Adventures with gingerbread men

Cutting, this took me a couple of time to get the right thickness to them.









Baking, easy part.








Then you get these funny looking little boogers.

How being a wife and mother has changed me.

The holidays are all about family and as wife and mother of two it is my job to make holidays the best that they can be. I spent alot on my children and my husband for Christmas and did not leave much for myself. This my husband was not happy about. I was more than happy to do it! Why, because my job come from all of them on Christmas morning not from what I get. I don't really care if I get anything when they get something it feels like I got something because all I want is for them. I got my daughter a busy ball popper, I want one really bad! I got my son Chutes and Ladders, I want to play it with him! So see it all for me really it is things that I want them to have.

As a teenager most of us showed skin and alot of it. I am now a wife and mother. These means for one I do not want other men looking at me! If I am to cause someone else to sin then I have also sinned. So I am covering up. I am not going to show anything above the knee or more than a few inches below my neck. I am not going to hide everything I am just going to be conservative but stylish. Instead of shorts I will wear capri pants and no tank tops except with something over them. I feel that if I do not want the attention from men then I should do nothing to warrant it and if someone does look my way at least I have not caused it. This decision is also for my children because I want to be a respected member of the community and have them be proud of me when I should have to go to their school or anything else they are involved in.

To me personally I feel that in marriage my husbands roll is to go to work and mine is everything else. He is the head of the family I am the keeper of it. There must always remain an equal respect for each other. We both try to remember that a kind word will turn away a harsh. I do not mean that it is always peachy around, we do hash it out occasionally.But to much arguing will wear down on you and your relationship over time and you will be left with nothing but I shell of what used to be. The ultimate way to be happy in life is to be happy with your spouse. I used to hate the ground that he walked on. Now where he goes I go, I can not stand to be away from him.How did we get to this point? Mostly through sheer determination. We realized one day that we were all each other had and something had to give. We began in small steps. The first was that on payday we always go out to eat as a family even if that is just to McDonald's. Every couple of months my mil will watch the children and we go out to dinner by ourselves. Second we learned to talk to each other in a way that was respectful. Watching what you say and thinking before you talk. There is are something that would to funny to one but not the other. The biggest reason I think it was so important to us to change is that we realized that our children are watching us. They will look back and have us as an example in their future did we want them to see us tearing each other down all the time? WE wanted them to see us happy, and the only way to do that was to be happy. We are in this for life and that us all there is to it.Marriage takes alot of work mentally.Right now I am waiting on him to get him home and while writing this blog in my head I am thinking, it is our anniversary will he get me a card? Then telling myself that if he does not it is ok nothing to get worked up about because one small thing will end up ruining your whole day. I try must best to not nag too much but if I do he just kinda turns me into the teacher from charlie brown lol.


Well that's all for now, Well have to have coffee again sometime.

I am looking for help.....

If you so happen to read this blog could you leave me a comment on how you dip your buckeyes? This will be my second year doing them and sometimes the balls fall in half on me and all the other just aren't that pretty. So could you give me some tips please?

OH MY, a blog this close to christmas!

Yes here in the quiet of the morning I am going to sit down and right. And I have to admit that I find myself a but out of sorts today. Like there is something that I think is just not right, or unsettled. A close relative is going through a bit of a hard time, and I feel God pushing me just to show kindness to let him know that there are people there for him. After a break up, job loss, and pretty much losing everything he is looking at moving home it has been a pretty rough year for him. As a said I have felt this push to show him kindness and did and folded his laundry and sent him with a plate of buckeyes but after all was said and done when he puts on his jacket he just stood for a good 5 minutes and I felt like then was the time, he acted like he did not want to leave ( then why did he). Maybe I should hug him, well he is the same as me just kinda has a personal barrier. Maybe I should say everything will be ok, how hasn't heard that a hundred times. I was left not knowing what to do. Then this morning I realized that maybe what I did not do was pray. So today at every free moment I will hit my knees and pray for God to guild him, I will turn it all over because this human does just not know what to do. In striving to be pure honest and just and my brothers keeper maybe I have lost my way. The firth thing to do should have been to talk to my Lord about this, and maybe that was the little tug that I felt laid o n my heart last night, not to help but to give it to someone who can. So I will let the Lord work with the person and I will fold the laundry.

I do so hope that everyone has a warm and loving holiday and remebers the spirit of the season this year. May God keep each and everyone of you warm and feeling loved this holiday season.

So I may have a probelm with boots.....

What is mean is that I may have a problem with wanting them. I want to show Chris what I wanted to chistmas and there they were these beautiful boots ans we may have sorta bought then because there was only one pair in my size. Now shoes i don't care about I will wear the same pair forever but I love me some boots. I think I now have seven pairs. Now I can finally wear the skirt I have wanted to wear for 2 years now because I have the boots to go under it :) Yeah I may have a boot problem.

