It's October 8th and we have officially entered busy time. Macaiden has football games every Tuesday night, getting us home around 8:30pm and having dinner at 9pm. For three nights now he has begged to decorate our Haunted Gingerbread house but we have been too busy. Last night I didn't care what time it was we were going to jam out to some Halloween music and decorate that house! Again, time is fleeting before our eyes. Stress tends to get a hold of us. Getting super frustrated that the house would not stand, I began to laugh. I tried and tried to get the kids to calm down and help them. Pausing to think, "do I want them to get worked up because the house is falling down but we want it to look perfect for our pictures?" OR "Chelsea, laugh about the situation and let them know everything can be washed if it gets messed up and lets just have some fun!" I chose the second option. Yes, pictures are great but they do not need to interfere with memories if they do not turn out perfect. Let those non perfect pictures actually display the memories that are taking place! Laugh and go with it!! We have some past pictures where everyone is smiling but I distinctly remember what was happening before the shot. Not this time! The house challenge was so fun and as always, they like me to post it on social media to take a vote which side of the house is "better." We usually let it stand for a couple of days but since it collapsed after the pictures were taken, we indulged in it! My Repurpose for the day : Allow the pictures taken display the true memories.
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.Well days 3 and 4 of October are here. I made a new batch of Pumpkin bread and made sure to add baking soda this time. It was amazing. The kids wanted to make cookies so I found white chocolate pumpkin cookies and oh my gosh, they were so good.
My wonderful coworkers know me quite well. Upon walking into work yesterday I found a frightening (what I thought was a child) doll! It scared the living daylights out of me! They have been warned to sleep with one eye open. Tonight is the homecoming football game and tomorrow is Maddie's very first homecoming dance. I cannot help but feel happy and sad at the same time. My baby is growing up before my eyes. Homecoming dress shopping 101...here it goes. Let me just say that Maddie was an angel compared to how I was with my mother. The fighting and arguing about which dress was real when I was a teenager. I began to tell Maddie that if I am the one buying the dress, respect is mandatory. Yes, I got the eye rolls when I held up a dress that was not fitting to her likeness, but, overall it was good. There is one thing I think and that I would almost say is the most important when it comes to these type of events : image. I had an extreme image problem growing up and still to this day struggle with it. That is a whole other blog, but is very real. I saw this for the first time in my beautiful daughter. Maddie has always held herself high and honestly, I have been jealous of her many times. She has amazing confidence and self respect. She also has beautiful curves. Trying on dresses to fit her perfectly led her to use words like "I am so fat," "I am not going to homecoming anymore," "I hate this." Trying to persuade her that she is perfect broke my heart. Offering other dress options that I thought might be more becoming on her she FINALLY gave a shot. She grabbed a hold of me and said, "I trust you mom." I promised her we would have her hair and make up beautiful but... she was already beautiful. Tricks on me when it came to thinking she had perfect self image. What was I thinking? We all struggle with this at one time time or another. We bought two dresses for her to choose from. I continued to tell her that she needed to feel confident in the dress. Forget what anyone else would be wearing. It is HER night to shine and to have so much fun remembering her very first homecoming. I want her to glow and feel like she is worth a million bucks. I had to stop and think about how I hold myself to Maddie. She is watching it whether she realizes it or not. She trusts me enough to help her with her dress. She even frequents my closet on a regular basis. I must remember to watch what I say about myself and accept compliments from Justin or anyone else (this is hard for me). My Repurpose for the Day : Have patience, understanding, and acceptance with myself and Maddie. For those of you who know me, you know I LOVE Halloween and the entire month of October. I love the smells, pumpkins, decorations, weather change, and of course my birthday. For several years now I have done the 31 days of Halloween. It seemed so easy when the kids were little. We played bowling with small pumpkins, we did yarn projects, we made a scarecrow, and so much more. Now that they are 14 and 12, the "mom ideas" are not that popular anymore. I have mourned over the fact that those sweet, innocent days are gone. Then, I realized that if I keep mourning over those days I am going to miss the ones in front of me. So....I am going to continue the 31 days, they just might look a little different. Yesterday I raced home after work and piano lessons to ground the meat and make spaghetti sauce. Macaiden had a football game at 6pm so I knew I had to be quick. The first day of Halloween was going to be spaghetti with snake breadsticks. I had a few minutes to spare so I decided to make pumpkin bread for day 2 of October. I make mine in the crock pot (best recipe ever...see below for recipe). I was so proud to have done all of that and make it to Macaiden's game on time! This morning Justin had to take Maddie to basketball practice. She had to be there at 5:50am. I was still upstairs getting ready when I looked at a text message I received from Justin. It said, "something is wrong with the pumpkin bread." I continued to get ready and began to think he was either wrong or did I leave something out?! YUP! As I began to walk down the stairs I realized I left out the baking soda! I walked in the kitchen and yelled "haha You've been tricked!" Halloween is all about trick or treats right?! Justin, knowing I had clearly messed up just went on with it. I ended up with my normal breakfast, 1/2 an English muffin with peanut butter, but I did eat it on my Halloween plate! I will be making a new batch of pumpkin bread tonight when I get home. I was also going to find another thing to make up for my mistake of day 2 of October but realized I had already fulfilled it....tricking. :) With our crazy schedules between sports, chorus, and the thousand jobs that Justin and I have... time is too short to worry about getting everything perfect. So what? I messed up! But! I am trying to learn to turn my silly mistakes (the ones that are so pointless and a waste of time getting upset over) into life lessons for my kids. It is okay! I LOVE that I messed up the pumpkin break. Don't get me wrong, I am a little upset about the money that I just wasted because I had to throw it all away, But, I was able to show my kids it is okay! I can start all over again. wannabite.com/crockpot-pumpkin-bread/ My Repurpose for the day : Not everything turns out as good as what I see on Pinterest. Remember the way I react to a situation can possibly be modeled by my own two kids. |
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