Thanksgiving is fast approaching and I am really looking forward to spending time with family and making some new memories and trying out a few new recipes. I have about 3 recipes I want to try out. One includes making my first baked homemade apple pie! I am so excited to see how that turns out. Yummm! I can already smell the baked apples permeating throughout the house!
Sometime tonight or tomorrow I am hoping to get my christmas decorations out of the attic so I can start making it feel like you just stepped into a Winter Wonderland in our house for Christmas. Obviously, the vision in my head is much more than I could ever accomplish in real life but a girl can dream. Can not wait! And I will have to post pictures once I am all done.
This was my first purchase of the holiday season, new pillows.
On a totally different note, I am in prayer for me and my daughters relationship. Like every other tweener out there, she is going through a stage that leaves her wanting to express herself. But also at the same time not realizing that it does come across as rude and disrespectful. We have went through the eye rolling, the telling mom to get out of her room, yelling, and I have realized getting mad at her doesn't help so now I calmly tell her how I am disappointed by some of her decisions and/or actions. She still gets a spank occasionally when needed. After speaking with her, As a parent you want that instant feedback to know that what you have said is getting through and maybe somewhere in that head she may say, "Mom, I'm sorry and I made a wrong choice" and we are just not there quite yet. I am wondering if that ever will happen but I will continue the expectation of wanting her to say it and mean it from the heart. I know she is no different than any other child but it doesn't mean I have to agree with it. She is a sassy girl for sure and will let you know how she wants to do things and what she does not agree with. My sister said this stage only gets better. Oh dear! :/
The Lord will have to direct me on making the right decisions with her for sure. She is going to stay with her Grandma for a few days over the Thanksgiving break and I am looking forward to somewhat of a sanity break.
What I wore today. For some people, they don't care what I wore and when I wore it and where, but from a very young age, I would write in my diary every day what I wore to school. I would plan out what I would wear a week in advance so as to not wear the same thing twice in one week. I was so anal about clothes. We didn't have a lot of money so a lot of our clothes were from thrift shops, hand me downs and garage sales but either way I worked with what I was given. And now, it is popular on blogs to post what you wore. I was way ahead of my time, who knew? ha! :-)
Here is todays outfit.
I love this shirt but it looks like it needs to be dry-cleaned, still has the fold line from the store. This is the first time I wore it. I loved it. It was from Kohl's and was so comfortable!
One last picture I thought I would post. Susan took this selfie in the car on our way up to Tallahassee and I loved it! The lighting, the closeness with her and her brother. Every thing about it I loved so I thought I would share. This will be going in the new chevron picture frame for sure.
With that, I am out! Ready to do tidy up around the house before my kiddos have flag football practice tonight.
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