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow........................

Finally a White Christmas! I live in Ohio we should have a white Christmas but this is going to be the first time in three years. I am so excited, now it feels like Christmas and looks like it too! When I woke this morning I went to the window and felt a little of that childhood excitement because it has snowed last night but on the other hand I would like to enjoy it from the inside. My son is dying to get out there in the cold stuff that is so beautiful. So now I am thinking to myself THIS IS SOOOO NOT IN MY CONTRACT! My husband laughed himself all the way to bud saying have fun. So I guess because of third shift I am going to have to put on my big girl panties ( not to mention thermal underwear and three layers on top of that) and brave the cold. So now I am sitting here thinking about weather this snow was a blessing or a curse lol. So I will layer up and take him out and then I am coming in to make gingerbread men and buckeyes. That is the part that I love about winter, the baking. Standing beside the WARM oven all day long now that sounds like a grand idea to me.

I will say a prayer tonight that everyone stays warm this winter, and at least has a friend to share the holidays with. May God truley bless everyone in this holiday season.

Well maybe now I can sit down and blog. I have been moving and everything is consumed by it. So what is new is ? First off I have moved in with my in-laws, and I must say I am enjoying being able to actually clean. The trailer that we were living in was falling down around us and I never seemed to be able to get a hold on the cleaning there was always a great big pile of something somewhere in there. Even when everything was cleaning it never felt that way at times, i would just give up. I hated having my kids in there, but it was home. I tried to do best by them and then I came to the realization that just by staying there I was not. So we have made this move and we are going to put away all the money that we can and get someplace nice. Of coarse I want the American dream of the nice house I own but I do not know if that will be possible yet, so we may get one of the nice apartments in town I fell in love with about two years ago. We always thought we needed a yard but I think that I we stay close to here then I can just jump in the car and then we can play in the yard. I was a hard move to make moving away from people I am so fond of, but in the end I can drive up there and I have to do what is best for my children.

Second, MY SON IS POTTY TRAINED. Woohoo I am going to shout it to the world because I so hoped that it would be done before he was four. It just took him wanting to do it. Here is my advice for first time potty trainers. And that would be .......... gee I don't know if you are ready for this? Are you sure...........................................well, I have NONE! That is right you will have advice fly out of every corner even the check out lady at walmart, so I have nothing to say to you.99% af the things you try will not work so just do what you think right if that doesn't work try something else. They may get it in 3 days it may take 2 years, and that is all there is to it.


Third, my duaghter has said da da, and is now sitting up!





I would like to end on .....


Happy 3rd Aniversary Chris , and here is to many, many more. My life would be nothing with out you by my side every step of the way. Richer or poorer, good health and bad. Let's show em what love looks like.

Christmas is in the air!

Since I have had children Christmas is my favorite time of the year. It is so fun to go and buy for them, and friends kids, and kids in general. No matter how broke we have been I have always made sure that my son has Christmas. Now we have one more in the family and this is my daughter's first Christmas. I am so excited this year to be able to do a first Christmas again, and for my son to open his! He is going to have a very big Christmas this year. As an adult I think we lose some of the magic , but I still remember it and now that my son is three I am beginning to see him really get in to it this and begin to know who Santa is . Only a couple more weeks , I can hardly wait.

This is my favorite Christmas song.Click here

I hope all of you out there in Blog land have Happy Holidays. God bless

Oh how I love the random dozen

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Random Dozen Preview #14

This is the day that you read and form you answers. Tomorrow you post your answers and link up here. Enjoy!

1. Which Wizard of Oz character are you most like?
I'm 5'3" so I guess the munchkins

2. When you're deciding what you're going to wear each morning, which item do you select first? Why?
Shirt because everything else falls into place with that

3. What kind of animal do you think the world could live without?
Rats, I really hate rats.

4. How many Christmas trees are in your home?
Just one
5. Would you prefer to be emotionless if it mean you didn't have to feel a heartbreak?
No way I would miss everything good too.

6. Do you ever experience holiday let-down or depression?
No it is all for my kids, although I would like to not have to go so many places that is kinda stressful.
7. Do you like Michael Jackson's music?
I like Billy Jean, but that's it.

8. Why is it that we never judge people who have their teeth fixed for cosmetic reasons, but every other cosmetic procedure has a stigma?
Never really thought about it, I just know I do not judge people for doing it as long as they do not go to far.

9. Enjoy horseback riding?
Oh my, yes. Can Santa bring me a pony.

10. Shoes--practical or stylish?
I like to go for both. I am not wearing anything if it hurts my feet.

11. What was the name of your first pet? Feel free to post a pic.
Thomasina (cat) It was after the Disney movie. Has anyone else in the world besides me even seen it?

12. What percentage of your Christmas shopping is done?