Category: Family

I awoke my daughter up earlier than normal; 6:30…

Today, was her first day back at school. She was off for an entire week.

I was greeted with the most pitiful expression. Hilarious! She didn’t want to go back. Then she told me why… “Mommy, I’m going to miss you!” Awww…

I’m going to miss her too. We did have a great time while she was off, although we stayed local, we did go on short trips and have a lot of mommy/daughter hang time.

Gaming, was even in that equation — although in tiny doses. She got on the desktop computer, and I logged onto my 17″ MacBook Pro, and we explored the awesome world of FreeRealms, too bad we didn’t run into Kaozz. The MMO diva, during out travels, we’d have invited her to join our little party.

To add to the awesomeness of her spring break, she had two play dates with her best friend from school.

First was at her friend’s house, and yesterday she came to our house. While she was over, we visited the neighbors, who just happen to have a white Macaw bird. The bird, is very friendly.  They were able to pet him, and they got to see our neighbors two gila monsters. Pigs ducks, and chickens. We even showed her friend our woods, we live on about four acres of land — almost three acres is woods.

I crocheted another doll outfit for her, and crocheted  a necklace to compliment her Easter dress (which I’ll share on Finished object Friday) and we explored the outdoors.

All too soon that week was over, so no… she wasn’t the only one sad; I’ll miss her too.

But, there will be other days out of school, and as I told her summer break will be here before she knows it, which means more time to hang together.

This morning, when I looked outside, I was greeted by the suns early morning rays, it was warm and beckoned me to come outside for the day.

In my mind I ran down a list of yard work that could be completed, getting ahead of myself, I mentally checked off some of those items too. Yep, even added grilling to that list, since I’ll make any excuse to do that — rain or shine.

Walking Mr. Bentley, our Shih Tzu, It became apparent that those (seemingly) warm sun rays were deceptive;  inside it looked warm, stepping outside was a completely different story. It was cold! Brr… Things aren’t always as the appear, are they?

Most of the outdoor activities are being saved for warmer days, however, we did plant the onions.

And I’m still looking for the library book…

After coming back from the quilting group my daughter and I just hung out. We read, played, and are in the process of making paper crafts.

You know what? Sometimes, it’s perfectly ok to put things on hold, if it means spending time with those you care about. Besides, I can start looking for the book tomorrow, I don’t procrastinate often, but this time… it’s worth it. I enjoy spending time with my daughter.

My 200th post…

I mainly write my posts via MarsEdit, a blog editor for Mac computers. However, today I logged into WordPress, to update a few addons, and backup my posts. Judging by my stats, this is my 200th post.

Compared to my older personal site, VeganMomma, I’m seriously slipping since I had three times the amount of posts written by this time. Then again, back then I didn’t have as many websites, as I do now. The majority of my ‘free time’ is devoted to my business sites. Also, I let this site, Celebrate Life, sit dormant for about a year before I started posting again.

Our home is looking empty, after my decluttering a few weeks ago… Items we haven’t used in a long time, were either given to the Purple Heart or tossed in the trash.

This past week, I did collect a few odds and ends, that I must have overlooked. Since they were too battered, the only place for them was the trash. Our trash delivery, runs on Friday, and so I had one trash bag full of the ‘decluttered items’ I’d gathered. I ran into a slight problem… I forgot to set out the bag. Whoops! And so this afternoon I trotted the bag of trash to the local dumping zone. Since I’m local it didn’t cost me anything. Just my time and gas.

I haven’t done any cooking today, and I might keep it that way. We have leftovers. The day after I made the chicken fried rice, I made two types of burgers; chicken and black bean burgers. Perhaps I’ll get a chance to take pictures, and post them today, if not I’m sure I’ll be able to post them sometime this weekend.

But back to housecleaning…

Am I missing the items I parted with? Not really, those that were in good condition went to people that could really use the items. The rest were recycled, and tossed in the trash.

Question: Have you been staying on top of your housecleaning?

A few days ago, I wrote how I was finally reorganizing my bedroom.

My bedroom was crying out for a Declutter makeover, since I’ve had crafts set up in my bedroom for a while, but aside from neat stacks of my crafting bin. There really wasn’t a set pattern to what I was doing. I’m the type that loves to be organized, and so having craft projects mixed with my regular bedroom items…bothered me.

I admit to being a packrat… But, I’m a neat packrat!  I inherited that trait from my father. The good thing is; I’ve always been a neat packrat. My father isn’t. I can still hear my mother fussing about his sloppy packrat tendencies.

Fast forward to now… I’m pleased to say that the room looks so much better. In the process of revamping my bedroom, I also filled four trash bags (neatly stacked of course) with clothing. Additionally, I threw away six trash bags of items too. When I was moving all those items out of my bedroom, I couldn’t help but wonder how I managed to keep everything neat!

My daughter loves the change, and so naturally when she’s creating a story, or working on a drawing. I’m finding her sprawled on my hardwood floor surrounded by her art supplies. Her clutter is temporary, and leaves when she’s finished.

Now that I think about it, her room could use some decluttering too. It looks as though I’ve found my next ‘declutter project’. Now, if I can only find the time to accomplish that! 😉

Photo Source: Ursula Vernon; Packrat