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tuesday (april 19, 2011) *HAPPY TENTH BIRTHDAY TO OUR NIECE!!*
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outside my window...it is surely springtime, and at times feels like summer. ;-)

i am thinking....that i am happy i got almost all the laundry done yesterday, and that we really need to buy a computer mouse that actually works. ;-)

i am thankful for....all the fun things rocky taught me this weekend about our camera.

i am learning....that there are lots of amazing photographers out there who inspire me. {see here for my ongoing list of talented photographers, whose art iheart)

i am creating....this post {oh, i guess i could have been more creative than that, i suppose}. ;-)

i am going to....(after the kid's quiet time today), will read each of the kids a book of their choice (they just stocked up at the library today. then...leafy and i will then do lesson 50 of 'teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons'. {yep, we are almost halfway through the book}

i am hearing.... kids who are just about done with their quiet times and are ready to be read to and play.

around the house...the sound of kids conversing fills the air.

i am reading....anything i can get my hands on about photography lately.

i am praying....that i get sometime to go back home to tn and work on some major spring cleaning (aka purging) at the home front BEFORE we go back there to stay sometime in july. 

a few plans for the week....organize papers for filing, maybe sell a thing or two on craigslist (or at least post them and hopefully sell them), beach time, pool play dates, and other things which have escaped my mind at the moment.

a picture... from this past weekend (one of the few i have had time to edit thus far) when my sister was in town visiting us. stay tuned for pictures from that weekend coming soon. 

Living Simply...

 Hello! Well, we are at another end of the week here in Gulf Shores. Life is keeping us pretting busy....

With lots of cleaning, yes...it is my goal to stay on top of the cleaning while we are here. I have heard it said many times that the longer you do something, eventually it becomes a habit...so, I'm trying to start wonderful habits. So far so good.

I'm also thankful for wonderful helpers... 

This colander was quite clean to say the least. She spent at least ten minutes cleaning it.

I am also thankful for this man. I love it when he comes home from work, and love the weekends even more because he is home.

We've also stayed busy going to the library/story time twice a week. We are being spoiled, for sure. We LOVE books and it shows...

Animal crackers make it even more special, wouldn't you say?

Craft times are fun...

So, it's Friday and it's our cleaning day. (I am working on eventually getting all the cleaning done throughout the week and just spot check on Friday, but those are details I am working on..we do lots of cleaning throughout the week already, but I guess I'm talking deep cleaning.) 

So,we are going to get the cleaning done early today and maybe hit up the beach later, and possibly a park, and Books-A-Million to top things off (like I said...we love books).

 I am thankful that we don't have a lot of "things" here in Gulf Shores..I prefer to live simply. In fact, when we return to Chattanooga I will be gutting the house as much as possible. I will be doing some serious Spring cleaning! 

 So, cleaning here in Gulf Shores has been much more manageable, which makes me happy. Having ADD makes it very challenging to stay on top of the cleaning scene if I feel so overwhelmed, so keeping the stuff to a minimum, in addition to spreading out the cleaning throughout the week, like Rocky suggested many moons ago, will help me stay focused.

  Speaking of living simply..check out our simple living room "furniture" set up. 

Love the simplicity of it...really!

Have a wonderful Friday and a blessed Sabbath!

Love, Kelly