Today, I cried. I was so blessed by my Ky. She has worked really hard in 1st grade this year and today was a huge moment. Some background: Kylie is a smart girl and last year a I began to relize that she was memorizing her reading books rather than actually reading them. I told her teacher but she wasn't worried. She was able to read the words one at a time while sounding them out but couldn't read a sentence smoothly. By the end of the year it was pretty much the same thing. This year she is back at home with me and we've been reading together a lot, she's been showing much improvement. Then today it happened. While working on her Math, she completely read and solved the word problems, all on her own! ALL ON HER OWN! So, I cried. (Teared up.) This was a happy mommy moment.
*Thank you Lord for small victories.

I'm Back

The Kiddos
(Christmas Shot)

Happy New Year! It's sort of funny to see the last time I posted anything. All I can say is it was a long 2009. The Lord got me through and its a new year. I pray 2010 will be a new exciting adventure.

Cranky Pants

Oh, my! I can't express how much I would love these Cranky Pants for the Kaed. These pants are so cute but so expensive. I need someone, who out of the kindness of their heart will make them for less. I'm sure they are tricky to make but what do I know I only create fabulous stuff like this in my dreams. (Sigh)

My Confession

I'm very excite about this and I'm not sure why. I think it may have something to do with the fact that we just got rid of cable last week, I'm just now discovering all that iTunes has to offer and I've been locked in the house with the sweetest 5month old, who is very sick. Did you know that even Sesame Street has a podcast? This makes Kylie very happy. She watched five in a row and still has about 20 to go. Oh, ya back to Martha.
I must confess I love MARTHA, even if she is an ex-convict. Martha Stewart has a free podcast and on there are all these lovely looking recipes. Even though I've just started WW and I'm counting the points, I'm really looking forward to making the Peanut Butter Chunk cookies with my "chicks".

My friend Trisha moved to Utah few years ago just when we were getting to know each other. I really like her simple approach to scrap booking and some day when I grow up I want to scrap just like her. Recently she created a few pages that I really like and I just had to share.

My Talents

My children are a special, unique gift, given to only my husband and myself. Each one is a wonderful design, these little people are used in my life to keep me on my knees before my all knowing Heavenly Father. In Matt. 25:14-30, Jesus teaches the Parable of the Three Servants and every time I read this I reflect upon my mothering. When Jesus my master returns, I want him to say "Well, done, my good and faithful servant." When Sadie was first born the Lord gave me this passage as a basic guideline for how I mother. This is purely a personal thing between me and the Lord.

Blogg'n again

Joanne has encouraged me to start blogging again. I had just started this blog when I needed to set it aside to deal with many important circumstances in my life. Well, now I'm back and I'm excite to write. I think this is like a journal of sorts, a way to catalog snapshots of my life.