Chaos Chronicles

January is winding to a close. One month down, 11 more to go! Here is the week in review.

This month is going by in a blur! I can’t believe it’s almost the end of January already! Here is our week in review!

So far, I’ve managed to keep this thing going for 2 whole weeks. I think once the baby gets here, it will go down the drain quickly Anyway, here is this week in review!

Happy New Year! Here is my first week in review. God Bless!

This year I will be trying once again to post a Photo a Day.  Last year’s 52 Pics was a bust, (as you can see from the lack of post category) but this year has new possibilities (that and I desperately want to make a 2013 photo calendar that looks AWESOME).  It all started when I was making a photo book last month and realized I didn’t have many good quality current photos of my WHOLE family.  I’ve also been dying to do 365 365+1: Project Life scrapbook a la Ali Edwards. Thanks to Ali, I also found this site with ideas for photos: Capture Your 365

This year will be a monumental one to document: Our quadrennial February 29th celebrations, the homebirth and arrival of our newest son in March, birthdays, hopefully a new house, and the beginning of the some of the best years of our lives, to name a few.  Though some would point out that I can’t have 366 days of photos since the world will end this year promptly on December 21, 2012

I do think that 366 posts might be a little too much for me this year, but one post a week, with 7 days worth of photos?  I think I can manage that.  If you want to join me, link your blog/facebook page in the comments below!

I am thankful for warm tea and good books.

I love drinking tea. Chai, white tea, green tea, herbal tea. I am definitely the type of gal who would swoon over a tea of the month subscription lol. I love sitting down for some quiet time with tea; warming my hands with an aromatic cuppa.

I sometimes pair that with my other favorite thing: books. I love picking up blank books that look old and funky with leather covers. I have a hard time writing in them though. I feel like nothing I could put in it would be perfect enough to put in those leather-bound pages. I love reading all kinds of genres but tend to stay mostly in the sci-fi/ fantasy sections. I also read quickly, which is great because then I can read more . If you haven’t guessed I am also the kind of Hal who would love iTunes cards to buy more books to read .

Reading a good book and sipping a great tea takes you off to a place where you experience the story with more feeling, more imagination. It’s a place go escape the day for a little while and have some much needed me time.

I am Thankful that I am able to be a SAHM and for my supportive Husband.

I have such a wonderful husband that supports our family and works hard so that I can stay home to care for our children.  In fact, he is so wonderful that he continues to support our SAHM family, even when I’m not doing a very good job of it.

I love my children and I love that I am available to them whenever they need me.  I know my children so well that I can tell when they are lying, when they are sad through the smiles, when they need help but don’t want to ask for it, or if they just need some mom time.  I am with them so much that I am there to laugh at their jokes, hug them and say I Love You when ever I want, watch their eyes light up when they have discovered something, see my son blush when he mentions a girl a school, hug them when they are scared, and let them know that I am there when they need me.

I love my husband and I love that I can meet him at the door when he comes home from work.  I can drop everything and head over to his work to bring him a lunch he forgot.  I can run errands for him while he is earning money, so that he doesn’t have to scramble to get them done when he gets home in the evening.  He can relax.

Yes, moms who work outside the home can do these things too, just as well, but when your focus is solely on your family and not an outside job, you have more time for them.  You grow more with them.  You experience more with them.  You have more fun with them.. It’s this exact reason I am Thankful for being able to stay home and make my family the priority.

Today I’m Thankful for my God.  Without Him, I do not know where I would be.

I have a younger sister, whom I love.  One thing I’ve always wondered, is how we could be so different from each other.  We grew up in the same house, with the same parents, but we lead totally different lives.  The only answer I can come up with is that I have God in my heart and she doesn’t.   We were made to Love Him.  It’s in every  fiber of our being.  To Love and be Loved by Him.  The thing is, we also have free will. God’s Love isn’t something we HAVE to accept.  He always freely gives it, but we can deny the Love all we want.  That only makes things worse, though.  The space in our hearts that was meant for God to live in, remains nothing but a hole with a Do Not Enter sign nailed across it.  You will feel the loss, and never know why, unless you remove the barriers and let Him in.

God has blessed my life many times over.  I have seen His miracles performed in front of my eyes.  Felt His Love when I felt all was lost.  Having God in my life helps me to be a better person.  He helps me to appreciate life more, and to see everything as a blessing, when some might see it as something else.   He cares for me and my family in ways we never expect.  To feel him move in your life is something you can’t experience any place else.  I am Thankful that I opened my heart to Him and chose to follow Him to where ever He may lead.

Today I am Thankful for my friends.  Those few True Friends whom you can count on anytime, anywhere.  They are usually only a dime a dozen, so I feel very blessed that I have a great group of them.  Especially Amy Owen.

You know when you get that one special friend, because you feel like you are more than friends, you are family.  You can get into a HUGE fight, get everything off your chest, feel better, and still be thick as thieves.  You know they have your back at all times, and would do anything for you just as you would do anything for them.

Those are the friends you want to hold dear and never let go of.  Those are the friends you really miss when they are gone.  While I’m Thankful and Grateful  for all the men and women who have come into my life, those True Friends are the friends I treasure most.