Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

Brody’s birthday day today. Keith took the car because he had to do over-time at work today, so I slept in for a bit and then got up and did some stuff around the house while I waited for Mom to pick me up so that we could head to Tinkertown for Brody’s birthday. Mom picked me up around 11:30 and then we quickly stopped by their house to wait for Dad to get home from work. While we were waiting, Mom did some picking in the garden and I watched Dollar in the pasture with his new girlfriend, Echo, Natalie’s new horse. He was being really sweet with her, not leaving his side as all. Awww. So of course, I had to take some pictures of him. Dad got home shortly after 12 and said that he was going to be taking his Datsun 240 Z to Tinkertown so that he could give Brody a ride home later. Got to Tinkertown by 1:00, met Sam when we got there, and found Natalie, Brett, Jon and the kids pretty quickly. Brody was pretty happy to see us and so was Madison. They wanted to go on some rides and when Da...

Well, it seems that I've finally gotten some inspiration back and have gotten back into doing digial scrapbooking. After being out of it for just over a year, I'm a little bit rusty, but loving it all the same. So here's some sampling of the work that I've been doing. Like I said, it's a bit rusty, but I'm getting there slowly, again... Canada Day Fireworks Baking Day Our Ultrasound Brody's 3rd Birthday Page So there you are. Here's to more scrapbooking!!

I. Am. Hormonal. And. Emotional. Seriously. Especially last night. And there was a couple things that set me off. I was supposed to have girl's night at my place, but no one showed up. I knew that Sabrina had a 50/50 chance of showing up, mainly cause she has to be home with the kiddos while her hubby's on the field working. Which is understandable. And even when I talked to her earlier in the day, she wasn't sure if she could make it. No problem. My other girlfriend Lisa, didn't show up though. Which confounded me. I had messaged her earlier in the day and she said that she was coming and usually if she can't make it at the last minute, she lets me know. Not today. I was waiting around the house until 8:00 until I concluded that she wasn't coming. Not something to get really upset about, right? Wrong. I also was getting in the mood to do some serious scrapbooking. But had an issue. I have the free digital scrapbooking program from Scrapbook Flair, but it's ...

So far, so good.  1) Pre-natal appointment went pretty good. Weight gain is still good, blood pressure still good and so is Baby's heartbeat. Can't believe I've only got a couple months left until we meet the little one! 2) Craving fruit, chocolate and slurpees (in reverse order). 3) Had major heartburn for 1 evening. That sucked royally. 4) Starting work on the Baby Room. And found the cutest framed pic of Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger that has  to go in there. Still undecided on wall colours. 5) Bought my first pair of maternity pants from Value Village. Some of my regular jeans are starting to get a bit tight, so it's nice to have a back-up pair for when they don't fit anymore. 6) Did our Baby Registration at Babies 'R' Us. Not expecting to get everything on our list, but we figured, why not ? Hello tiny little bump :)

Happy Canada Day!!! Luckily I had booked today off of work. Didn't really feel like working a holiday where it could be really busy and make me work my butt off :). So in true long weekend style, me and Keith both slept in (until like 10) and did some small stuff around the house. Of course I decided to go see Dollar for a bit and see how he was doing. As of right now, he's in the middle of an almost 2-acre pasture, so after I stopped by my parents place to say hi to my Mom, I went to go see him. Luckily, he was right by the fence, so I carefully jumped over and saw that he was covered in horseflies. Yuck. And I didn't bring any fly spray with me at all. Bad, bad, horse mom. I did have his fly-mask though, so I quickly put that on him and then got to work on killing horseflies with my bare hands. I was with him for about 1/2 hour and by the end, my hands had quite a bit of blood on them. I'm sure that he appreciated that very much, as well as the snacks I brought for...