Prayers for Papa

Four precious children call my dad, Papa. These four little people adore their Papa(And Nana too)! Many times they want to call him, see him, play with him, and wrestle with him. This is one special man adored and loved by many! Papa is having a quadruple (possible quintuplet) by pass surgery on Wednesday, April 27th at 12:00pm. Please pray for Papa and his recovery. We know God is in charge of His health and we are trusting and claiming that our Papa will be back in full swing soon!

Papa, Nana and the four littles who adore them!

Mom and Dad (Also know as Papa and Nana) together in March.

Papa with Aaron

Thank you for your prayers!

Mission Accomplished!

I found a dress! After much shopping and thinking I went back to Cato where I began my dress looking and purchased the dress I had placed on hold! I liked it and hope you do too! I felt great in my dark demin dress!

Dress Shopping!

A dress?! What's that?! I don't own a dress that fits! I decided it was time to change that, especially two days before Easter!! That's a good time to shop for a dress, right? Wrong!!!

So here is a pic of me in the one dress I own with my bestie, Robin, in October 2008!! Mind you I am also really pregnant here with Aaron, hence why the dress doesn't fit anymore! :)

Ok, I digress! So thankfully my hubby agreed to watch the precious boys so I could shop alone!! Again, what's that!? Oh, so grateful for time to shop alone!!! It was heavenly! I even smiled sweetly at other mommies shopping with their "littles"!

Ok, so I went to 5 stores today looking for a dress to no avail! I tried on numerous dresses! Where are all of you awesome girlfriends when I need you? Oh yeah, with your precious little ones too or working with little ones at your schools! So, I have one dress on hold at a store and one dress on hold in my mind. We will try again tomorrow, yes the day before Easter to see if I can have a new dress for the special day! I grew up having a new Easter dress every year and something in me says I need one. Wish me well on my search!

Home Management

 I have been following the blog Want What You Have  for a few months now and I am always encouraged and challenged.  The author is a devout christian and stay at home mom who writes about her family's endeavor to live a frugal, meaningful, simple life. She writes about her faith, organizational strategies, and home management tips. I am always intrigued by her blog. I have recently implemented many of her tips and am enjoying trying new things. I too desire to "want what I have" and use the resources God has entrusted to me. Brian and I both desire to live a simple, meaningful life.

I have recently embraced the role of manager of this home. I feel it is my job as the stay at home mommy to make sure that the management of this home run smoothly. That can be a big job, but I gladly and happily accept the challenge. From parenting to the laundry to meal shopping and planning to the cleaning schedule this is all a part of my  full time job right now. I have sacrificed my teaching career that I loved to be home with the boys right now and I wouldn't trade that for the world. I want to treasure each day and be productive in our home.

All that to say I have taken some of the tips and strategies written by the author of the blog and have made my own "Home Management Guide" for our family. She gives recommendations of how to make your own and I tweaked it to make it my own. I am interested to see how well I use it, but also want it as a resource for my family. One example that the blog author gave was there was a time when she was on bed rest for 6 weeks and her home management guide came in very handy during her illness. I even showed it to Brian tonight in case he needs any of the information in it too. I hope it helps us all.

One thing I created that is helping me the most is a daily and weekly schedule for myself for cleaning and organizational tasks. So far it is really helping me with all the tasks I feel like I face regularly.

There are 5 sections in my "home management guide": Work Schedules, Cleaning/Food, Parenting, Finance, and Contacts. A few examples of thing in the "home management guide" are: a daily family schedule, emergency contact information, master grocery list, meal planning, daily cleaning tasks, monthly and quarterly cleaning tasks, our framework for our budget, names and numbers for contact information, anything else I feel is important to have on hand for our family. I want to be able to retrieve what we need quickly and easily.

Then today while browsing at Target I found a ton of cool products made by Mead and they too have a ton of resources for home managers at http://www.mead.com/. Just click on " Home Managers" to see cool downloads. I found and printed a few today!

I hope and pray that I can be an awesome Mommy, Wife, and Homemaker. As this is what I feel God has called me to for such a time as this!
Over and Out!
Trina

Dinner with the Fam...

We had a great time having dinner with my family tonight. My dad is due to have heart surgery soon so Mom wanted to get the gang all together. We had a lot of fun hanging out and having a fun impromptu Easter egg hunt.

Papa, Nana, and their 4 grandbabies!

Pearson is serious about Easter egg hunting!

Aaron found his 1st Egg!

Her is my silly Momma in her Awesome, Easter bonnet!

Aaron getting a little help and cheering!

My Little Reader...

So here is a video of Pearson "reading" one of his favorite books, titled Even Firefighters Go to the Potty! He is so amazing and smart (at least this momma thinks so)! Keep in mind this is a "familiar re-read" in teacher lingo, that means this is a book we have read many times and he loves it. Although he hasn't read this book in about a year and yesterday we read it only 3 or 4 times after checking it out at the new amazing library. He is reading this book the same way I do with all of my voice influxuations. I hope you enjoy watching this video as I did taking it.  It is a little dark so I hope you can see it. :)

Blog Under Construction....

Hello My fellow Readers,
As you can see I am working on updating this dated blog. As you know I've been blogging for a while now and a lot has changed in blogosphere. I've got a lot to learn! I am playing around with a few changes! You'll have to let me know what you think! Still thinking of blog names too! Over and out!
T

Our Spring Break 2011

We had a great week with Brian off for Spring Break! We love having him home with us! We decided to play and visit family! We went to the Children's Aquarium at Fair Park and had a blast! We also saw Papaw Bill at the lake and Nana, Papa and GG for a date day for us and play time for the boys! Over all it was a great week!