Scraping Off Crud
This week my heart felt like gunk. I can easily be discouraged which is odd because I find it so easy to encourages others.
This week I tackled missed deadlines, family sickness and cold weather as I tried to get my heart up and running. I needed to give my gunky funk a tune [...]
I salvaged this stuffed turkey from the donation box at my mother-in-love’s house. This so-ugly-it’s-cute turkey now has a destiny! Below are two silly Thanksgiving activities. I am looking forward to playing these games with my family this year.
Materials: a stuffed animal turkey, a few players, photo copies or drawings of turkeys
Turkey Gone-a-Hiding
Hide [...]
Trick-or-Treating Get-Ups
The photos below were just taken this afternoon. I left my camera behind the evening of Halloween. Sometimes I just need to be in the moment and not behind the lens.
Molly really “got” it when we took her out for trick-or-treating. She insisted that she go up to every door instead of stay back [...]
We are making progress on our main level and only living area which feels like getting 2 steps ahead.
We are all suffering from head colds which is turning us into head cases which feels like taking 1 step back.
Here are some of our steps so far…
Well we can only take one step at a time! [...]
No I am not talking about guns…I’m talking about cameras.
I was recently blessed with a job opportunity to capture my friends on film digital media. Darn, film sounds so much better. My trigger finger was in full frenzy as it grazed the shutter release button for an hour during a recent photo shoot.
I worked as [...]
I am joining in with Heavenly Homemakers today for a round of Gratituesday.
Laundry Room Lessons
Upon learning that my washing machine was in fact unrepairable I felt bummed. When I found out I broke the machine from jamming it too full for too many years I was disheartened.
We had a one month during which all of [...]
Here is our first go round with Muffin Tin Monday (MTM) from Her Cup Overfloweth!
I can’t wait to try the Family Heritage theme for next week’s MTM post. We are Irish, German, French, Norweign, Scottish. Oh My!
Hating God
While driving in the car with the kids one day Ry and I had the following conversation:
Ry: I hate God.
Messy Jessy: thinking…..biting tongue…..praying….
Ry: I hate Him because I can never see Him.
Messy Jessy: Ry I can’t make you love God and I can’t make you see Him. But, if you ask Him, He’ll show [...]
