Help Me if you can

I am trying to come up with a good way to teach Bailey to do laundry. I have gathered information about it off the Internet. I have learned some things for my own laundry techniques. I want to know from my friends and family. What is something you would suggest? She will have smaller amount for sure and I haven't had that situation for a while. Is there something you can help me teach her? I also want to help her with doing green laundry, which is hard because you should use full loads. Do I give her anything, like small detergent and softener? I don't want to spend extra money, but want to treat it in a special way. Why? Because I don't want to be an slave driver--I want to be a guiding MOM. Thanks for your help already.

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Rambling on Friday

OK, well I am experimenting with font colors. Fun. I have almost baked 7 loaves of bread. The zucchini was out of the garden that yeilded three loaves and then I made banana bread to avoid wasting the bananas.

It had been 18 days since we had eaten out as a family and we ended up eating at Taco Villa last night. We have been to Donut Stop twice because of various celebrations and reasons, but no eating out for all five of us for that amount of time. Bailey commented about wow, we are eating out, but not being sarcastic!! Yeah.

I am trying Karen's heavenly pie tonight for Mom's birthday and a chicken enchilada casserole from the back of a cheese package. We'll see!! I have enjoyed cooking.

This week I am supposed to be working on arms--1 day. Not eating after dinner. I have enjoyed this healthier thinking. I have also made myself drink at least 80 oz. of water a day and have done rather well.

I used my chimeria to make a little fire for roasting the usual. I sure took me a while, but I am not giving up and had a nice little fire. The first of the summer. I really enjoy that. I have worked on projects this week: a checkbook for Clint, a present for Baby Blessing, scrapbook cards for Mom and one for Mary. Anyway...a bit different week.

I love life. It sure will be hard to go back to school, but it is my calling and I will be fine. I hope to cut back on unnecessary projects to make me less stressed this year to be better for my family. We'll see. Pictures to come.

Healthy Habits/Financial Diet

Still no eating out!! We ventured to try the meal of rice and beans. I knew Teagen would think that was not so good, but he had a great attitude about it. Bailey didn't think she wanted it again for lunch the next day, but Kyton said' "I love these beans!!!" They added ketchup. It is amazing that ketchup can fix anything.

Habits for the week: core exercises, good breakfast--I believe I have no trouble with breakfast--I love it, keep walking, small portions, veggies and fruit still. I love this.

The finished product!!

Comforting...warm...art museum...

Bailey picked a great color. River Road

Christy's days this week

We have only eaten out with MeeMaw on our annual outing to watch the youth musical in Amarillo. The musical this year was Big River. You know after really tryind not to spend money, when you do, it seems sooooooo expensive. We had a great time. It was Bailey, Teagen, MeeMaw and me. Kyton stayed with Trevor.

My healthy habits for the week are doing OK. I have done two of the three days of cardio--dance with Denise Austin. I walk the other days. The fruits and veggie has been pretty good. I hope zucchini bread counts for that this morning--oh yeah, I had fruit juice too. I have tried to cut back my portions, too.

My project for the week besides cleaning the bedroom, bathroom and closet of ours is to paint the bathroom. I HATE PAINTING CEILINGS, but it seems crazy not to do it while am at it. This is the only big paint project of the year. I plan to repaint a little kids chair that used to be in our church when I was little and a set of shelves to try out for the boys dresser. We'll see.

PS. I know this is silly, but we have avoided using paper towels this week too. No cokes from Jackies--not to boycott Jackie, just avoiding spending money. He has great ice!!

So here is the during of the paint project.

Monday and Tuesday

"First Fruits"

Sunset of an AMAZING kind!!

Cool window markers.

Live! Teagen & Kyton

The kids spend soooooooo much more time outside.

Sox even got a bath.

The cats all have different personalities. Teagen has now named his cat Rascal. The boy acts differently than the girls.

Scripture for right now. I keep running into Matt. 6:33-34. God just wants us to focus on Him first and all these things will be ADDED to you. You don't even care about what is added because you are looking to Him. WoW!!

OK, the shorter clips do not take as long. I have enjoyed this experiment. I will try to get pics from the trip.

Kids and the Kittens--Live!

OK here is my second attempt to see how long it takes. I better get the concert pic off. I don't know how all that works. I am not stealing his work--just wanting to experiment.

That's Bailey. I was trying shorter clips.

Trying video

Ok this is taking forever to upload. I tried my new little video camera, but it wouldn't upload. I am now trying to do one from my camera. Sometimes our Internet is slow, but this is extra slow. Like all morning long. I was trying to figure out how to share so that we can share when Baby Blessing comes. So far...frustrating. But it finally worked!!!!!!!!!!!