The Suits Sisters

Things I should have known Dad is better at car play than mom The car play mat is fun for about five minutes  Laundry doesn't fold itself The 8x10 area rug is the best thing we've purchased Shirts are overrated 

Patch turned six in August! He lives a boring, yet comfortable life with us. He is capital G Great with the girls. In fact, they tend to run the show with him. Caris enjoys watching him run  jog through the house as she chases him with a doll stroller. They enjoy feeding him in the morning which he's tickled about because every morning there are stray kibble bits all over the floor.  He is mellow, hardly ever barks, and l o v e s to be near us (see picture below). He listens well, walks on a leash perfectly (thanks, Kent!) and hasn't eaten anything crazy lately.. that we know of. His character flaws are aggressively licking his stinky bottom, creeping in the kitchen while we eat, following me around (Like, at all times. If I stop walking, he bumps into me) and recently he has taken up drinking from toilets.  Love  Like you, Patch! Here's to another six years because we know you'll be around that much longer. winkyface "YES!! Laundry Day!!!"

The Little One -Loves her "Lovey" and "Pa-peesh" (paci) -Copies everything Big Sis does -Enjoys putting on everyone's shoes -Is stringing words together like "HOT!DON'T TOUCH!" and "My Daddy"  -Will play with mega blocks for a long time if there are no distractions in the living room The Big One  -Requests a band aid for any scratch or mark -Enjoys sunday school and Wednesday night church activities  -Loves to explore in the backyard while wearing her rain boots -Asks her dad, "Do you want me to grow up?!" almost every day -Wants to play "tag you're it" and color pictures with anyone who is willing

I can't believe but my waistline can  that this is our fourth year celebrating National Talk Like a Pirate Day with Krispy Kreme!  We had enthusiastic pirates this year. We realized that Patch had worn all of our red bandanas over the summer and they were still super smelly. Whoops!   It tasted so good she couldn't keep her eyes open  See the past years: 2015   2014 2013

Making: Plans to have a yard sale   Cooking:  A tasty vegetable curry slow cooker meal on Meatless Monday Drinking: The occasional Diet Coke  Reading: I'm in a reading rut! Suggestions welcome. Happy, easy books, please Wanting: All of our lingering coughs/congestion to bid us farewell  Looking: At birthday gift ideas for the man of the house  Eating: Caris and I made an apple pie this week and it lasted two days Wishing: Kent would stop drinking all the cold Diet Cokes Enjoying: Chocolate chips for dessert tonight Thinking: How do people wear jeans through the summer in Florida? Maybe they have ice pack lined jeans.  Celebrating: The fact that Caris is (fingers crossed) no longer a thumb sucker!  Loving:  Kentario's weekend (Fri-Sat) is always a nice parenting relief Hoping: For a rainless saturday beach trip   Needing: To buy a new fall candle Smelling: We've had a huge storm yesterday ...

What is your name? Angelina (Ballerina)  How old are you? Three and a half  What is your favorite food? Grapes  What is your favorite color? Purple and red  What do you like to do with Daddy? Tackle him, color with him  What do you like to do with Mommy? Rest with her, cover up with her What do you like to do with Liza? Swim with her, draw with her Where do you like to go? Chick fil A  Who is your best friend? Uncle Ben  What are you afraid of? I’m not afraid of stuff. Not the big slide.  What is your favorite dessert? Ice cream What kind? Chocolate strawberry coconut  What is your favorite toy? Flamingos at Gigi’s house  What is your favorite book?  Duck and Goose  Favorite TV show? Thomas What do you want to be when you grow up? A ba...

She is old enough to jump in the pool   to help her dad in the garage  and wear high heels 

How can it have been over three years since I last made bread with my Sudanese Father?! ( 2013 ) And let's not forget my first venture in bread making. I am back in the bread making business and my belly's all " YEA -UH!" and my pants are all "Oh no" I've made a regular loaf (please correct my terminology here.. white loaf of bread? Sandwich bread?) and one loaf of cinnamon bread. I am like, one bread bake away from raising chickens, driving a Prius and making my own deodorant. The pretty pretty princess loaf  and the ugly undercooked step sister loaf

I hesitate to write about my laughable budget because some of you are probably paying off your entire home in three months or giving half of your income to war refugees. OR BOTH. One night my mentor mentioned we had nothing to talk about (what?!) so he started grilling me with financial questions (yay!) ...that I had basically no answers for (double yay!) My final answer was something along the lines of "So, like, we pay rent every month. And uhh I guess like, insurance?" PATHETIC. I am supposed to be a grown Proverbs 31 woman with two kids and a pastor husband! After I finished riding the Guilt Shame Train (always a pleasure), I came up with a couple of reasons to follow a budget.. When my mentor isn't asking me financial questions,  he's reading books to his granddaughter  1. We can work towards a goal(s) We want any excess money saved up for IFT (Important Future Things). A bigger family car, college and retirement, mainly. Without goals, our excess ...

Candle Crafts  College Football 

*Big things for my small life  1. Started a budget Once upon a time in our marriage we tried a cash budget. I toted a little envelope with a couple of Benjamins  in it to the grocery store and as the month wore on I would eventually break out in hives and wait for large drops of perspiration to form on my forehead in the check out line as I wondered if I would run out of money after all the groceries were scanned and bagged (THIS IS MY WORST FEAR EVER. AND IT HAS HAPPENED ONCE) Eventually I would ditch food purchases altogether and spend the rest of the money at Goodwill. Yay. End of cash budget. I'll elaborate more on my budget for all of you poor souls  curious readers in another post, but for now I want to say that this budget is self-induced and my husband is supportive of all purchases and doesn't give me a hard time about...really anything. HIGH-FIVE KENT. 2. Deleted Apps I deleted multiple apps from my phone. Although I wasn't spending a ton of time o...