This + That....Friday.

I'm down 10 pounds from my heaviest weight last year!
Six pounds came in the last three weeks. Those little saddle bags are shrinking. Yippee.

Last night I went to bed early so I wouldn't eat every piece of sugar in our house.
I was grouchy. That combined with my sugar craving made me tell Dave we are on Day 1 of 3 of my PMSing. I'm trying to be more rational {or stay quiet} during those days to be fair to my family.

I can't take anymore rain. Monday I wanted to quit everything...FVL, blogging, creating. Then I realized I was just tired and these grey skies aren't helping any. I live in California because I crave sunshine. It's suppose to be 70 by next Thursday. There is hope.

Our weekend is wide open, except for a baseball game for Blake on Saturday morning. I'm pretty sure it is going to be cancelled because of rain. I'll be working on filling my shop with more new items. Specifically those magnetic chalkboard/recipe holders. They might go fast. If you want one, you might want to check back often. I'll update twitter when they are posted.
{psst....today is the last day to use LOVELY for 10% off}

Today is the first day of Spring Break for us. I told my children that they are going to learn how to work during Spring Break. They balked loudly and told me that they already knew how to work. I told them 'I'll believe it when I see it...starting with their bedrooms!'

We will be catching up today on laundry. {Which really means 'my children'...another lesson in working! Except that I will state right here that Kaia is an amazing folder.} For the first time in our 16 years of marriage, we have been pulling clean clothes from a pile in a laundry basket. I have never done that. We usually fold straight from the dryer to not get backed up and to keep our clothes from being wrinkly.

If there is any fighting this next week during Spring Break over the TV, I will just turn it off. They can either go play in the rain or WORK. And, there will be no warning, which means there will be more balking loudly.

We have made the big transition from diapers to pull-ups full-time. They are working and Blake has finally agreed that they are more comfortable. He is feeling more like a big boy too and taking a little more responsibility for starting his cathing on his own. So now instead of heading to the bathroom every 3-4 hours, I'm heading to the bathroom every 3.2 - 4.2 hours. It's so nice for him to get started and then yell for us to come in and help him finish up. I've complained of buying diapers for 8 long years only to now complain that I'm getting less pull-ups for more money! Whatever.....it's for the cutest little boy ever.

I wrote an email to a friend that is going through some challenges and came up with this....'It seems that we rise to the occasion with whatever challenges God gives us. Then changed it to 'whatever challenges God TRUSTS us with!' I believe that God knows what our challenges need to be for our own personal growth. To say I welcome them would be lying, but instead I say I accept them and try to make the best of them . Because....He does TRUST us!

And that my friends is a little of this and a little of that!
Happy Friday!