magic to-do list fairy: wanted ... ♥

i've been trying to get to this little blog of mine :)

i have so many things i want to make...

and share with you guys

but y'all ...

(in a Paula Deen voice)

('cause i'm not southern, even in the least bit)

it's summer, and my girls are still little

i want to enjoy them

and i had so many things i wanted to do with them this summer

and July is coming to an end, meaning summer's half over :(

so this is when i start to panic

when i start to pray that God would just, for the next month, give me 32 hours in a day

so between trying to get everything ready to open shop

and regular everyday wife/mama/garage sale summer life

i find myself with only (can you believe) 24 hours in my day (shocking i know)

(not many of which i'm spending sleeping)

i've always been ambitious, always been a go-getter

i get that from my dad...

what i also get from my dad is my serious lack of time management

i mean SERIOUS, as in not there, non-existent

my to-do list yesterday was ridiculous

i think it had 16 things on it

which i knew i couldn't possibly accomplish in one normal human day

but i wrote it down anyway 

the problem is when i get to the end of the day

(and i can maybe cross one or two things off the list)

i beat myself up ... like i'm mentally participating as a contestant on Wipeout 

i knew i was setting myself up for failure when i wrote the list in the morning but i did it anyway, hoping, just hoping that somehow the magic to-do list fairy would come and make that to-do list, not only all crossed off, but then scrap-booked, doodled and matted on some burlap and lace in a pretty frame right near my kitchen sink

on display for me and all to see

no ... 

just me and my faulty time management to-do list problem

just me being human, wife, mommy, friend, sister...and over acheiver

so here i am down on myself 

then the Voice

like a million waterfalls

says I Am Enough

be still and know

tears streaming down my face 

is when my Sweet Savior quietly scoops me up into everlasting arms

and since it's hour 23 and a half and i still have 14 things left on my list

 i surrender

but why do i wait until i get to this point of exasperation?

why don't i just give up the rights to my list first thing in the morning?

that's what God wants from me ... i know it

it's just so hard to let go of control

so that's what i'm trying to work on right now ... that's where i'm at

so thanks y'all (Paula voice) for the listening ear :)

came across this last night on Pinterest

i've read most of Lysa's books, and i'm sure this one won't disappoint

if you have a minute check it out ... she cracks me up

that's totally me in the picture

 i mean really 

who doesn't want to just put their head in an over sized purse 

and scream at the top of their lungs every once and a while??

(i don't officially know if she's screaming at the top of her lungs, but that's what i think she should be doing with her head in an over sized purse ... and this is my blog ... m'kay?)

:):)

i'm working on a few projects that i think you'll like

and a grand opening date & giveaway for Sugar 'n Spice

... so come back soon!

(pretty please with a cherry on top?)

all craftiness aside ... ♥

it's been a whirlwind of activity around here :)

yesterday was the official first day of summer!

and on Friday my little girl graduated from Kindergarten...sniff

i feel sad (and old) 

sad because she's not a "little kid" anymore

she's a big 1st grader...ya know?...once they move on to the number grades

they're not "little kids" anymore...they're now just "kids" :)

and to seal the deal ~ a few weeks ago, she got glasses...

i couldn't stop looking at her, and thinking how fast she was changing before my eyes...

here's a little something for you ... just a reminder

especially since it's summer time :) to enjoy your family, enjoy relationships

cause really, that's the only thing we can take with us when life here is over ♥

click on the image to download ... enjoy ♥

(vintage graphics courtesy of the Graphics Fairy)

(i just love her)

i'm still knee deep in etsy shop production

but i hope to show you a few other things this week...

a peek into my kitchen & a small project!

much loves to you

sweet parties ... ♥

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craft table plans & water ♥

hello wednesday ♥

for those who wanted the craft table plans

i put them on the ♥ make page...up in the navigation tabs

they are simple, handwritten plans :)

we might be crazy, but we're no professional plan makers

(maybe someday i will type them up in an official document)

(but who knows when that would be...)

(and i didn't want to make you wait till -who knows when that would be :)

(plus i'd rather make stuff)

(for my problem with parenthesis...see here)

(and check out my new pics too! while you're there)

got all that? :)
k.

i really do love spring...

even though we have funky weather in upstate NY

pretty aren't they?

well they didn't look like this when they arrived home yesterday 

when Paige pulled them out of her backpack 

(Paige is 9)

girls...lemme tell ya what she brings home...

snails (in baggies) (yes, snails) (yes, in her backpack), wild onions, rocks of any kind, 

nasty-germ infested slime in a container that she's probably traded some very nice toy for...

she never ceases to amaze me with the wonders that survive the bus ride home

the words 

" guess what i have?! "

immediately put me in a -karate chop/aim for the garbage- stance

:)

these little purple pretties came out of the black hole of wonder lookin' like limp noodles

" i picked these for you mommy, in the field at school "

" when did you pick them? "

" at lunch "

it was now going on 3:40

i told her i would put them in water and we'd wait to see what would happen

shame on my doubt...i was positive 3 hours, plus a 30 minute bus ride home 

had done these guys in

i was wrong

so often we miss the lessons from His creation that mirror the daily struggles in our own lives...after all, it's His creation, He made it...there is so much to learn from it

on the days when life's got you beat up feelin' like you've been stuffed in a backpack all day parched & motion sick from a bus ride home...

go to the Water

here's a peek at my kitchen windowsill 

it's one of my favorite places in the house

(maybe cause i spend so much time there doin' dishes)

it's my little "thinking place" 

often home to a couple of 3x5 cards ...with stuff i want to remember or think on

our church has been doing a series on the family

last week pointed out what i already know but so very much needed to hear again 

the needs of a husband & wife and how they are so different

over time things dull...i forget...then God reminds me that i need to remember :)

i found the little ledge/shelf thingy at Goodwill 

i just painted it white, now it's home to anything i don't forget to water

(hubby secretly keeps things alive for me...

he's always asking if i watered something or other)

i'd like to show you my kitchen soon...i think you'll like it :)

much love...