S Club Mama

I was reading in Judges about all of the times the Israelites turned away from God, and He punished them by putting them under another people. Then they cried & cried until He couldn't take it anymore, and He sent someone to free them. Most of us have heard the story of Moses bringing the Israelites out of Egypt, but read through Judges sometime. The Israelites somehow forgot how God brought them out of slavery. They just kept turning their backs on God only to beg for His mercy. They would even serve other gods! It reminds me of when I get angry at Moose because he does something he knows he isn't supposed to do (i.e. take the remote, play with my cell phone, get in the garbage & eat out of it, or bite me), and I get mad at him. I stop playing, I punish him by turning the tv off or just not turning a toy on for him or just kind of ignore him. He knows when I'm upset. He'll cry when I ignore him or toss a toy aside or even when I take something away from him (li...

13 Reasons I LOVE the Fall: 1. Cooler weather 2. Less sunscreen! Moose is already thanking me for that....less greasy hair for him . 3. Jeans and sweatshirts!! Woo hoo. No more shaving my legs ....totally kidding... 4. Leaves changing colors. 5. Jumping in piles of leaves. I cannot WAIT to teach Moose how to do this. 6. Football season! Go Huskers! 7. Back to school. Between the hours of 8-3, our apartment is quiet with the neighbor kids at school. hahaha 8. Great nap time weather. Add a comfy quilt and I'm set! 9. Hot chocolate and apple cider! Which is your fav?? 10. Halloween. I can't wait for this year and I know it's going to sneak up on me before I realize. 11. I think the stars shine brighter in more frigid weather. Makes me feel like God is warming me up under his big blanket of stars. 1 2. New tv shows! I missed the premier of 90210 (which is probably the only one I'll watch; it'll be too smutty for me.) but I am looking forward to Privileged and the final ...

Are you serious??? SITS is giving away a Cricut Expressions. For those of you who don't know what this is, you are missing out. It cuts out letters of different shapes & sizes. Perfect for scrapbooking or decorating. I've seen some seriously cute stuff done with one of these. And now I have the chance to win one? As I'm going to try to start selling my scrapbooks (to A) prove to Big A it can be done, B) make my family happy, and C) prove to myself that it can be done), this would be fabulous. And I mean Fabulous! So here's to my lucky streak continuing. Want a chance to break my streak & win this for yourself? Click on my SITS links on my sidebar & scroll until you find the contest. Good luck (sort of haha).

Here are some pictures from our weekend: The babies: Moose, Smiles, La Petite don't forget Monkey! DQ with our great-grandma Moose with his Grandpa (my daddy) Grandma loungin' around with Moose Auntie DQ & Moose Moose cuddles with his puppy on the way home It wasn't an eventful weekend, but it was nice to go home. Thanks to DQ for taking us out to eat; always a pleasure getting to have adult conversation!

The weekend at my folks' house was mostly fun. My little sister, Dancing Queen (DQ for short), was so sweet. She kind of sensed that my parents were kind of ignoring me and Big A (i.e. they hermited themselves into their bedroom for a nap/play on the computer while Moose was napping) so she offered to take us out to supper. She is just so amazingly giving. I know my parents didn't mean to ignore us and I know that grandparents really want to see their grandkids, but it just kind of hurt my feelings that we were going to sit around, watch tv, and eat leftovers (not even as a family...just a fix-it-if-you-want-it type of deal). Maybe I'm weird. Anyway, we had an amazing time with DQ and her boyfriend, V. He's a sweet boy, too. We hope he sticks around for awhile. We left my parents' today around 1 or so, so we could make it home to relax before tomorrow. We made it most of the way home, but stopped in Ltown at Wal-mart for milk and diapers. As we were pulling out of t...

Ok I had this great post written out but I'm on my sister's laptop so I'll have to make the CliffsNotes version here. Thank you so much to Tiffany over at the R Family Diaries. I won her 100th blog post contest! It's something that is going to help my family out so much, so I can't even express my thanks (and I was about to cry until the internet ruined my first nice post). You are just so amazing when you leave comments alone and now this; ....thank you (ok I'm blubbering up again). So go check out Tiffany (you can find her link in my right-hand column) because she's amazing.

It's game day, folks! My boys are dressed and ready to go! Get ready for the new season of Husker football. Go Big Red!