Happy Monday, friends! For today’s Currently, I will link up with Becky at Choose Happy and our other friends to hold our weekly updates. Read, comment, link up and let us know how you’re doing currently!

Celebrating  || my gorgeous friend Kate’s wedding! It was a beautiful ceremony and a fun reception at the groom’s parents’ house. It sounds crazy, but they cleaned out their furniture from their great room (it was large with high, vaulted ceilings and huge windows) and set up tables and chairs. It really worked great! Hubby’s band played, the food was yummy and there was good beer. Overall, a total win!

Planting || our vegetable garden! We finally went to Lowe’s and got the wood for our last bed and some of our plants (some actually turned out to be most). We got them in the ground on Friday! We actually chose a few things we’ve never done before, including Brussels sprouts, asparagus, and romaine lettuce. We also got the usual herbs (and added cilantro!), squash, cucumber, and tomatoes. We will go back for peppers, eggplants, and the other kind of tomato we didn’t see yet: yellow gold cherry tomatoes- they grew like CRAZY and we all ate them off the vine! 

  
In case you’re wondering, the white petals have fallen all weekend off a tree in our backyard, and they’ve blown all over cars, the deck, and the garden. It looks like snow now that the wind has been blowing all morning.

I’d also like to give Hubby the outdoorsman award, because he’s also been mowing, weeding, and pressure-washing and staining our deck. He’s a keeper, y’all.

Praying || for sleep. I really feel like we are under attack in this area. Between Hubby’s late night work, a toddler who is getting up before 7 (unheard of with our kids until the past two weeks) and an 8 month old who is waking 1-3 times a night (having previously slept through the night), we are at a total loss. I’m having anxiety about even going to sleep at all, because I’m afraid that I’ll just be woken right after I actually get to sleep. It’s a bad cycle. So if you’re a praying friend, pray for sleep at our house.

Scheduling || our lives for the week. We have a lot going on between Holy Week (and my church job), Hubby’s two albums he’s in the middle of, some writing projects in working on, and just keeping up with regular life stuff. We don’t usually plan out weeks out in advance because our work is typically flexible, and we don’t mind working at odd hours. But this week, we’ve got deadlines and I have extra church services, and we need to really be diligent if we are to accomplish everything!

That being said, if you are local, Reynolda’s Easter weekend is going to be INCREDIBLE. Here’s the run down:

Good Friday Service, Village Campus: this Friday evening at 6:30pm & 8:00pm

Easter Sunrise Service, St. Peter’s World Outreach Center: We partner with them every year and it is a PARTY to kick off your Easter Day. This year, it’s at their place at 7:00am this coming Sunday.

Reynolda Easter Services: Village Campus Worship Center at 9:30am and 11am, Ascent (in the fellowship hall, where I’ll be!) at 9:30am and 11am and at the Union Cross Campus at 11am!

So many opportunities to celebrate and worship and check out Reynolda! If you don’t have a church home and you live in the triad, get to one of these services!

What are you doing for Easter? Is anyone out there planting this spring?

Hey y’all, and happy Tuesday… and happy MARCH!! I don’t know about you, but spring seems to have sprung here in NC (at least for the week), and I can’t wait to completely indulge in warm weather happenings. What’s it like where you are? Do you need some humor to cheer you out of a cold weather slump? Here it is!

 Overheard on J’s monitor during nap time: The Batman theme song.
You know, just saving Gotham City, one nap at a time.

Me, whispering: I love you, J.
J: I love you!
Me: I love you, EK.
EK: YAY!!

 EK: There are so many princesses at the Mex-can restaurant!

J: What happened, Mommy?!
Hubby: You stuck your elbow straight in your food.

One night we were out to dinner, and right after we said the prayer…
EK: Amen. Cheers!!!!

Watching The Sound of Music…
J: It’s do-re-Mia! (Maria, of course.)

In a restaurant with some friends at lunch, and the power turns off…
EK, eyes wide: Holy crayap!

EK has been watching a lot of Cinderella. In the bathtub she was scrubbing the walls and singing: Oh, sweet nightingale, oh, sweet nightingale…. (The actual words are, “Sing, sweet nightingale, sing, sweet nightingale…”)

J, puts a piece of ham in his mouth: I don’t like it. (Spits it out. Looks at it. Puts it back in and eats it.) Can I have some more meat?

EK’s new favorite word: dangerous. But only if it’s used incorrectly.

EK: Can I have a sip of that? (My mom’s beer)
Necie: No, you’re not quite old enough.
EK: But I am skinny!

I go into the spare bedroom (where we dump the laundry) and see this:  J, wearing mittens, atop Mt. Laundry. And he says, “I schwimming!”

Heard from the other room:
EK: Do it right now! Say yes ma’am!
J: Yes ma’am!

Now let’s hear it… what crazy things are your kids saying?

Happy Tuesday, y’all! Nothing much to report, so here we go!

J cries because he put an enormous potato chip in his mouth.
EK: It’s okay, buddy. You’ll get it.

EK: Let’s go into the kitchen!
J: Let’s go to the chicken!

EK: Here’s some rabbits for you! 
Me: Okay, then…

I hurt my foot and I moaned and groaned about it for a while…
J: Don’t cry, mama.
Me: Are you all at once the cutest and most concerned kid?
J: Yeah.

