Christmas Craft

24 Nov

If you like my page on facebook, you probably already know that I’ve been Christmas crafting! I become a giddy little school girl at the mention of Christmas and all its possibility. Throw in pinterest and I’m in Heaven. I saw several pins with ideas to repurpose old wine bottles. You know I’ve got lots of those! I found some cutesy stuff, but nothing really inspired me. I had so much fun creating these for Halloween-

that I knew I wanted to paint more wine bottles for the most wonderful time of the year. Because nothing says Christmas like old booze. I’m kidding.

Anywho…

I thought it’d be funny to stuff Santa head first into a chimney:

…so that’s what I did. I’m no artist, but I had fun creating :)

More Christmas cheer to come.

XOXO,

Mrs. K

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Thankfulness

24 Nov

I always treasured the old hymn that says, “Count your many blessings see what God has done.” It’s a practice that should last all the year long, not just on the fourth Thursday every November. God has blessed and enriched my life in so many ways that it would be difficult and lengthy to display in this small space. I’ll list a few, though…

* He gave me an amazing blended family. When my parents divorced, it seemed like the worst thing in my little life. But now, as they have re-married other truly awesome individuals, I recognize how God blessed us even in times of trouble. I consider my additional family members part of my true family, too. I am thankful for my stepmom, Julie, and my stepdad, Joe. Thank you both for making my parents so happy! I’m forever grateful and I love you both.

*God also gave me the most beautiful, wonderful family of my own, too. I’m thankful for J’s parents who raised him to be the man he is today. I’m especially eternally grateful to God for allowing me to raise my angel, Baby K. I love my little family so much; my heart overflows.

*He provides, too doesn’t He? I’m thankful for the promise evidenced in Matthew 6:31-32:

“Therefore, do not worry saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’…For your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.”

I’m thankful for Him providing my husband a job that allows us to have food on the table every night, a roof over our heads, and clothes on our backs. I’m thankful and proud that his job is with the Army, too because there are many opportunities for me to miss him and have him return to me-That way, I can fall a little more in love with him each time.

*I’m thankful to be born in the greatest country in the world where I am free to practice my faith in God the Father Almighty.

*I’m also thankful for cookie dough. Mention of this will open a whole other can of worms, though so I’ll just stop right there ;)

*Thank you, dear readers, for sharing in my life with me!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

23 Nov

I know what you’re thinking- slow down, Mrs. K…tomorrow is Thanksgiving, not Christmas! But we’re a military family (and a broke one at that!) and we can’t afford to go home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Furthermore, we leave our home to head to our real home in Tennessee so early in December that there’s not much time to enjoy all the festive decor. Besides, last Thanksgiving we were on a boat eating cafeteria food somewhere around Alaska and Canada. This year? We have plans to order a pizza tomorrow. So perhaps that’s why my mind is elsewhere! Either way, I’m still very, very thankful for so many blessings in my life. Come back tomorrow and I’ll tell you alllll about it!

Merry Thanksgiving Eve.

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Giveaway- My Memories Suite 2

22 Nov

Oh, gosh. I think I’m in love.

Look how cute this is?

It took me about 5 minutes to do. This was literally the first time I sat down to try out this product and I love it already. I love scrapbooking, but I told my mom the other day that I have no idea how people find the time to do it after they have kids. I haven’t even attempted scrapbooking in the three and half months Baby K has been in this world. I don’t know where I’d squeeze in the time. I never tried digital scrapbooking, though. Until today.

Y’all, it is so easy! And you can save your progress and come back to your project whenever you have the time. I think that’s the best thing about it for me- no mess of paper, scissors, stickers, and adhesives to clean up! I can’t wait to try out some of their templates and to create other fun pages from fresh.

What is this awesome product, you ask? It’s a digital scrapbooking software called My Memories Suite. There are so many ways to use this product. As you can see, I’ve already started playing around with it for my blog layout! I’m also excited to get to work on the copious amounts of pictures we took on our trip across America because I have yet to do anything with those either. I was nervous at first when I downloaded the program because I thought it might be too techie for me. I’m not so good around a computer. It was really simple, though!

