Birthday King and Queen

This year's birthdays for Maggie and Jacob turned out to be quite memorable. I guess God was shining down on them. Jacob's favorite thing right now is football, and more specifically, MTSU football (I have no idea how that happened). We are a football- watching family and have been taking the kids to MTSU games since Maggie was 1. This year, the opening game was on 9/2/10, Jacob's 5th birthday. They had game day t- shirts made, and of course Jacob was sporting his.

I contacted someone in the marketing department at MTSU the day of the game about getting his name on the jumbotron but they said it was too late being game day. The guy said what he could do is send the cheerleaders up to the stands where we are sitting to wish him a happy birthday. He gave me is cell number and asked me to text him where we were sitting and he would let me know when the cheerleaders would be heading our way.



Our church was also tailgating before the game so we got there early so we could hang out with all our friends. They had bounce houses which is one of Jacob's other favorite things to do. Plus they were giving out nerds on a rope (his favorite candy). So he totally must have thought this was the best day of his life. Earlier that day I took football cupcakes to his class and they sang him happy birthday. Jacob is very sensitive and sometimes gets overcome with emotion. When I hugged him at school, I think he really wanted to cry. He was so happy.

We then went to the Hiwassee river the next day to go camping and spend time with Rick's family. On Saturday we had a little party for Maggie and Jacob and got to spend time with cousins, aunts and uncles.

This is a picture of all the cousins and friends who were there at the party



Then, on Maggie's birthday, Chick Fil A (my new favorite restaurant) was having Princess Day. Little girls could come dressed in all their princess gear and have a carriage ride, meet Miss Tennessee, Mary Kay consultants were there to put blush and lip gloss on the girls, AND their meal was free!!

What's your birth order?

So in my last post I talked about my ability to delay the completion of projects. I went to a seminar by Dr Kevin Leman at my church last night. He's the author of a lot of books but the one he talked about last night is the Birth Order Book. Its a fabulous book that talks about how the order in which you were born in your family affects the way you live your life. It also helps you to see how your spouse's birth order affects your marriage, as well as give you insight on how to parent your children the best you can within their birth order.

Figuring out your birth order is not as easy as it seems. For instance, in your family if there is more than 5 years distance between siblings, according to Leman's theory, that starts a new "family". For instance, I am the baby of my family, however, there is 6 years between me and my older sister. To add another aspect, there are also no other children after me. (my parents stopped when they got their perfect child ;-) So according to Leman's theory, I am the baby of the family, but I also have qualities of an only child (which he calls super first borns) This totally made sense to me after reading his book.

For instance, I got away with murder in my family b/c I was the baby. I have some of the quirks of the baby such as acting impulsively sometimes, and having a lack of order in some things. However, b/c of my only child aspect, I have qualities like, perfectionism, feeling like my ideas are always the best ones (that's because they are), but anyway, and being able to go after something and fully execute. I'm also very structured in my life, and a list maker.

Some of you who know me well are like, did she say perfectionism? No way she has that quality. (look at all my unfinished projects or the projects i never start)That's because I get frozen with my perfectionistic attitude that tells me it has to be perfect or I'm not doing it.

The goal for me has to be to allow these two birth orders to merge peacefully. So once my baby self gets me into a project, let my only child self complete the project despite the fact that it will not be perfect. Its never gonna be perfect so stop shooting for it. That makes me feel better. Gonna go finish getting the wallpaper down in the bathroom now.

So what does your birth order say about you?

Operation Project Completion

I admit it. I am a blogaholic. Oh no, not that I blog all the time, just that I read others' blogs all the time. I get some really good ideas from them and one thing I've noticed on some of the blogs is how they document some projects that they have going. I love projects. I love planning projects, researching the best way to do the project, looking at others demonstrations of how they did their project. Now, when it comes to DOING the project, eh, not so much. Or even worse, I start the project and, I'm sure you've never done this before, but lose my motivation or steam in the middle and then I have an unfinished project for almost a year, like the stairway to the bonus room. UGH.

I currently have a (few) projects going on. I am in the middle of stripping wallpaper in the kids' bathroom. Well, I have the wallpaper off, but now I need to do the unfun getting the glue part off. YUK. Then we've decided to do beadboard on the bottom and I'm going to go with a shade of a light limeish green. I want their bathroom to be fun.

Here are other projects that need to get underway, or completed:
Stairway needs to be painted
Hallway needs to be painted
Need to get pictures printed for frames
Need to order uppercase living for our bedroom
Jacob's room is about to be changed from hunting/moose lodge to football

Ok, that's overwhelming me now. No more than that. My reason for blogging about this is maybe this will help motivate me to start and more importantly complete these projects.

So, the next time you see me, ask me how my projects are going!