Simply the Smith's

Is it just me or is laundry crazy We have 5 people in our house Towels alone for the week are 16-20 towels......a week You have bedding for 4 beds so that is 4 fitted sheets, we are blanket people to at least 2 blankets per bed so 8 blankets and then 10 pillow cases. That alone is 4 loads of laundry Clothes The kids clothes are smaller but man they go through more. They each have a pair of pj's per day and Sissy and Marshall have a undershirt to go with that. Then they have an outfit for the day. Plus socks. So in one day we amass 3 pairs of pj's, 4 undershirts, 3 t-shirts, 3 pairs of pants, and 3 sets of socks. Kids clothes alone I do 3 loads of laundry a week because for sure at least 2 days a week someone spilled on themselves and so outfit changes it is. During hockey season that is a whole load by it self. Michael has a load of work clothes And then we do two loads of our laundry. 11-12 loads of laundry a week......I get why the Duggars needed all...

Here is a day in the life that I never hit publish on because I was so deep in what I thought at the time was my peak of survival now 2 years later I see that survival just morphs and changes all the time. So here is Novemebr of 2016 what our life with 7 month old twins and a curious 3 year old. Also they look so little I feel like a was more organized and I need to work on getting back on the work out train. I guess I'm in the season of survival. At least that is what it feels like. My day starts early. 4:15. I do hit the snooze once and roll out of bed no later than 4:30. I have my clothes laid out so that helps and I'm downstairs to get everything around. I make my coffee, finish up lunches, do my hair and make up (which spoiler alert is a pony tail and a quick swipe of mascara!) I check and make sure bags are all around and then I feed Riley. 5:30. I start getting the kids up (if they aren't already) Grayson takes a while to wake up so I get him up firs...

About 2 weeks ago I got a call from the school nurse regarding Grayson. My first thought went to that he was sick. But she said no he is fine. The words she spoke next made me so very confused "Graysons teacher has noticed that he was having trouble with his colors so she brought him down to be tested for Color blindness and he has failed the test so we recommend that you get him looked at by his pediatrician" I'm pretty sure I responded with "Um what?" because this was the first we had heard of any concern over him knowing his colors. She sent home the test results and the next day I called our Dr. In talking to the Dr he decided that the best course of action was to go directly to a pediatric ophthalmologist who specializes in this.  Thankfully there is an amazing one about an hour from us and they got him in the following week. So Michael took off Friday and my Mom came to watch Marshall and Charlotte and off we went to our 9:15 appointment...

So I last updated our Baby Step #2 in October. We were just starting to tackle our last credit card and well next week we are making our final payment on that! In the last 3 months we have paid $6,456.00 off in debt!!!!! We are beyond excited with that number. We are on track to pay off that credit card with the last payment on Friday!!!!! Then it is on to the last two loans. So we have 48,000 left to pay and in crunching the numbers the next loan should be paid off by November (we are pushing for September!) and then we will be onto the last student loan. It is just crazy and it is exciting. But so so hard. I'm not going to act like it is easy. We are sacrificing, we are scrapping, scrounging and some nights I'm all "Hey guess what it's cereal for dinner again!". This is a marathon. This is a commitment. I have bad days where saying no just seems like the only thing we say. So we have built in little rewards for ourselves. Li...

Yikes I took a break and not even on purpose.... Life got busy and my job got crazy and well I had to cut something out to make my days a little less hectic. Things have simmered down a little bit around here for the time being and so I'm going to attempt some updates. I will have a debt post up tomorrow it's super exciting!!!!! Wednesday I have plans for a quick update on the kids....they are changing by the second it seems and I want to capture the magic (and rip your hair out) moments that we are in right now. We have a fun spring project planned and I'm going to share a little bit about that too. I'm dipping my toe back into the whole blogging thing I missed it really and truly and I'm setting aside some time each week to make one to two posts happen.