Red Paint

This is VERY random, but it completely defines my life at the present time.....

Today I finally removed the chipped away red polish from my toes ;) I have been staring at them for weeks days. It's as if the chipping of the polish, signified the chipping away of my outward appearance. The appearance that I promised to keep after having a baby or....three. I vowed never to wear spit-up on my clothes outside of the house, never to wear maternity clothes- just because they are comfortable, and NEVER go more than a day without showering. Ha!

When did I find the time to remove the hideous nail polish?....while my kids were taking a bath! They were contained and you gotta do, whatcha gotta do...I didn't even care that I did NOT have time to paint my toes a new, pretty color to distract the world from my puke stained clothes and dirty-hair ponytail ;) You will just have to deal with my naked toes until bath time tomorrow.

Moving on.

If you didn't know...I love Pinterest.....and my kids love it too! ;)

They love that I can whip up a new craft without having to wait around for my brain to kick in and actually come up with one on my own!

In the spirit of the new season, we made handprint trees with orange, yellow and my favorite...RED paint!

Here is some of the fun we had creating our Fall Tree...

No that is not an Oompa-loompa in my kitchen.

Riley preferred to paint herself...and then eat the paint!

She eats everything! (paint=non-toxic)

Brother had to join in.

I framed the pic in a poster frame I already had from IKEA and just mounted the paper to a sheet of burlap I cut to fit inside the frame. Super simple, so fun, and FREE!

For the love of Pinterest.

Thanks to Pinterest, I have new (quick and easy) menu ideas, time/inspiration to craft, and ideas out the wahzoo! Yeh that's right....wahzoo!

My husband will appreciate that sooner rather than later, I will be tossing all of my magazine pages-the ones that I effortlessly ripped from the binding, only to pile them away in stacks around my house, never to be thought of again. Using Pinterest is not only saving me time by teaching me new things....its keeping my pack rat tendencies to a minimum....or so I hope!

Here's what my new relationship has blossomed into.....

*Good Eats

Santa Fe Chicken in the Crockpot

Crockpot Baked Potato Soup

Spinach and Chicken Stuffed Shells

Crockpot Fudge Cake (notice I like the Crockpot?! who doesn't?)

*Gettin my craft on....

Burlap wreath (fun Girls Night In!)

flowers/headbands for my girls

(this will save me some moola, because we all know-I LOVE BOWS)

....and I found this little Avett Brothers diddy on Etsy,

soon to hang in our home ;)

Did I mention I love Pinterest?!

I promise it's not that bad!

Won't you join me?

check out my boards.

Today is brought to you by the letter 'F'

For the love of all things Friday, Fun and Fall! Have a good weekend Folks!

Rainy days

Family Rules

We have officially entered the parenting phase.....no longer are we "just" changing diapers, tickling tummies, wiping boogies, giving baths, and making bottles .....we are disciplining! We knew this day would come....so why didn't we make rules then? It's not like this was any surprise that our kids would one day tell us "NO!" or smack each other upside the head. But here we are adding to our family rules one day at a time.

I like to think of our rules as expectations not limitations. For example: we expect our children to be kind, and loving because thats how Christ calls us to live. We can giggle until we are blue in the face....but if the reason your sister is blue in the face is because you are sitting on her head and won't get off....or because you wrote all over her face with a blue marker.....something should be done to stop this!

I love this sign from Barn Owl Primitives (side note: I want everything in their Etsy shop for Christmas!) and have entered a contest to win our family rules sign via Little Miss Momma, so excited!

I want my kids to know how much they were loved based on how we teach them and grow them up in the Lord. We have learned that living this way brings so much more peace and joy into our home and our daily lives. And who doesn't enjoy a peaceful two year old?!

What are some of your family rules?!