Free time

Where on earth did all my free time go?!  I used to think I didn't have much but nowadays I have even less!  In the very little free time I have I've got a big decision to make:  do I take a nap, knit, blog, or clean the house?!  (actually the list is longer as my love for photography and photoshop is growing and I want to spend more and more time learning about the two)  Last week was spent taking naps every free minute I had because I knew it was necessary for a speedy recovery.  This week, though I'd like to take a nap, I'm thinking I should avoid it so as not to get into a habit.  That leaves me with knitting, blogging, cleaning, or learn about photography and photoshop.  Right now I'm choosing to blog.  I really should choose to clean every time I get the chance because my house is becoming disastrous but I don't WANT to clean.

Does anybody have any good tips or ideas for me?  I'm in desperate need!  I want my house to get clean but I to do what I want to do and I don't want to stay up late to do any of it otherwise I'm a cranky mom (and wife) the entire next day.  Help!  Oh and tips too for getting up and ready in the morning.  Some days I get to dinner time only to realize not only have I not even gotten dressed for the day but I have not even brushed my teeth!  Disgusting I know, but I'm just being honest.  Does anybody else have the same trouble I do, or am I completely disgusting, disorganized and lazy?!  I'll take any advice I can get to help my days go more smoothly and productively.

I'm back!

I didn't mean to fall off the face of the planet as far as this blog is concerned but Jordan and I both being sick last week really did a number on me!  We are feeling a ton better now so I'm hoping to be back to blogging like I was before.

Here are a couple pictures I took last week:

Sweet little smile above turns to this in just one snap.

I love the way she all has her hands folded during these top two pictures.

Oh hi Amélie!

Jordan is finding that Bogart is quite comfy to lay on.

Bogart doesn't agree with the comfort thing though...look at that face!

But he likes to smell shoes and she doesn't so I guess they're even?

Yelling down to Daddy.  Doesn't look like Bogart appreciates her yelling in his ear either.

He's such a good dog!  We love him!

We woke up to snow last Friday...14 inches.  Then two days later we were out in short sleeves enjoying 60 degree weather; snow completely gone.  Now we hear it is forecasted to snow again tomorrow.  Good grief!

Jordan conversation

A recent dialogue with Jordan.

Jordan:  "Momma?"
Me:  "Yeah?"
Jordan (very matter of fact-like):  "Yeah."

Poor little Jordan is sick.  The doctor said yesterday, had we waited to bring her in until today, she would have an ear infection.  Plus she has a really sore throat.  She's been losing her voice, which doesn't slow her chatter down in the least!  The only thing that's been slowing the chatter down is when that nasty fever comes.  Her fever yesterday was 103.8.  The drainage in the back of her throat was so bad last night it caused her to gag on water.  It is SO miserable to watch your children be sick!  I can't stand it; praise the Lord we have hardly had to deal with it and I pray it stays that way.  Today she seems to be doing much better although her voice is still "gone," but she's back to avoiding naps and the fever has gone down to 100 and she's been able to eat and drink.

Brandon taught Jordan how to roll down a hill at the park last week.  Such fun!  I've really been wanting to get a kite.  I think she would be fascinated by it.

Amélie, now 2 1/2 months, just outgrew some of her newborn size jammies and is now in 0-3 month size.  I find this so interesting because my friend's son who is 5 months old now fits into 12 month clothes!  Such a difference!  Amélie weighs 8 lb 8 oz so she has gained three pounds since she was born.  

Oh!  We figured out why Bogart was so sick:  bad bag of dog food.  After he ran out of the special food the vet had given us after we took him in to get checked out we slowly began introducing his regular food and the diarrhea every hour started right back up again.  We remembered that we had just opened the bag of dog food right before he got sick so we opened a new bag just in case and he has been fine ever since.

I guess I really don't have too much to report.  We've not been doing much since Jordan isn't feeling well and since it's been snowing...still...in the middle of April.  Boo.

Here are some pictures from a couple of weeks ago when Jordan was helping me in the kitchen.

She loves helping in the kitchen whenever she can.

She got a lot of flour on her jammies!  It's an easy clean; it just dusted right off.

This silly girl:

Likes to do this with her books:

I often find books around the house sticking out like this of the dishwasher, fridge, drawers.

It's simple, yet goofy, little things.  Makes me smile every time.

prune cake

Ever since I made PW's prune cake Jordan asks for it on nearly a daily basis.  Here was our conversation earlier today:

Jordan:  "Nigh, night."
Me:  "Are you going to go nigh, night?"
Jordan:  "No. Eat prune cake."
Me:  "You want prune cake?"
Jordan, grinning:  "Ya."

I have no idea what nigh, night had to do with any of it but, I think I need to get some more prunes so I can make that cake again, don't you?  Until then, I hope she likes the oatmeal cookies I made.

Seriously, if you haven't made it yet, you need to.  It's an awesome cake!

Bogart

Jordan story

I like to give Jordan warning ahead of time when it is almost nap time or bed time rather than springing it on her.  The other day I gave her a heads up during lunch that when she was done it was time to take a nap.  About five to ten minutes later she clearly was done eating so I asked her, just to be sure, "Are you all done eating?"  She shook her head and said "NO!" then pretended like she had food in her mouth that she was chewing.  She has become quite the staller when it comes to going to bed.  She will think of anything she can to buy herself a few more minutes of wake time; she's getting creative.

The many faces of Amélie

Amélie