Hello Blogger world... Today is Sunday 2016 it is September 11th. I feel like I should have been in Church today to be with my Church Family on a such a day as today. A Day that should be a day that we never ever forget 911. I still can't bring myself to watch anything on tv about it for very long, it's just too much for me, it's too sad and frankly it should never have happened. I am so sorry for every single person that lost their lives in that horrible tragedy and for the families that should never have had to stand by watching unable to do a single thing about it. I still remember it like it was yesterday when I see those pictures pop up on the tv and I remember the morning I woke up, like it should have been a normal day, instead I found myself sitting on the couch watching it all unfold. I couldn't hardly believe what I was seeing. It was real and it was in fact happening. I still wish it were only a bad dream, or a movie but it wasn't a bad dream and it wasn't movie. It was happening in real time in real life. We face real terrors here on Earth and we face very real tragedies. This is not a perfect place to live. We certainly do face trials and tribulations, unfortunately. Like my Husband's Grandma once said, "This is not Heaven my dear." And she is right. It certainly isn't Heaven. We are all in living in this place together where we watch a heartbeat as it is being formed in it's Mother's womb and we watch that life being born and taking it's first breath of air and it's a beautiful thing. Life is a beautiful gift from God. And thank God that we have God to go to in the midst of our pain and in our loss. Loss is something that we can never ever get back in any form and nothing can replace the Loved ones that we have lost be it in the 911 tragedies that we faced together as a Nation or simply by any other way of loss be it a child in miscarriage or in an accident, we have all lost a loved one to death in one way shape or form be it a parent to old age or a child to drugs death comes for all of us.
Today I am home, appreciating my family. I am a First time Mom and honestly watching anything 911 still grips my heart and as I am now a Mom it affects me emotionally in a completely different way from when I was just a Daughter. I just can't imagine. Loss in any form or terror attack it's horrors are all the same. I just sit and watch what ever is on tv and it get's me every time. I just can't imagine saying good-bye to a loved one or being the loved on the other end listening, watching, hearing, it's all the same not a single way can be better then other. Perhaps one loss is a good-bye that the other person doesn't have to relive every single day because they are no longer here with us but then it would still hurt to be the one on the other end saying the last good-bye. I just can't even begin to take it all in. I couldn't imagine being on the other end knowing you will have to live with that good-bye loss the rest of your loss. Nothing, just nothing in the world can ever undo what has been done. Today is a day we will all never ever forget and should never ever forget. We especially should never ever forget the families that lost loved ones and continue to forever and on going send out our love and our support so that they will never ever be forgotten either. This land is our land, this land is their land, this is the land that we lost a great many wonderful families and loved ones. We can't ever let that go or forget who our enemies are and continue to defend our Great America from Enemies that would have her destroyed.
So here I am home and spending my day with my family. My Husband is watching the game with our son, our so I thought, because here he is and crawling into the kitchen. So much for the boys watching the game together. That's okay, I love seeing my son crawl around and be adventurous, which is one of the reasons I am rarely able to blog at all. Today I am trying my very best to be a great Mom and Wife to my family and to enjoy every day life and not take that for granted. It is so easy to take the lives we have been given for granted, even those very little or large things in life that we have been blessed with to enjoy.
If you have a roof over your head, you are blessed. If you have your head on a pillow, you are blessed. If you had the chance to feed your face today, you are blessed. If you can walk and talk and have a conversation with loved ones that you have, you are blessed and we should enjoy those little gift's in life that God has given us in the face of a fallen world that is constantly falling apart at the seems every single day. There is still beauty all around if you look for it and appreciate it in all those ways that we have been given, love, life, food and family and rest at the end of the day.
Motherhood can get tiring at times and sometimes a little overwhelming, especially when the house looks like it's been hit by a tornado at the end of the day. Some days my hair doesn't look like I just got it done at the beauty salon, but you know what, it's not that which is valuable, it's the sound of my son saying, "Daddy," and watching his smiles at he looks at his Dad that is a treasure. I may not always feel like a champion but at the end of the day it's my family that is and will always be my most treasured valuable in my life. They are the champions of my life. Today, remember 911 and the loved ones you do have near you and with you. Appreciate what God has given us as family, A Nation Under God and never ever forget the lives that were lost and the families that lost them. We remember you for always and forever.
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Normal Day's of Mommyhood
There's really nothing much to Mommyhood you wake up you feed the baby, the baby is happy and satisfied. Baby plays with toys and Mommy is happy baby is playing. Meanwhile, breakfast and then what? Play with baby, maybe do something around the house, maybe! a big round maybe! because who knows if I will even get around to it! I might get a shower in now and again and that is always nice and by now I am counting on somewhere in-between next year and the next 5 or 6 years in order to get a good shave in when I am found able to get a shower and shave somewhere in-between busy baby, loud busy baby noises and babbles and here Honey, you take the kid so I can see my legs for once. I might as well be Jane from Tarzan, except I am sure she found somewhere in the Jungle under a waterfall to wash her hair and get a good shave in and I am sure Tarzan appreciated it!!!!!
Anyway, by now I am also feeling fat and it doesn't help when an older lady from church notices I haven't lost the baby weight yet and points it out. Great! yes, I know, I've been thinking about that round belly of mine! When's a girl got time to work out???? I mean between waking up sometimes in the middle of the night and early mornings and play, play, play and a little house work, I'm loaded!!! to the top!! LOADED!! with just an agenda of Baby!! There is no real (ME!) time! So this is real life! My Mom and Dad -in-law are coming to visit and let me tell you I soon start spotting all the places in the house that need dusting, cleaning and fixing along with all those pesky Baby proofing areas you think you've covered and then realized that baby can now do all these extraordinary things!! ALL of Sudden!! out of the Blue!!! I mean no way!! who knew my baby could walk and climb over night??? Right when I think I have things covered or I have an actual plan of action for our day.
Every day is no ordinary day and so I have this to say to all Mom's Across the USA and around the world if your house is not a sparkly clean place from Morning until Night, you are Not alone! My House is never as perfect as I would like to imagine it is from the second I wake up to the moment my head hits the pillows. In my dreams I wake up and I make the bed first thing in the Morning before starting my day, why because if I don't I won't, and that's just life! I get up and the first thing in the Morning that really happens is that my baby needs my attention, diapers need to be changed and baby needs to be fed. Maybe after breakfast and nap we will both head back to Mommy and Daddy's room where I can now turn my attention to making the bed but first things first, baby always gets my first attentions.
Thanks to my Husband he has been taking certain days to attend to early Morning bottle feedings for baby. I got plenty of sleep this weekend and I think it will certainly pay off in the long week ahead. Anyway, I don't live a perfect life. I am no Magazine Model of what Mommyhood should like or what you might like it to look like or be. I'm just a Mommy on Mission to make it through the day in one piece of mind, heart and a happy spirit. No the house isn't a picture perfect clean together kind of house you might see on a Movie set but it is our Home and in our home life moves along at it's own pace and we like it.
I do make it my mission to tidy up at the end of the day and at the end of the day I am ready to hit the pillows and fall asleep. God is good all the time and all the time God is good. He get's me though the day every day all the time. There will be dishes that pile up and from time to time almost on an average of an every day life there will be dishes in the sink no matter what. I don't have someone who comes over and does the work for me or helps me out with my daily life as a Mom, it's just me. Our day is left to me and it's up to me to help us make it successfully through that day without too much stress and anxiety, though I do have to say, I have that one Neighbor who just loves to blast his music up loud. Not exactly the best ending to our day, but someday, I am sure his wife will want him to turn it down, they have kids.............
These days are special for who I have in my life, but there is nothing fancy about every day life as a mom. If your house ever gets dirty it just means you live in it and your doing life there. Don't stress. If you look like a Momma it's probably because you are one. I'm positive you'll find yourself again.
