Friday Five

Top Five Songs that Bore Me to Death:
1.Nights in White Satin- Moody Blues. This made number 1 simply because it must be the longest, most boring song ever recorded. Maybe it's okay if you go through life stoned.
2. My Heart Will Go On- Celine Dion. It is boring in it's own right, but really...did it have to be on ALL the time?
3. Womanizer-Brittany Spears. I really like Brittany when she first came on scene as a teen. Her music was boppy and uplifting. Now, I guess life lessons has made her callous. I guess this is what happens when you sit down to write a song and cannot think of any more lyrics.
4.Can You Feel the Love Tonight-Elton John. This must be what happens when Sir Elton tries to write his own songs. *yawn* Even if it was the love song between two lions.
5.Come Away With Me-Nora Jones. I am not a fan of adult contemporary, but this song really stands out as a snoozer.
I'm sorry if one of your favorite songs is on this list. Well I'm really not sorry, they still bore me to death. That's it. My list of "Songs that Bore Me To Death".

Thursday's Top Ten

Here's is this weeks list of my top ten things I would change about myself:

1. My judgmental attitude. Matthew 7 says it all. Until I am a perfect being and do not have any faults, who am I to judge other people and their ways of life, choices...etc.
2. To get up and moving! I can identify with the commercial when the lady says she was sharing a blood supply with her sofa. :O|
3. To really enjoy my kids more. They are only little once and as Trace Atkins says; Your Gonna Miss This.
4. Please step away from the Face Book! Pretty self-explanatory.
5. Self-pity to the curb. I have a tendency to really feel sorry for myself when I shouldn't. I am the best me I am.
6. Be a better wife. I think I have improved on this, but would have to think that I could always be a better listener when hunny bunny is talking.
7. Call my mother more. She has forgotten she has a youngest daughter, but that doesn't mean I have forgotten I have a mother.
8. Stop procrastinating and start doing more writing, designing, playing...refer to #2. lol
9. Get out of my shell and make some friends. It can get lonely living in a new town. I need to get up and out and say hi to some folks. How in the world can I expect to sell my Scentsy if I can't even look a stranger in the eye?
10. Love myself as Jesus and my husband love me. I wish I could see what my husband sees when he looks at me.

That's it. A little insight into what I think needs to be changed about me.

Monday Memories

I have many wonderful memories trapped in my mind.
The birth of all my kids. Just about as wonderful as you can get. The mixed emotions that we all have; am I going to be able to handle this baby? Do we have enough money to support the new baby? And so on and so on.
Then they hand your newborn to you all swaddled in the blankets, and you look into the eyes of your miracle, and all fears are forgotten.

How do they do it?

I sit here in the afternoon and look through blogs from mothers who home-school. Their blog is so precise, and orderly. Their houses are so precise and orderly. Their kids are so precise and orderly...You get the picture. And I can't help thinking to myself..."How do they do it?" Some have time to write books, or create digiscrap kits to sell. Do these women sleep? They must be robots.

Here is an average Dana day...we get up and have breakfast. Kolby and I sit down at the kitchen table for some math lessons, and Riley decides that his Mario Kart is more important than anything else. So, I sit Riley down with crayons and a coloring page.....he makes one mark on the paper..and 'I'm done.' So on goes Mario Kart....Kolby and I finish our lessons for the morning, only to remember that I have nothing planned for lunch AND nothing set out for dinner.

I know, it's all in the planning, but there again, when do they find time to plan? My goal for next week is to make a daily plan and stick to it.

But, I did find a craft that Riley loves...fingerpainting.....of course...lol....

He is pretty good at it, and doesn't make too big of a mess! YAY!! He uses the brush because he is just that OCD about his hands getting dirty.

Bonus picture of Kolby. He is one handsome little dude.

My nest is getting bigger.

My house feels so much bigger these days. Tyler, my eldest, moved out on his 17th birthday to live with my parents.
My daughter, Kristen, the only girl, got married on Friday.

Here she is before the ceremony:

You may notice a baby bump. She is approximately 32 weeks along. They have picked a name: Cameron Daniel.

And a couple more pictures from the happy day:

So my house feels bigger, but my heart feels smaller. It was too early to feel this way. They were too young to leave the nest, but I know they will be fine. God has his plan for them and for me. I just have to sit back and let him lead me into it.

So, now there are 4 people in my house. I still have a hard time cooking for 4 instead of 6. I still have a hard time getting 4 plates instead of 6. I still have a hard time with doing laundry for 4 instead of 6..no wait, that is a plus! :) They still have a place here at their home. They will always be welcomed. I love them today as I loved them the days they were born. With each passing day, it becomes easier. With each passing day, I learn to enjoy my boys while they are still young and not ignore them. This is a very hard lesson learned. It is much better to wait to have children when YOU are mature. That way you have the time for them, the time to nurture and love them. Other things are not my priority now, they are.

I am fortunate now, to continue to stay at home with them. I am home schooling Kolby and he just aced a 3rd grade math assessment! That is the joy of home schooling. We have been working for 3 weeks and with the one-on-one attention he gets, we can complete many assignments a day. But, that is a different post.....