Day 4,5,6...??

Ha! I have gotten sooo behind in my Days of changing... :-) BUT I have been doing stuff! Like on Day 4, I organized our entire room! Isn't that awesome?! It looked horrible and Ash walked in after work completely amazed! It's amazing what an organized room will do for you and your mood.  I feel like I am able to breath again and relax in our room.  So yay! Today I will be organizing the kid's closets... this will be a big one! I am wanting to organize their toys and put away half the toys.  I rotate toys so it's time for a new rotation!

I have also decided to NOT get on the computer while the kids are awake any more.  It takes away from my time with them.  As it is, I often feel like I am overwhelmed and have WAY too much to do in such LITTLE time.  So I need to take control of that! If I feel so overwhelmed, how is it that I find 10 minutes during breakfast to check FB? I need to take that 10 minutes and talk to my kids or clean the kitchen.  So no more computer while they are awake.  This will be a very hard but very important change! (That was for Day 5)

Then today I have decided to focus more on Jesus and his Birth this Christmas season.  We took Cy to see Santa and while we had a BLAST and we will continue to do that, I started thinking to myself last night: its sooo easy to get excited about Santa because we SEE him, we FEEL him, we HEAR him.  But then when I talk to Cy about Jesus and how Jesus' birthday is in 2 weeks, he doesn't get excited.  I do that to him.  I get him so excited to talk to Santa that when it's time to talk to the ONE person who was sent to this earth to take away my SIN, we can't SEE him, we can't physically FEEL him or HEAR him... it's all faith-based.  And I need to share and teach Cy that FAITH is even more important than the things we CAN see, hear, and feel.  Next year we will be doing the Christmas Angel - I will explain more later.  But I want to get out of Santa World and into Jesus' Birth because that is truly what the Christmas Day is ALL about! Though I will still have a blast with everything else ;-) Just more focus towards the true reason that Christians celebrate Christmas Day!  More to come about how I am getting Cy excited about Jesus' Birthday! :-)

Happy Monday everyone!

To finish out real quick -I feel pressed to say a few things.  Friends hurt us.  Friends stab us.  Some friends forget us, some friends always want want want but never give.  I am hurt at times towards my friends and this year I have learned sooooo much about friendship and the meaning of a true friend.  But while it is so easy to point fingers at those who have hurt me this year, I would love to take this moment to address those that I have hurt this year. If I have ignored you, if I have always taken taken taken without giving, if I have hurt you in any way - I am truly, from the bottom of my heart, so so so so so sorry! Truly! I genuinely want and TRY to be the best friend that I can be and just the thought of me hurting ANYONE just kills me.  So if I have hurt you, please know it is NOT intentional and I hope that you will let me know so I can fix that.  I want to only show love and kindness to my friends. 

Rain drops on Roses & wiskers on kittens...

My friend Whitney took part in a Favorite things party blog - it was so fun reading through the favorite things, that I just HAD to join in!!! Who doesn't like finding amazing products that they never knew existed?! :-) So basically each year we have these White Elephant gifts.  I get soooo stressed picking out mine because I want it to be the best, but it never is (Thanks Michelle for bringing those cute little pig shakers.. made my lotion look like dirt compared to those things). See? I mean, no hard feelings... I just think all of us want our gift to be the best $2 gift EVER ... right? ;-) Well how about having a party where we all bring our favorite thing for each guest?! That's right! Invite 5-6 friends and we all bring our favorite thing for each friend.  We get to all get amazing gifts, it's fun and no one feels like their lotion was overlooked ;-)

SOOO here are my favorite things of this year:

My MOBY WRAP!!!! This thing has been a life-saver these last few months! Ignore my face of exhaustion ;-)

Caramel Brulee Latte From Starbucks!!! This has been so wonderful to me.... :-) Another amazing drink is Panera Hot Tea - the Peach one, that is AMAZING!! And has gotten me through some hard weeks of no sugar :-)

A must have all year long to keep a beautiful glow is Arbonne's Made in the Shade self-tanner! I used this ALL year long and LOVE it! I've used my bottle for over a year and still have some left - love love love!!! It doesn't turn me orange and doesn't streak either - perfect! Especially for those winter months when you become all pasty white ... yeah... this would do you WONDERS for those family photos ;-)

Ok so those are my top 3.  :-) At least the ones that I can think of and absolutely love right now! Would you like to have a Favorite Things party with me? Link up to this fun blog and share your favorite things!!!

By the way, I am totally having a Favorite Things party this December - sounds like a TON of fun and I could totally use some time with friends and a kid-less evening!!! ;-)