http://beautifulchaos.typepad.com/the_martins_5/ Christian Wife & mom to 3! Just your average family trying to stick to a budget,a schedule and more! Hoping to share a good bargain, story, music or thought and find the humor & beauty in this thing called Life! en-US 2012-02-02T11:10:48-05:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheMartins5/~3/hVqmxQxmF-s/ive-been-going-thru-my-new-years-resolutions-this-past-week-because-i-think-its-not-just-things-id-like-to-do-i-believe-its.html Here's my LAST TWO resolutions! I promise! I've been going thru them this past week & hopefully my writing them down will encourage not only me but you as well to not give up on yours! Some of the more "deeper" ones are posted in my other blog Bigger Than This. But these are more about family, health & fun so I put the last 2 of my resolutions here... 1. Plan my dinner menu & cook more...I think this makes the list every year, & I usually start off pretty good, but it's those really busy times of year...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheMartins5/~4/hVqmxQxmF-s" height="1" width="1"/> family life Food and Drink Health recipes Melissa 2012-02-02T11:10:48-05:00 http://beautifulchaos.typepad.com/the_martins_5/2012/02/ive-been-going-thru-my-new-years-resolutions-this-past-week-because-i-think-its-not-just-things-id-like-to-do-i-believe-its.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheMartins5/~3/UT_pho2MWyQ/family-fun-game-ideas.html These next 3 posts (over the next few days) are some of the things I want to work on doing MORE of this year :) Having more fun with the family: outings, day trips, hiking, camping or just game nights. Now this takes a little more planning since my husband's & now my schedule as well is a little crazy. Even if money is tight, many things are free or signing up for sites like GROUPON for your area is great way to save some cash. I've bought things off of their myself. They have some fun family outing type...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheMartins5/~4/UT_pho2MWyQ" height="1" width="1"/> children family life Games Melissa 2012-01-27T09:50:59-05:00 http://beautifulchaos.typepad.com/the_martins_5/2012/01/family-fun-game-ideas.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheMartins5/~3/w0h-WFML6S4/born-againagain.html On school mornings I try to sit with the kids while they're eating their breakfast and read a devotional and the verses that go with it from the Bible. This, somewhere in the midst of packing lunches, signing any papers, brushing hair and so on...you get the picture! So this morning Morgan, who's 6, had questions & we talked & came back to a conversation familiar to me but not to her apparently, about accepting Christ as her Saviour. We did this a month or so ago, also brought on by her continuing to ask questions about heaven & Jesus,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheMartins5/~4/w0h-WFML6S4" height="1" width="1"/> children family life Funny Stories Melissa 2012-01-23T17:04:23-05:00 http://beautifulchaos.typepad.com/the_martins_5/2012/01/born-againagain.html