It's a wonderful day to

Watch a movie!! I am about to watch APPOLO 18.. This kind of thing really messes with my head. Mya has been really good today, and since accomplishing a few things - cleaned a bathroom, folded two loads of laundry, I've been lounging a bit. I don't know much about this movie I'm about to watch, but I have a feeling it's going to creep me out a bit. Thank goodness for donair lunch dates with my Mom after! Wish me luck...

i still don't have very much that's interesting to say. As of Monday the husband leaves for work for what looks like a vey consistent job. He will be home likely every weekend, or we can visit. He'll only be a couple hours away. It's still a hard thing to deal with. I'm twenty three weeks pregnant as I type. So I'm slightly stressed about that.

Christmas is right around the corner, and although I'm almost finished my home made Christmas cards, I still have all the shopping to deal with this year. I don't think I'm motivated enough at the moment to hand make gifts again this year. I spent a lot of time on the ones I did make last year, but it was very time consuming. I'll have to plan better for next year. November 4 as a start is a bit too late!

I am helper mom at little bug's school next week. I'm really looking forward to spending a day in her class and seeing how she does. I'm actually pretty worried that she won't handle me being there very well and act up. Considering she turned three on Thursday and is showing every sign of being in the terrible two/three phase still. Actually, let's be honest, she doesn't seem like she is even remotely clear of getting out of said phase. I'm dealing with constant whining, crying, temper tantrums. I've tried consoling, getting upset, ignoring her, time outs, etc. Time seems to be the only thing that will work. I realize all children go through a phase such as this, and my heart and respect goes out to every mother (and father) who deals with this day in and day out.

Now, the funny thing to me about this phase of life the Bug seems to be in is this: She has decided she no longer needs me. For example, Going pee/poop. She will scream and yell that she doesn't need me, so I'll wander out of the washroom and let her do her thing - kind of. Because there comes a certain point where she then begins crying and yelling for help, or I eventually walk in to toilet paper filling the toilet, her bum dripping with pee, or poop covering the toilet. Yep. I said it. Poop covering the toilet. So many things, at Three years old, she believes she is so independent, and she is, but she is not all at the same time! I'm glad she needs me, but I'm glad my Bug is so independent, but I do think letting her realize at a certain point she does still need me is okay too.

Yo. Followers? As if I have any. This is and has always been more for myself than anyone else. Why don't I use it? I think I'm honestly going to try.. One, Two, THREE!!!!!

Okay. I am officially twenty weeks pregnant. Baby number two is on the way! Mini-Jake will be here to greet us at the beginning of March 2013. I can't begin to say how excited I am. Now the realization that I need and should really get rid of all of Miss Mya's old things. She's almost Three and here we are with ALL of her old stuff in the event we would have Baby Number Two, and it would be a girl. No dice! We got super lucky and I can get rid of it all!

I'm going to save a few things. depending on size and such I'm going to save between 20-40 pieces of Miss Mya's baby clothes and I'm going to make a quilt out of it one day. I'll likely even continue collecting until she's about Five and then I'll create! My plan is to do the same with Mini-Jake.  The rest of Miss Mya's stuff I think I'll be sorting and giving some to friends and taking to a local store who will give me cash on the spot!

Major organization mode has hit. I'm ready for everything to have a place. But I'm so tired of renting and knowing this house isn't mine. It's a hard reality to face. I'd love to paint and decorate the house to be more ours. But we're not allowed to paint. BOO! Painting is the least of my problems. I have a LIST of projects I'm trying to get through. I should really just finish one! So here's the list:
- Write my pen pal one final letter and finish her package
- make P a birthday card w/ Miss Mya
- coloring pages!
- decorate Miss Mya's room to be more girly and hers.
- sort through old Miss Mya clothes for J and M
- bake banana bread
- finish home binder

Holy am I ambitious or what? One day I'll accomplish my goals....

Only have a couple seconds....

I have nothing overly exciting to blog today. I felt it was time to throw in two cents at least. I am trying to super clean my house. It's time to grow up. Don't i say this every single post? Probably! This week my goal is to go through everything in the house and discard anything unnecessary. My sister in law was doing this not too long ago and I realized how badly I actually need to do the same. My husband and I are both terrible at keeping stupid things that we feel are necessary at the time, and then later realize are basically trash. So out with the old and in with the new! I've found so many things, it's basically like a treasure hunt in my own home. Now hopefully I don't come up with anything too frightening.

Beyond this, tonight I've decided it's time to build my own "MOMager" or Household notebook. Obviously I've taken inspiration and tones of free printables from my love pinterest. Thanks to the universe of posting everything there, to inspire and help along my way!! Hopefully I'll use my brain and I'll document the pages I use and such and I'll update later tonight.

xoxo

Crafty-pants.

