Back to School | Catching up | Mom Life Journal

Back to school we go today. We took two weeks off to rest, have some fun and to accomplish some tasks.

We painted the kitchen cabinets and all the trim and wood work as well. 

Thid is a during picture, I'll be sure to make a post with before and after a later on. I'm not too happy with how the color turned out, but the cabinets over all look brand new again. Which was the ultimate goal.

We also went hiking, visited friends, and visited family. 

It's just now occuring to me that we didn't take any pictures when we were visiting our friends and family. Oops. That tends to be how it goes though. We had a wonderful times making memories, I guess we didn't need the pictures. 

We also did some spring cleaning in the house, I boxed up some books to go into storage until we move next year, and we organized the garage. The garage needs a full deep spring cleaning, but I only had time for a quick clean up and organize this time. I will enlist my husband to help with the big clean in a couple weeks. 

We also spent some time planning the flower bed builds that need to happen this year. Alex and I are going to attempt to tackle it ourselves. Pray for us. Alex has been working in landscaping part time for about a year and he has helped us build some things and he feels ready. I'm nervous. There are a lot of big tree roots to deal with on this one. 

A also did something fun for myself. Fun being a relative term, because it hurt and continued to hurt for about a week afterwards. Haha. 

I got my second set of lobe piercings(barely felt it and no real pain after) and a rook piercing. That one hurt, and continued to ache for about a week afterwards. It was still worth it though! I'm looking forward to it being healed and just a normal part of me. 😁 Then I will go back for a couple more. I have an over all look I'm going for, and this was just step one. I have researched these things for years, but always just put it off...we were broke, had babies and life going on all the time. We aren't broke anymore, the babies have grown up and life is never going to just slowdown, so I did it. I'm glad I did. 

We also found some time to do some shopping. Emma, Addison and I did some decor shopping for Spring/Summer, and all three girls and I popped into Kohl's for some clearance shopping. 

I did not accomplish everything I had hoped to on our break. I've been working on relearning algebra so I can help the kids with it. I wanted to be caught up to where Alex is when we started back today, but I'm not quite there. I'll keep working and get to where he is soon though. 

I personally have cut back on reading fiction, took facebook off my phone and had to cut out YouTube. I didn't pick up watching YouTube, until I gave up the fiction books and Facebook. Turns out I'm really good at filling my time with useless hobbies when I'm trying to give them up to focus more on Christ. I think part of the struggle was because we were on break and off of our normal schedules. Today will be better. 

Today also starts a new diet for my husband and myself. We are working to lose some weight. We are both going about it slightly different, but it should show some results for both of us. Of course he's a man and will probably drop fifteen pounds in the first week. I'll still be here two months later trying to drop the rest of mine. He has less to go than I do also. He has 15-20 and I have more like 25 to lose. I'm sure we both will get there. 

Well, I'm off to get life started. It's a fairly full week. School, work, helping out at church and co-op. 

Happy Monday!

~Lyndsay