Stuffed Animals

A few nights ago, my husband posted this on his facebook account:

Went to check on the boys before going to bed. Noticed Sleepy''s bum had grown to 400% it's normal size. Decided to investigate. Found one Appa, one Home Hardware bear, two Ninja Turtles and 3 sookie blankies in his pants. Makes sense.

And just to put it all in perspective! I took a picture of his PJ pants with just 1 of the teddies the next morning.   It's shocking to think he was fast asleep wearing these "stuffed" pants :-)

30-Before-30 #27 Have Family Photo's Done Professionally

Today, we did our annual family photo's at Wal-Mart

 

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This was actually our best photo session yet,
I guess as the kids get older that's to be expected :-)

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If you have had/have multiple kids I'm sure that you can relate to some photo's being a "tense" time, because for an hour or more, you attempt to get multiple kids to look at the camera, give "normal looking" smiles, and not blink all at the same time.  I know we have had a few very long photo sessions, with kids in tears before ~ and the poor stressed Mom and Dad before us today, had one of those photo sessions :-)  We really ought to be sure to thank photographers lots when we have our pictures done, because I am sure it's stressful for them too have crying kids in and out of their studio all day :-)  

But we had a great photo time!

The kids were so attentive!

The smiled beautifully!

We rarely had to take any retakes!

And the photo's turned out great!

And the best part is, we ended up getting lots of photo's
(2 different poses) and the sitting fee for only $36.00!!!

Happily awaiting the photo's to come in print

Melodiejoy

Coffee for the Memory!

A good friend (Heather) posted this on my facebook wall today:

So I just saw that drinking 1-3 cups of coffee a day helps to retain memory!!! Yours must be amazing!!!;)

I wonder if it's actually true???

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So I checked... it's all over the internet.... Coffee helps with short term memory :-)

• newscientist.com
• webmd.com
• sciencedaily.com

Joyfully improving my memory

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If You Homeschool...

If you are a homeschool Mom, I'm sure that you can relate to this photo :-)

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Loving enjoying the crazy lifestyle of a homeschool family

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Jumbled Thoughts

Have you ever had so many things going through your head, that you have a hard time articulating what you would like to say.  Well if so I’m sure that you understand my dilemma.  I come to my blog often, and sit, and ponder about what I would like to write.  However, with my thoughts all jumbled up in much more pressing things than a blog post; I cannot seem to even think of a topic to write about. 

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Please don’t think I’ve abandoned this pursuit, I’m just caught up in greater works than this right now.  Perhaps I’ll post something soon, perhaps not...I’ll just have to see if I can put something together J  

But in the mean time I haven’t forgotten about this, just postponing it J  

And I do still keep checking in on all your blogs J

Remembering Prayer Changes Things

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Contemplating Laundry

So I was doing laundry today...and was thinking oh my what a massive pile of laundry, it seems like I spend an eternity in here...then I did some quick math and realized why...

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49 shirts, 42 pants, 8 dresses, 130 socks/ect... 16 pieces of PJ’s, 4 swim suits, 20 towels, 10 bedding sheets, 8 pillow cases, and 40+ dishcloths/rags/facecloths/tablecloths/ect PER WEEK  J 

No wonder I feel like I’m always in the laundry room...makes me want to paint the laundry room pink...just because it would make me smile J

Thinking Pink

~ Melodiejoy ~

ps:  I'm going to set up the tree with the kids today :-)

Attempting Blog Giveaways

A few weeks ago I re-entered the blogging world... I had stopped for about a year due to a privacy concern.  But I decided I missed the fun of blogging, and deleted everything from before and started over. 

With this new start, I decided that I would try entering a blog giveaway for the very first time.  I was sceptical about winning... I mean there are a lot more people out there blogging than me, and really what are the chances that I would win anything????  But I decided to enter my first give away...and then I realized that it’s kind of fun entering a giveaway for something that you want!!!  Perhaps I'm just easily amused...but I genuinely found it exciting!!  So I ended up entered 3 different ones...

• Go! Baby Giveaway ~ Hosted by littlebiggirlstudio
• Chip Wade Video and Dremel Giveaway ~ Hosted by myrepurposedlife
• Modern Fabric Studio sponsor welcome and giveaway ~ Hosted by littlebiggirlstudio

 So I checked the first giveaway still sceptical...and of course I didn’t win, but still I smiled, the reality was that a lucky blogger had actually won something, and that is soooo cool!!!!

Last night I checked on another entry that I had tried for, and there was no post about it...because I’m new at this thing...it took me awhile to realize that bloggers often put a new post about the winners, and that it’s not actually on the post about the originally giveaway. lol... I know I’m new at this J

So this morning, after teaching the kids their Bible class, I thought I’d check again for a post about that give away ~ This time, I went to the home page of the blogger, (see I'm learning) and sure enough a post about the winner, with the true random number generator...I read #38 and thought well I’m sure that isn’t me.   You should have seen my reaction when I scrolled down and read “melodiejoy”  she even posted a picture and link to my blog!!!!   How sweet is that!!!  The kids were all looking at me like I lost my mind J  And I skipped...yes literally skipped over to my husband’s office to let him know!!!

Oh my goodness I won a Dremel!!!!

I must blog later and let you all know my plans for this toy ~ oops I mean tool J But for now I must go back to teaching some adorable children!!

Thank-you My Repurposed Life and Dremel!!!!

Love 

~ one excited blogger ~ 
~melodiejoy~

Cooking for 6

Yesterday while at the Grocery Store, a kind gentleman walked up to me, and asked me if I intended on filling both of the super sized shopping carts, that two of my girls and I were pushing J  I smiled and stated that yes indeed I will fill them both.  He was shocked!  We then chatted for awhile about grocery related things... and at one point he commented on how feeding 2 kids must be expensive.  He was shocked again when I stated that those were only half of my kids J  It was then my turn to be shocked when we realized that he and his wife spend the same amount on groceries every 2 weeks that we do! 

Wow, I guess that I never really realized how watching for sales, coupon clipping, and buying “yellow” boxed items made!!!  I mean I knew we were saving money....but feeding 6 for the same as feeding 2 ~ amazing!!!!   Praise the Lord because groceries is still one of our biggest bills each month ~ I should add as well that we have company over for meals at least once a week, so our groceries also covers the cost of feeding another family 2 or 3 times during the 2 week grocery time.

I love saving money!!
~melodiejoy~

A Mothers Ponderings

Why is it that I have to wash my windows every month? 
(Actually I they could be done more often, but I don’t really have the time)

~ Oh yeah ~ it’s those 40 tiny fingers drawing smiley faces (and other doodles) on my windows, and there is also those practically daily times when they are squishing their noses to the glass watching for company to arrive, and then there’s the occasional lip marks ~ ewww ~ yeah so I’m really not sure why those are there ~ did I say ewww~

On our way into our home last night after church I looked up at a window, sighed and stated, “I guess I have to wash the windows again.”  To which one of my daughters (Sneezy) replied “Oh, but Mom the smiley face is so pretty!” ~ I looked at her and said “No, no actually smiley faces on glass are not pretty” ~ It seemed to be a revelation to her, she just had not ever considered that doodling is reserved for paper J

So today, after Homeschool is complete ~ guess what I’m doing ~ That’s right washing windows

~smile~ It may be lots of extra work
~ but those adorable kiddo’s are sooooo worth it!
~melodiejoy~