Well, since I've been gone so long, I am way behind on photos! BUT....if you've seen me on FB then you've probably seen most of these. I decided to pick some of my favorites from the month of September. I can't believe September ended and October starts today, man time is flyin' by!

September was a super busy and wonderful month for us.
It started with Labor Day weekend and our family taking a little trip just for a couple of days... staying nearby. We hung out in Austin, played in the Guadalupe River, and went through the Natural Bridge Caverns. We had a wonderful time!
Then the kids and I went on our annual trip to Galveston with the Brouses and PapaLou. It was wonderful too!
With September we also have the start of the football season which means SAINTS games to me. I also enjoy watching some UT, LSU, and/or Texans as well. But SAINTS are the main thing. I watch most games with my good friend Bebe. :0) Recently we sported our Saints shirts and Buc-ees pj pants while we munched on good football food!
We had a fantastic experience watching the bats emerge from The Old Bat Tunnel one night this month and it was absolutely breath taking.
We also got our newest family member at the start of September (or maybe the last week of August...) DIXIE. She's a precious Toy Schnauzer and we all love her immensely.
Last thing for us this month is that school is in full swing for Caleb and I am hangin' with Georgia at home. We are having a blast and I was in shock when she picked up a little Bob book and read it to me! We had never read it together before so I was very surprised that she could read it independently. Since then, she is having a lot of fun reading more and more as we spend some QT together.

That's it! See you next month! ;0)

Two posts in two days...crazy! :0)

Today is Wednesday and it's a busy day for me so I thought I'd post my "Works for Me" Wednesday post a little early this morning before running out the door. (Bible study this morning).

Today mine is really simple, and pretty cheap.
Oh and you've probably already heard about it.
maybe already even do it.

Cookie cutters.

Yep, brilliant I know.

Cookie cutters for sandwiches.

It makes my son all super excited about his lunch when he opens it up to see his PB&J in all sorts of fun shapes.
Today it is bats.
(we happen to love bats and recently got to check some out up close!)
So he has two yummy bats waiting for him to eat em' up.

I have no doubt he will love doing that!

Well hello there! If you are reading this, there is no telling how you found it as I haven't "blogged" in a super long time. Welcome back and thanks for coming by!

I am not sure what I want to do with my blog now...what sort of purpose I hope it will have. It may just be my ramblings but hopefully it will be more often.

I am blessed to be a Stay At Home Mom right now and I often find myself craving some adult conversation. I know blogging isn't exactly a "conversation" but I've been known to dominate conversations anyway...this way, nobody will get their feelings hurt! ;0)

I do plan on posting my menu for the week each Monday.

I plan on posting "Works for Me" on Wednesdays.

I plan on sharing about the multiple Bible studies I am doing (I am currently doing 3 different studies).

Other than that...no plans. We'll just see where this ride takes us.

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~robin

I've tried.

to start new habits

to convince myself to do things differently

to stay more on top of things

it just doesn't work!

I need some sort of Robin Habits Makeover!

Some sort of conference, retreat, ...SOMETHING that truly changes how I do housework.

I was not made with a built-in need for having things clean.
I truly wasn't.

I did not grow up in a house that was always clean
I did not grow up having to keep my room clean.

We cleaned the house on Saturdays. That was my Mom's big cleaning day. And she frantically cleaned until it was done. We had to help...I think. BUT I didn't have to clean my room if I didn't want to. It was my room and I could have it however I wanted. Well, since there wasn't anything in me that naturally wanted things orderly or clean...my room was...well... horrible. Dirty in every way. Stuff piled everywhere. Stuff all over the floor (couldn't ever see the floor really). Anything, anywhere.

The problem with all of that is growing up and not having any sort of habits for keeping things cleaned and/or organized.

Here I sit, taking a break from the MOUNTAIN O' LAUNDRY that I always have.
I keep saying that I am going to do a load a day or every other day and fold it and put it away immediately. BUT I don't. And it piles up.
Then I always think I'll do it on Saturday.
Which sometimes I do.

But then sometimes we make spontaneous trips to see family.
Spend the day with friends at the zoo.
Go out of town.
Various wonderful things that are much more important than cleaning.
BUT
the mountains begin getting larger.
and larger.

So now I face a guest room FULL FULL FULL of clean clothes waiting to be folded and put away.
I do this often.

