I'm making Lemonade!

     I'm not one to put ALL of my personal information out there except what I want people to know. Over the past year, life has handed me a lot of lemons. I'm on the path of making some amazingly sweet lemonade but it's been a work in progress. Most people follow me on Facebook and if you do then you know can get an idea about what I'm going through. I guess the big elephant in the room is that I'm going through a divorce. It sucks! It plain and simple, sucks! However, I also realize that my happiness and spirituality is extremely important in keeping me healthy. There are many reasons for the end of my four year old marriage that I thought was going to last forever because that is what I planned and hoped for. However, I am not going to put all those reasons out in the public because it is frankly, nobody's business unless I want you to know. I don't gossip and try not to say mean or harsh things about other people and I'm not going to start now despite what I'm going through.

     It goes without saying, I did try extremely hard to save my marriage but gave up when I personally felt like I did everything I could do. Things aren't always black and white like some want to ideally think. Things are gray, with a touch of pink, and a splash of orange in-between. Things are fuzzy and aren't always clear and I've learned that a lot in the past year. My relationship with our Heavenly Father has suffered over the past year due to the trials I've been faced with. I couldn't feel the presence of God or the Holy Ghost anymore. I was trying to go by the book and do what I was supposed to do. But it wasn't working. I decided to change my attitude, relax a little, accept that I am human and make mistakes, and pour out my heart to God every single day whether in prayer or in conversation. I can feel Him once again. I feel Him in my scriptures, in my daily life, with my daughter, with my family, and even in my troublesome situation. No matter what is going on, He has provided a safe and loving home, transportation, a great and loving support system, a healthy and happy daughter, and other things that I don't need to mention. He is taking care of me always regardless if I can feel Him. I trust and have faith that He will continue to help me figure out some solutions to upcoming problems but I have no doubts He will be there for me. I love my church. I love our Heavenly Father. And I'm so grateful that Jesus died for my sins so I can return to live with our Father again.

     Good news is that I'm happier every day. My stress is decreasing every day and every day my daughter's smile and laughs fill me with overwhelmingly joy. I have some amazing things going on in my life that I am lucky to have no matter if the timing is or is not perfect, I'm trusting in Him that it all happens for a reason. So I've written enough for now, hope you all have a happy night :-)

Edible Paint!

So a few weeks ago I decided to make some "edible paint" for Sophia to have some fun with. It's a very complicated recipe so stay with me....

Ingredients

Plain white yogurt

Food coloring

PS. Next time, it would be a lot easier to get disposable aluminum muffin holders so that it would the clean up easier.

Let the body art begin!

 

Shew! Wow! What a difficult recipe! I did however figure out, some food coloring only took 1-2 drops to get the true color and some took 5-6, just had to play with it. Sophia LOVED this so much that she painted herself. I did have to keep her from eating her paintbrush that she thought was edible :)

Have a happy day! :)

Ribbon Organizer

Ribbon Organizer!

I have been looking for ways to organize all of my ribbon! I've seen plenty of examples but none seem to work right. Small plastic containers didn't let the ribbon rotate off of the roll easily, "pants" hangers with multiple rods only held a few especially if you had larger ribbon, and the boxes that already had the dowels in them weren't very big and usually ran about $9 with only one small dowel about 12' long to hold ribbon. I something PORTABLE since I don't have a craft room or the ability to hang things up on walls right now. This was the best idea I had.

Soooooo....I made my own! Bought a box I actually liked and could choose the size I wanted (using a 40% coupon at Michaels--the box ended up only being about $8) and I had some dowels left over from making hairbows. Drilled holes on each side of the box and VIOLA! Put ribbon on and slide the dowel through. Good news? I have room to add an additional dowel if I want OR there is plenty of room on the bottom that I chose to use for random pieces of ribbon not on a roll. 

I thought this was a great idea. Got a better one? Please share!