Our Living Room Makeover

After over 3 years of living in our house, I can say that I am actually pleased about the appearance of our living room. It is such a weird shape, a rectangle makes it hard to postion the furniture in a homey, comforting way. I think we have finally nailed it though. By ripping up the carpet and installing Pergo flooring, we rid ourselves of the dirty, gross, stained, carpet once an for all. We turned our sectional around and split the room in half. Behind the couch we put a sofa table and I purchased a really nice little corner desk for my laptop and bill paying station. Add in a new lamp, a big throw rug and TA-DA! Overall we spent just about $1,000 for the upgrades and I feel like we got way more out of it then the money spent. There is nothing worse then coming home to a house you don't love. Now, I am feeling like this is turning into our home and not just a house to live in.

My Sweet Ansley

I just had to devote a little space here in cyber world to dote over my little Ansley. She is just such a sweet child. Her newest favorite thing to say is "Good Norning Mommy!" I love it when she says it, she makes my whole day!

The flylady way

Of all the things I wish I could accomplish, the thing that tops my priority list would have to be total home organization. I have about a million things that I want to despatetly want to accomplish throughout the day, and yet I feel like I am constantly trying to play catch up. I know that if I could just really get into a routine (after all, with 4 kids I really should have one) and stick to it so that I have more time. That is my overall goal, more time. Time to play with the kids, catch up on babybooks and scrapbooking, maybe read a book, to a fun craft with the kids. But I am always doing some menial task that takes me away from what I really want to be doing.

I know that there are people out there that says that the cleaning can wait, my kids are only little for so long. And that's fine, if you want to live in CHAOS... persoanlly I do not. But breaking the habit, and learning how to FLY can be hard. Especially with the 3 little ones wanting nothing more then attention from Mommy. I keep telling myself that it is going to get easier, and then things will fall into place but that point seems so far off.

I would love to hear how real moms balance everything...

I try to learn something new everyday, try to embrace a new habit, but old habits die hard and it takes work... lots of work.

Mommy Blogging

I am just so amazed at the wealth of knowledge I can discover just by reading "mommy bogs". It is so nice to be able to google just about anything you have a question about, and know that someone out there in cyberworld can answer for you in seconds! It is so comforting to know that we are not alone her in mommy world. And while real world advise is always nice, sometimes you don't want to just lay all your problems or issues out there for everyone to know about.

One of my absolute favorites is www.moneysavingmom.com, the name of the page pretty much sums up what it is all about but I cannot recommend it enough. I tell every mom I meet about it!

I joined SWAGBUCKS

I just signed up for swagbucks, I am not sure if I will actaully get anything out of it but its worth a shot right!

Alyssa actually let me take a picture of her. Doesn't she look cute?

Can you even beleive how beautiful this little girl is? Even when she is crying, and sad those big blue eyes are amazing. She is such a sweet little girl, I think she is destined for a life of caring and compassion. But don't get me wrong, she can hold her own when it comes to fending off her big sister Ava, but, she has such a loving heart. Each one of my children has a unique personality, but I beleive Ansley has what is called an old soul. I am blessed to have her in my life, and I thank God everyday for the oppotunity to be her Mom.