Anyway, by now I am also feeling fat and it doesn't help when an older lady from church notices I haven't lost the baby weight yet and points it out. Great! yes, I know, I've been thinking about that round belly of mine! When's a girl got time to work out???? I mean between waking up sometimes in the middle of the night and early mornings and play, play, play and a little house work, I'm loaded!!! to the top!! LOADED!! with just an agenda of Baby!! There is no real (ME!) time! So this is real life! My Mom and Dad -in-law are coming to visit and let me tell you I soon start spotting all the places in the house that need dusting, cleaning and fixing along with all those pesky Baby proofing areas you think you've covered and then realized that baby can now do all these extraordinary things!! ALL of Sudden!! out of the Blue!!! I mean no way!! who knew my baby could walk and climb over night??? Right when I think I have things covered or I have an actual plan of action for our day.
Every day is no ordinary day and so I have this to say to all Mom's Across the USA and around the world if your house is not a sparkly clean place from Morning until Night, you are Not alone! My House is never as perfect as I would like to imagine it is from the second I wake up to the moment my head hits the pillows. In my dreams I wake up and I make the bed first thing in the Morning before starting my day, why because if I don't I won't, and that's just life! I get up and the first thing in the Morning that really happens is that my baby needs my attention, diapers need to be changed and baby needs to be fed. Maybe after breakfast and nap we will both head back to Mommy and Daddy's room where I can now turn my attention to making the bed but first things first, baby always gets my first attentions.
Thanks to my Husband he has been taking certain days to attend to early Morning bottle feedings for baby. I got plenty of sleep this weekend and I think it will certainly pay off in the long week ahead. Anyway, I don't live a perfect life. I am no Magazine Model of what Mommyhood should like or what you might like it to look like or be. I'm just a Mommy on Mission to make it through the day in one piece of mind, heart and a happy spirit. No the house isn't a picture perfect clean together kind of house you might see on a Movie set but it is our Home and in our home life moves along at it's own pace and we like it.
I do make it my mission to tidy up at the end of the day and at the end of the day I am ready to hit the pillows and fall asleep. God is good all the time and all the time God is good. He get's me though the day every day all the time. There will be dishes that pile up and from time to time almost on an average of an every day life there will be dishes in the sink no matter what. I don't have someone who comes over and does the work for me or helps me out with my daily life as a Mom, it's just me. Our day is left to me and it's up to me to help us make it successfully through that day without too much stress and anxiety, though I do have to say, I have that one Neighbor who just loves to blast his music up loud. Not exactly the best ending to our day, but someday, I am sure his wife will want him to turn it down, they have kids.............
These days are special for who I have in my life, but there is nothing fancy about every day life as a mom. If your house ever gets dirty it just means you live in it and your doing life there. Don't stress. If you look like a Momma it's probably because you are one. I'm positive you'll find yourself again.
Saturday, August 13, 2016
oh those lazy days of summer
Today, my wonderful Husband took me to beach and my mom watched our little baby. I am for sure sun burnt from the top of my head to the tip of my hands. I had normally!! worn Sunblock but today was a last second plan day date trip. I think we shall be making it to the beach every second we can plan to be there during the summer. I am burning from the sun though, I can say that for a fact. I fully did enjoy my walk on the beach though. Now that baby is on a bottle it is so much easier to get out and go about and I am fully enjoying this new season of being able to get out to the beach while we have Summer here to visit us one last Month of good cool water that is not too cold and not too hot, it's just right.
Summer in California sure does feel like it stays all year long, and really it does, in away. We always have happy Sunny Days here. Accept!!! We do have a good few months while there is too much Heat to deal with, so we have to have A.C. On most other days we have beautiful Sunny Day's with a nice cool breeze from off the beach and that (always) feels great. I do love it very much. I think we will be keeping this house for every and for always and on beach day vacations for a place close to home and close to the beach. It is so nice to be here.
I gathered a handful of seashells, I have collected any for a very long time. My sweet cousin Mandy is having twins!! and so I am sending her some Christmas in a box from California, she doesn't read my blog so she doesn't know what I am about to send her this year. A little Sandy Beach in a gift from me to her. The beach is my gift giving inspiration, a little bit of Heaven from me to my cousin. I can't wait to be putting this wonderful gift together for her.
These Summer days sure are fun and lazy and little bit lay back. We had lunch on the beach at one of my Most Favorite Mexican food places to eat. I had what I have been craving for a very long, long, time! a Breakfast Burrito!! You can't get this type of breakfast burrito anywhere else. It is just that good. The Sun is going down and now we are simply enjoying the Olympics are on and we enjoying the silence that comes with baby being fast asleep and relaxing after a long busy day. It certainly was a fun, enjoyable day. I really did like it. I couldn't have it any other way.
These Summer Day's are oh so lazy and yet so fun. We love our visits to the beach. Coming home is like having had a full day of nothing but lazy at the beach enjoying the waves, bringing home the sea shells and the sea sand, cleaning up the after mess as we track it through the house, enjoying ice-cream while it melts faster than we can eat it and then sitting back and relaxing with a movie or something we have recorded on the DVR. Oh these lazy days of summer we love it. But I am certainly in love with Fall and Can't!!!! wait for it to arrive for once. Fall, I am ready for you!!
Summer in California sure does feel like it stays all year long, and really it does, in away. We always have happy Sunny Days here. Accept!!! We do have a good few months while there is too much Heat to deal with, so we have to have A.C. On most other days we have beautiful Sunny Day's with a nice cool breeze from off the beach and that (always) feels great. I do love it very much. I think we will be keeping this house for every and for always and on beach day vacations for a place close to home and close to the beach. It is so nice to be here.
I gathered a handful of seashells, I have collected any for a very long time. My sweet cousin Mandy is having twins!! and so I am sending her some Christmas in a box from California, she doesn't read my blog so she doesn't know what I am about to send her this year. A little Sandy Beach in a gift from me to her. The beach is my gift giving inspiration, a little bit of Heaven from me to my cousin. I can't wait to be putting this wonderful gift together for her.
These Summer days sure are fun and lazy and little bit lay back. We had lunch on the beach at one of my Most Favorite Mexican food places to eat. I had what I have been craving for a very long, long, time! a Breakfast Burrito!! You can't get this type of breakfast burrito anywhere else. It is just that good. The Sun is going down and now we are simply enjoying the Olympics are on and we enjoying the silence that comes with baby being fast asleep and relaxing after a long busy day. It certainly was a fun, enjoyable day. I really did like it. I couldn't have it any other way.
These Summer Day's are oh so lazy and yet so fun. We love our visits to the beach. Coming home is like having had a full day of nothing but lazy at the beach enjoying the waves, bringing home the sea shells and the sea sand, cleaning up the after mess as we track it through the house, enjoying ice-cream while it melts faster than we can eat it and then sitting back and relaxing with a movie or something we have recorded on the DVR. Oh these lazy days of summer we love it. But I am certainly in love with Fall and Can't!!!! wait for it to arrive for once. Fall, I am ready for you!!
Friday, August 12, 2016
How to end your day after a busy day
My end of day notes: As a Mommy, I know Life can get too busy to clean up. I feel like I hardly have the time of day to clean the house let alone keep it that way. Why? because every time I turn around there is a mess! And why can I never, ever keep up with it? I am simply way to busy trying to spend time with my baby that I may never get back once it's gone. I grab a dish and then I eat out of it and then I put it in the sink and I walk away, also I am busy in the kitchen throughout the day or every other day, cooking, cleaning as I cook while I can try to do both or very process of putting together puree foods to be cooked, frozen and stored for baby. There is almost always something to do, something that keeps me on my toes and so, how do I manage? I don't I get my sleep, I spend time with my baby that I will never ever get back and guess what, dishes will away be there. So here I am to tell you, how to end your day after a very busy day.
Today, was a fairly easy day. It couldn't have gotten any better. I woke up, my Husband gave our baby the bottle for me on these days that he has off and I love it, I get a mini break and I love that too. He was so awesome to change the babies diaper today and that was great! I just loved! that! I got to get some sleep, and yes, there were still dishes to be done, because of course we don't have a working dish washer at ALL. BUT, BUT someday, we will, God will provide. Never despise small Beginnings. I got some dishes done and put away and then sent a good size trash bag full of items to the compost pile today that was a good start to our newly started compost that we have made. It's nothing fancy but it's a start, if we have success with it, we may find another spot to create a nice compost pile of our own to enjoy for our future Gardening needs. I got some peaches peeled and cut in half to be boiled for 9 min. Now we have peach puree more than we need to last us a little over 30 days if not two months. We shall see how long all these baby puree's last but I enjoyed putting it all together. I am feeling successful.
