So today is day 3 of having 3 kids. They have been great. We had a lot of fun last night giggling and laughing about the silliest things! But let me start with day 1.

Day 1 there was a homework problem. It was supposed to be done when I got home from work, it wasn't. It was then supposed to be done before dinner, it wasn't. Then it was supposed to be done during worship practice, it wasn't. So at that point I decided no fun at church until homework is done. So immediately after service I went with the 2 older kids and helped them finish. It was simple stuff but both of them drug it out ALL day!!!

Thursday night I came home and they were finished already! Praise God! So we had a chicken (I made a whole chicken...yum!) and then grabbed ice creams, walked to Tatums house and played with the kids (I got to hold the new baby), then went back home. Once home shower time for the kids. While the other kids were waiting they laid on my bed with me and watched 24. They have already seen parts of it so they would ask me, "has blahblah happened yet?" Or "Do you know about..." I would threaten them with their lives if they gave something away and they would laugh. At one point I told Jacob I was going to kick him out of the room if he said one more thing. He made a comment about me not really doing it so I started pushing him off the bed with my feet and then kept pushing him until I got to the door. It was funny. Then when we were going to bed the girls kept trying to fall asleep in my bed so I would tickle them out of it. We were all laughing. But everyone was in bed by 9!!!

Today I am running errands while they are in school. Then we will eat dinner and I will go to worship practice. So it will be a quiet evening.

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So, in addition to my allergy to milk and soy I do believe I have a metal allergy. Consensus seems to be that most people are allergic to Nickel so I am suspecting that first.

Funny thing...all these years I have had a horrible time shaving. I always have to have brand new razors and expensive ones on top of that. I have to use shaving cream, the stuff for sensitive skin, and I need to have lotion put on immediately after. That doesn't stop the razor burn but it cuts back on it.

So, what if there is nickel in the blade?

I NEVER thought of that until today. Random thought. After some research on a few sites I have found that all blades pretty much have nickel, which is silly since so many people are allergic. There is only one exception that I can find and that is the Schick Quattro Titanium, which is coated with Titanium. Should I buy one and shave with only soap and see what happens??? :)

Second question...does my electric razor have nickel in it? I don't know. I have emailed the company, as they have NO information whatsoever about what type of metal they use. I didn't specify Nickel though just in case it turns out to be aluminum, another popular allergy.

Ahhh...welcome to the Simmons/Huy/Hernandez world of crazy allergies!!!

I have to say, allergy free, thats amazing. I feel great when I have no milk/soy. Can you imagine how wonderful I will feel when I am nickel free? ;)

So, I will be going tomorrow to kidsit for a family with 3 kids. 1 preteen and 2 teenagers. They are good kids and it will be fun. Its a little hectic because I have to merge my calendar with theirs and plan on being home and cooking dinner every night. Not used to that :) haha. Thats Wednesday through Sunday.

Next Wednesday through Saturday I will be sitting for 1 teenager of a different family. That one will be a little simpler as its only one kid and she lives right by the church. She's a good kid too. Its a blessing.

Keep me in prayer!!!

So I am reading a book called "Simplify Your Life." It is very helpful. My goal is to read a little bit every day and since today is my day off I was able to read a whole chapter. Today's chapter was about calendars. So I went ahead and updated my schedule for the next 2 weeks and an overview of the month. I am excited! The tips she said in order to avoid burnout was 1 weekend night (Fri-Sun) free a week and 2 weeknights (Mon-Thurs) a week free. I thought for sure I would fail miserably but I looked and realized I have a couple nights free. I do have later nights but they are free. I am blessed!!!

As for today's project, to work on my bins by my bed I am going to do that right now and then come and finish this post. So I will see you in 15 minutes!

Ok! Accomplished. Its not done, may take a few more days but it is much better already! Pray for me. The next few days working on this area will be the hardest because this is when all the tough decisions will have to be made. Decisions of what to keep, what to toss, where to store things, where to store things until I clean out more. That type of stuff.

Ok, I am off to freeze some fruit. Goodbye!

So I have had a goal for a while of trying to organize for 15 minutes a day. Its been off and on and I haven't gotten very far but I start again today. My goal is my room first. I want to get my room organized. My closet still has stuff I meant to go through when I moved and I never did. Plus I have several bins that are overflowing and need to be cleaned out. I also want to go through my clothes again and get rid of more.

So, this morning I did a 15 minute pick up. Can't organize till you can see the clutter right :) I got so much accomplished my room is beginning to look better already. Tomorrow I will start on the bins and then I will move to the closet. Though that might take me a few days.

So there we go! I was going to post pics but I left my camera at work. So maybe another day.

Hello, its me again.

So, we start our annual Poiema (poeima???) group which is a discipleship group for the Senior High Youth Kids.

It began with us kidnapping them (with parental permission) out of their beds (oh that was SO fun!!!) and taking them and interrogating them (ok, we just read them the Poiema contract and then took them to breakfast).

This is my first year participating and its because a girl I was already discipling is part of the group this year so I came on.

It has been amazing. The kids meet with one of us once a week, but a lot of them will still come and talk to others of us. This time is to hold them accountable to things if necessary, talk about what's going on in their lives, to encourage them, and basically, disciple them. It's amazing to meet with someone and watch them grow Spiritually. God is SO good!

We are all memorizing the entire book of James. Sounds crazy...but its not so hard. We have until April 25 and we work on it in small chunks. For example, right now we are working on 1:9-18, and we have two weeks to learn it. See...not so bad.

Every other week we meet as a group. We quote our Scriptures, have dinner, worship, and have a Bible study time.

We have only met twice but I am already sensing a deep bond of friendship forming between the 9 of us involved. There are 5 adults and 4 youth. It is such a precious time and my love for these kids is just growing and growing. It is priceless. I hurt when they hurt, I am sad to have to correct, but the joy of seeing them take their hurt to God, to see them take correction and change, to see them growing and hungering after God's Word...Oh I could go on and on. They are precious to my heart and I love them.

There is something so amazing about being able to speak into someone's life. I love working with youth kids for that simple reason. To see them grow into these adults that love God and His Word and hunger and thirst for righteousness, and to know that you had a part however small in that, well there's nothing like that.

I want Cate Blanchett to narrate our Christmas play. She wouldn't have to come, just record the narration and send it to me. I can't afford to pay anything.

Do you think I have a chance? :)

I was going to post on here about our trip to SoCal but most everyone who reads my blog was either there or saw the pictures on Facebook. So I will say that we had an amazing time and were very blessed, but that is all I will say about it for now. I want to write about Christmas!

I went shopping tonight to start testing a few ideas I have for Christmas gifts. I am very excited. I am doing homemade stuff and food gifts this year and have a couple of unique ideas that I think will be a lot of fun. So tonight I am going to update my blog (which I am currently doing) and then go test one of the recipes. I would let you know how it turns out but I don't want you to know what I am doing! I do know that this year I WILL NOT have sourdough starters all over my kitchen drying on every flat surface possible. That was just too much last year. Fun, but I missed having my kitchen!!!

So, on that note, I am going to find a cute image for this and sign off. Love you all!!!

I have started a new blog called Habitual Impracticality...can you believe it? I don't know what has come over me. Oh wait...I do, it is the movie Julie and Julia. Read it, but if you don't like it, please don't tell me. Oh I don't want to know.

I usually keep this blog to news about me, appropriately blogworthy stuff...but I think this new one will be simply for my own enjoyment. The style of writing that I enjoy. The things I like to write about. I'm very sorry, I am not going to worry about my readers at all. So, as I said, if you don't like it, please don't tell me. I would be sad.

Enjoy!