A Moment Captured {week 2/52}

 Rose loves making tents, camps and forts so one day this week she turned an empty laundry basket into a cave. It was a pretty tight fit!

 All afternoon and evening on Friday Sam thought this was the funnest thing to do. It made walking a little difficult, but she was happy and I'd rather that than the alternative.

 After a long wait Ryan finally got new glasses. He looks so handsome and was so excited about them.

We finally had some good weather this week (sunshine!) and so I ran outside while the kids were playing made D let me take a picture of him next to our pink jasmine. He is so tall.

January 11-16, 2015

Currently: Vol. 1

Reading: Bread and Wine by Shauna Niequist

Listening to: podcasts while I cook dinner or clean around the house

Watching: New Girl

Cooking: less red meat

Feeling: less than stellar due to a sinus headache

Wanting: to eat the last square of my secret stash of chocolate

Needing: to clean the bathroom

Enjoying: relaxing days at home with my girls

A Moment Captured {week 1/52}

This week we were back to school and work and normal life after a great Christmas break. I've decided to do something a little different to get back to blogging. I'm going to start a "52 project" where I take a picture of the kids each week to sort of document them for a whole year. Maybe I'll even get some good frame worthy pics out it.

Rose really enjoyed our stop at Half Price Books while we were in Austin this week. 

Sam always insists on snuggling right when I decided to get something done, but everything else can wait.

 D made an airplane one afternoon out of a empty paper towel roll and it was fantastic. He then asked the grandparents and me to save the empty rolls for him. This was his creation this week. It's so detailed and we are really impressed with him. He doesn't ask anyone for help or use any type of instructions. 

I caught Ry reading in the midst of what seemed like chaos. The girls were running around and D was "flying" his plane around the house while a football game was on the TV.... and I came in the living room and saw him immersed in a book ignoring everything else.

ten happy things friday

One
My baby is turning 2 on Sunday. I can't believe how fast time is going! Sam is such a joy in our lives.

Two
I have almost all of my Christmas shopping done. I feel like I'm usually very last minute about gifts, but I only have a few left and I don't need to stress about them.

Three
I've got some sugar cookies in the oven baking for the kids snack. The boys come home ravenous in the afternoons.

Four
The kids decorated the Christmas tree this year and I think it's great. There are clusters of ornaments here and there and bare spots, but I haven't had the impulse to make it look "just right". It's perfect. (There are usually 4 or 5 ornaments rolling around the floor because Sam likes to take them down.)

Five
I'm looking forward to a couple of exciting "get aways" we have planned for next year.

Six
Tacos. I probably have put tacos on this list so many times already.... To be specific this week- crunchy tacos.

Seven
Dunkin Donuts coffee. We finally got a Dunkin in our neck of the woods and it is good. I only ever get a large coffee with milk and sugar, but they somehow make it exactly the way I like it. Every time.

Eight
I made fried rice last Friday and it was so good! I've got it on my menu for next week.

Nine
Date nights. I just went through a 2015 calendar and tried to plan out a date night for each month. Even if it's just a movie after the kids are in bed- it's so good to have that time with my husband.

Ten
Only a week left of school before Christmas break! It will be nice to have some lazy days.

Just a regular Thursday

I drink a cup of coffee every afternoon around 2. So, that's what I'm doing right now. Sam is napping and Rose is playing some abc game on my phone while Curious George plays on the TV. Even with the noise of the TV and the game I consider this quiet and it's nice to just sit down and drink my coffee in relative peace.

I've thought about this little blog often and think it's time to try it again. I keep saying that and not doing it, but I just find other things that need to be done. However, I really like being able to look back at my old posts and see what was happening- it's like a journal. I've tried to journal before and it never works out, so I'm going to try it here.

Today I took the boys to school. Tim usually takes them to school, but Thursdays are my days because he has an early conference call at work. We are no strangers to having to find things (glasses, library books, coats, the other shoe!) at the last minute before we leave. Today it was Ry's glasses. (Oh! That reminds me, he lost a tooth while he was asleep last night and we couldn't find that either... it's possible he swallowed it. I guess he has to write a note to the tooth fairy.) So, we couldn't find his glasses. We left without them and I was so frustrated. I kept remembering that he had popped the lens out on the way home from school yesterday and I had fixed it in the car and handed them back to him. I searched the car, I tore apart the boys' room, looked in random places with no luck. Finally I remembered that I had thrown a bunch of junk mail and old church bulletins in a grocery bag that was trashing up the car and thought I should check it. I opened that bag (that I would have tossed in the garbage can this morning if we had left early) and there were his glasses. I'm just relieved I found them and they weren't broken.

I think I mentioned in a post a while back that I started doing all my housework stuff before noon. It worked really well until school started and things got chaotic. Last week I started back to that schedule and it has been good. I also finally took Tim's advice (after many years of him suggesting this) and paired down our plates, bowls and cups to one per person and the others are packed away. Everyone is in charge of washing their own stuff after meals (except Sam). I usually wash the kids' breakfast dishes (unless they are really on the ball), but it has made kitchen clean up much easier for me.

Sam is up from her nap and I'm getting ready to pick up the boys. Adios for now.