Weekend

Hello, happy Monday! This weekend Hubby and Little Mister J went out of town so it was just me and sweet Little Miss L all weekend. We had a real good time together we played lots and had a lot of quiet one on one moments that it hard to have when big brother is around making all sorts of noise. It was amazing how quiet the house was and how clean it stayed with the boys gone! See, I am not a bad housekeeper, they are just slobs (said with love:) ) ! Anyway, I was lucky enough on Saturday to get my MIL to come watch Little Miss L so I could go to a crop I had been planning to go to, for like, a month. I came up with a new way to do crops. Instead of bringing every single scrapbook related item I own, I make a list of photos I want to scrapbook and what kinds of papers I want to use and I start to pack from there. I pack the embellishments that will coordinate with the papers, I pack my scissors, craft, knife, rub-on applicator, glues, mat, paper cutter and I set. So easy! I end up being a lot less stressed out, and I am more productive. I got nine very good pages done in six hours! I need to get my Internet hooked up so I can scan these in to share. Sunday I was at Big Lots and they had tons of American Crafts Thickers for only two dollars! Vinyl, chipboard, felt, foam, fabric. Not the latest releases but still a good deal and colors that I can always use. Black, brown, pink, fuchsia, red, yellow, green. I was totally stoked!

That is all for now, have a great day. Feel free to comment!

Realization

So, reflecting back on this past weekend I have come to the Realization that I lead a pretty boring life. I get up, go to work, get the kids, go home, cook dinner, put everyone to bed, then I go to bed, repeat. On the weekend I get up, go to Wal-mart or Target go home, clean the house, cook dinner, put everyone to bed, then I go to bed, repeat. Not a very exciting life at all. But, who needs excitement anyway? I believe it is highly overrated. I have two small children and that is really all the excitement I am programmed to be able to handle. So, to wrap this up, I apologize if this blog seems repetitive. That is just the way my life is. Have a good day.

Relaxed

Good morning! I am feeling refreshed after a relaxing weekend. I decided Friday night that I would take the weekend to decompress from technology. No updating twitter, no reading or writing blogs, no texting(boy, that was hard to do!) and I feel good for it. Sometimes it is easy to forget that we did not always have these things taking time away from our family and chores. I hardly even watched any TV all weekend except for the weather and when I was going to bed.

J had his friend over on Saturday and they ran around like crazy for about four hours. Then he went off to see his mimi and papa N. So, me and L hung out playing. She is growing so fast and is such a good baby! Hubby, L and I had lunch at Chili's. I was feeling some creative juices flowing, so I decided to make a little book out off baseball card holders. It is all about my favorite things and turned out better than I expected. It was so simple to put together. Then at night J comes to me and says "I have a question for you, now, this is very important. Do you want to come watch my movie with me?" He cracks me up. I guess that is important to a 3 1/2 year old.

Sunday we went and did some running around. Went to Target and got some new DVD's. also got Frappacinos from Starbucks while we were there. Stopped at Joann's, okay, do they ever get ANYTHING new in? I just got white cardstock and white thread. Then it was on to Wal-mart. The store we go to is being remodeled so it is hard to find your way around right now. We got L a new car seat. poor thing, we kept bumping her head every time we were putting her in the old one because it sits up so high. Anyway, then hubby vacuumed, yes I said vacuumed my car! Whoo hoo for small miracles. So, now precious little L is all set up to not get anymore knots on her head :)

All in all it was a great lazy weekend.

Weekend Wrap Up

Saturday started off with hubby going fishing early. So, it was me and the wee ones in the morning. L was awake first, then J woke at around 8:30 which is really late for him to sleep in. J decided he wanted to watch Toy Story 2 and proceeded to go into zombie mode in front of the TV. He would not even come to the table to eat breakfast, and made a big mess of eggs all over the sofa! Sigh, I obviously can not have anything nice! The rest of the day went smoothly, J was pretending to be a fighter-fighter(firefighter) and an old belt was his hose! I swear that kid has an imagination like I have never seen before! We made our weekly pilgrimage to Wal-mart and stocked up on goodies for the week.

Sunday we started off early. Hubby mowed the lawn and has it looking gooooood. We took the kids to the duck pond. I had like, four loaves of bread in the freezer that we took with us. However, it was hot and there was no breeze, so needless to say the ducks had other plans. They were totally not into our bread. So sad, all that bread just floating in the pond and no one wants to even nibble on it! We went to target afterwords and got photo paper, I also need ink for the printer but of course they were out of what I needed. So, home we went to make taco burritos, which are burritos that were supposed to be tacos. They were yummy and even the vegetarian kiddies ate them. the kiddies then decided to jump on the bed in J's room. Bad bad bad. i did laundry and mopped the floor, Am I a barrell of fun or what?

On another note, I finished my original goal of 50 cards for cards for heroes (http://www.cardsforheroes.org/ ). Now I think I will shoot for 100. Wish me luck. I think that this organization is very worhty of the little bit of time it took me to do this. They should be counted as heroes too.
All in all a very relaxing weekend. I hope yours was the same.