Things I am grateful for.
1. A sister who watches my kids
2. A great family to spend time with
3. Handy husband, who finishes our house
4. A path for school
5. Remebering all my blessings.
6. No snow yet
7. Safe travels
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Attitude of Gratitude
It has been really nice seeing all the blogs posting thankful things and on Facebook too. I am glad that we can be grateful for our abundant blessings.
1. Church
2. Health, Jaxon has a case of the croup. I hope he feels better tomorrow.
3. Little Learners. Reagan is doing great in school. She is making up for lost time.
4. Such a great husband. He works hard in school, I am so proud of him.
5. My electric blanket
6. Less stress, my neck thanks me.
7. Cable tv so I can watch my football on Saturday, even if they lose, BOoHOO!
1. Church
2. Health, Jaxon has a case of the croup. I hope he feels better tomorrow.
3. Little Learners. Reagan is doing great in school. She is making up for lost time.
4. Such a great husband. He works hard in school, I am so proud of him.
5. My electric blanket
6. Less stress, my neck thanks me.
7. Cable tv so I can watch my football on Saturday, even if they lose, BOoHOO!
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Being grateful is awesome. You realize how blessed you really are!
Today, I decided since my time is limited I will post 7 things that I am thankful to count for the week.
1. Great parents. Today is my dad's birthday and it is so great to have such great parents who taught you well and are such a great example.
2. Church, it is so rejuvenating and every week I come feeling that I should do be doing better. I need reminders to build faith.
3. Children that love each other and are so happy to play with one another and are so very forgiving for the mothers imperfections.
4. Service, for all the acts of service that I feel each day, from my MIL, husband, kids, who pick up the extra slack I leave around.
5. Warm weather. Enough said!
6. Reagan, we went to Parent Teacher conferences last week. She is learning so much and just eats it all up. In the car, she wants me to tell her a word and then she tells me what it rhymes with, or sounds out words.
7. Jaxon. Even though he tells me he hates me and doesn't want to play with me when I tell him to do his work or he is mad at me, he still wants to snuggle with me and tells me he just loves me.
1. Great parents. Today is my dad's birthday and it is so great to have such great parents who taught you well and are such a great example.
2. Church, it is so rejuvenating and every week I come feeling that I should do be doing better. I need reminders to build faith.
3. Children that love each other and are so happy to play with one another and are so very forgiving for the mothers imperfections.
4. Service, for all the acts of service that I feel each day, from my MIL, husband, kids, who pick up the extra slack I leave around.
5. Warm weather. Enough said!
6. Reagan, we went to Parent Teacher conferences last week. She is learning so much and just eats it all up. In the car, she wants me to tell her a word and then she tells me what it rhymes with, or sounds out words.
7. Jaxon. Even though he tells me he hates me and doesn't want to play with me when I tell him to do his work or he is mad at me, he still wants to snuggle with me and tells me he just loves me.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Day 4
Grateful today for safe travels. I just started a job in Blackfoot. Hopefully my travels will continue to be safe.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Gratitude
Today I am grateful for a good sleep. It's amazing how much better you feel when you sleep good.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Gratitude
I totally forgot about my thankful post until I saw my sister's.
Today:
1. Having a normal good life, crazy but good
2. Having a job that keeps me busy
3. A good husband and two children..
Check Tomorrow, if I don't forget.
Today:
1. Having a normal good life, crazy but good
2. Having a job that keeps me busy
3. A good husband and two children..
Check Tomorrow, if I don't forget.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Life...is great
I have so many blessing which I think I forget regularly. Our life is quite crazy with working, school, Reagan school, managing who is watching our kids and so on and so forth.
A few weeks ago, I had been reading about freezer meals and after reading all sorts of the different ways to do freezer meals, I decided to do it. I spent a Friday night and part of a Saturday morning cooking. I mostly did meats. For example, Friday night, I put a rump roast in the crockpot with diced chilies and italian dressing mix and let it cook all night. I put chicken breasts in two roaster pans, one with mexican seasoning and one plain. The plain I diced to use for chicken salad or enchiladas or stuff like that. The seasoned chicken I shredded for chicken tacos, tortilla soup and so on. Then I grilled a few chicken breast and sliced them for alfredo, nachos or whatever. The next morning I shredded my roast for italian beef sandwiches. With the leftover I made chimichangas. I also put in a pork loin and shredded it to use for pulled pork or cafe rio tacos. I left it unseasoned so it could be versatile. Then I cooked hamburger with green peppers and onions for spaghetti and just as a basic thing. I also cooked a batch a hamburger and added beans and taco seasoning for tacos. Oh yeah, I also froze sliced peaches for smoothies and made twice baked potatoes to reheat. I think I am liking this. I did take about 3-4 hours but it wasn't spent hovering over the stove cause I did the crockpot and stuff. So every night when I get home from work I go to my freezer find what I want and just heat and add stuff to it, add some sides, and you have a great meal. It really has cut down on the what should I make for dinner dilemma. I was pretty good about planning meals but this is a few steps faster when the meat is already cooked. That day I also put a few crockpot freezer meals together. I through all ingredients including raw meat into a gallon size bag and put in freezer. When I am ready I pull it out and put in crockpot and turn it on. Last time I forgot to turn it on until noon. Duh!
