not got to see it but was listening to the radio. I seen that only one Trade Center was hit then as I stood in my kitchen watching I saw the other plane fly into the other Trade Center. I remember my heart drop and my eyes sting from tears. I felt my stomach turn and a weight of confusion and despair drop on me. How far has America come from where it was. We have come a long way but yet have a long way to go. My heart breaks still, I have the live documentary of that day and I watch it around this time every year. Not to go through the hurt again and relive it but to thank God for bringing us from that and helping us see. My heart goes out to those people I seen go into those buildings to save lives but in the process losing their own. I pray for Gods protection and guidance over this land and for us to remember, yet forgive. So, as for my tribute it is postponed. I wanted to share today in the remembrance of what today represents for all Americans and possibly the world. Jesus be with us and thank You for Your love. We shall NEVER forget.
Here is another day, another gloomy day in Northern Indiana. It had been pretty nice out earlier this week but the past couple of days has been BLAH!
Anyway, I told you yesterday I was going to come to you with a planner up date. So here it is....
This planner is from TF Publishing. It has all sorts of things on there. Different kind of calendars and planners at affordable prices. I did however purchase mine at Big Lots for $9.99. I looked all over for a planner that was affordable and would suit my needs. This particular planner is a 17 month planner. It goes from July 27 2015 to January 1 2017.
When you first open it up it has a identification page to fill out. On the opposite side is the cover to the front of the planner. What I love about this too is I can always change the cover or the back by sliding another cover in. When you turn the page the two year overview is displayed.
The month lay out is in the front, following the weekly layout. On the opposite side of each monthly layout is a inspirational quote with a beautiful picture. This planner is horizontal layout with a note section. You have plenty of space to add your daily tasks. It should be fairly easy to change to a vertical one if you prefer them instead. I did not find vertical planners on the website. You may have more success at finding it than I. I noticed that there planners are 17-18 months and the price range (for the planner like I got) from $14.99- $16.99.
They have calendars, desk pads, engagements and desk blotters, etc...
They have all different kinds.
The paper quality is great and very thick. I can not think of the name for type of paper that it is but the paper quality is very good. The plastic cover is thick and durable. The ring is about 1 1/2 inch wide (if that makes sense). The planner is 7X8 1/2 and 2 inches thick.
Do I still use my other home made planner. Yes until it is used up. I use it for Youtube and blog. I hope to get a Happy Planner which is hard because Hobby Lobby keep selling out of them and never know when they will be getting anymore in stock. I spoke with someone from Hobby Lobby and they said that Happy Planner is struggling to keep up with the high demand of the product, so until them I am content with what I have. If I was to get a Happy Planner I would still use my TF Publishing planner. I would just switch the uses around a little bit. Because I still love this new planner and the quality of it.
Here is the video I done just a small intro to it.
Here is the link to the website where you can check them out.
I hope you enjoy and if you have any questions feel free to ask.
Tomorrow will be Tribute update. Stay tuned.....
Thanks for stopping by.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Here I am late, but not gone forever. Things around here get a little crazy. A life of a Christian woman, wife, and mother comes first before any blog or You Tube. I love doing this but when my children are in need of their mother I go running, but I think now I am going to allow some of my children face some of the things about life and reality on their own. You know a child has to pay for the consequences of their decisions sometime or another. I will support them to a degree but got to let go of that apron so they can realize that Momma is not always going to be there. I love them but I am not their Savior I am there mom. I guide them and pray for them. I provide for them up to a point and then they are on their own. Would I let them starve....no but I wont provide if they are not trying to do for themselves or walking around spending their money foolishly. Anyway I did not come on here to rant about kids. I am here to talk to you guys about the "Night time cleaning and prep routine". I will be honest I have not done it every night because I was not here a lot of nights. Like I said earlier things have been crazy around here. I did however thoroughly clean the house Saturday, then started back on my night time routine Monday night. If you follow me on Instagram you would have see it in photos I post. So what are the pros and cons on doing this night time routine? PROS CONS
Not having to deal in the AM 1. having to
Waking up to a clean room leave family
Resting better to attend the
no bad smells lingering mess
More time in the morning to do other things
Well I could go on and on but if you see there is only one con that I can think of at the moment and I can not see why I make this so hard on myself to do this every night. I love waking up to a clean kitchen, whole house for that matter, I am going to try my hardest to add this daily. Its a good example for my kids as well. I Hope this helps you guys and to think of adding it to your night time routine. I even have a night time facial routine I do and may share that with you as well. Tomorrow I am sharing my new planner. I have been using it for a while and I am in love. No it is not a planner I originally wanted but I do like it a lot. So please come back tomorrow for a video and look into the planner. Oh and yes I will be back tomorrow, unless God says different. Thanks for stopping by.
