I am wife to a big stud of a man who makes me laugh and I'm a mother of six kids ages: 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 and another one on the way! It may be a little noisy, a bit messy, and slightly chaotic around here but we try to have fun and somehow the Lord has kept me sane :)
Sometimes life can feel like an easy stroll along a path and other times, uh, well it can feel like…..
So just for fun (ha!) we’ve decided to move…in two weeks.
We haven’t been entirely happy with the rental we are in 
, and a great opportunity came our way so we’re jumping on it!
A new week already? Monday seems to roll around again pretty fast these days! I didn’t get much of my list accomplished last week. I finished the majority of the laundry and packed up some of the books in my daughters room rather than switching around bookshelves, but that’s about all I got to. I got to see some family that I hadn’t seen in a few years, played catch up and introduced them to a couple of my kids they had never seen before.
~That was a bit of rambling but that’s what is going on in my life right now. ~
I found a new recipe I’m going to try for dinner tonight. I’m going to use these to make BBQ Chicken sandwiches…we’ll see how it goes!
Since the weather has been so nice and cooperative we decided to visit the zoo twice last week! It was lots of fun. Here are a few photos of the first outing:
Here’s the group posing with the shark jaws (don’t they look scary?)
And here is how Josiah spent most of the day, apparently the animals were just too boring for him. 
Also per request here is a picture of my continually expanding belly, 30 weeks now!!
Not the greatest shot but the flash kept doing weird things *sigh*
I was going to try to end this with a cartoon lady with a huge pregnant belly, (you know to make myself feel better) but all kinds of scary images came up with that Google search YIKES!! I guess I’ll just have to post something tomorrow to get this photo down on the blog a little 
rains, 
Since I’ve lived here the majority of my life I tell myself I’m used to it and actually like it a bit. However, there are a few days when the sun decides to poke out and I’m reminded of just how much sunshine can uplift a mood. It has still been fairly cold out but we’ve had sunshine
for a whole week now. Looking out my window and seeing everything so bright just makes me energized. Combine that with a bit of nesting hormones and I’ve gotten quite a bit accomplished. I’ve rearranged a couple of rooms, cleaned out kitchen cabinets and cleaned out my refrigerator. Now if I could get the kids to stop making messes the house would actually look clean 
! All that to say, it’s been a pretty good week and I’m hoping all this sun means Spring is coming and we’ll be getting more. I think making that list last week actually helped too. I finished all of those things and it seems like crossing each one off led to finishing additional tasks too. I constantly feel like I’m behind in my household duties so maybe list making will help me to stay on top of a few things better. Like deeper cleaning…more than just laundry and dishes.
So this week I’m hoping to:
clean/scrub bathtub
see the bottom of the laundry pile
make up a menu-meal plan for the next two weeks
sweep/mop bathroom floor
assemble and switch bookshelves in daughters room
I’ll probably be adding more to this list as I come up with things, but that’s a start anyway!
Oh, and I came across this cartoon and thought it was funny.
(Inspired by you Emily)
duckygirl