Friday

This week Frugal Friday is something I have been thinking about for a while. I love childrens clothing consignment stores. I love to shop at thrift shops. I love yard sales. But you know what? I also love Gap and childrens place just as much. We recently moved I know you know, it is all I talk about and we live in the middle of no where well kinda, wal mart is 15 minutes away, a mall is 25 and target is even father. There is a Dollar General about 2 minutes from my house so I find myself there all the time. One day I saw a little girls outfit and thought I would try it. So I put it on Grace and fell in love. I have gone back and bought her 5 more Dollar General outfits and we love them. I also have started making the girls skirts. Last week I made Faith and Hope a skirt and Grace a pillowcase dress. If you include the shirts I found on sale for $3.50 each I still did not spend $20 for 3 new church outfits for the girls.

This is going to be a fun neat way to meet other military families. I thought I would tell you a little about our military lives. When we got married my hero was in the reserves. I had a good job and he had a good job but neither of us had insurance and I wanted babies. We decided to go active. I remember those first years. We went from two income to one. We moved to Ky and quickly found out we were pragnant with our first child. ooh how I remember how we lived pay check to pay check. We were stationed at Fort Campbell and then 8 weeks after my son was born we moved to Germany. I loved Germany. Then back to Campbell. Then to Redstone Al for 5.5 years and then we moved to Fort Bragg Nc and have been here for 2 months. My husband has deployed to Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq and is currently in Iraq. He is a Warrant Officer in the ammunition field.

Thursday 5

Just post 5 things that have made you..


Happy


Giddy


Grateful


Joyful


Gleelful


or all of the above..


What makes me happy this week?
1. I am grateful my husband made it to the sand pit safely
2. I am joyful that he has been able to talk to me on line and on the phone, even through a sand storm and bad connection
3. I am experiencing GLEE at the site of our new kittens, I did not think I would make it through her being pragnant
4. The site of these kittens makes me giddy, and I hope to be able to touch them
5. I am thankful for my friends who has been there over the last week as my husband deployed and I whimpered and whined about it

Thankful Thursday

Through all my crying and whinning we did it, well she did it. We have babies. Four of them. They seem to be healthy. These pictres were taken this morning. It does not look like there eyes are open yet. Mommy cat is doing great but she is in attack mode towards our little dog and it is making for lots of drama in the house.

A typical homeschool day

We do not always do school at the kitchen table. Actually Michael does most of his in his room. But on this day the kids had been playing in the snow before shool and were cold. A typical day starts out with chores and then breakfast and then school, lunch. After lunch Grace takes a nap in my room while Hope either takes a bath (she lives for 3 hour bathes) or plays in her room. Honest my kids could be done with school by 1pm easy but sadly that just does not happen. We try to stop whatever we are doing when dad says he is on his way home and straighten up and make dinner. After dinner someone unloads and someone loads the dishwasher. Hopefully we are done with school by then and can have a quiet evening