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Sorry I haven't blogged for a few days week. Just didn't want to.
Anyway...
One of my favorite snacks: 1/2 cup plain yogurt and a tablespoon of honey.
Found this dead, half covered (wasp?) thing in my garden dirt. When I was pulling weeds, I found a lot of red cacoon things. I think this was what was inside. (Shudder.)
Here's what the garden looks like so far. Coming along nicely. We're starting to get raspberries on our raspberry bush as well.
All my garden babies. I think the carrots just sprouted a couple days ago too! =D
I made Morgana and I tuna melts for dinner on a night that Stu and Kate were both gone. I love them! Morgana does not.
For Father's Day breakfast I made apple-bacon, cream cheese "stuffed" french toast. So good!
My little blonde beach babe ready for fun in the sun at Nana and Papa's pool on Father's Day. Yes, she's wearing flip flops with no heel straps. Since she's my kid, she's required to learn how to wear flip flops early!
Momo's pretty ring. She loves jewelry. This is actually an adult toe ring, haha.
Someone got some big girl panties today! Picked them out herself.
Morgana helped set the table for dinner tonight. She did the plates, forks and glasses. She was so exicted to learn and help.
Here's my progress on the mermaid tail I'm crocheting for Morgana. I was finally able to get another ball of yarn for it today. Hopefully, I'll only need one more ball after this to complete the whole costume. I'm even going to crochet her a shell top.
This week's manicure. Essie Brownie Points with some sorry lookin' flowers and dots.
Here's my manicure at day 4. Not too shabby for Amber. There's a youtube channel called Love4Nails and she has the best advice for nails! Sealing the free edge, top coat touch-ups, cuticle clean ups (when the polish or top coat start lifting near the cuticle) and wearing cleaning gloves (to clean and even while loading the dishwasher) have been my saving graces. And now that all my acrylic damage is grown out, I get to put Love4Nails's nail care to the test and see if I can have broken nails less often. She said in one of her videos that she only broke three nails over the past year! I gotta get in on that!
Hmmm, didn't do much else besides grocery shopping today. Well, I did water the garden. Anyway, hope you all had a great weekend!
I bought some cotton yarn to start crocheting a mermaid tail for Morgana. She keeps telling me, "Mama, I want a mermaid tail." So sweet, I can't resist that request. I also got some Sally Hansen Insta-Dri top coat. I've heard it's comparable to Seche Vite (the best top coat in the world). I can't always afford Seche, so I thought I'd give this drugstore version a try. Lastly, I got some coconut oil to use on my hair, nails/cuticles and feet. It has no smell, so I texted my friend, Sarah, about it. She said it's only cooking grade and won't have the same health benefits of other coconut oils. I'm still gonna try it though. Anyone ever tried this brand of coconut oil as a beauty product? What did you think of it?
For dinner, I made BUBBLE PIZZA! Saw it on Pinterest. It wasn't as good as I would have liked. I think it was just that the pizza sauce I bought wasn't to my liking as far as taste. My husband, on the other hand, loved it.
I painted Kate's toes tonight. I painted Morgana's finger and toenails, too, but accidentally deleted the picture- Doh!
So, Morgana (under a deal between her and Stu), got to wear big girl panties for 15 minutes today, because she went potty before dinner-time. She was excited. Stu and I both let her know how important it was to tell us if she had to go potty while wearing her panties. So, every minute, she was like, "Mama! I needa go potty!" "Mama! I needa go peepee!" So, I took her to the potty 2 or 3 times. She never went though. I'd rather she tell me when she doesn't have to than not tell me when she does.
Kate observed Morgana's entire bedtime routine tonight as Stu and I have a wedding reception to go to Saturday that starts at 7 pm, the same time Morgana starts getting ready for bed. So, Kate is learning Morgana's bedtime routine so she can put her to bed while she babysits on Saturday.
Oh, and I don't know if I mentioned it to my blog readers, but back in March, Stu made me a lasik surgery screening appointment for my birthday. We set the appointment in July, then we had to pay some big medical bills recently, so we are waiting to see if we have enough in our health savings to pay for the surgery. I'm so excited! And I really hope that I can still get it because my brown, plastic framed glasses just broke in half on Friday when I went to go clean them. So, I'm down to one pair of glasses. Those were my favorite pair, plus, my eye doctors have always recommended having at least two pairs of glasses in case something happens to one pair. This is a must when you are as blind as me. I can't see clearly past, literally, 6 inches in front of my face.
Welp! I'ma go watch Star Trek with Hubbykins and crochet on Morgana's mermaid tail and probably watch an episode of Angel before I go to bed. I'm almost caught up to where I'm at watching Buffy! Only four more episodes!
Quite a bit of catching up to do, so I'll just get to it...
(I doubled some pictures here that were in the previous post, but I don't want to take them out, lol.)
Only one day after making him, our poor snowman's face melted off.
