A Week (or so) in the Life of...

I told myself I'd try to post on the blog at least once a week. A little behind my last post, I think. Anyhoo, as I looked back over my pics from this past week I tried to think of what was blog-worthy but then I remembered--my blog is supposed to be about the everyday happenings of a normal working wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend so let's get on with it!

Funny Pages

I've started following pages on Facebook when I see funny pics and cartoons come across my newsfeed. It really has served to be quite entertaining. The ones that seem to appeal to me the most always seem to have to do with weight loss, motherhood, and the humor of working as a pharmacist or technician. Thought I'd share a few of these funny pics with my blog followers too...

Suzy Homemaker

Also on Facebook, I ran across an easy no-fuss recipe for a one dish meal that I just had to try. I'm going to share the screen shot I took for that one instead of a pic of what I made so that my other quick cooks out there can take advantage of the idea!

Craft Corner

My latest mission (since I chose to accept it) in my crafty little corner was to help Mama and Brandi with the somewhat bizzare task of creating a praying mantis costume for Presley's upcoming performance in the school play. Aubrey was assigned to be a butterfly---easy peezy....but a praying mantis?? What the what? Still not understanding the logic behind that one without the school actually providing the costume. Good thing this little girl has a "craft queen in training" for an aunt...lol! So, I delegated tasks: Mama and Brandi were to find and purchase a green leotard and tights as well as a pair of long white gloves and white tights. I was to supply the wings and creatively come up with a way to come up with the illusion of several legs. So, I took the white gloves and tights and I dyed them green to match each other. Then, I took the tights and cut the top off of them to leave me with 2 "sleeves". After which, I stuffed each sleeves with polyfill and a thick wrapped floral wire stem. This made a second set of "legs". The floral stem allowed me to bend the legs whichever way I needed. I don't have a final pic of the way the whole thing will look together yet, but I thought I'd post a few pics of the process to get there. It was quite an experience!

Instant Date Night

So last week I posted pics from Brooklyn's play date and I mentioned Kid Swap. Whoever thought of that concept is pure genius!! Thank you soooooo much! For the rest of the new mommies who follow this blog this is what a kid swap is:
1-observe who your little ones seem to take a liking to at daycare/preschool
2- reach out to their mommies (I wrote a note for the mommy to call me so we could get the girls together outside of school)
3- have several play dates with the kiddos which serve 2 purposes: the kids get to play together and you get to know the other mommy. It also lets you see each other's homes and living habits.
4- when all are comfortable, swap off every other week with your child going over to play at his/her friend's house one week for a few hours and that child coming over to your house to play the next week for a few hours.
5- Voila!! You now have a date night for you and your honey every other week!! Have a nice quiet dinner together, go bowling, take a nice walk or bike ride, or review what it took to conceive that baby in the first place ;-)

Can't Just Not Add A Few Pics of Brooklyn

As we prepare for Brooklyn's very first dance recital, she had her dance photos this week at dance class. In true 3 year old fashion, I could not get her to pose for a pic for my camera. She just looked so cute that I had to take a few shots even though she already had her jacket back on. As you can see from a few of the group snapshots I took, her unwillingness/inability to look at the camera and smile is not personal---all the girls are that way...lol

Sneak Preview...

Stay tuned for my next update...How about I end this one with a sneak peek of what's to come:

• My Daddy's Big News...
• How the Praying Mantis costume turned out...
• A quick and simple Suzy Homemaker dessert...
• This week's playdate GNO...
• My fitness (or the lack thereof) update...

Are you on the edge of your seat now??...lol!!  See you next time!

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Man! It's been a good weekend!

It's really shaped up to be a good weekend!

We started this weekend out this Friday with our turn to host playdate on our Kid Swap Co-op we have going with Brook's BFF. I didn't want to be cooped up inside with the girls given the weather was so nice so we made it a GNO! First we made our way to Chick Fil-a for dinner then to Gigi's Cupcakes for dessert!! I was so worn out after just those 2 things that I went straight to bed after Brook's company left...lol!

Brooklyn's never been to the zoo before, so we decided before we took her to a big zoo we would test the waters at the Little Rock Zoo yesterday which neither one of us had been to since we were kiddos. We even took Grandpa along with us. The result---she was a little scared at first, but then she was really into the animals. However just around that time, my allergies started flaring up and I remembered I hadn't taken my allergy med...ugghh!! Anyhoo, still got some good shots though...

Last but certainly not least, I decided to treat myself to a couple of new toys. After months of giving McDonald's $1.11 a day, I finally decided to get myself a good coffee maker and grinder to just make myself a just right amount of freshly ground coffee at the start of my day. It only took as much time as it would for me to wait in the drive-thru line and it came out soooo good! New toys---$80. Good coffee for a fraction of what I would pay by the cup for the long run---PRICELESS :-)





Oh...and I almost forgot that the hubby and I got our cook on on Sunday. He smoked a tasty brisket and I threw together some homemade mac and cheese. Mmm mmm good!!

Now that was an unexpected break...

Well, I guess I just totally fell off the face of the blogger planet!  What was the root cause?---Probably that ol' Facebook.  Since I'm pretty good about putting to the minute posts on there directly from my cell phone, it really makes keeping up with my blog seem like such a chore.  That and the fact that I got a new cell phone this past winter and for some reason, sending over multiple pics to myself from email to download to my computer to upload to this blog is pretty much impossible sometimes.  It took so long to do the last post that I had really contemplated that being the LAST post.
However, I do remember that I do have some really faithful blog followers that don't really do Facebook that much or even at all and I don't want to act as if our blog relationship never existed...ahhhh (say it with me)...lol!  Anyway, hold on to your hats. I'm going to try to re-cap the last several months in a few pics and see if I can't pick up where we left off.

December 2012- April 2013 at a glance:

~~~Family~~~

 

~~~Miss Brooklyn~~~

 

 

 

~~~Hair~~~

 

 

~~~Arts and Crafts~~~

 

~~~Suzy Homemaker~~~

~~~Running~~~

~~~Awareness~~~

Whewwww!!!  That was a mouthful.  I'll try to get back to more frequent posts so there can actually be some words with these pics.  Thanks for coming to see me again!  Don't give up on me :-)