J walks up to EK, wearing two bead necklaces.
EK: Joseph, do you want to be a king, and I’ll be the princess?
J: Yeah! (Gives her one of the necklaces.) Here you go, Princess!
EK: Thank you!
This was obviously all pre-arranged, right?

J: I wanna snuggle! Sing the train song!
Me: Come on ride…
J: Sing Eidelweiss!
Me: Eidelweiss, Eidelweiss…
J: Sing Oceans!
Me: You call me out… (The first verse.)
J: No! Oceans!
Me: And I will call upon your name… (The chorus.)
J: Close the door now.
Me: Well, I just feel used.

J, holding the Apple TV remote: I got it!
Me, controlling tv with my phone: Ok, buddy.
J, furiously pushing buttons: Look! I got it!
Me, still controlling it: Yep, totally.
The battery was dead. But who needed to know?

Me: Joseph and I are cleaning! Do you think you cold help us?
Ek: Um… No… I’m going to… Um… Read the Bible!
Apparently she thinks I’m not going to argue with such an activity.

Well, have a merry Christmas, everyone!

Hello, Wednesday! It’s a better day for this week’s Currently anyway. I’m linking up with Becky at Choose Happy and the rest of those great blog friends! Enjoy, and tell me what you are up to currently!

Loving || wearing boots! I have my trusty brown pair I ordered off of Amazon last year (the brand is “Very Volatile”) and I think I’m going to invest in a pair of booties (Do we call them that? I just mean ankle boots.) for this year! I like the fact that I don’t have to think much about my footwear- I just pop it on. 

Excited || about Halloween with my big kids. They’ve each got a couple of costume choices already here in the house, and we are headed to the pumpkin patch this morning to choose pumpkins and take a few pictures. It should be fun! We are also heading to the country club Halloween event next Thursday, our church’s trunk or treat event on Halloween, and then trick or treating a bit afterwards. Talk about busy!

Traveling || to Georgia to see my family this weekend! It’ll be our first big road trip with three kiddos, so thank goodness our new car has a DVD player! Hopefully D will hold out and nap a lot. It would take hubby and I a little less than six hours if we were by ourselves, but it’s taken up to nine with the kids and all the stops they need. Hopefully we won’t take nine this time since we aren’t leaving until noon!

Enjoying || fall weather! We got to spend some time on a friend’s farm on Saturday, and we’ve been playing outside a lot at home, too. Here is proof we love fall:  

    
    
 
Celebrating || my father-in-law’s birthday! On Monday we had lunch and dinner with the family. We love having the kids all together and knowing that we’ve got two more coming! We also just found out that the two coming are a boy (in January) and a girl (in March)! Blessings abound!  

 Well there’s my late edition of Currently. What are you up to?

Hello everybody! I hope y’all had a great long weekend! We didn’t do much – and that was totally fine with us. Mostly relaxing and catching up on life a little bit. I’m such a nut, though… I checked my (snail) mail three times on Monday wondering why it hadn’t come. It obviously didn’t feel like a holiday to me, ha!

I’m linking up as usual with Becky from Choose Happy for her weekly Currently link up. Please join us and let us know what’s up with you and yours!

Running || around my neighborhood, two miles at a time. It’s been tough, but really good for me. I’ll be posting about that journey this week.   

  Eating || a delightfully slow and quiet breakfast with Hubby this morning, after we dropped the big kids at preschool. D took a morning nap and we ate at Mary’s Gourmet Diner downtown. I’ve always loved that place, and I was glad we had a morning treat there today!

Cleaning || our laundry room and mudroom. This morning when we got home from breakfast, I continued the laundry blitz I had started yesterday, and vacuumed, organized, and put down our new indoor-doormats from Homegoods. I love that place!

 
Making || cookies! They’re just break-and-bake, but that way I can let EK and J do everything and they love that.  

 

There’s a little update on our lives! What have you been up to currently??

Happy Saturday, everyone! This morning I’m on Mom Babble, writing about something really close to my heart. I’ve really opened up and poured out, so please go over and read it!   Here’s a little bit to get you hooked…

I have a confession to make: I’ve never had a clear vision for my life. 

I never had some huge goal I really wanted to accomplish. I didn’t have a career path I had wanted since childhood. I haven’t had a huge dream that was waiting out there for me to come catch it. I’m picturing a Broadway musical here… the swell of the orchestra, the anticipation of the audience, the main character (who we already love) bursting into song as she sets out to find her place in the world.

I just don’t feel like I’ve ever had that moment. I’ve had wonderful experiences, adventures, and moments that were huge for me. I’ve taken big steps in the direction of my future. But I’ve never had this one perfect thing that I’ve had years of building up and getting around to…
Read the rest on Mom Babble! 

I’m thrilled to be featured over on Scary Mommy right now, talking a bit about my twenties. Please hop over there, share the post if you love it, and show Scary Mommy some love!

Excerpt:

As I near the halfway point of my 29th year, I look back on my fabulous 20s and see a pattern. I see myself getting slightly more tame, busier, and zero percent less awesome.

I find myself more confident, happier, and super excited about the next, supposedly dreaded, decade of my life. I’ve learned important things in the past 10 years, and I’m applying that knowledge to make my next 10 years easier, and hopefully more fun.

– See more at: http://www.scarymommy.com/life-lessons-learned-in-your-20s/#sthash.r4bvcZCk.dpuf