I saw a couple of other fellow bloggers with a January wrap up post, and I thought… hey, why not. In January: 1. Took kids to see The Muppets on New Year’s Day 2. I became divorced, after a year long custody battle. 3. I refinanced my house, into my sole name with a 3.87%… >> View Post
Archives for January 2012
Lowes Build and Grow – T-Rex
Saturday was a pretty busy day, with Lowes Build and Grow, lunch, running to three places for errands and then our photo booth at home. Nathan just really enjoys the Lowes Build and Grow. I am SO behind on sewing his patches on his smock. I feel bad! I havn’t even sewn the train patches… >> View Post
Portrait Studio in House!
I am in week 3 of 6 of my Superhero photography class, and I can really see growth in my photos every week. This week we focused on portraits and natural light (not using your flash). Our challenge was to set up a portrait studio IN OUR HOUSE. I got butcher paper in 2′ rolls… >> View Post
A picture is worth a thousand words.
There is so much going on in this photo… did I take this before bed? Or, was Autumn up at the crack of dawn? Or, possibly, Autumn wanted to sleep in the hallway on pillowcases with her dolls instead of in her Dora bed. Hmmm. And, look deeper. Why isn’t there any pillow case covers… >> View Post
Wordless Wednesday-Up Before She Should Be ‘Edition’ and Nathan Blooper
This was going to be a Wordless Wednesday, until I just recalled something Nathan said to me before bed tonight that reminded me just how innocent his little mind is still. Nathan: Mom, you know how we all have red lines and stuff in our eyes? Mom: Yes Nathan: Well, I was watching TV at… >> View Post
Fruit My Cube – Farmer’s Market
My work has started a new program, called Fruit My Cube, where you pay weekly for a box of mostly fruit with some veggies. It is a really nice program, and since one of my goals this year is to add more fruits and veggies to my diet, I decided to give the first week… >> View Post
Week 2 of Superhero Photo Class
Week two’s theme in the class was to take something ordinary and to make it extraordinary. I am not sure why I decided to take a photo class during the gloomy, cold and overcast month of January… Since I did not have the kids this weekend, I decided it was about time for me to… >> View Post
French Breakfast Puffs from PW
Sooo. One of my resolutions for the new year is to try one old and one new recipe every week. I have been doing fairly well with this… I decided to dust off my Pioneer Woman cookbook that I got two years ago to find some recipes I wanted to try. I decided to start… >> View Post
Autumn Progress
I have a Preschool Hooked on Phonics set that I got back when Nathan was younger that I just got out for Autumn to enjoy. She really loves this dry erase board. And look at how good she did with tracing ALL of the letters of the alphabet! I am so proud of her. We… >> View Post
I baked a cake!
This is probably the most involved cake I have ever made… Ok, I take that back. I’ve made a strawberry cake (and had to stop in the middle of THAT cake because of a funnel cloud in front of my house last Spring!) and the well known Thunder cake. Yum! Me love me some cake…. >> View Post
First hint of Spring. And, some other photos I took yesterday for the Superhero class.
These are photos from another assignment, where she told us to go out with our camera an hour before sunset. This is the ‘magnificent hour’ where everything is aglow and the shadows are long. Enjoy! First sign of Spring Nathan Running in the shadowy pathway of the fence Barren pinecone hanging from a tree Nathan… >> View Post
Lowes Build and Grow – Castle
Once again, we did our favorite Saturday activity. Lowes and then BreadCo. Here are the kids with their completed castles. Such a cute one, but one of the hardest or maybe time consuming projects so far at Lowes. There is a little draw bridge that you can lock closed with a beam. Also, stick people… >> View Post