New Blog

Hey everybody. Well I finally started my recipe/food blog. I pay homage to my husband because he enjoys eating the food as much as I enjoy making it.

I guess that I will use it as an online backup for all those awesome recipes that I have that I'd die if I lost. If anyone wants me to post some of their recipes so that cyberspace can keep track of them for you just let me know.

Here is the address: www.howtokeepyourman.blogspot.com

Family Fun

We have some great friends who invited us to go horseback riding last weekend and we took them up on their offer. What a blast!
Christi got a chance to put her cowgirl hat that Grandma got her to some good use. And James was quite the little horseman.
It is a wonderful thing to see the world from the back of such a beautiful animal. I think that we miss something in not being able to have these opportunities more frequently. Being one with nature and animals is something that I wish that I could more fully give my kids. They love being able to dig in the dirt, play with a dog or ride a horse. How much nicer it would be if we could have these experiences all the time I think it brings us much closer together.
Anyway....Enjoy the pics!

New Look

So I decided to change the look of my blog. We will see how long this lasts.
I love chocolate- in case the background doesn't give that away.
Chocolate helps me to get through whatever, plus since I LOVE Dark chocolate it's a great fat so eat up!
Hope you all are still praying for us and our house situation. We may have some good news soon- we hope. We feel that there is no better way to learn patience than having kids and trying to sell and buy a house. Chaos must be God's theory to order because even with all the hectic schedules and what not things seem to be slowly falling into place.
I will post more later.

EXHAUSTED

O.K. in case you don't know....Motherhood is exhausting!!!!
Yesterday my dear friend Julie and I took our combined 6 kids - Michael was at school- to the museum. It was fun for the kids but the constant counting of 4 little bodies- luckily 2 are still immobile without mom- was a little wearing on this mom. I felt like a nap was most necessary but not to come to pass, unfortunately.
Instead I got home reserved our campsite for our Labor Day camp out, nursed the baby, started dinner, nursed, fed the family before Ryan had to leave, nursed, got the kids ready for bed and started the 2 hour ordeal of bedtime, nursed, did some dishes, nursed and then by 10pm Ryan finally was able to come home.
See exhausting, huh? ( Maybe I over exaggerate the nursing but aren't you just tired thinking about this? God bless women who have twins, or any numbner of kids from 1 to ___ .)
I wouldn't choose to be exhausted any other way though. Thankfully my kids try to help me not be too exhausted and sleep well once they fall asleep.

Good luck to all the moms out there. May this weekend bring a well deserved nap :)