Heather Bardin is the winner for my Noonday Train Blog. Please email me your address at ketnerlove@gmail.com

Noonday Train

Happy New Year! Both of my young boys are sick with RSV right now, so as I write this between breathing treatments and steaming bathroom visits, it will be brief. Thank you for joing the Noonday Train January giveaway!

The new year brings a new start with Noonday. I have just started working with Noonday and have not had a trunk show yet, and my website won't be up until next week. I am super excited to be a part of this company; part of something bigger. When I watched the Noonday video I got emotional and felt that this was the place for me. This is a chance to be a voice for the Artisans while helping women feel beautiful.

Buying this beautiful hand made Jewelry helps provide a better future for the Artisans, some of which have been able to get off the street, send their children to school, and even have weddings.

 
 The Artisans inspire me to work harder, to enjoy the blessings God has given me, and to open my eyes to the world around me.

I will be giving away the Minted Necklace:
"The rave color for this season comes to you in a simple necklace that can be worn long or doubled. This piece is handmade by African Style, a group that Noonday Collection helped launch in Uganda. Approximately 38 inches long."

To win the beautiful Necklace just simply leave a comment below. 

  The winner will be picked at random on Wednesday, January 9th. If you would like more information on hosting a trunk show please email me at ketnerlove@gmail.com. I will also have my website up and running by next week.

Continue the January Noonday Train by visiting Kirsten's Blog tomorrow- www.greenisthenewblue.blogspot.com 

Thank you and God Bless.

Noonday Collection

Merry Christmas. So I have been chasing my 8 month old around and my 2 year old has been chasing me. I think my baby boy will take his first steps any day now. As the holidays come to a close I am starting a new chapter in my life. Tyler and I have been looking for a way to make more money to save up to buy a house one day. We have looked into a few things. And God has brought us to Noonday.
And as some of my friends know I started selling Body by Vi. It was a good learning experience. I got to work with some amazing women. I wanted to work with this company because I wanted to help people get healthier. I did not find much success with the company and did not like that my success wss based on getting other people to sell product. I did help people get the products to lose over 200 lbs. And I did make some money (thank you Tom's) and new friends. Well that chaper is over and after praying and waiting I have found the perfect place for me and my family. Noonday Collection. I can not even say enough good things about this company. The company was started to raise money for the founders adoption.  I will be selling jewelry and other goods made from Artisans struggling for a better future through fair trade. The selling of this jewelry helps give a voice to the oppressed. Also helps familys raise money for adoption. I am excited to start this journey. I will soon have a website and start having truck shows. You can check out noonday collection online and read about this great company of hope. If you would like more information contact me. I am also going to be givingaway a noonday product on January 5th. So come back on the 5th. I will also be posting my website soon. Im very excited to start being a Noonday Ambassador.

Fail

Do you ever have those moments in life where you feel like you fail at everything? I'm having one of those moments. I feel like I have so much to do. My cleaning/ organizing the house list is long. My time with God has not been quality time, time with hubby nope not there ether. I am having frustrating girl drama, where I feel like I'm in high school again. And I have never been good at being friends with girls. Im not good at conflict or if someone gets upset with me I feel like they hate me forever. Stupid I know. Well this moment has come. I feel just like a disappointment. I would like to do better but just not sure how to change for the long term. Like for example how do I a not so organized person become organized? I think it is one step at a time. And asking for help. It is just so hard not to get overwhelmed. I know I am trying to overcome something's. And for me that Is huge. I usually never try cause I'm afraid to fail. But this Blog is one thing that I am trying at. Not sure if anyone reads this, but the fact that I am putting out what I am writing is such a step forward. I hate writing. I don't even send thank you cards cause I'm do afraid I may miss spell something or sound stupid. I wrote out all of my thank you cards from my wedding and babies but through them in the trash, i just could not get myself to send them. So my biggest thing I'm working on is overcoming my fear of writing and looking stupid, so that way Dyslexia does not win, it won't control me and how I live.
The disappointment thing I think is more disappointing myself. I wish I was supper mom, and could do everything. But I think I just need to prioritize and realize I can not do it all.
Sorry I write like I talk / think. Random things pop in my head. One thing about cleaning my house/ witch retaliates to everything in my life, is that I tend to put stuff off. Like cleaning out the fridge. I had to do this yesterday. Not even going to tell you how long it had been. But I will just say gross. But it is one of those things I put off. Then the more I putt it off the worse it gets which makes me want to putt it off more. Until one day I have to break down and do it. Now if I only did it in the beginning it would had been a whole lot less smelly and gross. Same thing in my life. Now I think this is wrong. God did not make me to be lazy, or warm. My priorities show me what I care about the most. Except it doesn't. I don't love the Internet, or pinterest. But some times that is what I spend my time doing. God also said to do everything as if it were for him. Man my house would be spotless!!! And I would try at the harder things. I just need to live like that. Because he is always around. Blah blah blah, I feel like I'm not making sense. But I feel better. Hope I I'm not always negative. That is something I struggle with. I want to be positive! I want to uplift people, but be transparent.

