Resolutions

I have been meaning to update for a few weeks now, but life always seems to get in the way.

Marcus and I are not big on Resolutions, but this year we have decided to make some small changes:

We are going to try and have "date nights" twice a month

Spend some time for ourselves; we joined the YMCA and are exercising and taking an hour for ourselves at least twice a week - this is a double bonus because they have childcare and the girls get to play with other kids

I started scrapbooking again

When we are home we are going to be home. So what if all the laundry doesn't get done, the floors mopped, dinner not done on time the girls are growing up so quickly our time at home should be spent with them. The quote below summarizes this:

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.”-Anna Quindlen(Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11)

snow bunnies

nothing like a little fresh snow

to get the sled out

and play around

for a little while

Purse

Who knew that a purse doubled as a hat

Music, Music, Music

New

Noisy

Addition.

Our dinning room will never be quiet again!

A walking we will go

On Christmas day, Sophie finally decided to start walking. She can now take 10-15 steps without falling. Crawling is by far the quickest way to get places for her, but she is very proud of her new upright status.

Cookies- round 2

Yesterday we finished making the christmas cookies.


We made the sugar cookies and gingerbread men.

The girls had a good time cutting them out and decorating with sprinkles

No raw cookie dough was ingested.

Lots of sprinkles and flour was spilled on the floor.

The girls had a great time

and now we can enjoy the cookies.

Cookies- round 1

The first day of cookie making went well. Brie enoyed making hotdogs out of the balls I made instead of rolling them in the sprinkles.

She then enjoyed eating the hershey's kisses rather than putting them on the cookies.


Overall the the cookies turned out well . . .

with quite a few being taste tested prior to being put away.