Because you all are so awesome for sharing in my life with me, commenting when I’m down, rejoicing in my happy times with me, and supporting me and my writing, I want to reward ya. The winner of this giveaway will receive their very own My Memories Suite program that retails at $39.97….FOR FREE!

That’s not all that’s awesome about this giveaway. If you don’t win and still want to buy this, you can use the following code for $10 off your purchase of My Memories Suite  AND a coupon of $10 off to spend at MyMemories.com online store. That’s a total of a $20 dollar value- All you need to do is copy and paste this code when you’re checking out :)

STMMMS1331

Every time you use this code, it helps me out and it helps you. Win, win!

Here’s how you enter the giveaway.

Rules:

Mandatory:  Visit their website and leave me a comment telling me your favorite digital paper pack or layout.

For additional entries (optional), you may:

1. Follow me on Facebook and leave a comment telling me you do.

2. Follow me on Twitter and leave a comment telling me you do.

3. Follow My Memories Suite on Facebook and leave a comment telling me you do.

4. Follow My Memories Suite on Twitter and leave me a comment telling me you do.

That’s it, folks. You have until Dec. 1st to enter. Good luck!

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My Monday Ramblings

21 Nov

It’s Monday and that can mean only one thing. We’ve survived another week around here! Thank you for listening to me whine, sharing in my joys in life, and being all-around good bloggy readers. Y’all are fantastic. And you know what? I want to show my appreciation! That’s why I’m hosting another giveaway very soon. You’ll want to get in on this. The retail price of the mysterious item is around 40 bucks. Get excited, people! I’ll tell you more about it soon.

Today I have plans to do laundry, go to the grocery, clean, continue decorating for the most wonderful time of the year, and loving on my sweet fam! I might even wrap gifts. Whoa. Ambitious, eh?

For now, I’ll leave you with a pic of my cute little gift from God-

Happy Monday to ya.

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Welcome to the Army (and Motherhood)

18 Nov

Every time I sit down to write, Baby K starts his wailin’. I think he hates my blog. Or productivity, as my school work has come to a complete hault.

It’s okay, though because now I know I’m not a completely terrible parent. Doc says he’s got a touch of colic. Without going into too much detail about K’s eating habits (you’re welcome, Dave), I will say that he is eating way too fast and it’s causing the spit up, gas pains, and the like. I’m going to start working on different techniques, but honestly…

I didn’t come here to talk about my son today. I’m exhausted. Drained. Emotional. Drained. Drained. Drained.

Hubby is back from a stint in the field (finally) but it matters very little because he is working on his Master’s, too so when he comes home he has to do that. My relief comes when I get Baby K to sleep at night. I love my little man so much but he is quite needy (my sweet little id) and after doing this by myself a lot lately, I need a break. I need to go some place I won’t be summoned by screaming cries. I need to put on makeup and feel pretty again. I need to enjoy a meal instead of just scarfing something down while bouncing the baby on my hip. Mama needs, too.

I knew this was going to be hard- raising a child. But never in my wildest dreams did I picture myself being a parent in a military family, away from family who could provide a break if need be. Today was just another day that I thought to myself again, “Welcome to the Army”. Everything seems to be harder here.

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Lesson Learned

16 Nov

We all have these certain pearls of wisdom that we feel the need to pass onto others before we pass on.

Here’s mine:

When calling the pediatrician, the first sentence is key.

My husband taught me this. Yesterday, I was concerned about the baby for various reasons so I put in a phone call to his doctor. After being passed around several times, I spoke to a nurse who was none too concerned with the symptoms I was listing. She seemed more concerned that her phone call duties had lasted over a minute. Feeling frustrated, as I have on many occasions in dealing with doctors, I hung up the phone with an appointment in three weeks. Three weeks!

This morning I begged and I pleaded with Captain J, “Will you just call them? They’ll listen to you!”

A few minutes later I had an appointment for 10:20 this morning.

“How did you do it?” I asked.

He then explained to me the importance of leading with the absolute worse possible scenario he thought it could be. He said, “I basically told them his toes were about to fall off. It’s what ya gotta do.”

There ya have it.

And this is what I find myself doing this dreary morning- headed to the hospital for little man. More later. ;)

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