Twistable Tuesday

OK, so  it's Tuesday and I just wanted to blog a bit.  Slept late this morning.  Don't know why I'm so  LAZY.  Dalton came home sick from school, so I guess the stomach virus has  struck the Barrett  household.   My first instinct is to run and hide, but I guess as Mama I'm not aloud to do that am I????  I'm  going to get up and scrub the house.  I really need to get into my studies more.   I feel like with all the snow days last week, I still feel I've haven't officially started my new year yet.  I having deja vu of last year, where between bad weather, holidays, and sickness, I don't think  both kids went to  school a full week  until mid to late February.    I just  hate to work on writings while the kids are home;  it takes my time, energy, and attention away from my kids:  They are my main priory.  As much as   I love and want to write, my first job is to be a good wife and mother.   One day they will be all grown  up and won't need their Mama (much) anymore,  then I'll have time  to write and do other things.  No matter what else  I do in my life, nothing will ever compare to being a wife and Mama.   Please God, don't ever lett me forget this!

Rambling Monday

It  was a good weekend.  Dalton spent the night with a friend Friday, so Bobbye Sue and I had a "Girl's Night In."  Saturday Dalton had a basket ball game that afternoon and then we  had a delayed Christmas Party with our  Sunday School class - it was just too hectic to do it during the actually holiday season.  I love out church friends!!!  Yesterday, we had a deacon meeting and lunch at church on Sunday Them I  had my first great fall of 2011.  I fell down 3 steps coming out of the kitchen.  My  shirt got caught in the   railing of the stairs and I twisted and fell, and I fell and kissed the asphalt.  skinned my hand and my knee.  I don't bounce back   like I did when I was young.  Today was good,  Kids were out of school.

Thoughtful Thursday

It's Thursday night of what's been a  long, snowy week.  Tomorrow is the first day they've been to school last Friday.  It almost seams pointless for them to go tomorrow, since Monday is a holiday, but since Rutherford County only has about 11 built in snow days.   Many Tennessee counties have already used  their alloted day can miss and already are staying that they are going to have go on  holidays and/or over  spring break.
      We did have a really good.  The kids were mostly good and did most of their chores.  My sister-in-law is coming in the morning to help me clean.  Even though I'm going to really try to keep my house clean this year; it really helps when she comes every couple of weeks to help me with the heavy cleaning, she hasn't been since before Christmas.


I'm going to start posting what I'm thankful on Thursday; so here goes:

THANKFUL THURSDAY

~ I'm married to my best friend.

~We have 2 wonderful blessing from God.

~We live a nice, WARM house.

~Barrett has a good job that he loves.

~Mr. Barrett is in good health and active at 73.

~We have good families.

~We have an awesome church family.

~We're in good health.

~OUR GOD IS GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

HOME KEEPER'S JOURNAL: TIME IS ON MY SIDE

This week’s Homekeeper’s Journal is about TIME……

In My Winter Kitchen its time to ……….Clean out cabinets.  My sister-in-law gave me a bunch of canned food before Christmas.  I do appreciate it but we just don't use a lot  can stuff.  So I need to go through an organize it.  

My biggest Time-Waster seems to be ……..My first reaction is to say sleep.  I love to sleep,  especially in the winter.  I think I'm part bear and I have a tendency to want to hibernate.  But on second thought I think I get easily distracted and lose my focus.  I really need to ask God  to help me with this.

I do/do not view Time as a gift from God and here is why……Yes, I do.  Although I believe like I really abuse the gift and don't appreciate is nor use it like I should.

When others are slow or dawdle I ………It depends on whether they are truly having a difficult time or if the just goofing off.  I try to be patient, because I want people to have patience with me.  Unfortunately, the two people I have the least  patience with are the two people I need to have the most patience with:  Dalton and Bobbye Sue.    Too often I expect them to live my life my way.   On of my sayings is: "This is my world; you just live here!"  I really need to change the way i think of this.  

One way that I make good use of time in my household is …..Be intentionally!  When I'm truly trying to be a good homemaker and stay on top of things, I use my time more wisely and have more time for my family.

WINTER FAVES

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Today’s Journal is all about Winter and what you do to make your home warm, inviting, comfortable and the things you struggle with in the Winter.

In my Winter Kitchen…As the new year starts, we are trying to eat healthier. So I'm trying to fix warm, hearty meals.

The hardest part about Winter for my household is ….Business and basket ball! Bryan announces high school ball games and is gone 2 night a week plus Saturday morning. It gets even more hectic as tournaments roll around. Dalton just started basket ball practrice on Tuesday night and has his first game this Saturday.

My favorite Winter time meal is….Papa's Cow Tail soup. It's a vegetable soup made with beef. It was my grandfather's recipe. I make it with ground turkey.

I Do/Do Not (choose one) tend to be depressed in the Winter….. I am bi-polar and do suffer from depression and it definitely gets worse in the winter. I tend to sleep a lot. I'm disabled and the cold weather makes my body hurt, which doesn't help the depression.

A favorite Winter time activity my family enjoys is …. Play Wii
To help my home look and feel inviting in the Winter….burning candles, esp Pumpkin Spice.

How I dress to stay warm ……Long sleeve shirts, sweaters. I love my bath robe We keep the house pretty warm, though.

One really important health rule for the Winter time I’d like to share ….Use lotions to prevent dry skin.

2011 Goals

OK, so I though about it for a couple days and theses are the goals I want to work on for 2011:

~Clean the house daily
~keep on touch of laundry
~go to bed early - by 10 PM
~get up early
~clean kitchen nightly - "SHINE YOUR SINK"
~read bible daily - Our Sunday school is going through the bible book by book..  We are currently working on 1 & 2 kings
~ Create prayer journals for my kids
~ pray more
~journal/ blog 2-4x weekly

It's 1-1-11 y'al ~Had a great New Year's Day!

All in all it was a great new year's day.  We stayed up till about 2 ~ nothing for us.  We watched "District 9"  and a documentary on Area 51 last night.  Bobbye Sue had night mares and wound up in our bed, so needless to say I didn't sleep too well.  We didn't get up until almost noon.  We cleaned and organized the whole house!  I'm so doing the Happy Dance right now!  I keep praying that God will make me OCD!  I now that people who don't know me well think I'm a neat freak because I'm always talking me; I'M NOT!!! I just always need to clean.  I still need to clean our room and the laundry room (and wash ALL the clothes and TOWELS the came out  of the kids' rooms
     Granddaddy cooked supper tonight:  the traditional blacked eyed peas cook in ham hock and turnip greens.  It was delicious!  How come stuff always tastes better when I don't cook it???  Anyway things are winding down in the Barrett household.  We created a new chore chart and it's hanging on the fridge.  Kids and Barrett are playing Donky Kong and I'm thinking that a hot bubble sounds really good right now.