Get your craft on!

Let’s just say I have a bit of craft envy going on. You see there are these blogs that I love to read. I dream. I dream of the one day making my house look as wonderful as theirs are.

You see there is just one problem. I’m not creative. Seriously not a creative bone in my body. (okay so I can sew, but really these ladies I’m about to showcase have tallent, serious tallent!)

One of the projects I actually have the nerve to try is this one, from Kindra. Except I’m using a large window that was given to me. I was so excited to find the Mirror Spray paint on Amazon so I could have it shipped instead of driving to Lincoln just for a can of paint. I’m sure I could’ve found it cheaper, but oh well. Not dragging everyone out was totally worth it for me!

Oh so cute!!!!!

I cannot say that I have anything in the works for this next example, but I would LOVE if I did. It’s so cute, and I wish someone would just make one for me! Shelley is so talented, and I LOVE her work!

(click on the picture for full directions!)

Another thing I’d love to do  is this makeover of my laundry room. Although it’s in the  basement, so it probably wouldn’t look as cute! :( Maybe our next house….a girl can dream right? If we did, I would totally do this project by Sausha, she has a way with furniture.

I TOTALLY want this for my laundry!

Show me your projects! I love all things that are a little bit not so “modern.”

….testing….

Hello everyone. Seems I always end up writing these types of posts when I’ve been gone for a while. I know, a while is a bit much this time. I don’t think I’ve gone this long without blogging before.

I’m in a funk. You see I’m not sure what happened. Okay so I am, Life Happened.

We’ve been busy. But there are TONS of moms who are just as busy, if not busier than I, and find time to blog. I guess part of my problem is I feel like I’m ignoring my family if I sit in my office and blog all night. Because let’s be honest here. I’m not a morning person.

I haven’t forgotten about my blog, I’ve tried to write this post many of times:

Oh how I miss you. I miss my friends that blogging has made, I miss that I don’t get to share my family with the world. I miss how easy it was to just tell you all the little things. There are a lot of things going on in my life right now. And crazy enough, it’s simpler now than it was when things were really rough. But I still have neglected to come here. I’m not sure why. For fear that you’ll all look at me in a different way, or that I won’t get it into the words that I actually want to say. I feel lost. Lost at blogging, lost as a parent, lost as a wife, lost in life. I’m so tired of people thinking that I should be someone I’m not. I’m not perfect. I never have been. But the part that’s the hardest is, I think I should be perfect.

That was just one of the many blog posts, during my darker days. Now that Christmas is right around the corner I’m glad to report that I’m trying to be more positive. I’m trying to be a better mommy, wife, blogger, friend. But not all days are sunny and shiny.

Please just bear with me, as I come back to this journey of  blogging love. Because really I DO miss you all!

10 on Tuesday

1. This is going to be quick because there are random thoughts running through my head right now and it’s already 11:33pm! It’s been such a long week, and it’s only Tuesday!

2. Two sweet friends text messaged me yesterday making sure I was alright because we’ve just been running so much this last week that I wasn’t on twitter all weekend! It felt soo good to just have friends who know when I’m not around, and that’s totally not like me! I love getting to know people on twitter and the adult interaction is amazing. Just the friendships I’ve made are amazing!

3. On a last minute whim I decided on Friday night that I was going to head out to Earth Day Omaha to meet up with Jessica Quick from Top to Bottom Baby Boutique. I figured heck why not! I’m so glad I did. Jessica is so sweet. I mean I knew she was, because of all of our late night conversations, but she’s even sweeter in person! I had promised Joel that I’d be headed home around 4pm because it was a 2 hour drive home. Come 6:30 I was still in Omaha helping Jessica pack up! At that point Joel told me that Kaitlynn & I were on our own for supper. So I decided I needed to go see the Diaper room over at Jess’s house. Jess was nice enough to give me the grand tour of her house and neighborhood. Since I was on my own for supper, we decided to head out for supper then too! It was so much fun!

4. Just a few pictures from Earth Day Omaha. You can see more of them here.

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5. Dahrran had his first baseball practice tonight. It was so much fun & he had fun! Joel is coaching this year, and so that is a huge step for them both. Last year was a trying year to say the least and so we’re hoping for a more laid back learning, having fun, type of year!

6. Joel’s been working so hard to just get us enough kids for a team. Thanks to the coaches we’ve had for the last two years we’ve had a lot of families leave our town to play in other towns. He got the call last Thursday that we were going to have just enough kids to play. He was so excited, and I was excited for him as well!

7. I’m so far behind on blogging right now I’ll never catch up!!

8. So who misses Favorite Fluff Friday??? I DO! I feel so bad because I haven’t had the time to get them up and posted! So as of right now I’m not sure if I’m going to run a couple together or what I’ll do! But what I do know is that I’ve got 3 great products in the line up, with a couple more in the future!

9. Part of the reason I’ve been away and not blogging? It’s been beautiful outside! We’ve spent quite a few days at the park. In fact just this weekend we went 3 days in a row.

  

10. Joel came down stairs just a few minutes ago. He didn’t look pleased that I was still awake, and on the computer! Which means I’m off to bed! Night all! :)

What we've been up to!

The last "real" post I did, we were headed to the doctors office for the 3rd time in a week. Since then we've been doing breathing treatments twice a day for over a week, and trying to not go out so much. Or at least finding babysitter for the girls so that we can continue with some of our plans that couldn't be canceled.

The girls seem to be doing well on the breathing treatments, and usually remind ME that they haven't been done. They're also sounding better. They were never tested for Whooping Cough, but both girls were treated for it since they had been exposed. It got quite scary at times because neither one of them could catch their breath after a coughing episode.

We then were busy getting ready for the biggest Fundraiser for Dahrran's Elementary school. I'm on the group that helps out will all fundraising for Elementary, and so busy was I. We have a school carnival that is called "Fun Night" and it was so much "fun work" to get done! After a lot of running around, preparing and just plain having a good time, Fun Night(last Friday) was over! The kids had so much fun, and that's all that matters. I'm not sure how much money we raised.

On Saturday another adventure was going to start bright and early. I set my alarm, got dressed, and then packed the kids up in their pj's to head to Lincoln. We were out the door by 6:00am, and needless to say the kids did a good job. We were headed to Aunt Bridget's house, and so that was enough excitement to ward off the tears that come with getting up early.

If you read Jenny's blog or Kindra's blog, you already know what I was up to. Kindra emailed me a few weeks ago, and asked if I wanted to meet up for the Mother of All Garage Sales, a HUGE base of garage sales indoors. I figured heck why not, I LOVE me a good deal and why not start off the season with a TON of garage sales to go to. It was a morning that started off waiting in the cold for a while but well worth it. I got to know Jenny and Kindra a little bit better, and it was nice to have other mom's to talk with!

I found a few good deals but nothing that blew me out of the water. Kaitlynn got a new little shirt, and a 5 pack of bloomers to cover her diapers. Dahrran and MacKenzie got some new Moon Shoes to share, and at a DOLLAR I couldn't pass them up. I just wish I'd found two pairs of them! I also got a cute little 1/2 ladder that I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with yet.

After garage sailing we went out for a bite to eat, and got the waitress to take a picture of us. But you'll have to go check out Kindra's post on the meet up, I haven't gotten to email her yet! :( Lunch was over, and it was time for me to get back to motherhood. Remember my kiddos were at Aunt Bridget's house. . . .

. . . we headed out to the Lincoln Children's Museum for a fun afternoon of playing. Although I'm having problems with my Flickr account so I'm going to have to blog those pictures later! Have a great day!