Tuning in and fine tuning

Stay tuned tomorrow for more drama coming from our home. Sometimes I feel like I am being secretly recorded for night-time television and everyone is watching me. Is this for real?
Yes my life for real.

 I am reading a book in our church women's group called Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Contentment by Linda Dillow

In the first chapter it tells us about Ella's prescription for contentment:

Never allow yourself to complain about anything, not even the weather.
Never picture yourself in any other circumstances or someplace else.
Never compare your lot with another's.
Never allow yourself to wish this or that had been otherwise.
Never dwell on tomorrow-remember that [tomorrow] is God's, not ours

Oh boy! How I am a work-in-progress and must be fine-tuned.
So far it's a great book and so relevant to my life right now.

Sunday

Today, I thought I'd take a break from crafting so I did a little spring cleaning. Got a lot done, but can you tell when you walk into my house? Maybe. lol
Monday is coming before I know it and I've got some high hopes for more crafts this week. Be on the lookout!
Oh and why am I up so late? Because my 5 year old won't go to sleep because she'll "be lonely." And I'm still waiting on the dryer.
G'night!

A New Conversation with my child with Autism

I decided to try something new on my son Nathan who is 10 years old. Typing a conversation on notepad together. Here is our conversation: (Nathan's answers are in blue)

hello nathan!


hello!

i love you!

i love you too!

do you like cupcakes?

yes.

what do you want to do today?



what is your favorite color?

brown

i like pink.



when is your birthday?

do you know?

yes.

tell me please.

April 25

great job!!!!!

Are you smart?

yes.

what is daddys real name?

william.

what is mine?

hot bread.

no i mean what is my real name?

nathan

not your name, my name?

yes.

mommy's real name is...

dana.

The ATG gun

I cleaned up my craft room today. It's amazing what a little Spring Cleaning can do when you are motivated!
You should be so proud of me to have cleaned off the kitchen table with that mess you saw in an earlier post.

I also want to followup with where you can get that ATG gun (advanced tape glider) that I spoke about in a couple of previous posts.
I found it at Michaels. Don't ask any associate because they won't have a clue what you are talking about. I found it around the side of an end cap near the stickers section almost at the bottom of the rack. It's retail is $29.99, but I used my 40% coupon and if you buy something this week, they are giving out 50% coupons at the register for next week!
It's worth it because the tape refills are $9.99 for two and you can use the coupons too when you need to. I think I spend $6 for each little tape dispenser and it doesn't go very far. This thing is massive, but awesome! Watch a tutorial like the one I posted previous on how to load or you won't use it and it'll be too complicated.
Oh and it comes in PINK too for breast cancer awareness as a bonus~!

Hot chocolate and a cupcake in the evening.

Sat down at the dining room table and chatted with a friend on the phone tonight. She had invited me to go see Toby Mac on the 30th with a bunch of people from our church. Woot-woot! Should be awesome!

I made hot chocolate for Samantha and I and we shared a cupcake too.

Yesterday…

I wanted to share a photo I took last night of my family. They didn't leave me much space to sleep.

Suffice it to say, I moved everyone to their appropriate beds for the night.

Dana