I had some left over Oranges and I have to say they were the perfect type of Oranges to be juiced. There were not very many left from what I had gotten from my Aunt Anita's Orange tree's and so I decided to juice what I had left over before they went bad. From what I had on hand I was able to juice at least 2 full cups. It was the best Orange juice we had ever had, let me just say, we will not be buying any more Orange Juice in this family. Nope, not any more. What's wrong with taking the time to juice things ourselves?? it's so rewarding! and oh so pure, right off the tree! and we loved it! Some things are simply not instant gratification. Most things are worth waiting for. Make it yourself. Make it pure. Make it simply sweet.
Now as for my end of the day now, I have had some really good ice cream to end my day. I think I served myself a little too much because it melted and got frothy before I had the chance to finish it all. As for how to end your day after a busy day, these are my 3 tips. You can wake up to a clean house, or at least a partly clean home, and you can wake up to a bottle ready to use and guess what beds can always be made too.
So, while I may not be able to accomplish the dishes in a day, or do my hair to save myself from looking like a Mom who's busy from the second she gets up to the second she goes to sleep there are few things I can do. For example, beds can be made!!! Yes, they can! At least during one baby nap time you can in fact make the bed. Be it first thing in the Morning, which is my first nap time or a lunch time nap, it is do able. If you absolutely cannot get your bed made bring the baby in the bed room with you, and place books and toys on the floor, items that your baby will love and be distracted with and then run around as fast as you can and make that bed. You can do it. I do it! I love a clean room and a cool room with the A.C on at the end of the day to come to at the end of my day. At least my bed is made and room is crisp and inviting and not a disaster zone like the rest of the house, right???
Kay, so that is the bed, idea. If your looking to wake up to a house that looks a little less then a war zone, make the bottle once the baby is in his or her crib and any other bottles you may need to fill for the night or next day and then store them away in the fridge. Next turn your attention to the baby bath tub, do a quick pick up. That can't be hard. Keep a hanging hamper where you toss all those dirty clothes or towels in, pick up bath toys and put up baby soap. Quick and easy. After you do a quick bath time clean up run around the living room and family room and do a quick round up/pick up of all toys put them all in one place together, don't busy yourself with categorizing and organizing anything just put stuff together where they were placed back into their homes. Anyway everything will be dragged out again when you wake up in the morning so no need to be a stickler.
Fold any blankets you have laying around and place them back on their spots on the couch. Fold or put away any extra small items of laundry and then deal with putting the laundry part away a little later. Toss any remaining dishes into sink and be done with your day. Now! if you are looking for any time to get your hair done, do it before bed and don't worry about styling it!!! it will look the way it will look anyway after a long day. And any how if you are looking to try and get some real shut eye getting up before the crack of dawn just isn't in the books any how so straighten and leave as is, simple yet nice. Mommyhood is no simple task. I simply tidy up before bed, fill bottles, do a quick bathroom clean up and make the bed during nap time. Life does not need to get more challenging than that. It's simple. Keep things easy and don't over do something that will always be there, years to come. And cleaning will always remain. Time with children does not. It's time sensitive the fact that it is temporary. So enjoy your day, love your baby and think about the small clean up before bed.
Today, was a fairly easy day. It couldn't have gotten any better. I woke up, my Husband gave our baby the bottle for me on these days that he has off and I love it, I get a mini break and I love that too. He was so awesome to change the babies diaper today and that was great! I just loved! that! I got to get some sleep, and yes, there were still dishes to be done, because of course we don't have a working dish washer at ALL. BUT, BUT someday, we will, God will provide. Never despise small Beginnings. I got some dishes done and put away and then sent a good size trash bag full of items to the compost pile today that was a good start to our newly started compost that we have made. It's nothing fancy but it's a start, if we have success with it, we may find another spot to create a nice compost pile of our own to enjoy for our future Gardening needs. I got some peaches peeled and cut in half to be boiled for 9 min. Now we have peach puree more than we need to last us a little over 30 days if not two months. We shall see how long all these baby puree's last but I enjoyed putting it all together. I am feeling successful.
I had some left over Oranges and I have to say they were the perfect type of Oranges to be juiced. There were not very many left from what I had gotten from my Aunt Anita's Orange tree's and so I decided to juice what I had left over before they went bad. From what I had on hand I was able to juice at least 2 full cups. It was the best Orange juice we had ever had, let me just say, we will not be buying any more Orange Juice in this family. Nope, not any more. What's wrong with taking the time to juice things ourselves?? it's so rewarding! and oh so pure, right off the tree! and we loved it! Some things are simply not instant gratification. Most things are worth waiting for. Make it yourself. Make it pure. Make it simply sweet.
Now as for my end of the day now, I have had some really good ice cream to end my day. I think I served myself a little too much because it melted and got frothy before I had the chance to finish it all. As for how to end your day after a busy day, these are my 3 tips. You can wake up to a clean house, or at least a partly clean home, and you can wake up to a bottle ready to use and guess what beds can always be made too.
So, while I may not be able to accomplish the dishes in a day, or do my hair to save myself from looking like a Mom who's busy from the second she gets up to the second she goes to sleep there are few things I can do. For example, beds can be made!!! Yes, they can! At least during one baby nap time you can in fact make the bed. Be it first thing in the Morning, which is my first nap time or a lunch time nap, it is do able. If you absolutely cannot get your bed made bring the baby in the bed room with you, and place books and toys on the floor, items that your baby will love and be distracted with and then run around as fast as you can and make that bed. You can do it. I do it! I love a clean room and a cool room with the A.C on at the end of the day to come to at the end of my day. At least my bed is made and room is crisp and inviting and not a disaster zone like the rest of the house, right???
Kay, so that is the bed, idea. If your looking to wake up to a house that looks a little less then a war zone, make the bottle once the baby is in his or her crib and any other bottles you may need to fill for the night or next day and then store them away in the fridge. Next turn your attention to the baby bath tub, do a quick pick up. That can't be hard. Keep a hanging hamper where you toss all those dirty clothes or towels in, pick up bath toys and put up baby soap. Quick and easy. After you do a quick bath time clean up run around the living room and family room and do a quick round up/pick up of all toys put them all in one place together, don't busy yourself with categorizing and organizing anything just put stuff together where they were placed back into their homes. Anyway everything will be dragged out again when you wake up in the morning so no need to be a stickler.
Fold any blankets you have laying around and place them back on their spots on the couch. Fold or put away any extra small items of laundry and then deal with putting the laundry part away a little later. Toss any remaining dishes into sink and be done with your day. Now! if you are looking for any time to get your hair done, do it before bed and don't worry about styling it!!! it will look the way it will look anyway after a long day. And any how if you are looking to try and get some real shut eye getting up before the crack of dawn just isn't in the books any how so straighten and leave as is, simple yet nice. Mommyhood is no simple task. I simply tidy up before bed, fill bottles, do a quick bathroom clean up and make the bed during nap time. Life does not need to get more challenging than that. It's simple. Keep things easy and don't over do something that will always be there, years to come. And cleaning will always remain. Time with children does not. It's time sensitive the fact that it is temporary. So enjoy your day, love your baby and think about the small clean up before bed.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
My oh so crazy life
Life is crazy but it's alright. Being a Full time Mommy is fun. The toys are almost always out. The DVD's are sprung out in front of the TV, there are toys in the Living room and there are toys in my Husbands pool room. Everywhere I look, there is something. There are messy bibs and there are piles of clothes to be washed in their hampers. There are unfolded blankets laying in their rightful places on the couch. There is a pile of peaches to be washed, peeled, sliced and diced and ready for cooking. There is a bag of unfinished Peanuts ready to be shucked at any time now and some veggies just waiting to be enjoyed by me.
