{10 on TUESDAY}

My favorite catch up day:)

I love early mornings..I love dewy mornings .....I love feeling the warm spring sun and seeing the sun rise....or the moon still in the sky....That's when I do my most thinking:)

1. I love my little miss ...this past week she had four dance recitals got all  dolled up and danced her little heart out.....I just love that she loves it and is learning and growing and enjoying:) She is growing up way to fast...

You never know what a girl is worth,

You’ll have to wait and see;

But every woman in a noble place,

A girl once used to be.

2. check out my these pics my talented neighbor took of my kids.....she blogged some pics of L before dance last weekend too and who along with W and T.... all who at some point save my crazy life and make it a little easier....like turning off my stove cause I forgot and went to soccer with the chicken cooking on it:) or a fun card night or for a can of tomatoes or sour cream or taking the kids to some event ..or a phone call or text right when I needed or long talks where ever we might be..I have good friends....and am so thankful for them!! 

Everybody needs people they can count on..I feel pretty blessed that way.

3. It blizzarded {is that even a word?} on Saturday and most of the afternoon ....seriously crazy weather...

from mowing the lawn to ducking flakes {ha ha that sounds kind of funny...}

4. I think I'm getting old I fell twice in the last week and almost went head over handlebars on my bike {that was because of my lovely 5 year old though} and I've forgotten a couple of important things I think something is wrong with me:) well we all know that ;) I mean something real:)

5. only 4 weeks of kindergarten left! only 3 months till full time all day long grade1 not going to lie..... I am totally looking forward to it! I love him but he is a lot easier to handle being busy! HE IS FULL OF LIFE♥

6.I can't wait to go boating and camping and swimming and getaway in July!

7. The more I hear of others problems, the less I think mine don't matter.

8. FAVORITE pinterest finds this week 

Coloring Pages for Church or whenever K2 LOVES to color!  

I'm pretty sure he inherited that from his talented birthmother:)

find them here

and this recipe we've had haystacks around here since I met D's Family but this sauce is awesome on it the kids all loved it which 2 of them rarely have the regular chicken soup one so we all loved it! {came in handy too when I went for some chicken soup and there wasn't any:)

9.Favorite pinterest quote of the week

10. ME thinks:)

What you don't see 

 By Tiffany Gee Lewis {mormontimees.com}

"What you don't see, when we all march into church on Sunday morning, is the chaos of the morning that happened just 10 minutes earlier.
What you don't see, when you look at my four little boys in their suits, is that the 7-year-old is wearing Dad's socks because we couldn't find his. And they go all the way up to his knees.
What you don't see, when I pull out the lovely quiet book I made a few years back, is that below it, in my church bag, are five baggies of smashed raisins because I haven't cleaned out the bag for months.
When you enter my house, with its shining entryway, you don't see the three loads of laundry dumped on my bed. Or the dirty pots I stashed in the oven. And you will never see the interior of my minivan, not until I find the time to vacuum it out.
When you admire the hand-sewn pajamas I made for all the kids, we don't talk about the three nights I got no sleep to make those.
If you look on my blog, you will see pictures of homemade chicken noodle soup with homemade noodles. You won't see my confession to popping in a frozen pizza THREE times last week for dinner.
Or the night we ate Cheerios for dinner, dry, because we were out of milk. There is a zoom on my camera for a reason. There is a delete button for a reason.
I don't think we're all playing a part. We naturally want to put our best selves forward, so that is what other people see. They don't see what's going on behind the scenes. I like to think that good parenting is like a duck on the water. What you see is the gentle, almost effortless gliding, not the furious paddling that happens underneath.
I keep a mental list of about ten people I want to stalk by camera, from morning to night, to see how they do it all. Are they up at 4 a.m.? Can they survive on three hours of sleep? Do they have a housekeeper? Because I drop balls just as fast as I can grab them. My intentions are of pure gold, but they come out as tinkling brass, at best.
I started a blog last fall. I dragged my feet into it for many reasons. One of the main reasons I hesitated was I didn't want to be another contributor to the cyberspace guiltosphere out there. Especially where mothers are concerned, 

do we need one more reason to feel guilty?
Because from the looks of things, other families are happier, their houses are cleaner, their marriages are better, their clothes are more stylish and their craftiness is even more crafty. Their lives are perfectly lovely, while my kids are running around screaming in their diapers.
My worst fears were confirmed last week when I got an e-mail from a friend who asked, "How do you do it all? Your column, your blog, all the things you do with your children? You're amazing!"
I looked around at my house, at the six bins of winter clothes waiting to be transported to the garage, at the sewing projects stacked against the wall, at the state of the toothpaste crusted to the sink ... I let things go, a lot of things.
A spanking-clean house is not a high priority for me. I'm a big believer in mud and its importance in a child's life. The time I take to write is time away from scrubbing that bathroom sink. I would rather read with my kids than shop at the mall, so I am certainly not up-to-date on the latest styles. I've been listening to the same music for 20 years because I can't seem to keep up with the latest music scene. And I require a lot of sleep.
We all have priorities. For some, it is keeping a spotless house, and they are good at it. For others, it is writing, or exercising, or serving others. And yes, there are some who seem to do it all, the Benjamin Franklin's of the world. I tell myself I don't have to be them. And also, Benjamin Franklin was not much of a family man. Even he let things go.
What we don't see, when we look at each other on Sunday, or on blogs, or in our shiny kitchens, is that 

we all have different talents and unique situations. 

I tell my kids all the time: 

Life is not a race. The only person you are competing against is yourself."

"What we forget to see, when admiring others, 

is our own personal finish line."

Thoughts & Opinions?

mine.... is......of course who would want to read a blog all about the things we aren't good at or our shortcomings we all enjoy learning from each other ....least i do and seeing all the fun projects and skills that people have. i love it the good and bad..... 

if your the kind who likes to air your dirty laundry all the power to you..... 

but for the majority keep it in the positive otherwise I don't think people would want to read it ....there are enough depressing things in the world! Just my thoughts whatever you choose to blog about is what makes us all unique and real some of my favorite blogs just tell it like it is cause that's real life right....!

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"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind- the- scenes with everyone else's highlight reel."

 -steven furtick

Have a great week!