Have you figured out that life isn’t easy??  Sure sometimes the road seems smoother with less bumps and other times you need a serious off-road vehicle to navigate.  I am always reminded whether the road smooth or very bumpy that I am not in control.  I have no way of seeing beyond this moment to know what my road may look like ahead.  Sometimes that is a blessing and sometimes a curse.  However, I have a God who knows my road…every bump, every crack, every curve…whew, to me that is a huge load off my shoulders and a reminder that I can only live one moment at a time.  I hope that you have not been overwhelmed this week with life…with worry…with stress…I pray that you too can live each moment to it’s fullest and sit strapped into the passenger seat securely knowing that God is in control and that He is driving.

So, I have to share an epiphany!!  Like I said, life just isn’t easy sometimes.  As a mom of three little ones, one being in kindergarten, our mornings can sometimes get a little hectic.  Let me first say that if there had not been the invention of coffee I probably wouldn’t even be awake at noon.  I am not a morning person.  Ask my parents…they yanked me gently awoke me each morning over and over again until I quite literately rolled out bed.  I spent most of my high school years in my pajamas, ask my husband I didn’t even bother to get dressed for school!  Sometimes genetics are a funny thing in what your children will inherit.  My son got the please leave me alone in the morning gene too, uh-oh!!  So, the morning is somewhat of a whirlwind for me because my two more than cheery girls wake up bright and early and my son and I lay lifeless in our beds until the clock tells me that if I don’t get up right now I will be in big trouble.  Then it’s change a diaper, maybe get dressed, pour the coffee, do something quick for breakfast, brush our teeth Gage’s teeth, now hurry everyone in the car…last one in is a rotten egg, right?  And seriously, if you leave one minute late you will be punished by a loooooonnnnnggggg line of parents in vehicles all waiting patiently & cheerfully, to drop off their kids.  Did you notice in my haste to get out the door I forgot something?  How about my son’s lunch!!!?????  Ok, so I have to admit this has happened on more than one occasion.  Soooo, this brings me to my epiphany…sorry it takes me awhile to blurt things out sometimes!  Why not make life in the morning a little less hectic and a little less embarrassing for my son who’s mother can’t seem to pull it together to make him lunch…so this is what I did this morning…

I bought two loaves of bread and decided to premake peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and freeze them!  I know they make these in the freezer section of Fry’s however this was a lot cheaper to do it yourself!!

So, I started spreading the peanut better on jelly on almost twenty slices of bread!

Then I used my cut-n-seal from Pampered Chef.  Do you own one of these??  This has to be one of the best inventions ever!!  It’s only $9 and it makes the best little sandwiches because it does just what it claims…cuts & seals!!

Aren’t they cute??  I popped each one in a ziplock bag and threw all 16 of them in the fridge!!  Of course wouldn’t this have been a smarter project on Sunday instead of Friday, but now we will be prepared for Monday morning at the Zeller House!

If you have any time savers for getting your kids out the door…post a comment and let me know!  I can use all the help I can get!! 

I’ll be posting a family session from back in November that was taken in downtown Glendale in the morning…so check back!!  I hope you have a wonderful start to your weekend!!

Blessings!

Janelle