Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

Dear Dominique: Two months old today Baby Girl! And you still melt my heart everyday. You are a complete joy to be around and so content with everything. It doesn't matter what I'm doing, be it vacuuming, have music on loud and dancing with Violet, watching movies with Daddy or your cousins being really loud, you are pretty content with it all and sleep through everything. Speaking of sleeping, you are my sleeping baby. We've gotten your routine down and we’re all loving it. Most nights, you’re in bed between 8-9 pm and sometimes I’ll have to come in to give you the soother back and make sure that you’re swaddled tightly (those darn arms keep coming lose!). But then you’ll sleep until 3-4 am and wake up for a full feeding and diaper change and then back to sleep until 8 am when Violet wakes up and our day starts. You are full of smiles, grins and sticking out the tongue and starting to make your own noises during the day. We've also found out that music is the way to ca...

Reading The Fault in Our Stars. I just started it after reading all the reviews about it. Don’t worry, I have a Kleenex box close by. Playing with Violet and Dominique as much as I can. Watching 6th season of House and 3rd season of Sherlock. Trying to get more sleep. Cooking more new meals so that I can stop relying on the old ones. Eating unbaked chocolate cookies. Drinking a Pepsi slurpee Scrapping 2014 PL and my Travel PL. Doing whatever I can to retain my sanity some days, even if that means indulging in slurpees and chocolate when I shouldn’t. Loving all the noises that Dom makes, even if they do keep me up at night. Hating that my girls are growing up so fast, right before my eyes. (Re)Discovering that the newborn baby smell has amazing relaxing qualities. Enjoying quiet time in the evenings to do journaling, scrap booking and spending time with Keith. Thinking of ways to help make our finances more manageable. Feeling pretty good, but still tired. Hoping (for) t...

Reading  Hands Free Mama (for myself) and starting the Harry Potter series with Violet and Dominique. Playing  lots of Candy Crush while breastfeeding Dominique. Helps kill some time. Watching (on Netflix)  House M.D.; Dr. Who and Sherlock Trying  to get my house more organized and get myself on a schedule. Cooking  every night and lots of whatever I'm making. Eating  constantly. And it seems likes it's never enough. Thank you breastfeeding and Dominique for "stealing" all my food. Drinking  lots of water. And my home-made iced tea. Scrapping  my 2012 and 2014 Project Life, as well as Dominique and Violet's baby albums Doing  lots of purging Loving  Coordinating nap times for all of us. Both girls and me all go down around 1pm for nap time. Dom sleeps for 3-4 hours, Violet's down for 2 hours and I try to keep mine to an hour so that I can get some of my stuff done in quiet. Discovering  to let some stuff go in order to spend time wi...