I have to admit that lately with all the traumas and tragedies surrounding us, I’ve been feeling like the Other Side is winning. Then somebody sent me this video in an email, and I finally watched it….and it sort of restored my faith a little. This video represents lots of lives changed and prayers answered. Sometimes we just need a little ‘refresher’ that God really IS in control and that…
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A BiiiiiiiiiiG WeeK aT THe BLue HouSe!
Its been a busy busy week here!! Our summer officially began today, ’cause YESTERDAY was the last day of school!!!! YAYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m just so excited to have KB home for the summer, and I want to spend every minute enjoying her!! I missed her so bad this year, her first year of all-day school. For the last day festivities, some of the kindergarten moms chipped in to rent a bounce…
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The Grocery Game.
I used to have a friend who called me Suze. As in Suze Orman, the financial guru. 🙂 I used to LOVE books about finance, the stock market, living frugally, investing wisely, giving generously, and so on (I thought I might want to be a financial advisor someday…). Well, with all the craziness of my life in the past couple of years, I’ve sort of gotten so spoiled and lazy…
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Want Happy Children?
No Greater Joy Ministries has blessed our family so much!! We read their child training books, and have since Big Sis was a tiny baby. I was a little hesitant to post this, because if you KNOW my children you know they aren’t perfect, BUT I do know that if I ever need help and advice, the answer is usually found in NGJ books/articles/magazine/website. I love them, and if you…
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The Blue House is Going Green…Healthy Cleaning Products
Ever since BF was diagnosed with encephalitis a year and a half ago, I’ve been trying to make efforts to get all the chemicals out of our house. Did you KNOW that chemical exposure can cause encephalitis?? Very scary, especially when you consider the odds that we were given when BF got sick, that only 1/2 of people even recover from encephalitis and out of the 1/2 that DO survive,…
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GueSS WHo SLeePS iN a BiG GiRL BeD…..
We’ve been having SO much trouble with this little angel at bedtime lately!! She wants to stand up in her bed and dance and sing for two hours or more after we put her to bed, no matter how many times we go upstairs to give her some ‘correction.’ That is, if she isn’t climbing OUT of bed!! So, I finally decided what the heck…..she ain’t going to bed easy…
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More Before-and-After Pics: Big Sis’ Room.
Well, our Ten Year Anniversary came and went last week, and I haven’t posted any sentimental pictures chronicalling the joys of the past 10 years, like I intended to! Honestly that’s just because I’m a little lazy; most of those pics were pre-digital-camera and I’ll have to scan and upload each and every one of them! So, I’m saving that for if and when I ever get caught up on…
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Do You Need God?!?!?
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Brutal Honesty.
KB was rummaging through my pictures earlier and found this lovely Olan Mills portrait dated 1990. I explained to her that this was from when I was in high school (I was 17). She said, “Mommy, I liked you so much better in high school. You were SO much prettier then.”That’s it. I’m calling Dr. 90210.
The Naughty Crew.
Isn’t it so funny how two little girls from the same two parents, with the same genes, and the same upbringing and history, can be so very different? Today Baby A went to MDO at First Christian Church, which is a drop-in program, because this overworked, underpaid mom was needin’ a BREAK. So, I go to pick her up at 2:30, and the teacher tells me, “Ummm…*Baby A* was in…
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Open House Sunday!
Our realtors are having an Open House here, Sunday, from 2-4 pm! So if you ever had the desire to snoop around in our closets while we’re not home, NOW would be your chance. 🙂
More Before and After Pictures: The Sunroom
This room has changed drastically since we bought the house! It was added on in the 1960s by the previous owner, and she had her collection of wicker in this room. It was like The Museum of All Things Wicker…..every single thing, even the birdcage and lamps, were wicker! And the astroturf carpet was a nice touch. Really, though it wasn’t my style, I could see the potential. The ceiling…
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