By the end of the day there are clothes on the Bathroom floor and there are bathtub toys to be picked up and put away for my end of the day shower. There are baby towels to be rehung and dried for their next use before washing. Life is crazy, but it's alright. I am finally getting a whole nights sleep for once, or at least it seems. I have only been up at least once from time to time on occasion. Motherhood never sleeps or takes a break. I am full time 24/7.
If you have a messy house it's okay. That's life. There are lots of dishes to be put away and more dishes to do next. There is a wash and dry and wash and dry by hand cycle that I tend to repeat on a daily basis. It is on going it and it is only really me and baby and Husband when he is home. I am ready to get some type of baking done at some point but life it never stops, it just keeps on going.
Today for the first time in a long time I will have had the time of day to actually play with the dog while I have my baby who can now sit up and eat a meal sit on my lap as I throw the ball and it was successful. We all had a lot of fun and the baby well the baby found this play time with the dog quiet amusing. Life is simply this, a balance of continually juggling life and hoping you don't drop the ball, but you will. Life will happen and something will go undone and you will have realized today that one thing, just didn't get done and it will be okay and life will move on and you will have realized that life can go on even if there is a mess in each room of the house, it just proves that you are a real Human, living in your Home. What's a Home if you can't live life in it?
Today is Wednesday, and on Thursday Morning the trash man will have come and he will have gathered all the trash in the neighborhood and thank God the trash got out, at least, that, if, anything. Today is a beautiful afternoon and my Husband will be home soon and I will be glad for that. It will be 2 in and hour and so I suppose I will have made this time count by blogging about life so far. I will have made this time count by doing some around the house watering and in my dreams, I hope to at least get the trash out today and maybe water outside. Who knows what each hour brings or if the little one will wake sooner than the two hour nap time frame, that I would greatly appreciate. So for now, this is my very small contribution to a blog today, my thoughts on my oh so crazy busy life.
Perhaps one of these days, I shall slow down, I don't know, maybe when I am old.
By the end of the day there are clothes on the Bathroom floor and there are bathtub toys to be picked up and put away for my end of the day shower. There are baby towels to be rehung and dried for their next use before washing. Life is crazy, but it's alright. I am finally getting a whole nights sleep for once, or at least it seems. I have only been up at least once from time to time on occasion. Motherhood never sleeps or takes a break. I am full time 24/7.
If you have a messy house it's okay. That's life. There are lots of dishes to be put away and more dishes to do next. There is a wash and dry and wash and dry by hand cycle that I tend to repeat on a daily basis. It is on going it and it is only really me and baby and Husband when he is home. I am ready to get some type of baking done at some point but life it never stops, it just keeps on going.
Today for the first time in a long time I will have had the time of day to actually play with the dog while I have my baby who can now sit up and eat a meal sit on my lap as I throw the ball and it was successful. We all had a lot of fun and the baby well the baby found this play time with the dog quiet amusing. Life is simply this, a balance of continually juggling life and hoping you don't drop the ball, but you will. Life will happen and something will go undone and you will have realized today that one thing, just didn't get done and it will be okay and life will move on and you will have realized that life can go on even if there is a mess in each room of the house, it just proves that you are a real Human, living in your Home. What's a Home if you can't live life in it?
Today is Wednesday, and on Thursday Morning the trash man will have come and he will have gathered all the trash in the neighborhood and thank God the trash got out, at least, that, if, anything. Today is a beautiful afternoon and my Husband will be home soon and I will be glad for that. It will be 2 in and hour and so I suppose I will have made this time count by blogging about life so far. I will have made this time count by doing some around the house watering and in my dreams, I hope to at least get the trash out today and maybe water outside. Who knows what each hour brings or if the little one will wake sooner than the two hour nap time frame, that I would greatly appreciate. So for now, this is my very small contribution to a blog today, my thoughts on my oh so crazy busy life.
Perhaps one of these days, I shall slow down, I don't know, maybe when I am old.
Monday, August 8, 2016
My Mommy life
My Mommy life, it's going better than I ever really expected it to go. I couldn't have thought it would go this well for me. There have been some sleepless nights and some challenging times but my little baby is now 6 months and I can really say, I am enjoying it every step of the way to his growing up years. I am just now getting a full nights sleep and some naps in-between. Life is well, that's life. It's all wonderful. I am now no longer on Facebook, because, well, I have a life, one that is off of Facebook and of course I wasn't a vlog person on Youtube, at least not yet anyway. I had plans to be all over the map but after having a baby, well, my whole world changed. I'm sure you can imagine. To start, I've had very little time for myself or my writing but here I am now getting in some type of a blog. I hardly have time to fit that in as well. My whole world is Jam packed with baby 24/7 it seems like and so getting anytime between nap, sleep and baby is a bit of an every day challenge in order to write. But my heart never stops writing, I'm always thinking about the next best thing I will share next.
This morning it was a beautiful start. It actually felt like Fall to me for the very first time in a long Summer. Who knows if we will get more cool days like this in the month of Aug. By the early and late afternoons, it was feeling warm and muggy. But by 3:00 it was cooling down again and I was certainly thankful for that. I am loving today's perfect Fall feeling weather, it's great.
Mommyhood has been treating me with lots of love, it's great and I am really enjoying it. Excuse me for not writing with big words, I've been talking to a baby all day. All I got is simple words but they all make sense when I put them together. That's about as good as I got so far. All is well here and not being on Facebook has been a blessing. I am glad to be alone to our own little world in our own little family. Sometimes it's okay to remove yourself from the on going world of people and their on going lives that we watch every day. I will just say, that I am glad for real friends and real visitors anyway, rather then the ones that I can only view their lives from a far on.
Ever since this little one has arrived I have enjoyed life on a whole new level. Anyway who's to say Mommyhood has to be unfun? It's totally fun to be a Stay at Home wife and Mom. I love it! well, I always loved it. Being a first time mom, I had no idea what to expect. How could I? I could hardly know what to think it would actually be like. It's not like the pictures movies of course. It's more work, for sure, ten times more work but once I got the hang of this new life, everything started to look up.
Do you know who I am? I am the kind of person who says to herself, I want a clean house, because I have never kept a dirty room. I don't like disorganization. I just don't. Disorganization and I do not go together. We just don't belong. Every thing about me says, things must remain clean or at least semi decent. If there is on thing I don't like, it's a house that starts to smell a bit well, you know on the side of not so pleasant, I'm sure you have been there too, walking through the house or that certain room that just reminds you that rest of the house is dirty. Summer time is that time of year when everything around this house can get busy and very messy. There is the Beach and there is the Sand. You add those two thing together and you have got yourself a sea salt smelling home. Don't forget the BBq's and the left overs that for sure not everyone cleans in a day. We don't have a big household but you know when the family comes over the celebration gets big and clean up lasts a good week. Summer gets big and messy around here sometimes but that's okay too, I love it.
I don't so much mind the clean up because it gives me that something extra to do that I can be proud of. I love, love! more than anything to clean up the house before my Husband can come home from work. Yes, I do! I love for him to be able to kick off his shoes, come home relax and see a sit spotless home. Warm, comfortable and cozy clean. Well, he has the warm part down, and the comfortable, well, we could use some real good lazy boy's at some point but we have what God has blessed us with and we sure are thankful anyway. As for the cozy clean part, well, I have learned that while I can't make it a perfect place for him to come home to, at least the bed is made.
My first intention was to be able to juggle it all but now I can see, that honestly, I cannot! So okay, here's to a new life and a new start. I tried it and now I can see that a perfect home, although it was not his entire expectation, I sure did want to share my love this way with him. Now instead of holding myself hostage, I am setting myself free to get as much help as I can get, yes, I am now willing to let my Husband help me tackle all the little and big things in life. I can't do it alone and so , he is my biggest team mate.
Now I delegate the day's he is home early or off of work on the weekends to what I need help most on and giving myself time to shower and do my hair and take care of myself, including a nap. It's all wonderful and I am very much enjoying it all. I am loving these days. It was for a fact a very tough Summer. Sigh, :p I am so glad he can be home much, much earlier on some days and I am so proud of him. He works hard and goes to school full time and still has time to come home and be a dad. I don't think I could have done it. But of course, I am not him and that was not my calling, at all, though he is my inspiration for what success looks like. I am glad to have a Husband I can look up to and admire.
