Easter Ideas

Tomorrow we take down the green and put up the spring!!

I am so excited to get started on my Easter crafts. I do wish we had a little longer to prepare and enjoy.

I loved these cute carrots I found at Sassy Style.


and I liked this nest idea I saw at May's Homemade.



Plus I have a few ideas of my own... now to get them done before Easter is over!

St. Patrick's Day

IT'S GREEN DAY!!

The kids woke up to their green gifts a-waiting.


Of course I HAD to get new green shirts, but this year I made the ones for the boys. I think they turned out pretty cool!! (I got the idea HERE. Who knew bleach could be so fun?!)



I knew Miss Diva would refuse to wear one, so I found a green one with pink on it for her.


They also got hooked up with LOTS of green treats and toys.

For breakfast we had Lucky Charms and green fruit salad (Green grapes, apples and kiwis).

The boys came home to spinach smoothie pops - I mean green popsicles (don't tell my kids the other name) for an after school snack. So yummy!



We had green tortellini with pesto, parsley garlic bread, spinach salad (with green peppers, green onions, sugar peas, avocado, cucumbers with green Ranch dressing and green juice for dinner. I did shake things up with dessert... Pistachio Almond ice cream, usually we have Lime sherbet.

I know, I am a wild one!

We had a very fun green day!

Starting Over

So, how do you re-start a blog? I started this blog for the first time in 2008. This past year has been a difficult one, many changes and realizations. I stopped blogging for over a year. During this time I have realized that I am a better mom with a project... something that is just for me. When I first started this blog I wrote an introduction. Since this is a starting over, I felt I could re-post...

I have a family blog, dedicated to the kids, but this is for me. Problem is; I don’t know how to do just me...

I am a SAHM (can't believe I gave in and used that) of 3 wonderful, perfect, precious and VERY buggy kids. I have 2 boys (10 and 8) and a girl (3). I adore my children! I live for my children. I have lost myself in my children. Am I sad? No! I won't change a thing, but I do feel like "I" need to change. I sometimes feel like I am "just a Mom" and I hate that feeling! (Yes, I used "I" 14 times!)

Here is the thing; I can’t write, I am not sure how much I dare share and I know NOTHING about computers. So what am I doing? Writing for myself. I am trying to focus on me, and only me, minus the parts about the kids! Through this process I hope to improve my writing, see the treasures in daily chaos and find out what I want to do with my life. This is for me. My journal. My way of making changes to truly grow, improve and learn each and every day!

So if you stumble upon this blog, I would love to have you along for the ride. I could use all the help I can get!

So here we go… I am a wife, a mom of 3 and a blogger!! This is me!
(For those of you counting, "I' was used 33 times!!)

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