Weekend Recap

For a weekend with nothing really planned, we certainly stayed busy!  Sullivan had a haircut appointment Friday afternoon, so we went for an early dinner on the square after that.  Since we were home and fed by 6:30, I spent most of the evening drinking wine and pointing out all the things I have pinned on pinterest in regard to our house/yard.  It was a nice, low-key evening at home.  

Saturday morning, Anna, Lisa, and I went to a yoga class and then to Bottletree for lunch.  It was so nice to start the day with a work out!  This class did so many different poses from my typical class that I am sore in lots of new places!  Feels good though!  I bought a 5 class pass, so I need to figure out what other classes I can fit into my schedule.  I am still working out on Monday and Wednesday evenings and doing regular yoga class at work on Wednesdays, so I'm not sure where I will squeeze in other classes.  The weekend worked nicely though, so maybe that's my answer for now.  

Bottletree was selling king cakes, and since I needed to bring a dessert to the church potluck on Sunday, I bought 2!  I figured I needed something cajun-ish for dinner to go with our king cake, so I decided to utilize the gulf shrimp I already had in the freezer, and make gumbo.  I guess I have never made gumbo before.  I did lots of recipe searching, and ended up sort of combining emeril's and paula deens recipes.  I cheated and used a rotisserie chicken, but even that short cut didn't seem to save me much in the way of time.  It was a good bit of effort, but the delicious outcome made it worthwhile!

Anna, Ricky and Julia came over to have dinner with us, and the adults ended up staying up WAY too late, but it was a fun evening.  My Sullivan wake up call came early!  After attending church and the potluck, I enjoyed a long, fabulous nap! I was back in bed early evening to start reading our bookclub book.  The group decided to re-read The Great Gatsby, since the movie will be out soon.  I found my old college copy, and I'm enjoying refreshing my memory of this story.  

We've got nothing planned for next weekend, so I'm hoping we begin some outdoor projects.  We want to expand our concrete slab patio, so if you've any suggestions on good design websites, please let me know.  

Even the milestones?

Ok, so I realize I've been bad about blogging over the  past year, but I had no idea just how bad it was until I was skimming through old posts.  I did not blog about Sullivan's 3rd birthday.  How did I go from blogging his every month to forgetting to do his 3rd birthday?  Oh, the shame.

Sooooo....pretend today is a lovely Friday in November.

Since Sullivan's birthday fell on a Thursday and between two already full weekends, we decided to do an easy party at 'the jumpy place' on his actual birthday.  Unfortunately, this meant no extended family or out of town friends were able to attend.  Fortunately, this party made things really easy on me. I brought hot and ready pizzas and a cake, and they did the rest.  EASY!

I still can't believe my tiny baby is 3 years old.  He looks less and less a baby every day.  He is a talker and probably asks me about a million questions a day.  When he gets on a roll, every sentence ends with a "Mom?".  I love his curiosity (most of the time....when i've had coffee already) and always try and answer his question with real answers.  I do not always succeed, but I try.  He loves to play with his legos, his cars and trucks, his garbage truck, and the ipad.  He will play by himself frequently, but lately he says, "daddy, will you play with me?" most nights.  We typically read 4 books each night before bed.  He got a customized pirate book for Christmas that has him as one of the characters, so he likes to read that one A LOT.  He and I will always talk about what breakfast we'll have together in the morning as we are saying good night each night.  If I don't mention breakfast, he will bring it up before I can close the door.  So, we'll plan to have our oatmeal or our cereal bars or pancakes each night before bed.  I guess he and I both look forward to that time together (while daddy is still sleeping).  He loves to help me cook, but he still won't eat most of what he or I make.  He loves to 'tell us a secret' and then whisper "I love you!" in our ears.  He really is awesome most of the time.  He does act like a toddler and completely ignore everything we ask him to do on occasion though.  He can throw a fit and hit and spit like nobody's business as well.  Just thought I'd give a reality check there for a moment.  I figure with my stubbornness and Daniel's lack of patience, he's bound to have a temper! All in all, we still feel like the luckiest parents in the world.  I can't wait to share with him all the exciting things the world has to offer!

A New Year

I know better than to add blogging regularly to my long list of New Year's resolutions, but I do want to try. I guess that sort of is my resolution...to try.  Try to floss my teeth every night, try to wash my face every night, try to eat better, try to work out more, try to attend church more often, try to give back to my community more, try to be a better wife and mother...just try to be a better, happier person all around.  2012 brought many challenges and sad times, but lots of good times as well.  I definitely hope for more of the good in 2013, but I also want to just try to be in the moment.  I want to enjoy the small things and not try to rush through the day, week, month.

On that note, I tried a 3 day detox this week. Ha!  I figured it would be easy to limit my diet while stuck at work....only we weren't stuck at work!  The ice storm that wasn't kept us at home Monday and Tuesday, and that was the end of that.  We are still eating amazingly healthier food, but the strict detox diet left me shaky and cranky and really hungry.  Our dinner last night: baked salmon, brown rice, steamed broccoli, and wilted spinach.  Delicious!  I'm the grocery buyer and the chef in our house, so the power to do better is in my hands!  Oh, the pressure!  Sullivan and I also made some oatmeal, banana, chocolate chip muffins last night.  They are very good, but need to be warmed to not taste like a glob of cold oatmeal.  They contain no flour, so it really is just a glob of oatmeal held together with some egg!

I haven't downloaded our holiday pictures yet, but I'm going to try to do that this week or weekend.  We ended up going to 6 towns for Christmas celebrations, so we were worn out by New Years Eve.  I don't plain to repeat 6 again.  We are lucky to have so much family within driving distance, but it felt like we were never anywhere long enough to relax and enjoy the season. Lesson learned.

If anyone still reads this blog, I hope you are starting off your new year full of positive energy as well!