Girlie, Girlie....

We have been lucky enough to have my younger sisters baby stay with us for a time. We are going on 3 weeks now and it has been a wild ride! I can honestly say that for myself I have NEVER experienced the full concept of motherhood until now. <Young mother that is. My kids have not reached school age yet.

In the past couple weeks we have been going through mood swings, teething, and one strong will! As much as I can say that my boys do what they can to get their way. Neither one can top little Mia. She has a strong will and a way about getting it! <I can't say that she does not take after her mother or myself for that matter, we are both bull headed in to many ways. And for some reason or the other we can make others pretty miserable because of it.  

 Ryan's most common response is. What do I do with her? She is fragile and does not want to wrestle like the boys. LOLOLOL.......Of course not. She wants to lay her little head on your shoulder and then play patty cake. Or in most cases she would like to chug the milk in her bottle and have a snack.  Or maybe play in the toilet water.< I walked up to Micah and her drinking it out of their hands the other morning. Yuck.

For me I have to say that 2 kids is a piece of cake. But 3....... that makes the whole world different. Between separating your time for each throughout the day to a simple yet not so simple run to the store. With 3 in the cart you are limited to what you can buy.< Maybe that is a good thing.? Who knows.

Even pink bow's and poka dots is just out of the norm for us. It is fun though:) Her momma will want to smack me for spoiling her but oh well. I am the aunt, we can do things like that.

Nap time is a task and cleaning up the toys is for some reason twice as much work.
The milk is running out by the minute and if I have to open the dumpster one more time to toss a stinky diaper I might pass out by the smell.... Ahhh at least I am cracking myself up about it. Who knows what the garbage man thinks.. Ha ha poor guy.     From rearranging the Christmas tree a few times a day to pj's on pj's off,  I know that some of you mom's with more then a couple kids know exactly what I am talking about. < I have no clue how my mom did it. She had 8 and home schooled us all till I was in high school. What a trip.....  Well its safe to say that as a mom we all say at the end of the day that it is totally worth it. And we have new strength for the morning.

Don't get me wrong I love that there is another girl in our house. She has been a real blessing to us in this time and we wouldn't trade it. She is one fire ball though, that makes 2 of us.  I think  between the 3 boys and us we are an even match. Any more girlie's and we might just take over the steady man hood going on in the Wallace House. Who could deny that sweet face^

BreAkfAst Of ChaMpiOns

Getting Creative with Leftover Rolls from Thanksgiving!

I had made some yeast rolls for thanksgiving day and we had a few left over. This morning the breakfast request was French Toast. Usually I use the same method my mother in-law uses. (French Bread) But since we had some rolls I decided to try it.:) They turned out great. Not that it is very easy mess this simple breakfast delight up. But you never know I have burned a soup before.......You think that would be hard to.

Here's how it goes.

3 eggs
1tbl  vanilla
2 tbl sugar
1/4 cup of milk

Stir with a wisk

Butter each piece of bread and soak it in the mix. Throw it on the skillet!
And you know the rest!!!!!

Enjoy

While I was making this I poured myself some coffee and proceeded to put the pot in the cabinet.... It just made me laugh. I must have been half asleep still or just going crazy.

Chicken Posole Recipe

After a great thanksgiving meal. We toned it down tonight with a family favorite.
Here is a great fast recipe. Hope you will try it out.

Hands-on time: 10min
total time: 30 min) serves 4

1 Tbl Olive oil
1onion, thinly sliced
Kosher Salt and black pepper
1 32oz container low-sodium chicken broth
1 28oz can diced tomatoes, drained
1/4 tea, crushed red pepper
2 cups shredded rotisserie chicken meat
1 15oz can hominy, rinsed
1lime, cut into wedges

>Heat the oil in a large saucepan
over medium heat. Add onion and 1/4 tea salt & pepper and cook, stirring occasionally until soft and beginning to brown, 10 to 12 min.

Add the broth, tomatoes, and red pepper bring to a boil. Stir in the chicken and hominy and simmer until heated through, 3 to 4 min. Serve with the lime.

optional > Add a second can of hominy. And squeeze the lime in your bowl.
Serve with french bread.

Enjoy!

My boys even love this soup.

Method Mom!