Hello everyone! I am back today with my Tribute Thursday. I would have posted this earlier but I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off. I had a couple of videos to record and a daughter who had a dentist appointment. Never fails when you make plans other things like to invade your time. Oh well I am here and wanted to share with you the video I uploaded today. Every Thursday for a little over two months I have been doing tribute videos for You Tubers I am subscribed to that has impacted my life some how or someone I feel may need the encouragement. Of course everyone could use encouragement but I spend some quiet time and let God lead me as to who I am to do it for that week. I pray for them and think about what they have done to impact my life, family, or home. Every video I have done I have received positive feed back. I do want to make this clear. I do this to better the community and because God told me to. Plus to up lift someone and to let them know that what they have done has made a difference in some ones life, even if its just mine. So today I give tribute to the beautiful Tamela from the You Tube channel Haute on Design.
She is a beautiful person and she is very creative. She is a designer and shares her skills with the You Tube community and I love that. She opens up the door of what else is out there and how else you can get a look on the cheap. I appreciate her and would encourage everyone to go and check her out. She is a God fearing woman and I adore her. Thank you Tamela for the hard truth and love you share with others on your channel. You are blessed.
So there you have it. I will try to keep doing this every week, or for as long as God has released me to do so. If you are interested in the past tributes because she is number 10, please check out my You Tube channel and watch the series I have started. Here is the video I have done for her.
Tomorrow I will come back with an update on the kitchen challenge that How Jen Does it issued earlier this week. Thanks for stopping by.
Hello everyone! I apologize for not being here yesterday and giving you what I promised. Was not feeling up to it. It has been extremely hot here in Northern Indiana and yesterday I was out doing yard work. So I hope you don't hold it against me. I told you guys Monday I was going to share with you the final finish of our dining room and the refurbished furniture we done. If you are subscribed to me on You Tube you may have seen it or if you are following me on Instagram you may have gotten a glimpse. But here is the pictures I shared on the video and on Instagram.
Here is the video so you can see more detail.
Sorry it took so long to finish but we were having one problem after another. Oh and if you are interested in what we used, ready for this? Spray paint.... yes with clear coated over it. Plus are varnish, but yeah it was cheap and easy to apply, just it was so hot out when we got ready to do the hutch the spray paint looked awful and it would run. Unfortunately we had to wait until it cooled off so we could finish. My husband likes how the hutch came out that he wants to apply the clear to the chairs (which we didn't think to do at the time). I love the look of it and I am very pleased. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. I will try to answer them to the best of my ability.
Tomorrow (being I am a day behind) I will be talking about my Tribute Videos and who I am honoring. Please stay tuned.
I am back with some updates and changes. I made up list of blogs I want to put up this week, so here is to hoping I can get it all done and stick with it. So to start Jen from How Jen Does it made a challenge for anyone that wants to join it. It is a 30 day Night Time Cleaning Routine. I thought why not. I hate waking up to a dirty kitchen, so I am hoping this will encourage me to do this from now on and maybe even start doing it in other areas of my home. Here is the check list I made myself to use for now until I find other things I want to add on.
I know for some people they don't need a list they just know to do those things, but I like the feeling of accomplishment and not just seeing what has been done but the feeling off checking something off a list. Some people think it is silly and a waste of time, to me I feel if I have the time and it makes me feel good I am going to do it. This list is just for my kitchen and it is like I said I will end up adding to it as time goes. Jen has a lot longer night time routine list than I do. I want to make it only enough that I can handle and if I do more I will add on and so on.
Here is the before
This is right after dinner and I had a little bit of everything out.from food to cleaning supplies, that I didn't put away after I cleaned some of the house earlier. I forgot to take a picture of the coffee station. There was coffee grounds and spilt coffee on the counter. But here is the after.
I want to do some more decorating but I am being picky. I don't want to just get anything. I did that before and I got stuff that didn't go with anything.
Anyway, I want to challenge you to try this. Do a few things to your night time routine to make your morning easier. I feel that with this being done I can get up in the morning and spend time with God and not have the feeling I need to get the dishes done or the counters cleaned. Plus I can start my next day time cleaning routine with something else and not feel so rushed. I hope this will work out and the kids will fall into doing this as well.
