The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Mother

WORK!  Yes, I totally and completely feel like this thing called work is an interruption in my real life.  Don't get me wrong...I love being a teacher, I really do.  But I love being home and being a mom to my 4 wonderful kids.  I miss being a stay at home mom so much.  I realized how blessed I was to have the opportunity to stay home for the 7 years I did...but honestly, it's my life long aspiration.  I can totally utilize my M. Ed. at home...I promise it won't go to waste.  I'll educate my own children, I'll write books....ya'll know I aspire to be an author ;).  I'll craft and sew and cook and decorate and blog and write a parenting book and write children's book series.  I won't have idle hands or an idle mind.  My life will be full... I know this because I am simply amazed at what was accomplished in this one week break.  It seemed, longer and more fulfilling than a work week, which goes by in a blur. This week I... ~Finished painting my ki

{this moment}  A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by:    http://www.soulemama.com/

The shoe problem at the back door has been driving me crazy since the moment we moved into this house. Having a detached garage present a problem I never had to deal with before...no protected storage space. I have been using a plastic oval bin and one square fabric bin, for quite awhile to rangle up the shoes. We use our back door as our main entry, so it was vital to have some sort of area for shoes. However, since it is part of the kitchen/ breakfast area it needed to be functional and somewhat attractive. Today I finally found my solution...a toy bin from Target. Works perfectly...size, shape, design...like it was meant for the area!!! I knew if I kept looking I would find my solution. Funny how happy the little things can make you! Published with Blogger-droid v1.4.9

Oh where, oh where can it be???? No excuses...none at all.  Except life.  It got in the way of having time to blog.  Oh, don't get me wrong,  I must have had at least a dozen creative ideas to write about, and a minimum of 3 failed attempts at composing a new entry.  But it all just got away from me.  October is a month I look forward to, but have to admit...it's a scary month.  Not because of Halloween...but because of the agenda included for work, home and kids. At work, the month was filled with parent/teacher conferences.  19 students and 3 for my own kids...that's a lot of talk about school!  There were report cards, data entry and the glorious apple, followed by pumpkin  literacy units.  I wasn't getting home till 6:00 every night!  Exhausting. Now for home...there was painting going on....OK painting is STILL going on (especially since I decided I want to repaint the half finished kitchen from yellow to a reddish color).  Add the regular chores of constant