Day who knows

Happy Sabbath -- as it draws to a close.  I am happy to report that I have made my bed every day before noon ;-)  even today, although today wasn't as pretty as the rest of the week.  Even feeling lousy I have perservered and made it a whole week -- Now let's see how next week goes. Although if I keep feeling like this, I may not get out of bed for the whole week!!!  Amazing how something as simple as a little sinus pressure, sore throat and body aches can knock a body out.  Oh well, good news is that with this new plan, you only add one thing a month, so it's not so totally overwhelming - which is a super good thing for me.

Goal - Make Bed - Day5

Okay, it's day five and it's getting harder and harder to remember that the reason I'm doing this is strictly because I want to better myself.  I don't need recognition or appreciation (although it would make it easier) nor should I expect anyone else to be willing to change -- Again  - I'm doing this for MYSELF!!
I think that's the biggest frustration of my life right now - I feel like whatever I do doesn't matter.  No one else is willing to pick up after themselves and the girls look at me like I'm crazy when I expect them to. Or if I do break down and clean up, it just gets messy and looks the same again tomorrow.
Oh well, I'm committed to doing it....just will take lots of prayer and patience.

Make Bed - Day 4

SUCCESS -- and cleaned up bedroom a little more.

Make Bed - Day 3

SUCCESS!!

Make Bed - Day 2

Well, I've survived two days in a row!!  I know, major accomplishment for me.  Yesterday I made the bed and managed to put most of my clothes away, just have to figure out what to do with the clothes that don't belong to me.  Seems like my dresser gets to be the dumping ground for the girls' clothes that don't fit or they don't like. Maybe I'll just toss them in the trash, now there's a NOVEL idea!!

Woke up this morning and made the bed again -- wonders NEVER cease.  I think that's the first time that's happened since I've had daily room check in academy.  LONG time ago.

So far neither husband nor girls have noticed that the bed has been made -- any bets on how long it will take for one of them to either notice or comment??

On another note - Hannah is home from camp.  She loved it, but is totally exhausted, so everything is a major big deal at the moment.  Hopefully a couple of early nights will take care of that pretty quickly.

Blue Dolphin

Just had to share -- I can't post it on FB because it's a special custom order and I don't want to give anything away -- so am putting my newest creation on here.

I love the natural look of the ceramic bead and it just went well with the dolphin.  Add in the blue watch face and I really like this watch!!

The dolphins are put opposite each other, so they are both right side up from either side of the watch face.

Love, love, love this blue watch face.

The dolphin tale actually hung down closer to the beads than I thought it would.

A semi-flat back so that it's more comfortable to wear when writing, typing or working.

The top side, they look upside down, but only because I can't twist my arm weird ways.

Make Bed Goal - Day One

Good Sunday Morning --well, okay, it's actually afternoon, but it's still morning to me!!

After reading the fabulous book yesterday (can I just say again how inspired I was) I decided that I can't ask my girls to do something I can't/won't do.  So today starts the two weeks of my own first month :)  I am going to make my bed and try to get rid of some of the clutter in my bedroom.  We'll see how it goes, I'm thinking this is going to be much much harder for me than it will be for the girls.  Trying to decide if I get my own dollar jar!!

Anyway, I'm off to make my bed, put the clean clothes that are sitting on top of my dresser (don't know why they ever made drawers) away and then spend some time beading.  I have several custom orders that I need to work on - would love to get them out in the mail by Wednesday of this week.  That is, if the beads I've ordered to make some of them come in by Tuesday!

Keep me Accountable!!

Simple Pleasures - Girls, Dogs and Water

Last weekend K was out of town and so the girls and I decided to spend Sabbath with a picnic on the Davidson River.  We drove over there and couldn't find a picnic table so we just pulled off at a wide spot in the road, set up our chairs and made our own picnic spot.

After lunch the girls decided to take the dogs to explore the water.

The dogs didn't like the water as much as the girls, so they quickly ended up in their crate to watch from the sidelines.

The girls, on the other hand, loved the freezing water and competed to see who could stay under in the cold the longest.

One...two....three

GO!!



No contest, Rachel won!!

Once they determined the water was indeed freezing, Rachel decided to warm up on a rock, while still keeping her hands in the water so she could splash Hannah.

Hannah found a rock that was loose and decided to go surfing

All in all we had a wonderful couple of hours all to ourselves with just the sound of a passing car or motorcycle every once in a while.  A great way to relax and remember that we not only loved each other, but actually enjoy each other's company when we let ourselves !!







Accountability

So I am not a writer of any kind, shape or sort, don't pretend to be, don't want to be!!  But a series of events have happened lately, culminating with the sermon today at church and the reading of a neat book this afternoon, that have inspired me to try to become a more God-centered simple woman.  One that raises my children to be God loving, respectful, hard working young ladies. 

In order to do that, or make any sort of change to me, I need to be accountable, so I'm hoping that by journaling my journey you can hold me accountable. 

So there you have it, nothing fancy or grand, just me.  Hopefully you'll find something here that you can appreciate, whether it's my rantings or ravings about the newest bestest thing in my life!

Here's the link to the book --

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