The last of the snow pictures, well - hopefully now that we're in San Diego! This was after the "big" snow!
Heading out to the park on the sled grandpa brought out for us: Cutie pies! I told you the two girls were hard to lug up the hill - WTG Kristy! My eyes were apparently green today: Going for a ride: Lulu, who most of the time could hardly see at all! Abby Jane, in her brother's hat: Our street:
Well, I hadn't really thought I would be making "resolutions" but there have been some changes that have been in the works for awhile now, so what better time, right? And it seems as though the thing to do this year is to pick a "word" for the year. I've thought over this past week and also have tried to figure out how one word would fit with all my resolutions. So the word I've come up with is....(drumroll please)....SCHEDULED. Okay, so kinda boring right? Well, here's why: I was going to pick disciplined because I want to me more disciplined in my reading, and studying and praying. But then I was going to pick consistent because I want to be more consistent with all areas of my life from blogging to playing with my children. And I thought the only way I could incorporate those two ideas was to be scheduled. And lastly, I want to be more scheduled to keep me from idleness (spending countless hours on the internet), to keep me from being lazy (letting the children watch t.v. as I sleep every morning), and to keep me from being overly obsessive about my scrapbooking. Great, now you are all finding out what a terrible person I really am!
a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, esp. with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
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a series of things to be done or of events to occur at or during a particular time or period: He always has a full schedule.
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a timetable.
4.
a written or printed statement of details, often in classified or tabular form, esp. one forming an appendix or explanatory addition to another document.
So what am I doing about it? Well, I don't want to be so scheduled that every moment is planned, because when you have 2 small children, that is just impossible anyways, they will always through a wrench in your plans. But their are some guidelines that I'd like to stick to while here in San Diego:
1. Get up when the kids wake up and do my studying, Bible reading, and praying. Because improvement is not possible without God's help, I have to put this one first. 2. Check my email no more than 3 times per day: once in the morning, during naptime, and after the kids go to bed. This will keep me more focused on my tasks throughout the day if I am not constantly distracted by the computer. 3. Free time for scrapbooking or surfing the internet should be reserved for naptimes and after bedtime unless for a special occasion when Chad takes the kids to give me a break. This will give me more time to spend "with" the children. Yes, I'm home with them everyday but it hardly seems as if I ever actually play or do something with them. Actually, today they "helped" me scrapbook, so that was good, I got to enjoy my hobby and they were having fun doing crafts right next to me.
When I get home I hope to come up with a bit more of a schedule, so I can plan a craft day with the kids and a shopping day and a blogging day and things like that, but I'll worry about that when I get home.
This year's annual get together was a bit early so that my sister could attend while she was in town. It was at my Uncle Tim's log cabin which really is not all that big, but we squished in anyway. Not much too tell here, these photos are pretty self-explanatory. There are no photos of Jamie getting his present from Santa because he was too afraid to even be in the same room with him, despite me telling him that Santa was actually Grandpa. It didn't matter, he didn't like Grandpa in that ugly costume, so he and Chad hid out upstairs and someone delivered his present to him.
And speaking of our Christmas tree, ours is still up, decorated, lights UNPLUGGED, at home while we are in San Diego. I guess I'll be taking it down in February this year!
This is our annual tradition to go find a tree and cut it down. We went to Hubert's again this year, it will be our last. We are constantly annoyed that you can only buy tagged trees. Do you know how many we saw that we would've liked to buy? Owell, we finally came back to our (well, Chad's) first choice which was a pine. I'm not so fond of pines (at least for Christmas trees, that is) but our deal was that if we got a pine this year that we would never have to get a pine again. I think I may have gotten the better deal on that one...
The kids love helping me make cookies. In fact, if I don't want their help, I pretty much have to be alone in the house or they have to be napping, that is how much they adore it. They will drag chairs over to the mixer, they will point at their aprons, and they will beg. How could a mother not resist. And really, what type of mom would I be if I didn't let them lick the beaters either???
misc pictures (from breakfast one morning)
snow
I loved this picture that Chad took of Abby out in the first snow of the year.
The next day after than first snow we attempted to take a walk but it was so bitter cold that Abby and I only made it to the neighbors house! Jamie and Chad walked to the park and back while Abby and I went back inside!
Cutie pies!
I told you the two girls were hard to lug up the hill - WTG Kristy!
My eyes were apparently green today:
Going for a ride:
Lulu, who most of the time could hardly see at all!
Abby Jane, in her brother's hat:
[skej-ool, -oo
l, -oo-uh
The next day after than first snow we attempted to take a walk but it was so bitter cold that Abby and I only made it to the neighbors house! Jamie and Chad walked to the park and back while Abby and I went back inside!