Now that I have discovered this much needed way of doing life, I am enjoying Motherhood that much more. I have also learned not to try and do everything all at once. I have officially given up on that. I used to try doing it all in one day, but it's nearly impossible to do and live a Happy Life and not be completely drained at the end of a day.
I am no longer Nursing and so, that helps a lot. I enjoyed it for a good 6 months but now I am ready to give the bottle and I am okay with that. I couldn't believe there would come an end to this amazing bond when I first began my Nursing journey. Now it has officially come to it's close. At first I was worried I would never be able to get up and pee when I needed to and now I am able to see, that yup, I am able to hand the baby off to Daddy and run! It's amazing!! It wasn't Jail after all! The things no one told me. :p I thought I would be hooked to the baby 24/7 with no breaks at all. I was starting to feel a tad sorry for myself. With Daddy home to help after work, I am quiet happy about all that. He gets time to bond with baby and I get time to sit on my bottom and write for a while!!! score! great things are happening.
I have even begun to over come my store life of buying all shelf made things. I guess it had to come to this, Process food or non process food. But here I am working on it, step by step. Baby steps, really. It all started with my Dad a few years ago getting really sick that's when he discovered, the oh so great Kombucha Tea. He is a very smart man, an artist really, but honestly he should have just became a Doctor, but who knows, maybe we would have never seen him because he would have been gone all the time. Instead he decided on a job helping others through elderly care.
Anyway, he began to make his own Kombucha tea from home after studying it for a good long while. before we knew it, he was better and even losing the little weight he had gained. He got himself trim, slim and healthy and then began to study nutrition, so that's how I got started in learning all about process foods, in which for me, I've been really good and then really bad. I've done really well with it and then I backslide right back into all my favorite foods. Because that is just life. You can only walk through a store so many times before something begins to actually call your name, and then once that starts, you can't escape the call. Don't even lie to yourself! you know you have had this happen to you too!
Come back around to today, I let myself go into all those favorite sinful foods, which I call food. They are food with a lot of really bad stuff in it. So for the love of living a healthier life, my little baby has encouraged me to get to it and start right with him. So I got this awesome gift! It's called the Baby Bullet!!!! and I love it!! I also got a Munchkin Puree!! and I love that even more so far! It's a tiny little food processer but it's the perfect processer for mashing food into baby goodness! yes!! AMEN!
Soooooo I've been doing a little food shopping of my own, and I love it! I've been visiting different Market places in my area and I am very much enjoying the Adventure of finding the next best price for fruits and veggies. It is kind of like a treasure hunt but it's a fun treasure hunt, you never know where the next best price for fruits and veggies will turn up a good grab. See!! I told you this Mommy thing isn't so bad! I bring my Mom or my Husband with me from time to time and that also makes it fun.
Some of fun things about shopping the Markets is finding good finds but also finding interesting and new things to enjoy and bring home as fun food or snack. This last trip I made was for some peanuts for Peanut Butter. Let me tell you that is the best stuff you can get for yourself if your a Mom. I've never discovered anything else in the world that could be so time consuming but yet oh so relaxing to bring home a bag of peanuts to shuck and then cream into some amazing Peanut Butter without all the Sugar. If you just can't have Peanut Butter without Sugar you can add Honey...Honey is a great Sugar in my opinion.
I also decided to stop buying myself Lemonade from the store. Nope, no way. I'm officially done with that. Especially if I can make it myself. So here we are making it ourselves both my Husband and I. Okay, so I shouldn't have gotten a 1.00 a Lemon at Save a lot when I could have gotten 4 for a few cents at the Market. I completely regret the buy but 11 lemons, went a long way!!!! 3 and 1/2 jugs of Juice!!! Pretty good save!!!! on that note, a far cry from a few $'s a jug at the store for a lemonade!!! yes! and we know exactly what is in our Lemonade! Real! sugar!!
I have been pureeing food for my baby and I will say, it had saved us SO much money for a whole entire ice cube tray full of baby puree to freeze, I now have sitting in our Freezer, two whole plastic tupperwear boxes full of food ready to thaw when ready to eat. Instead of grabbing from off the shelf at Walmart! I am saving and feeding my baby on basically cents. It's pretty good. So no more false sugars in our home, well, not exactly none at all we have had our cheats, but really, that's all that is, cheats, every so often hear and there.
My next endeavor, Homemade Yogurt. In the Winter, I will back to baking full time. Sourdough bread enough to make it for a good while. I have some Banana's sitting in the freezer ready for the winter baking, Banana Bread is set and ready to go. All my Baking happens in the Winter, that's how I like it. It's about time I prepare some Christmas cookie dough, I may need to make enough to last all Christmas for the Family. And of course, how could I ever escape those oh so yummy coffee cakes that my Dad- in-law makes...I must learn how to make that for my family too. Oh, of course he attempted to try and show me how to make it, I simply watched from a distance, the couch. I am now in regret hehehehehe. I now wish I had watched to make it. Now I really have to learn how to make it so that I can pass it down to my children and to their children's, children. I am all about passing the love of family and food down to my family for all generation.
At some point I would like to learn my Mom-in-law's Jam, it is soooooooo good! let me tell you! There is nothing better than her Homemade Jam made with love! and I for one intend to learn to make it, that too will be passed down. Can I tell you, I have learned how to make my Tia Cece's Homemade Friendship bread. I will be totally honest, it's basically easy to make Pound Cake and although it's not her word for word instructions on how to make it, I have made it, by simply looking it up, either way, I've made something she likes to make. That's the point I'm trying to make, every time I have made it, I think of her. I love my family, can you tell.
So if I had to bring all those wonderful meals together that people I love in my family have made, I would have to say, my Mom has made, Menudo. Not that I even know how to spell, that, but I am basically Welsh, so please don't ask me to spell that out correctly, ever, because I can't. I can't speak a lick of Spanish except for something basic and simple to get me through the day in case of an emergency. So there you have it. My mom has attempted to share the art of making some kind of Salsa from time to time, but I have to say, my Husband makes a better Guacamole better then store bought and so I don't watch to learn to make it, I've only just showed up to eat whatever has been placed in front of me. Tamales, that is exactly what I was thinking of. Have I learned to make those, um, no, not really but I am sure I could figure it out along the way if I looked it up, cheated a bit, and followed someone on Food Net Work. For now, I'm not really sure what I have taken away from my Mom but I can say, she makes Tamales for Christmas, the easy way. Not the long hard way that takes hours of time, but I am sure that would be something I wouldn't much mind to venture out on one of these years of my life.
My Dad, he's all about that pie baking. That I will take from him and run with. or that oh so yummy chocolate toffee!!! yes!! Those are things made of Heaven. I just love it. So this year, I will be saving money, making a little love in the Kitchen, NOT that kind of LOVE! I mean, making all these wonderful foods that have been made with love, happening in my Kitchen all over again to be passed down as the years come and go. These foods made with love and wonderful stories behind them will be baking in My Little Country Cottage near the big city by the ocean.
This morning it was a beautiful start. It actually felt like Fall to me for the very first time in a long Summer. Who knows if we will get more cool days like this in the month of Aug. By the early and late afternoons, it was feeling warm and muggy. But by 3:00 it was cooling down again and I was certainly thankful for that. I am loving today's perfect Fall feeling weather, it's great.
Mommyhood has been treating me with lots of love, it's great and I am really enjoying it. Excuse me for not writing with big words, I've been talking to a baby all day. All I got is simple words but they all make sense when I put them together. That's about as good as I got so far. All is well here and not being on Facebook has been a blessing. I am glad to be alone to our own little world in our own little family. Sometimes it's okay to remove yourself from the on going world of people and their on going lives that we watch every day. I will just say, that I am glad for real friends and real visitors anyway, rather then the ones that I can only view their lives from a far on.
