{confessions...}

I have started this post about 10 times & haven't published it yet..... I'm not sure why? Maybe because as a mom & don't want my little ones to think ill of me or perhaps {gasp} I don't want you to? Either way I want to confess that although most things turn out "pretty" and "under budget" on here, sometimes... they don't! I love to read blogs & when I see these amazingly talented women who just happen to be clever & beautiful, with out of a magazine houses, who just happen to be writing a book about Jesus..... I start to feel a little intimidated. "Comparison is the Thief of Joy"- so true! I am NOT perfect & I think that sometimes my life gets a bit of an airbrushed impression on here. We strive for perfection around here... but we certainly do NOT expect it. My children do get spanked {much more than I write about...}. Although I do not yell... I do pout. My marriage is great but again not perfect. We work at it daily & that's why it is as good as it is. God is a priority around here & He deserves any glory if you see any good in any of us. And with that being said- I haven't cracked open my bible in days. I can get my priorities completely out of kilter & thankfully I am humbled {like this morning}. I do love to cook, sew, & decorate- Joey has said before "that even if we lived in a tee pee- I would make curtains for it" & I would! I love to make things pretty- it's just how I was created. However sometimes {more that I'd like to admit} my hair brained ideas DON'T work out. I hope this paints a better picture of the girl behind this blog... but if you need some more proof....I fed my kiddos pop tarts this morning- and I ate 2 myself! {NOT homemade granola or anything remotely healthy}.....

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Here is my cracked ceiling {that has been cracked oh since Christmas}. How did it get cracked you might ask? Well I tried to make some more space in the attic by putting boxes on the beams.... and stepped through of course!!!!

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Here is my pitiful little house plant- I can't grow anything inside!!!! I think they whisper to each other @ the nursery "Oh NO she's back. Quick look sick... here she comes"!

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And... I have promised my little guy that I would play with him ALL morning only to be reading my e-mails & realized that his open house was this morning! Can you say MOM OF THE YEAR? We threw off our pj's & I wiped off his pop tart with a dried up wipe in the car on the way... The list could go on & on. Tomorrow he starts 4yr preschool. I am sad... He is thankfully now looking forward to it- thanks to his daddy. Joey ordered him this lunch box {but don't be fooled by the name- it's only for his snack. He will be dining @ home for lunch with me!}. It came complete with Star Fighter & Millennium Falcon sandwich cutters.... I'll let y'all know how it goes.... Oh ya- put crying on the fault list too- I cry A LOT!!!!!!!!!!

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p.s. A-man this morning..... I think he'll be fine tomorrow, but I could use a few prayers!