Making Your Home a Haven Monday: Refresher Series--Tackle the Bathrooms!

1.Refresh your spirit.

Crystal has encouraged us to pick out a verse, and I chose:

"The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe."

Proverbs 18:10



I love this verse. Is it not the truth. Just calling out to the Lord can give you so much strength and make you feel so safe. I love the Lord with all my heart and want to live my life to serve him.



2. Take Time to Plan

To do:

Laundry from weekend

Dust the living room

Put up China in China cabinet



For dinner I plan on making Chicken Noodle soup with homemade bread.



3.Do something: Bathrooms

my bathrooms are pretty bad from the weekend, they need a good scrubbing. I will update with pictures soon.





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It has taken me longer than usual today to post pictures because this morning around 9 am my sister called me and told me she went to the doctor and they could not get a heartbeat on her baby. She is suppose to be 11 1/2 weeks pregnant, but the baby measured way too big. She said she could tell right away something was wrong because it looked like a blob and not a baby. The doctor tried for a while but could not get a heartbeat. I know all to well what she is going through but there are no words I could say to her. Everyone please keep her in her prayers, tomorrow she is going in for a d & c.



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Here is the before of the sink area:









and the after:



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Here is the whirlpool tub before(I do not know how that piece of paper got in there):





and after:







Here is the stand up shower before:







and after:







I hope everyone had a great day in "Making your Home a Haven". Blessings Delilah

super savings saturday

This week for Super Savings Saturday, I went to Cvs got 4 Bounty Paper Towel packs at $5.49, used a 4/20, 4 1/1, 10 ecbs spent 4.11 out of pocket and got back $10 ecbs(Thanks Crystal for the scenario). Then I went to Kroger and got $176 worth of groceries for $68. I love coupons!!!!(
Thanks to Ellie Kays Shop Save and Share. For more great tips make sure to visit Crystal.

FRUGAL FRIDAY

I went to the Goodwill yesterday because with my husband's job promotion, he went from wearing uniforms to having to dress up everyday, so he was in desperate need of some shirts. I got him 6 button up name brand shirts, me a dress, Haley some shoes, 4 bread pans, and a picture for the wall for $46. Then we stopped at another thrift store and I got me a skirt and I hit the gold mine. I found a authentic Coach purse for $3.99. It looked practically new. It is too small for me to carry so I am going to put it on Ebay, It retails for over $200. So hopefully I will make a nice profit. For more Frugal Friday tips visit Biblical Womanhood.

Giveaway at Families against Feminisim

Kelly is hosting a giveaway on her blog. It is for the "Reclaiming the Culture" series from Vision Forum. Make sure you stop by and enter this wonder giveaway.

Day at Gatlinburg and Ripleys aquarium with my sister! New pictures of Gabrielle(my cousin)

Last Wednesday my sister her husband and the kids went to Gatlinburg Here are just a few pictures













My cousin Felicia's water broke Thursday evening at 36 weeks, she was in labor for 24 hours, which is unusual for a third baby. Gabriella was born Friday night around 9:30 weighing 5 lbs 11 ozs. I don't have many pictures of Gabriella with Felicia because she was having trouble breathing and they had to put her on oxygen. I was at the hospital the whole time and was up 40 hours so I left right after she was born. I wouldn't trade it for anything though because I was there with her other two births. Felicia has been through so much especially losing sweet little Nathaniel 6 years ago. But I know Gabriella will be just fine. She should get to come home Monday.

Making your Home a Haven monday~Laundry

Today's Challenge at Crystal's blog :

1) Refresh Your Spirit (5 minutes)

Three things I am thankful for:
1.My salvation, without Jesus Christ I would be no where.
2.My family~my husband is my rock and the best man in the world. My children are such a blessing from the lord, and all of my other extended family.
3.My home~God has blessed us with all are needs.

STOP: Is your morning routine done? Don't move on to #2 unless it is!

2) Take Time to Plan (5 minutes)
My to do list:
-read God's word
-detail clean my room
-laundry
-mail off packages and bills
-get the house clean

For breakfast we are having cereal
For lunch we are having peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
For dinner we are having spaghetti, garlic bread, salad, with boiled eggs


3) Do Something! (15 minutes or so)

"Today we're going to focus on the laundry and laundry room. Light a candle, put on your apron, turn on some uplifting music, and get busy!

Your goal by the end of today is to have all of your laundry finished, folded, and put away. I'm usually behind on the laundry on Monday mornings as I rarely run much laundry over the weekends so this will be a great project for me to tackle!

For those of you with a laundry room or laundry area, take some time to organize and clean up this area. Wipe down your washer and dryer, check for socks and other articles of clothing behind and on the sides of your washer and dryer, and clean out your dryer lint." (Crystal's words)

What a perfect day for this my cousin Felicia gave birth to her little girl Friday and I was in Georgia all weekend, so my laundry is really behind. So I will take a picture of before and update with pictures of after later.






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It took me longer than usual because my dryer would not dry my clothes I had to dry loads 2-3 times to get them dry. I sure do hope my dryer is not giving out on me, I believe it is a heating element. Oh well, I still have a load in the washer and dryer but then I am done for the day. I hope everyone else had a great day.

MAKING YOUR HOME A HAVEN

TODAY AT BIBLICAL WOMANHOOD CRYSTAL CHALLENGES US TO SPEND 10 MINUTES ON OUR LIVING ROOM. THAT IS A GOOD CHOICE BECAUSE MY SISTER IS HERE FOR A FEW DAYS AND WE KIND OF JUST BROUGHT EVERYTHING TO THE LIVING ROOM A THROUGH IT IN THE FLOOR. SO I AM GOING TO WORK ON THAT NOW AND WILL HAVE PICTURES UP IN JUST A MOMENT. I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A WONDERFUL DAY. BLESSINGS DELILAH

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HERE YOU CAN SEE BRYSON AND MY NEPHEW ETHAN PLAYING ON THE FLOOR. THEY ARE SO SWEET AND I AM SO GLAD I GET TO SPEND THE NEXT FEW DAYS WITH DEE DEE AND ETHAN.




ANOTHER ANGLE OF BEFORE.




THE LAST OF ANGLE OF THE LIVING ROOM

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AFTER PICTURES MUCH BETTER










WELL NOW THAT IS DONE I STILL HAVE LAUNDRY AND THE REST OF THE HOUSE. IT SO NICE TO HAVE A CLEAN HOUSE. I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER WHEN THERE IS NO CLUTTER.

SUPER SAVINGS SATURDAY AND PICTURES OF THE KIDS AT THE PARK.

I have not been to CVS in a while so this week my deals were okay.
First transaction
-4 packs of coke for $11.00
-Shrek Third dvd $9.99
-used a 4/20 coupon
-spent $18.85
-got back $10.00 ecb from cokes

Second transaction
-dove 6 pack soap 6.99
-dove mousse 4.29
-Fusion Razor 9.99
-used 2 1/1 dove coupons
-used 4/20 coupon
-used 10.00 ecb
-spent 7.76 out of pocket
-got back $4 ecb from razor and $3ecb from dove

Third transaction
-4 boxes of cheerios $3.33 each
-2 boxes of cheerios cereal bars 3.33 each
-used 4/20 coupon
-used 2 1/2 coupon for cereal
-used $7 ecb
-spent $1.44 out of pocket
-got $10 ecb back for next time

For more Super Saving Saturday be sure to visit money saving mom.

My husband took the kids to the park today as I went through thing for our yard sale Here are just a few of the 101 photos he took.