Ever since this little one has arrived I have enjoyed life on a whole new level. Anyway who's to say Mommyhood has to be unfun? It's totally fun to be a Stay at Home wife and Mom. I love it! well, I always loved it. Being a first time mom, I had no idea what to expect. How could I? I could hardly know what to think it would actually be like. It's not like the pictures movies of course. It's more work, for sure, ten times more work but once I got the hang of this new life, everything started to look up.
Do you know who I am? I am the kind of person who says to herself, I want a clean house, because I have never kept a dirty room. I don't like disorganization. I just don't. Disorganization and I do not go together. We just don't belong. Every thing about me says, things must remain clean or at least semi decent. If there is on thing I don't like, it's a house that starts to smell a bit well, you know on the side of not so pleasant, I'm sure you have been there too, walking through the house or that certain room that just reminds you that rest of the house is dirty. Summer time is that time of year when everything around this house can get busy and very messy. There is the Beach and there is the Sand. You add those two thing together and you have got yourself a sea salt smelling home. Don't forget the BBq's and the left overs that for sure not everyone cleans in a day. We don't have a big household but you know when the family comes over the celebration gets big and clean up lasts a good week. Summer gets big and messy around here sometimes but that's okay too, I love it.
I don't so much mind the clean up because it gives me that something extra to do that I can be proud of. I love, love! more than anything to clean up the house before my Husband can come home from work. Yes, I do! I love for him to be able to kick off his shoes, come home relax and see a sit spotless home. Warm, comfortable and cozy clean. Well, he has the warm part down, and the comfortable, well, we could use some real good lazy boy's at some point but we have what God has blessed us with and we sure are thankful anyway. As for the cozy clean part, well, I have learned that while I can't make it a perfect place for him to come home to, at least the bed is made.
My first intention was to be able to juggle it all but now I can see, that honestly, I cannot! So okay, here's to a new life and a new start. I tried it and now I can see that a perfect home, although it was not his entire expectation, I sure did want to share my love this way with him. Now instead of holding myself hostage, I am setting myself free to get as much help as I can get, yes, I am now willing to let my Husband help me tackle all the little and big things in life. I can't do it alone and so , he is my biggest team mate.
Now I delegate the day's he is home early or off of work on the weekends to what I need help most on and giving myself time to shower and do my hair and take care of myself, including a nap. It's all wonderful and I am very much enjoying it all. I am loving these days. It was for a fact a very tough Summer. Sigh, :p I am so glad he can be home much, much earlier on some days and I am so proud of him. He works hard and goes to school full time and still has time to come home and be a dad. I don't think I could have done it. But of course, I am not him and that was not my calling, at all, though he is my inspiration for what success looks like. I am glad to have a Husband I can look up to and admire.
Now that I have discovered this much needed way of doing life, I am enjoying Motherhood that much more. I have also learned not to try and do everything all at once. I have officially given up on that. I used to try doing it all in one day, but it's nearly impossible to do and live a Happy Life and not be completely drained at the end of a day.
I am no longer Nursing and so, that helps a lot. I enjoyed it for a good 6 months but now I am ready to give the bottle and I am okay with that. I couldn't believe there would come an end to this amazing bond when I first began my Nursing journey. Now it has officially come to it's close. At first I was worried I would never be able to get up and pee when I needed to and now I am able to see, that yup, I am able to hand the baby off to Daddy and run! It's amazing!! It wasn't Jail after all! The things no one told me. :p I thought I would be hooked to the baby 24/7 with no breaks at all. I was starting to feel a tad sorry for myself. With Daddy home to help after work, I am quiet happy about all that. He gets time to bond with baby and I get time to sit on my bottom and write for a while!!! score! great things are happening.
I have even begun to over come my store life of buying all shelf made things. I guess it had to come to this, Process food or non process food. But here I am working on it, step by step. Baby steps, really. It all started with my Dad a few years ago getting really sick that's when he discovered, the oh so great Kombucha Tea. He is a very smart man, an artist really, but honestly he should have just became a Doctor, but who knows, maybe we would have never seen him because he would have been gone all the time. Instead he decided on a job helping others through elderly care.
Anyway, he began to make his own Kombucha tea from home after studying it for a good long while. before we knew it, he was better and even losing the little weight he had gained. He got himself trim, slim and healthy and then began to study nutrition, so that's how I got started in learning all about process foods, in which for me, I've been really good and then really bad. I've done really well with it and then I backslide right back into all my favorite foods. Because that is just life. You can only walk through a store so many times before something begins to actually call your name, and then once that starts, you can't escape the call. Don't even lie to yourself! you know you have had this happen to you too!
Come back around to today, I let myself go into all those favorite sinful foods, which I call food. They are food with a lot of really bad stuff in it. So for the love of living a healthier life, my little baby has encouraged me to get to it and start right with him. So I got this awesome gift! It's called the Baby Bullet!!!! and I love it!! I also got a Munchkin Puree!! and I love that even more so far! It's a tiny little food processer but it's the perfect processer for mashing food into baby goodness! yes!! AMEN!
Soooooo I've been doing a little food shopping of my own, and I love it! I've been visiting different Market places in my area and I am very much enjoying the Adventure of finding the next best price for fruits and veggies. It is kind of like a treasure hunt but it's a fun treasure hunt, you never know where the next best price for fruits and veggies will turn up a good grab. See!! I told you this Mommy thing isn't so bad! I bring my Mom or my Husband with me from time to time and that also makes it fun.
Some of fun things about shopping the Markets is finding good finds but also finding interesting and new things to enjoy and bring home as fun food or snack. This last trip I made was for some peanuts for Peanut Butter. Let me tell you that is the best stuff you can get for yourself if your a Mom. I've never discovered anything else in the world that could be so time consuming but yet oh so relaxing to bring home a bag of peanuts to shuck and then cream into some amazing Peanut Butter without all the Sugar. If you just can't have Peanut Butter without Sugar you can add Honey...Honey is a great Sugar in my opinion.
I also decided to stop buying myself Lemonade from the store. Nope, no way. I'm officially done with that. Especially if I can make it myself. So here we are making it ourselves both my Husband and I. Okay, so I shouldn't have gotten a 1.00 a Lemon at Save a lot when I could have gotten 4 for a few cents at the Market. I completely regret the buy but 11 lemons, went a long way!!!! 3 and 1/2 jugs of Juice!!! Pretty good save!!!! on that note, a far cry from a few $'s a jug at the store for a lemonade!!! yes! and we know exactly what is in our Lemonade! Real! sugar!!
I have been pureeing food for my baby and I will say, it had saved us SO much money for a whole entire ice cube tray full of baby puree to freeze, I now have sitting in our Freezer, two whole plastic tupperwear boxes full of food ready to thaw when ready to eat. Instead of grabbing from off the shelf at Walmart! I am saving and feeding my baby on basically cents. It's pretty good. So no more false sugars in our home, well, not exactly none at all we have had our cheats, but really, that's all that is, cheats, every so often hear and there.
My next endeavor, Homemade Yogurt. In the Winter, I will back to baking full time. Sourdough bread enough to make it for a good while. I have some Banana's sitting in the freezer ready for the winter baking, Banana Bread is set and ready to go. All my Baking happens in the Winter, that's how I like it. It's about time I prepare some Christmas cookie dough, I may need to make enough to last all Christmas for the Family. And of course, how could I ever escape those oh so yummy coffee cakes that my Dad- in-law makes...I must learn how to make that for my family too. Oh, of course he attempted to try and show me how to make it, I simply watched from a distance, the couch. I am now in regret hehehehehe. I now wish I had watched to make it. Now I really have to learn how to make it so that I can pass it down to my children and to their children's, children. I am all about passing the love of family and food down to my family for all generation.
At some point I would like to learn my Mom-in-law's Jam, it is soooooooo good! let me tell you! There is nothing better than her Homemade Jam made with love! and I for one intend to learn to make it, that too will be passed down. Can I tell you, I have learned how to make my Tia Cece's Homemade Friendship bread. I will be totally honest, it's basically easy to make Pound Cake and although it's not her word for word instructions on how to make it, I have made it, by simply looking it up, either way, I've made something she likes to make. That's the point I'm trying to make, every time I have made it, I think of her. I love my family, can you tell.
