WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Boys, Blooms, and Blue

So this past weekend was super uneventful. With half of the house having colds and it being a typical pacific northwest January weather pattern (cold and wet) We hung around the house.

So I finally tackled painting the powder room. For the last 10mons I am sad to admit it has been covered in a blue color that looked great in the store and on a paint chip but when I put it on the walls of my low lit room, "tropical spray" looked more like a Miami night club rather than the soft robin's egg blue I was hoping for so after at least 10 different samples smeared all over the walls I finally found a more modern blue that I really love. "Buckland Blue" has my me very happy, I have gone into this at least 30 times today. I think I might even carry it into my family room which is way overdue for a new color.

So can you see my attempt at glazing? I did not know realize at the time that I need flat paint for the stripes to show up in my low lit bathroom. I am learning the hard way that lighting indeed affects everything. So, with having 3 young men in this house there is no way that I will have flat paint in a bathroom. I hope you get the picture and that I need not go into further detail. So, long story short I really like the stripes but too bad you can only see them with a flash or lighting strike. I am now in need of new accent pieces for the shelf here. The small painting that was here no longer fits, so now that I discovered Hobby Lobby has on line shopping I am sure this will be filled in no time flat.

This is the first artwork that my husband I bought together. I love it here. I would have never thought to hang such a big picture here but it looks so great as you walk past the powder room.

I love bulbs!!!!! The is noting better to help see me through the winter than the having blooms in the house!

And of course no weekend is complete without finding Ryker in the bathroom at least 5 times unrolling the toilet paper!

Xbox time on a Sunday afternoon!

Armchair Mania

So to me one of the best parts about having a home is making it your own special hideaway. A place where when you walk in through the door you feel at rest. Someplace that is a beautiful expression of you. A place where at the same time it is ok to have your feet on the sofa and you don't live in fear of it all tumbling down with one wrong turn from a young boy just trying to have fun. I have no greater joy some days than to be snuggled on the sofa in my living room sipping a latte and looking out window takingin the veiw of the beauty of the valley while little boys run round and round chasing each other. That veir has produced some amazing sunrises and sunsets over the last several years. I have lived in my home for about 7 years now and I am still overflowing with ideas. Sometimes my many many ideas lead to over load and so as a result nothing ever comes of my fabulous ideas (well at leastthey are fabulous to me) So for my latest binge these last few months I have been craving for the perfect arm chair for the living room. For a long while I thought I wanted a big brown leather wing back chair to go along with my heavy old world styled pieces already in that room, but times they are a changin'....here are just a few of my latest finds.


Can you believe that all of those pretty chairs are from Tar-jay. I sometimes can't believe all the little hidden gems I find on target.com














These last few are from Pier One. I love this store I do not go here as often as I would like but I am sure my wallet is happy for that. I love the playful prints. I have a home that seems to have brown tones in every room so slowly I would like to introduce more bright colors but in a soft whimsicial way.




The floral prints just make me happy! I have either (A) lived in the Pacific Northwest to long and need prints like this to see me through the winters or (B) I have too many men living in this house and I need to inject so sense of feminity this place. I am pretty sure it is a little bit of both.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Relationships

I often think of the relationships in my life. My friends, my family, my neighbors. I often ask myself if those relationships bring glory to the Lord or do they draw me away from who I want to follow. Many times when I feel inside my-self that the relation is drawing me into sin I often pull back and shelter my-self. So, this week I find my-self thinking about the relationships my children are involved in.

I know that one of my many many roles as a mom is a protector of my boys but I have never thought of protecting them from friends, school/play mates. Only keeping them away from obvious dangers.





Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, of what fellowship have light with darkness? 2Corinthians 6:14

with our recent transition to homeschooling have been reading several books about homeschooling. The book I am currently working on has really affected me. Educating the WholeHearted Child, is a book that is several years old but it is rooted deep in scripture. This book has challenged me in many new ways. It has caused me to refocus my family, God has been the center of our lives, but I am not so sure that our little family was next in line to that.

With my oldest about to be 8 I am quickly realizing that he is starting to make his own choices (or at least wants to make his own choices) We have tried to set our home up in a manner that his friends will enjoy hanging out here for years to come. I have been so focused on that I have not stopped to think about where do we draw that line in our children having close friendships with unbelievers. The Lord God calls us to be disciples for him, but do children really have the intellectual know how to achieve this yet. I say no, I have watched my precious children challenge me on a moral manner already because I friend of his told him otherwise. I love that when you are young you have not yet had experience with fools and liars in your life so you eagerly believe what ever is spoken to you (hence having "faith like a child") but this is also very dangerous when we live in a fallen world and the enemy comes after you as a child to try and separate you from a life with God.

So I sit here at a crossroads wondering how much is too much for my sweet young men who have close friendship with children who live in home on the opposite end of what we are trying to achieve in our home.

Prayerfully seeking the right answer...

Karate Kid

Sebastian has been taking Karate since this past fall, and he has really grown to love it. When he first started he behaved like most boys his age, rowdy and never standing still. As time has gone by he has become a new Seb, he is focused and tries his best at every class. It has been really neat to watch him. He has also been teaching all the boys on the block his skills, it is like his own little dojo. It is nice to see Seb use some leadership as he is our child that follows along with his friends. Before Christmas the class had their first test not only did Seb get is yellow belt but he was promoted to yellow belt 2-stripes and is now in the intermediate/advanced class.

way to go Seb Iam very proud of you.