self portraits by chubbas

Oh, yeah, he is pretty much a silly head. I now have hundreds of pictures like these!

hockey and hats and songs

Well, I just went through and organized my pictures and downloaded everything that was in my camera. I normally sort through my pictures about once a week, put them in folders, etc. But, I have not done any picture organization since November. November! Can you say a little behind?

Well, I am caught up now. Which means I can hopefully get back into a regular blogging groove. Yay! Here are a few pictures to catch up on some things we have been doing lately.

Anabel is loving her new kitties. Here she is reading one of them a story.Too sweet.

We took the kids to see their first hockey game. A good friend of Don's was in town playing, so we went.
Enrique was totally captivated like this. Until the game started. Then he was done.

E has been stealing my camera alot lately. There were over 100 pictures on there that he took! Everything is fascinating to him. Here is one that I really liked...

A little art making..
But I am so out of the habit of capturing our days with the thought of sharing stuff here that I never took a picture of the finished product. Bummer. It was a fun painting for Don's mom that both Don and the kids did using some pictures I took.

Me thinks we need to be making more art around here, don't you?

We have been loving getting to play outside after way too many days cooped up with colds and freezing temperatures.
See that cute sweater she is wearing, my sis made it for her and I love it!


This is what pirates would look like if they could sail their ships into Colorado...
Gotta keep that head warm, which the pirate hat alone doesn't really do.

I never did show and tell of all the goodies we made for everyone for Christmas. So, here is one picture I managed to take of a couple of hats I made for the kiddos. E's is too big, I need to fix it, but I think they are pretty dang cute!


And lastly, a song for you from my goofballs...

A song for you from Lisa Delzer on Vimeo.

A New Project

If you have been wondering why Lisa just is not posting as much around here lately, it is because I have been working on a new project. (and now that it is up and running you should see more of me here)

VisionaryMom. com

This is a place for me to express my love of making a difference and helping people. That is what I did before I became a mom. My life was about making a difference, helping people live lives that they truly love. The past 5 years have been all about being a mom for me. I love being a mom. I love my children more than anything in the whole wide world. They are why I exist.

But, I also miss contributing to people, giving them something that helps make their lives a little better. I have been dwelling on how can I be doing that again, but in a way the incorporates and celebrates my love of motherhood, that allows me to be home with my babies, but still make an income and do what I love. (and give us the freedom to travel and pursue our own dreams)

I've spent months working on this.. exploring, trying to figure out what is it I want to do. And here I am sharing it with you now.

Visionary Mom is a place for us moms to dream.. to live lives we love.. to make a difference and express our hearts. It is a place for moms to get a little inspiration and encouragement to get out there and pursue their passions.

And, it is also a place for me to offer what I am good at - working with people to experience the love and joy in their everyday lives. To be in touch with the core of who they really are, to express themselves fully.

My focus is on mothers because I think far too often, we put our needs aside in favor of caring for our little ones. I've been starting to feel a little fed up and annoyed with myself for putting my needs last. I actually think we do a dis-service to our children by putting our dreams on the back burner.

Our kids need to learn FROM US how to live full, magical, dream fulfilled lives. They need to know that it is okay to dream and to chase those dreams. We can teach them this by doing it ourselves. They want us to thrive and be happy, creative, passionate human beings. They don't want us sacrificing our lives for them. Really, they don't. Trying to be supermom is so last century! :) This decade is about us moms ROCKIN IT!

So, there you have it, Visionary Mom in a nutshell. Oh! Almost forgot to say that I am offering coaching, e-courses and retreats. (that's the business side of it and a way to make even more of an impact by giving people a chance to really work on themselves). I am practically giving these services away right now as a way to collect some great testimonials, if you are interested.

So, pop on over and say hi. I hope you love it!

i heart homeschooling

Today Enrique came up to me and said, "Mom, I want to be doing school right now. Will you be my homeschool teacher so I can learn something?"

Adorable.

