Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

I joined Ali Edwards this past Thursday, documenting my Day in the Life. It was a pretty normal day around here, which also means that I have quite a few pictures! 7:33am - Up for the day and helping Violet choose her breakfast. She chooses toast with Cheese Whiz, so I get that ready, as well as prepping tea and coffee for me and Keith respectively. Keith hops in the shower to begin getting ready for school. 7:54am - Dominique is up and Keith finds her sitting in the hallway. He does a quick inspection on her eye stye and mentions that I should probably call the doctor and get an appointment. Dominique chooses "Green Oatmeal!" (Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal) as her breakfast and scarfed it down pretty fast. 8:18am - Violet got herself changed and ready for school, so she was able to have a couple minutes of colouring time before we had to get ready. 8:25am - My always messy bed greets me every time I walk in there. 8:33am - Getting the girls ready to make the short walk to the b...

As you may have noticed, I kind of fell off the blogging wagon a bit lately. I will, however, point out that it wasn't my fault that my computer was being stupid! Really! About 4 weeks ago, my husband decided that he was going to try fixing my laptop. Ever since Windows did a massive update on it back in April, my laptop has been acting funky and not working to its full capability (like I couldn't use my task bar properly, running really slow, etc.)  Enter the husband.  He ran all the usual stuff and some extras that I didn't know about. After almost 2 days of working on it (bless his helpful soul), he decided that he'd probably have to do a full wipe and re-install Windows 7 (thank God he had a disk).  I spent Saturday evening backing up everything and preparing for the fact that I would most likely lose my scrapbooking program, among a couple other things. But at least my photos and journals were backed up and safe! Before I went to work Sunday morning, he notified me...