Scrappy Saturday

Just a couple pages I finished recently. Sometimes it's nice for me to step back from working on Project Life and scrap something else. Helps get the creative juices flowing. 

Template Challenge Template by Katie Perriet and Delicious by Ellie Lash

Created using You Are My Happy collab - Sweet Shoppe Designs 
and Simple Set 9 Bonus Template by lindsay jane

I've been working on our calendar for the year. I have to have it done by the end of the month, so I'll be sharing it soon!

Five Things on Friday

1. Starting off with FAF again. Still not exactly happy, but a little more hopeful.

2013 Starting Weight: 165

Last Weigh In: 165

Current Weight: 165

Gained This Week: 0

Total Lost: 0

2013 miles as of last week: 137.28

Miles logged this week: 4.32

Total Miles Logged: 141.6

John and I have been helping each other get up in the morning. A walk hasn't happened every day, but we are getting there. 

2. At the BBQ last weekend I was snapping a couple pictures and one of my best friends tried to get out of having her picture taken with her beautiful little girl. I got the picture, but her initial reaction made me sad. I love looking back at pictures of my childhood and seeing my parents AND grandparents in pictures with me.  I don't always remember the day or moment in the picture, but my heart fills up just seeing and knowing that they were there. I was reminded of this article by Allison Tate: The Mom Stays in the Picture and also of Aleida's Challenge (please head over to Plucky Momo to read about it.) The kiddos in your life honestly don't care if you think you are fat or if you aren't dressed to the nines. They don't care if you are all sweaty from working out or if your hair is a disaster. They just know they love you. Please don't shy away from being in pictures with them. If I shied away from pictures I would have none of Munch and I when he was tiny. 

3. I've been potty training (my FOUR year old - SIGH) and weaning my two year old off his binkie today. Two of the least fun things I have encountered in parenting so far. I will be having a glass of wine tonight. 

4. Picture of the week:

That's pose is Munch's current go to. Goofy.

5. Melissa over on A Vegas Girl at Heart gave her readers a heads up on Hobby Lobby's 40% coupon combined with their current shipping special of 1.95....with their new Project Life stock. I totally took advantage. Check out Melissa's post HERE. Just a note, you can only use the same code ONCE per day. I tried a couple different codes on a couple orders...so I'm hoping I'm good. Cross fingers!

Blog Issues

Yesterday, a friend forwarded me a reply she had tried to send me on a comment I made on her blog. Apparently, somehow, my email was no longer enabled. Which really annoyed, because I like when bloggers are able to reply to my comments and vice versa. (If you want to learn how to enable your comments check out this blog over at My So Called Chaos.) So I went in and I THINK I fixed it....no idea unless someone tries to reply to one of my comments and then emails me telling me they can't...which is impossible unless they know my email. SIGH. Anyway...I feel awful if people are trying to talk to me and think I'm being rude. I'm not. Promise! :o)

THEN on a whim, I decided to check my gmail account. I don't ever check it. It's not my main email, no one has the address, I just needed the account to use certain pages. It's pretty much ignored, unless I have issues with my yahoo/rocketmail account. (Which happens more frequently than I would like.) ANYWAY....there are a ton of replies to comments. Mostly from March. So somehow, the main email got switched from yahoo to gmail and then turned off? Now I seem doubly rude.

I'm so frustrated. I wonder how many other issues I'm having with blogger that I don't know about yet?

This face? Pretty much how I'm feeling right now about bloggy issues. 

If anyone has any tips. Please share! I'm awful when it comes to being tech savvy.

Project Life 2013: Week 4

My pictures didn't come out as well as I had hoped, but that's what I get for rushing them right? 

I really like how this spread turned out. I went with blues and pinks as my main colors...cause those are the colors used in the piggies on the first page. 

page one:

Used a title card from my Cherry edition. Obama was sworn in for a second term. The boys made me some piggies in class. We went for a walk and I was shocked by how much the boys have grown up. (The snap shots card is from a card booklet I picked up at Michaels. Recollections I believe.)

This is probably my favorite card, not because of the picture or how what I did with it (embellished using VERY old Club Scrap items.) It's the cute conversation I heard between Munch and Nox:

Munch: I love you. You love me too?

Nox: Yeah, love you too. 

Munch: Awe, that's sweet and cute too. 

I love it when I remember to add in little quotes from them. I know I've missed recording so much, so I cherish the stuff I do get down now that I'm doing Project Life. 

page two:

Playground after class, the boys in the car after dinner one night, John and I had a day date (our favorite). The boys went to Chucky Cheese while we were out. My favorite picture is the silhouette of Nox playing at McDonald's. He was trying SO hard to escape Mama and her camera...but I caught him!

Tomorrow I will be linking up with The Mom Creative. 

Happy Mother's Day

Just wanted to write a quick note to say Happy Mother's Day. I hope you had a wonderful day with your mothers and children (whether they be skin kids or fur babies.)

My Mum and the boys a couple months ago.

I am not always the best that I can be, but I try. I'm so happy I have such an awesome mother as a role model in my life. I hope one day I can be half the mother and a fraction of the grandmother, she is. 

There will be so many times you feel like you've failed. But, in the eyes, heart, and mind of your child you are Super Mom. 

-Stephanie Precourt-