Beauty in Everything

I have decided that I am going to try to write a blog post about every week about things I'm loving about my life, kids, house, Husband, God, just about anything in the moment.  I will call them my "Beauty in Everything" posts. My Verse inspirations for these posts will be:
Ecclesiastes 3:9-15

⁹ What do people really get for all their hard work? ¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. ¹¹ Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. ¹² So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. ¹³ And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.

 ¹⁴ And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God’s purpose is that people should fear him. ¹⁵ What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.

So the things I may post about could be the things that I find kind of annoying but realize that these silly little things will soon be no longer and I will cherish them now. For example, I LOVE my Bella, but sometimes, I would just like her to be able to play by herself or talk to someone else lol. But as I look at it from another view, I realize that one day - even soon - she will not hold me on such a high pedastool.  So for now I LOVE that she cherishes me so right now.

Or they may be things that I am just loving in the moment. For example, I am loving how Caiden growls all the time :) He is so boy! At 8 months he loves to bang things and be loud and destructive :)

They may also be trials that I love.  I am learning to embrace the struggles in my life, so as to bring me closer to my God.  An example might be the neediness of my Adabug right now.  I don't know if she is teething or has an ear infection.  But she is especially fussy and needy.  There is so much to love and be thankful for that we tend to overlook and get angry instead.  What can one love about a fussy child that screams bloody murder at you most of the day? Well my friend, as this lady puts it in her blog:

Then the thought struck me…Aren’t you thankful that God is never ready to scream at me? Here I stand in all my own neediness. Desperate for grace to do this mothering thing. Desperate for help to get up in the morning and cultivate joy in the tasks ahead of me. I am constantly laying my requests before him. “God, give me grace to discipline this child in love.” “God, give me strength today when I am weary.” “God, please take away this pain.”

It was a gentle reminder to my heart that we serve a gracious, all-knowing, merciful God, who never grows weary or tired. He is one that loves us intimately. He knows our every need and often meets them before we even ask. We are helpless, dependent creatures. We cannot do our mission without His daily renewal. We can’t get up and work in whatever sphere he has called us to without first crying out with our dependence upon Him.

Praise God for His love! Help me to love like God loves me.  Another thing to be thankful for in times of needy children is the extra time you get to snuggle them!

Sorry for such a lengthy post (not a usual for me.)  I plan to make the next posts like lists.  Praying you have been blessed!

Reusable Dryer Sheets

So I have been looking for ways to save money.  This was one of the ways I found to save money, and on Pinterest of course :)  So I ran out of dryer sheets and went and got my supplies.  

You need a bottle of your favorite fabric softener.














Then you need a big bucket (about 5 gallons).  I got mine at our local grocery store, Gould's.  It was a reused one from there store and I got it for a Buck! Thanks for the tip mom!
So what you do is you dump all the fabric softener in the bucket.  Then refill your bottle 2 times and dump it into the bucket.

Now find containers to store it all!!!

Next you need to get some sort of cloth to use to put in your dryer.  I used some of my husbands old A-Shirts and cut them into squares.  Here it is!  Maybe if I'm feeling especially crafty, I will make my tub look a little more Laundry like and less Cookie like hehe.


Now how to use them you ask?  Ring out the extra solution then throw in with the clothes your are looking to dry.  Then when everything is dry, you just put the cloths back into the tub of solution! Super easy and frugal!!!!

Undecorating and Redecorating

So you say, "What does undecorating and redecorating mean?"  Well we took down our Xmas decorations and I put up some new photos.  

But first, you know that feeling when you are about to string Christmas lights?

and find them tangled AGAIN!

Well as I was getting frames ready, it came to me! Im going to use the covers the frames came in and wrap the lights around them! Genius and free!

So then I finally put up our new family portrait and the twins 6 month and Bellas 2 yr portraits! YA! 

So I took the picture of the plow and lamp outside my parents house years ago.  I had it blown up and asked my mom for Christmas to get a custom frame for it.  And Viola!!! I think it fits perfectly :) Thanks Mom!

Then I saw this idea on Pinterest.  If your house is anything like mine, your steps are always cluttered with "stuff."  So, the solution? Personal baskets! I will eventually have name tags on them but I love this!

Creamer from Scratch???

So I decided to make my own creamer.  Never thought I would be using creamer enough, to think to myself, "Theres gotta be a cheaper way of doing this!"  But having twins will make you do things you thought you never would!  

So here it is, my homemade Peppermint Creamer!  I found the recipe over here and thought I would give it a try.  Only 3 ingredients and all you do is add them together and shake!  EASY!!!  And since I was able to find Fat Free sweetened condensed milk, even better.  So since I also used Fat Free milk, it not all THAT bad for you :) I reused my last Creamer bottle that I had.

 So I made my cup of coffee in my Keurig that I got as a gift!!! Bonus!  Added my Peppermint Creamer and......

Pure Bliss!!!!!!

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