Jan 9 ... it's all about Brendan (and a little bit about Landon too)

Pin It Pizza making boys:



I love the expression on his face in this one. I'm sure he wasn't shooting his best buddy or anything like that:

Jan 7 - 8 ... it's all about ME

Pin It New Year's Resolutions in action.

Wii Fit Hula Hooping ... LOL ... you didn't think you would get a pic of me actually hula-hooping, did you? There are things that should just stay inside the immediate family. This is definitely one of them.

I was THRILLED with the total number of spins though! This was in ten minutes. Think I'll be able to work up to 4000?


And, my lunch today, which probably looks a little healthier than it actually was. Let's see ... lettuce, tomatoes, purple onion, green onion, red bell pepper, black beans, corn, avocado, feta cheese ... yum yum!! (Although I have to admit ... part of my delight in this veggie yummy-ness was diminished when SOMEONE made a comment about my HUGE salad. sigh ...)


I can tell, I'm rapidly going to run out of things to take pics of. I mean ... it's 1/8 and I'm taking pics of the TV screen and my lunch?

Through Jan 6

Pin It I had some pics I had forgotten I had taken, so maybe I'm not as much a slacker as I had thought! Here are some from Jan 1 - Jan 6. Please note, I didn't say these would all be GOOD pics!

First we have the HUMONGOUS lazy dog chewing her lovey. That little puppy from a few months ago? Um, she grew. A lot.


Super boy!! Didn't have the lens in from the running pics, so the action shots of him flying out were blurry and bad. Like his cape?


Practicing her tea party skills. She's thinking of having a tea party for her birthday and decided that we must practice first. Note the sundress that belongs to her older sister.


A fresh clean boy in a box.


Working hard or hardly working? Well, she's playing with her camera, and if there are camera classes around here, they would be MINE, not hers!


There's another post below that I did today too. It actually has GOOD pics in it. LOL

Some Cute Pics to Share

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These were taken the day after Christmas, so not technically part of "Project 300-something" but I still wanted to share them. I was playing with one of my new lenses. Brendan was probably 50 feet away from me and I was just holding the camera, no tripod or anything. He's running with all of his three year old speed. These are completely unedited, just shrunk.

Project 365 360 300-something

Pin It I'm not sure if it's that I'm setting terribly low standards for myself, or extending myself grace in advance or what. I want to do the Project 365 thing. It's where you commit to taking at least one photo every day of the year. Here's the thing though. I missed days 1 - 4. And I'm pretty certain I'll miss a few more days during the year. I think Project 300-something is a worthy goal for a slacker such as me. I'm reasonably certain that I won't post aaalllllllllllllll of these pics, but I'll post a fair amount. Maybe I'll even learn to use my camera in the process.

Today's pics are taken ... and still in the camera. Because it's a new year and it takes a whole two seconds of effort to create a new folder, and apparently that's too much for me today. LOL Maybe I'll come back and edit to add them. Or maybe I'll just post a few days at once.

You know the really bad thing about setting low standards for myself? The pics I took today ... are they day 1 or day 5?

Not Me Monday

Pin It Let's jump right in, shall we?



I have not been glaring at this date (1/5) on my calendar for the last week, knowing it meant time for school to start back up. I have not enjoyed the school break so much that I am just dreading getting back. I have not actually tried to come up with a way to take another week off. Who cares if they graduate from high school when friends their age are graduating from college, right?

And speaking of school, I am not WAY too uptight about our homeschool, or our satellite either. I don't have lists all over my desk of plans and times and other stuff dealing with school, and I don't have a note I made to myself back in June about how I was going to relax this year and let the kids learn without mama bear hovering over the top of them, and about how character was more important than academics. To that end, I do not spend way too much time drilling multiplication and division facts, and not nearly enough time working on AWANA stuff and character training. This is actually a serious thing -- I need to come up with a way to balance the two. I don't want to be the roaring lion, get in there and do your work! type mom, nor do I want to be the oh it's okay, you'll learn that when you're ready type mom. I want what's best for my children, even if that's different from what I think is best. It's a tough balance.

Okay, well, I did not just take my light hearted not me list and stick something serious in there. I'd never do that, I'd much rather joke and play around than do anything serious!

I have loads of not me's regarding the dog. I am not currently regretting the decision to keep the dog. As far as dogs go, I like this one best, but in all honesty, that's not saying a whole lot. One night this week, I did not slam the bathroom door in anger because the dog insisted on scratching her nails on the bottom of her crate. I am not the lightest sleeper in the world, so of course it didn't wake me up when she did it 56789745648784 times. And I did not decide that I had had enough and try to think of a way I could toss her off of a bridge. I didn't just give up and put her out for the night ... loudly ... either. I don't really think that if something wakes ME up, I should have every right to wake my husband up. Okay, maybe I do. ;)

Okay ... all that said ... it's now time to start the day. Except I'm the only one awake. It's nice to start the day in quiet, so I'm going to go enjoy it for a few minutes until the little one wakes up to snuggle me.

At War With Myself

Pin It It's January 1st, time for all of the same ole' resolutions to be renewed.

To that end, I am ridding my house of all junk food, sweets, and anything else that approaches yumminess.

My frugalness will not allow me to throw this stuff out though.

ahem.

I think we all know what the solution to this problem is.

Maybe we'll start those resolutions tomorrow. It's not considered actually BREAKING them if it's a holiday, right? RIGHT??

I knew you'd agree with me.

and btw ... I know I still have my Christmas siggy up. Blogger keeps giving me an error message when I go to change it.