Little Okie Homestead

Give Me That Girl is a country song that I have loved for quite a while. I don't normally listen to country music unless my husband's around and I'm almost certain that it was his favorite song before mine. I bought it on iTunes and have listened to it for months but this morning something all of a sudden hit me. If you listen to the lyrics it's talking about wanting the normal every day moments. I have posted before about  dressing for your husband  and not allowing yourself as a homemaker to just live in PJ's but today this song stood out to me. My husband wants the normal every day girl too! He doesn't want me all dolled up every day (and thank goodness because I don't do it). One of my favorite lines today was "Give me that girl thats beautiful without a trace of make up on barefoot in the kitchen singin' her favorite song". Why? Well that exactly what I was doing! I had just got out of the shower and dressed and came down to cook breakfas...

So I'm not done with my vacation photos yet (by a long shot) but I wanted to share some more true life struggles with everyone. I never want my life to look perfect to anyone because it's not and I know that it never will be as long as I'm here on earth. So here I go... Vacation was great. The stress of getting everything done before wasn't so great and now coming back isn't all that great either. I love being home and before we left I was in a great routine of being the homemaker that I'm striving to be and caring for my family. Now though it just isn't happening. I have no motivation to do pretty much anything. I just want to lay around and read (which is not something I was able to do on vacation). I have gotten all of the laundry done from our trip, the suit case back to the people we borrowed from, food in the house so we can eat at home, and I was even able to get the vacuuming done throughout the house. That's big accomplishment because of all ...

Day 3 of our vacation was porting in Cozumel Mexico. We were able to take an excursion to Playa Mia Beach where there was a buffet of Mexican food, open bar, beach chairs, boats, and inflatable ocean toys. It was great for the whole family. My hubby and I were able to swim out and have fun with the ocean toys and rent a paddle boat to go explore a little bit. It was so much fun. Rex enjoyed playing the water, finding more sea shells and building a pool with Grandma in the sand. My parents enjoyed playing with Rex and relaxing in the ocean. It was a great stop. Rex passed out on the bus trip back. He was so tired from playing so hard. We then hit the shops. We were enjoying seeing all the different things they had. The sky started to look not so friendly so we headed into the biggest shop we could find and just in time. It was a down pour. We hung out in the shop and Rex picked out the magnet from Cozumel for our fridge. We collect magnets from all the places we trave...

We just back back Saturday from our first ever cruise/family vacation! It was great! My hubby and Rex were able to see the ocean for the first time and Miami's ocean is fantastic! It's so warm and blue! I have never been to pretty oceans before just the Gulf of Mexico and New Jersey. I love that we were able to go and enjoy some time together and have some great family memories to have forever! So here come some pictures from our wonderful vacation! Miami:  On the airplane and ready for vacation.  "Pull my suitcase, please?"  First time at the beach. South Beach, Florida.  Playing in his sandbox. Walking on the beach at sunrise. So sweet!  Testing out the water.  Getting more brave with Daddy in the water too.   Checking out the waves.  Stayed just long enough to get a few pictures then he was done and ready for more sandbox time.    Watching us leaving and heading out to sea.  We were so glad to have a balcony bec...

This title automatically makes me think of little pink bunnies but I want to start off by saying that even though I think that is great that is not really want I'm posting about today. I want to become a playmate for my husband and family. I feel like doing so will create a light hearted, easy-going feeling in our house and will spread outwards as well.  My husband has always had a sense of humor and can joke and laugh a lot . Me on the other hand, I need more serious time and because of this I have noticed that he (after 6 years of marriage) has lost some of his silliness (at least at home with me). I have been reading  Becoming His Help Meet  by Debi Pearl and she talked about this and I really felt convicted that I have robbed my husband of this. I do still believe that there is a time for seriousness and that being silly isn't appropriate in all situations but at home he should be able to have fun with me and Rex without feeling like it will upset me...

Do you take a lot of pictures? I know I do. I use to not be so bad but then I had Rex and I have a been picture freak most of the time. My husband gets so annoyed with all the pictures I take but at least I don't let them go to waste on my computer and just let them sit there.  I use  Heritage Makers  to create wonderful projects that I can display all over my house. Rex loves having books to read about his family and I love how simple it is to create them to preserve our lives. The best part is that it is affordable too!  You can sign up for a free account and upload some pictures and try it out. You can build projects with the basic account and just pay for the finished project when ready. Or you can sign up for  Club HM  at the level that works best for your family. I personally am using the Bronze level and only paying $30 per month to have unlimited photo storage, unlimited access to all the template's (4,000+) and all the art work (50,000+)...

We have been crazy busy around here like I have said in past posts to why I haven't been posting much lately. However things seem to just be getting more and more crazy.  Tomorrow my hubby leaves with Rex to head over to the state of Oklahoma. His grandpa is dying and he wants to visit him one last time. We were lucky that his dad stepped up and offered to buy tickets after not talking for 6 years. I'm very grateful that he did this. I'm very disappointed though because Miah really wanted us to go as a whole family and I didn't get a ticket bought for me. I know he wanted me out there to be there to support him and now I'm going to have to do it from home. I'm hoping that having his sister there with him will help him through this difficult time and help take care of Rex since I won't be there to do that either.  I am a little nervous about what is going to happen when he's away from me. I completely trust my husband one hundred percent but I also ...