Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

So, seeing as Tuesday was the last day of April, time for Day in the Life! I actually forgot to write quite a bit down, mainly after supper-time and didn't take a whole lot of photos. And to boot, I almost forgot about today! Oops. I still haven't made the scrapbook page for it, so I'm just posting the photos with some captions. Morning smiles Finally getting spring around here after a too-long winter The days to-do list V showing off her drawing/coloring skills I was washing all the handprints/kisses off of the front window, someone decided to join me in cleaning up her mess. Shortly after they were all cleaned? Handprint. I give up keeping windows clean. Rained all day. And because of the snow melting, our corner flooded (again). Working with V on her number board. She's getting pretty good at putting the numbers in the right places and she's only 18 months old! Out for a walk in between rain falls. V showing off her fork skills. She was especially proud of this. ...

All caught up again! Week 14 left side   The Orange Filler Card is from the Texture Card Set . The "Week 14" alphas are Icy Alphas . The font is Kristen ITC. This is Design D of Project Life.   Yes, Violet spend most of Saturday dragging Rainbow Dash around. She absolutely adores her. And look at the size comparison between Violet and Payton! They're only 14 months apart!   I've also be working lots lately. Only in the evenings (maximum 2 evening a week) once Keith is home from work and on the weekends, but now it looks like I'm the evening/weekend baker! Woot! Week 14 right side of layout.   Week 15 left side   The Filler Card is from Damayanti Sun And Fun Journal Cards . Font is Knights Templar.   There was a lot of listening to iTunes nice and loud in the house this week. Violet really loves it as I don't have the TV on unless we're watching it. Also lots of reading this week. Week 15 right side.   The "love this" arrow is available ...

Finally today came!! Me and Sam had made plans last week to go to IKEA today as I had never been there before. I had Natalie's car from running errands around town today and told Sam to pick me and Violet up at Natalie's when she got into town after she was done work. Once Sam let me know that she was in town, me and Violet got into the car to bring it back to Natalie's and then hopped in Sam's car. We headed to St. Vital mall first as I had to get Violet her Rainbow Dash from Build-A-Bear Workshop. The Rainbow Dash is so cute! I quickly grabbed myself a Caramel Latte from Second Cup (yes, I'm addicted). We quickly grabbed food from Burger King and headed off to IKEA.  We got to IKEA in no time and found parking close to the entrance. We walked inside, found the bathrooms and then grabbed something to drink before grabbing a cart and heading upstairs to start our browsing. It was absolutely amazing the stuff that they had in there. I was just dreaming about a new ki...

Welcome to March 2013 Day in the life. My original intent for this month was to document the entire Easter Weekend. Mainly because we were all home together on Friday and had gatherings all weekend, plus me working. Except for the fact that I totally forgot on Friday until after lunch. So I just documented Saturday and Sunday. Still worked out in the end.   Left side of layout - March 30, 2013 Right side of layout - March 30, 2013 It was a bit harder to document the weekend, due to me working both days (boo!), but it was interesting to say the least. Left side of layout - March 31, 2013 Right side of layout - March 31, 2013 And I'm excited that I got to capture both big Easter gatherings. I missed documenting a lot last year, but now that V is walking and running all on her own, I don't need to keep such an eye on her. As you can tell, I didn't add any extra embellishments at all. I sat down Monday evening and did both these layouts, plus finished up a couple from Project L...

Hello Week 13. It's nice to be caught up :) The "Week 13" alphas are Spring Felt . The font is Waiting for the Sunrise. I used Project Life Design A for this page. I actually like how this page turned out, even without a background page! I normally like having a background page, but there's so much color and stuff going on, that it looks pretty good! And yes, I got myself new running shoes (with pink!!), another Latte from Second Cup (I think I'm addicted), went to Church for the first time since November (thank you work for letting me off nice and early!), found out that 2 of My Little Pony's are coming to Build-A-Bear Workshop in April (I'm so getting Rainbow Dash) and slowly started V on Potty Training.   This layout is Project Life Design F . It worked out really nicely. Yes, lots of journaling.   Violet loves Grandma R's ferrets. Apparently she had a blast with them, giving them snacks and lots of kisses. Love that she loves animals. And the food...

Hello Week 12! And I'm almost caught up!!   The font is English Essay. The Title Card is from Project Life Cobalt Kit and the Journal Card is from A Vegas Girl . The background is from Summers Past, which is an Ivy Scraps kit that is no longer available.   Yes, Keith made yummy food once again (Chicken Fettuccine with Bacon) and more Spring Cleaning in the form of cleaning out my closet. Trashed or donated 30+ articles of clothing. Wow! My closet looks a whole lot cleaner now! We also got a ton of snow this week, and Violet wanted to help shovel the driveway (or at least be outside with us). Oh, and we got the first slurpees of the year. Yes, we are Manitoban's!   The "awesome" arrow is from Arrow Sentiments by Ali Edwards . The Green Journal Card is from A Vegas Girl .   My sister Sam came down and brought The Hobbit to watch! Oh how I missed you Middle Earth. Violet seemed to enjoy it after she woke up from her nap. And I had 2 extra "brats" one day t...

Welcome to Week 11 of Project Life! Yes, I know I'm behind in posting, hoping to be caught up this week. Day in the Life layouts included. This week didn't see much of anything happen. Except that Keith made Butterfinger Cheesecake again (!!!) and got me hooked onto Lattes. I'm not much of a coffee drinker (I prefer my tea or really good hot chocolate), but he got me a Latte from Second Cup and I LOVED IT! (But I'll still deny it :p)   The "Week 11" alphas are from Messy Edge Alphabet . The font is Janda Romantic. Even got V to try the Cheesecake and she loved it as well. Ate half of my serving and asked for more. (facepalm).     The "Cultivated Life" stamp is from Retro Filler Cards . Green background paper is from Birthday Boy digital kit from Creative Memories . There was even a fair bit of Spring Cleaning so to say, as some things in the house got an over-haul and cleaned up.