So simple, yet so huge!

This post has been my mantra today!

Cute video

My kids have gotten a big kick out of watching this little cutie giving the "evil look."

Mom of the Month, Ericka Mitchell

Here's Ericka with Brody and Kenna--they took this picture as a gift for her husband Brett. Her New Year's Resolution is to take a recent family picture!

What do you enjoy most about being a Mom? I love that I understand my children more uniquely than anyone else, except God of course. It is such a joy to watch them learn and grow. I also enjoy seeing my children through the eyes of others and watching grandparents admire the special things about each of my children.

Tell us about your first date with your spouse. For our first date while in college, we got to know eachother over strawberry ice-cream then we went to see the movie "Father of the Bride II". Brett was a wonderfully romantic gentlemen, and from then on, we were a couple. Now married for 9 years, together for 13 years!

If you were to say that your general outlook in life has changed since becoming a parent, how would you describe the difference? I used to be ready to conquer the world - I now view the world as a place from which my children need refuge. My daily prayer is for the health and safety of my children; that they may enjoy their childhood full of love, peace, fun and faith.

If you had to recall the time when your family laughed the hardest and loudest together, what would you have been laughing about? We have laughed uproariously in recalling a time, this past Christmas, when my son ran to me with tears in his eyes saying "sister hit me with Jesus and his friends!" He was talking about a child-size nativity statuette.

If you could smash one thing and one thing only, what would you smash? I would smash, burn, shoot, shred, poison and drop-kick my husband's favorite sweatshirt! It is a 20 year old mint-green relic, that has more holes than threads. He loves it and knows I hate it! I am secretly scheming to have it kidnapped. :)

Pics from January meeting

Brenda, Shele (with Blaze), Jennifer, and Misty


Allison, Stephanie, and Karen


Marla, Shannon B., Candace, Ericka, and Anna


Marianna, Betsie, and Charisse


Marla is pretty excited about her Starbucks gift card door prize!

Organizing Tips

What a fun meeting today! Thanks for coming! Brenda will email me the pictures later to post, but I wanted to get on here and see if everyone might post a comment with your favorite organizing tip.

Here's mine. I love this calendar so much I blogged about it! It's just enough organization to keep me functional, but not so much that I can't keep up.

Here's a more detailed explanation of the Office in a Bag. Also wanted to list some of the books we mentioned today.
-The House That Cleans Itself
-Organizing from the Inside Out
-SideTracked Home Executives
-ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

Catching up

Hi ladies! Hope your Christmas was wonderful! We can't wait to start the New Year off at MOPS with a great speaker--a professional organizer! Danabeth from Busy Solutions will share tips and tricks to keep the clutter under control this Thursday, January 8 from 9:30-11:30 am.

Here are some pics from last month's open house. Everyone had a blast and we had a couple of new faces! Hope to see you Thursday!


Candace, Betsie, and Laura at the hot chocolate mix station.


Kerri, Marianna, and Laura at the origami gift box station.



Candace, Laura, Ericka, and Stephanie busy making gift tags



Fun treats!

Everyone also went home with a dozen frozen balls of cookie dough! We had chocolate chip, peanut blossoms, sugar, peppermint meltaways, cranberry lemon, chocolate peanut butter chip, and snickerdoodles.