Category Archives: family

Getting Started

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since i have now read that you are an organized, structured person and i can tell that is true…i am curious to know more about that. especially now that school is starting. what is a typical day’s schedule? and what is a typical week’s schedule? when do you do laundry? when do you clean your bathrooms? i am not an organized person and i am not structured and i want to be. do you think it is possible to become such a person? how do you stay up on all that you HAVE to do so that you can take on more things that you WANT or SHOULD BE DOING? ~Lisa

I had a couple of people ask me about my scheduling and routine. I am flattered that people who don’t know me think that I am organised. My Mom hearing this would probably laugh out loud! I have the reputation in my family of being sort of a scatter brain. (That is the sad thing about reputations, once they are set it is hard to break out of them.) Truth being told, I was a very unorganised person and it has only been the last few years that I have learned to schedule myself. I have learned that children do better and behave better if they know what to expect everyday and at different times of the day. There are no surprises, my girls know that when they wake up they are to get dressed and sit up for breakfast, after breakfast they work on piano or stewardship’s (depending on the child) everyday.

There are some aspects of my life that are more organised than others. If you were to take a peek in my closet or on my desk and you would see that I need a lot of help in those areas. I am much better at organising my time.

Another thing I would like to say. My scheduling works for me at this time a season in my life. I have done different things during different time. When I had 4 little ones, 5 years old and under my schedule was very basic and consisted of nap times, meal times and bed times.

Over the next few days I am going to share with you all my schedules. There are 4 main schedules that run my life: Morning, Evening, Homeschool, and Weekly. I will also be writing a post in answer to this question:

Also, I’d love to hear about your earlier days as a homemaker, and how you made things work with very small children around. ~Mrs. Mordecai

So join me in the next few days as I open the day-to-day details of my life.

Family Game Night

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Sunday evening we had Dadzoo’s parents over for dinner and a little Birthday Celebration.
(My mother-in-law turned 68)

(I hope she doesn’t mind if I tell the world that she is 68)
(After all, 68 is the new 58….)
Anyway

After dinner was over and we had eaten the amazing birthday cake I make her (more pictures later, anyone have any idea what 68 candles look like on a cake? I do, and I took pictures of coarse!) We all gathered to play a rousing game of Settlers of Catan.

Baby Boy (really I should say toddler boy since he is 2 and a half) climbed up on Dadzoo’s lap and wanted part of the action. He was being so cute that I had to take pictures. This sequence of pictures is an illustration of what happens when a 2 and a half year old doesn’t think the game is going very well for him.

(Chadd this is for you….I wanted you to know that we are training him up right during your absence)


(gone)

(and back with his blankey)

(Fine then, if I can’t win then I will just play with Daddy’s hand)

Free Cotts….you pick

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One of the best things about July in Utah is that we have two holidays.
Of course there is the 4th of July
which is one of my favorites
I love the 4th
it is almost religious to me.
Then we have the 24th of July
that is the day the first Mormon pioneers rolled in the Great Salt Lake Valley.
They were searching for the freedom to worship how they wanted. I had ancestors on both sides of my family that made the trek west in covered wagons and even handcarts (some were a part of this disastrous company). Many people died to be here, and I feel a love and reverence for my forefathers.

So around here the 24th is a state holiday, celebrated much the same way as the 4th, with parades, BBQ’s and fireworks.

We went swimming with the whole family on the 24th and while we were there my sister told me that her husbands grandma had apricots that were free for the picking. After we were done swimming we stopped by to pick a box.

Katie picking the ones she could reach

Dadzoo climbing the tree for the sweet ones at the top

My littlest sister Lindi, isn’t she pretty
she looks like me
this is her grandma-in-law’s tree

Boxes of beautiful apricots!

That next Sunday my neighbor told me that I could have all the apricots I wanted off her tree. YAY!
I have two 5 gallon buckets full of apricots sitting in my kitchen.
I love free food
There will be posts to come as I process my gazillion apricots. We are going to do apricot butter, apricot jam and apricot syrup.
Stay Tuned!

The Little Punk Kids

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Thank for bearing with me and looking at all the pictures of my kids I have been posting the last week or so.

I loved how they all turned out and I wanted to brag a little.

We took these pictures on a very stormy Friday evening in June, in the foothills of Lehi. There was a huge thunder storm rolling in behind us as we were snapping pictures, that is why Kallie and Katie’s pictures show their hair blowing in the wind. I love the effect. We finished just as the storm burst and ran to our cars in the pouring rain. Talk about good timing!

I would like to give credit where credit is due, the pictures were taken and edited by a very talented lady named Jennifer Williams.
http://www.4getmenotphotography.com/