So if I had to bring all those wonderful meals together that people I love in my family have made, I would have to say, my Mom has made, Menudo. Not that I even know how to spell, that, but I am basically Welsh, so please don't ask me to spell that out correctly, ever, because I can't. I can't speak a lick of Spanish except for something basic and simple to get me through the day in case of an emergency. So there you have it. My mom has attempted to share the art of making some kind of Salsa from time to time, but I have to say, my Husband makes a better Guacamole better then store bought and so I don't watch to learn to make it, I've only just showed up to eat whatever has been placed in front of me. Tamales, that is exactly what I was thinking of. Have I learned to make those, um, no, not really but I am sure I could figure it out along the way if I looked it up, cheated a bit, and followed someone on Food Net Work. For now, I'm not really sure what I have taken away from my Mom but I can say, she makes Tamales for Christmas, the easy way. Not the long hard way that takes hours of time, but I am sure that would be something I wouldn't much mind to venture out on one of these years of my life.
My Dad, he's all about that pie baking. That I will take from him and run with. or that oh so yummy chocolate toffee!!! yes!! Those are things made of Heaven. I just love it. So this year, I will be saving money, making a little love in the Kitchen, NOT that kind of LOVE! I mean, making all these wonderful foods that have been made with love, happening in my Kitchen all over again to be passed down as the years come and go. These foods made with love and wonderful stories behind them will be baking in My Little Country Cottage near the big city by the ocean.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
A little country living near the big city
A little country living near the big city that is what I always say about the way we try to live. We have been creating our home the way we want it to be one step at a time and I like it that way. It is mostly always quiet where we live and I like it that way. Sometimes we do get some planes that fly over and few military jets from time to time but that's okay. And on occasion we can hear the military practicing whatever it is they are practicing. We can hear what sounds like fire works going off from far off other than that it is peaceful and it is quiet. There are the occasional parties but our neighbors have gotten better at turning in their loud music for the night once the clock strikes 10 P.M and we are always thankful for that. Now the only noise in the house is baby babbling which we love.
Summer time is right in the kicks of throwing us it's best heat wave that it possibly can right now, yeah, I love it. I love summer but I love it most of all for the beach and messy food groups that you can enjoy without shame throughout the summer. This house has been a huge blessing to us and we have enjoyed every single day living here certainly feels like home to us. The only down side though is the lack of insulation in the house. It can be a bit daunting with a tiny little one. We are still a year later waiting to hear back from SDG&E about their help in getting some insulation up and going in this house so we are waiting once again to see when they find someone to come out here. Other wise it wouldn't much matter if it were just me and my Hubby in the house. We have been blessed to have A.C in at least one room. I love that. So we are surviving yet another challenging summer.
We have been so blessed to have this house and we have loved it every single step of the way. We love it because it does feel like a little country near the big city. Of course we would love to live in the country some day or at least one of these young days of our lives. For now this is where God has planted us and we have been very content. We are surviving the summer with fans blowing in every room and that helps significantly and on really hot, hot days we put the A.C unit on in our room and we live. We are very thankful to have that little A.C unit but there are times the heat starts to zap my energy. I am ready for the Fall Months to kick in once again. I rather wrap myself up because I am cold not because the heat is beating me over the head with it's unrelenting heat waves. We are happy for early mornings and shade under the trees.
Normally I would be taking myself to the beach but having a new little one means all of my attentions are placed here at home with the care of Motherhood in mind. Life really is good. I am enjoying Motherhood to fullest extent while on the other hand counting down the days until I know we are out of this heat baby! This year there wasn't much time to play in the waves hardly at all. I am homesick for the waves but I will make it there again. This too shall pass and I will soon be enjoying a good swim in the waves. I am praying daily for a backyard pool to make up for the loss of time in the waves. I really do love those waves. I love and miss the cold water and coming home to relax with a good movie. Life did seem a bit more free and worry free at that time. Not that life still can't be just as free and carefree and worry free but having a baby changes everything. Now my one and only concern is all wrapped around his tiny little body getting sufficient sleep and eating his 3 square meals a day and a little play mixed into it all. Summer this year has brought along it's challenges but that's okay too. I know that I can look forward to greater things in the Fall, at least, I hope.
So far this summer we have done and accomplished a lot. I've had a chance to write a little bit more in my baby journal and keep up with that. We have kept this house in an orderly fashion that works well for us and I like that. We have shared many of the house hold chores and even switched who does what from time to time. I think that makes life full and interesting. I like not having to do the same things every single day of life. Having a change in chores does make it nice when we switch around what we are doing with each other and for each other. Some days my hubby will clean the floors because, well, I rather not be the one to do that from time to time. On the other hand I will do the dishes on most occasions but then I get tired of doing them in the heat so I avoid it if I can, keep myself from it. Sometimes he will step in to do them for me and I am eternally happy. Either way we both are soaking wet from the heat of standing over a sink washing dishes in the heat while the steam from the hot water only adds to the heat we are currently experiencing.
My Husband has done an excellent job helping me with the parenting duties and I so appreciate him in all that he does with me and for me. Bed time routines are the best when done together it seems and so we tackle this together when we can. Sometime he does work late and so he is unable to help me with the night time duties. Everything comes together in a wonderful way and I have loved the flow of what we have created in our home.
Our outside life around this house have consisted of creating the country living that we most would desire for ourselves. We have planted, grown and prepared a Garden in preparation for a full fledged Harvest Garden of all kinds of fruits and veggies in our backyard. It has taken some time to do but we have taken it all in strive. We haven't pressured ourselves to get it done over night we have simply taken it one day at a time, one step at a time and let each day, each step, each time we have taken the time to give it some tender loving care to create the Garden we are excited to build and create.
Our latest largest project was uprooting some of the most major greenery and tree stub left over that was taking up space. My Hubby had a friend of his come on over and they did the major part of the hard work. Now that is complete we are ready to head into the next phase of our Garden creation, building the wood workings for the planting to go into. Looks like that will be an August project. Like I said one day at a time, one step at a time and doing it when we are ready to take that next step. We aren't in much of a hurry but we are enjoying the process of watching it all come together in time.
So far our tomato plant has grown very large not sure when we will get a good harvest of tomatoes out of it but this summer heat has not been exactly a piece of cake either. Our Grape vine is growing and it is looking nice. Our Strawberries are in the process of doing something, not sure what but got a lot of good green leaves so that is promising. Our Avocado seed is having a lot of growth to it as well and we are watching it sprout from a tiny little pit to now a new and growing plant in our kitchen. We will soon be planting it!!! I really can't wait. I saved some apple seeds so we shall see what will come of that next. I have been germinating some nice orange seeds, I let them dry out for a day so not sure what will happen once I try to go onto my next step in the process of germinating them. It has been about 7 days now and so I am now ready to see if they will give me a sprout any time soon. I am praying for that though. These are pretty important orange seeds. I got them from my Aunt Anita's Oranges. Who knows, I may just save some seeds for our baby to plant one day.
I saved a peach pit, who knows what will come of it, but I am praying after having tried to see if I could germinate it in the cold fridge if I can possibly get something to grow out of it. This all very basic elementary scientific experimentation with seeds and planting. I have 0 clue what I am really doing. I'm just reading a lot on planting and seeds and germination and what have you. I have yet to see what all works. Either way I rather experiment now rather then on a real country home in the middle of now where only to find that I don't have a clue what I am really doing. Thankfully, my Husband knows a little about farming, he worked on a farm once with little lambs. Awe, I am glad we are here now where I at most have a Starbucks near by, not that I love the green Giant all that much, because of course I am trying to say no! At some point I would like to make my own Frapps at home and coffee treats.