Lately we have had to find a way to keep Micah in his room during his nap. Previously we used the plastic "Safety First" door covers. We have misplaced those in the move and had to come up with an alternative. We could have bought new ones but I am not like most mothers who like to safety lock everything in the house. Even though at times I think why didn't I just get a stupid lock.? Like on my bedroom door....... Well  Ryan and I have discovered that if we just lock the door, Micah does not unlock it. He has several times so I know that he knows how, but for some reason he won't during his nap time.











As much as this has been a simple method to keeping my 2 year old in his room during nap time. It has been a real cramp in my daily doings around the house. My  husband has decided that locking all the doors that we don't want him roaming in is a good idea. I thought "This could be good". Little did I know that my husband would remember every time he walks out of our room and also bathroom he would be locking the door.

 Lucky as we are, the south makes it way to easy to break in. We have placed a penny at the top of each of our upstairs rooms. Including our bathroom that is located in our master.
This morning as I was running up the stairs to grab something from the bathroom. I was stopped by the locked door then as I entered our room I noticed that the bathroom was locked as well. "WOW THOROUGH" Dangit...... While I was trying to find some loose change to unlock the door to the bathroom I was thinking that we are going to have to find another method or hurry little Micah out of this stage.< Or I could just surrender my pride and buy those locks.<<<Nahhh

Hair I Doo and Love

Decades! the 70's

Church is never boring in the south! We just kicked off a Decades sermon series. This week everyone was dressed up like a hippie or something of that sort. Ryan had on some shoes that he grabbed out of a box that said (pimping Gangster) They were the coolest.... Let me tell ya. They had lion stripes air brushed on them. "Classic" The band preformed a montage of some tunes from the 70's including (Sweet Home Alabama, Jeremiah Was A Bull Frog, Its Along Way To The Top, and also American Pie.) It was something! The girls were snapping there fingers to the beat and adding little movements here and there. What guts I tell ya.< I am such a chicken I was just loving watching.

Matt (John Travolta) did a great Job with the message. He talked about Erosion of authority. It was really cool how he connected it to the decade then also talked about how this generation is one of rebellion. It is really interesting to see how the generations that we have grown up in influences us in such a huge way. I think that it is safe to say that most of us struggle with Authority and also being rebellious. I feel like an idiot saying that I have Rebellion problems, mostly because I am an adult. Since I am an adult I should have learned all the lessons of making simple mistakes and I should not have any problems submitting my will for the greater good. To bad that is so not true. Learning how to obey is a life long lesson, 26 years and I am in full swing. If I could put it into my own words what I would like to obtain. It would be obedience and knowledge and with that wisdom! I love the word Wisdom. This is not including all the other millions of things I want to gain in just one life. I know that God has got some great things for me. I know because he has brought me this far and that is FAR! I also know because I am saved by his grace I have been able to do so much more in my life that I would never have done without the freedom I have in him. <More to come on the decades. Next week is the 80's can't wait!

Merry "Cheap Tree" Christmas!

Growing up my family didn't celebrate the season with a christmas tree so we don't have tons or ornaments from a million years ago. Since my husband and I got married we have been decorating a hand me down tree. We enjoyed that tree up until last spring when our shed flooded and took the tree with it.
 For the past few years all the Wallace girls take a trip to a small town a few miles from our family farm. We usually check out what the sales are going to be the night before then we are on our way in the freezing dark before any of our Children or husbands are awake.
Last years "Black Friday" I had my BF go to the Lowe's and get a door buster! She was one of the first people there and got me that beautiful christmas tree that I had my mind set on. It was only $15, Regular price was $100, I was so excited. Well we sat that thing up last year and, what do you know that was the scraggliest tree I had ever seen. I had to add some garland to the center to make it more real.

Every year we go the day after christmas to get the best deal on all the Target goodies! I really enjoy this because I just started getting the boys a special ornament. This year the boys both had a special one. Kenan had a deep sea diving bumble bee and Micah had a snow skiing Hipo!

This year since we moved the end of October we decided to celebrate the seasons early. The boys and I went to get more Garland and lights to add to our "Beautiful" scraggly christmas tree and kenan also added his ornament to the list. He came home with a dino that is blue with purple claws. I didn't post a picture yet because the claws were broken on the way home in the bag and then Kenan was trying to cut the tag off and broke the head off. Ohhhhhhh Boy we have had fun:) Oh well Its just an ornament that we will BE glued together for another 20YEARS. Kenan won't mind but his woman might when he is trying to hang it on his Christmas tree someday. We love the holiday seasons.< Oh Ryan is the one who helps the boys hang all the ornaments on the tree. Just like his daddy!