lets face it guys

I have had a lot of people refer to me as supermom lately. I really don't know why. I am NOT supermom. I have five darling children who every day teach me some spiritual lesson. The usual form is through some form of frustration, whining or crying but a lesson none the less. I love how God whispers to my spirit or holds up a small mirror and convicts me of an attitude. Lately those convictions have come from dealing with my challenge of a daughter who is 2 going on 25.  I am still learning and praise Jesus his work isn't done yet. Other areas of my failings come in the form of house. My house is a wreck 99.9% of the time, I am lucky to get dishes done and I have a working dishwasher, my laundry pile is the size of our Geo but thankfully it has gotten smaller. All thanks to my Pastor's wife who so graciously offered to help. Some days Motherhood is overwhelming, so overwhelming. Some days I find myself envying my husband who gets to go away to work for 8 hours, like when I have changed the 6th poopy diaper in the last thirty minutes. Contrary to popular belief I do lose my patience with my kids, and I even yell at them at times. *SHOCK* I am just a Mom with five kids and like every mom whether they have one or ten kids we all have our struggles. I am no different. All of the stress and chaos in my life and yet I wouldn't trade it for the world. Sure I have had more frustrations and attitude adjustments in the last 5 years to deal with but I also have had the most laughter, the most fun, and an excuse to shake my booty to music :D So nope you won't find supermom here. You'll have to go some place else to find her. Try June Cleaver's house done the road.

A Discovery...myrecipes.com

So I have discovered myrecipes.com 1 list 5 meals. All the work of meal planning in 60 ingredients or less! It features recipes from magazines like Cooking Light, All You, Health, and more. My family has thoroughly enjoyed the food. It is a little more work that usual as far as prep but we are eating a lot better and a lot less processed food. We had Fish Tacos for the first time this week and EVERYONE loved them. Fish is never an issue with Eric or I but for the kids it gets iffy. I am staying on budget with the list as well which is awesome because groceries for a family of 7 is a huge deal. So if you are having meal planning issues check it out. It has helped me immensely.

What a Pain!

I literally have a pain in my butt. We found out last week that carrying the twins and Titus have led me to have a rotated hip and pelvis in addition to my herniated disc. OUCH!!! I've been in a lot of pain lately but thankfully most of it comes when I am lying flat like sleeping so it hasn't affected much with the kids except the lack of sleep. So yeah it's been a painful time. Hopefully with a little Chiropractor TLC the rehab will have me doing well in a few weeks just in time to garden! Here is the most recent snow and snowman the kids built with Dad.

In case you follow my crafting

I created a new blog to have everything in one place so I won't be hopping all over the place anymore.
Giveaway central this month too so make sure you follow along if you want to win some great prizes :D
Head on over to Carissa's Cottage.

Confession Thursday: Kerith

There is a little girl screaming right now at my kitchen table her name is Kerith. Her Dad and I are sure the brook in the Bible she was named after was more like a raging river. She is a firecracker, there is no calm and steadiness about her. I must say most days I feel ill equipped to deal with her. She has made every little thing a HUGE deal since birth and I do mean everything. Now that she is two she has more things to make a scene with and she certainly does. She has moved from the table to the stairs. Did I mention I am in the basement? You are probably wondering why she is crying, maybe even feeling a little sorry for her. Why such a fuss? I'd like to know as well. She was eating breakfast at the table like a sweet girl and then something happened. Maybe her Brother looked at her wrong, maybe I gave her spoon to her in the wrong direction, or maybe it was because I wouldn't pick up her blanket off the floor for her. She has made her way to me face in her hands whimpering. I am sure the Lord has great things in store for her. I know in her short life span God has used her to teach me many lessons. So they usually come in the form of "man is this how I sound to Jesus? whine whine whine" but they are lessons none the less.

Confession Thursday: Coffee

I love coffee. I love it way way to much and have consumed entirely to much in the last 11 weeks but man it's good. It all started when I was 16 but then there wasn't a big craze like now, we didn't have Starbucks on every corner and I had never heard of a cappuccino. Fast forward 15 years later and I am all about Starbucks it is a treat for me. I drop the kids off at Mother's day out and get me a big 'ole caramel macchiato or white chocolate mocha. I really do have to use self control because I could easily drink more than one. I need to join a CAA( Coffee Addicts Anonymous) group. I do think when I get to heaven God will greet me with a huge coffee and remind me all the calories won't be going to my hips anymore.

Snow Snow Snow!

yes Micah wears pink