Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

My plan for my  Currently series on my old blog was to do this every Friday and maybe make a digital mini-book out of it when the year was up. Needless to say, I haven't done one for a couple months.  I'm going to attempt the same thing for next year, but in the mean time, might as well keep it going for this year. Reading nothing new this week. I did pick up 2 books from the library the other day, but haven’t started on them. Watching Keith play Fall Out: New Vegas. And lots of Disney Princess. Trying to kick sugar to the curb (at least a bit) Cooking lots of good, hearty, hot meals this week. Winter is setting in here. Drinking lots of Earl Grey Tea (with a little sugar in it) or water. Knitting this scarf as a Christmas present. Also have more knitting to complete for Christmas. Doing menu planning while the girls play in the tub and looking forward to having quiet once they are in bed. Enjoying the time I get to just sit down with a cup of tea and knit to my heart

Yeah, yeah....I'm a couple weeks behind. I know. I seriously don't know where the time went with this little girl of mine. How in the world is she 1.5 years old already? Sheesh girl! Any ways, as per my journalling tradition, here's 10 things about Dominique at 18 months: Walking/running all over the place. She barely sits still long enough to eat meals before she wants out again. Climbing everything, including the step stool so that she can watch me make supper and bake. Loves watching Tangled (Rapunzel). Not joking. She sits down and watches the entire movie with eyes wide open. Eats me out of house and home! I think she piles back more food than Violet does now. Constantly babbling (with some whining in there). Curious about everything. And having to warn her about getting hurt for touching something she shouldn't. Knows most body parts (ears, eyes, mouth, nose, tongue, hands, feet and belly button) and can do the sounds of 5 animals (elephant, chicken,

A little late for posting Halloween, but oh well! Halloween for us covered 2 days. Friday evening was Trick-or-Treating at the local mall and Saturday evening was spent going around to places. Unfortunately for Violet, it was not the greatest weekend. She woke up Friday morning with a 100* fever, that took quite a while to go away. Thankfully I had Tylenol on hand for her and it helped. I did mention to her around supper, that it might be best to stay home from trick-or-treating at the mall. She was adamant that we had to go trick-or-treating at the mall that evening. Seeing as she was feeling better, I decided that we'd give it a go. [caption id="attachment_50" align="aligncenter" width="660"] My Beautiful Queen Elsa[/caption] After braiding Violet's hair into 2 French Braids to go along with her Elsa dress and getting Dominique into her Snow White dress, we hopped into the car and headed to the mall. When we got to the mall, Dominique opted to

[caption id="attachment_41" align="aligncenter" width="660"] Happy Birthday my Beautiful Big Girl![/caption] Yes, yes, I know I'm late with posting this. Violet turned 4 on October 21, and it's been slightly crazy these past weeks. Oops. Anyway, as per my journalling tradition, here's 10 things about Violet right now at age 4: 1) You love to sing and dance. Especially to the end credits on movies that you love. And in the bathtub, singing to your bath toys. And to your stuffed animals. And to your little sister.You are always singing and dancing. 2) You are very helpful these days. You help clean up the living room when we have to vacuum. You fill up Pascal’s cage with shavings. You put the dry cutlery away and also try to get breakfast or lunch for you and Dominique if I'm not moving fast enough. You also love to help when I'm cooking or baking, constantly asking what I'm putting in and if you can stir it yourself. 3) You are in C