Okay, so with the recent addiction that the entire universe seems to have with pinterest, I've been crafting up a storm. The past few weeks have been pretty full of working, parenting and planning two parties. First was our dear friend Allison's birthday.

Now I am no professional, nor am I claiming to be. We Had this party for her in our favourite karaoke bar. The wolf pack got together a couple times, minus Allison, and made her some cheesy, but awesome decorations. It didn't take too much effort to be honest. Some colouring, tracing, hot glue. It was actually a lot of fun. I got my pin on and messed around with my text/edit and gimp programs and came up with the banner. And used a neat idea from pinterest - "you rock because," pages we had all her friends who came out write something on a page and colour and decorate them however they wanted and I'm gonna make it into a mini scrapbook/photobook for her to remember her birthday by!! Fun.

The four of us are actually very very lucky to have each other. Allison, Jess, Janeen are three of the best girlfriends. The support from these girls through any situation is amazing. If one is busy, we know there's always someone we can count on - no matter what the situation or time. We're all very different people and have different opinions.

Basically, "we're the four best friends that anyone could have..." We should all be blogging together. Now that would be amazing.

xoxo

good morning.

When you think you get to sleep in, and your morning is interrupted before 8am. You have been wrongly mistaken. Happy Tuesday.

oh stress, i wish you would go away

So I got a haircut a couple weeks ago. I was hiding all of my own hair problems. It's funny, I'm great at giving advice to anyone else about how to care for their hair. Too bad I could never take my own advice! Off went the hair I've been growing for a couple years. Back to a chin length A-symetrical bob. I have to admit though, I'm kinda loving it.

Now, besides that.. Mya is two and a half. It's painfully obvious sometimes. It's beginning to be quite challenging. I absolutely adore my daughter. I truly love this kid more than anything in the world. But holy man, this age. Not so much fun. Jake is out of town working again, so we've been face timing with him almost every night, when Miss Mya decides she wants to co-operate. She's grown quite the little attitude recently. Maybe because I'm working now too. I'm not even trying to make excuses or find reasons. I know it will get better. Jake will be home soon!

We've been working on potty training for a few months now - I've kind of stopped paying attention to time recently. We go for a week or two in our pull-ups and we're dry and peeing in the potty fairly consistenlty, then we hit the phase we seem to be back at now. "No Mommy, Beeeedtiiiime.." The solution to anything this angel doesn't want to do is bedtime. Doesn't want to eat supper? Bedtime. Doesn't want to clean up her toys? Bedtime. Doesn't want to listen when told to do something? Bedtime. Oh and crying. I realize a lot of this is age, and Miss Mya is testing us. I just wish she would take me seriously. It's not like I don't follow through.

Parenting. Life's biggest challenge. There is nothing easy about it. But oh what a blessing <3
xoxo

I don't think it's ever going to change....

LOL I ALWAYS say that I'm going to update this more often. And I never do. Awful. I can't even imagine anyone ever even reading this! ha.

In any case. I was working full time. And in the end, I'm going back part time. I'm hoping to shift my focus onto the hair accessories I've been wanting to make for a while now. Also it's going to allow me more time for my clients at home.

My goodness though. just to have my own hole in the wall salon would make me so happy. I am enjoying myself a lot more than ever before. It's kind of lame not having a real sink, but I think the end result is more important than how your colour is rinsed out. But who am I to say!?

The hubby has been out of town for almost two weeks and I am happy to admit that I miss him like frigging crazy. Miss Mya doesn't really understand where Daddy has gone all of a sudden. She's slowly grasping that we get to see and talk to Daddy every night on FaceTime between our Mac's. But immediately after still doesn't get why Daddy isn't going to be home in the morning like he normally should be. Poor kid.

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day. Afternoon full of hair, inspiration and Tessuh. Can't wait.

xoxo

I'll never be good at this...

It's painfully obvious that this blog will never be a must read for anyone. Other than my Mom. And that's okay. Here's to you Mom!! (And of course, all of my very few but amazing followers!)

Anyway. Christmas has come and gone. What a great time we had. With Miss Mya being two years old, she is finally starting to understand who Santa is and what was going on. Although, she took a break to play with whatever new toy she opened on Christmas morning, it was still the best Christmas yet.

As quickly as Christmas went up this year, it came down. While I was at work one afternoon, Jake took the tree down and most of the decorations. So I guess it's time to start thinking about Valentine's day decorations! Life is so much more exciting when you have children!!

I truly don't have too much more to report today. I'm hoping I can stick to my New years resolutions. And try to stay in shape, blog more - if more for me than anyone else, and be better with my money. Fingers crossed. I think it's the last one that's the biggest challenge in our house. We like to spend money. Maybe that's what I should try to focus on, a better budget. Who knows!

Time for coffee. xoxo