Of course, I obliged. He wanted to learn all about the world (hmmm in one afternoon?) by talking about his brand new globe that he got for his birthday from Grandma. She also got him a United States puzzle, so we also spent some time putting that together and talking about the names of all the States.

Enrique is a certifiable NUT!

He does not just sit still all calm and cute wanting to learn. No, he is wiggly and jumping up and down and dancing around and singing songs. He cannot sit still for more than 2 minutes. I am for sure going to have to do some research on kinesthetic learning styles. Because that is so him and I have no idea what to do with this amount of energy! No. Idea.

Check it out for yourself. A little song he was singing while putting the puzzle together today...

Enrique's Learning Tune from Lisa Delzer on Vimeo.

See, a nut! I love him so.

Five!

A love note for Enrique, who today has turned 5. Five!

5 things that you love right now:

1. Your kitties - Isabelle and Penguin.
   
2. Teaching things to Anabel.
3. Pineapple Pizza.
4. Playing dress up (which gets its own category).
5. Building giant forts, though you don't call them that. They are space ships, castles, boats, etc.
   

5 great thoughts we have heard from you recently:

1. "What do you love more? Santa Claus or Rock 'n Roll?"
2. "I am going to shrink so big"
3. "When I grow up, I am going to be a present seller" (referring to his obsession with being Santa Claus.
4. "I want to be a rock star, go get me my bongos!"
5. "Did you know Santa Claus turns into Superman?"
   

5 dress up characters we have come to know well:

1. Santa Claus. This one is serious. You ARE Santa Claus. We are your elves. Anabel is Mrs. Claus. Totally was not sure what to do about Christmas, because when we asked you want you wanted you would get mad because YOU are the one who brings presents.
2. Superman. Not getting as much action these days because of #1, but just yesterday for about 5 minutes we got to hang with Superman again.
3. The Mexican Chef. Complete with crazy, wacky Spanish accent.
4. The Magician. Who gets in the cupboards and makes scary looking "poison" concoctions that probably are actually poisonous and your mom should not be letting you do this. But, it's cute.
5. Cowboy. Boots-check. Hat-check. Rope-check. Bandana-check. Cowboy lives in the southwest.

5 things that make me proud to be your mama:

1. Your imagination. It is off the charts fabulous.
2. Your eagerness to help and participate in whatever we are doing as a family.
3. The strange, intuitive, brilliant things that you say when you first wake up in the morning (and I should right down because I always forget.)
4. The way you love your sister and want to teach her things (when you aren't fighting!). Seriously it melts my heart the way you speak to her.. so lovingly.
5. How excited you get about just about anything. You experience life thrillingly.

5 things I wish for you in this next year:

1. That you get your first loose tooth because you really want one.
2. That you get to experience your first sleep over with one of your little buddies.
3. That you discover the joy and excitement of reading.
4. That you continue to make new discoveries that dazzle you.
5. That we get to meet many new interesting characters that you think up.

Happy Birthday today my Creative, Imaginative child.
You are amazing.
xoxoxo ~Mama

merry merry

Taking a quick moment to wish everyone a very
Merry, Happy Christmas!

Be safe. Be warm. Be loved.
See you in the New Year!

mad dreaming

Yes, I said I was coming back to this blog space and I am. Really, I am. But, there is a bit going on for us right now and taking the time to blog is low on the list of things for me to do.

But, somehow, blogging rose to the top the list and here I am taking a moment to catch you all up on what we've been up to.

Chubbas 'n Boop is crazy busy. Not so crazy busy that Don is leaving his job or anything, but crazy busy that all our family time is spent doing toy stuff right now. I am seriously wondering how we are going to get everything done on time for Christmas, but I know we will.

Speaking of, I cannot believe Christmas is in less than 3 weeks. I have not been infected with the Christmas spirit bug yet. No Christmas decorations or crafting or anything. None. Nada. Zilch. I think I may have to move into "fake it until you make it" mode and hope the fa-la-la takes over.

Enrique, however, has decided that he is Santa Clause and it is so cute. I ask him what he wants for Christmas and he just looks at me all confused, "But, Mom, I am Santa Clause so I will bring YOU a present!" Adorable.