Tomorrow I will be showing the updates on my furniture and at the end of the week I will give you an update on how this night time routine is coming along.
I hope you will come back and check it out. It turned out really nice. Thanks for stopping by.
Hello everyone! Well I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful weekend. We are already in the middle of the week and I hope you guys are having a great week. I have been working on a challenge that I will be doing a video on this week. So be watching for it at the end of the week. I had such a discouraging beginning of my week. My husband I have been working on that hutch. Well sad thing is it has been too hot to clear it and every time we clear it, it runs or has a lot of brush strokes. I was hoping to have it done before Friday but it does not look like I will get that. As of right now I to come up with other ways to store my candles and what I am going to put in place for where the hutch was going to go.
So has anyone seen the Tribute Series videos I have been doing? I have done 4 so far. My last one was of the family in Israel. Their channel is called Foolyliving. Here is the video if you would like to watch it. I do these videos to encourage Youtubers. A lot of them seem to be dealing with some sort of negativity and I want them to know that what they have done has inspired me and encouraged me to be better or do better for my family and I. Whether it be organizing, foods to eat, shopping, or what have you. I am thankful for all of them. I will continue to do tribute videos for as long as I am inspired and touched. Well I got a lot to do today to get ready for my challenge. Hope you have a great rest of the day or week. Thanks for stopping in.
Hello everyone! I am sitting here trying to find the right words to express how I never meant to hurt someone. It is amazing how you can change about something but at the end of the day, the decision on how you handled the situation can come out and bite you. The things you set out there in the atmosphere is there forever. It can be forgiven and can be erased, ripped, burned and or torn but the memory is engraved in the mind and soul. I pray that the person I hurt knows I love them and never meant for it to come out the way it was perceived. So in my pain there is growth. I pray for God to recognize my sincerity and relays the message on what I truly mean. This is a late post but I have been a busy turd today. 1. Phone calls to dentists and doctors 2. Ivan a hair cut 3. Answering comments on my latest videos 4. Calling clubs for the band I manage 5. Wash truck 6. Laundry 7. Blog 8. Dishes and clean kitchen 9. First thing I done was read my word and spent time with God 10. Meeting with my Pastor 11. Talk to my girls 12. Relax with a glass of wine
Right now I am blogging with my wine....lol. I got all this done and I forgot to mention I helped my husband with changing the back brakes and getting ready to help with the hutch. After all this is said and done I still feel like I did not do enough. It does look fulfilling when I see it all written out. That's why I keep my planner so detailed. I like the feeling of accomplishment. I pray everyone has a safe weekend and that everyone thinks responsibly. My heart goes out to all the families that have to face this weekend without their loved ones that was just lost in the movie theater last night (I believe). Please keep God your main focus and everything else will come into play. Blessings
I am on a roll ya'll!!!! I have been doing scheduled videos on time and doing this blog everyday. Habits are easy to create but hard to break when you get started. I am writing this after a rushing day yesterday and today does not look much better. I went to get my hair cut yesterday and I was not sure there was much of a difference but there is a subtle difference.
My husband was not going to have me cut too much of my hair but they did cut off an inch and gave me some layers. I know it caused my hair to spring up and be curly.
Anyway, today I am heading out to take my youngest daughter shopping and to see my second oldest daughter Equilla for her birthday. She had a rough day yesterday and I want to go and encourage her. Plus take her a birthday present.
I do plan to give Ivan a hair cut when I get home. Yeah that should be fun....NOT! I hate the feeling of dog hair all over me. So yeah... time to get it done regardless.
I did a You tube tribute video today for someone that has inspired me, even if it was just recent. I do what I have to do because God laid her on my heart and that is Andrea from Foolyliving. She let me know that she has watched it. I just hope it encouraged her, she is a beautiful person.
I also just recently subscribed to her...again. Yes again. I was subscribed to her before in the past and unsubscribed. The I wanted to watch her videos again so I went back. I had this urge to watch her again. I hope when I said that it did not hurt her feelings. I just wanted to be honest. I had no reason for unsubing but I was overwhelmed with so many videos and it was not necessarily from her. I unsubbed a lot of people but for some reason I had to come back to her. She has this glow about her and I just think she is a beautiful person. So if you have never seen her videos or know who I am referring to please go check her out.
Well I better go and get some of my stuff done today. YAH!!!! Ugh....
