Family Time

New Look for the New Year

So I decided that we needed a new look, new music (you are welcome, to the one who asked me to change my music, I hope Jill Phillips soft voice is better blaring out of your computer speakers), but the same type of stories and writings. Including Not Me! Monday's, I think I am going to start Wordless Wednesday's, I will continue to throw in quite a few articles or videos that have to do with other parts of the world, and as always share from my heart what God is doing in our lives or in others.

Since this is my "new" blog for the new year... I figured I would share a few of our New Years Resolutions with you:

1) Read the Bible together, from cover to cover. We chose to read out of The Message, but we keep a couple different resources next to us to look up some key events. We are close to being right on track.

2) More family time = less t.v. watching

3) We have been going to be earlier = much happier people with more sleep, but sometimes Eli likes to remind us what little sleep is all about. Like last night we were up from 4:30-5:20, but after I got him back to sleep I was wide awake until 6:45. Despite us being sound asleep on the couch the guys were super quiet as they got ready for work, so we could get a few extra zzzz!

4) My goal is to be more organized = using coupons like crazy (hey make fun of me all you want, but I have already saved $70 and only spent about $100), cleaning out closets, junk drawers, bedrooms, etc.



So Enjoy... as the year has already begun!

Not Me! Monday

Here is to the brutally honest mama moments! For more details as how you can join in on all of the fun, or at least read other mama's Not Me! Monday stories, click on MckMama's blog!

Since it has been a few weeks since I have last posted a Not Me! Monday I will try to remember the best stories over the last couple weeks (but that may be difficult, since I cannot remember a dog-on thing during these pregnancy days)!

While at the beach with Chris, Kristen, Mike, & Koren (our friends from Jacksonville that met us in Hilton Head for a few days) Eli most certainly did not get sand in his eyes, which led to a little bath (for both of us) in the bathroom sink (mind you it was a itty bitty trickle of water and he was screaming bloody murder) just off the beach, which lead to me realizing he had poop running down his leg, so i walked all the way back to the car to realize that Chris had the keys, so i walked all the way back to the beach and got them, walked all the way back to the car and realized the wipes fell out sometime during this chaos, so i walked all the way back to the beach and most certainly asked Chris (who didn't have them) where the wipes were in the most loving tone of voice. Oh and I proceed to walk all the way back to the car and finally cleaned up the stinky mess I toted with me on every leg of the trip! This process took a good 20 min... and I was in no way frustrated by the end of it, nope NOT ME!
(pre poop/ sand/ frustration picture!)


I have NOT allowed Eli to help unload the dishwasher... because what if a dish broke! Nope, NOT ME!

I have NOT found my sweet little man climbing on EVERYTHING these days... and definitely not storage boxes higher than my big ol' belly, nope that was NOT in this house!

Eli did not run a million errands the other day with me in only a long sleeved t-shirt while it was a bit chilly, because I am the mom and I make the rules, and I would NOT have given into my son's desperate desire to NOT wear pants! Nope, that was NOT ME at Target, Home Depot, Kroger, Palmetto Citizens, or Barnes & Nobel!


I did NOT take one side off of Eli's crib so that I can very soon take it down and put him in a big boy bed, just so that it is easier for me to put him down. Nope, my belly is not SOO BIG that I cannot lay Eli down gently, of course NOT ME!

The other day while bathing our chocolate lab, Blair, Eli most certainly did NOT desperately want to get into the tub with her and I most certainly did NOT allow him to do so, nope NOT ME! So this next picture is just a figment of your creative imagination! Don't worry I use baby shampoo on our dogs, so no worries about soap in Eli's eyes!