No Sleep

So being a mom is hard. I can not even imagine being a single mom doing it on my own. I want to say you lady's are stronger than you think and if you can do this you can do anything! You are amazing! For me there are days that I am counting the seconds tell my hubby comes home! Or where we go shopping so that way they are both tied down. I enjoy/Love being a mom, it is just those days that get you down. Now if I stopped and prayed and focused my energy on God, I know I would have a different day, but do I do that? Not all the time, I let my bad mood get the best of me. I hate that! I want my boys to remember a happy mommy not a stressed out one. I Want to be there example of how you can call on God for anything! I want to show them I am a women of God. The Hardest thing I think being a parent for me is to remember my children are not mine. They are gifts from God and i God has entrusted them to us.
So kind of different note, Sleeping. I just got to where I can put My youngest to sleep and not check on him every 10 minutes. I am so scared of SIDS. I pray about it, but it was just one of those fear things I could not let go. I did it with my oldest son also. I just felt if I was not watching him all the time he could stop breathing. Needless to say I do not get much sleep. I know It is my fear and my flesh thinking I control things. When I know it has nothing to do with me. And I have no power to make him breath. Well I still worry and I'm still praying that God can help me in that area. So on top of that I worry about someone breaking into my house and stealing my babies. Crazy I know. So I had a bad dream last night and I was just shaken up by it, so I asked my husband to check my oldest sons bedroom windows. Well I think it was one of those God things cause both windows were unlocked. I was like what. We never open our windows and I knew they were locked before. But my hubby said they had just rattled unlocked. We live in an older home. So all night I worried about that. I am a light sleeper so it makes it harder to go back to sleep for me. Well so that was my night last night.
I pray for protection and I understand that what ever happens, God can use it for his Glory. And I know it is my duty to protect and raise my children. But also know that they are Gods children and he is watching over them. It just is hard to believe that I do not have all the power, to help and fix everything. But at least I serve a God that is all powerful!

Homemade Laundry Soap

Homemade Laundry Soap

I finally made my own laundry detergent. It was way easier than I had thought. Not sure why I waited so long. Im always looking for ways to save money. Thank you Pinterest!!! I do a lot of laundry! And as you all know it is expensive. This recipe was $20.34 and from what I have read should last 6 loads a week for a Year. Yes one whole year paying only $20.34 for soap.  So this is the recipe I used and the prices from Walmart.

 1 (5 lb) bucket- Found in the paint aisle $1.17

1 (4 lb 12 oz) Box of Borax- Found in the detergent aisle $3.38

1 (3 lb 7 oz) Box of Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda- Found in the detergent aisle $3.24

1 (3 lb) Container of OxyClean- Found in the detergent aisle. (This is optional) $7.52

3 (14.1 oz) Bars of Fels-Naptha Soap- Found in the detergent aisle. $.97 each

1 (4 lb) Box of Arm & Hammer Baking Soda- Found in the cooking aisle $2.12 

Total $20.34

To make the laundry detergent you need to first grate your Fels Naptha bars. Using a cheese grater, I used the smallest part to grate. It took like 7 minutes. Then pore the rest of the ingredients in the bucket and mix together. I would suggest poring a little of each at a time and mix it together that way. That's it! It is that easy. You only need to use 1-2 Tablespoons per load. This was so easy I did it with my kids awake!

I'm about to be out of Dish washing soap, so I will be making and posting this recipe soon. Saving money one thing at a time. 

1-2 Tablespoons per load

Cupcake Pizzas

Cupcake Pizzas

 

Thank you Pinterest. These were supper good!!! Easy and fast. My Hubby and Oldest Loved them. We had them for lunch and we ate them all. I wanted more.

 

What You Need:
Pillsbury Refrigerated Pizza Dough
Pizza Sauce
Shredded Cheese ( I used mozzarella)
Pepperoni ( I used Turkey)
Cupcake Tin

 Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees and grease the cupcake pan.
I pulled the dough apart and pushed the dough into the molds; try to make the dough cover the sides.

Next add the pizza sauce, cheese and pepperoni. I cut up my pepperoni, and did not put to much sauce (my preference)

Bake for 10-15 minutes.  

Enjoy!!!

Yum Yum try tonight!!