Free Friday & Storytime Saturday

I guess if you wanted to be funny it COULD be Forgetful friday since i was soooo busy yesterday I didn't get a chance to write in my blog. I promise I'll try my best to upkeep the blog as much as I can

Free Friday is basically where I'm free to write about whatever I want. Anything. No real structure.

So for this Friday I'm going to discuss something I've learned this past week. It's definitely something i've been taught/told my whole life but it was one of those "i had to be ready to understand it" type things.

I love my kids. I love my husband. I also love all my friends and family (not immediate family...but them too haha hence the first 2 sentences). However, at the end of the day I go to bed with my husband after I lay my kids down to sleep. That needs to be my priority. 100% of the time. I like to be there for others. I like to be a shoulder to cry on, an ear to listen, a person to make them laugh, a loyal friend in tough times, etc. but at the end of the day my focus should be my family and myself. (aside from God, He's always #1)

I have found too often in life I'm constantly giving and giving trying to be a great person to everyone around me and far too often then not I get dropped on my butt because I'm being taken advantage of, i'm not appreciated, or other typical reasons in this situation. This past week it became loud and clear to me that I need to focus on myself and my family. If I don't think something's the best idea for myself or my kids I've got to learn to stand up and say "i'm sorry, but no." That's so hard for me to do. (unless it's like dangerous/life threatening, i mean come on people i do have common sense sheesh!) But really I can't tell you HOW MANY TIMES my husband has said these very words to me and finally after 3+ years it sank in. I guess you could say i had an "ah-ha" moment.

Proverbs 11:29
He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.



Storytime Saturday is a day where I'll share a story from the previous week. I have SO many stories from this week so I'll try and pick just one or two.

First, my daughter is almost 7 months old. The girl is the smiliest little baby I've ever seen. She loves to watch all the toddlers play but she is so stinking funny because she REFUSES to sit up. We will "practice" sitting up and she'll just put her head between her legs and laugh. She'd rather lay down then actually sit up. I had a friend come over and she was practicing with her and couldn't stop laughing at how squirmy she got determined to be able to lay down instead of having to "work" to sit up. Haha. I have a feeling though it won't be this way for too much longer. She seems so anxious to play with the toddlers that once she's mobile I have a feeling it will be the constant "waaaaaaahhhh" (insert "uh oh i stepped on sissy" look on my son's face) haha oh man the joys of parenting it's NEVER a dull moment.

Speaking of my son, whew where to start. His isn't so much funny I suppose but it's a story nonetheless. Friday my husband had off of work so we took our son to school as usual and ran some errands with our daughter. We picked up our son around 10 am to go to an Easter Egg Hunt with my husbands unit. Of course our son was *THAT* child who was running around picking up the easter eggs that were "hidden" (they weren't cleared to do that yet we were still waiting on everyone to show up) and CHUNKING them down a HUGE hill that was deemed "no hiding eggs here" for safety reasons. *sigh* Later that afternoon we took him back to school strictly because they had a Party Animal party scheduled for that afternoon. That was seriously the coolest thing ever. Adults were dressed like a kangaroo, lion, fox, etc. they had people on stilts and the two guys leading the "show" were hilarious. Coincidence, one of the guy's names was Tommy. Well Tommy happened to be the funny one always getting into "trouble" during the act so people kept yelling "No Tommy" or "Oh Tommy" and T kept thinking they were talking about him. At one point Tommy was hiding (the guy from the show) and the other man said "Where's Tommy?" and T's whole class pointed to T and goes "right here" hahaha I love toddlers. They're so smart but still learning so much. Anyways, our son definitely got wise and realized all the kids were watching the show and that meant all the "cool toys" were free so he made his own agenda and took full advantage haha.

I hope y'all all have a wonderful weekend. Hopefully I can write Sunday's blog tomorrow. I'll try my hardest but then again it's duty recovery day, haircut day and much more so who knows!!