2nd Lieutenant Mom

Happy New Year! This year, I am committing to saving money, paying off debts, having a better prayer life, being my faithful to blogging :) LOL Just a little bit of everything, but nothing so ambitious that I set myself up to fail. I feel like I am moving into another season in my life where my expectations of where I want to be are not only reasonable, but totally attainable. My children are getting older....which means so am I. But that also means that my priorities and concerns are shifting too. My husband and I are both doing the YOU Bible reading program. The program we selected was the Bible in 90 days. I love it! I started mine on my Kindle Fire and he started his on his tablet because they have and YOU BIBLE App. However, you can follow the program online too. It is so simple and enjoyable to do. I usually listen to the audio version during quiet time at my house, which is only for about 30 min. - 1 hour , but it's enough to finish my focused reading without interrupt

So I promised to share with you my "Twin" story! So here it is. Last fall when my husband and I found out we were pregnant, we promised we would let everyone know if we were having another boy or another girl. Little did we realize that by Christmas time we would be telling everyone, "We're having both! One boy AND one girl! LOL So that was the beginning of this twin journey for us. Our ultrasound was the day before my doctor's appointment. So naturally when I went into the office, I completely expected everyone to be elated! However, when the doctor came and we went through our usual "check-up" questions, I finally asked, "Did you know we are having twins?" And to her surprise, she didn't! So, after rushing around for some information from diagnostics from the day before, "Yes" we had the paperwork from the radiologist that confirmed "Twins". At my local hospital, in the case of twins, you are labeled, High risk. As

I was one of those very blessed individuals who was able to actually DELIVER a set of full term , fraternal twins without a caesarean. It was definitely one of the most rewarding experiences ever! And in a later post, I will explain the delivery and hospital visit, but for now I want to share with you some things I wish I had known, hehehe… Your feet will Swell… This pregnancy was my fifth pregnancy that actually lasted longer than 10 weeks. I only say that to validate that I knew what pregnancy did to My body! However, during my second trimester, I woke up one day with the Elephant feet! This was horrible. It just kind of happened. I was walking around doing my own thing, went to bed and BOOM it happens, you get up to dress yourself in the morning, which is a chore anyway being prego with twins, and now ALL of your shoes are too tight. And if you CAN get them on, they aren’t coming off until the end of the day when you can get someone to pry them off with a crow-bar

  So it has come to my attention that the reason I spend so much time running back to the grocery store is because I failed to realize one basic concept.... Ten is NOT enough to share . This "epiphany" , if you will, occurred to me yesterday. With the beginning of the school year quickly approaching, I diligently explained to my husband, the Dr. , that we needed to make a menu for the week to eliminate the almost daily trips to the grocery store. I mean, let's face it, life is only getting more expensive with the price of  one gallon of milk exceeding the price of one gallon of gasoline. You have to cut costs where you can. So, my plan to combat the high cost of food was to PLAN our meals and snacks for each week. And that's just what I did. I wrote what we would eat and drink each day, even down to the snacks in-between meals. What I failed to note, however, was that the quantity of each of these items needed to increase, since our children are rapidly growing,

Hey there! So apparently I took a two year hiatus from blogging. Which I find interesting because, I haven't taken a "hiatus" from life! In these short two years, I have managed to have three more children...a set of twins and a singleton, help my husband finish his PhD (yes, by the way, I am now officially married to a Dr. and we now have more band-Aids in our house than I think any individual will EVER use! LOL ), become a free lance copywriter for a Malaysian company, perform the national anthem in our community parade of nation twice (oh , and I was officially asked to do it again this year! So excited!), and in between all that I managed to take care of my family. Anyway, just wanted let you know that I am BACK! And there is so much to catch up on ! So Follow Me... the day in the life of 2LT Mom :) Ciao!  2LT Mom This is a picture from a recent wedding we attended ... that's all six of my kiddos and our little friend, Red :)

Praise the Lord! Okay, so to make a long story short, I need a new hood hair dryer. The one I had, my parents bought me 11 years ago as a gift. Two days ago, I was sitting under the dryer reading a book and I knocked it off the table while using it! This resulted in the dryer falling on the floor and breaking in two. :( Well, I figured, "it's just a dryer. I'll just hop online and buy a new one..." I never thought that it would be SOOO deep to purchase a new hair dryer! Wow, technology has apparently come a long way in the last 11 years. Then I thought, "well, I'll just go on Ebay and buy the same one that I had...." Can you say SHOCK! When every dryer that looked like mine was prefaced with the words... VINTAGE! LOL All I could do was laugh! Am I vintage now? LOL You Be the Judge! "Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they