Well...DH is encouraging me to start this back up again. We've done quite a bit over the last year - well mostly we paid other people to do quite a bit. /sigh. But some pictures are in order. So expect more posts soon. And in the meantime I decided to start up a tumblr blog - a scrapbook of escapisms. For goodness knows, I dig some escape. you can find it
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cheers!
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Time Flies.
Um...July? What? I thought it was February and I was just getting ready to go back to work. Well I guess I've been having fun. The little guy is almost 9 months old. And I've been busy with my new job for 5 months. The summer is cool but the days are still long. I'm slowly but surely getting into a work/baby/home balance. Slowly. The house is not completely destroyed. The baby is growing like a weed and happy to be into everything. The husband is content. The boss is singing my praises. And I, as always, am pondering what I can do to make things bigger, better, faster, healthier.
My main goals are squeezing in some exercise and the whole family eating better. It's challenging during the week with my schedule and keeping up with the LO. But today has been a good day. Slept in (7am!!). We read books, and played and cleaned the living room. We did some baby-proofing while LO napped. After lunch I took munchkin for a long walk. Then daddy has been kind enough to nap with him while I chopped everything I'll need for our leftover-soup for dinner later, and made a blueberry pie. Which is now in the oven making everything smell wonderful.
Since the boys are still napping I think next is laundry and picking up dog-poo. Yum! Maybe some weeding. Then dinner, bath, bedtime. And perhaps a movie before I cancel my netflix. What a day. Back to work tomorrow. /sigh. Cheers.
My main goals are squeezing in some exercise and the whole family eating better. It's challenging during the week with my schedule and keeping up with the LO. But today has been a good day. Slept in (7am!!). We read books, and played and cleaned the living room. We did some baby-proofing while LO napped. After lunch I took munchkin for a long walk. Then daddy has been kind enough to nap with him while I chopped everything I'll need for our leftover-soup for dinner later, and made a blueberry pie. Which is now in the oven making everything smell wonderful.
Since the boys are still napping I think next is laundry and picking up dog-poo. Yum! Maybe some weeding. Then dinner, bath, bedtime. And perhaps a movie before I cancel my netflix. What a day. Back to work tomorrow. /sigh. Cheers.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Back to work
Today, I'm sad to say, is my last day of maternity leave. I've had 4 and half months, 3 and a half of which have been with my wee one. I've got a new job that I'm excited for, but my heart is breaking. I don't have much to say other than that. I'm going to make the most of today.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Miscellania
My maternity leave is winding down. I have two weeks left. How fast it has gone...and I took a relatively long leave of 4 and a half months (and by relatively long I mean by US standards, not by the standards of the clearly more enlightened European countries where maternity leave is a year).
So what's a girl to do with such little time left? The LO is getting more agreeable by the day (most days that is) and naps a bit here and there and plays a bit here and there. I find in the evenings his long nap between 7:30pm and my bedtime is almost strange...my hands feel awkwardly free. I am sorely tempted to pick up the evil Warcraft addiction during that time. But what I *should* do is pick up some crocheting. Or some quilting. Or some learning to make fascinators. Or...or...or?? It's amazing how 2 hours of free time seems like so much now.
What I have been doing is cleaning, one room at a time. The bedroom was first...I've cleared out all clothes that no longer fit and either packed them away for post-baby-weight-loss time or sent off to goodwill. And I took down the celtic and asian hodgepodge of artwork that has adorned my bedroom walls for a dozen years. I searched high and low for replacements until it became an obsession. But finally I opted to frame some old botanicals and such that were sitting unused in the back of my closet. They look nice, though DH describes them as "granny".
I also replaced the curtains. I had a lovely batik fabric, which never pleased me as curtains. I bought some simple charcoal colored linen curtains at Ikea and altered them to fit as dummy panels. Charcoal will match better with any artwork and any bed linens. This change DH is pleased with.
So...off to another room and another item on my to-do list. Cheerio, bloglings.
So what's a girl to do with such little time left? The LO is getting more agreeable by the day (most days that is) and naps a bit here and there and plays a bit here and there. I find in the evenings his long nap between 7:30pm and my bedtime is almost strange...my hands feel awkwardly free. I am sorely tempted to pick up the evil Warcraft addiction during that time. But what I *should* do is pick up some crocheting. Or some quilting. Or some learning to make fascinators. Or...or...or?? It's amazing how 2 hours of free time seems like so much now.
What I have been doing is cleaning, one room at a time. The bedroom was first...I've cleared out all clothes that no longer fit and either packed them away for post-baby-weight-loss time or sent off to goodwill. And I took down the celtic and asian hodgepodge of artwork that has adorned my bedroom walls for a dozen years. I searched high and low for replacements until it became an obsession. But finally I opted to frame some old botanicals and such that were sitting unused in the back of my closet. They look nice, though DH describes them as "granny".
I also replaced the curtains. I had a lovely batik fabric, which never pleased me as curtains. I bought some simple charcoal colored linen curtains at Ikea and altered them to fit as dummy panels. Charcoal will match better with any artwork and any bed linens. This change DH is pleased with.
So...off to another room and another item on my to-do list. Cheerio, bloglings.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Another project completed!
If there's one thing I've learned by being a new mom, its that free time is a precious commodity. Before the LO arrived, I had oodles of free time and I'd fritter it away watching TV, surfing the net and doing generally nothing worthwhile. Now I value that time so much that I make good use of every moment. I'm actually...get this...*finishing* projects. Um...wow.
My latest completion is a quilt for my wee nephew. Well considering he's already almost as big as my 3 month old son I suppose "wee" isn't the most fitting description. But the quilt is wee, and so I felt compelled to finish it ASAP before the munchkin outgrows it! Now that my own LO has finally consented to nap during the day on his own, I've been piecing the top together bit by bit. And then my darling husband agreed to tend to him for a few hours the last couple of Saturdays so I could really crank it out. And at last its done, just in time for our visit to my brother's house today.
I love the way it turned out and I must give a shout out to Gypsy Junk for her input when I selected fabric. She discovered the monkey head fabric, which really makes it.
My latest completion is a quilt for my wee nephew. Well considering he's already almost as big as my 3 month old son I suppose "wee" isn't the most fitting description. But the quilt is wee, and so I felt compelled to finish it ASAP before the munchkin outgrows it! Now that my own LO has finally consented to nap during the day on his own, I've been piecing the top together bit by bit. And then my darling husband agreed to tend to him for a few hours the last couple of Saturdays so I could really crank it out. And at last its done, just in time for our visit to my brother's house today.
I love the way it turned out and I must give a shout out to Gypsy Junk for her input when I selected fabric. She discovered the monkey head fabric, which really makes it.
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