No I'm not speaking another language.

If you are a blogger then most likely you are familiar with this term. It's a monthly blog feature run by BlogHer that gives bloggers the chance to expand their readership and build their blogs by posting about a singular topic everyday in a particular month.

I decided to participate and the theme for August is HOT. So for a while at least, my posts will be related to heat in some way. I'm excited to see how I can creatively do this everyday. Prompts were provided but we were given freedom to chose our own. The only "rule" is that you post everyday. This is going to be a challenge but I welcome it and I'm excited to participate.

Come back tomorrow for my first post :)


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HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY TO OUR GREEDY LITTLE CHIPMUNK!!!!

I can't believe that he's already a year old. This year went by extremely fast. From infant to toddler.

Oh boy here we go....


This is a very busy week in our household. In addition to two birthdays, one party and a Chuck-e-Cheese youth group outing; my niece is coming for our annual girl's vacation. We are running on all cylinders and I be you can guess there is a pile of dishes in my sink. Not a huge pile maybe 5 items total. I know I need to go ahead and tackle them before it gets worse. But I always tend to feel like I can get to it later and do something I consider to be more important. And the next thing you know, it's a day later and the dishes are up to the rim.

 Today I shall not fall into that trap! Today I shall go ahead and wash those few dishes...

After I sing Happy Birthday to my little one. For the third time today.....

Procrastination..... It's an epidemic. No judging lol

Today is the day the love of my life was born. He's the greatest guy in the world and I couldn't be happier in my life with him!

So in a proclamation for all the world to see.......


HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. MESSY!!!!!!

Bday 2009

I love you to the moon and back...

Happy Monday!

I hope your weekend was as good as mine. We spent a lot of time together as a family  this weekend. The highlight was Saturday's Family Movie Night. We watched 5 different movies starting with 3 for kids and then after we sent the little ones to bed we watched two "grown up" movies.

I'm excited to share with you that in an effort to expand my readership and development; I am in the process of making some pretty fun and drastic changes to my site. With the first thing being a name change. As I'm sure you noticed by now, I have changed the name from The Queen....Outnumbered to Our Life. Our Mess. I feel this name more adequately portrays what this blog is about.

I'm working with a designer to come up with a new design and I'm also reworking my brand identity.

I hope that it is liked and will help my "beautiful baby blog" grow.


Can't wait to share it with you!


Stay Tuned......

Hello all!

I'm finally sharing the freebie I promised a few days ago. It took me a minute because I had to research and choose the best option for sharing my documents with you all. It was a chore. What with my 5 yr old and 11 soon to be 12 month old and all of our daily activities.

Nonetheless here it is....

Blank Kindergarten Handwriting Practice

I hope you find it useful.

Disclosure:
This printable is copyrighted and created exclusively for my readers. While I invite you to print and reuse this printable as many times as needed, I ask that you not use this printable as your own for profit. If you share please link to my blog homepage instead of to this post directly. Thanks.

Happy Monday Everyone!

It's been a while since I posted about my "homeschooling" efforts to get my son ready for kindergarten. But we are still going strong and in just a few short months, he will be officially an....

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT!!!

Cue confetti, party streamers, and balloons....

We are all very excited for this major milestone. Sometimes I think about it and become giddy inside and other times I want to cry.

While I haven't been able to achieve everything I set out to do, I'm confident that he will be more than prepared for the upcoming challenge of kindergarten.



We've been focusing on handwriting practice a lot lately and I decided to create my own printable because I was tired of making my own handwriting paper by hand when I want it to be blank.

Nothing fancy but it fits the bill for what I wanted. I use them for name and sight word writing practice. So instead of having to create the whole ditto myself I just have to fill in the traceable words I want to practice.

 I'm in the process of creating a summer packet with activities for all subjects and I decided to share it with you as a freebie. So be sure to come back Thursday to download it.



What are you and your little ones doing to get ready for the upcoming school year?

Has this ever happened to you?

My prayers and deepest condolences go to the families of the Arizona "Hot Shot" firefighters who lost their lives in the recent wildfires.


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Here's a link to an article about these great firefighters and who they were in their personal lives.