For now, we are in the planting season of things. My Hubby is in the process of trying to see if a Maple branch will do anything at all. If it does we have ourselves a Maple Tree, if not we will just have to give up and go buy ourselves one :P and that's okay too. All is in the learning process of things, seeing what works and what does not. Literally, one day at a time. Who knows! I may even see if I plant a watermelon :p
I got myself a bag of apples, made myself some homemade applesauce as well as some for the baby. I got into the Homemaking and I have to say, I love it! I added a little too much Nutmeg to mine thought I would enjoy it, come to find out, I'm not entirely sure about that at the moment. I may just eat it so it doesn't go to waste. Either way the attempt was not half bad. My next drill is making some mash potato for the baby and some with cream and butter for myself. I had planned on that today, only to realize, I have no cream and I have no milk. We really need to bring back the glory days of milk being delivered to your home fresh in a glass bottle an inexpensive idea. At least they still do that with cloth diapers and ice-cream! I love it!! Now if only I could have a fresh meal delivered to my door for mommy's who are busy all day and for baby along with some fresh milk in a bottle and those cloth diapers, life wouldn't be half bad :P
My next endeavor in life is to get a swimming pool. I've wanted one my whole life. I know, those good things, come to those who wait with a good attitude and I am sure trying it out in this heat, that's for sure. One day, some day, I know I will get that pool in my own backyard and play in the cold water, even if I can't make it to the big open ocean :P
for now, Laundry and nap await me. :p
Summer time is right in the kicks of throwing us it's best heat wave that it possibly can right now, yeah, I love it. I love summer but I love it most of all for the beach and messy food groups that you can enjoy without shame throughout the summer. This house has been a huge blessing to us and we have enjoyed every single day living here certainly feels like home to us. The only down side though is the lack of insulation in the house. It can be a bit daunting with a tiny little one. We are still a year later waiting to hear back from SDG&E about their help in getting some insulation up and going in this house so we are waiting once again to see when they find someone to come out here. Other wise it wouldn't much matter if it were just me and my Hubby in the house. We have been blessed to have A.C in at least one room. I love that. So we are surviving yet another challenging summer.
We have been so blessed to have this house and we have loved it every single step of the way. We love it because it does feel like a little country near the big city. Of course we would love to live in the country some day or at least one of these young days of our lives. For now this is where God has planted us and we have been very content. We are surviving the summer with fans blowing in every room and that helps significantly and on really hot, hot days we put the A.C unit on in our room and we live. We are very thankful to have that little A.C unit but there are times the heat starts to zap my energy. I am ready for the Fall Months to kick in once again. I rather wrap myself up because I am cold not because the heat is beating me over the head with it's unrelenting heat waves. We are happy for early mornings and shade under the trees.
Normally I would be taking myself to the beach but having a new little one means all of my attentions are placed here at home with the care of Motherhood in mind. Life really is good. I am enjoying Motherhood to fullest extent while on the other hand counting down the days until I know we are out of this heat baby! This year there wasn't much time to play in the waves hardly at all. I am homesick for the waves but I will make it there again. This too shall pass and I will soon be enjoying a good swim in the waves. I am praying daily for a backyard pool to make up for the loss of time in the waves. I really do love those waves. I love and miss the cold water and coming home to relax with a good movie. Life did seem a bit more free and worry free at that time. Not that life still can't be just as free and carefree and worry free but having a baby changes everything. Now my one and only concern is all wrapped around his tiny little body getting sufficient sleep and eating his 3 square meals a day and a little play mixed into it all. Summer this year has brought along it's challenges but that's okay too. I know that I can look forward to greater things in the Fall, at least, I hope.
So far this summer we have done and accomplished a lot. I've had a chance to write a little bit more in my baby journal and keep up with that. We have kept this house in an orderly fashion that works well for us and I like that. We have shared many of the house hold chores and even switched who does what from time to time. I think that makes life full and interesting. I like not having to do the same things every single day of life. Having a change in chores does make it nice when we switch around what we are doing with each other and for each other. Some days my hubby will clean the floors because, well, I rather not be the one to do that from time to time. On the other hand I will do the dishes on most occasions but then I get tired of doing them in the heat so I avoid it if I can, keep myself from it. Sometimes he will step in to do them for me and I am eternally happy. Either way we both are soaking wet from the heat of standing over a sink washing dishes in the heat while the steam from the hot water only adds to the heat we are currently experiencing.
My Husband has done an excellent job helping me with the parenting duties and I so appreciate him in all that he does with me and for me. Bed time routines are the best when done together it seems and so we tackle this together when we can. Sometime he does work late and so he is unable to help me with the night time duties. Everything comes together in a wonderful way and I have loved the flow of what we have created in our home.
Our outside life around this house have consisted of creating the country living that we most would desire for ourselves. We have planted, grown and prepared a Garden in preparation for a full fledged Harvest Garden of all kinds of fruits and veggies in our backyard. It has taken some time to do but we have taken it all in strive. We haven't pressured ourselves to get it done over night we have simply taken it one day at a time, one step at a time and let each day, each step, each time we have taken the time to give it some tender loving care to create the Garden we are excited to build and create.
Our latest largest project was uprooting some of the most major greenery and tree stub left over that was taking up space. My Hubby had a friend of his come on over and they did the major part of the hard work. Now that is complete we are ready to head into the next phase of our Garden creation, building the wood workings for the planting to go into. Looks like that will be an August project. Like I said one day at a time, one step at a time and doing it when we are ready to take that next step. We aren't in much of a hurry but we are enjoying the process of watching it all come together in time.
So far our tomato plant has grown very large not sure when we will get a good harvest of tomatoes out of it but this summer heat has not been exactly a piece of cake either. Our Grape vine is growing and it is looking nice. Our Strawberries are in the process of doing something, not sure what but got a lot of good green leaves so that is promising. Our Avocado seed is having a lot of growth to it as well and we are watching it sprout from a tiny little pit to now a new and growing plant in our kitchen. We will soon be planting it!!! I really can't wait. I saved some apple seeds so we shall see what will come of that next. I have been germinating some nice orange seeds, I let them dry out for a day so not sure what will happen once I try to go onto my next step in the process of germinating them. It has been about 7 days now and so I am now ready to see if they will give me a sprout any time soon. I am praying for that though. These are pretty important orange seeds. I got them from my Aunt Anita's Oranges. Who knows, I may just save some seeds for our baby to plant one day.
I saved a peach pit, who knows what will come of it, but I am praying after having tried to see if I could germinate it in the cold fridge if I can possibly get something to grow out of it. This all very basic elementary scientific experimentation with seeds and planting. I have 0 clue what I am really doing. I'm just reading a lot on planting and seeds and germination and what have you. I have yet to see what all works. Either way I rather experiment now rather then on a real country home in the middle of now where only to find that I don't have a clue what I am really doing. Thankfully, my Husband knows a little about farming, he worked on a farm once with little lambs. Awe, I am glad we are here now where I at most have a Starbucks near by, not that I love the green Giant all that much, because of course I am trying to say no! At some point I would like to make my own Frapps at home and coffee treats.
For now, we are in the planting season of things. My Hubby is in the process of trying to see if a Maple branch will do anything at all. If it does we have ourselves a Maple Tree, if not we will just have to give up and go buy ourselves one :P and that's okay too. All is in the learning process of things, seeing what works and what does not. Literally, one day at a time. Who knows! I may even see if I plant a watermelon :p
I got myself a bag of apples, made myself some homemade applesauce as well as some for the baby. I got into the Homemaking and I have to say, I love it! I added a little too much Nutmeg to mine thought I would enjoy it, come to find out, I'm not entirely sure about that at the moment. I may just eat it so it doesn't go to waste. Either way the attempt was not half bad. My next drill is making some mash potato for the baby and some with cream and butter for myself. I had planned on that today, only to realize, I have no cream and I have no milk. We really need to bring back the glory days of milk being delivered to your home fresh in a glass bottle an inexpensive idea. At least they still do that with cloth diapers and ice-cream! I love it!! Now if only I could have a fresh meal delivered to my door for mommy's who are busy all day and for baby along with some fresh milk in a bottle and those cloth diapers, life wouldn't be half bad :P
My next endeavor in life is to get a swimming pool. I've wanted one my whole life. I know, those good things, come to those who wait with a good attitude and I am sure trying it out in this heat, that's for sure. One day, some day, I know I will get that pool in my own backyard and play in the cold water, even if I can't make it to the big open ocean :P
for now, Laundry and nap await me. :p
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