Swagbucks: Earn Free Gift Cards

I wanted to give all of my readers a heads up on a website that I have been earning gift cards from. Swagbucks is a site that I have been using for a couple of months to do my regular web searches every day and while I do so I earn what they call Swagbucks which then can be redeemed for gift cards and other prizes through their site. Right now I am saving up all of my Swagbucks to get a Target gift card that I will be using for a much need pair of maternity jeans. Maternity jeans cost so much that I really don't want to spend the money on them even though I need them but if I can get them using Swagbucks I will be getting them for free or almost free and that I can live with :)

You should try Swagbucks out if you have not already just because its such and easy way of earning free money :)

Here are some of the ways to win Swagbucks:

• Use their search engine for your every day searches (I earn at least one everyday doing this)
• Follow @Swagbucks on Twitter
• Become a friend of Swagbucks on Facebook

Doing all of these I get anywhere from 2 to 5 Swagbucks a day and now I am about a 1/3 of the way to getting my Target gift card.

If you are the really thrifty and frugal type and can see this being a good way to get a lot of deals at places like Target.

Wordless Wednesday - Birthday Party!!

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

There were lots more but I need to get them from my mother :)

Bittersweet Moments

Tomorrow my baby girl is turning one!!! How the time has flown...

My dearest girl,

Mommy is so excited to see you turn one yet at the same time I wish I could make time stand still so I could keep you at this age forever.When you joined my life I was blessed beyond measure! I was so excited when I found out that I was pregnant with you. I had wanted a baby so bad and I was finally getting my dream. Hearing your heart beat for the first time made me cry and made me finally realize that you were indeed there!! Your first kicks made my heart melt and made me so happy! I was beyond excited when I want into labor because I would finally be holding the little one that I had waited so long for!! There is no way to explain how I felt when I got to see you and hold you and smell you for the first time!!!Though those first few days and weeks with you were some of the hardest I have every been through I would not change them for the world. They made me realize how blessed I am.

 A few days after she was born.

Now as you are growing older and looking more and more like a toddler I am missing my little tiny baby. I love your little toddling steps and your sweet baby talk and I will miss it lots as you grow older and change in the the beautiful young woman I know that you are going to be. Yes I will miss your babyness but at the same time I am excited to see you grow.

So Happy First Birthday my sweet girl!!! May the Lord bless you and may His face shine upon you this year as you learn new things and change from my baby girl into my little girl!!!

 Samantha now playing dress up :)

Mommy loves you lots and lots and lots!!! More then I can say!!!

Learning To Be A Woman After God's Own Heart

All of my reviews for my pregnancy bash are over and to be honest I am relieved. Now don't get me wrong, I love doing the reviews and giveaways but they are a lot of work and I have been having a hard time keeping up with them and the things that I need to be doing at home. So I am thankful to be done with them though you can be sure that more reviews and giveaways will come up but in the mean time I want to be working on becoming a woman after God's own heart.

Have you read the book by Elizabeth George called "A Woman After God's Own Heart"? If not I really recomend that you pick it up and give it a read. Elizabeth's book is one of the best books that I have read in a long time on womanhood. It is also one the most convicting books that I have read in a long time hense the title of this post :)

Reading Elizabeth's book showed me areas that I need to work on in my day to day life. Some of the areas are just learning to make my home a place of peace and order. As a wife and mother this is something that God expects from us since we are our husband's help meet and have the power to make live easy or hard for our families. This is something that I did not learn when I was younger and so my home has been suffering from that. So the past couple of weeks this is what I have set out to learn.

Starting out I realized that I needed to learn how to keep a routine or at least be able to follow a list of things that need to be done. So I set out to find a list and I have been trying to follow it. I started out with the old fashioned list of Mondays are wash day Tuesdays are you clean the living room and so and so forth. I then realized that I need something a little more in depth and so I found a list on ListPlanIt.com that I am using which has a month long routine where it focuses on a different area of the house each week but also has the essentials like laundry and dishes on it.

Following a list has been hard to do as I have Samantha and I am five months pregnant and there are days that I just do not feel like doing anything. So I decided to start getting into a routine with the things that really need to be done so that DH and I are not going crazy. This included dishes and laundry. Once I get into this routine I plan on adding to it gradually until I have the whole house down.

So far I am getting the dishes done every night before I go to bed which is a big accomplishment for me :) The laundry has been a little harder since I have to drag it a couple of buildings down to get it done and I also have a huge pile that needs to be folded right now but one little step at a time and I know I can make it.

What is it that you struggle with right now and what steps are you taking to see it get done?