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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Follow Me Back Tuesday!
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Jayden attended her first music contest this weekend. I had never been to one either. It was such a fun time. She played her flute. This was also the first year for her learning that. She got great comments from the judge. She also sang with a group of girls. They all did an awesome job! I was so excited, and am now excited to see if she does it again next year, and what instrument Dakota will play in 5th grade, and if she will also be attending a contest also.
It has been a great experience,and I am so glad the girls get a chance to learn and participate in these kinds of things. I think it really will help them to be well rounded individuals!!
It has been a great experience,and I am so glad the girls get a chance to learn and participate in these kinds of things. I think it really will help them to be well rounded individuals!!
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Its time for Follow Me Back Tuesday!!
Happy Tuesday everyone! It is time to link up and check out some new blogs!
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Staying Motivated
We have all experienced those days that we would just love to sit and just not think or move. Turn the TV on to some show that needs absolutely no brain cells and tune out the world. While this is OK once in a great while, it is not something that we should do daily. There is always something we should be doing or need to be doing.
Some days for me it can be a bit of a battle. So I find things that help me stay motivated.
For some it might be that they want to lose weight. So they find something that they can focus on. It may be a favorite pair of jeans that they have, that they may lay on their dresser to remind them they want to wear them again, or a shopping spree.
Some people may want to take a vacation, so they hang on the refrigerator pictures of the place or a list of what they want to do on the trip. This is to remind them to save their money up to take the trip.
For me I sometimes need to be motivated into my housework. I know terrible right! I am not saying all the time, just some of it. So I will record a show I want to watch and then not allow myself that 30 min break until I have completed the daily housework.
Sitting down to my computer and taking the steps necessary to work my home biz is something that I do have a lot of motivation for. The drive behind why I do this is huge. It is making that change for my family. Being able to pay off those bills, and debt. It is helping others do the same. Meeting new people, celebrating their success!
So whatever it is that you have to do today, or want to do, and you are dragging your feet. Think about what is going to motivate you. I guarantee that at the end of the day you will be proud of yourself, will have a accomplished a lot, and will be rewarded. And if your like me, chances are the list will have been long and you will be exhausted!!
So go on and get busy and good luck!!
Some days for me it can be a bit of a battle. So I find things that help me stay motivated.
For some it might be that they want to lose weight. So they find something that they can focus on. It may be a favorite pair of jeans that they have, that they may lay on their dresser to remind them they want to wear them again, or a shopping spree.
Some people may want to take a vacation, so they hang on the refrigerator pictures of the place or a list of what they want to do on the trip. This is to remind them to save their money up to take the trip.
For me I sometimes need to be motivated into my housework. I know terrible right! I am not saying all the time, just some of it. So I will record a show I want to watch and then not allow myself that 30 min break until I have completed the daily housework.
Sitting down to my computer and taking the steps necessary to work my home biz is something that I do have a lot of motivation for. The drive behind why I do this is huge. It is making that change for my family. Being able to pay off those bills, and debt. It is helping others do the same. Meeting new people, celebrating their success!
So whatever it is that you have to do today, or want to do, and you are dragging your feet. Think about what is going to motivate you. I guarantee that at the end of the day you will be proud of yourself, will have a accomplished a lot, and will be rewarded. And if your like me, chances are the list will have been long and you will be exhausted!!
So go on and get busy and good luck!!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Follow Me Back Tuesday!
Thanks for stopping by on this Follow Me Back Tuesday! I hope you hop on by often! It is the 1st of March and a wonderful way to start out the month. You can link up with the blog hop HERE!
Have a fun a productive day!!
Spring like weather!
It is so much nicer out today, 10:00am and already 50degrees out there. It sure makes staying inside hard. I can think of a ton of things that need done or I want to do. The yard needs a good cleaning, thanks to the dog who thinks that if it isn't in the yard it should be. He has brought in logs, sticks, tumble weeds. He has found some trash ( I think he secretly must clean the ditches along the road when we are asleep). I can not imagine where he finds all this stuff.
Then there is all the horses. Who in their right mind has so many to work with. They all need to be walked and messed with, a whole winter without anything, I have to wonder did they forget everything?
I would love to plant more flowers this year ( dog permitting, he dug up most of them last year). This means I need to get clever and probably add fencing of some type. It will take some planning.
