Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

Reading nothing this week. Need to go to the local library and remedy that tomorrow. Playing Plants vs. Zombies 2 on my phone. The kids love it. Watching more documentaries on Netflix during afternoon quiet time. Been really trying to get back to watching more shows for myself. [caption id="attachment_778" align="alignnone" width="3264"] Dancing to the end credits (as always) of Beauty and the Beast. Violet dressed as Belle and Dominique as Tinkerbell.[/caption] Cooking more recipes from Pinterest this week. Drinking more water this week, although I really do want a nice big glass of Pepsi right now….. Knitting the double-knit of the Triforce, even though it’s from the 2014 blanket. I didn't know/like this week, so I opted for something different. [caption id="attachment_781" align="alignnone" width="2448"] Violet in her pyjamas, holding her Merida that she got for Valentine's from me and her Valentine's ba...

Welcome to Weeks 05+06 of my 2016 Week in Review! Week 5 (January 25-31) was pretty good. Lots of time spent with the girls, new stove and fridge delivered (!!!), and just enjoying watching my girls grow up so big. Sigh. For my Week 05 layout, I grabbed one of my templates that I had made, as well as some digital embellishments, the weekly word art from Ali Edwards, and the digital paper. It all came together nicely! I do have to say that my favourite photos from this week is the one of Violet with the foals (baby horses) and Dominique helping me with the dishes. For Week 06 (February 1-7), it was a bit harder choosing photos. I realized that I took quite a bit of Violet this week and not a whole lot of Dominique. I think I managed to even it out, hopefully. Again, it's another one of my layouts, and I used one of the digital paper that I had on hand. Favourite photos from this week include Violet's writing of "Mom" and "Dad," Keith's before and after sh...

Reading Missoula. It was on my recommended list on Good Reads, so I figured I’d give it a try. So far it’s OK. Trying not to get too anxious about this coming September. I just registered Violet for Kindergarten and my worry/anxiety has gone up a bit. Baking some pizza buns and cookies this weekend. I'm out of both and that’s almost unheard of in this house. Knitting Sonic (still). I'm about ¾ done, but haven’t really had a lot of down time these last 2 weeks, but I'm hoping to get it down this weekend. Loving that my Grandparents finally agreed to move. They’re in their 80’s and still living by themselves. With both of them dealing with health issues, they realized that it would be best to move into town where help and medical care are closer. And they’ll only be a couple blocks away from us know instead of a 20 minute drive! Hating that I haven’t cleaned out my pantry and craft closet yet. No motivation to do that this past week. Crossing my fingers that I’ll at lea...