I have many excuses as to why I’ve not been blogging lately. The main one being that Facebook has taken up most of my internet time. I started a group on there with mom’s for my city (it’s been so long, I don’t remember if I wrote about this yet) and it’s been so great to be networking with other moms! We’ve had 3 meet up’s already, and there are more planned coming up! I’ve made a few good friends, and the kids are meeting new kids too, which is always fun.
Next excuse is that Lil’ Miss, who is now 16 months old, is very very very busy/active. To the point of temporary insanity for those responsible for her care. It is very different for me, because The Boy was SO calm, and would sit and play with one thing for a very long time, from a very young age! He still does…like the time we got new Leap Pad books for him and he sat there for 3hrs straight, plus 1.5 more hours after a lunch break. It has definitely been an adjustment. She is also very curious, and into EVERYTHING, constantly touching things she shouldn’t be, and emptying cupboards, bags, anything that has stuff in it. I am not the most efficient housekeeper as it is, so adding her mess onto it has caused a lot of chaos around here.
Because of both of these things, I’ve been working on a schedule, and trying to restrict my computer time. Now that I’m more active socially, and Lil’ Miss is keeping me very busy when we’re at home, I just don’t have enough time in the day anymore. I know, waa waa waa. It’s just something new for us – some of you have probably experienced this since day 1!! I don’t operate well on a fixed schedule, I’m awfully rebelious. So I’m going to make a plan that I can change around, depending on my week. I also got a really neat family day planner that I’ve been using a lot lately. (It was a Christmas present) It has spots for planning your meals for the week, a tear out grocery list, and enough space to write your plans for the week. I want to combine that with a schedule, and factor in computer time – because I don’t want to spend as much time on here as I do currently. This is the week for all that, so I thought I’d get a post in before I have ZERO time.
I’m also working on a few projects. I went to a crop night at a local scrapbooking store last Saturday. It was a hoot. I got some really great paper to do some more pages with Lil’ Miss, I haven’t done much with her yet, besides her “announcment” type page. There also was a sale the other day for 15% off with a home based company so I made a big order there. I’m trying to get caught up on some scrapbooking! At the crop night I did some cute pages with my son and my nephew. I also am trying to finish the extension I’m building for a quilt I made for my brother for Christmas of 2005. I started the extension this winter, and haven’t finished yet. I’m notorious for not finishing projects, and I’d really like to get things done!! I also have a few other things on the go…so yeah. Busy with extra stuff too.
I’ve done a bit of shopping lately too. I’ve discovered H&M. They sell men’s, women’s, and children’s clothes! They have reasonable prices too. And it’s cute! I bought Lil’ Miss a new spring jacket, and I need to go back and look at some summer clothes for The Boy. It’s exciting to have another option when it comes to clothes for my kids! Hah, yeah, I’m boring.
We also discovered Settlers of Catan this weekend. It’s a board game that has a different board each time you play it (you lay out cards) and you have settlements and you build roads and you gain points for your settlements and accomplishments. It takes a while to play (an hour or two) but it’s really fun, and you don’t even realize how the time is flying by! I went to a ‘girl’s night’ at a friend of mine’s on Friday, and we played it there, and I was hooked! We bought it on Saturday, and had my Mom and Step Dad over on Saturday night and MyKidsDad is hooked now too!!! I’ve won 3/5 games that I’ve played. FYI. 
Lil’ Miss has been incredibly agreeable lately. We were thinking hey – well she doesn’t talk much, but at least she understands much. When we ask her things, she nods her head, so we figured that was a sign of understanding. We were wrong. After asking her a few normal questions, like ‘do you want a drink’ or ‘are you stinky’, MyKidsDad chimed in with something off beat. And…she nodded. I don’t even remember what it was now, but it was followed by about 10 more rediculous questions like ‘are you going to by a gypsy and live in a van and travel the world?’, and ‘do you like eating raw steak?’, and ‘are you going to be the first female NHL player?’ all of which were followed by enthusiastic nods. I still think there are a few things she understands to nod to, but I also think she’s nodding in response to the tone we use when we ask her question. Oh, and I’m also thinking about growing out those bangs I gave her.
When it comes to updates…my rabbit still has a bit of ick on his head. I’m still not really sure what to do with it. It seems to be like a clump in his hair now, so I’m not even sure what it is. I should have left him out in the rain the other day, that might have taken care of it! I think I need to give him a little outdoor bath, on a warm day. I do have special bunny shampoo, and he definitely needs one. I was thinking about pouring rubbing alchohol on it, but I don’t want it to get in his eyes. Also, I haven’t done anything with my hair yet. I think one day this week I will phone my hair dresser and just have it dyed back to brown again. And I’m just going to grow it out. I’ll have the cut fixed a little bit in a few months, once it’s a little longer. Now that it’s grown out a bit, the choppy-ness isn’t so obvious anymore.
Anyways. This post has been extremely boring, and I’m aware of that. But this is what I’ve been up to lately. I’m going to try to minimize my facebook time, and my internet time, so hopefully I’ll post more. And more exciting.
