What's in your......

FRIDGE???????

This is one of my most curious spots in the home. I find it very interesting looking in fridges. I don't actually walk around homes opening the refrigerators, but if I could, I would. I am interested in what is in them. What people like to eat--you'd be surprised what some families enjoy as delicacies!
Just to let you know (before I get anymore comments about how utterly anal I am!!) I will let you in on a bit of my "life". My fridge does not always look like this. I had bought groceries a few days before this pic. There are no leftovers yet. (which don't happen often--I prefer to freeze my leftovers for the nights Mike work) I like to grocery shop Sunday nights. My kids usually go to bed early, and I take a few hours to load the fridge and prep the food. And I always clean the fridge before I grocery shop. (This means that I may go a few days without any "food"-not including frozen food!.)
















**If you look closely in the door you will see CHOCOLATE!! A MUST have for my fridge!!

And this is something I do while I am putting the groceries away..I always like to have veggies ready and able...makes them MUCH easier to eat!

Kids can say the darndest things......

Our main bathroom is positioned right between Aliah's room and my room. The kitchen is directly "in front" of these rooms. My dad hates this. Because it is right in the open, and not positioned somewhere discreet in a hallways of some sort. I, however, love it. I am able to bath my children while being in the kitchen or in my bedroom. I can hear all that goes on because I am only a step away.
Tonight, as I was dressing Aliah for bed, I was listening to the older two in the tub. A bit of laughing, and a whole lot of water swishing. I finish dressing the babe, and go back into the bathroom. A bit of water is on the floor.
Hannah pipes up "hey mam, know what Isaiah just did?"
"No honey, I don't. What did he do?" I ask. Kind of off the cuff.
"He just got backwashed" Hannah says smiling from ear to ear.
"Backwashed?" I ask "What was he drinking?"
"Nothing." Hannah says. "He got backwashed!" Telling me again, as though I hadn't heard her the first time.
"Well he must have been drinking something then. Were you drinking the water honey?" I ask him
"No, me wasn't" He states. (He knew he'd get in trouble I"m sure!!)
"You have to drink something and spit it out to be backwashed" I explain "That's what 'backwashed' means"
"OH" Hannah says, a bit confused. "Well he got umm...back..back..."

It is then that I clue in..

"AHHHH...he got BAPTIZED?" I ask
"YEAH!!" they both quip. "THAT!!"

What's in your......

JUNK DRAWER!!!


We all have one--some junkier than others--but we all have one. A drawer where the family has free reign to "throw stuff in"...things that don't have a real home. Most "junk drawers" that I have come across reside in the kitchen, but I have seen them in the garage or the laundry room. Where is yours???

As you see, ours is in the kitchen. There is nothing really crazy in it (shock you??) but there are a bunch of odds and ends. Chapstick, pens, paper, nailclippers, soothers!! , and my ziplocies. One of my biggest peeves is when Mike throws "stuff" (that has another home) (usually guitar related) in it. He always quips "but it is a junk drawer right?" .. Lol... "Yes, but those belong somewhere else!!! --SEE I DO have a problem!!! (Please don't tell him my chapsticks belong in my makeup case! lol-- I use those multiple times a day, so they need to be handy okay????)

It is finished....

THANK YOU JESUS!!!

My God is so funny....

As I sat writing my last post about how quiet my house was, and how peaceful my children were, I was interrupted with this...

A very wet distraught baby...
Voila! Nothing a dry diaper, new jammies & sheets, and a kiss from mama can't fix!!

Attitude of Gratitude..

There are so many things to be thankful for if we just stop and think. Or listen. Or look. Or feel. Or smell...

These are a few of mine, for today...:


** The carpeting for my rec-room is coming tomorrow morning..!!!!!!! I'm thankful I have a recroom, that it's getting finished, and that I can afford the carpet!!

** I can see some of my lawn. It may be brownish yellow. And really mucky. And wet. But it's not snow. I'm so thankful it's not snow. And that SPRING is coming SOON!!!!

** It's quiet. My children are all peacefully sleeping in their own beds. I'm thankful they're sleeping, that they have beds, and they aren't in mine--yet!

** I'm going to the movies with my kids tomorrow. I'm thankful I can budget this, that I get to spend time with my kids, and that it looks to be a good movie! (right Jen??--Horton!)

** My dad is well. I'm thankful I have a dad, and that he is well.

** I can smell burnt popcorn. Well, it stinks, but I'm thankful I can smell.

** Chocolate. Easter chocolate. Lots of it. 'Nough said!