Fitting in the Love

So yesterday I didn't post. It was hard on me. Honestly I feel bad posting right now. However I can see all my children that are home so I know it will be okay for a short post. Yesterday was a busy day. See we finally purchased our home. The home we hope to fill with love for a few years to come. My children know we have the house. They are just as excited as mom and dad. However at the same time I spent my time not at the house or with my kids, working on Pumpkin's rag doll costume. I didn't have my sewing machine so my grandmother was kind enough to sew one up for me and ship it. All I had to do was adjust the elastic. And well make her a wig. The costume was due today!! Well here I am still working on the wig. I am hoping to get it done tonight after the small ones are in bed and send it in tomorrow. The more rows I put on the quicker it is going. It is time consuming no matter what. So I may not get in what I was going to talk about tonight. Let's just hope come Tu...

So today was nothing but errands. I ran and got supplies for an upcoming crafting event (probably won't be shared until after Christmas since they will end up being gifts.) I got some special glue to fix a lighting element for the house. That will be shared as the house is revealed. I did some recon at our favorite place for furniture. Yeah sad I know but a good percentage of our furniture came from here. I was in search of some items to match current furniture, which surprise, surprise is on back order. We plan on going back to buy that (chairs for our dining room table.) We did end up getting a mattress from here for our little man. (My husband has made the bed already and I am holding off on sharing because I am so super proud of his job I want the reveal that with the whole room.) When I got home I had the "twins" go inside first. Of course one comes running back to me, this time being Bubba.    He is "scared momma." I ask him "Why?...

So tonight I am shopping online. What am I shopping for? Well Christmas cards. Remember those fabulous pictures I shared, well I have at least one I have not shared that I want to use for my Christmas card. I am working on finding the best price. My other thing I am shopping for? Well that would be 12x12 prints without paying an arm and a leg for a poster the size I really didn't want that I would have to cut down. Needless to say I have found websites I didn't know existed. I have ONE I trust to buy the prints from however, they are and arm and a leg for my Christmas cards. So I am looking at half the price for the cards simply getting them at Walmart of all places. See I really don't want to buy more than I know I will use either. So I am certain this art project of mine will have to be put on hold for now. The husband gets paid soon and I will get my spending money which I can use to buy my prints for my wall art. For now I think I will just get my cards from Walmart. I...

Okay so today we were on a mission, you see Tuesday we sign for our new home. The home my husband and I have had built, one we plan to live in for years. The problem, we NEEDED window coverings. After much discussion with each other we decided on curtains in this home, in the end we decided on thermal curtains for many reasons. We wanted it to be noise reducing, black out, thermal curtains. For us we did not care where they came from but we had requirements, They HAD to be at least 84" long, and certain windows they HAD to be 52" wide. We went to 4 stores, we got almost all the windows, we did get all the curtain rods. I won't show pictures of all the curtains we got, you can wait for them to be reviled in each room as I show case them once they are done. We did make a stop between stores for lunch. It was one of our favorite places for lunch, Q-doba. We all have our favorites. The kids really enjoy eating here. However at the end of the meal I was left with the same q...

So this has been a tradition for me for years. I am getting sad now since it is harder to coordinate with having four kids who gets to go. Well this year it was me because hubby had to work today. I regret not bringing my camera to show the crowds and well my phone has decided it does not want me taking or sharing pictures any more. It was crazy, I attempted Walmart decided that was no worth it this year, and went to Target. Things were so much better there and I was not up forever. I am glad I got there when I did because when I left the line was past a store about two football fields away. Yeah so glad Walmart did not work out or I might still be shopping, I was in and out of Target in 10 minutes because I didn't want the high price items. I do remember the first time I went to a Black Friday sale with my mom. I think I was in high school, but it very well could have been middle school. See my mom had a paper route, it was how they were able to send me to private school. We woul...