Last week, my sweet friend, Christy, came over for our monthly Taco Bell lunch and brought some gloves for Little Miss and some candy.
Little Miss had bow hair for bed one night. It happened mostly by accident, then I finished it ip to really look like a bow.
We had an abundance of a variety of Snack Pack puddings. They were 10 (4 packs) for $10. My husband went gaga. So, I made Mo some pudding pops. Frozen peach yogurt too!
Little Miss got her first pedicure!!! I painted her toenails a melony peachy orangey color. She picked the color herself out of a choice of three that I gave her. They are SOOOO cute!
This week I painted holly and Santa nails!!! I love how fun the Santa is.
Letting her play with this doll while I make it might've been a mistake. She's in love. Luckily, she doesn't ask for it unless she sees it. Here's hoping I can hide/wrap it when it's done without any drama.
Hey! I realized that when Santa's upside down he looks kinda like a sock monkey. Heehee.
Morgana and I had a sleepover at Nana and Papa's Saturday night. Here she is watching Auntie Ashley play kids games on her laptop. She watched contently for, I think about an hour!
On the way to grocery shopping Monday, Mo fell asleep in the car (?!?! She never falls asleep in the car anymore). I put her in the sling, but she woke up as I did. Still, she cuddled me all the way into the store, but asked to get down once we went into the restroom. Then, before we left the restroom, she asked, "Cuddoo me?" So, I put her back in the sling and she played cuddle bug for about 20 minutes until she wanted down.
I really, really wanted to knit something that required a 42+" circular needle. I did not have one, nor could I afford to buy one. Boohoo! But, while looking for ways to make my own knitting cable on the internet, I stumbled across the words 'weed whacker'. So, I turned this...
...into this!
It worked out much better than I anticipated! I thought I would need to use tape, but the cord is the perfect size to screw into the needles! It makes a thread on the cord as it's screwed in too, so they stay in snug. And, since my circular needles are all part of the same interchangeable set, this cording will work for all of them! I may never have to buy another circular cable!
I didn't realize how long Little Miss's hair is getting!
Little Miss and I had a picnic lunch in the living room today.
I always wondered where carts on the side of the road went.
Just a random and totally cool picture of ice crystals on my ice cube tray.
The only other things that happened today are that Teen Miss offered to pay me to do acrylic nails on her as she wants a tad longer nails to accomodate nail art. I don't really enjoy doing acrylics, not even my own, but I do it because I want nice nails. But, I know that she really wants them... and I would love to have a little spending money (with whatever is left over after replacing supplies).
I also shaved Stu's head.
He got his review at work today and found out that he may not get the raise that his boss's boss was working on, because the boss's boss is leaving and hasn't given any paperwork to anyone for it. Cross your fingers!
Little Miss and I hung out in my room in the afternoon and evening. She watched Follow That Bird and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and played around on the bed as I was working on some "secret stuff", as I call it around here.
Little Miss also ate all her chicken at dinner! Which wasn't a lot, but she almost never touches it. And, when she does, she only eats one bite so she can get a treat.
I sooooo want to blog every night. But, Morgana/my body/my schedule always have different plans. Like I said though, I'll try to blog as much as I can, so I'll keep trying. =)
Little Miss got her first pedicure today!!! I painted her toenails a melony peachy orangey color. She picked the color herself out of a choice of three that I gave her. They are SOOOO cute!
This week I painted holly and Santa nails!!! I love how fun the Santa is.
Letting her play with this doll while I make it might've been a mistake. She's in love. Luckily, she doesn't ask for it unless she sees it. Here's hoping I can hide/wrap it when it's done without any drama.
Hey! I realized that when Santa's upside down he looks kinda like a sock monkey. Heehee.
Today was slow going to get the day rolling. I've barely even worked on Morgana's Lalaloopsy. I packed a small suitcase for Morgana and I for tomorrow. Her and I have a sleepover at Nana & Papa's (my mom and dad) once a month. I look forward to it about as much as Morgana does.
We've been getting a lot of packages delivered the last couple days. Christmas is coming! Yay! All I know is I'm SO glad we did all our Christmas shopping online. I went to Walmart the other afternoon, right before dinner, for diapers, wrapping paper and tape. There were three or four times more registers open than usual and every single one of them was rediculously long. The rest of the store was fine, but the lines were awful.
Ugh. As I sit here trying to remember what we did the rest of the day today, I'm having a hard time remembering. Must be because it's so late and I fell asleep with Morgana for an hour when I put her to bed. Oh well, at least I managed to post tonight. =)
Oh! I just remembered. I'm on a path to lose some weight. I have set a goal and a reward for myself. I want to lose about 50 lbs. and my reward will be a haircut and a hair color. I did really good today, but blew it after dinner by having a brownie. Tomorrow is a new day. This is a bit hard to do, but I'd like to post pictures of my progress, maybe once a month. Maybe being public with it will give me more drive to keep with it. Here's the first one... >.<
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