A Simple Country Mouse

Do you ever feel like every time you turn around you're getting your arse handed to you? Or you're getting kicked in the gut? Or you just start to make an inch of progress and the world decides it's going to try to push you back three feet instead? So what do you do? Me? I'm an idiot that refuses to give in. So I don't let the world push me back three feet. I dig in and hold fast. The problem with that is I wind up looking, and more importantly, feeling like John Wick at the end of Parabellum. Kicked, stabbed, shot, branded, dehydrated, finger chopped off, dropped off a building and dragged into the underbelly of the world. Let me tell you, it's not as good a look on me as Keanu Reeves. He looks great. A little banged up, but great. I look terrible. Like really terrible. As in three week old smushed trash panda that vomited the world's garbage up before dying roadkill terrible. Yup. That terrible. However, this year I have a goal. It's a goal to lear...

I heard that song the other day called "Life Changes" by Thomas Rhett and man did it ring a bell with me. I know I haven't blogged in forever but well, our life has been changing like crazy. We finally packed up and left our sweet little rented River View for a place of our own. That's right bloggers the very first blog in our brand new home! Our home! The first one we have ever purchased! How crazy is that?!?! We are officially home owners. The move was crazy but good. A huge shout out to everyone who helped us! Both the dads came on different days to tackle different projects. They each have a different skill set and man were they a massive help! Even just sitting here writing I get tears in my eyes thinking of how much went into this place. All the love and prayers. The hope, and dreams built into the very walls. The names of every person who ever worked on it are written into the beams and under the paint. Heck, Clay even managed to decorate his walls in crayon ...

Yeah yeah yeah I know. I haven't blogged in an age, but I promise you the next post will explain the why. This one however, I just need to let off steam and what better way to do so than to give you a review of a few books I've been so very happily spending my little bit of spare time in. A little while ago Josh discovered that Barnes and Noble is my kryptonite. So, I was sent on a mission to discover my latest favorites in books. And oh the wonders I have found and the spells that had been spun around my overly imaginative little mind. Lynsay Sands is a spectacular writer who's tales will weave their way into your mind and set it racing across the Highlands and battling evil vampires (excuse me, Immortals). I had the pleasure of reading several of her Highland Brides series and the Argeneau series. I have to say of them all, my favorite so far has been The Wrong Highlander. It's about a girl who is desperately trying to save her dying father by kidnapping a famous ...

I know it sounds crazy but I hope that life hands you lemons once in a while. I've had a lot of lemons these past few months but man did the sugar in my life make for the perfect lemonade. *A few months ago Josh lost his job with the company he was working at. In just a few days, he was hired with a new company and it came with a pay raise and solid work hours for our family. *I found out that I wasn't my father's biological daughter. That was a kick to the gut let me tell you. In the end, Dad and I are much closer than we were before. *We lost our niece to Trisomy 18 before we even got to meet her. Giving into the grieving process for Ava Hope allowed us to finish the grieving process for our own Darrin James, who we lost before Sam was born. *We have been looking for houses and every offer we put in was either rejected or the house didn't pass inspection. We are now the proud owners of a plot of land that will soon have the perfect house for our family on it beca...

For anyone who needs it, here is my list of how to mom throughout the day. Enjoy! Step 1: Wake up to screaming children. Step 2: Groan while attempting to crawl out of bed hoping that today will be better than the last two weeks. Step 3: Grab children out of bed and begin to change diapers/pullups. Step 4: Discover that one is poopy and you have run out of wipes mid diaper change. Step 5: Scramble around attempting to grab wipes while wrangling a wiggling toddler and hoping against hope that poop doesn't get everywhere. Step 6: Finally get children changed and head downstairs to start coffee after you have soaked your hands in bleach for 1/2 an hour.  Step 7: Breakfast...Toast? Crap...where's that blasted jam you just bought. Butter? Drat...it's hard as a rock. Step 8: Make pot of coffee and wait until it's ice cold before drinking while doing dishes and refereeing impromptu wrestling matches between your children.  Step 9: Reheat coffee, and prompt...

I'd like to tell you a story. It's a pretty amazing one that has not just one, but two incredible heroes in it. Here goes. Once upon a time there was a young man who was dating a young woman. She was a little odd and was not the most faithful thing in the world, but still he liked her even with her brand of crazy. Out of no where she became pregnant. This young man knew that there was very little chance that baby was his, but he also knew that that little baby was going to be his no matter what. He chose to be the father either way. So he married the young woman, and soon the day was upon them and they welcomed a little baby girl into the world. She became his whole world and he would do anything to make sure that she was raised well and know without a shadow of a doubt that she was loved more than anything else. It wasn't long after that the young woman left. She couldn't handle being a mother and she was trying to hide a secret. Little did she know that the young ma...