Today is a day to be Thankful for many things. This year I have an overflow to be thankful for. We welcomed our 4th and final child into our family, we moved closer to my husband's family, and we built a house that will last us for more than 2 years, a house we love. This year the holiday was spent at my in laws. There was tons of food, not much space, but it was all filled with love. I shall share some of our day. We played musical chairs a lot. The baby spent most of the day in the swing, which mommy fixed this morning by adding working batteries. Yes it has not worked in weeks because the batteries died and we were too lazy to fix it, poor kiddo. The football games were enjoyed by the guys and most of the women as well.  Snowflake preferred to stay out of the way. He has his space in the basement here where he really spent his time.  This here is my niece, Boogs. She is 4 months older than Mouse. Here she is being held by hubby's cousin. She is just o...

So I am going to share some stories today about Pumpkin. See she is like me in tons of ways. I tend to be overly dramatic, I have been that way since I was little. Pumpkin is just like this. I love her but sometimes it gets to be a little much. I am sure my parents felt the same way about me. So she turned 6 in August, shortly after that she lost her first tooth. There was all sorts of drama that came with that. In the end my husband was the brave soul to pull the tooth (at this point it was barely hanging on). This came with tears, even more so after she realized it bleeds after the tooth is out. It was amusing to say the least. The following week we relived the whole ordeal when she lost the second tooth. Well for the last week she has had a loose tooth. We thought for sure she was waiting to loose the tooth at school so she could get a special necklace. It did not happen. Today I asked to see the tooth (wasn't really sure it would even still be there). Well this thing was layi...

Alright so we are what is considered a big family these days. I am lucky and my photographer loves his subjects as my photographer is my father-in-law (FIL). I had him do some family pictures this month so we could have a cute Christmas card. Our problem is the kids are so young so half the time one or more kid is not looking at the camera and this is often the result. Okay so that is sort of cute. Let's see what else results from a large family. Okay this one is not so bad, other than the face. This is a little better, again so many people and under the lights it can get warm (yes he has professional lights and will have a studio this next year.) At this point. I was sure we were done. However me being mommy we continued on. I did get the shot I wanted. I won't share it, it wasn't perfect, in fact it was less than perfect, however it just screamed this is it. It reminds me of the kids picture with Santa last year, you know one of those moments you just ca...

Okay so I am terrified of the dentist. It is bad, very, very bad. I had a tooth that I was told needed a root canal last year. I expressed my fears and that dentist basically laughed at me. I refused to go back, a month later my husband also refused to see the same dentist ever again due to how they treated him. The results of living in a small town was there were not other options and frankly getting the baby sitter arranged didn't really work all the time for me to go. So yet another pregnancy later the tooth got worse. So for Halloween this year my treat was basically an emergency root canal, the relief I got was so worth it. I realize I should have never let it get to the point I did but really rude dentists just sort of pushed me over the edge. Well since that day (which my wonderful husband sacrificed working on Thanksgiving to help me with the kids) I have had two more times in the dentist chair and I know of another one coming up. My mother-in-law (MIL) has helped me with ...

This is Mouse. She is the newest addition to the family. She is currently two months old. She is the first to not be her father's clone. I have to say it is nice to have a kid look like me. Why Mouse you ask? See for awhile she never really made a ton of noise, however when she did make noise it was tiny mouse like noises. They were more squeaks than anything else. Honestly she still does this two months later. Instead of crying to be fed at night she squeaks. She is my biggest baby yet. She is already 12 pounds, probably more by now. She is becoming more alert every day. This poor girl has the "twins" to bother her all day. I have a feeling we will have fun watching her grow.

This is my Lizard. Why such an odd nickname? Well when she was born anytime she got hungry she would stick her tongue out rooting around. Well even now she will sit there and just stick her tongue out in the air tasting it. It's cute, almost like she is trying to use a 6th sense. She is her father's child. When we found out we were pregnant with her I had a 6 month old. I had baby fever for about 3 months before that, so getting pregnant so quickly did not make me sad. I was afraid to tell my husband but happy to have the chance to have another baby. I nursed all the way through my pregnancy with her. And she was a blessing and the first to latch on minutes after birth. That has to be one of my favorite memories, being alone in the room with her for 30 minutes before they took her away for testing, she ate the entire time. She was my second natural birth. I had hoped she would be a red head too but at first I could have sworn she was a blonde. Everyone insisted she was a red...

