Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

Yesterday (March 29), I participated in Ali Edwards annual Day in the Life. I LOVE this project. Even if I did forget to document some stuff (like running clothes errands with Violet and what we ate), but as a whole I love it. It's a glimpse into our day and what we did. I posted majority of my photos onto Instagram with the caption as to what was going on. And then I just copied everything over just to make it easier. There are some photos without captions, but they just go along with the daily story as a whole. Enjoy! 8:46am | A rough start to this morning means sleeping in for me and the girls which went like this: Violet up around 4:30am puking, which meant doing some clean-up and helping her settle down again // Keith getting up around 5:30 for work and him not feeling well either // Me being so tired that I’m relieved that it’s Spring Break and we can all sleep in. 9am | Morning coffee with my Mom 9:15am | Of course the girls enjoyed the TimBits that Grandma brought. 10:05

Reading nothing this week. I do have some books sitting on my night stand, just haven’t gotten around to reading them yet. Watching Violet master writing everyone’s name, including Papa, Grandma, Meme, Pepe and Elsa. Trying to find some healthier snacks to eat in between meals instead of looking for chocolate. Scrapbooking my Travel albums. I'm doing them in Project Life style as I have quite a bit of it kicking around and it’s easy to use for all the memorabilia that I have from all my trips. Also working on catching up in Dominique’s album before her 2nd birthday (!!) in April. Knitting my double-knit Star Trek this week. I'm almost done it! Loving that it’s slowly warming up up here. Spring did give us a glimpse earlier this week, but then 2 days of snow came and covered that all up. And now it’s sunny again. Hating that Violet is still sick and coughing her lungs out. She’s fine otherwise, except for a fever that comes and goes, but she’s slowly getting better. Enjoy

These past couple weeks have been slightly crazy around the house lately. It started off on March 3 (Thursday). Violet tripped/got pushed while playing tag in Pre-School and got some pretty serious rug burn on her nose. Poor girl. It happened when I stepped out of class to take Dominique to the Nursery, but the Class Teacher was there and saw it happen. Apparently one boy went to tag her as "it" for Tag, and she tripped at the same time, which caused her to plow into the carpet. She did cry a bit, but got back up and went back to playing with the other kids. And when anyone asked her what happened "so and so pushed me!" It took just over a week to fully heal, but it's looking much better! [caption id="attachment_821" align="alignnone" width="2448"] The initial rug burn. [/caption] [caption id="attachment_823" align="alignnone" width="3024"] A couple days later. Looks worse than it actually was. [/capt