I need Help

I would really love to blog I just forget about it and need to come up with what I want to blog about do I want to do daily or weekly or monthly or I just dont know. I want my blog to look cute. I just dont know all the ends and outs yet. I am sure they have a blog for dummies book for me but I also know I can do this. I love reading my friends blogs and getting super cute ideas. So I know I can do it so for now I am going to re vamp my blog and have a debut Party and giveaway on it so I am getting to work on my blog if you bloggers haved any tips or great add on websites or layouts let me know. Till then have a fantastic weekend and stay tuned to The Terry Times Debut

My Guys

"My Guys" Matthew and Brandon are 100% Aggie they love to go to games together and Brandon eats,drinks and sleeps football me not so much so when it is football season dont make any plans during football games, I am learning. Matthew loves watching the band at half time and loves watching the game, but he is like me LOVES the concession stand, I am addicted to concession food, but the price not so much. We would love to someday have season passes for us to go to the game but for now we always go to the "Maroon and White" game and then Matty and Brandon go to at least 1 other game maybe 2 during the year. Brandon would be at every single one if he could. He has a fantastic Aunt and Uncle and if they have extra tickets they have invited my guys and that seems to be the most talked about game when the go so sweet. Now Basketball season, I love, and Ash went to her first basketball game and loved it as well this year. I love basketball and baseball. But football concessions and halftime are my favorite,lol. Matthew wants to go to A&M he will be
"Class of 2028" if I did the math correct. My all sports guys they love it!!!! My guys always seem to have an Aggie shirt. Gig Em'

Valentines Day!!!

I love Valentines Day, I love all the fun crafts and making sweet Valentines day gifts for Matty to give his friends and goodies for my daycare kids. It is a fun day, now as for me I dont get a thing we always seem to be broke ever since we had kids they get the treats first,the last Valentines gift I did get from hybby was a rechargable battery charger and a package of batteries, yep you read that correctly and so I kind of band gifts around here after that. I did not want that for Valentines day for sure. This year for Valentines day we made goodies for Matty's teachers, school friends and daycare kids. We had friends over Sunday night and cooked a Steak dinner and it was yummy and then Monday we did a party with daycare kids and then had pancakes,bacon and eggs for dinner and watched Nanny McPhee Returns (cute movie) so it was a fun filled Valentines day!!!!!
Well I know some of you are wandering what did I make? Well for all the kids we bought a pair of socks and tied a ribbon and a tag on it and the tag said "You Knock my socks off" to cute and such a better allternative then candy. I made 17 of these and spent $16 dollars on socks. I bought the boys socks in pkg in the sock section and they had a 3pk on clearance. Then all the girl socks I bought in the dollar spot at Target.
Then for the Teachers and a couple of my friends I did a bottle of hand soap $1 at Target and tied a ribbon and tag with "I was SOAPIN you'd be my Valentine" super cute and I think well liked. I am looking forward to next year and what I can do then. Super fun!!!!!!!

Our New Puppy

We have a new Puppy, I am crazy because I had been trying to find a new home for our dog and possibly our cat a nd be pet free well instead we added to our pet family. But I think our dog "Aggie" was just lonely and now loves having a new buddy to play with. "Aggie" we got about 7 years ago we rescued him from Cavelier King Charles rescue, Brandon always wanted a Cavelier but they go for $1500-$2000 a dog and we just would not pay that much for this dog, well "Aggie" was abused as a puppy so he has some issues but he has gotten better over the years and now having a playmate and her name is "Zoey" it has been better for "Aggie" all though she has only been with us for 2 weeks (seems longer) puppies are hard work I will not lie about that. Zoey is 8 weeks now she came from a litter of 13 puppies and the mommy quit feeding them at 3 weeks. They say Zoey is part lab/bloodhound (mommy side) and Blue heeler (dad) but she really does not favor any of those very much we will just have to see when she is older what she is like, right now she is a cutie and just precious. Matty loves her, Ash on other hand doesn't know what to think. Well we will have to see now how it goes now with 3 animals but so far so good, and we dont plan on being in this house forever we want to move to land and a bigger house so it will be nice to have a bigger dog when we do that. I tried to get a picture of all the pets together but instead got this cute one of Matty and Zoey.

Homemade Laundry Soap

I do make my own laundry soap and I make it 5 gallons at a time and it lasts about 5 months sometimes longer. It costs me about $3 for 5 gallons which is awesome. In the picture I have a Meyers soap bar (I did not have a Fels-Naptha soap bar) I make it exactly like recipe below and I get all 3 ingredients on the laundry isle at Kroger. Enjoy let me know if you make it and use it what you think. If you want to try it I will sale you a gallon for $2. Gallon lasts me about a month. Happy Washing!!!!


Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap- Front or top load machine- best value

4 Cups - hot tap water
1 Fels-Naptha soap bar
1 Cup - Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda*
½ Cup Borax

- Grate bar of soap and add to saucepan with water. Stir continually over medium-low heat until soap dissolves and is melted.

-Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of hot tap water. Add melted soap, washing soda and Borax. Stir well until all powder is dissolved. Fill bucket to top with more hot water. Stir, cover and let sit overnight to thicken.

-Stir and fill a used, clean, laundry soap dispenser half full with soap and then fill rest of way with water. Shake before each use. (will gel)

-Optional: You can add 10-15 drops of essential oil per 2 gallons. Add once soap has cooled. Ideas: lavender, rosemary, tea tree oil.

-Yield: Liquid soap recipe makes 10 gallons.

-Top Load Machine- 5/8 Cup per load (Approx. 180 loads)

-Front Load Machines- ¼ Cup per load (Approx. 640 loads)

*Arm & Hammer "Super Washing Soda" - in some stores or may be purchased online here (at Meijer.com). Baking Soda will not work, nor will Arm & Hammer Detergent - It must be sodium carbonate!!

Selling Thirty-One

I have tried many businesses over the years and when I told Brandon that I wanted to sell Thirty One he told me know I said ok, well I had a huge wish list. So I decided I would pray about it and also plan to have a party. Well the night I asked him he started researching it and was looking at stuff I had brought home from a show. Well then the ext day he told me I could do it, something I could get out of house and do and schedule parties when I wanted to schedule them. I always long for adult converstaion since I am home all day with sweet little kiddos. Well all this had taken place on Thursday well Saturday I signed up scheduled my debut party and now was waiting fo my "Pink Box" to come in. Well some of you may have not heard of Thirty One well its not a birthday party,lol... Thirty One is a Faith based business and has been around for 7 years. The name Thirty One comes from the Old Testament where Proverbs 31 shows how women who are kind,work hard, and possess courage and wisdom are worthy of praise and reward. We are all about Celebrating, Encouraging and Rewarding woman which is why that is our Motto. It is amazing to grow with this company and I love the products they get used everyday in our home,car,purses, diaper bag. If you have not had a chance to see these AMAZING products send me a message or check out my website our NEW catalog starts February 1 with New products. I have a new wish list started again. Visit my website at www.mythirtyone.com/lindseyterry
Happy Monday and have a great week.

Matthew

My sweet boy Matthew, it breaks your heart when your child asks you why you dont love him anymore, I asked him why do you say that and while he has tears rolling down his cheeks tells you I pay more attention to Ashlynn, oh how sad that makes me feel. It is hard being a parent of 2 kids and showing your love equally and we try. After calming him down and getting more from him he just did not understand why I feed, dress and hold Ashlynn, and he has to do all that by himself. So explaining it all to him and also saying we did all that for him when he was the sam age as Ashlynn, and when she is 5 she will have things she has to do by herself. But we love them both the same, but that we have loved Matty longer. He is such a big helper but he does have his moments.
So here is a little about Matty, Matthew Laban Terry was born November 8, 2005 and we were the happiest parents ever (I know we all are) I was so glad to have my sweet boy, I was very protective of him and still am in some ways, he has grown into a very sweet boy, he likes things calm and on schedule and does not like to be agrivated he can be such a great kid when you dont ignore him and you include him in everything or just let him be a boy and he does great, Matty has always measured off the charts on height since he was born and so everyone always thinks he is older then he is so they expect him to be mature he is still a little boy. At his 5yr checkup he measured the size of an 8yr old so he is very tall for a 5yr old. Matthew loves to go to pre school and goes M, W, F and will start kindergarten this Fall (I am so nervous)he goes to gymnastics once a week and loves it he has been doing this about 3years now, he will start soccer in March and he is so excited he played last year and had a fantastic time, I am looking forward to it again as well.
As I am typing this I can hear my little guy singing in the shower it is so cute.
Matthew is a great "Big Brother" and loves his sister so very much. I just love his jokes, his stories and his creativity, he love to build with legos and it amazes me what he can create. He gets these difficult sets and puts them together by himself it is fantastic. We love to build with him as well. I am getting the hang of trying not to make him wait and say I have to do this for your sister etc... Days are going so much better juggling 2 kids, 2 personalities, 2 very independent children and things a certain way, but they play together so well even with a 4 1/2 year difference between Matthew and Ashlynn. Matthew is such a blessing in our family and keeps us on our toes.