Depends How You Look At It

After some serious video game playing  by the males in the home our love- seat was moved in front of our t.v. it stayed there for about a week. While sitting in this new spot one afternoon I got a totally different view of our yard. I could see blue sky and the beginning of the autumn trees. It was pretty amazing. Its coming up to four years living in the country and on certain days I'm not always sure, its easy to get over whelmed by the amount of "yard" we have, and the price of gas, and the not so friendly town folk and then you see the amazing blue sky and all the trees....gives you perspective. Stop and look around...things change faster than you think.(One minute Morgan Freeman is dead...then he is alive).

I shared my last blog post with a co worker and her response was so unexpected Its taken me awhile to write again. I later looked at it from what might be her point of view, she is a very private person and maybe me sharing my journey made her uncomfortable. We all stand in different places.

Here are my Favorite things from this week:

Exploring Together

Sharing Together ( one mini project done Brodie's art wall)

Spending time together

Celebrating Together ! TWO touchdowns and one convert



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I'm off to make the coffee, and pack a few lunches.....

I have truly enjoyed making my weekly favorites lists, for some reason I just couldn't focus this week to do it, I 'm feeling overwhelmed, but it's not totally clear to me about what. Do you ever feel that something is just weighing you down?
There is apart of me that feels guilty to complain, I know too many people struggling. I guess we are all struggle with different battles, from time to time.

Jay will remind me that I have everything I always wished for with the boys, it's difficult for him to understand what I wanted the most is what stresses me the most. Its not the  boys directly it's the loss of ones own schedule, or freedom. The time it takes to do everything x3, (for the boys and myself)...the lunches, bathing, laundry, the appointments, the sick days, the activities. Added to this my procrastination and the commuting. Who is kidding who if we still lived in the city I would still be running late. I know if I pack the lunches and make the coffee the night before it will make the morning so much smoother, but I don 't. Am I my own worst enemy?

So I asked myself this morning what do I want?, What gives me joy?

• I want to start some of these mini projects I'm always planning to do, but always get left because of the 20 other boring things I need to do first
• I want to finish the 20 boring things instead of starting 75% of them and completing none ( I just said to Jay you can always gage my state of mind with the state the house is in).
• I want to fill the freezer with ready to use meals and baking
• I want to read more
• Pray more
• Play more 

I read today's post from Finding Joy this is what stood out to me "This week is the only August 26-September 1, 2012 that I will ever get to live" how true

kristen heather

Friday Reflections Sticks and Stones

The kids and I have been off for two weeks, it feels much longer, to be honest the boys did go to day care 2 days last week, while I tried to play catch up.... I always end up on a never ending tight rope, trying to balance everything around me. (As a child I had this reoccurring nightmare about being in a circus and I was never able to get all my work done....how weird is that). Maybe procrastination is in my DNA.
Did my mother travel this same road? I don't remember her complaining or constantly misplacing her keys, running back into the house 2-3 times before leaving the end of the driveway.

Earlier this summer I took the boys strawberry picking, I made the mistake of trying to follow my phones GPS and we ended up on a very long ride, we found the farm, picked 1 basket because the berries were tiny. Poor Brodie had a reaction to the plants or something in the air he was sneezing. Korben was wandering around looking for tractors...did I mention the berries were tiny. We made our way back on the tractor to pay for the berries and pick up 2 ice cream cones and went to check out the petting zoo and playground. Then we explored a mini maze made of hay, it was terribly hot and I was done, I was trying to encourage the boys to exit the maze with little success, I asked Brodie to direct his brother out. Korben then began to run and laugh at this new game of chase and I realized this was the whole point to these outings to enjoy, explore and laugh. Thank you Korben for this reflection.

                                          kristen heather

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The goats found something very tasty on Brodie's shirt and kept trying to take a nibble

Korben's little taste of Heaven

Tiny berries

Sticks and Stones and Life Lessons

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Yummy

A few weeks ago I did a mad dash to Super Store for diapers and I was side tracked into the bakery ;)
I found yummy croissants, drizzled with chocolate and powdered sugar yum! I then thought twice when I saw the long check out lines, the self check out was open but how in the world do you purchase a bulk baked good....I debated then approached a staff near by and asked.....hot doughnuts she knew the code, it just made my day....
Then I started to think how hard could it be to make theses. We had frozen croissants at home from Harvest Bakery, so: 

1. I baked some up, let them cool
2. Melted 1/3 cup of chocolate chips    
3. Drizzled chocolate
4. Added some powdered sugar 

           Instant yummy

Friday Favs # 3

I am over the moon with the our new pictures, Candice from Old Country Road Photography took them; a wonderful women with tons of patience...I thought for sure we would only get good ones of Brodie since Korben was very unwilling to sit still for more than a few seconds....but I was wrong take a look

He is so beautiful

The reason I like this one SO much is Brodie really resembles me and in this one I see Jay's eyes and it just melted my heart

My boys

What more can you ask for two children who love each other, find comfort in each other and protect one another, they are both true gifts that I will never stop saying thank you for.

Oh and on a less sappy note......Brodie asked me the other day if I have a sense of humour...(which if you know me, you can only imagine how guilty I felt hearing that)....then I realized he is 8 and this one is kind of funny

Korben was so done...and that  is ok because he is 2

   kristen heather

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Friday Favorite.....on Saturday

Well I might be a day late but I am happy to see the weekend 
Here is my list of favorite things for this week:
We have a house guest, Lizzy , a leopard gecko, Brodie is caring for her over the summer. A big thank you to our friends Wendy and Owen for trusting us, we are all enjoying her

Brodie said it was so nice to have something of your own to care for, he melts my heart

One of my "wants" is to set up the deck as an outside escape...its not there yet but I do love sitting in this chair to read or just close my eyes 

I set up a budget

Vaz-Oxlade method...our jars are electronic



My Mom and I use to share an over sized cozy sweater, that just felt like a hug when you put it on, my Mom labeled it the "sick sweater" she gave it to me at some point after moving out.....it has seen its last days but its funny... I now have this grey over sized sweater which Korben loves to use as a blanket, 

and if I am wearing it he will crawl up on my lap and crawl inside.

Friday Favorite Things at finding joy

kristen heather's friday favorites # 1

Through exploring the blog world I have noticed different versions of gratitude lists, I wanted to try and create a link to the blog at finding joy I have never created a link so I hope I can figure it out. If not google the blog, it's worth the effort.

Here is my list of Friday favs:

My two year old sharing nature, even when Mr.Naughty is sneaking a treat he always takes an extra for his big brother.

My 8 years olds love of nature

Coffee (need I say more)

Process art! Korben made this beautiful rock at day care this week

A summer full of days off that = downtime, activity time, mini projects, bucket lists and energy to work on the to do list.....balance, no rushing, no rush hour driving

       kristen heather