SO.....how do I truly change how I am wired to start being more on top of housework?
Stop letting it pile and instead take care of it?
I'm not a fan of coming home from work every evening to cook and then clean...not leaving me anytime to spend with the kids....but there must be some way to do at least something small each night once the kids are in bed...

and how do I set that schedule...
and

STICK TO IT?

HELP!!!

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A week ago we lost Bear.

Yep, we really did.

Now, we've lost Bear before and have either 1~found her or 2~pulled out a Backup Bear and all was well.

But this time, that didn't work.
We could NOT find Bear anywhere and the only Backup Bear we have is one that she deemed for Caleb because the tag didn't work right (I'll have to go into the entire thing about Bear, about Bear's tag, and what it's all really about another time). SO, THAT Bear just wasn't working.

We tried to make do though..with Backup Bear (who is really "New Bear") and Pink Puppy. It was a long few days though. Then I finally gave in and took her to the store to find another lovie with a heart tag (it has to be the material/threaded TY tag) to see if that would help.
It did..sort of. She still really just had to have New Bear and still wished she had Baby Bear. We were making it though.

I had a friend that said "Maybe this is what she needs to break her of Baby Bear."
Nope, not so much. She just satisfied herself with New Bear and longed for her real one.

For the life of me though I couldn't think of anyplace we went last weekend and I could not find that darn bear!

Today we did what is usually our NORMAL SATURDAY errands. We went to Petsmart. We go to Petsmart almost EVERY Saturday. Maybe that's why it didn't even cross my mind that we had probably gone last weekend...

Anyway, there we were...went to get our crickets and then make the walk past the doghouses (the kids always climb into those) and then go to the front to watch the dogs play that are in the doggy daycare. We ALWAYS watch them through the glass walls. We sit down and just watch. ....
......
right next to the walls/windows are large shelves that have dog beds on them.
Georgia likes to climb into the dog beds and curl up...

and today she did the same thing...

like she always does...

(do you see where I am going with this?)

...and when she did she said "Momma, I have Baby Bear!"

I didn't catch on...thought she was talking about the bear we brought in with us, New Bear.

I said "Ok Baby."

She said "Baby Bear was in the dog bed!"

I again didn't really catch on and just gave her an odd look and said ok.

Then she held it up and showed me the tag and said "LOOK! It's BABY BEAR! Baby Bear was here!"

That's when it clicked!
We had apparently gone to petsmart last weekend, Georgia had apparently had Baby Bear with her, climbed into the SAME dog bed, and there we left Baby Bear! I had NO IDEA! (honestly I don't even remember going there!)

and praise God, there Baby Bear stayed.

and waited

and sure enough, we came back...unaware that Baby Bear was there waiting for us.

Thank goodness PetSmart doesn't sell too many dog beds!
(or clean off their shelves!)
and that we are creatures of habit!
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It was wonderful!
We are all so happy that Baby Bear is back in the family.

Hi there! I know, I've been gone a long time! I kept thinking of all the things I would need to post whenever I came back and it was a bit daunting... so I decided that I am NOT going to try to catch everyone up. I post on Facebook a lot and there most people have been able to keep up. :0)

I just wanted to pop on and share something little but cute.

If you don't know how big of a deal a small cut on your thumb can be, check with Georgia. See, when you are a thumb sucker and you have a band-aid on your sucking thumb..it causes BIG problems.
We got to experience it today at nap time and it was NOT fun.
She was so frustrated and upset (being extremely tired added to that fun) and couldn't figure out a solution to the problem.
I of course shared some thoughts: suck with band-aid on, take band-aid off, suck your other thumb, etc. She was adamant though that none of those would work. I told her that she had another thumb and 8 other fingers she could choose from.
My frustration level was going higher and higher.
It's not often we still nap in this house, especially ALL of us.
But today was one of those times, or at least I was trying for it to be.

She finally said "I caN'T suck on that thumb (the other one) Momma! It doesn't taste good! This one tastes good, this one doesn't!" I asked her what they tasted like and she very seriously shared with me:
"This one tastes like strawberries. This one tastes like grape. I don't like grape."

so..there ya' have it!
She finally fell asleep (after probably 40 minutes of distress) without sucking on anything at all.

Hmmm...strawberry, grape.

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I promise I will be back soon with a post. I've finally posted LOTS of photos on my Facebook.

Both of our main computers are down so I finally went ahead and downloaded photos onto our laptop. I'll go ahead and post soon too..

in the meantime though I couldn't help but to share this new favorite photo of my baby girl from dance class. :0)

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