keeping it real

All my Little's are sleeping on this freezing rainy day, and i should be too. Here is a glimpse of the not so perfect...So have you tried and failed well I had 2 of those moments recently. I made some oatmeal cranberry bars and instead of putting a cup of butter (which is 2 sticks by the way) in case you did not know because i did not pay attention in the midst of chaos and put only one stick. Wondering what in the world happened. However, they still tasted good just did not stick together all that well. So in my next attempt it should be perfection.

The second attempt to try something outside of the kitchen, I decided to cover my daughters lamp shade in fabric flowers which i thought would be adorable turned out i do not like it and not sure if i will start over and if i can even save the poor shade i hot glued? (oops) not to mention i spent a lot of time making a ton of flowers oh well trial and error...we shall see if i get a second opinion before i take it apart or trash it. I may show a pic of it on a later post. I do not have one yet to show.

Just trying to keep it real cause sometimes we can paint a picture of a perfect life and that is not always the case we do make mistakes and have errors...not everything we put our hands to turn out just right, we cant always be perfect right....so i have to remind myself...let your hair down a little relax, laugh, and breathe!!!!

yes i am tired!

It can be challenging to keep your cool in the midst of chaos and remain in a soft calm voice when every time you turn around you have a little one putting something in there mouth or pulling things off the shelf. Or your son who loves to throw things (balls, pillows, toys,) just to see how far they will go. Running around the house with his bow screaming to the top of his lungs "for Narnia!!!!!!!!!!!!!" And your oldest in fairy tale land all day and having to get her to snap into reality just so i can get something across to her that this is important...while trying to clean, do laundry, cook whatever it may be and i say what in the world am i doing? Motherhood is wonderful but you have your days!

Even when you give them everything you got...and they still complain its not good enough when you just spent hours on the floor playing or colored 5 pictures and you have to get up to get some stuff done/cook dinner etc. and their little hearts are not content so you have to pull it together and give a positive (gentle) response! When you just want to say are you kidding me! We have all had our days/moments! Oh how they bring out the best in you! Its what i refer to as unconditional love...and Oh how I Love them!!!!

So thankful for the moments of fun and laughter because they help you forget about the bad moments, liking losing your cool, or throwing out a bad response in anger, cause your on over load. I Thank God that his mercies are new everyday, and that he is still patient with me as i am learning this thing called mothering!

Thanks for letting me keep it real!