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Dear Young Pastor’s Wife,

June 14, 2013 by Jules Leave a Comment

For years, I've been searching for a blog, book, or just wise women who's been there, done that in the realm of being a pastor's wife. I have always come up short...until now.

Although I most often have nothing to offer in the way of wisdom, I do understand that God sends us through certain things and wants us to share them with others. I have always longed for "older women" to invest in me. I understand none of them are perfect but it would be nice to hear the successes and failures of their life.

Soooo, here I am, through one of those random connections in life, I am now sharing my successes and many failures by participating in something I've searched for nearly a decade: A blog devoted to encouraging, challenging, and supporting one another in this awkward life as a pastor's wife. Coincidence or Divine God thing? Yep- Divine!

Today, I'm over at A Common Bond sharing a letter to young pastor's wives that I think would have been helpful to me, years ago.

Filed Under: Being a Help-Meet, The Ones about A Common Bond, The Ones about Jules Life {Randomness}, The ones about the Rothacher Home

Water Park Hair for Littles {Thoughtful Thursday}

June 13, 2013 by Jules 4 Comments

I mentioned yesterday that we got to spend the day with friends at a water/amusement park for the 1st time as a family. We were beyond pumped!

Because we wanted to eliminate any possible kinks in the day, I wanted to make sure little girl hair wasn't going to be a constant issue. Ya know, pulling it up all day. Bang in the face. Hair slapping you on rides. Nasty looking, 1/2 dried hair. Soooo

We borrowed little brother's hair glue, "Gorilla Snot" and used tiny rubber bands to created some cute doos that would last all day.

I wet down the girls hair, added a generous amount of GS, and used a fine comb to comb their hair, removing knots, before putting it up.
Because both my girls have bangs or baby hairs/fly-aways, we created tiny pony tails right in the front.
Then we did a little dipsy do. I'm sure there's a real term for this but basically, all you do is make a hole under the hair-tier and poke the ponytail through before pulling tight.
Finally, we pulled the tiny dipsy do back into another ponytail. My oldest daughter has more hair so we ended up doing 3 ponies on one side and a single on the other side but only 2/1 on my younger daughter.
I left the back down on both girls {having only pigtails on the front 1/2 of their heads} so it would be less likely to fall down, since both of them have shoulder-length hair. I also scrunched my younger daughter's curly hair with the GS.

These stayed All Day! AND looked cute 😉 How do you fix your little girls hair when you need it to stay all day?

edit to add pics of hair glue

Filed Under: Hand-Dandies, Parenting, The ones about the Rothacher Home

Ready, Set, WHAT?!?

June 12, 2013 by Jules Leave a Comment

I haven't been writing much lately. Not for lack of fun stories, interesting thoughts {or at least to me}, or helpful how-tos...we've been a lil busy. lol I honestly had to go back and look at my instagram to remember what all we'd been doing. {btw: sorry if you follow my instagram via my FB page- its gonna double up}

Shortly before mother's day we found out our #4 is coming to round out the family! Eeeek

Rothacher' Harlem Shake Video {announcement}

Saw a Bunch of former students graduate down in Parker's Chapel.

Went on an awesome day of adventure to Magic Springs water and amusement part with some great friends.

Celebrated our 9th anniversary!!!

Moved the rest of stuff out in 2 days {boooo}
We FINALLY sold our house, "Big Blue"! I'll be doing a follow-up post on the Homemaker's Challenge scheduled for July.
note to self: put the memory card in the camera so you can have that "last day in front of our house when we sold it" picture
Had our 1st block party for the Vilonia community. {the night after 'closing' in White Hall}

Valley Groups have launched! Our ultimate goal and entry point for our church.
Started potty training our 2.5 year old, Jamin. Yay for new-to-us underroos!

We had our long-awaited 1st ultrasound. Baby #4 is due December 24th {but we will likely meet him/her closer to Dec 10th via c-section; entirely different post}

Had an awesome Girls Night Out in Little Rock where we went and saw Steel Magnolia's at Murray's Dinner Theater
Hosted our daughters big 'o 5th birthday party at the park {the next morning after our GNO}

We made an offer on a house in Vilonia! After a year of searching {and waiting to sell}, we made an offer at 3:30pm, received a counter-0ffer {of exactly what we were looking for} at 5:30pm, and accepted at 6:00pm. Did I mention this was the same day as the ultrasound? Busy day 😉

Now we are moving on to the "Honey-Do" list that we are hoping to accomplish before my sweet hubs leaves for Super Summer for a week and a 1/2; leaving me to single-parent {unskillfully} while he's gone.

Sign papers & turn them into the bank for our loan- check
Wii & DVD player hooked up correctly and ready to rock way too much screen time- check
Remove the giant wad of plastic wrap that I tried to use to help the bathtub water leak out slower but may or may not have gone down the drain before I could snag it possibly causing slow drainage and a pretty good clog- check
Go to SAMs Club as a family to get TP & other much-needed essentials so I don't pass out from loading, pushing, and unloading all that stuff by myself- check
Stalk up on simple foods & snacks for the prego & kids at said club- check {but may need a couple things a the big WM, ugg}
Catchup on the dishes, laundry, and big cleaning around the house- 1/2 check
Bring in our microwave from big blue because our current one got tired and doesn't heat any more- Wednesday
Baby pool, weighing way more than I should lift, dumped and refilled with clean water for scorching days- Wednesday
Collect tax return papers after the bank makes copies- Wednesday
Home inspection complete on our New House {within 10 days with the hubs being gone 7 of those days}- Thursday
Mow the jungle- maybe not...
A thousand other random things my hubs will do because he's so good at taking care of me- CHECK

Filed Under: Being a Help-Meet, Birthdays, Holidays, Homemaker, My Husband ROCKS!, The Ones about Jules Life {Randomness}, The ones about the Rothacher Home

WIC Approved Breakfast

June 4, 2013 by Jules 4 Comments

Many of you mom's out there with littles under 5 may know the blessings and woes of the WIC program.

Now that you have the food home, what do you do with it? Today I want to share a breakfast meal my kids love and only takes 1-3 ingredients that WIC doesn't provide but that you likely have in your pantry. Check them out over at the Homemaker's Challenge!

Filed Under: Baking and Cooking, Homemaker, The Ones about Homemaker's Challenge, The ones about the Rothacher Home

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June 4, 2013 by Jules Leave a Comment

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