Hello everyone! I am starting my day on a some what good note. Last night my feelings got hurt by the words of someone I trust and love deeply. Although, that person says they were joking and I should take it seriously, it hurts. You feel that you know that person and trust them to never hurt you... they do. I figure now it is time to just have tougher skin even with those I trust. I have had to ask myself have I always been the best to them and treated them fairly. No I can not say that I have. Have I maybe have hurt their feelings sometimes in the past? Yeah most likely. So it is time to put my big girl panties on and let them know I still love them and even apologize. God has really been on about apologizing to people even if I feel it is their fault for everything. Because they have feelings too and I need to acknowledge my wrong doing as well and not just my feelings that have been hurt. Anyway, today is a day of celebrating! My second oldest daughter Equilla is celebrating her birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!!!
I am so proud of you and the way you are going after your dreams. Although, you have distanced yourself from me and your family I respect your privacy, regardless of whether I like your decisions or not. I miss you and wish I could take you back to when you were a baby and redo everything with you. I did the best I know how to do at the time, but knowing what I know now I would have done things differently. Not with just you but all of your sisters. You would never have been exposed to rejection, hate, hurt, cruelty, emotional abuse, and the lack of anything that you were in need of. Regardless of the strength it has given you today. I would have held on a little tighter, a little longer and exposed you to the things that only God has for you.
I love you to infinity and back. Be the woman God has called you to be and not what the world wants you to be. You are beautiful!
Happy Birthday!
(No Equilla did not hurt my feelings. It was someone else.) ;)
Hello everyone! I am having a very productive day! I am enjoying this time with the girls and doing some cleaning. Although, one child is being unsocial and pain in my butt, I am still moving on and praying for peace. I took pictures of what my house looked like before I made the bed, did two loads of dishes, swept, dusted and picked up. My house is not always at its best and I do have my off days. I try to keep up with high demands of being a wife, mother, dog mommy, and grandmother. (That does not include homeschooling year round.) I want to keep it real with you guys that my house is less than perfect and I do not always keep it neat and tidy....Oh I desire for that, do not get me wrong, but when you have kids at home all day long and a husband that works weird hours, it is a challenge. Here is my bedroom before:
Yeah, pretty disgusting.
Here is the after: (oh I want to rearrange and change a few things but I am limited space)
Now that curtain was straightened out but you see that fury thing in the corner. Yeah Garson...He got in the window after I fixed it.
Here is the living room.
My granddaughters helping in the living room. They are such good helpers. Now that brown wall I am planning to paint and change that painting. I am not a fan of it anymore. Time for a change, right?
My dining room is another room in my home that is still in the middle of being transformed. there is another glimpse of the table my husband and I done.
Oh boy Kitchen and backroom have still some fixing up to do but one thing at a time. The one thing that I am going through as far as a training goes is NOT feeling it has to be completed right now. It is a process and I am still working on it. If you remember the kitchen and backroom use to be a reddish color and the backroom was my exercise room now its a family room and a greenish grey color. Things are changing. I bought a few things to hang on the wall, just trying to decide where to hang them. I may wait until I get the brown wall painted. Here is some of things I plan to hang.
So I hope I didn't bombard you with pictures. I just wanted you to get a view of my daily life. I do not always have it all together and there are days I just let it go. Not that my house is always messy cause it is not. I can only deal with it for a minute then I have to get my bum in gear and get things together. So I hope this encourages you to get in gear and not to feel so overwhelmed. It is one thing at a time. Blessings!
Hello everyone! I pray this finds you all blessed and highly favored. It has been a pretty productive day today. I got up this morning and read the Bible and thought about my day, as well as week.
A look into one planner
into another....
I am looking into all the things I need to get done this week. My husband and I are working on my hutch and I will be doing a video on my latest projects either this week or next. Here is a peek at the hutch
I will have a video on the before and after. I hope you stay tuned to see the whole thing. It will be awesome!
I have the pleasure of spending time with my two granddaughters before the go back to school.
I can not get anything done either with these fury friends
No matter where I go they are up under foot. I love them but goodness give me walk space. LOL
So today I am in a pretty good place spiritually and mentally. I have did a lot of thinking about my situation and where I am and doing. Am I proud of the sin? No. Am I desiring the change? Yes. I stopped condemning myself for my short comings and come to realize I will have flaws and short comings. (Ro. 8:1 Therefore there is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus)
I measured myself to everyone else and realize that their short comings are different than mine. Which does not make them any better than me or me better than them.
