Running

I feel like I am constantly running, and sometimes I really am.  I do run for exercise several times a week, and even then I do not always go anywhere because on these below zero days I stay inside on the treadmill.  I am a mom to three little boys, four years old and under.  I have read several different blogs in the last four years as I have been home with them and it feels like every time I read one there is something new I should be doing to be the best mom I can.

I have read MoneySavingMom and decided that I should be couponing and saving money as much as possible.  We also like Dave Ramsey and have worked at paying off our home mortgage, so I know what it is like to live frugally.

I have read IHeartOrganizing and decided I need to reorganize my entire house from top to bottom.  Not only that, but I need to organize my cleaning schedule and my family schedule.  Also, my cleaning needs to be chemical free as much as possible.

I am now reading 100daysofrealfood and am deciding that my family needs to eat as few processed foods as possible and what we do eat needs to be less processed.

Sometimes all this with being a mom and trying to teach my oldest to read, help my middle through his terrible two temper tantrums and potty training, and being sleep deprived with my three month old makes me feel like I am insane.  What am I thinking?  Of course I just want the best for my family, but who can do it all, and how much is really worth it?

Here is a picture of the cheese crackers I made because I wanted my children to have something home made instead of processed to eat for a snack.  My goal currently seems to be to get rid of processed food from our pantry.  I got the recipe from 100daysofrealfood.  They were easy to make, but hers look much more pretty than mine.  Despite the look my children were glad to try them, and Bear proclaimed them "cookies" upon seeing them.  He ate his share for snack after nap time, but Big Man took one bite and decided he wanted nothing more to do with them.  I guess we will see how they go over the next few days, but they certainly were not Goldfish or anything else my boys would have tried in the past.

So, as a thrifty, housekeeper, hopefully clean eater, runner, scrapbooker, reader, crafter, want-to-be home decorator, Mom and Christ follower, here I am on my little hamster wheel running with nowhere to go.  Hopefully I can make baby steps as I try new things.