Moldable

Recipe for homemade Play-dough

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 cup salt
• 1 cup water
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 2 tablespoons cream of tartar
  

Directions:

Mix flour, salt, cream of tartar, and oil, and slowly add the water. Cook over medium heat, stirring until dough becomes stiff. Plop on the counter and let cool. Knead the dough with your hands until a pliable

This is the recipe I used to make our first attempt at the moldable fun that kids love. I enjoy making my kids something to learn from. I would like to think I can teach my children life lessons as well as math and science. I just hope and Pray daily that I can be an example of God's everlasting, unconditional Love and Forgiveness.

Older

I have friends who are older than me and who are just now starting their families. I feel old. I also have friends who are younger than me that have children who are older than mine. So do they feel old? Or since they are young it doesn't phase them? Either way, I am starting into the season of life I am excited about. I have been wanting to be 30 for about 2 years now. I still have a few more years to go until that actually happens, but maybe its gonna feel like it earlier. I desire to have my children to be children and not babies/toddlers. Have a strengthened marriage that is so tightly woven that you don't know where each of us begins and the other ends! Yeah those are my desires. I feel like I have been under the wings of others all my life, that I would like to have a chance to fly with them and not under or over. I have needed to be refined by God's fire of grace to grow to this point in my life. I have not been grateful for this refining thus far, but I am getting there. I love my kids, and my husband. I am hoping to learn to love more, and to share my knowledge with others.

Projects

Yes a New Year is encroaching and usually at this time one makes a "resolution." Well, my resolution I guess started when I started this blog. And lo and behold after a few weeks and/or months I have failed at my resolution. Although I never wrote down any goals for myself. Maybe that was my problem, they were all in my head? Well there are many things in my head, and maybe they got misfiled. So I am not one to indulge in the commercialization of "New Year's Resolutions", but maybe a small goal. One that makes time for just me and gives just me some satisfaction, as well as someone else a home made item to enjoy. My husband of whom I just adore, surprised me with a sewing machine for Christmas. Nothing too fancy. But it is just perfect.

Since we have a daughter, now I can overwhelm her with goodies from my creative hand. First thing? A Pillowcase Dress and fabric shoes to match. Yes. Super adorable. She isn't walking yet, so I am still able to get away with plain fabric for her shoes. Soon though I might have to get the nobly stuff for the soles. You know the kind that is on the kids footed pajamas. I got the free patterns from a website you can find here. Really great photos and great patterns and templates. I still consider myself a beginner, even though I have made my children each a quilt, some fleece blankets and a pioneer costume for my son (12months old). Just yesterday I did my first buttonhole! I have been using a sewing machine since early elementary, and I had never made a buttonhole. Seriously. It was so much easier than I imagined. I think it was my machine though. It has a foot, and easy to follow directions. "One step" is what the sales guy told my husband. Now if only I could find more free time to indulge in my mounds of scrap fabric.

Christmas Time

Christmas is so much more of a lovely time with just our nuclear family. We can sit and sip some bubbly while opening silly gifts. Okay, so some of them are not so silly. I got to see great faces on my kids, and my husband. Isn't that what it's all about? Yes.

Heater

I never thought I would like a heated blanket on my bed. But now that I have one, I love it. I remember using one at my grandmothers house, and I hated the feeling of the wires. It was just weird to me. So my loving husband has been wanting one for a few years now, and I finally gave in. Boy that was the best decision in a while. I set it on preheat while I brush my teeth and take out my contacts, and by the time I climb into bed, it is snugglrific! I dont even need a snuggie! Awesomeness. The coolest part is that it's split down the middle with two controllers, so he can have a different setting than me! And under the same blanket none the less. Everyone should have one of these, unless you enjoy paying for the furnace. Well I guess I have to say I haven't seen our electric bill yet, so I don't know the cost effectiveness, but I sure do like the warmth.

My lovely saturday night...

Why are these teen shows so stinkin funny after the kids go to bed? I want to laugh out, I love it. Crazy kids are funny and silly. I crack up at these little ones acting really well, or really not well. Kid shows have come a long way since I started watching long ago. But I have to say, I love saying "Zach Morris Phone" awesome huh?

Long overdue

I just had a big spiral of chaos. These past two months I have been living on the edge of a meltdown at all times. My emotions are so out of control, and I am just now regaining that control. Control is not something I must have, but a semblance of order is nice. I have been making good progress with regards to many things, but I have had help. A wonderful, kind, understanding and uber patient, godly Man is my mate. He is proud of me when I make a judgment call, in the midst of a crazy tornado. Proud? wow, thats not what I would have called it, I would have called it epic failure. But he is on the outside looking in, not interior. I guess if I was on the outside I might say the same thing, but I have the intimate knowledge of it all. But life since being derailed is still good. I still have food, shelter and health. My babies are healthy and safe. There is a joy to be had in the middle of the muddy mess of the spiral of chaos. If I can grab ahold, and cling to that joy then and only then will life truly make sense.