That has been realization today and I am content in knowing my mind and heart is being made new daily.
Hello everyone!!!! Yes I am on a different cloud today. The last one I was hurt and frustrated. After praying and leaving it to God, God intervened and took everything in His hands. The one family member apologized and said Satan has been hounding her, she just took it out on me. Then me going through everything with my family Satan used her to kick me while I was down.
But before she apologized I encouraged myself and said I would make it though this and decided to encourage someone else. So I did a Youtube video and did video 3 on my series that I started. I wanted to encourage Denise Cooper (Be my guest with Denise Cooper). She was touched and it made me happy to know that I encouraged her and in the mean while stomping Satan in the throat. YAHHHHH!!!!!
I am content right now and thanking God that I will make it through this storm and any other storm that comes at me.
Hello everyone! First the storm passed with no damage, thank God. It was crazy, the wind here was fierce.
Second, I have dealt with a couple of personal things this week and my heart keeps getting broken and all I hear is your not wanted, no one wants you, may as well drink and eat it away. I feel the spirit of rejection on my back and it is about as bad as the storm we just had. The wind, rain, thunder and lightening I feel over me and pounding on me. My heart is broken and I want to scream, hide and rebel. My uncle passed away November 1,2014. Now my family informed me of his death on my facebook wall four days after he passed. Then had the nerve to only text me seven days after he passed to tell me because I did not respond. I still did not respond, then they call me to see if I can have him buried at my grandmamma's feet after he has been cremated. My grandmamma's plot is in my mommas name which is also deceased, so me being the living heir I have to give the say so. Now apparently I was not important enough for you to tell me that he passed but only when you need something. GRRRRRR! I did do it only for the love and respect for one aunt that had no way of telling me anything. Then I get on facebook today to see how one of my husbands niece thinks. It is stupid but my mind takes things to a whole different level. I have always been close to that family. When I did not feel close to my own biological family I felt that they were my family, until up to 2 years ago or so. My husband has seen first hand how I battled with this rejection and heart break. He feels bad because of how his family act, but it is what it is.
I have this thing about family. Always have and probably always will. Family are the ones that can make you feel the worse.
So as I turn this page from this week and day, I will remember that God does love me and I pray that anything that I may have said, done, thought, heard, or seen made Him turn from me. Although scripture says nothing can separate me from the love of Christ.
I am also reminded that I am a overcomer and if God is for me who can be against me. Also I am a heir of the throne, I am a High Priest and King. I have the power and authority of the enemy. Satan has played with my emotions because I am weak, he has dropped words of discouragement and pain and I have dwelled on them. I am to hold every thought captive and remember I have on the garment of praise and the armor of God on. No weapon that is formed against me will prosper. Stand firm in the faith I know and His word that He has spoken over me. I am His child and He loves me unconditionally. He has nothing but the best planned for me and no one or nothing can take me out of His hand. Psalms 139 says He thinks about me in one day than there are grains of sand. He has formed and made me. Not my family, mistakes or traumas. Thank You Jesus for setting me free and holding my heart in Your hand. You are my Abba Father and I look to You for my relationship. I love You and praise you with my brokenness. From the ashes I rise!
Hello everyone! It is officially summer!!!!! Not a very hit summer here but all in all it is summer. It has rained a lot but that is some what ok. The farmers need it and so does Gods creation.
I have been busy here lately. More than normal. I waited to come back when something half way exciting was left to post. I have been giving my house a face lift. I painted the kitchen and what use to be the exercising room is now considered the family room. I sit back there in the morning enjoying the peace and quiet, reading the Bible and meditating on Gods word. I also just enjoy looking out the patio door watching the birds and chipmunks. Yes chipmunks! them things are ruining my yard. They are cute but awful on the foundation of the home. Causing leaking and cracks in the basement. Yeah so we are having to find a remedy for them boogers. I heard of the 2 liter pop bottle trick but that is kind of mean. My latest home project has been our dinette table and chairs. I will be doing a video at the end of this month of all we have done to our home, so I hope you stay close by and check it. I would love your feed back. Here is a sneak peak of the table before and after.
Before (yeah I know)
Some of the after
I will show you more when we are completely done.
