EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
Hi Beautiful Mommas! I’m Sue Birdseye - proud mama of 5 kids. Proving that God does indeed have a sense of humor - I have two teenagers and two toddlers with a middle child thrown in for good measure! I have been a stay-at-home mom, a homeschool mom, a foster mom, an adoptive mom and now I am a single mom. As I have walked this new path, I’ve found God to be more than faithful, more than kind and more than I could ask or imagine. I’m trying to walk this path with a lot of love, a good amount of humor and a serious lack of sleep. There is nothing I love more than my sweeties, but I do enjoy anything to do with paper – notebooks to write in, binders to organize, index cards with memory verses, charts and to do lists (which sometimes I do), letters, notes and books, books, books. I love music – listening to it, playing it and singing it. I love sports – all of them! (I have the bumps and bruises to prove it!) I am so excited to share this crazy life with the wonderful moms of MomLife Today!
Last night I was cross-stitching a lovely pattern with an eagle in flight. It looked so simple. I was wrong. That dang eagle is all kinds of shades of brown – light brown, medium brown, dark brown, black brown, etc… and when you put them all together in those little tiny boxes of crosses, my [...]
Oh that it wasn’t time to get organized again, although I’ve been “getting” organizing for the last 3 years. Yes, years. I wish that was an exaggeration. I think being a single parent adds an element of chaos that is unavoidable. There are simply too many things to accomplish in a regular day without additional projects to [...]
I’ve spent a lot of time down in my basement recently in an attempt to get rid of stuff. I have a lot of stuff. I have a lot of Christmas stuff. I think I counted about 8 boxes and 3 shelves of Christmas paraphernalia. That’s nuts! At first I couldn’t help but think that [...]
Every October as the Christmas decorations come out all over town (which is just craziness), I become newly energized to provide the best Christmas ever for my kids! THIS YEAR I’m going to do all those crafts I bought 10 years ago. THIS YEAR I’m going to start the advent calendar on the first day [...]
This morning I enjoyed listening to several women share about how much they are blessed by being grandmas. One lady expressed how she felt it was her opportunity to make up for all her mistakes as a mom. Another lady laughed and replied she let her grandchildren do things she never would have let her [...]
About 8 years ago, the adoption discussion began in our home. We collected information, went to information meetings and gathered information from people about their adoption experiences – information overload. We discussed and discussed and … ugh… discussed. I distinctly remember riding in the car and my husband saying, “Why don’t you just fill out [...]
Honestly, can I please at least look like I have a little bit of my life together? Just one thing? A small thing would be fine. I’m realizing that the heading of my to-do list should always be: Assume you will get none of this done in a timely or pretty fashion! I bought this [...]
So the other day I’m dragging my kids through the grocery store purchasing lunch items and for the gazillionth time they asked for those pre-packaged lunch thingies. As a former teacher, I have to admit I thought only lazy parents who didn’t care about the nutritional value of their children’s lunches bought Lunchables. But I [...]
You know how you make spur of the moment decisions and then think better of it later? Yeah, well, I let my 3-year-old tinkle in the ocean this summer. The beach house was two blocks in one direction and the ocean was 15 feet away in the other. I think she emptied every single drop [...]
I think all I ever do is laundry. There are always baskets and baskets in one stage or another throughout my house. There is the overflowing dirty-clothes basket in the bathroom, the folded-but-not-put-away baskets in the hallway, the not folded or sorted baskets outside the laundry room, and the baskets piled high with dirty laundry [...]
