A collection of our ordinary days, recorded every week.
Around here, I have been:
enjoying having the boys home twice this week.
discovering a rodent problem in the living room. I was nursing the baby on the couch late Wednesday night and heard a weird scratching sound, but I couldn’t figure out what it was. The next morning, I checked behind the couch and sure enough, found the droppings. ICK! Thankfully, we think we caught it right away and the pest control people were able to come out the same day. I think we all had major heebie-jeebies, hah!
finishing The Awakening of Miss Prim. Next book on the list: Gift from the Sea and from the library, I borrowed Yes, Chef to read on my phone during nursing sessions.
reading a handful of great articles online that have given me a lot to think about:
+ Get Organized: Things To Throw Away –> I’m in the middle of that overwhelmed “we have too much stuff!” craziness and ready to give away all the things!
+ My New Hobby? Making Creative Custom Flooring with FLOR Squares! –> I don’t really have a space for these, but I think the creativity aspect is so cool. Maybe another house someday.
+ The candy diet –> This was SO good.
smiling at Sophie as she talks to the sun after dropping the boys off at school. “The sun is following me, mama. I think the sun likes me.” “Oh hello sun. I see you!”
listening to an awesome podcast episode called Cultivating your Mother Culture with Brandy Vencel. I loved it so much and feel like I have already unconsciously been incorporating it in my own life. (Starting my book list a few years ago is proof.) I’m anxious to start reading more classics and maybe some philosophy? I think I’m ready to push my reading boundaries a bit.
thinking about this quote from Charlotte Mason: “If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!”
loving my new boyfriend jeans! I finally used a Stitch Fix gift card from my birthday (thank you A & S!) and these fit perfectly. Feels so good to be in pants that button again. #goodbyematernityjeans
completing the first week of Intensive workouts with the Mutu System. They are essentially low-impact HIIT workouts, one circuit repeated three times, but oh man. I’m so out of shape. The squats! The lunges! I could barely walk up the stairs, haha!
Big White Farmhouse notes:
+ We celebrated our third birthday with a big sale (20% off with the code MAKEAWISH – code works until Sunday night!) and are so excited to see how our business grows in 2017.
+ I finally finished the shelving in the office!
+ This week, I worked on ordering new products. Always so fun, but nerve-wracking! We’ve had spring-like weather lately, so my finds are all veering in that direction: tea towels, scatter garden kits and an awesome product for kids – all coming soon!
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SEE THE GOOD: a happy, positive or funny find
POSTPARTUM PRESSURE TO NOT LOOK LIKE YOU HAD A BABY, JUST AFTER HAVING A BABY
“I felt it after my first baby, when I felt like I had to prove to myself that motherhood was not going to ‘change me’. (hahahaha) I felt it after my second baby, when I felt I had to prove that I could control two boys and still retain my girly self. (hahahhaha) I felt it after my third baby, because clearly I just had my third baby and people expect you to go downhill from there. (hahahaha) But, by my 4th baby, I didn’t feel it. I felt the most secure in my motherhood, my marriage, my life– I felt like I didn’t have anything more to prove with my body. At this point, I made the purposeful decision that postpartum body shaming was not going to influence my thoughts and decisions this time around.”
RELIGIOUS TRUTH TO PONDER: a piece of my faith to think about or put into practice
In Sacred Scripture, the Church constantly finds her nourishment and her strength, for she welcomes it not as a human word, “but as what it really is, the word of God.” “In the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them.” (CCC 104)
THIS WEEK’S MENU:
m: white chicken chili
t: mini shepherd’s pies (used homemade pie crust and fresh mashed potatoes)
w: creamy chicken and asparagus pasta
th: Pepperoni Pizza Rollups & Mozzarella Bites that we tried through BzzAgent #GotItFree
f: chicken fried rice
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