This is Bubba. He was my early Christmas present in 2008. He was due Christmas day but he came a few days early. He is also our daddy is home from Iraq present. He will be three this year and is an amazing big brother now. He was my first venture into the cloth diapering world, he was also my first non medicated birth. You have to know with my first baby all that scared me. So he ended up being my second learning experience. See he has eczema, and the diapers I loved at first have a suede cloth inner next to the skin which only made this problem worse. This took almost a year before I realized why he kept getting these horrible diaper rashes, yes I wanted cloth diapers to work that bad. I had many people tell me I would give them up, or I would hate them. My favorite was when they told me it didn't work for them so it would not work for me. Here I am almost three years later and the smell of a disposable can turn my stomach, yes I love my cloth diapers. My labor with Bubba was ...

Today I would like to introduce Pumpkin. She is our first baby. She is one of the most caring children out there. She was born just before the end of our first year of marriage. She is who made me a mom. See I would use initials to label my kids but here is the problem I named all my kids with names that start with an A. So you say well then use their middle initials to tell them apart, uhm well I have two AJ's and two AN's, so nicknames will have to work. See Pumpkin was born just before the fall season and I jokingly started calling her pumpkin butt. Yes it can be not nice however to this day she will tell you she is mommy's pumpkin butt. I also developed a love of pumpkin flavored things so some might say I just took my obsession to my kid, but hey we both love her being my pumpkin. She was born in Colorado and probably my scariest birth. She was my first anyone I talked to said I would need the epidural, so I got one. It stalled my labor, I got pitocin and she was bo...

So today I was going to tell you a little about Pumpkin, I changed my mind. I let you get to know her later. Here is why I changed my mind. . . So we are having a house built. Today was the second to last walk through on our new house. Once we are moved in and the house is all set up I will share that with everyone. But for now I discovered a little bit more about me on accident. I was asked to run an errand today. See today is my Mother-In-Law's birthday. She asked for a pumpkin roll from Kroger. No biggie I knew I could grab one for her, normally I would have just gone to the one down by her house but I wanted to check out my new Kroger. I walked in and was immediately sent back to Texas. I swear I walked into the HEB in Harker Heights, TX. The set up was almost exactly the same (wine can't be sold here the same way it is there). It just felt like I was transported. I missed my play group immediately. See when I was pregnant with my first kiddo, so was a friend out of sta...

So thought I would introduce me and where I come from. Me, Bubba, and Mouse I am a military brat at heart. I was born in Lakenheath, England. My father was active duty Air Force. We lived in California, Germany, and he retired in Colorado Springs, CO. That is where I spent a good portion of my life. It will always be home at heart. I am an Air Force Academy fan, GO FALCONS!! I graduated from the only Catholic High School in that town and forever and always will be a Pirate. I went to college and got my BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. I worked with troubled kids in a residential treatment facility once I graduated. Those children taught me so much. I never thought I could get attached but even now I wonder about a few of the ones who really touched my heart. Due to financial reasons they closed down and I found myself a paraprofessional in a school. There I learned that substitute teaching is really more my speed. About the time I lost t...

So I have blogged for family in the past. Now I want to share with friends more of my life. Maybe make some new friends along the way. My name is Katharine. I'm married to a wonderful man his name is Bobby. We have been married for 7 wonderful years. Together we have 4 beautiful children from 6 years old to a new baby. Three of our children were blessed to us in 3 short years. I'm busy. I participate in an local board of mommies who do play groups, I am learning to coupon, I am busy with my small children helping them discover the world, and I have a few online groups I am active in or run. I am hoping that people can journey with me as I figure out how to coupon. See the crafts I create, sometimes with the help of my children. I'll introduce each of our kids as time allows. They all deserve their own posts, as they all have their unique quirks that I love. We are always growing as a family and not just in size. I myself am a military brat. My father was in the Air Forc...