This week was so busy that our fresh homemade meals happened only once. With it being Ben’s last week, we were trying to get as much done as possible and then True’s birthday arrived and we flitted off to Palm Springs.

The only meal I made was Thai Chicken with Hot-Sour-Salty-Sweet Sauce…

I thought we had chicken breast, but we didn’t, so I decided to also use the marinade and sauce with shrimp (I know Ben won’t eat the drumstick). Bad idea. The recipe went well with the chicken, but not so much with the shrimp. It came out way too salty and just wasn’t good with shrimp. The chicken on the other hand, was really yummy and when you drizzle the sauce on top, the flavors just really pop. I would definitely make this again, but with chicken only and not shrimp. 

We’ve got one week left until Ben goes back to work. Ben and I feel there is an invisible hourglass just counting down the minutes. Our list of to-dos are hardly done and we are scrambling to finish. In fact, it seem like new to-dos come up before we are done with the ones we already have. 

This week’s learned and links…

– Aunt Flo came back after being gone for 16 months. I didn’t miss her one bit and really don’t like her much, but I don’t plan to get pregnant again, so looks like she will be sticking around for a long while. 

– Glow does the army crawl. It’s funny.

– I haven’t ran at all this week, blame Aunt Flo, but I am running the SoCal Color Run tomorrow. Anyone else running it? Maybe I’ll see you on the track!

– Picking up my dining room light fixtures today and my dad is putting it up for us. Yippee!

– True’s got her long a sound down, for the most part, along with different long a vowel pairs and now it is time to move onto long e. 

– Brave is my romantic chid. This fact deserves a whole post of its own.

– Got one poster left. The tulip one. If you want it, send me an email! 

– True’s birthday is this week and we have got a colorful day planned. Excited!

– No more wrong holes in the wall. Thank you for this Rachel.

– This pillow is the bees knees. So cool.

– Loving my red braided clogs. Clog addict for sure. 

– My prayer life sucks and I am slowly crawling out of this laziness of not wanting to pray and started praying for little things.

I want and need to depend on God daily, but honestly if you look at my everyday life, you will see a whole lot more of self-centeredness than God-dependance. This usually results in a train wreck and leaves me discontent because obviously being self-centered is always a problem. I definitely want to be more God dependent.

I got some sponsors to share this weekend, so check back and have a happy Saturday and Sunday!

This is all her. I may have chose the shirt, but I can’t remember now. Though I know she for sure chose the boots, that was not my doing at all. No sir. Not so sure I would have been bold enough to pair knee highs and boots together. Hey! She’s a kid and this is her world and I think if anyone can pull it off, it would be this shy girl here. Just looking at these pictures you would never know that she is glued to my leg out in public, wouldya?! 

With all the cleaning going on over here, it is time to move these vintage reproduction Jung Koch-Quentall Botanical Charts to another loving home. They were originally $198.00 from Anthropologie and had them up in our house for a little bit, but not too long and I have kept them nice and safe since then. If interested, send me an email. They look nice together, but they don’t have to go as a pair.

*****cherry one is sold, so tulip one is the only one left*****

Soul. Very much still our baby, but slowly evolving into a little girl. Though I must emphasize the really slowly party because though her vocabulary is growing, it still all sounds like little mumbles and half the time we still don’t understand her. And don’t let that sweet little face fool you… that face is a mixture of sweetness and mischief all rolled into one. This girl here is our feisty one. Oh and she is deathly afraid of animals, especially stuffed ones.

Morning was spent gathered with our church family and being reminded of Christ’s work he did on our behalf on the cross. The afternoon was spent lounging around and feasting with Ben’s family and our evening was spent feasting some more with my family and some friends. I for sure ate way too much. I definitely did not practice moderation and was wishing I was wearing a muumuu instead of my colored skinnies. I think my top pant button was busting at the seams and I was really try my best to suck my tummy in. It was really a beautiful Easter Sunday and we all came home exhausted, but joyful. Well, except maybe for True whose tiredness really made her the crankmonster. Never fails to have at least one screaming their head off from tiredness.

Hope your Sunday was just as wonderful!