must.get.out

Do you get in the funk where you'd rather just stay home than go through the work of going out? I know getting out would be good for us since we have more or less been cooped up in here for the last few weeks. Ugh. I suppose since the sickness seems to have simmered down, I better get us dressed and out the door this morning. MOPS here we come......if I really can summon up the motivation and energy to do it...saying and doing are two completely different things.

Cold comforts

We're still sick around here. I can't believe it. There has been sickness floating around here for 2 weeks working towards 3. blgh. I keep hoping Boo will hold out and not join the misery.

I thought I share a hot drink mix that I find comforting and possibly healing when faced with colds.

Russian Tea Mix
2 cups Tang mix
3 oz Lemonade mix (I did about 3+ Tablespoons of it)
1/3 C sugar
1/2 t  ground cloves
1 t cinnamon

Mix up it up- store in an airtight container and it should last you for a very long time. Supposedly 3 teaspoons to 1 cup of water (but I like more, I think).

Another thing that I'm finding comforting is boiling a pot of water. I threw in a cinnamon stick and some whole cloves. It makes the water a nasty color but it seems comforting...especially in this dry air to have some warm steam in the home.

Hope you are all avoiding the January sickies and blues. (I really do not favor January...it really is a bummer month.)

bummer january

I have decided I do not like January. It's long, anti-climatic, cold, incredibly germy and this January-blustery. I'm sick of being stuck at home. Last weekend, I hit a low point emotionally. Thankfully, I have good people who gave each of my days a high point. I had a friend randomly drop by with flowers, visiting teachers, my mom, and even though little miss was sick, I got lots of cuddles from her that day, some time with gg, and some shopping-errand time with boo. If I'm going to make it through another week of this sad month I've got to look for the happy things, instead of gazing out the front window watch the wind blow by.

a gloomy kind of day

Today is quite blustery, I've sat in our chair for most of the day looking out as the wind blew leaves soaring all around ...and even snow for a bit. It's a day that feels a bit gloomy but then the sun would shine every now and then so it didn't seem so bad.

To add to the gloomy-ness little miss is not feeling well. In the middle of the night she got a fever... 104.7 :( . It continues to be so unless she has Tylenol. But she'll still play a little, smile now and then, and she has no problem eating. She has a cough...which is what made me check on her periodically in the middle of the night until she spiked the fever. Now she also has a runny chunky nose. This is the first time she has been really sick... she has had a cold once or twice. Sick babies break my heart. It so unfair that they have to suffer.

When she is sick I just want to be where she is and keep a constant eye on her. Hope we all have a restful night.

handiwork

When I asked boo what she wanted for Christmas she often replied with a a skateboard, a rocking horse and a kitchen because the one she had was too small and that little miss could have it. I already had the notion to change an old entertainment center into a kitchen. I researched, planned and gathered supplies pretty much since thanksgiving. However nothing happened until a few days before Christmas when gg had time. I'm super impressed how it turned out.

 The faucet was $12 from wally world.
Contact paper for the Formica look was $1 from the dollar store.
 The burners are old cds painted.
The knobs are old ones from Schaefer...free!
The sink is a dog bowl from menards $6.
The handles are old ones from old doors of the work table in our basement. And the paint
$1 for each of the colors ( clearance at menards, who knew?)..well the black was more ..gg and dad bought that. Then I bought primer for $13ish
Curtain rod from wally world $2
Fabric $6
There is also the plexiglass glass for the oven and something similar that we were going to put on top of the burners to give it more of a smooth stove top look and feel....that probably cost us $10
Then hinges, chain for oven door, and who knows what else gg bought to get the project done.

Gee, all the cheap supplies made me think we did this on the cheap but eek, guess not! But I love it and so does boo and gosh darn it, WE DID IT! It may have taken a couple off days and nights till 2am but we did it!

I searched all over, for like a month, for good dishes, pots and pans, utensils etc. And I love what we got.  Most of it. Is Just Like Home from toys r us. I love the colors...not girly but not the boring primary colors either. Then I bought a dish set from target for$9. That are great. Great sizes for everything and durable.

It was so much fun watching her open presents. Every thing she got that morning "this is the exactly what I wanted...even hand sanitizer. But when it came to the kitchen she was jumping up and down trying to take it all in. I'm so glad we go that on video.

fight, Fight, FIGHT!

Why does my baby fight naps so much? How exhausting it is. She got only 15 minutes of napping, maybe, between lots of crying for her nap before church yesterday. Once we got home from church she fought her subsequent naps as well.

And this morning, I laid her down 50 minutes ago. She quieted down for a few minutes and then started crying again. And now, 50 minutes after I first laid her down she has quieted down again. I hope she sleeps. It's like she catches herself falling asleep and she gets mad at herself (and probably me) for falling asleep.

She is such a happy baby with sleep, and even without it she isn't terrible but just harder to handle. I need her naps too, so I can get some stuff done or just relax.

I wish kids could cherish naps like adults do but if that was the case all we would do in this house is sleep. :)

are we alike?

This is Boo at 5 months:

And this is Little Miss at 8 months -not sure why Boo was wearing a 12 month old dress so young.

Here's both of them at around 8 month-ish.

I thought these girls looked alike but I'm not so sure anymore, especially as you compare the two. I wonder what miss Little Miss is going to grow up looking like. What fun the future holds.