Ashleys Homemade Christmas

If your short on funds this holiday season or want to make something from your heart check out my great friend Ashleys blog to get some AWESOME ideas for Christmas..I am so in!!!!

26 Days of Thankful Day 4

I am so THANKFUL for MOPS (mothers of preschoolers). This year I am a discussion group leader for the Orange group (just a little shout out to my ladies) And I have been so incredibly blessed to have such a wonderful network of women around me. Its more then just a way to get rid of the kids for 2 hours its about re-fueling my mommy and wife tank. I go and pick up Olivia fully re-charged and ready to invest so much into her. But more importantly I feel closer to my wonderful maker who blessed me with such a beautiful family and beautiful friends. I REALLY REALLY want to encourage you moms or moms to be to go onto the MOPS website (click here) and find a MOPS group in your area I PROMISE you will not be sorry!!!

9 months ago

At this time 9 months ago I was holding my newborn baby in my arms. Its so hard to believe its already been that long. It truly feels like yesterday I gave birth and our family of 2 became 3.



My love for this perfect little girl grows deeper every second, and although I have enjoyed every stage of her life so far the 8-9 month stage has by far been my favorite. She is ALL personality these days and it seems every day she is doing something new. Yesterday she started feeding herself full sized crackers and today she is waving that cute little backwards wave kids do. Plus shes to cute to boot. maybe I am a tad bias..just a little =)

Heres me on February 1st the day I arrived for my scheduled induction..obviously labor hadn't kicked in yet. I believe I was watching the food network

Why am I showing you this?because I just found it and can't believe someone actually took this and that someone would be my darling husband. I can tell you this was in the last 3 hours because thats when I had to be on oxygen

1:49AM February 3rd 2009 Olivia Rose FINALLLLLY made it



November 1st 2009 almost 9 months old!!!!

26 Days of Thankfulness Day 2

I am incredibly thankful for how hard my husband works for our family. He works 4 12 hour shifts a week without complaint to provide a great living for our family and even goes on call once a week to bring in double. His hours are at a time of day that most would dread but he does it with a skip in his step knowing he is providing 100% for our family. He's such a hardworker and because of that I can stay home knowing all our financial needs are met. Thank you HUBBY!!!

My SAHM Journey: It was worth it all

Ever since I was young all I ever wanted was to be a homemaker, I had career dreams here and there but nothing ever felt "right". All I really wanted to be was a wife and a mom however soon that would happen. Well it happened ALOT sooner then I thought. I was married 2 months shy of my 19th birthday. And it seemed that the minute we got back from our honeymoon people asked "so when are you going to have kids?" we always replied the normal response"when we are ready" (okk you are never ready no matter how late or soon you have kids its just a fact)

Well 20 months into our marriage and 2 weeks after moving to a new state we found out we were pregnant. So I quit my job and we started the transition into me being home. When I was 6 months pregnant and the economy started its downward spiral my husband was layed off from his job. I can't even begin to tell you how terrifying that time was. But God provided every month for us, we really don't even know how. About 2 months later he got a job, we moved and justin started nursing school that same week. Things were REALLLY tight and we still struggled every month but we always had just enough and when I mean just enough I mean to the penny sometimes. I could write a novel on Gods provision for our family, maybe someday I will.

Fast forward a year.........

Now Olivia is 9 months old my husband graduated and is now working at the hospital and life is a MILLION times less stressful. It was only a year ago in October that Justin was first layed off. Its a time that feels forever ago and times it feels like it was yesterday. But through it all we made it on one very small income. Sure we had times when we thought about me getting a job but for what to pay for daycare? to have all our money go towards someone ELSE raising our daughter. It wasn't worth it. And I tell you every sacrifice has been worth it. I hear alot of moms tell me they would like to stay home but can't afford it. I am here to tell you YES YOU CAN. Because if I can do it you can do it. Yes you will have to give up some luxuries, I haven't had my hair highlighted in 2 years and it was just 2 months ago for the first time in a LONG time I splurged and bought a good razor instead of the cheap throw away ones (its the simple things=) YES their will be times of stress and wondering if you did the right thing. But you did. I love being at home and if I ever have to go back to buying the cheap throw away razors again in order to stay home with my children I would do it in a heartbeat.

NEW SERIES COMING SOON

IN PRAISE OF A STAY AT HOME MOM

26 Days of Thankfulness Day 1

I really CANNOT believe it is November, every year seems to fly by faster and faster. For the next 26 day (until Thanksgiving) I will be posting something I am thankful for it could be totally random to really sentimentel whatever strikes my mood...so here we go

DAY 1: Olivia & her personality
I am thankful for my spunky, outgoing, ray of sunshine little girl. She has more personality wrapped up in her then anyone else I know she is a pistol and I LOVE IT! I want to raise strong girls and I may not have to work to hard with her because she is already strong and loving. I just adore her

My Husband Rocks Friday

My husband rocks this week. On Monday I came home to our storage stuff all OVER the back patio.."gee meghan that doesn't sound like he rocks for making a mess' actually HE DOES, he organized the ENTIRE storage ALL BY HIMSELF I didn't ask him to do it or even mention it he just did it. I love it when he just goes for it! It looks awesome and he even pulled out all the christmas gear and put it up front!

Can you believe we are already talking christmas?!!!!