Thankful Thursday

This week I'm Thankful for the help that I've been receiving with Mackenna while I'm in school this

semester. I just want to give a little shout out.

Ian - Thanks for taking on the mom and dad role Monday-Thursday. Feeding, bathing and putting Mackenna

to sleep. It's a big help, and I know she loves being with daddy. 

Mom - Thanks for taking Mackenna @ your work for a half hour on Thursdays till Ian is off. 

Drae - My awesome brother, thanks for watching Mackenna on Tuesday night's and actually staying the night. It helps a lot. 

I really thought that I was going to be able to post regularly and still work full time and go

to school 4 days a week. I was wrong. I'm thankful for my readers this week for still 

stopping by even if my posts are ill regular. Thanks for sticking with me. 

54.. Mackenna's Daddy

55. Sleeping in a comfortable bed

56. Having tons of firewood for the winter

57. 35 degree morning's, snow is coming

58. Living in the mountains

59. Friends and New Friends

60. Great job

61. Still alive after 3 weeks of school

62. That Ian still loves me :)

Blog Design Giveaway by Happy House Wife Designs

The Happy House Wife Giveaway

This is my biggest giveaway yet! I am offering TWO blog designs! Yes, TWO! What the winner will get is their blog designed in a Halloween theme and then once Halloween is over they will get their blog redesigned with a kit from Scrapkitchen Designs! What could be better than that!? 

The Halloween kit is from one of my favorite designers which you can find here - Libby Weifenbach. She has crazy talent and wonderful kits that I just can't get enough of! 

Here are the two kits that will be used - 

What you will get (with both designs) 

- a custom background 

- a custom header 

- a blog button with the "grab box" 

- choice of one or two sidebars 

- up to 10 sidebar tabs 

- signature 

- post divider 

- two sidebar pictures with frames 

How to enter 

- leave a comment on here telling what your favorite candy is 

- follow me on Twitter 

- follow Happy Housewife Designs on Facebook 

- do a post about this giveaway 

- tweet about this giveaway (can be done daily) and each Tweet will count as a entry 

- by putting my button on your blog 

Make sure to leave a separate comment for each of the above entries! If you are already following on Twitter/Facebook leave a comment just letting me know! 

Deadline to enter 

The last day for entries will be September 25th. The winner announced on September 26th! 

If you are the winner you MUST reply within three days otherwise a different winner will be picked. You are also stating that you have read and agreed to my giveaway TOU which you can find here - Giveaway TOU

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Wordless Wednesday.. Sort of.

Traffic... blah. The commute to school that is a little over 30 minutes can be 

brutal at times and test ones patience. Then after they have finished the construction

I can deal with driving with other's that can't drive in the snow. 

Two season construction and winter where I live. 

Happy Friday

With another week of school done, this weekend I can't wait to hang with my

girl Mackenna. Just me and her, and maybe daddy :) 

Stayed tunned tonight for my meal plan for next week. I'm going to 

start doing them on Friday's. It's just easier. 

Oh my, I downloaded the photos from the wedding I was in last week, and will maybe add them

to my meal plan post this evening. 

Make it a fun Friday! 

I'm really pissed :)

So, I rarely read news online or even watch it. I refuse because everything is so negative, blown way out of proportion and it just makes me depressed. Although, once in a while I pull up cnn.com, not my favorite source for the news, but I like how the top news story are just easy to access on the home page for easy quick viewing.

With 9/11 coming up, there is a lot flying through the headlines. One that particularly hit me was the fact that a man, sorry (minister), in Florida will be conducting a burning of Quran's on the anniversary date of September 11th. I'm not judgmental at first, but I was interested in what this guys ultimatum was to do this on a very highly sensitive day. 

I don't want to be too direct and touch on other's feelings on the thing, however I will say this, this is the most absurd thing I've heard of. This man is endangering our troops, that are still fighting for us over the attacks 9 years ago. He is also endangering the American people.

Anyway, I'm sorry for the rant and the post. I guess sometimes us mom's need to rant and rave about something and this is mine today :)

Wordless Wednesday

I love to play outside with Mackenna. I hope the snow stays away for a little longer than 

normal this year. She calls her car her "Beep, Beep" 

First Day Of School

So last night was the first day of school. How did summer go by so fast. I live in Lake Tahoe, California just to reiterate. We had an especially longer winter this year and summer was real short. It's hard to get back in the swing of things of going to school and nights and even having less time when I get off work to go the home duties, and dinner rolling for the night. I've doing some thinking and realized that I need to make sure that I'm taking care of my family even while I'm attending school.

This semester I'm taking 4 classes and going to school 4 nights a week and I work 5 days a week. You can already see the time I don't have already. However, it's important that I still use time management skills and be as organized as I can. 

Here are my promises to my family....

1. Keep to the Meal Plan

2. Stick to my cleaning schedule

3. Be positive, even on less sleep then normal

4. Try and do homework when mackenna is sleeping

It's going to be a tough semester, but I'm lucky to have my Ian, my mom and brother

to support and help me with Mackenna. 

Cheers to a good semester.