Tender Mercies...
Last year we bought a new washer and dryer. The front loading kind and I love them to pieces. A few weeks ago as I was doing my million loads on Saturday, I noticed something was not quite right with my dryer. The timer on it was not going down and when I put my hand in, it was hot but really wet heat. I talked with Brian about it and we decided to call in on Monday to have someone come look at it. So I hung two loads of laundry all over my house to dry. Monday, I called to have a technician come out and they told me to check the vent to make sure it was not obstructed. So as I was heading out to work, Brian said he would check it. I told him if there was an animal in it to take care of it and not tell me. He called me about 10 minutes later and told me it was full of water, hence the wet heat. He said he had talked to Jaxon and Jaxon told him that he had put the hose in the dryer vent (which does not have a vent cover on it and is just at his level) with the water on and filled it right up. A little funny in the morning did not become so funny that night when I checked to see if the dryer worked. Nope, it didn't. I am thinking we are going to have to replace the $700 dryer. Deep breath as you look at your cute little boy. So I sit down with Jaxon, telling him how he is going to have to work (take out garbage...) from now until he goes on a mission to help pay for a new dryer and how that was not a good choice. Tuesday came around still didn't work. Tuesday night when I got home I checked the dryer and IT WORKS! And it still works. The Lord knows every little thing that we need and can I just tell you the faith grew a little that day. So Jaxon is off the hook, at least until the mission part but he still does have to do his work.
Where do boys come up with these things they do? I will never know and may never want to.
With that note, and since Thanksgiving is around the corner, I am going to try to post a quick thing that I am grateful for everyday or once a week I may post a list of 7, You should do the same, we have so many blessings to be thankful for.
Great Things
1. The tender mercies of the Lord
2. a cute little boy that knew he had done wrong and was willing to work
3. A dryer that after if dried out still works.
A few weeks ago, I had been reading about freezer meals and after reading all sorts of the different ways to do freezer meals, I decided to do it. I spent a Friday night and part of a Saturday morning cooking. I mostly did meats. For example, Friday night, I put a rump roast in the crockpot with diced chilies and italian dressing mix and let it cook all night. I put chicken breasts in two roaster pans, one with mexican seasoning and one plain. The plain I diced to use for chicken salad or enchiladas or stuff like that. The seasoned chicken I shredded for chicken tacos, tortilla soup and so on. Then I grilled a few chicken breast and sliced them for alfredo, nachos or whatever. The next morning I shredded my roast for italian beef sandwiches. With the leftover I made chimichangas. I also put in a pork loin and shredded it to use for pulled pork or cafe rio tacos. I left it unseasoned so it could be versatile. Then I cooked hamburger with green peppers and onions for spaghetti and just as a basic thing. I also cooked a batch a hamburger and added beans and taco seasoning for tacos. Oh yeah, I also froze sliced peaches for smoothies and made twice baked potatoes to reheat. I think I am liking this. I did take about 3-4 hours but it wasn't spent hovering over the stove cause I did the crockpot and stuff. So every night when I get home from work I go to my freezer find what I want and just heat and add stuff to it, add some sides, and you have a great meal. It really has cut down on the what should I make for dinner dilemma. I was pretty good about planning meals but this is a few steps faster when the meat is already cooked. That day I also put a few crockpot freezer meals together. I through all ingredients including raw meat into a gallon size bag and put in freezer. When I am ready I pull it out and put in crockpot and turn it on. Last time I forgot to turn it on until noon. Duh!
Tender Mercies...
Last year we bought a new washer and dryer. The front loading kind and I love them to pieces. A few weeks ago as I was doing my million loads on Saturday, I noticed something was not quite right with my dryer. The timer on it was not going down and when I put my hand in, it was hot but really wet heat. I talked with Brian about it and we decided to call in on Monday to have someone come look at it. So I hung two loads of laundry all over my house to dry. Monday, I called to have a technician come out and they told me to check the vent to make sure it was not obstructed. So as I was heading out to work, Brian said he would check it. I told him if there was an animal in it to take care of it and not tell me. He called me about 10 minutes later and told me it was full of water, hence the wet heat. He said he had talked to Jaxon and Jaxon told him that he had put the hose in the dryer vent (which does not have a vent cover on it and is just at his level) with the water on and filled it right up. A little funny in the morning did not become so funny that night when I checked to see if the dryer worked. Nope, it didn't. I am thinking we are going to have to replace the $700 dryer. Deep breath as you look at your cute little boy. So I sit down with Jaxon, telling him how he is going to have to work (take out garbage...) from now until he goes on a mission to help pay for a new dryer and how that was not a good choice. Tuesday came around still didn't work. Tuesday night when I got home I checked the dryer and IT WORKS! And it still works. The Lord knows every little thing that we need and can I just tell you the faith grew a little that day. So Jaxon is off the hook, at least until the mission part but he still does have to do his work.
Where do boys come up with these things they do? I will never know and may never want to.
With that note, and since Thanksgiving is around the corner, I am going to try to post a quick thing that I am grateful for everyday or once a week I may post a list of 7, You should do the same, we have so many blessings to be thankful for.
Great Things
1. The tender mercies of the Lord
2. a cute little boy that knew he had done wrong and was willing to work
3. A dryer that after if dried out still works.
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