Money Saving Heroine

I've been following Crystal @ moneysavingmom.com for four years and have been encouraged many times by her posts and love her advice!

She just finished her very first book and it will be released in January 2012!  You can preorder her book at a special price right now on Amazon!

Check out her book and check out her blog! You will fall in love with her soon enough too! ;)

November 10 on 10

I woke up with intense motivation to thoroughly clean.  

My apologies to those of you who think chemical bleach is of the devil. ;)

Cut and Paste day in Kindergarten.  ha.

Lunch. 

Afternoon reading.  SO VERY PROUD of how well he's doing! :)

Building time. 

 I make them do something constructive while I read our chapter books to them. 

I HAD to get out of the house.  The oldest two and I ran to a friend's house for a few minutes.

I changed our dinner menu last minute to tacos.  After browning the beef I realized I had no taco seasoning packets. Since I've been putting off making my own for a very long time, I decided it was a good time to give it a whirl. :)  turned out fantastic!

What I found when I pulled out my pan for brownies.  

That's my daughter for ya...

Gluten Free Brownies!  YUM!

what happens when little monkey escapes to the couch with crumbly brownie. ;) 

good thing he's so darn cute!

That's it!  Ten Pictures on the Tenth of November to summarize my day. :) Join us!

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unfinished

I've sat down every night this week and started a blog post.

Notice I said started...

I have the desire to write, and thoughts I want to write, yet once I get going my brain fogs up and I end up making very little sense.

Same thing tonight... I sat down to write, started something, and quit.  Too much on my mind and too much in my heart to figure out.

Then as I continued sitting here, petting the cat that stands in front of my computer screen each evening, and lamenting over projects I should be working on and yet don't feel like it, I realized something:  I am not a finisher.

I am GREAT at coming up with ideas, MOTIVATED to start said ideas, EXCITED when things get going, and then... somewhere along the way I get lost.

Usually it's right about the time when I'm not sure what to do next, or overwhelmed because I don't really know what I'm doing, or distracted for the fifteenth time by 'I'm hungry again' or other childhood ailment that can't wait a few minutes longer.

Sometimes I feel like my house should be on Hoarders (okay, not THAT bad, but sometimes it feels that way!), and I want them to go through all the clutter in my house, and the house itself and count how many unfinished projects I have.  

Sad.

I really wish God would make me a finisher.  I mean, if He's giving me ideas, motivating me to start, then WHY can't He make me finish it?  I guess a better word is why can't He ENCOURAGE me to finish it. 

No clue how to change this yet.  

BUT I will start learning how to be a finisher tonight, by ending this post and actually putting it on my blog. :)

...hey,  ya gotta start somewhere, right? ;)