I have waaaaaaay way way too many pictures to down load and sort and whatnot, so, no pics of the kids playing in the snow and doing their cute thing. Sorry. Lots of hilarious pics of Enrique dressing up as Santa and a princess. Blackmail pictures. Good stuff. Hopefully soon I will deal with the backlog and get some pictures posted here. (but don't hold your breath that it will be anytime too soon)

Let's see, what else? Oh, yeah, almost had a crazy life changing event occur a few weeks ago. Crazy. Life. Changing. Crazy.

In case you don't already know about us, one of our living life to the fullest dreams is to live on the road with our kids. Roadschool, roam, explore. Make art. Do our thing. Don and I love driving and just going. Well, about a month ago, I had this idea..

What if we went ahead and bought an RV to live in now? Instead of waiting until it all came together and we had enough money, blah blah blah. We could just live in that and park ourselves at an RV park long term and save way more money than living in our house. Our living expenses would be cut by at least 1/2. Plus, we would have a swanky place to stay when we wanted to go camping. And then when we save enough money, we could go roam and explore some of the places we have been thinking about moving to. You know, hang there for awhile, maybe get jobs and move on when we wanted to. Or stick around for a while if we were loving it.

Yeah, good idea, let's do that! Why didn't we think of that before?

So, we started checking out craigslist and one day (seriously only a week after we decided this was a good idea) I saw this ad for an old RV that some dude wanted to trade for a car that was good on gas. Hmmmm... we have a car that is good on gas that my granny gave us and Don uses to drive to work. Wonder if he would trade that?

Don called the guy, email back and forths, pictures of the car sent, etc. Yes! he will trade us for it. Since he lives in Denver, Don took a day off work for us to drive up, check it out and quite possibly drive back home in it.

It was a crazy couple of days... should we do this? Is this what we really want? What will my mother think? My aunt is going to kill me. Everyone will tell us this is dumb, hmm.. wonder how quick we could save enough to hit the road full time? Worst case scenario we could sell it and find a new house to rent.. This is so crazy, we are actually going to do this.. now- not later! Yikes! Yippeee!! Oh, god is it going to be okay? I can't beleive we found this awesome deal, what is wrong with it? I know it is old, but we can paint it, sew some curtains, make it really cute. Tons of time googling (googeling?) learning about life on the road.. wow, we could be living FT on the road by this next summer! To do lists of what we need, what to get rid of.. how can we make money. Yes, yes, yes, let's do this, why not? We want to so bad.. yes. But let's not tell anyone so they won't talk us out of it. Except my sister, I will call her, she'll get it. But even she was not as enthusistic as I had hoped. doubt. fear. exstatic joy. this is what it feels like to go for it and be crazy and trust the universe. holy moly, so alive and excited and ready. and scared. LOVING this!

Then, the guy pulled out at the last minute.

Crushed.

Totally, absolutely devistated.

the one that got away

Seriously, Don and I were in a bit of a daze for days afterward. Not sure what to think. And really afraid to be so happy about this whole idea anymore. Funny how it is with dreaming, huh? Rug gets pulled out from underneath and we take our toys and go home to pout.

Well, after recovering from the burn of being slapped in the face, A new plan has emerged. If not THAT RV (which we have decided must have been a totally peice of crap and the universe has got our back) then another. We are still a yes, we still want this. And now, not someday.

So the goal is to be living FT in an RV by June. (Don's birthday to be exact). I am working on a new project that will give us some income while living on the road. (shhhh, secret for now) I am working and researching and formulating. We may or may not be able to pull away from Colorado Springs by this summer, but for sure we will be living in an RV and will get on the road as soon as we can.

We are going to do this! That is what came of all of that mad dreaming- clarity. We are now so clear about how bad we want to do this. So we are going to. Not sure of all the how, but the plan is in motion.

And that is what the Delzer's have been doing. Crazy mad dreaming. What we do best. And Enrique is totally in on it now. Every time we see an RV while out and about he asks us to stop and buy it. That's our son- he knows what's up.