I discovered Mulberry trees in the tree row behind our house a couple of years ago. I don't know if they had been inactive for all these years or what exactly was the deal, but one day walked out to the edge of the trees and right there was a small tree, set with berries. In a bigger inspection I had a big nice tree of them in the middle of the trees. So for the last two years, plan has been to clean out a nice path to get to the nice Mulberry tree. Before the dreaded snakes all come out!
Days like today make me want to get out and get things done.
Oh and our little family terror, that makes some jobs possible and others impossible is this big yellow member of the family.
Gotta Love Him!!
Then there is all the horses. Who in their right mind has so many to work with. They all need to be walked and messed with, a whole winter without anything, I have to wonder did they forget everything?
I would love to plant more flowers this year ( dog permitting, he dug up most of them last year). This means I need to get clever and probably add fencing of some type. It will take some planning.
I discovered Mulberry trees in the tree row behind our house a couple of years ago. I don't know if they had been inactive for all these years or what exactly was the deal, but one day walked out to the edge of the trees and right there was a small tree, set with berries. In a bigger inspection I had a big nice tree of them in the middle of the trees. So for the last two years, plan has been to clean out a nice path to get to the nice Mulberry tree. Before the dreaded snakes all come out!
Days like today make me want to get out and get things done.
Oh and our little family terror, that makes some jobs possible and others impossible is this big yellow member of the family.
Gotta Love Him!!
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Crafts with the kids!
I got a big surprise last night while sitting down to supper. Jayden pops up with " I have to decorate a valentines box for tomorrow!" After a slight moment of panic I went over in my head as I served up supper what we might have on hand to make her box. This was going to be frustrating. Once we started the hunting and gathering this is what we did. It turned out well I think, and was not complicated!
First we had to gather our materials, we grabbed a cereal box, scotch tape, scissors ( and side cutters), pencil, various permanent markers in black, construction paper, stencils, ribbon, tissue paper, some fake roses and other floweres, and wrapping paper.
Then we cut a square out of the cereal box( place to put in the valentines) and then wrapped the whole box with wrapping paper.
We located the hole we made by pressing a bit and poked a hole with pencil in center of that spot. Next we cut out to each corner so that we had 4 triangles. we folded those in after putting a little piece of tap on the point to hold it back.
Next you start your decorating. We picked about 3 flowers and cut the stems a bit long. We bent them a bit and taped them down. We taped a some little white flowers behind our roses we chose to help them stick out. Then we cut out a heart shape out of red construction paper. Wrote a saying in this case, BE MINE. Taped it over the stems so that it looked like a vase or something that was holding the flowers.
We went online to find a printable picture of cupid and printed it out on red paper. Using our stencil we cut a heart around cupid. Then used a larger stencil to cut out white tissue paper in a heart shape. We taped it behind cupid to look like lace.
Added a bow in the corner and a cut out heart on a piece of ribbon with her name and hung it out of the flowers.
We had fun doing this project and were really surprised at how well it turned out since we really only had about half an hour to complete it. I do have to admit though, next time I hope she lets me in on the secret a lot sooner. The snow day that we had the day before would have been a perfect day for such a project!!
First we had to gather our materials, we grabbed a cereal box, scotch tape, scissors ( and side cutters), pencil, various permanent markers in black, construction paper, stencils, ribbon, tissue paper, some fake roses and other floweres, and wrapping paper.
Then we cut a square out of the cereal box( place to put in the valentines) and then wrapped the whole box with wrapping paper.
We located the hole we made by pressing a bit and poked a hole with pencil in center of that spot. Next we cut out to each corner so that we had 4 triangles. we folded those in after putting a little piece of tap on the point to hold it back.
Next you start your decorating. We picked about 3 flowers and cut the stems a bit long. We bent them a bit and taped them down. We taped a some little white flowers behind our roses we chose to help them stick out. Then we cut out a heart shape out of red construction paper. Wrote a saying in this case, BE MINE. Taped it over the stems so that it looked like a vase or something that was holding the flowers.
We went online to find a printable picture of cupid and printed it out on red paper. Using our stencil we cut a heart around cupid. Then used a larger stencil to cut out white tissue paper in a heart shape. We taped it behind cupid to look like lace.
Added a bow in the corner and a cut out heart on a piece of ribbon with her name and hung it out of the flowers.
We had fun doing this project and were really surprised at how well it turned out since we really only had about half an hour to complete it. I do have to admit though, next time I hope she lets me in on the secret a lot sooner. The snow day that we had the day before would have been a perfect day for such a project!!
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