football, golf, and lots of projects.

I'm about ready to loose my mind.  I just received the schedules for the upcoming golf session and football season and am overwhelmed at how my calendar went from blank to busy in no time at all.  Games and golf don't really start till Mid September, but once they hit, I won't have a free weeknight at all.  I know for sure Tues and Thursdays are football games, Tues and Saturdays are golf.  Wed is church.  Football practice's also have to fit in there somewhere--don't ask me how.  Oh, and did I forget to mention that golf for Bryce is 6-8pm on Tuesdays and Jace's games are either at 6 or at 7 on Tuesdays.  Doesn't look to good for me being able to watch football or golf--I'll be driving from one end of town to the other and back again.  And gas prices just happen to be going up again...lovely.   However, I am extremely thankful for a great coach who is always willing to help out--even though I know they are just as busy as we are!

So, as I looked at the calendar, I realized the kids and I have to really work as a team.  So, I sat them down, showed them the calendar, and said that in order for this to all work we need to work as a team.  No more arguing about helping me clean--we'll need to get it knocked out quick when we have time.  No more arguing about homework--we're coming right in getting it done.  And, as soon as I said it, Bryce and I got into an argument about how I never come and watch her play golf but I ALWAYS watch Jace.  I try to explain the differences to her, but it doesn't quite cut it.  I understand where she's coming from, but the guilt I feel from not being able to meet her need to have me watch her golf all the time makes me get angry.  I can't wait till Danny is home and he can go watch her, and play a round or two with her, etc.  I did promise her that on the few nights Jace doesn't have a football game that I would watch her.  She seems to be better now, but my heart still hurts thinking she might think I love Jace more than her.

Okay, on a more positive note.  I have been a crafting fool lately.  I wasn't able to post the pics of everything I sent to Danny until he got his last box, but he got it today so now I can show it.  I know it may look like I am sending him a lot, but since I didn't send him anything last deployment I really needed to spoil him this deployment to make up for it :D.  Plus, since they can buy almost anything over there, I have to be more creative in what I send him.  Okay, so here it goes.
Project 1:  Daddy and Me book.

Please notice in the above picture what Jace said Danny's favorite hobby is---sleeping HAHA! 

Project  2:  A day in our life.  I spent a whole day taking pictures of everything.  I started with a pic of me with my coffee and Bible, and ended with the kids in their beds and me in mine with a book--and documented everything in between. 

 Just a sample of one of the pics.  If you want to see all of them, I'll have to make it its own blog :)

 Project 3:  52 Reasons I love You. 

And today I started a new project--the Family Rules canvas--and its looking good, but not quite ready to be posted.  Maybe next week :)

I love pinterest!

Wow, I was looking at the date of my last post and its been a month since I last posted!  Wow does time fly.  Part of that is that in the busyness of my mom visiting, school starting, subbing, and PTO, I was too exhausted or still working on projects and didn't even think about the blog. 

The other part of it is I hit a negativity slump, got jealous and insecure and I refuse to post blogs when I'm like that.  I don't like posting it on facebook, so I'm definitely not going to blog about it.  I was feeling like I did way back when I was 26, Danny and I were young and low ranking, and the Army was always screwing us over (or at least that was our attitude at the time).  I don't like feeling like that and its been YEARS since I've felt that way.  I'm sharing this because part of writing this blog is so that young(er) military spouses know that sometimes it happens--we can't be happy, perfect Army wives all the time.  We are allowed to get disgruntled every once in a while.  The key is to not stay there for long. 

So, I'm on the way up out of my negativity, thanks to some great friends and have been a craft making fool lately.  I meant to do all sorts of crafts all summer, but instead I did zero!  So I'm making up for lost time.  There are three things that I made for Danny's box that I just shipped and can't share yet.  In about a week I should be able to share those.  But, I did do a project to start with the kids.  I did some Momma and Me Journals, thanks to http://www.mamajennblogs.com and pinterest.  Here are the pics:

 Bryce's Journal

 This is the opening letter that I wrote in both of their journals.

Jace's Journal

I'm hoping the kids are excited about doing this as I am.  I'm also hoping that it is something we get into the habit of doing.  I really am looking forward to this helping me become closer with both kids--but especially Bryce--since I'm so hard on her all the time.  This will be a good way for me to remember and focus on the good she does.  Its also a good way for Jace to work on his writing.   (sneaky sneaky LOL).  I'll keep you up to date on whether they are working or not.