Make Your Own Edible Snow!

I made my own snow in my freezer today and now I am going to share with you the simple steps to making your own freezer snow:

• Place a can of Sierra Mist in your freezer

• Forget to drink the soda and pass out due to sheer exhaustion of chasing after twin boys who put any and everything into their mouths

• Wake up the next morning and go about your day as usual

• Put your babies down for a nap and try to take one yourself

• You and babies wake up to what you think is a gunshot, or somebody trying to break in to your apartment 

• You leave the room and grab the fireplace poker  because you need protection from whomever is trying to break in your home

• You go into every room searching for an intruder, and checking all the locks and windows

• Everything looks fine so you go about your day

• Hours later you happen to open your freezer and see that it is covered in snow, and you realize that the soda can you had placed in there had burst and covered your freezer in lemony lime slush

• You also realize that the gun shot sound came from the can bursting

• You have an epiphany 

• You take the can put a spoon in it and eat the "snow"

• You enjoy your treat

Yup. I created this delightful treat.

                                                       

Martha Stewart Is My Home Girl....

The holidays are here, one of my favorite times of the year, and I will be posting a whole lot about Christmas!! This will be my first Christmas with my own family and I am so excited to be starting my own traditions while incorporating traditions from mine and my love's childhood.

I was recently at JcPenney and wandered into the Martha Stewart Christmas collection and absolutely fell in LOVE!!

It also gave me much needed inspiration while I am decorating my home for Christmas, and in turn I am sharing some of that inspiration with you.

Enjoy!!



How cute are these gifts??

monogrammed gifts martha stewart

Twinkle Twinkle!

tinsel stars martha stewart

Put wrapping paper to use!

festive envelopes martha stewart

pipe cleaner candy cane ornaments

Awww tiny mice!!

candy cane mice martha stewart

Adorable!

cookie cutter ornaments martha stewart

Small Victories

I have only been a proud member of the mother hood club for 8 months, but I am already too familiar with motherhood guilt. That guilt you feel when you believe that you have let your spouse or kids down. When you feel as if you haven't accomplished enough in your day. 

I hate the guilt. I hate the unnecessary pressure that I put upon myself. The expectations that I feel like I am supposed to be living up to; expectations that aren't even coming from my own heart. 

I had to have a heart to heart talk with my father, God, about the pressure that I was feeling, and he placed upon my heart the words that He spoke in Genesis after He created the heavens and earth. "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good..." Genesis 1:31

That made me think. What if I lived my life that way? What if I found joy in the small things and celebrated what I had accomplished instead of lamenting what I hadn't been able to get done?

What if I didn't stress over the small things? What if I simply was thankful for waking up every morning? Thankful for my boys being alive, healthy, and happy?  I bet my days would go a lot smoother, I would probably get a lot more done, and have more peace, if I focused on the positive. 

So that is what I have been doing. I have been counting everything joy. I have been thankful for every accomplishment. Reveling in the small victories, because that is what life is all about. And so far, so far it has made my life so much more enjoyable.