Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

Reading  Sherlock Holmes on my Kobo Touch. Playing  lots of games with the girls. Watching  Supernatural while the girls nap.  Trying  to catch up with the girls’ scrapbooks. Fell a bit behind there. Oops. Cooking  some more new meals this week. Eating  pizza for supper tonight. Drinking  lots of tea. Again. Scrapping  my 2014 album. Almost done, just have to put on a few finishing touches. Doing  lots of cleaning/laundry around the house today. Going  to Celebrations Dinner Theatre for my Mom’s birthday present on Sunday. So excited! Loving  that Dominique is army crawling and starting to get everywhere! Hating  that Dominique is army crawling and starting to get everywhere! She’s not supposed to grow up this fast. Discovering  that Dominique is getting more teeth to add to her 3 already. Enjoying  watching Violet do lots of crafting/colouring/painting lately. She loves it so much and loves to show if off to Dad...

Dear Dominique: Happy 9 months Baby Girl! Time is flying fast and so are you! You figured out your mode of transportation and that is army crawling around the house, sometimes at breakneck speed, trying to get at whatever you can get your chubby little hands on. You did awesome at your first Christmas gatherings and impressed quite a few people with how well behaved you were. You found that wrapping paper is THE BEST, and you got pretty enthusiastic about unwrapping some gifts with Daddy’s help. You’re also “talking” a lot and making as much as noise as you can. It’s hilarious to hear you make so much noise and try to keep up with Violet.  Your smile and giggles are so infectious to everyone around you, especially Violet. I love when she makes you laugh at anything and you two just giggle away. Love it. Right now, your favourite food is…..EVERYTHING! Seriously. You eat everything and anything I give you and constantly wanting more. I’m getting really scared for my future grocery bi...

Reading nothing much this week, again. I do have a couple books ready to go, just haven’t sat down to read them. Watching lots of VeggieTales with Violet and season 3 of Supernatural. Trying to stay off my phone more often and disconnect from the online world. A little harder than it sounds. Cooking a couple freezer meals for the week and to start stocking up again. Eating yogurt and cookies at snack time with the girls. Doing nothing much this weekend. Loving Deathbattle on Youtube right now. Re-Discovering that snuggles with Keith after the girls go to bed are the best. Enjoying the time that I get to knit while the girls sleep. Or while they’re playing nicely in the living room. Thinking of what new foods to feed Dominique right now. She’s eating everything that I give her and then some! Feeling very tired as of late. Getting up multiple times during the night does not help me at all. Hoping (for) more sleep in the not-too-distant-future.

Reading nothing this week. Need to go back to the library and remedy that. Playing on the floor with the girls and encouraging Dominique to crawl. Watching Supernatural (3rd season) and lots of VeggieTales. Also Epic Rap Battles and Death Battles on YouTube. Trying to remember to take my vitamins on a regular basis. Maybe then I’ll stop feeling like crap some days. Cooking some new meals this week: Chicken Pot Pie (with homemade crusts) and Minestrone! Eating leftover Shepherd’s Pie with hot sauce for lunch. Yummy! Drinking lots of tea (still). Scrapbooking the end of 2014. A couple layouts to go and I’ll be done! Doing the Thursday 3 challenge on Instagram this year (username: jen_neufeld ) Loving the words and phrases that Violet is picking up. Her vocabulary is growing so fast! Hating the endless amounts of laundry that appear out of nowhere (am I the only one that happens to?) Discovering that sitting back and watching my kids play together can brighten up my day imm...

Reading Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It took me just over a week to read it the first time and I’m going through it a second time before I have to return it to the church library. Playing lots with the girls right now.  Watching a lot of My Little Pony on Netflix with Violet. Trying to get my house more organized this year. Starting with the kitchen. Cooking pizza for tonight. Drinking a little too much caffeine lately. Doing lots of catch-up journaling for the girls’ journals. Going to a poker game this weekend so that Keith can spend time with the guys. Loving the quiet mornings that I get to read my Bible and journal before the girls get up. Hating how sluggish I’ve become lately. Think too much food over 2 weeks and low iron is the problem.  Discovering the JOY in everyday (or trying to at least)  Thinking of different ways to document 2015 Feeling a little under the weather.

I hope you all had a safe and wonderful New Year's Eve! Mine was spent at home, watching movies with Violet (VeggieTales: Veggies in Outer Space) and once she was in bed around 9pm (Dominique was sleeping by 8pm), a quick run to Subway for food and then sit down with Keith and a couple drinks and watch Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit on Netflix and went to bed shortly after midnight. ------------ I guess with the New Year should come some resolutions, and this year they are quite simple: 1) Blog/write more often: I’ve been getting the itch to blog/write more often. It’s been refreshing to get my thoughts down on paper (or computer), especially since the girls are growing up so fast and I’d like to record as much of it as I can. My goals within this are pretty simple: start off  seriously blogging about twice a week and take 5-10 minutes at the end of the day to write about what happened. 2) Stop biting nails: This one is a big one for me. I’m a bit ashamed to say this, but I’ve been ...