I have yet to make a schedule or to-do list that has been manageable

Part of my problem is that I want to do almost everything. You have a neat idea-count me in. Our church is housing some kids who are coming to a local university to participate in "abortion education." What exactly that will entail this year-I am not sure of. I AM AGAINST ABORTION-lots of people hurting from that business. Those who have had an abortion are not feeling hate from me on here. I just hate abortion. Tears people apart-literally, physically and emotionally. (don't like that -don't read this blog) Since I am so against abortion,I want to do what I can to help-so housing some of these people, feeding them a few meals and sending them off with bag lunches in the mornings did not sound like a big deal. Pffffftttt. Enter real life. Looking around my house, I decided to make a list of things I would like to get done. Well, that list was way to long to play around with. The list that is going on right now is, "What must get done to allow company that I don't know at all walk through my house." You know what I am talking about. The bleach smell in the bathroom that is barely covered up by the new plug in.  Spraying some furniture polish around the house so that it smells like you just dusted (cuz seriously I have pinned like 18 gazillion household cleaning tips and weekly checklists on Pinterest-just none of them acutally dust for me) I want to get the rooms that people will be in spotless.  The other rooms can wait ..........maybe til next  year month. Just want to seem like "really" clean people. HAHAHAHA!! My real hope is that the chicks that are in a tote covered with a baby gate so the dog doesn't get to them, will be out of the living room by next week. The smell of little chicken feces will be hard to cover up even with all the furniture polish and plug ins. I can't just put the little suckers outside yet or they will die in the cold. Anywhoooo. I better get right on the bathroom cleaning, I only have like 5 days left before my company gets here. Toodles:)

Excuse the lack of proper punctuation....

Since starting my blog (all 2 posts), it seemed as though suddenly everyone had a blog-so I decided to jump right off that bandwagon.  Yup, I am just like that. Lately though, I have been wondering if some of the joys and trials that I face, might help another mom along in her crazy journey through life. Soooo...............here is just another blog from a tired mom who has enough dishes in her sink that they really should have their own zip code.
  Tonight, I was DISCOURAGED! Maybe you never hit that spot, but I was feeling it hard core. The house is constantly messy, the kids and Lee constantly want breakfast, lunch and dinner.   (People-my family eats like it is their job.)  The cleanup after all that business never really gets completely done.....and the list goes on and on and on and on and on, and I forgot what I was complaining talking about. No matter how much I try to just stay afloat, because honestly who can get ahead of housework, I just fall farther and farther behind. I do believe all that business of this is a time of making memories. I believe it is likely that my children will not remember if my house was spotless. Though it is a distinct possibility that they will remember that they had to crawl over a mountain of winter clothes that were not yet put into totes-just to get to bed. They may not remember the time you spent gluing those stinkin' macaroni's to the letter C on that piece of colored paper (that you threw away as soon as they went to bed even tho the glue was still wet)-but they will realize that they were important and loved.
 In the middle of all this "I am so sick of this, this, everything attitude," I sat on the couch. I pretty much was ready to throw in the towel (at least until whoever woke up next needed their hiney wiped) I sat down with my computer and was ready to type in crazy mom and see what popped, but something was already there. A book on my kindle about weary moms. WHAP!!! WHAP!!!!  "Wake up, Karissa-I answered even before you asked." This short book on Amazon was written by some other moms who are weary. I read that little book and tears dripped down my face. For real. It was like some other lady out there READ MY HEART AND MIND. The verses of encouragement...oh. my. honey.   Just gave me the strength to keep on going. So I am going to go do some dishes and put the chili away that is the crockpot. (I think that if someone is smart enough to come up with a smartphone, then they should come up with a crockpot that has a "cold" setting, so that I don't have to find a big enough container to fit the extra food, and THEN finding fridge space.......just sayin') Night people:)

Learning the ins and outs.

 Tonight, after I clipped coupons to restock my coupon notebook, I decided to see if I could spruce up my blog page. I did not want to wait forever to decorate my blog. I have been SLOWLY decorating my house over the last 8.5 yrs. I have a VERY hard time finding things for our house that I like and that fit in our budget. I am trying to not just get something that I "like" to fill a space when I could wait just a smidge longer and get something that I "love." This last year is the year I have done the absolute most. I now have a vision for how I want my home to look and most of that vision is based on comfort and practicality. I do want beautiful, which is sooo diffferent to a husband and wife.
 I am also learing, that what is beautiful and a bit rugged looking to me, looks UGLY, to my sister who is about to get married. For example, I want simple plates that will coordinate with whatever decor is on the dining room table. My sister would love to eat off of plates with bird silhouettes. Not for me. Eating off those plates with little bits of food stuck to them will look like a bird .... right on your plate. NOT FOR ME!  ANYWAY, now that I have spruced up my page-off to bed for me.

New to this!

I am not sure where to even start or who will find this helpful. I have been looking like crazy thru a lot of blogs to find different projects that a "normal" girl can do at home. There are so many neat ideas out there to really make a house a home, a cozy place that provides an inviting and peaceful household environment, for my family and all that enter, that is conducive to living simply, loving deeply and laughing abundantly. Lots of these ideas will help my organizational skills as I try to teach good daily habits and ingrain a good work ethic into my children I want to graciously and cheerfully serve my husband and portray even to him Jesus' love.. Above all else I want Jesus to be pleased with all that I do-even in this business of blogging and trying to give others a leg up on things that help me. Part of this came from somewhere else and I am sorry to say I have no idea where. This saying is on my fridge as I try to remember to live this:)