Gotta get off we are having a tornado watch. Please pray
Hello everyone! I have been MIA due to lack of whatever excuse I can come up with. I have thought a lot about coming back but I wanted something great to share and pray that it would catch your attention. Well I have fallen short of that too. So I have just come back to say HEY and to let you know what I have or have not been doing. I have NOT exercised lately due to lack of motivation, but mostly because I have been doing house and yard stuff more. I was hired to organize and clean someones home and that took a lot out of me. I was going to record it but I had three days to do it and I was pushing it. It took me 16 hours to do it. Now I know that is what some people do in two days that work outside of their home. 16 hours went towards just their home and that is not including the things I have been doing in mine. I will have pictures and a video on the mess I have been doing in my home. I hope it encourages and gives you ideas on new ways to think outside of the box. Plus I have been working outside in my yard. Pulling up a lot of mint that has been growing in the front of my house a long with other strange things. Anyways I also chopped down so bushes that had died. I got rock I need to get moved and replace with mulch. Maybe once I get that done I can show what changes I did on the outside as well. So yeah although I have not exercised, I have kept myself moving with indoor and outdoor work. I do have a praise report. I got on the scale earlier this week and seen that I hit my goal weight (first goal). I was excited but now disappointed because I gained 4 pounds back. Oh well that is fine, PMS has to have its time. Just as soon as it is over I will be back at it and get my victory back!
The weekend of Memorial my husband and I were out doing yard work and I was standing on the deck and looked down at him and seen this baby mallard duck following him. Cutest little thing. He came out of no where and we can not find his/ her family anywhere. So we have adopted this feathered little friend until he/she is of age to fly the coop.
Yeah I am attached. Who wouldn't be. Look at that face. My daughter named him/her Quckers. I named him/her Quckers Da Squeekers. Because every time you get out of sight or if he/she can not hear you he/she squeeks. Now the dogs are not enthused with our new friend but they will have to deal with it for now.
Quckers Da Squeekers
So I hope you enjoy this and come back again.... okay hopefully I will come back again. I just want to make better blogs and more interesting ones for you guys. Anyways this is short but only a small update on what's been going on with no excuses. Thanks for stopping by....
Hello everyone! It has been a while and I have no excuses. I became discouraged and thought why bother no one reads this. So I dug deep and said even if no one does read this blog, it is for me. I have been through a lot since the last time I was on. I did several videos (which you can go to my channel and see them). I am in the midst of remodeling my dining room and doing pictures with video on it. Plus I have changed my journey in this life and have a great report. As to date I have lost 30 pounds. It has been a tough battle but I have done it. I am still in this fight and even though at times I want to give up, I continue to press in. I use Herbal Life products and I am in a weight loss challenge. I exercise...some. Walking has been a battle for me but I am proud to say that I was only able to walk for 5 minutes on the tread mill I have now accomplished 30 minutes on the treadmill straight at 3.0. I do walks with some ladies from church every other Monday at the park and we walk 1 1/2 miles at what ever pace we can. I was proud to see that I could do that. Killed my legs the next couple of days but as the old saying goes, "No pain! No gain!" I have been doing a lot of yard work here and at my mother n laws. I was totally surprised with myself. I never planted things before. I had a run in with one of my worse enemies while working in my mother n laws yard. A snake...oh my Jesus. It slithered right over my foot and I took off, screaming for Jesus. My husband and mother n law found it and my mother n law preached to it. Telling it that it was created for a purpose and all I could say was," Well I don't think it was to scare the pee out of me." Then I turn around and took pictures of it and if you want to see it go to my Instagram @Spanky Cola and look at it there. I even later went back to her house to finish her yard. Yeah Jesus gave me peace and protected me. Even if it was a garden snake. A snake is a snake. Here is the pictures of my before and after pictures as to this date. Like I said I am still fighting this:
I tell my family I do not see a difference but they claim they can. They tell me its because its me and I see things different than they do. Yeah ok...
I have a job coming up that I am excited about. I have been hired to organize some ones home. They gave me a budget to get the things I need. I get to start next week. I will be working on it for three days while they are away on vacation. PLUS they are letting me drive their H3 Hummer around. Oh yeah this Momma is stoked! I will be doing before and after pictures of the things I do and probably a video too if they say it is ok.
I have been so blessed lately and I give God all the glory for the work He is doing in me, through me and around me. He has given me favor that I am so humble and thankful for.
Well I am sure there is more I would love to ramble about but I will save it for next time. I pray that I can keep this going and blog more often. Even now that I realize I do this for me and who ever wants to hope in and join me is more than welcome. If you do read this feel free to comment and let me know you are here. Until then thanks for stopping by.
